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'^j N presenting the first volume of the Soldiers' and Citizens' Album of Biographical Record, the 
/^ publishers can conscientiously state tliat it has been a labor of love. Within a few years a 
flood of war literature has been sent forth, but, singularly, one important feature has been 
wholly omitted. Battles and officers, campaigns and expeditions and other matters pertinent also 
to the liistory of tlie Great Struggle have Ijeen treated with apparent justice, but the personal ex- 
perience of tlie men who carried the muskets have been almost entirely ignored. On the count- 
less pages whicli constitute the history of the t'ivil War, the names of the volunteer soldiers 
make no appearance. 

The central purpose of this work is to supply the omission referred to. The greatest care 
has been taken in collecting the data from which these biographical narrations have been pre- 
pared, and, in their aggregate, may be read a complete history of the war from the standpoint of 
Wisconsin soldiers. It is a source of unqualified satisfaction to those who have labored to place 
tiie volunteer soldiers of Wisconsin on permanent record in their true relations to the history of 
the Civil War, that they have met with sucii hearty co-operation and support from tliose most 
interested. When the historian of tlie future shall compile an unbiased account of the greatest 
struggle in any era in the history of the world, the best material will be found in this series. In 
their preparation, the compilers have felt with Schiller — "oh, tliat the histories of men might be 
told by higher beings." The most insignificant, who responded to his country's call, was as 
though he had been touched by Ithuriel's spear. The hand which has traced these short histo- 
ries of men's patriotism and endurance and sufferings has often faltered and stopped, in view of 
the Spirit which achieved such results. Words have often been found inadequate and, even tlie 
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questioned its capacity to compass so solemn and responsible a work. In the coming days the 
deeds which grace the pages of classic literature and challenge the admiration of the student of 
history w,ll fade into nothingness in the luster of these annals. The Spirit of the American Yol 
unteer Soldier is a bulwark against which, neither internal nor external foo can successfully 
strive. 

The chronological and statistical history has been compiled with great care and labor. It 
.s believed that it presents a more complete and accurate list of dates and localities than any 
other single compilation. That it is wholly free from error is not claimed ; that it is approxi- 
mately so is certain. In some instances authorities have been foun.l to differ and there are other 
obvious causes which have rendered it almost impo.ss,ble to obtain positively accurate dates and 
statistics. 

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CHRONOLOGICAL AND STATISTICAL 

HISTORY or THE CIVIL WAR. 



In this compilation of dates and localities of the Civil War, all matter has been gathered from the 

most reliable sources. Battles, Skirmishes, Raids, Expeditions, Engagements of every 

description in which the two elements of the factional struggle encountered 

each other are included. Those who participated in them will 

be gratified to find on record for the first time, many an 

action heretofore omitted from other records. 



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1859. Oct. 16.— John Brown, with 10 white 
men and five negroes, took possession of the 
United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va., 
napturing about 60 citizens and killing several. 

Oct. 17. — Col. Robert E. Lee (afterwards 
Commander-in-Chief of the rebel army) with 
the assistance of United States marines, made 
Brown and the survivors of his party prisoners 
of the State of Virginia. 

Oct. 27. — Beginning of the trial of John 
Brown. 

Dec. 2. — John Brown hung at Charleston, 
Va. 

1860. Nov. 6. — Abraham Lincoln elected 
President. 

Dec. 3. — President Buchanan issued a mes- 
sage, affirming the right of the State to secede 
forcibly in a revolutionary manner, and denied 
the right of the Cwverment to prevent by force. 

Dec. 20. — South Carolina seceded ; soon after, 
senators and Federal officers from that state 
resigned and United States property was seized. 



Dec. 26. — Major Robert Andenson, with 111 
soldiers, removed from Fort Moultrie to Fort 
Sumter in Charleston harbor to secure a .stronger 
position. 

1861. Jan. 8.— The Star of the West, on 
her way to reinforce Fort Sumter, was fired on 
from a battery on Morris Island. — Mississippi 
seceded. 

Jan. 11. — Florida and Alabama seceded. 

Jan. 19. — Georgia seceded. 

Jan. 26. — Louisiana .seceded. — "If any man 
attemjits to haul down the American f]ag, shoot 
him on the spot." (Dispatch of .John A. Dix, 
Secretary of the Treasury, to his agent at New 
Orleans.) 

Feb 1.^— Texas seceded. 

FicB 4. — -Peace Congress at Wiishingtoii. — • 
Convention of seceded statfs at Montgomery, 
Ala. 

Feb. 9. — Southern confederacy organized, 
with Jefferson Davis and Alexander H. Ste- 
phens as President and Vice-President. The 



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1861 — FEB. 18 — APRIL 19 — 1861. 



constitution adopted favored slavery and pro- 
hibitid tariffs. 

Feb. 18. — General Twiggs surrendered U. S. 
property to the rebels in Texas. 

March 4. — Abraham Lincoln inaugurated 
President. — Confederate flag, composed of three 
horizontal bars, the outer ones red and middle 
one white witli blue union and bearing a circle 
of nine stars, adopted. 

April 12. — The war of the rebellion was in- 
augurated by the bombardment of Fort Sum- 
ter, which began about 4:30 a. m., and was 
continued all day and (at intervals) through 
the following night. (The signal gun for the 
assault was fired by a man, named Edmund 
RufSn, who asked the privilege, and who com- 
mitted suicide after the war, because he would 
not live under the U. S. Government.) The 
firing on the fort (which did not respond) was 
from 17 mortars and .30 large guns, mainly 
columbiads. On the following morning — 13th 
— Fort Sumter began to return the fire at about 
7:30 o'clock, Captain Doubleday firing the first 
gun. Soon after, the officers' quarters took fire 
and, before noon, the flames had enveloped 
nearly all the woodwork of the fort; most of 
the powder in the magazines had to be rolled 
out to prevent explosion, and the fort's fire 
was, practically, silenced. Shortly after mid- 
day, the flngstock was sliot away, but the flag 
was nailed to the fragment of the standard 
remaining, and displayed from the ramparts. 
A flag of truce was sent to the fort by the 
assailants, and terms of capitulation were agreed 
on. At 1 2:55 p. m., the fire-consecrated standard 
was lowered ainiij a salute of 50 guns, and the 
garrison marched out with the honors of war. 
They were permitted to take their private prop- 
erty, their arms and their flag. No one was 
injured within the fort; no loss of life occurred 
among the rebels and only five were reported 
as having been injured. The evacuation was 



not completed until two o'clock on Sunday, 
April 14th, and, on the same day, Major Ander- 
son and his men, sailed for New York. 

April 15. — President Lincoln issued a pro- 
clamation calling for 75,000 volunteers and 
ordering those who had combined for purposes 
of rebellion to disperse and return to their 
homes within twenty days, and a'so convened 
an extra session of Congress to assemble July 
Fourth. On the following day, replies were 
received from Governors Magoffin of Kentucky, 
Jackson of Missouri, Harris of Tennessee and 
Letcher of Mrginia, peremptorily refusing to 
furnish troops for the service under the pro- 
clamation. 

April 17. — The first regiment from the 
North — the Massachusetts 6th — started for 
Washington. — An ordinance of secession was 
adopted in Virginia in a secret session of the 
assembly to take effect on its ratification by 
popular vote ; and Letcher, the Governor, 
issued a proclamation, recognizing the confed- 
eracy. 

April 18. — The arsenal at Harper's Ferry 
was burned by the United States forces under 
Lieu'enant Jones to prevent its occupation by 
the rebels; during tlie conflagration, two sol- 
diers were killed. — The harbor of Norfolk, A'a., 
was obstructed by tlie sinking of vessels to 
prevent the exit of United States war vessels. — 
Pennsylvania volunteers arrive 1 at Washington 
and the Massachusetts 6th passed through New 
York, the Massachusetts 4th at the same time 
reaching the latter city, as did also, the garrison 
from Fort Sumter. 

April 19. — The passage of the Massachusetts 
6th tlirough Baltimore, resulted in a riot, in 
which the first Union soldieri were killed in 
the war. The city was, practically, in the hands 
of a mob ; an escort of police, headed by the 
Mayor, was tendered the troops and was ac- 
cepted, but proved powerless. The casualties 



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were on the \>art of the troops two killed, seven 
wounded (one mortally) ; among the rioters 13 
were killed and many wounded. Proclamations 
were issued by both Governor and Mayor with 
the avowed purpose of quieting the disturbance ; 
in consequence of the excitement both officials 
advised the President that no more troops 
could pass through Baltimore without fighting. 
Luther C. Ladd, Summer H. Needham and 
Addison C. Whitney were the Massachusetts 
soldiers killed and their bodies were sent to 
Massachusetts by special request of Governor 
.John A. Andrew. — The first capture of a vessel 
was made by the rebels; the steamship, Star of 
the West, was seized off Indianola, Texas, and 
placed in the hands of a prize crew. — The Pres- 
ident issued a blockade proclamation closing 
the ports from South Carolina to Texas. 

April 20. — The branch mint at Charlotte, 
N. C, was seized by the rebels ; also the arsenal 
at Liberty, Mo.; and a number of bridges on 
the Pennsylvania railroad in Maryland were 
burned. — The navy yard at Gosport was de- 
stroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of 
the rebels and the fleet of United States war 
vessels stationed there were scuttled, with the 
single exception of the Cumberland, which was 
towed out; the names of the destroyed vessels 
were the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Columbus, 
Merrimac, Raritan, Columbia, Germantown, 
Plymouth and United States. 

April 21. — With a view to prevent the oc- 
currence of any disturbance of a character 
similar to the Baltimore riot, the Government 
took possession of the Philadelphia & Balti- 
more railroad, and 4,000 troops left New York 
for Washington. 

April 22. — The rebels seized the United 
States arsenal at Fayetteville, N. C, and at 
Napoleon, Ark. On the other hand, the Union 
sentiment at the South found expression in 
West Virginia, and at Lexington, Ky. At the 



latter point, a Union mass-meeting was held 
under circumstances of much discouragement, 
and was addressed by Senator .John .J. Critten- 
den, author of the once famous measure, known 
as the " Crittenden Compromise." In the ad- 
joining State of Tennessee, .John Bell, formerly 
a Presidential candidate, declared himself, un- 
equivocally, in favor of the rebellion. 

April 23. — Movements at Elk Ridge, Va. 
April 24. — Fort Smith, Ark., was seized by 
rebel troops, under command of Solon Borland. 
— Governor Magoffin, of Kentucky, convened 
the legislature in extra session, the object of 
the executive call being to consider the advis- 
ability of secession. 

April 25. — The first surrender of United 
States troops occurred at Saluria, Tex., where 
450 regulars, commanded by Major Sibley, 
surrendered to Colonel Van Dorn. — Governor 
Letcher, of Virginia, issued a proclamation, 
declaring Virginia a member of the Southern 
confederacy. — Arming of the first Illinois troops 
at the United States arsenal, at St. Louis, Mo. 

April 26. — The Governor of Georgia issued 
a proclamation, prohibiting payment of debts 
due to Northern creditors, directing the amount 
so owed to be paid into the State treasury. In 
North Carolina, the executive called an extra 
legislative session ; while Governor Burton, of 
Delaware, called for Union volunteers. 

April 27. — A proclamation liy the President, 
supplementary to that of April 19th, extended 
the blockade to the ports of North Carolina and 
Virginia. 

April 29. — The Governor of Tennessee con- 
fiscated the bonds and money in the office of 
the United States collector, of Nashville ; and 
the rebel authorities seized the steamships Ten- 
nessee, Texas, and Hermes at New Orleans. — 
The legislature of Maryland rejected the ordi- 
nance of secession, the vote in the senate being 
unanimous. 



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1861 — MAY i— MAY 17—1861. 



May 1. — The North Carolina legislature, 
having been convened by proclamation, passed 
the bill for the assembling of a State conven- 
tion to pass upon tiie question of secession. 

May 2. — The Ellsworth Fire Zouaves and 
the New York 69th arrived in Washington. 

May 3. — Two proclamations were issued ; 
one by President Lincoln, calling for 42,000 
three-years volunteers, 18,000 seamen, and 
directing the addition of eight regiments to 
the regular army ; the other was by Governor 
Letcher, of Virginia, calling out the militia to 
defend the state from Northern invasion. 

May 4. — Southern Union sentiment found a 
new voice; a committee of the Maryland legis- 
lature visited President Lincoln with words of 
sympathy. — An enthusiastic Union meeting 
was held in Preston, W. Va., and Union dele- 
gates to a Ijorder State convention were elected 
in Louisville, Ky., by a majority of 7,000. 

May 5. — The Union forces under General 
P)Utler, took possession of the Relay House be- 
tween Baltimore and Washington. 

May 0. — Virginia admitted to the Southern 
confederacy. — The convention in Arkansas 
adopted an ordinance of secession and the 
Kentucky legislature convened in obedience to 
the call of Governor Magoffin. — The passage of 
what was commonly styled " The War and Pri- 
vateering Act," was made known by the rebel 
congress. 

May 7. — Major Anderson was appointed and 
commissioned by the President to repair to 
Cincinnati to mueter in all volunteers from 
Kentucky and West Virginia. — At a meeting 
of Unionists at Kno.xville, Tenn., an attempt to 
raise the National flag resulted in a riot; and, 
Governor Harris announced the formation of a 
nnlitary league between Tennessee and the 
Southern confederacy. 

May 10. — Major General Robert E. Lee was 
placed in command of the rebel forces in \'ir- 



ginia.— In St. Louis, (Camp Jackson) a brigade 
of Missouri State militia, which had, under 
orders of Governor Jackson, gone into camp, 
nominally, "for instruction," but in reality 
with treasonable intent, and who were under 
command of General Frost, surrendered to the 
United States regulars commanded by General 
Lyon.— Issuance of orders from Washington to 
administer the oath of allegiance to all army 
officers. 

May 11.— An effectual blockade of the port 
of Charleston, S. C, was established.— An en- 
thusiastic meeting was held at Wheeling, W. 
Va., to advocate the division of the State. 

May 13. — Union troops under command of 
General P>utler took possession of Federal Hill, 
Va. — A convention composed of delegates from 
35 counties assembled at Wheeling, Va., with 
the avowed purpose of considering the expedi- 
ency of the separation of the west portion of the 
State from the eastern counties.— The English 
Government issued a proclamation on neu- 
trality. 

May 14.— At Baltimore, a schooner, laden 
with arms for the rebels was seized and the 
United States gunboat, Quaker City, captured 
the Argo with a cargo of tobacco, valued at 
§180,000. 

May 15. — The first call for volunteers from 
Maryland under the President's proclamation 
was issued by Governor Hicks. 

Uay 16.— The fortilication of Arlington 
Heights was ordered by General Scott. — A 
rebel force near Liberty, Mo., was dispersed.— 
The arrest of the traitors at Washington was 
commenced and followed on the succeeding day 
by the arrest of the rebel spies. 

May 17. — Express packages, destined for 
the South, were stopped at Washington ; rebels 
assembled at Potosi, Mo., were dispersed ; and 
a domiciliary search for arms was 'commenced 
at St. Louis.— On the part of the rebels, Harper's 



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Ferry was fortified and the issue of treasury 
notes by tlie confederate Government, as cur- 
rency, was authorized by the rebel congress. — 
The capture off Key West, of the yacht Win- 
cliester, by the Federal war vessel, Crusader, 
took place. 

May 18. — Arkansas was formally admitted 
into the Southern confederacy. 

May 19. — An engagement occurred between 
the U. S. steamers and the rebel batteries at 
Sewall's Point on tlie Potomac. — Two schooners 
carrying rebel troops, were captured near Wash- 
ington on the same river. 

May 20. — A seizure of telegraphic dispatches 
was made throughout the North by order of 
the general Government. — In North Carolina, 
the ordinance of secession was adopted. — In 
Kentucky, Goveruor Magoffin issued a pro- 
clamation of neutrality. — Activities at Clarks- 
burg, W. Va. 

May 22. — The fortifications at Ship Island 
were destroyed to prevent their falling into 
rebel hands. — Movement at Clear Springs, Md. 

May 24. — A general movement of troops 
into Virginia occurred. — The rebels evacuated 
Alexandria which was occupied by U. S. troops. 
— On the occasion of the occupation, Colonel 
Ellsworth, while hauling down a rebel fiag from 
the Marsliali House, was shot by the rebel 
landlord who, in turn, was instantly killed by 
private Brovvnell. Ellsworth was buried from 
the White House at Washington. — Negroes be- 
came "contraband of war." 

May 25. — A slight skirmish resulted from 
an attack by rebel troops on the r2th New 
York Infantry, along the outposts of the Vir- 
ginia line. 

May 27. — General McDowell assumed com- 
mand of tlie troops at Washington. — A blockade 
of the mouth of tlie Mississippi and of the port 
of Mobile was commenced. — Exercise by the 
President of the extraordinary power of the sus- 



pension of the writ of habeas corpus occurred 
at Baltimore. — General Cadwallader refused 
to produce the body of John Merriman in 
obedience to a writ signed by Chief Justice 
Taney, alleging by way of return, that the pris- 
oner was charged with treason, and that he was 
authorized by the President to suspend the writ 
of liabeas corpus in his case. Cadwallader was 
arrested for contempt. — A Border-State conven- 
tion met at Frankfort, Ky. 

May 28. — U. S. vessels blockaded the port of 
Savannah, Ga. 

May 29. — An advance of U. S. troops towards 
Harper's Ferry was followed by a retreat of the 
rebels towards Martinfcburg. — Jeff Davis reached 
Richmond. 

May 30. — A retreat of the rebel forces was 
made from Williamsburg, Md., and Grafton, 
Va., the latter point being at once occupied by 
the 1st Regiment of Virginia under Colonel 
Kelley.— The 14th Ohio (Colonel Steedman) 
crossed the Ohio and occupied Parkersburg. — 
About 200 citizens of Southern Illinois left for 
the South with the avowed purpose of joining 
the rebel army, and four steamers carrying 
rebel troops sailed from New Orleans for Fort 
Smith, Ark. 

May 31. — A bloodless engagement occurred 
at Acquia Creek, Va., between a rebel battery 
and the U. S. gunboat, Freeborn. 

June 1. — A charge was made through Fair- 
fax C. H., Va., by fifty-two dragoons of the 2nd 
U. S. Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant 
Tompkins and 2ud Lieutenant Gordon, the reg- 
ulars being accompanied by three officers and 
two privates, of the 5th New York Volunteers; 
two Union soldiers were killed, and an unascer- 
tained numljer of i-ebels; five prisoners were 
cajitured. — Activities at Williamsport, Md. 

June 3. — A rebel camp, 2,000 strong, was 
surprised at Philiippi, Va., by Union troops 
under command of Colonel Kelley, of the 1st 



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1861— JUNE 5 — JUNE 24 — 1861. 



Virginia, aided by Colonel Crittenden, com- 
manding a force of Indiana volunteers; 15 
rebels were killed and 10 captured ; on the 
Union side two were killed, two reported miss- 
ing and two wounded, among the latter being 
Colonel Kelley. — Death of Senator S. A. Doug- 
las at Chicago. — Movement at latan. Mo. 

June 5. — At Pig Point, Va., the "Harriet 
Lane" was fired on by the rebels while she was 
engaged in a reconnoissance and five of her men 
wounded. — Activities at Newport News, Xa. 

June 6. — Movements at EUicott's Mills, Md. 

Ju^NE 8. — An advance made by U. S. troops 
under General Patterson from Chambersburg, 
towards Harper's Ferry. 

June 10. — An attack was made on the rebel 
forces under General Magruder at Big Bethel 
by the Union troops under General Pierce, 
whose command consisted of regiments under 
Colonels Duryee, Townsend and Bendix ; Union 
losses were 14 killed and 45 wounded, among 
the former being Major Winthrop and Lieu- 
tenant Greble; the admitted rebel loss in killed 
was 17. 

June 11. — A skirmish occurred at Romney, 
Va.; the Union forces under Colonel Wallace, 
surprised and routed 500 rebels and lost no 
men. — The West Virginia Convention met at 
Wheeling to consider the expediency of form- 
ing a separate State. 

June 12. — Movements at Columbus, Ky. 

June 14. — The rebels evacuated and burned 
Harper's Ferry, removing the armory machin- 
ery to Richmond, and burned the railcoad 
bridges. 

June 15. — The U. S. brig, Peony, brought 
into New York (he rebel privateer. Savannah. 
— In Missouri, General Lyonocoupied Jefferson 
City ; the rebel General, Price, retreated to 
Booneville. 

June 16. — A skirmish occurred at Seneca 
Mills, Md., the Union forces being commanded 



by Major Everett; no losses were reported on 
the side of the National troops. Three rebels 
were reported killed. 

June 17. — A battle occurred at Booneville, 
Mo., between the Union forces commanded by 
General Lyon and the rebels under Sterling 
Price; the latter were routed, losing 50 men: 
the reported Union loss was two killed and eight 
wounded. — A column of U. S. troops, under 
General Patterson, crossed the Potomac at 
Williamsport, Md. — At Vienna, Va., a train 
transporting Union soldiers, including the Isl 
Ohio under Colonel McCook, was fired upon by 
rebels; eight soldiers were killed; the fire was 
returned, resulting in an estimated loss of six. 
— The West Virginia Convention at Wheeling 
unanimously voted its independence of the 
rebellious action of the State. 

June 18. — At Camj) Cole, Mo., a company of 
Home Guards was attacked and 52 killed. — 
Skirmish at Edwards Ferry, Va., in which 300 
of the 1st Pennsylvania Infantry engag'^d. — 
Skirmish at Independence, Mo., the State troops 
being involved. — The local militia resist the 
rebels at New Creek, W. Va. — Activities at 
Conrad's Ferry, Md. 

June 19. — Piedmont, Ya., was occupied by 
the rebels. — At Liberty, Mo., rebels were cap- 
tured by a detachment of troops connected with 
General Lyon's command. — Movements at New 
Creek, W. Va. 

June 20. — Frank H. Pierpont was elected 
governor of West Virginia at Wheeling in 
the convention, and Major-General McClellan 
assumed command of the I'nion forces in that 
section of the Stsite. — Disturbances at Clarks- 
ville, W. Va. 

Junk 21. — A convention of loyalists of East- 
ern Tennessee assembled at Green ville. 

June 22. — Inauguration of balloon recon- 
noissances. 
June 24. — The popular vote of Tennessee 



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having ratified tlie ordinance of secession, Gov- 
ernor Harris issued a proclamation declaring 
the State out of the Union. — Activities at Car- 
ters Creek, Lynn Haven, Kansas, and on the 
Rappahannock River in Virginia. 

June 26. — A skirmish occurred at Patter- 
son's Creek, Va., between parts of Colonel Wal- 
lace's command and rebel cavalry. One Union 
and 17 rebel soldiers were reported killed. — 
The Wheeling government was recognized by 
the President as the lawful government of Vir- 
ginia. — Movement of the rebels in the vicinity 
of Frankfort, Mo. 

June 27. — An engagement took place be- 
tween the gunboat Frteboru and the rebel 
batteries at Matthias Point, in which Captain 
Ward, of the navy, was killed — J. C. Fremont 
r^iturned from Europe, and U. S. Marshal Kane 
was arrested at Baltimore for treason. 

Ju.NE 28. — The steamer St. Nicholas was 
captured in the Potomac by rebels. — Move- 
ments of rebels at Cumberland Fort and Point 
Lookout, Md. 

June 29. — Activities at Falls Church, Va., 
and at Bownes, Md. 

July 1. — The rebel privateers, Sumter and 
Petrel, escaped the blockading squadrons; the 
former from the mouth of the Mississippi and 
the latter from Charleston harbor. — In an en- 
gagement at Buckhannon, Va., the rebels lost 
23 killed and 2U0 prisoners. — Military move- 
ments at Farmington, Mo. — John C. Fremont 
was commissioned Major General in the regular 
army and ranked next to McClellan. 

July 2. — In an engagement at Martinsburg, 
Va., the Union forces, including the Lst Wis- 
consin and 11th Pennsylvania Infantry under 
General Patterson, routed the rebels under Gen- 
eral Johnson; three Union soldiers were killed 
and 10 wounded ; 30 rebels were reported killed 
and wounded and 20 were made pris>;ncrs; this 
action is commonly known as Falling Waters. 



— A new West Virginia Legislature was or- 
ganized at Wheeling. 

July 3. — A company of 94 rebels was cap- 
tured at Neosho, Mo. — The Governor of Arkan- 
sas called out 10,000 men "to repel invasion." 

July 4. — In a skirmish between the 9th New 
York and the rebels near Harper's Ferry, the 
Union loss was two killed and three wounded. 
— The Louisville & Nashville railroad was 
seized by the rebels. — Congress assembled at 
Washington, onlj' six Senators and five Repre- 
sentatives of the opposition members being 
present. 

July 5. — In a battle at Carthage, Mo., in 
which the opposing commanders were Sigel, 
and Price and Jackson, the loss of the former 
was 13 killed and 31 wounded ; the rebels lost 
250 killed and wounded.— At Newport News 
a company of the 9th New York engaged in a 
skirmish. 

July 6. — In an action at Middle Fork Bridge, 
Va., 45 men of the Ohio 3d cut their way 
through an ambuscade of about 300 rebels. 

July' 7.— An action which was reported a 
drawn battle occurred at Brier Forks, Mo. — An 
infernal machine was found in the Potomac 
River. — The 8th New York engaged in an ac- 
tion at Great Falls, Va. 

July 8. — At Bealington, W. Va., the rebels 
were defeated with a loss of 20 killed and 40 
wounded, the Union loss being two killed and 
six wounded. 

July 9. — Fremont was appointed to the com- 
mand of the Department of the West. 

July 10. — In a battle at Laurel Hill, Va., in 
which the Union troops were under Colonels 
McCook and Andrews and the rebels under 
Colonel Pegram, the latter were routed and the 
Union loss was one killed and three wounded. 
— In a sharp skirmish near Monroe Station, Mo., 
Colonel Smith defeated the rebel Harris, and 
took a number of prisoners. 



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1861— JULY 11— JULY 27 — 1861. 



July 11. — General Rosecrans, with the 8th, 
10th and 13th Indiana and the 19th Ohio de- 
feated Pegram's force at Rich Moantain, Va., 
capturing the camp equipage, several cannon 
and a number of prisoners, and killing over 
100 men; the I'nion loss was 11 killed and 35 
wounded. 

July 12. — Pegram surrendered to McClelian 
with about 600 men, and the Union troops oc- 
cupied Beverly, Va. — A rebel defeat occured at 
Barbersville, W. Va. 

July 13. — A battle occurred at Carrick's 
Ford, W. Va., the Union force being under 
command of General Morris, and the rebels 
under General Garrett; the latter was utterly 
routed with great loss, and the leader killed ; 
the Union loss did not exceed 50 in killed and 
wounded, and the action extinguished rebel 
power in West Virginia. — Union troops oc- 
cupied Fairfax C H., Va. 

July 15. — In a skirmish at Bunker Hill, 
Va., the rebels were routed. — Movements at 
Martinsburg, Va. 

July 16. — The rebels were routed in a skir- 
mish at Melville, Mo., after firing into a train. 
— Tighlman, a negro, brought the rebel schooner 
Warring into the port of New York, afler kill- 
ing three of the rebel prize crew. 

July 17. — At Hcarrytown, Va., an action re- 
sulted disastrously to the Union force, wiio lost 
nine men killed and 38 wounded, besides nine 
missing.— In a skirmish at Fulton, Mo., the 
rebels under Harris were driven back by Colonel 
McNeil's troops, the loss to the latter being 
heavy, and including 200 prisoners. — A skir- 
mish took place at Martinsburg, Mo., and mili- 
tary movements occurred near Fairfax Church, 
Va. 

July IS. — In an engagement wliich occurred 
at Harrisonville, Mo., the Union force under 
Major Van Horn defeated the rebels and lost 
one man; the rebel loss was about 20, — Battle 



of Blackburn's Ford. In a reconnoissance 
under General Tyler, three hours' liard fight- 
ing took place; General Beauregard drove the 
former back to Centreville, with a loss of 19 
killed, 38 wounded and 26 missing; the official 
report fixed the rebel loss at 15 killed and 50 
wounded. 

July 19. — General Patterson was superseded 
by General Banks in command on the Poto- 
mac—Movement at Newmarket, Va. 

July 21.— Battle of Bull Run. 18,000 Union 
troops under General McDowell attacked 27,000 
rebels under Johnston, Lee and Beauregard, the 
division commanders of the Union force being 
Heinlzelman, Tyler and Hunter. After a hot 
contest of 10 hours, at a moment when victory 
seemed certain to the Union force; the latter 
was seized with a panic, and retreated toward 
AVashington in disorder. The official Union 
loss was 479 killed, 1,011 wounded and 70U 
prisoners; the official reported rebel loss was 
393 killed and 1,200 wounded, and the rebel 
captures included 26 pieces of artillery, 5,000 
sm'all arms and a great amount of baggage. — 
Military activities at Winchester, Va. 

July 22. — General McClelian was placed in 
command of the army of the Potomac— At 
Forsytlie, Mo., General Sweeney worsted a rebel 
command. — Skirmish at Etna, Mo. — General 
disorganization of the army of the Potomac, 
the three months men returning home in great 
numbers. 

July 24. — At Blue Mills, Mo., the State 
troops engaged in a slight action. 

July 25. — Military movement at Charles- 
town, Va. 

July 26. — Missouri troops engaged in a skir- 
misli at Lane's Pr;iirie. — The infantry and 
cavalry, Missouri troops, engaged in an action 
at Harrisonville. 

July 27. — At Fort Fillmore, Major Lynde 
surrendered 750 soldiers to 250 Texans. 




GEN. U. S. GRANT. 



1861 — AUG. 1— AUG. 20—1861. 



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Aug. 1. — McClellan began the re-oi-ganiza- 
tion of the army. — The rebels fell back from 
Harper's Ferrj' to Leesburg. — The privateer 
Petrel was sunk by the St. Lawrence, her crew 
being captured. 

Aug. 2. — Congress passed a bill authorizing 
the raising of 500,000 men.— At Dug Creek, 
Mo., General Lyon defeated the rebels under 
Ben McCulloch, inflicting a loss of 40 killed 
and 44 wounded ; the Union loss was eight 
killed and 30 wounded. — At Pokonoke Sound, 
N. C, rebel vessels and stores were sunk. 

Aug. 3. — The U. S. troops established a' mili- 
tary ca{)ital at Me-ssilla, N. M. 

Aug. 5.— The U. S. blockading steamer Dart 
bombarded Galveston, Texas, against the pro- 
test of foreign consuls. — In an engagement at 
Athens, Mo., the rebels were defeated with un- 
known loss ; the Union loss was three killed 
and eight wounded.— At Point of Rocks, N. C, 
two rebels were captured in a skirmish, seven 
prisoners were taken and 20 equipped horses 
captured. -General Lyon reached Springfield, 
Mo. 

Aug. 7.— Hampton, Va., was burned by com- 
mand of Magruder.— The privateer York was 
burned by the gunboat Union. 

Aug 8. — The rebels were driven out of Lov- 
ettsvilie, Va. 

Aug. 9.^A rebel attack on Potosi, Mo., was 
repulsed. 

Au(i. 10.— Battle of Wilson-'s Creek, Mo., 5,000 
Union troops under General Lyon attacked 
22,000 rebel troojis under McCulloch. General 
Lyon commanded one of his columns and 
Colonel Sigel the other; the latter was driven 
back and General Lyon was killed. The rebel 
force withdrew and the Union loss was 223 
killed, 731 wounded and 292 missing; the re- 
ported rebel loss was 421 killed, 1,317 wounded 
and three missing. 

Aug. 13. — Grafton, Va., was occupied by the 



Union troops under Captain Dayton, 4th Vir- 
ginia, without loss, 21 rebels being killed and 
wounded. 

Aug. 14.— a mutiny occurred in the 79th 
New York regiment at Washington ; several 
soldiers were arrested and severely punished, 
the remainder being disgraced and deprived of 
their colors; the regiment regained its name 
and colors by bravery in action, September 
10th. 

Aug. 15. — GO men of the 2nd Maine were 
sent to the Dry Tortugas, to work on the fortifi- 
cations as punishment for mutinous conduct. 

Aug. 16. — Colonel Hooker's regiment of Ill- 
inois troops surprised a rebel camp near Fred- 
ericktown. Mo., capturing prisoners, camp 
equipage, etc. — At St. Genevieve, Mo., the 
United States troops captured |58,000, wliich 
was taken to St. Louis. — Commercial intercourse 
with the rebel states, interdicted by the Pres- 
ident. — The passport system was established. 

Aug. 18. — The town of Commerce, Mo., 
having been threatened by rebel batteries, it 
was occupied by Union troops, the rebels re- 
treating without fighting. — Skirmish at Bruns- 
wick, Mo. 

Aug. 19. — At Charlestown, Mo., the Union 
troops under Colonel Dougherty, and a detach- 
ment of rebels from Jeff Thompson's command, 
engaged in a fight, the formpr losing one killed 
and six wounded ; 20 rebels were killed and 
wounded, 17 prisoners were captured and a 
number of horses. 

Aug. 20.— At Hawk's Nest, Kanawha, Va., a 
force of rebels under General Wise, attacked the 
barricades of the 8th Ohio and were repulsed. — 
McClellan assumed personal command of the 
Army of the Potomac, and appointed staff 
officers. - General Butler assumed command of 
the forces in the vicinity of Fortress Monroe. — 
At Lookout Station, Md., a skirmish occurred, 
in which seven soldiers were killed aud 
wounded. 



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1861 — AUG. 21— SEPT. 3—1861. 



Aug. 21. — An engagement took place at 
Boyd's Point, Va., in which forty rebels were 
killed and seventeen taken prisoners ; the Union 
loss was one killed and six wounded. — A band 
of rebels, called tlie Coast Guard, seized the 
light iiouse and all the other government prop- 
erty at Key Biscayne, Florida. 

Aug. 26.— The 7th Ohio, under Colonel Tay- 
lor, were surprised while at breakfast at Sum- 
mersville, \'a.; the regiment fought their way 
out through four times their number; three 
captains and other officers were killed, but the 
total numerical loss was slight. — The joint mili- 
tary aud naval expedition, under General But- 
ler and Commodore Stringham, left Fortress 
Monroe for the North Carolina coast. — Captain, 
afterwards Commodore Foote, was ordered to 
the command of Western river fleets. 

Aug. 27.— a skirmish at Ball's Cross Roads, 
Ga., took place, in which two companies of the 
23d New York Infantry were engaged. — At 
Wayne C. H., W. Va., a slight skirmish oc- 
curred. 

Aug. 28. — The bombardment of Forts Hat- 
teras and Clark at the entrance to Pamlico 
'Sound, N. C, was commenced by tlie united 
military forces of General Butler and Com- 
modore Stringham. — On the following day the 
forts surrendered; 765 prisoners were taken 
and 30 pieces of cannon; 1,000 stand of arms 
and three rebel trading ve.ssels were captured. 
About 450 Union troops under Major Brocker 
were attacked at Lexington, Mo., by a large 
force of rebels under Colonel Reed and a sharp 
skirmish ensued, resulting in the repulse of the 
rebels.— In New Mexico some important arrests 
were made, the writ of habeas corpus was sus- 
pended by Colonel Canby and Fort Stanton 
was abandoned and fired by U. S. troops, under 
orders from the same officer. 

Aug. 30. -Fort Morgan at Ocracoke Inlet, 
N. C, was abandoned by the rebels. 



Aug. 31. — At Munson's Hill, Va., a skirmish 
occurred, in which two Union soldiers were 
killed and two wounded.— The Captain-General 
of Cuba, by proclamation, admitted rebel vessels 
into Cuban ports and promised them protection. 

Sei't. 1. — A tight occurred at Boone Court 
House, W. Va., in which the rebels were routed 
with a loss of about 30 killed and several pris- 
oners were taken ; six Union soldiers were 
wounded, and the city was burned by the 
Union troops. — A skirmish took place near 
Bennett's Mills, Mo., between the rebels and 
the Union Home Guard. Two of the latter 
were killed and eight wounded, one mortally ; 
the rebel loss was unknown. 

Sept. 2.— Near Fort Scott, 80 mules having 
been captured by 600 rebel raiders under Gen- 
eral Rains, Colonel Montgomery of the Kansas 
Volunteers, gave chase, overtook the rebels 11 
miles from the fort, and, after a fight lasting 
two hours, was obliged to retreat.— An attack 
was made by two regiments of U. S. troops 
under Colonel Grossman on a rebel camp at 
Worthington, Va., but being outnumbered, was 
obliged to retire, losing two men. — In the port 
of New York, Surveyor Andrews seized 26 
vessels belonging to persons in the rebel States ; 
their aggregate value was $2,000,000.— The Sec- 
retary of the Treasury offered the 7-30 loan and 
appealed to the people of the Union to take the 
bonds.— The rebels burned to the water's edge 
and sunk the U. S. floating dock at Pensacola; 
the object was to use the dock to obstruct the 
channel, but the guns of Fort Pickens prevented. 
— At Dallas, Mo., the State troops engaged in a 
skirmish. — The loth Massachusetts skirmished 
with rebels at Beher's Mills, Va., and four Union 
soldiers were killed and nine wounded. 

Sept. 3 -Several bridges on the line of the 
Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad, having been 
injured by rebels, a passenger train broke 
through one of them ; seven non-combatants 



1861— SEPT. 4 — SEPT. 12 — 1861. 



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were killed and a large number shockingly 
mangled and otherwise injured. 

Sspr. 4. — A rebel force under General Polk 
occupied Columbus, Ky., avowedly to prevent 
the neutrality of tlie State from being broken. 
— On the Mississippi River, off Hickman, Ky., 
shots were exchanged between U. S. gunboats 
Tyler and Lexington and the rebel gunboat 
Yankee, the latter being supported Ijy batteries 
on shore. — At Shelbina, Mo., aljout 1,100 Union 
troops, under Colonel Williams, of Iowa, were 
attacked by about 1,500 rebels, commanded by 
Martin Green ; having no cannon, the Union 
forces were compelled to retire, abandoning a 
number of horses and a part of their camp 
equipage. —The first capital sentence on a Union 
soldier was passed upon a Vermont private by 
a court-martial. The offense was " sleeping on 
his post "; President Lincoln pardoned him, and 
he was afterwards shot in battle. — The rebels 
attempted to cross the Potomac at Great Falls, 
Va., but were repulsed with some loss by the 
sharp-shooters of the 7th Regiment of the Penn- 
sylvania Reserve Corps. Only one Union soldier 
was killed. 

Sept. 6. — General Grant, with two regiments 
of cavalry and two of infantry, supported by 
two gunboats, took possession of Paducah, Ky. 

Sept. 7. — Columbus, Ky., was strengthened 
by the rebels under Pillow and Polk, whose 
forces numbered about 7,000 ; Paducah was also 
reinforced by Union troops. — Rebel troops under 
Jeff" Thompson occupied the Missouri shore of 
tlie Mississippi opposite Columbus, l^lockading 
the river. — At Petersburg, Va., three companies 
of Ohio Volunteers engaged in a fight. 

Sept. 9. — General A. Sydney Johnson was 
assigned to the command of the rebel depart- 
ment of the West, including the Upper Missis- 
sippi River. — Movements at Cape Hatteras, N. C. 

Sept. 10. — A battle took place at Carnifex 
Ferry, Va., between the rebels under General 



Floyd and a portion of the force of General 
Rosecrans, consisting of the 10th, 12th and 13th 
Ohio regiments commanded by Colonels Lytle, 
Lowe and Robert L. McCook. After a fierce 
contest, lasting all day, the Union troops slept on 
their arms. During the night, Floyd evacuated 
his position, burning the bridge behind him, 
abandoning his wagons, horses, camp fixtures, 
a supply of ammunition, 50 head of cattle and 
all his officers' baggage ; 25 Union prisoners 
were recaptured, 15 Union soldiers were killed 
and a large number wounded ; the rebel loss 
was unknown. — Activities at Summersville, W. 
Va., and at Norfolk, Mo. 

Sept. 11. — An advance was made across the 
Potomac at Lewinsville, Va., by several detached 
companies of infantry, two companies of cavalry 
and Griffen's battery commanded by Colonel I. 
I. Stevens for purposes of reconnoissance; re- 
turning, they were attacked near Falls Church 
by rebel cavalry under Stuart. A sharp skir- 
mish followed, the Union loss being reported at 
six killed and eight wounded ; the rebel loss was 
not ascertained ; one rebel cavalry officer was 
made prisoner. — The Kentucky Legislature or- 
dered the rebel troops to leave the State. 

Sept. 12. — An engagement occurred at Cheat 
Mountain, Va., in which Colonel John A. Wash- 
ington was killed. He was proprietor of Mount 
Vernon and a rebel. — A rebel camp at Peters- 
burg, Va., was attacked and broken up by a 
small force of Union soldiers — infantry and cav- 
alry from New Creek, W. Va.; the camp and its 
equipage were destroyed, a number of rebels 
were killed and wounded and several prisoners 
were taken, as well as horses, arms and am- 
munition and supplies. — At Black River, in 
Southeastern Missouri, a battalion of Indiana 
cavalry under Major Gavitt engaged a rebel 
force under Benjamin Talbott ; the rebels were 
routed with a loss of five killed and four pris- 
oners, besides 35 horses and a quantity of arms. 



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1861 — SEPT. 13 — SEPT. 20 — 1861. 



— In northern Missouri, the rebel troops under 
Green were scattered by General Pope's com- 
mand. — In reply to an action of the Kentucky 
Legislature, the rebel General Buckner, issued 
a flaming address to the "Freemen "of Ken- 
tucky, appealing to them to rally for their own 
defense against Lincoln usurpation. 

Sept. 13. — Union forces under Sturgis occu- 
pied St. Joseph opposite the Kansas border. — 
One thousand rebels under Colonel Brown at- 
tack the intrenchments of the Home Guards at 
Booneville, Mo., under Captain Epstein and 
were defeated; 12 rebels, including Brown, 
were killed and 30 wounded ; one of the gar- 
rison was killed and four wounded. — An all- 
night skirmish occurred at Elk Water, Va.; the 
attack was made by rebels under Anderson, 
and earl}' in the Tuorning two Union regiments 
cut their way through and dispersed the rebels, 
capturing four prisoners. — An artillery skirmish 
took place near Hhepherdstown, Va.— Rebel 
troops advance from Yorktown, Ya., toward 
Newport News, the rebel gunboat Yorktown 
ran down the James River to support the land 
forces and aft*r reaching a position within three 
miles of the Neuse was forced to retire under 
the shells of tiie Sawyer, the land forces also 
retreating. 

Sept. 14. — The rebel privateer, Judah, was 
cut from under the guns of the batteries of 
Pensacola and burned by a force from the U.S. 
steam frigate, Colorado, under Lieutenant Rus- 
sell ; the Union loss was three killed and 15 
wounded. — Activities near Kansas City, Mo. 

Sept. 15.— The pickets of the 28th Penn- 
sylvania, under Colonel Geary, were attacked 
by 450 rebels opposite Pritcliard's Mills, Md., 
and, after two hours' fighting, were driven 
back with a loss of eight or ten, one soldier 
being killed. 

Sept. 16. — Fort Oregon on Ocracoke Inlet, 
N. C, was destroyed by a U. S. naval expedi- 



tion from Hatteras Inlet, under Lieutenants 
Ma.xwell and Eastman. — The rebels evacuated 
Ship Island and the position was occupied by 
Union troops.— Rebel troops under Sterling 
Price laid siege to Lexington, Mo., held by a 
small force of Union soldiers under James Mul- 
ligan ; the first assault was repulsed with severe 
loss.— In Baltimore important military stores 
were seized by the U. S. Marshal. 

Sept. 17. — Tlie rebels were routed in a skir- 
mish at Morristown, Mo., all their tents and 
supplies, besides 100 horses, falling into the 
hands of the Union troops; the latter lost three 
killed and six wounded. Colonel Johnson was 
slain, pierced by nine bullets; the rebel loss was 
unknown. — A railroad train, transporting a 
portion of the 19th Illinois, Colonel Turchin, 
was precipitated down an embankment near 
Huron, Ind., by the giving way of a bridge, 26 
being killed and 112 being badly injured; foul 
play was suspected. — 4,000 rebels under General 
Atchinson attacked a j>art of the 3d Iowa under 
Lieutenant Colonel Scott, en route from St. 
Joseph to Lexington, Mo., at Blue Mills' Land- 
ing; after a sharp skirmish Union re-inforce- 
ments arrived and the rebels fell back; but 
their object in delaying re-inforctments to 
Colonel Mulligan had been accomplished. 

Sept. 18. — A skirmish occurred between the 
Barboursville Home Guards and the rebels un- 
der Zollicoft'er without material results. 

Sept. 19. — A slight running fight occurred 
between the Boone Union Guards and the Bit- 
terwater Blues at Bardstown Junction, Ky. — 
Activities at Loudon, Va., and Glasgow, Ky. 

Sept. 20. — The Union troops under Colonel 
Mulligan surrendered at Lexington to an im- 
mensely superior force of rebels under Price 
after 59 hours fighting; the water supply had 
been entirely cut off. A considerable sum in 
gold fell into the hands of the rebels, who cap- 
tured 1,600 prisoners. The LTnion loss was 39 



1861 — SEPT. 21 — SEPT. 30 — 1861. 



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killed and 120 wounded. — A skirmish occurred 
below Fort Holt, Ky., and at Mayfield, the rebels 
evacuated the place.— The 6th Indiana under 
Crittenden arrived at Louisville, being the first 
Union regiment to enter the city for its defense. 
— A skirmish occurred near Seneca Creek, Va., 
in which one Union soldier was killed and 
several wounded. 

Sept. 21.— AtPapinsville, Mo , General Lane's 
command rou'ed a rebel force after a severe 
fight, killing 40 and cupturing 100 with all the 
supplies; the attacking party lost 17 killed and 
40 wounded. — A detachment of jayhawkers, 
who had sacked the town of Humboldt, Kan., 
were pursued, overtaken and defeated by a 
Union force from Fort Scott ; their leader was 
killed and on his person was found an order 
from McCulloch for the enrolment in the rebel 
service of the Qnawpaw Indians. — In Louis- 
ville, Ky., General Crittenden called out the 
State militia to resist rebel invasion.— Skir- 
mishes took place at Elliot's Mills, Mo., in 
which the 7th Iowa Infantry was engaged. 

Sept. 23. — At Mechanicsville Gap, Va., the 
rebels were defeated with a loss of 15 killed and 
30 wounded, the Union loss being three killed 
and 10 wounded. — The 4th and Sth Ohio en- 
gaged in a skirmish at Komney, Va. 

ShPT. 24. -The Count de Paris and the Due 
de Chartrcs, grandsons of Louis Phillipj)e, were 
ajipointeil on the staff of General McClellan, 
with the rank of captain.s. — The 28th Penn- 
sylvania, under Geary, drove 500 rebels from 
Point of Rocks after a sharp fight. — A rebel 
cavalry raid was made on Warsaw, Ky., and 
State arms seized ; the Union citizens rallied, 
and in a skirmish one rebel was killed and 
several on both sides were wounded. — General 
Prentiss assumed command of tlie United States 
forces at St. Joseph, Mo. 

Sept. 25.— At Lewinsville, Va., a Union force 
under Baldy Smith and a force of rebels from 



Falls Church engaged in a skirmish ; Griffin's 
and Mott's batteries replied to the assault, and 
the rebels retired. — Smithland, Ky., was occu- 
pied by Union troops; this, with the occupation 
of Paducah, virtually blockaded the water con- 
nections of Tennessee and Kentucky. — A de- 
tachment of Woolford's Kentucky cavalry cap- 
tured 17 Kentuckians under James B. Clay, 
while en route to join Zollicoffer. — At Chap- 
mansville, W. Va., a skirmish occurred between 
Colonel Enyard's Kentucky volunteers and a 
party of rebels under Colonel W. J. Davis; the 
latter were intercepted by Colonel Pratt's Ohio 
regiment, and 47 prisoners taken. The re- 
ported Union loss was four killed and eight 
wounded; aliout GO rebels were killed and 
wounded. — A rebel battery made an attack at 
Freestone, Va. 

Sept. 26. — A sharp skirmish occurred at 
Lucas Bend, Ky.; 25 of Stewart's U. S. cavalry 
engaged about 40 rebel cavalry of Jeff Thomp- 
son's command ; the entire rebel force were 
killed, wounded and captured, with a large 
quantity of arms. — Cynthiana, Ky., was occu- 
pied by the Union troops. 

Sept. 27. — 12,000 troops, commanded in per- 
son by General Fremont, started from St. Louis 
on an expedition up the Missouri River. 

Sept. 28. Munson's and Upton's Hills, Va., 
were evacuated by the rebels and occupied by 
the Union troops. 

Sept. 29. — During an advance on a rebel 
work near Munson's Hill, a collision occurred 
between Colonel E. D. Baker's California Regi- 
ment and the 69th Pennsylvania, each mistak- 
ing the other for the enemy ; before the error 
was discovered nine men were killed and 
wounded, including three officers. — The occu- 
pation of Lexington, Mo., was commenced by 
Price's rebel forces. 

Sept. 30. — The rebel works opposite Berlin, 
Md., were shelled by a detachment of Colonel 



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1861 — OCT. 1 — OCT. 11 — 1861. 



Geary's Pennsylvania Regiment and, having 
been evacuated by the rebels, were occupied by 
the Union troops. 

Oct. 1. — A cainp ol secessionists near Char- 
leston, Mo.f was broken up, and about 40 pris- 
oners taken. — The propellor Fanny was cap- 
lured oil" Ilatteras Inlet, near Cliicamocomico, 
N. C, by rebel armed tugs and 30 men of the 
0th New York were taken prisoners. — John Ross, 
a Cherokee chief, advised his people to join the 
Southern (Confederacy, 1,000 Creek Indians hav- 
ing already attached (liemselves to the rebels. 

Oct. 2. — Colonel McNeil, Assistant Provost 
Marshal of St. Louis, by proclamation notified 
the St. Louis Savings Association that $33,000 
on deposit witii them to the credit of the Chero- 
kees was forfeited to the United States, in 
consequence of the Irilje having united with 
the rebels. — 3,200 United States regulars sta- 
tioned in California, were ordered East. — In a 
fight at Ciiapmansviile, Va., 60 rebels were 
killed and 70 taken {irisoners. 

Oct. 3. — Evacuation of Lexington, Mo., by 
Price was completed. — A reconnoissance in force 
was made from Cheat Mountain, Va., by Union 
troops under C.eneral Reynolds, who encoun- 
tered rebel troops belonging to Lee's command 
under General H. A. Jackson at Greenbrier, Va. 
An hour's skirmish ensued ; the rebels were 
driven from the field, losing about 200 in killed 
and wounded ; 13 rebels were taken prisoners; 
the reported Union loss was eight killed and 
32 wounded. 

Oct. 4.— At ILitteras, N. C, the rebels under 
Colonel Barlow, surprised the 20th Indiana and 
the latter had a narrow escape from capture. 
They were shelled from their position on the 
following day by the gunboat Monticello. — At 
Alimosa, N. M., a band of rebel guerrillas from 
Texas were routed by New Mexican volunteers 
and U. S. regulars. — At Buffalo Hill, Ky., a 
sharp skirmish occurred with 20 Union loss 
and a rebel loss of 50. 



Oct. 5. — Four thousand rebels landed at 
Chicamocomico, N. C, and drove the Union 
forces, but re-embarked and departed during 
the night, having meanwhile been shelled by 
the United States steamer Monticello. — Military 
movement at Chincoteague Inlet, Va. 

Oct. 6. — In a skirmish at Flemington, Ky., 
the rebels under Colonel Holliday were defeated 
by the Union Home Guards under Lieutenant 
Sadler. 

Oct. 7. — An artillery duel occurred between 
rebel batteries on the Mississippi river and the 
U. S. gunboats Tyler and Lexington, three 
miles above Goluml)Us, K\'. — 57 Union pris- 
oners taken at Bull Run were released and re- 
turned to Fortress Monroe — the first exchange 
of prisoners. 

Oct. 8. — In advancing the Union lines south 
of the Potomac, a rebel picket guard was sur- 
prised three miles be^'ond Falls Church, Va.; 
three were killed and one taken prisoner. — 
General Robert Anderson having been com- 
pelled by ill-health to relinquish his command 
in Kentucky, General W. T. Sherman was ap- 
pointed to succeed him. — The first condemna- 
tion of a blockade runner was made in the U. S. 
Admiralty Court by Judge Ware in the ca.se of 
the British schooner, William Arthur. 

Oct. 9. — An attack was made on Wilson's 
Zouaves at Santa Rosa Island, Fla., by about 
1,500 rebels; the Zouaves, with aid from Fort 
Pickens, repelled the attack, killing and wound- 
ing a large number: the Union loss was 13 
killed and 21 wounded. — At Bolivar, Md., three 
companies of the 3d Wisconsin, attacked by 
1,600 rebels, held their position until reinforced. 

Oct. 11. — The rebel privateer Nashville, vni- 
der Lieutenant Pegram, escaped from Charles- 
ton harbor, S. C. — 57 prisoners were released 
and exchanged for those already received at 
Fortress Monroe. — At Dumfries, \'a., and at 
Qnantico, Md., rebel movements occurred. 



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Oct. 12. — In the Southwest Pass of the Mis- 
sissippi River, an attempt was made to destroy 
the U. S. blockading fleet by a rebel fleet, con- 
sisting of six gunboats, the ram Manassas and 
a number of Are ships. The U. S. vessels es- 
caped the latter by running down stream, after 
which the rebel gunboats and ram were driven 
back; the latter being disabled and much in- 
jured. — The rebel steamer, Theodoi-a, ran the 
blockade of Charleston, S. C, having on board 
Mason and Slidell, accredited ministers from 
the quaxi Richmond government to England 
and France. — At Chelsea, Kan., Union troops 
under P. G. D. Morton, captured a train of 21 
wagons, 425 cattle, 28 ponies and 35 rebels, en 
route for the Indian encampment in the rebel 
lines. — At Cameron, Mo., in a skirmish between 
a small force of Union soldiers under Major 
James and the rebels, the latter were routed ; 
the Union loss was one killed and four wounded ; 
the rebel loss was eight killed and wounded 
and five prisoners. — At Upton Hill, Ky., the 
30th Indiana engaged in a skirmish. — At Bay- 
lis' Cross Roads, La., the 79th New York en- 
gaged in an action. — Activities at Winfield, Mo., 
and Hurricane Bridge, Va. 

Oct. 13. — A cavalry skirmisii occurred at 
Beckwith's Farm, near Glaize, Mo., Major 
Wright commandmg the Union forces, the reb- 
els being led by Caj^tains Lowell and Wright. 
The latter were surprised and routed with a 
loss of 20 killed and 30 prisoners ; the Union 
loss was very small. — Movement at Lebanon, Mo. 

Oct. 14. — Major Wright's cavalry captured 
45 rebels under Captain Roberts, at Lynn 
Creek, Mo. — The oatli of allegiance was ad- 
minis'tered to tlie inhabitants of Chincoteague 
Island, \'a. — A large navnl force left New York 
for Virginia. 

Oct. 15. — Jeff" Thompson's troops captured 
20 Union soldiers at Potosi, Mo. — Three vessels 
sailed from New York in pursuit of the Nash- 
ville. 



Oct. 16.— At Bolivar, Va., 400 men of Colonel 
Geary's 28th Pennsylvania regiment routed the 
rebels after several hours of uitermittent fight- 
ing, the Union loss being four killed and eight 
wounded. — A Union force, under Major Gavitt, 
drove Jeff Thomson's troops from Tronton, Mo., 
and occupied the town, thereby obtaining pos- 
session of an important strategic point ; 11 Union 
soldiers were killed, and the rebel loss was three 
times as great. — Major White's cavalry re-cap- 
tured and occupied Lexington, Mo., surprising 
the rebel gai'rison, who escaped. — A skirmish 
occurred at ^\'^arsaw, Mo. 

Oct. 18. — The rebels were repulsed in an at- 
tack on Harper's Ferry, Va. 

Oct. 19. — At Big Hurricane Creek, Mo., a 
Union force, under Colonel Morgan, defeated 
the rebels, losing 14 and killing 14, capturing 
eight prisoners. — Negro "contrabands" were 
first employed in connection with U. S. service 
at Fortress Monroe by General Wool. 

Oct. 21. — A disastrous defeat of the Union 
troops occurred at Ball's Blufl", Va.; Colonel 
Baker, with his California brigade crossed the 
Potomac, and was suddenly attacked by 5,000 
rebels, under General Evans, who held the ad- 
vantage in force and position. Baker's com- 
mand was driven back to the river. No pro- 
vision had been made for sucli an emergency, 
and those who refused to surrender, were either 
drowned or slaughtered ; 455 were taken pris- 
oners, 223 were killed and 2G6 wounded. The 
rebel loss was estimated at 300. Colonel Baker, 
one of the bravest and most noble spirited men 
in the volunteer army, was among tlie slain. — 
Commodore Dupont and General Sherman left 
New York with sealed orders on a combined 
military and naval expedition. — -At Frederick- 
town, Mo., a large rebel force, under General 
Jeff Thompson and Colonel Lowe, were defeated 
by Plummer's force. After two hours fighting, 
the rebels fled and were pursued 22 miles ; 200 



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rebels, including Lowe, were killed, and a large 
number wounded. — In an attack on Camp Wild 
Cat, Laurel Co., Ky., 6,000 rebels, under Zulli- 
coffer, were repulsed by a Union force, under 
General Scboepf, who lost four killed and 31 
wounded. « 

Oct. 22.— At Buffalo Mills, Mo., 22 rebels 
were killed and SO w>undeil. — An action oc- 
curred at Goose Creek, Va.; losses not reported. 

Oct. 23. — Li a skirmish at West Liberty, 
Mo., 1.5 rebel soldiers-were killed and wounded, 
and six were captured. — Lieutenant Grayson 
routed the rebels at Hodgesville, Ky., and was 
wounded with .seven of his men. 

Oct. 24. — Mason and Slidell were formally 
received at Havana by the authorities in 
Cuba. — The second excliange of prisoners took 
place at Columbus, Ky., and Cairo, 111. — The 
writ of habeas corpus was suspended in the 
District of Columl)ia. 

Oct. 25. — Near Springfield, Mo., a detach- 
ment of Fremont's body guard, under Zagonyi, 
charged 2,000 rebels and routed them, killing 
106 and Ciipturing 27; the Union loss was 
about 60. . 

Oct. 26. — Near Romney, Va., a force under 
General Kelley routed the rebels after two 
hours fighting ; many prisoners were captured, 
a great amount of liaggage,and all the cannon, 
ammunition and wagons. — At Plattslmrg a 
Union victory was accomi)li.'^hed. — Fremont and 
Sigel, witli tiieir command.s, arrived at Spring- 
field, Mo. — In a skirmish at Saratoga, Ky., the 
i)4t]i Illinois were engaged. — The 7th Missouri 
Cavalry were engaged in a skirmisli at Spring 
Hill. 

Oct. 28.— At Dyer's Mills, Mo., 400 rebels 
oftered to lay down their arms and return home 
if secured against arrest by Union troops; Gen- 
eral Henderson assented to their terms. — Near 
Butler, Mo., a rebel train was captured by a 
force under General Lane. 



Oct. 29. — Dupont and Sherman sailed from 
Fortress Monroe for Port Royal with SO vessels 
and 25,000 men. 

Oct. 30. — Removal of prisoners of state from 
Fort La Fayette, New York, to Fort Warren, 
Boston. 

Oct. 31. — General Scott requested to be 
placed on the retired list. 

Nov. 1. — General Scott was retired on full 
pay and McClellan was appointed his successor. 
— Colonel Mulligan was the first Union pris- 
oner exchanged under formalities, and General 
Frost, the rebel officer, captured by Lyon at 
Camp .Jackson, St. Louis, was released. — A skir- 
mish occurred at Renick, Mo. 

Nov. 2. — Fremont was relieved of his com- 
mand in Missouri. — At Platte City, Mo., a force 
under Major Josephs routed the rebels under 
Silas Gordon and captured 30 prisoners. — The 
Bermuda ran the blockade at Savannah, Ga. — 
Military activities at Leavenworth, Kansas. 

Nov. 3. — Union men in East Tennessee de- 
stroyed several important railroad bridges and 
the rebels hung several Union men in retalia- 
tion. — A rebel movement occurred at Houston, 
Mo. 

Nov. 5. — Prestonburg, Ky., was occupied by 
Union troops under General Nelson. 

Nov. 6. -At Little Santa Fe, N. M., 120 
Union soldiers under Captain Shields were cajv 
tured at Corrotowan Creek. 

Nov. 7. — Battle of Belmont, Mo. The Union 
troops under Grant and McClernand, who had 
crossed from Cairo, were driven back to their 
transports by the rebels under (Jeneral ("heat- 
ham ; a hot tight was carried on more than six 
hours with heavy loss on both sides. — Forts 
Walker and Beauregard at Port Royal, S. C, 
were captured by the expedition under Dupont 
and Sherman after five hours engagement; the 
Union loss was eight killed and 23 wounded, 
and 2,500 rebel prisoners were taken. For the 



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first time since April 14th, the United States 
flag floated over South CaroUna soil. — The pri- 
vateer, Royal Yacht, was hoarded by a party 
from the Santee and burned in Galveston har- 
bor after a sharp conflict. 

Nov. 8. — CaptainWilkes, United States Navy, 
commanding the steam sloop of war, Jacinto, 
overhauled the British sail steamer, Trent, con- 
veying Mason and Slidell to England and 
France. The rebel envoys were transferred to 
the Jacinto. — At Piketon, Ky., General Nelson's 
brigade routed the rebels, losing six killed and 
24 wounded ; the rebel loss in killed and 
wounded was 409, and 2,000 of their soldiers 
were captured and considerable property. 

Nov. 10.— At Guyandott, West Virginia, 600 
rebel cavalry under Jenkins made a descent on 
150 Union soldiers. The citizens of the town 
treacherously lured the Federal garrison into 
their houses, and they were afterwards assaulted 
by the raiders and their hosts, male and female, 
and massacred in cold blood ; only 50 escaped. 
An hour later Colonel Ziegler arrived with a 
regiment of regulars and burned the town. — At 
Taylor's Ford, Tenn., the loyal citizens defended 
the U. S. flag. 

Nov. 11. In a skirmish near Kansas City, 
Mo., the troops of Colonel Anthony were de- 
feated by the rebels and lost 16 in killed and 
wounded. — A cavalry skirmish occurred at 
Little Blue, Mo. 

Nov. 12.- In a skirmish near Romney, Va., 
two Union soldiers w^ere killed and 12 rebel 
prisoners taken. — A detachment of New York 
cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Occoquan 
Creek, Va. 

Nov. 14.— At McCoy's Mills, Va., a detach- 
ment of troops under General Benham, over- 
took, attacked and defeated the rear guard of 
General Floyd's rebel army and killed 15. — A 
military movement occurred at Point of Rocks, 
Md. 



Nov. 15.— The Jacinto arrived at Fortress 
Monroe with Mason and Slidell.— In a skirmish 
at Cypress Bridge, Ky., the Union loss was 25 
killed and wounded. 

Nov. 18.-3,000 rebel troops inAccomacand 
Northampton Counties, Va., disbanded and the 
Union forces under General Dix took posses- 
sion of the peninsula. — A skirmish occurred at 
Palmyra, Mo. 

Nov. 19.— Warsaw, Mo., was burned by the 
rebel troops.— The rebel privateer, Nashville, 
captured the Harvey Birch near the English 
Channel, burned the vessel to the water's edge 
and took the crew as prisoners to an English 
port. — A skirmish occurred at Wirt, W. Va. 

Nov. 20.— The rebel General Floyd aban- 
doned his camp near Gurley River, W. Va., de- 
stroying a large proportion of the camp prop- 
erty and abandoning 10 wagon loads of arms 
and ammunition. 

Nov. 22. — Bombardment of the fertifications 
at Pensacola, Fla., by Fort Pickens and the U. 
S. fl.ee(s; Fort McRae was silenced. Fort Baran- 
cas and the navy yard much damaged, and 
Warrenton destroyed. The Union loss was two 
killed and 13 wounded. The action occupied 
two days. 

Nov. 23. — The advance of General Butler's 
expedition for New Orleans sailed from Port- 
land, Me.— The representatives of U. S. soldiers 
in rebel prisons were authorized to draw their 
pay as if in service.— Rebel movements at War- 
wick, Va. 

Nov. 24. — At Lancaster, Va., Colonel Moore 
defeated the rebels under Colonel Blanton, kill- 
ing 13 and capturing several prisoners and los- 
ing one killed and two wounded. — Tybee Is- 
land, S. C, was occupied by the Union forces; 
a panic in consequence prevailed in Charleston, 
which was placed under martial law and the 
Mayor called on the citizens to aid in the de- 
fense of the city.— Mason and Slidell were 



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1861 — NOV. 26 — DEC. 11 — 1861. 



placed iu Fort Warren, Boston.— An unim- 
portant movement occurred at Buckingham, Va. 

Nov. 26. — The convention to organize the 
new State of West Mrginia assembled at Wheel- 
ing. — Unimportant movements took place at 
Drainsville, Va., and Little Blue, Mo. 

Nov. 27. — An emancipation Act was passed 
bj' the Wheeling convention. — At Liverpool, 
England, an indignation meeting was held to 
protest against Captain Wilkes' action in board- 
ing the Trent. 

Nov. 29. — An expedition under General 
Phelps left Fortress Monroe, destined for the 
Gulf.— The terror at Cliarleston, S. C, induced 
planters in the vicinity to destroy large quanti- 
ties of cotton. — At Black Walnut Creek, Mo., 
Major Hough defeated the rebels, killing 14 
and capturing five. 

Nov. 30. — General Price issued a proclama- 
tion at Neosho, Mo., calling 50,000 Missourians 
to his aid. — 1,200 Creek Indians revolted against 
the authority of the rebels. 

Dec. 1. — In a skirmish at Hunter's Chapel, 
Va., General Blenker defeated the rebels, with 
a loss of one killed. — Military movements took 
place at Tallahatchie, Fla., and Huntsville, Ala. 

Dec. 2.— At Fort Holt, Ky., and Ford's Point, 
Mo., an artillery duel occurred, in which the 
rebel gunboats and Union batteries were en- 
gaged. — On the .James River four Union gun- 
boats and the rebel ironclad, Patrick Henry, sup- 
ported by a shore battery, engaged in a naval 
skirmish which lasted two hours. 

Dec. 3.— In a reconnoissance near Vienna, 
Va., companies D., F. and M., of the 3d Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry, under Captain Bell, were 
surprised by 300 rebels, and fought their way 
through, with a loss of about -45.— At S.ilem, 
Mo., the Union garrison, under Major Bowen, 
was surprised by 300 rebels, and a street fight 
ensued, in which the rebels were repulsed; the 
Union loss was 15 killed and wounded. 



Dec. 4. — General Phelps' expedition reached 
Ship Island. — At St. Louis, General Halleck 
ordered all spies found within the Union lines 
to be shot. — Queen Victoria prohibited the ex- 
portation from {British ports of arms and other 
war supplies. — In a skirmish at Anandale, Va., 
a detachment of New Jersey troops engaged, 
and at Dunksburg, Mo., the citizens took part 
in a skirmish. — An action took place at Whij> 
poorwill Bridge, Ky. 

Dec. 5. — In a skirmish at Brownsville, Ky., 
the Home Guards defeated the rebels, under 
General Hinchman, killing three and wound- 
ing five. — A naval reconuoissance sent up the 
Wilmington River, Ga., and captured a rebel 
battery. — Senator Sumner presented the first 
petition in the Senate for the emancipation of 
the slaves. 

Dec. 6. — At Nashville, Tenn., a riot occurred 
during an attempt to enforce a draft for the_ 
confederate army ; the boxes containing the 
names were destroyed. 

Dec. 7. — At Mississippi Sound, a naval en- 
gagement took place between the gunboats New 
London and De Soto and two rebel vessels 
trying to run the blockade between Mobile and 
New Orleans. — At Dam No. 5, on the Potomac, 
the rebels were defeated, with a loss of 12 killed. 
— At Olathe, Mo., two Union soldiers were killed 
in a skinuish. — A Union Indian fight occurred 
at Bushy Creek, Ark. 

Dec. 8. — Beaufort, S. C, was occupied by 
Union troops. 

Dec. 9.— The rebel batteries at Free Stone 
and Shipping Point, Va., were silenced by the 
United States flotilla on the Lower Potomac, 
aided by the batteries at Budd's Ferr}'. A 
boat's crew was landed, which destroyed the 
rebel works and buildings contiiining stores. 

Dec. 11.- a great fire occurred at Charles- 
ton, S. C. — At Bertrand, Mo., Lieutenant- 
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1861 — DEC. 12— JAN. 4—1862. 



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but one man. — Minor affairs occurred at Ossa- 
baw Sound, and Sliarpesburg, N. C. 

Dec. 12. — Military movements took place on 
Green River, Ky. 

Dec. 13. — At Camp Allegheny, Va., a battle 
took place, in which the forces were respectively 
led by Milroy (Union) and Johnson (rebel) ; 
darkness terminated the action, and the rebels 
fled before daybreak ; the Union loss was 140 
in killed, wounded and missing. — Military 
movements occurred at Butler, Md. — A deserter 
named Johnson was shot, which was the first 
military execution in the army.— In an action 
at Papinsville, Mo., General Pope captured a 
rebel camp, taking prisoners, camp fixtures and 
wagons. 

Dec. 15. — A rebel raid was made upon Platte 
City, Mo., and unimportant activities occurred 
at Berlin, Md. 

Dec. 17.— Battle of Munfordville, Ky. The 
rebels under General Bragg were defeated, the 
Union loss being 27 killed and wounded and 
that of the rebels much larger. 

Dec. 18. — A detachment of Pope's command 
under Jeff C. Davis captured a rebel camp at 
Milford, Mo., with 1,300 prisoners, and losing 
two killed and eight wounded. — A small rebel 
camp was captured on Edisto Island, S. C. 

Dec. 19. — A rebel attack was made on Geary's 
Pennsylvania troops, which was repulsed. — 
Warlike movements occurred at Ripley, Va., 
and Point of Rocks, Md. 

Dec. 20.— At Drainsville, Va., a foraging 
party under General Ord, and rebels under 
Stewart engaged in a fight in which the latter 
were routed with heavy loss in kdled and 
wounded, and losing 30 prisoners; the Union 
loss was seven killed and 60 wounded. — In a 
skirmish at Hudson, Mo., a Union force under 
Colonel McKee defeated a rebel force, captur- 
ing 10 and killing 17. 

Dec. 22.— At Nashville, Tenn., $1,000,000 



worth of stores belonging to the rebels were 
burned. 

Dec. 23. — The rebels were defeated near 
Newport News, Va., losing 10 killed ; six Union 
soldiers were wounded. 

Dec. 14. — Further enlistment of cavalry was 
stopped by the War Department, the force being 
sufficient. — A skirmish occurred at Wadesburg, 
Mo. 

Dec. 25. — The rebel military authorities blew 
up the lighthouse on Morris Island, in Charles- 
ton harbor, S. C. — Rebel movements in Mobile 
harbor. 

Dec. 26. — Movements at Columbia, Ky. 
Dec. 27. — Mason and Slidell were surren- 
dered to the British authorities. — Fort Stanton 
was garrisoned. 

Dec. 28. —At Mount Zion, Mo., General Pren- 
tiss' forces dispersed the rebels under Colonel 
D'Orsey, losing three killed and 11 wounded ; 
35 prisoners were captured, 95 horses and 105 
guns, while the loss in killed and wounded 
was about 150. — A cavalry fight occurred at 
Sacramento, Ky. — At Sewall's Point, Va., mili- 
tary movements occurred. 

Dec. 31. — The rebels intrenched at Biloxi, 
Miss. 

1862. Jan. 1.— A battle occurred at Port 
Royal Island, S. C, in which a Union brigade 
under Gimeral Stevens defeated an attacking 
party of rebels and lost three killed and 11 
wounded. — The bombardment of the forts in 
Pensacola Bay, Fla., re-opened and included 
attacks on Fort Pickens, Fort Barancas and 
Warren ton. 

Jan. 3. — Big Bethel, Va., having been evacu- 
ated by the rebels, was occupied by the Union 
troops. — A cavalry action occurred at Hunne- 
well. Mo. 

Jan. 4. — Near Bath, Va., 15,000 rebels under 
Jackson attacked the 5th Connecticut, guarding 
the Baltimore & Ohio track, and drove them 



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1862— JAN. 6 — FEB. 6 — 1862. 



across the Potomac, capturing a number of 
prisoners. — The command of Major Webster 
defeated the rebels at Huntersville, W. Va. 

Jan. 6. — Military operations occured at Han- 
cock, Md. 

Jan. 7.— At Blue Gap, Va., Colonel Dun- 
ning's troops routed 2,000 rebels, killing 15 
and taking 20 prisoners. — A skirmish occurred 
30 miles east of Sutton, W. Va., and the rebels 
were routed, losing 22 killed and wounded and 
a quantitj' of cattle and horses. — At Paintsville, 
Ky., a body of Union troops under Colonel 
James A. Garfield, dispersed the rebels under 
Humphrey Ahirshall. 

Jan. 8.— At Silver Creek, Mo., Union troops 
under Major Torrence defeated the rebels under 
Colonel Poindexter, and lost three killed and 
10 wounded. — Tlie 10th Iowa engaged in a 
fight at Charleston, Mo. — A cavalry skirmish 
took place at Cheat River, W. Va. 

Jan. 9.— In a skirmish at Columbus, Mo., a 
body of Kansas cavalry was engaged. 

Jan. 10. — The retreating rebel force under 
Humphrey Marshall were overtaken by Gar- 
field's troops at Prestonburg, Ky., and the 
rebels were defeated, losing 50 in killed and 
wounded, with 25 prisoners, the Union loss 
being two killed and 25 wounded. 

Jan. 11.— Over 100 vessels of all clas.ses, car- 
rying 5,000 troops, sailed from Fortress Monroe 
for North Carolina under command of General 
Burnside and Commodore Goldsboroush. — 
Near Columbus, Ky., the Union and rebel gun- 
boats were engaged on the \[ississippi River.— 
Destruction of tlie bridges of the Louisville & 
Nashville railroad by the rebels. 

Jan. 17.— The Burnside expedition arrived 
at Hatteras, N. C. 

Jan. 19. — General Thoma.s' forces routed 
those of Zollicoffer and Crittenden at Mill 
Spring, Ky., in an engagement which lasted 
several hours. The Union loss was 39 killed 



and 127 wounded, and the rebels lost 231 killed 
and wounded, 150 prisoners, 10 cannon, 100 
wagons, 1,200 horses and mules, 1,000 muskets, 
arms, ammunition and stores and several boats. 
Zollicoffer was killed by a pistol shot fired by 
Colonel S. S. Fry. 

Jan. 22. — Cavalry skirmish at Knob Noster, 
Mo. 

Jan. 23. — At Southwest Pass on the Missis- 
sii)pi River, military movements took place. 

Jan. 26. — The rebels constructed fortifica- 
tions at Benton, Ark. — At Bloomfield, Mo., an 
unimportant affair took place. 

Jan. 27. — The rebel authorities peremptorily 
refused to receive the commissioners sent from 
the North to provide for the comfort of Union 
prisoners. 

Jan. 28. — An unimportant naval engage- 
ment between U. S. and rebel gunboats took 
place near Savannah, Ga. 

Jan. 29. — Mason and Slidell landed at 
Southampton, England, but met with a very 
cold reception. — At Occoijuan, Va., the 37th 
New York Infantry and 1st New Jersey Cavalry 
engage in a skirmish. — Reconnoissance at Stono 
Inlet, N. C. 

Jan. 30. — Ericsson's Monitor was launched 
at Green Point, L. I. 

Jan. 31. — At Charleston, S. C, the confeder- 
ate ironclads Palmetto State and Chicora pre- 
pared for an attack on Fort McAlister and 
other points, their movements being known to 
history as a raid. 

Feb. 1. — \\\ mil niportant skirmish occurred 
near Bowling Green, K}'. 

Feb. 3. — The English authorities ordered 
the rebel privateer Nashville to leave South- 
ampton ; the U. S. sleamer Tuscarora attempted 
to follow and was stopped by a British frigate. 

Feb. 6. — At Fort Henry, Tenn., the rebel 
works were captured by seven gunboats under 
Flag Officer Foote after a figlit of more than 



1862 — FEB. 7— FEB. 13—1862. 



29 



aa hour and the eommandant with his men 
were made prisoners, the main body of the 
rebels escaping. 

Feb. 7. — Union troops under General Lander, 
the successor of Baker, occupied Romney, Va. 
— At Fairfax C. H., Va., the command of 
Colonel Friedman worsted the rebels, killing 
one and capturing 12, only one Union soldier 
being wounded. — Tiie Union batteries on 
Maryland Heights shelled Harper's Ferry. , 
Feb. 7. — Fighting was commenced at Roan- 
oke Island, N. C, which continued two days. 
The rebel works on the island were defeirded 
by six batteries, mounting an aggregate of 4.2 
heavy guns, manned by a force of 250 and by 
eight two-gun gunboats. In the first day's 
fighting, the U. S. vessels under Commodore 
Goldsborough disabled the gunboats and silenced 
several heavy guns attached to the batteries. 
During tlie succeeding night General Burnside 
landed -1,000 troops for the purpose of making 
a combined attack in the morning. Fighting 
was renewed at daylight and about 1,000 
additional infantry ti'oops were landed, a com- 
bined military and naval attack behig made 
on the rebel works. The defense of the works 
by the garrison may be fairly characterized as 
heroic, and many of the rebel fortifications had 
to be carried at the point of the bayonet. On 
the afternoon of the Slh, the garrison surren- 
dered, having lost about 80 in killed and 
wounded, while the Union loss was 50 killed 
and 175 wounded. The Federal troops cap- 
tured 2,527 prisoners, 40 cannon, 3,500 stand 
of arms, besides about 75 tons of ammunition 
together with other war material. — Rebels in- 
trenched at Germantown, Tenn. 

Feb. 8. — A small force of Union troops 
under Captain Smith defeated a rebel detacli- 
raent at Linn Creek, Va., capturing 17 horses 
and 12 prisoners; the Union loss was reported 
atone killed and wounded; the rebel loss in 
killed and wounded was reported at 15. 



Feb. 9. — A detachment of General Grant's 
forces engaged the rebels near Fort Henry, 
Tenn. ; 30 prisoners were taken and five rebels 
were reported killed, but the victory was 
obtained by a loss of 39 Union soldiers killed 
and 23 wounded. 

Feb. 10.— At Elizabeth City, N. C, a rebel 
battery was silenced and a fleet of rebel gun- 
boats destroyed, captured or driven off by 
Union gunboats attached to the Burnside ex- 
pedition under Commodore Rowan. — The re- 
turn of a reconnoitering expedition by Union 
gunboats up the Tennessee River as far as 
Florence, Ala., occurred; during the recon- 
noissance three steamers were captured. The 
expedition was accorded enthusiastic greeting 
by the inhabitants on the river. 

Feb. 11. — A part of Burnside's command 
occupied Elizabeth City, N. C, the rebels hav- 
ing evacuated and partly burned the town. 

Feb. 12. — The investment of Fort Donelsou, 
Tenn., was commenced by 40,000 troops under 
Grant, the fort being garrisoned by about 
19,000 men. — Edenton, N. C, was occupied by 
the Union forces. 

Feb. 13.— Battle of Fort Donelson, Tenn. 
The attack on the works commenced at 7:30 in 
the morning, the garrison making a vigorous 
reply. Reinforcements of 8,000 men arrived 
during the night and the action of the Union 
troops was supported by four gunboats under 
Commodore Foote. On the 14th, .several 
sorties were made by the rebels and in one a 
Union battery was captured which was at once 
retaken. In the afternoon tiie gunboats were 
obliged to retire down the river, being disabled, 
having lost nine killed and 45 wounded. On 
the 15th, the battle raged all day and the center 
works were stormed and carried by the Union 
troops. Darkness put an end to the figliting 
and the National flag floated over the redoubt. 
During the night Pillow and Floyd decamped 



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1862 — FEB. 13— FEB. 23—1862. 



with 5,000 troops, leaving General Buckner to 
continue the fight or surrender. On the morn- 
ing of tlie 16tli, wliite flags appeared on the 
rebel works. In the correspondence between 
the commanders relative to the terms of sur- 
render. Grant insisted that it should be "un- 
conditional." The capitulation followed, 13,- 
829 prisoners, 3,000 horses, 48 Held pieces, 17 
siege guns, 20,000 stand of arms and a large 
quantity of stores being captured. The official 
reports give a loss of 281 killed and 1,007 
wounded to the rebels, and report t^ie Union 
loss as 446 killed, 1,735 wounded and 150 
prisoners. 

Fki!. 13. — Union troops occupied Springfield, 
Mo , which had been abandoned by the troops 
of Sterling Price who left his sick behind. 

Feb. 14 — At Blooming Gap, Va., the com- 
mand of General Lander defeated the rebels, 
killing 13, wounding 20 and taking 56 prison- 
ers, his own loss being seven killed. — At Flat 
Lick Ford, Ky., Colonel Munday's men en- 
gaged m a skirmish without loss, but killed 
and wounded eight rebels and took several 
prisoners. 

Fkb. 15. — The rebels having evacuated 
Bowling Green, Ky., 8,000 troops under General 
C. M. Mitchell, occupied and fortified the place. 
A skirmish occurred at Venus Point, Md. 

Feb. 16. — Warsaw, Mo., was garrisoned by 
Union troops. ) 

Feb. 17.— At Sugar Creek, Ark., 13 Union { 
soldiers were killed and wounded. I 

Feb. 19. — The gunlioats of tiie Burnside ex- 
pedition attacked Winton, N. C, which was 
abandoned l)y the inhaliitunts and burned. — 
At Independence, Mo., a skirmish occurred 
between the Union troops and the guerrillas of 
Quantrell and Parker. ' 

Feb. 20. — The naval force under Foote oc- I 
cupied Clarksville, Tenn., the rebels retreating ' 
on the approach of the gunboats, after an 



unsuccessful attempt to burn the railroad 
bridge. — While making an attemjit to reinforce 
Fort Donelson, 1,000 rebels marched into the 
Union lines and were promptly made prisoners. 
Feb. 21. — William Goodwin, convicted of 
taking negroes from the cojst of Africa with 
the intent to sell them into slavery, was hung 
in the city of New York, this being the first 
execution of a slave trader in 40 years. — The 
United States Regulars under Colonel Canby 
j were defeated by Texan rebels under the com- 
mand of Colonel Steele at Valverde, on the Rio 
Grande, N. M.; the fight lasted all day. Dur- 
ing its progress a section of U. S. artillery dis- 
played bravery of the highest order, standing 
to their guns until literally cut to pieces, and 
Captain Alexander McRae sealed his heroism 
with his life; the six guns attached to the bat- 
tery were not captured until after tiie death of 
their defenders ; 62 Union soldiers were killed 
and 140 wounded; the rebel lo&s was not as- 
certained. 

Feb. 23. — Military necessity compelled the 
rebel evacuation of Nashville, Tenu., which 
was on the same day occupied by Union troops 
under General Nelson. Circumstances of great 
excitement attended the departure of the con- 
federate forces and the removal of the State 
government. Rebel soldiers were guilty of 
many acts of rapine and pillage, and were only 
prevented from burning the cit}- b}' the de- 
termined opposition of armed citizeii.s. The 
railroad bridge across the Cumberland was 
burned and the wires of the suspension bridge 
were cut, but neither of these acts of vandalism 
served to prevent the entrance of the Union 
troops. The rebel governor Harris, before his 
flight, delivered an inflammatory address to a 
meeting of citizens, urging them to meet him 
at Memphis; his remarks awakened no enthu- 
siasm and he left iii ajiparent di.sgust. — CJalla- 
tin, Tenn., was occupied by General Buell's 



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troops, while Fayetteville, Ark., was captured 
by General Curtiss. 

Feb. 24. — Mud Town, Ark., was occupied by 
the 5th Missouri Cavalry, who captured a quan- 
tity of stores which had been poisoned and 42 
officers and men were taken ill and several 
died. — The 37th New York engaged in a skir- 
mish at Occoquan, Va. 

Feb. 25. — Columbus, Ky., was evacuated. 

Feb. 26. — Military possession was taken of all 
telegraph lines and army intelligence was pro- 
hibited from passing over the wires; private 
messages were not interfered with, if of a pri- 
vate nature. — In a skirmish at Key tesville. Mo., 
the cavalry were engaged. 

Feb. 28. — A skirmish occurred at Charleston, 
Va. 

March 1. — -At Sykestown, Mo., a detachment 
of Illinois troops engaged in an action. 

March 2. — Two of Commodore Foote's gun- 
boats went up the Tennessee River to Pittsburg 
Landing, silenced a rebel battery and landed a 
small Union force, which charged the rebels 
and drove them from their works. On the ar- 
rival of rebel reinforcements the Union soldiers 
retreated to the boats ; they lost five killed and 
five wounded, and killed and wounded more 
than 200 rebels. —A part of Commodore Du- 
pont's Heet, assisted by the troops, took posses- 
sion of Brunswick, Ga. 

March 3. — Preparations for tlie occupation 
of Fernandina, Fla., which was abandoned by 
the rel.)els. (March 3d to March 7th.) — Military 
activities at Martinsburg, Va.— An infantry 
and two cavalry regiments engaged in a fight 
at New Madrid, Mo. 

March 5. — The 63d Pennsylvania Infantry 
engaged in a skirmish at Occoquan, Va. — Mili- 
tary movements occurred at Bunker Hill, Va., 
Pineville, Mo., and Fort Beauregard, 8. C. 

March 6.— Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. Van 
Dorii, Price and Ben McCuUoch, with 35,000 



troops, including 2,000 Indians, attacked the 
forces of Sigel and Curtiss, Asbooth and .Jeff C. 
Davis; at the end of the first daj* the troops 
slept on their arms. Tiie battle continued the 
next day with heav}' loss, McCulloch being 
killed. The fighting was resumed the next 
day — Saturday — and the rebels were routed be- 
fore sunset and closely pursued. Nearly 2,000 
prisoners were captured, and the Union loss 
was 212 killed, 926 wounded and 170 missing, 
while that of the rebels was 3,600 killed and 
wuunded. The various parts of this action 
are recorded as Benton ville, Leetown, Elkhorn 
Tavern and Sugar Creek. 

March 6. — Operations were begun at Berry- 
ville which covered several days.— Movements 
occurred at St. Mary's, Fla., and Smith field, Va. 

March 7. — Geary's troops occupied Lees- 
burg, Va. — A skirmish occurred at Fox Creek, 
Mo.; the evacuation of Centerville, Va., took 
place, and at Acquia Creek, Va., gunboat move- 
ments occurred. 

March 8. — The Army of the Potomac was 
made into five corps. — Activities took place at 
Occoquan, Va., Keytesville, Mo., Waterford, 
Miss., and Wheatland, Mo. — Action in Hamp- 
ton Roads. The rebel ironclad ram, Merrimac, 
attacked the Cumberland, sinking her with 
most of her crew. The Congress was next 
attacked and surrendered after having been 
set on fire; the Minnesota started to relieve the 
Congress, but ran aground, and was attacked 
by the ram and an engagement between the 
two lasted until dark. Two gunboats were dis- 
abled and the Union losses were very heavy ; 
100 were killed and 50 wounded on the Cum- 
berland ; 94 were killed and 29 wounded on 
the Congress ; on the Minnesota, six were killed 
and 25 wounded, and on the gunboats five were 
killed and wounded ; the rebels took 40 pris- 
oners from the Congress which burned all night 
and then blew up. - In a skirmish near Nash- 



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1862 — MARCH 9 — MARCH 21—1862. 



ville, Tenn., the 1st Wisconsin Infantry and 
4th Ohio Cavalry engaged. 

March 9. — The Merrimac again appeared in 
Hampton Iloads. During the niglit Ericsson's 
steam floating battery Monitor arrived from 
New York and the two ironehids were engaged 
in a three-hours' figlit. The Merriinac retired 
in a damaged condition and was towed away 
to the protection of a rebel battery at Sewall's 
Point. Lieutenant Worden, commander of the 
Monitor, was injured in iiis ej'es whicii was the 
only casualty on the "Yankee Cheese Box"; 
24 were reported killed and wounded on the 
Merrimac. — The rebel fortifications at Cockpit 
Point, on the Potomac, were occupied by the 
Union troops, and one of the obstructions to 
the channel removed. — A skirmish occurred at 
Mountain Grove, Mo., and activities were in 
operation at Point Pleasant, W. Va. 

March 10. — The rebels evacuated Manassas 
Junction, Va., which was occupied by the 
Union troops. — Rebel troops from Texas, under 
Sibley, took military possession of Santa Fe, 
N. M. — Cavalry skirmishes occurred at Burke's 
Station, Va., and Jacksboro, Tenn. — Mditary 
movements occurred at Brunswick, Va. 

March 11.— In a cavalry skirmish at Win- 
chester, Va., 4,000 rebels were dispersed and 
the town occupied by tiie Union troops.— St. 
Augustine, Fla., with an adjacent fort, was 
occupied by Commodore Dupont without firing 
a shot, and the National Hag was displayc'<l 
volun'arily by the city autliorities. The 5th 
Iowa and 1st Nebraska Cavalry engaged in a 
skirmish at Parish, Tenn. 

March 12.— Jacksonville, Fla., surrendered 
to Dujiont and raised the stars and stripes. — A 
cavalry force from New Lebanon, Mo., attacked 
a rebel band, killing 13, wounding five and 
capturing about 25 j)risoners. — At Lexington, 
Mo., the 1st Iowa Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. 
March 13.— At New Madrid, Mo., the rebel 



garrison evacuated the place, abandoning a 
large quantity of ammunition and arms, beside 
camp equipments and the troops of Pope took 
possession. In the skirmishing previous to the 
departure of the rebels, 50 Union soldiers were 
killed. — A movement occurred at Williamsport, 
Md. 

March 14. — The troops of Burnside, after a 
long and tedious march, attacked the rebels, 
numbering 12,000, at New Berne, N. C, and, 
alter three hours' hot contest, drove the latter 
in confusion, making extensive captures, in- 
cluding two steamboats and several sailing ves- 
sels. The Union loss was 91 killed and 466 
wounded. — In a movement at Point Pleasant, 
W. Va., an infantry force was engaged. 

March 15. — Activities occurred at Dumfries, 

March 16. — Commodore Foote attacked 
Island No. 10, on the Mississippi River, the 
siege lasting 23 days. (The result of the bom- 
bardment may be found under date of April 
7tli.) — Near Pittsburg Landing a detachment 
of the 4th Illinois defeated a squad of rebel 
cavalry, inflicting heavy loss; four Union sol- 
diers were wounded. — At Black Jack Forest, 
Tenn., about 500 Union cavalry defeated 1,000 
rebels; the Union loss was 25 in killed and 
wounded, and the rebel loss was four times as 
great. — Near Pound Gap, in the Cumberland 
Mountains, a detachment of Garfield's forces 
routed a rebel camp, capturing a quantit}' of 
equipments and stores. 

March 17. — The rebel steamer "Nashville" 
escaped from Beaufort, N. C. 

March 18. — Acquia Creek, Va., was evacu- 
ated by the rebels. — A skirmish occurred at 
Salem, Ark. 

March 20. — Beaufort, N. C, was occupied 
by Burnside without opposition. 

March 21. — General Butler arrived at Ship 
Island. — Burnside's troops occupied Washing- 



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ton, N. C. — At Mosquito Inlet, Fla., a gunboat 
action took place and a military movement 
occurred at St. Augustine. 

March 22. — In West Virginia, the rebels 
attacked a portion of General Shields' troops 
and retreated after the skirmish, in which 
Shields was slightly wounded. — At Indepen- 
dence, Mo., the 2nd Kansas Infantry was 
engaged in a slight skirmish. 

March 23. — General Jackson, commanding 
12,00U rebels, was induced by a strategy of 
General Shields to attack an apparently unsup- 
ported force near Winchester, and encountered 
10,000 Union troops and was driven in confu- 
sion after five hours' fight ; 300 prisoners were 
captured and 270 rebel dead were buried by 
the Union troops. The Union casualties in- 
cluded 103 killed, 440 wounded and 24 miss- 
ing. — The investment of Fort Macon, N. C, 
was commenced by the Union forces. — The 6tli 
Kansas Cavalry were involved in a skirmish 
at Carthage, Mo., and military activities took 
place at Morehead City, Ky. 

March 24. — Commodore Dupont sent an 
expedition to Warsaw Sound, Ga., which occu- 
pied the abandoned rebel works at Skidaway 
and Green Islands. — Activities occurred at 
Shipping Point, Va., and Wilmington, N. C. 

March 26. — Quantrell with 200 guerrillas 
attacked a detacliment of Missouri militia at 
Warrensburg, Mo., and was repulsed. — A heavy 
skirmish took place at Humansville, Mo., and 
15 rebels were killed. — A skirmish occurred at 
McMinnville, Tenn. 

March 27. — The forces under Shields and 
Jackson engaged in a skirmish near Strasburg, 
Va. 

March 28— About 1,300 Union soldiers 
under Colonel Stough fought 1,100 Texans at 
Apache Canon, N. M. ; the loss on both sides 
bein^ heavy. — The 28th Pennsylvania engaged 
in a skirmish at Middleburg, Va. 



March 29. — A skirmish took place near 
Warrensburg, Mo., in which the 1st Iowa Cav- 
alry, under Captain Thompson, defeated the 
guerrilliis under Parker and Walton, who were 
both captured with 25 of their men. 

March 31. — Colonel Buford, with a detach- 
ment from the 27th and 42nd Illinois, and the 
15tli Wisconsin, with a detail of cavalry and 
artillery, dispersed a rebel garrison at Union 
City, Tenn., with heavy loss of soldiers and 
supplies. — The Baltimore and Ohio railroad 
was reopened throughout its entire extent. — 
Military movements took place at Watts' Creek, 
Va., and Warrenton, Va. 

April 1. — A portion of the 2nd Illinois Cav- 
alry having been surrounded by a body of 
rebels, between Corinth and Farmington, Miss., 
gallantly cut their way out, losing only five in 
killed and wounded ; the rebel loss was es- 
timated at 49. — Skirmish at Putnam's Ferry, 
Mo., in which the 5th Illinois Cavalry, 21st and 
38th Illinois Infantry engaged. — At Thorough- 
fare Gap, Va., the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry 
ensaged in a skirmish. — Action at Stafford 
C. H., Va., and at Stony Creek, Tenn. 

April 3. — Appalachicola, Fla., was occupied 
by the Union forces. 

April 4. — Pass Christian on the Gulf coast, 
northeast of New Orleans, was occupied by the 
Union troops. — The Army of the Potomac, 
umler General McClellan, advanced toward 
Yorktown, Va. — Skirmishing preliminary to 
the great battle which was soon to follow, took 
place near Pittsburg Landing. — Skirmish at 
Great Bethel, Va., and at Crump's Landing, 
Tenn. 

April 5. — An advance detachment of the 
Army of the Potomac attacked the rebel works 
at Yorktown, Va. ; three Union soldiers were 
reported killed and 22 wounded. 

April 6. — General McClellan's lines on the 
Peninsula at this time extended across the 



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1862 — APRIL 6— APRIL 12 — 1862. 



neck of land from the York to the James and 
liis troops occupied Shipping Point on Poquesin 
Bay, which had been abandoned by the rebels, 
presumably to avoid battle. 

April 6-7. — Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg 
Landing. Before daylight about 45,000 rebels, 
iod l)y Albert Sidney Johnson and Beauregard, 
suddenly attacked the Union forces, 35,000 
strong, under General Grant. During the first 
day's conflict, the United States troops were 
driven back to the river with great slaughter, 
losing also about 2,500 prisoners (among whom 
was General Prentiss), 36 pieces of artillery, a 
large amount of camp equipage, etc. The 
army was saved from total defeat through the 
rashness of the rebels, who, flushed with suc- 
cess, approached too near the river, when the 
gun1)oats opened ilre ujwn them with deadly 
uH'ect. The confederate success on the first 
day was not achieved without heavy loss. 
General Jolmson himself being among the 
'slain. During the night of the 6th and morn- 
ing of the 7th, the Union army was strongly 
reinforced. Fighting was resumed early on 
the morning of the 7t]i, and at about 4 o'clock 
in the afternoon began the rebel retreat, which 
soon assumed the proportions of a partial rout. 
Several Union prisoners and some cannon 
were retaken. The fighting on both sides had 
been desperate and the loss fearful. The 
Union losses ofiicially reported were: killed, 
1,674; wounded, 7,721 ; missing and prisoners, 
3,963; total, 13,298. The rebel loss as re- 
ported by Beauregard was 1,728 killed ; 8,012 
wounded and 959 missing. 

April 7. — After 23 days' intermittent bom- 
bardment by Commodore Foote's flotilla. Island 
No. 10 (commanded by General Markad) sur- 
rendered. At the surrender, 17 oHicers, 300 
privates in good health, 100 sick and 100 
steamboat hands were made prisoners. In ad- 
dition were captured 70 guns, besides several 



steamers and other property, to the value of 
nearly a quarter of a million of dollars. The 
operations on the mainland had been carried 
on by General Pope, who headed off the rebel 
retreat and captured several more prisoners, 
comprising four generals, 25 field officers, 204 
line officers and over 6,000 pi'ivates, besides 
10,000 arms, 2,000 horses and mules, 1,000 
wagons, etc., besides about $40,000 worth of 
provisions and ammunition. — Action at Law- 
renceburg, Ky. 

April S. — A rebel camp near Elizabeth City, 
N. C, was surprised and routed by an expedi- 
tion consisting of troops from Roanoke Island ; 
80 prisoners were taken, one rebel soldier killed, 
and a large quantity of arras, tents, etc., cap- 
tured.— Fight near CorintI), Miss. 

April 9. — A conscription was ordered by the 
rebel congress. — Skirmish at Owens River, Cal. 
—Activities at Jacksonville, Fla. 

April 10-11. — Attack upon and surrender 
of Fort Pulaski, Ga. The Union l)atteries on 
Tj'bee Island, commanded by Gillmore, opened 
fire on the fort whose garrison was commanded 
by Colonel Olmstead. The rebels surrendered 
after a bombardment of 30 hours, to General 
Hunter. The prisoners taken numbered 360 
and a large amount of garrison equipments 
and ammunition were also captured. — The rebel 
ram, Merrimac, again appeared in Hampton 
Roads with several smaller heavily armed 
vessels ; three small Union trading vessels were 
captured, but no other damage was done.— Near 
Yorktown, Va., a rebel re]>ulse took j)lace, in 
which seven Union soldiers were killed and 
wounded. — General Mitchell's troops occupied 
Huntsville, Ala. — Slavery was abolished in the 
District of Columbia. 

April 12. — Skirmishes occurred at Little 
Blue River, Mo., and at Monterey, Va.; move- 
ments also took place at Pocahontas, Ark., and 
at Stevens, Ga. 



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1862 — APRIL 13 — APRIL 25 — 1862. 



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April 13. — Commodore Foote, with the Mis- 
sissippi River flotilla, arrived at Fort Pillow 
and on the following day opened fire on the 
works. — Activities occurred at Needliam's Cut- 
off, on the Mississippi, in Tennessee. 

April 14. — Military movements occurred at 
Pollocksville, N. C, Qrbana, Md., Lowey's Point, 
Va., Diamond Grove, Walkersville, N. C, and 
Montevallo, Mo. 

April 15. — A fight occurred at Pechacho 
Pass, D. T., and at Peratto, N. M.— In the 
vicinity of South Mills, N. C, military move- 
ments occurred covering several days. 

April 16. — A detachment of rebels from 
Lee's army made a night attack on the Union 
position at Lee's Mills, Va. The assault was 
repelled by a Vermont regiment, and the Union 
troops drove the rebels from their intrench- 
ments, but were finally compelled to retire. 
The Union loss was 35 killed, 120 wounded 
and nine prisoners; the rebel loss was 20 killed, 
75 wounded and 50 prisoners.— Near York- 
town, Va., the United States artillery opened a 
duel with the rebels with slight advantage. — 
Activities at Savannah, Tenn., and White Marsh 
Island, Ga.; in the latter, the 8th Michigan and 
a Rhode Island battery were engaged. 

April 17. — At New Market, Va., a part of 
the advanced guard of General Banks' com- 
mand from Mount Jackson occupied the place. 
— A skirmish occurred at Holly River, W. Va. 

April IS.— At Fredericksburg, Va., a run- 
ning fight took place, in which the 2d New 
York Cavalry drove 3,000 rebels who burned 
20 schooners, three steamboats and two bridges 
in their flight. The Union loss was eight killed 
and 17 wounded. — The attack on Forts Jackson 
and St. Phillips at the mouth of the Mississippi 
was commenced by the combined Dnion fleet 
under Farragut and Porter. The activities con- 
tinued until the 28th, the fleets passing the 
forts and capturing New Orleans, where a force 



under General Butler was landed. On the 28th 
two companies of the 4th Wisconsin and a 
detachment from the 21st Indiana went to the 
rear of the forts, which completed the line of 
investment, and the forts surrendered without 
further resistance. — An action took place at 
Edisto Island, S. G. 

April 19. — Capture of Camden, N. C, by 
General Reno with 2,500 men and a loss of 127 
in killed, wounded and missing. — A skirmish 
occurred on a canal near Elizabeth City, N. G, 
500 men of Burnside's command being engaged 
and driving a Georgia regiment; the Union loss 
was 11 killed and many wounded. — In a skir- 
mish at Talbot's Ferry, Ark., the 4th Iowa Cav- 
alry were engaged. — A slight action took place 
at Sparta, Tenn. 

April 21. — Santa Fe, N. M., was occupied by 
the Union troops. 

April 22. — Slight skirmish at Lee's Mills 
with a Union loss of two killed and two 
wounded. — Near Paratura, N. M., General Can- 
by's forces attacked a garrison of Texan rebels. 
— Skirmishes took place at Harrisonburg, Va., 
and Grass Lick, W. Va. 

April 24. — Farragut's fleet passed Forts .Jack- 
son and St. Phillips under a rain of shot and 
shell. In the engagements 13 rebel gunboats 
and three transports were destroyed. The 
Union fleet lost only one vessel, and anchored 
within 20 miles of New Orleans. The Union 
loss included a little more than 200 in killed 
and wounded; the rebel loss was nearly 400 
killed and wounded and 400 prisoners. — Action 
at Pea Ridge, Ark. 

April 25. — Farragut demanded the surren- 
der of New Orleans, and the rebels destroyed 
$3,000,000 worth of cotton and shipping.— Fort 
Macon, N. G, was bombarded for 11 hours by 
three gunboats and a force commanded by 
General Parks of Burnside's army, and surren- 
dered ; the Union loss was one killed and two 
wounded. 



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1862— APRIL 26 — MAY 9 — 1862. 



April 26.— A rebel outwork near Yorktown, 
Va., was assaulted and destroyed by one com- 
pany of the 1st Massachusetts witli a loss of 
three killed and 13 wounded. — At Neosho, Mo., 
Major Hubbard, commanding 148 men of the 
1st Missouri, defeated 600 rebel Indians, killing 
and wounding 30, capturing 60, and a large 
amount of arms. — The 5th Kansas Cavalry had 
a skirmish at Turn Back Creek, Mo., and the 
troops under A. J. Smith, made a reconnois- 
sance to Lick Creek, Miss. 

April 27.— A skirmish took place near Hor- 
ton's Mills, N. C, and at Purdy, Tenn., a mili- 
tary movement occurred. 

Ai'KiL 28. — Formal surrender of New Orleans 
and also Forts Jackson and St. Phillip. — A skir- 
mish, in which 22 men of the 10th Wisconsin 
engaged, took place at Paint Rock Railroad 
Bridge, Ala. — Three regiments, including the 
16th and 42nd Ohio and the 22nd Kentucky, 
engaged in a skirmish at Cumberland Moun- 
tain, and the 2nd Iowa Cavalry, had a fight at 
Monterey, Tenn. — At Bridgeport, Ala., General 
Mitchell's forces routed the rebels and inflicted 
a loss of 72 killed, a large number wounded 
and 350 prisoners. — ^Movements took place at 
Edisto, S. C. 

Ai'Kir, 30. — The siege of Corinth, Miss., was 
commenced by the army under Halleck. 

May 1. — General ^Mitchell occupied Ilunts- 
ville, Ala. — A slight skirmish took place at 
Clark's Hollow, W. Va.— At Pulaski, Tenn., 
Morgan's guerrillas captured a small force of 
Union troops. — At Farmington, Miss., an action 
occurred with no decisive results, although si.x 
Illinois regiments and three Michigan regi- 
ments, a company of sharpshooters and an 
Illinois battery, were engaged. 

May 4. — The rebels having evacuated York- 
town and Gloucester, Va., those points were 
occupied by McClellan's army. — A rebel iron- 
clad was captured in running the blockade at 



Charleston, S. C. — A skirmish took place at 
Licking, Mo., and at Cheese Cake Church, Va. 
— The pursuit of the rebels from Yorktown 
was vigorously pressed. 

May 5.— Battle of Williamsburg, Va. This 
action was one of the most fearful of the war 
up to this date. The rebel loss was about 3,000 
and the Union loss 500 less. Hancock's troops 
gained a decided advantage in the early stage 
of the fighting, displaying great bravery. The 
liattle throughout was desperate on both sides, 
Sickles' and Hooker's men suffering heavy loss. 
Reinforcements arrived a little after noon and 
soon after, Hancock with his Western troops, 
secured a victor}'. The enemy fled during the 
night. — Skirmishes took place at St. .losephs, 
La., at Lebanon, Tenn., and at Dresden, Ky. 

May 6. — McClellan's army occuj)ied Wil- 
liamsburg. — Military movements occurred at 
Harrisonburg, Va. 

May 7. — At West Point, Va., a detachment 
of Lee's army was defeated by the troops be- 
longing to the expedition under Franklin and 
Sedgwick ; the rebels retreated with a loss of 
800. — A Union repulse occurred at Somerville 
Heights, Va., with a loss of 29 Union soldiers. 
— Activities occurred at Giles C. II., Va. 

May 8. — The Union gunboats ran past the 
rebel ram Merrimac and ascended the James 
River. — Sewall's Point was bombarded by the 
Monitor and Union gunboats. — The Union 
command under Milroy and Schenck had a 
severe engagement near McDowell, Va., losing 
40 killed and 120 wounded; the rebel loss was 
jn'oliably much greater. — At Corinth, Miss., a 
hot action took place, which involved the 7th 
Illinois Cavalry under Major Arlington, who 
was killed ; this action is also known as Glen- 
dale. 

May 9. — General Pope's forces fought the 
rebels under Price and Van Dorn at Farming- 
ton, Miss., and retired to avoid a general en- 



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37 



gagement, losing IGO killed and wounded. — 
Near Athens, Ala., a skirmish occurred in 
which five Union soldiers and 13 rebels were 
killed. — In the Shenandoah Valley, the forces 
of Banks drove the rebels back to Staunton. — 
Bnrnside sent a steamer up the Chowan River 
which captured or destroyed $50,000 worth of 
provisions designed for rebels. — The gunboats 
up the James River bombarded Fort Darling. — 
Pensacola navy yard burned. — Skirmishes oc- 
curred at Elkton Station, Ala., and at Slaters- 
ville, Va. 

May 10. — Gosport navy yard was burned 
and Craney Island abandoned by the rebels. — 
General Wool with his forces occupied Norfolk. 
— Stoneman's advance readied New Kent C. H., 
Va. — A gunboat action resulting in Union 
victory occurred near Fort Pillow. 

May 11. — The rebels destroyed the Merri- 
mac. — The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry engaged in 
a skirmish at Bloomfield, Mo., and at Cave 
City, Ky., military movements occurred. 

May 12. — Occupation of the rebel position 
at Pensacola. — Natchez surrendered. — Blockade 
raised at Beaufort, N. C, Port Royal, S. G, and 
New Orleans, La., to go into effect June 1st, 
1862. — At McDowell, Va., another action took 
place with a loss of 20 killed and 177 wounded 
and a rebel loss of 240.— In a skirmish near 
Monterey, Tenn., the Union forces killed 10 
rebels and lost two soldiers. — The advance of 
McClellan's army reached White House, hav- 
ing skirmished at Cumberland, Va. — Military 
movements occurred at Holly Rivei', W. Va., 
Rogersville, Ala., and Ready Creek, Tenn. 

May 14.— Near Trenton Bridge, N. C, the 
command of Colonel Armory defeated the 
rebels and killed 10. 

May 15. — A gunboat action took place at 
Fort Darling, Va. — Skirmishes at Linden, Va., 
Princeton, W. Va., Chalk Bluffs, Mo., and 
Batesville, Ark., took place. 



May 16.— At Trenton, N. C, an action took 
place in which six rebels were killed and a 
number wounded ; Major Fitz Simmons in 
command of the Union force was wounded and 
five of his men captured.— An action took 
place at Piedmont, W. Va. 

May 17.— On the James River, the fleet of 
Goldsborough made an attempt to pass Fort 
Darling which was unsuccessful.— Actions took 
place at Russellville, near Corinth, Miss., and 
on the Black River, Mo. 

May 18.— a division of the Army of^the 
Potomac arrived at Bottom's Bridge, 15 miles 
from Richmond; the bridge had been de- 
stroyed and the rebels opened fire without 
material damage.— Combined land and naval 
movements up the Paraunky River prepara- 
tory to operations north of Richmond, and 20 
rebel schooners were captured.— At Princeton, 
Va., where operations had been in progress 
three days, the forces of General Cox were de- 
feated, losing 30 killed and 70 wounded. — Suf- 
folk, Va., occupied by the Union troops. — Near 
Searcy Landing, Ark., the command of Oster- 
haus defeated the rebels, who lost about 100. 

May 19. — Stoiieman's division reached Cold 
Harbor. — A skirmish occurred near Newbern, 
N. C, five Union and 11 rebel soldiers being 
killed. 

Mw 20. — A division of the Army of the 
Potomac reached New Bridge, eight miles from 
Richmond. — At Moorefields, Va., Union troops 
under Downey killed four rebels and captured 
12. 

May 21. — Four Union vessels shelled Cole's 
Gate Island, S. C, and attacked Keawah Island 
in the same locality. — A skirmish occurred at 
Phillil)'s Creek, Miss. 

May 22. — McClellan's army advanced in 
force ; an engagement followed, the Union 
troops driving back the rebels, sustaining small 
loss and killing, wounding and capturing 150. 



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The advance was continued, and the rebels 
dislodged from Ellison's Mills by an artillery 
action. — Skirmishes occurred at Florida, Mo., 
on the White River, Ark., and near Newbern, 
N. C. 

May 23. — A sudden and furious attack was 
made on Front Royal, Va., and the Union 
troops were defeated with great loss of prison- 
ers. — At Strasburg, Va., the rebels attacked 
the force of General Banks and won a victory. 
— At Lewisburg, Va., 3,000 rebels made an 
attack on the command of Crook and were 
repulsed with a loss of more than 200, besides 
cannon and arms and the Union loss was only 
10 killed and 40 wounded. — Mechanicsville, 
five miles from Richmond, was occupied by a 
part of the Army of the Potomac after an 
artillery duel ; Negley's brigade reached a point 
five miles from the rebel capital and, after this 
movement, MeClellan's command was prac- 
tically five miles from Richmond. 

May 24. — Skirmishes took place at Middle- 
town, Newton and New Bridge on the Chicka- 
hominy. — Activities at Fort Craig, N. M. 

May 25. — Battle of Winchester, Va. General 
Banks was attacked by an overwhelmingly 
superior force of rebels and recommenced his 
retreat after two hours' hard fighting. The 
women of Winchester fired upon the retreating 
, Union troops and the men on the sick in the 
ambulances. The enemy, by occupying Berry- 
ville, having cut off Bank's retreat on Harper's 
Ferry, the latter was compelled to proceed wes- 
terly via Mill Creek and Martinsburg to the 
Potomac, being hotly pressed by the rebels on 
both ilank and rear; the retreat was most mas- 
terly; 35 out of the 53 miles were traversed in 
one day; and out of 500 wagons, he lost but 50 
from all causes. 

May 26.— General Banks' forces arrived at 
Williamsport, Md.; on the same day General 
Fremont's troops took up their march for his 



reinforcement.— General McDowell extended 
his pickets eight miles along the Bowling Green 
road toward Richmond. 

May' 27. — Near Hanover C. H., a skirmish 
took place in wliich 54 Union soldiers were 
killed and 194 were reported as wounded and 
missing. About 300 rebels were killed and 
wounded, and 500 prisoners captured. — A skir- 
mish took place at Big Indian Creek, Ark., and 
Osceola, Mo. 

May 28. — A rebel defeat occurred near 
Corinth, Miss., the Union loss in killed and 
wounded being 25 ; 50 dead rebels were left on 
the field. — Information reached the Union army 
that the rebels were increasing their forces on 
the James River, and that arrangements were 
being made to remove the non-combatants in 
Richmond to a place of safety.— Skirmishes 
took place at Wardensville, Va., and at Bayou 
Cache, Ark. 

May 29. — General Fitz John Porter's division 
having been sent by General McClellan on an 
expedition to the north of Richmond, a detach- 
ment under General Morell captured Hanover 
C. H., after a spirited contest, killing and 
wounding 400 and taking 600 prisoners. The 
Union loss was 379, of whom 53 were killed. — 
General Porter next cut the Virginia Central 
railroad in three places, and a cavalry force 
destroyed the bridge across South Anna River, 
cutting off the rebel troops opposite McDowell's 
division from the main force at Richmond. — A 
gunboat reconnoissance up the Appomattox 
advanced to within five miles of Parkersburg. 
— A rebel advance in great force was made in 
the neighborhood of the Chickahominy. — Gen- 
eral Beauregard evacuated Corinth, Miss., and 
the place was, on the following day, occupied 
by General Pope's command. — A skirmish oc- 
curred at Pocotaligo, S. C. — Activities at Gates- 
ville, N. C, and at Ashland, Ky. 

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tered and occupied Front Royal, Va. — A fight 
took place at Booneville and Tuscumbia Creek, 
Miss. — Evacuation of Corinth, Miss. 

May 31.— The first battle of Fair Oaks, Va., 
sometimes called the battle of the Chickahom- 
iny. About 10 o'clock a. m. the rebels attacked 
the Union advance under General Casey, which 
had been thrown across the river and over- 
powered the division, which was forced to give 
way, losing camp, boats, etc. Reinforcements 
under Generals Couch and Heintzelman checked 
the rebel advance and, later in the day. Gen- 
erals Kearney, Richardson and Sedgwick's 
forces, arriving on the scene of action, the rebel 
troops were driven back with great slaughter. 
Darkness ended the day's conflict which was 
renewed at daybreak and continued until near 
sunset of the next day. Four brillant bayonet 
charges were made by the Union troops, in one 
of which the enemy was driven a mile over 
the swampy ground. Effective use was made 
of a lialloon held in position 2,000 feet in mid 
air, from which, by means of a telegraph wire. 
General McClellan was informed of everything 
which transpired during the battle. Twelve 
hundred rebel dead wei'e left on the field and 
the total confederate loss was admitted to be 
8,000 in killed, wounded and missing, includ- 
ing five generals. General Joe Johnston him- 
self, being among the wounded; official reports 
gave the Union loss at 800 killed, 3,627 wounded 
and 1,217 missing and prisoners, besides several 
pieces of artiller3^ The Union troops main- 
tained their position. — A skirmish took place 
at Neosho, Mo., and Washington, N. C. 

May 31. — A Union cavalry force under Colo- 
nel Elliott, sent by General Pope to Barnesville, 
Miss., captured eight locomotives and 26 cars 
loaded with rebel supplies, 10,000 stand of arms 
and a number of prisoners, who were paroled. 
— Little Rock, Ark., was occupied by the Union 
troops, the governor and legislature fleeing in 



haste.— General Banks again advanced into the 
Shenandoah Valley, passing through Martins- 
burg and capturing several small parties of 
confederates south of that place. 

June 1. — -General Fremont's advance over- 
took the retreating rebels under Jackson near 
Strasburg, Va., and, after some skirmishing, 
occupied the town, the Union loss in killed and 
wounded being 12.— An unsucce,ssful attack on 
a rebel battery of rifled guns at Grand Gulf, 
Miss., was made by a part of Farragut's fleet. 
— Movements at Seabrook, S. C, and at Pig 
Point, Va. 

June 2. — General Wool was transferred to 
the Department of Maryland with headquarters 
at Baltimore, General Dix, (U. S. V.) who had 
formerly been stationed at Baltimore, being 
appointed to the command of a corps including 
the fortress.— Activities at Bunker Hill, Va. 

June 3. — General Sigel assumed command 
at Harper's Ferry. — Skirmish at Legare's Point, 
S. C. 

June 4. — A report was received from General 
Pope, announcing his pursuit of the retreat- 
ing rebel forces south of Corinth, Miss., and the 
capture of a large number of prisoners and 
arms; the rebel Beauregard, however, in his 
official report, denied having met with any 
serious loss. — A body of Union troops, under 
General Benliam landed on James Island, S. G; 
some opposition was encountered and a rebel 
force was discovered of more than 20,000.— 
Union troops under General Negley defeated 
the rebels under General Adams near Jasper, 
Tenn., capturing 25 prisoners and killing and 
wounding 12. — Skirmish at Blacklands, Miss. 

June 5. — After bombardment, tlie rebels 
evacuated and burned Fort Pillow on the Mis- 
sissippi, thus opening the river to the passige 
of Union gunboats towards the South. — A com- 
parative panic seized upon Memphis, Tenn., 
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quantity of cotton was burned on the Missis- 
sippi sliore above tlie city, and at a mass raeet- 
iug of tlie citizens, resolutions favoring surren- 
der were adopted. — Skirmish at Trouter's Creek, 
N. C. 

June 6. — About daybreak, eight rebel gun- 
boats which liad left Memphis attacked a Union 
flotilla. One hour's fight ensued. Several of 
the attacking fleet were sunk, the rebel crews 
in more than one instance, preferring to go 
down with their boats to a surrender which 
they considered disgraceful. On the Union 
side, the only serious casualty was the mortal 
wounding of Colonel Charles EUett. At the con- 
clusion of the naval engagement, flag-ofticer 
Davis demanded the unconditional surrender 
of the city of Memphis which demand was at 
once complied with by the authorities.— A 
small force of rebels at Harrodsburg, Va., was 
routed by a detachment of General Fremont's 
Corps. — A skirmish occurred at Harrisonburg, 
Va. 

June 7. — Commodore Farragut's .squadron 
from the lower Mississippi arrived at Vicks- 
burg. Miss., where it was joined by Porter's 
mortar fleet whicli had descended the river. — 
The rebel batteries at Chattanooga, Tenn., were 
silenced by General Mitcliell's advance. — By 
order of Mijor-General Butler, William B. 
Mumford was hung in New Orleans for haul- 
ing down the American flag. -California volun- 
teers under General Carleton, arrived at Tuc- 
son, having occupied all the Arizona forts with- 
out resistance, the works having been evacu- 
ated by the rebels several days previous ; Gen- 
eral Carleton was appointed military governor 
of the new territory. 

June 8. — Another attack was made on the 
rebel battery at Grand Gulf, Miss., by a portion 
of Farragut's squadron, the battery being 
silenced.— A battle was fought at Cross Keys, 
Va., between the rear of Stonewall Jackson's rebel 



force and a portion of the command of Fremont 
in which the former was defeated with con- 
siderable loss; the Union loss was 125 killed 
and nearly 400 wounded. 

June 9. — While en route to co-operate witli 
Fremont, Shields, with 3,500 soldiers was at- 
tacked and defeated by about 16,000 rebels un- 
der General -lackson at Port Republic, Va. 
Shields made good his retreat but the loss on 
both sides was heavy ; the reported Union loss 
was 67 killed, 361 wounded, 574 missing, while 
the rebel loss was believed to be about the 
same. — Union troops occupied Grand Junction, 
Miss., about 41 miles west of Corinth, the forcjs 
of Beauregard having retreated through Gun- 
towMi. — A skirrai.sh took place at Baldwin, Miss. 
Ji'NE 10. — In an engagement on James 
Island, S. C, the Union troops defeated the 
rebels, the loss being about 17 on both sides in 
killed and wounded. — A skirmish took place at 
Monterey, Ky. 

June 12. — In a skirmish near Village Creek, 
Ark., the force under Colonel Brackett defeated 
the rebels under Captain Hooker; 13 Union 
soldiers were wounded, the rebel loss being 28 
in killed, wounded and prisoners.- At Mount 
Jackson, W. Va., mili'ary movements occurred. 
June 13.— A rebel battery near St. Charles, 
Ark., was captured by a Union gunboat expedi- 
tion from Mempliis. A rebel shot exploded a 
boiler on the gunboat Mound City, the vessel 
being destroyed and only 50 out of a crew of 
175 were rescued ; 125 rebels were killed and 
wounded and 30 prisoners taken. — The rebels 
cut the railroad and telegraph at White House 
in the rear of General McClellau's command. — 
A skirmish took place at Old Church, Va. 

June 14. — Tiiree several attempts were made 
by the Union forces to dislodge the rebels from 
their intrenched position on James Ishmd, S. C, 
but the assailants were finally repulsed with a 
loss of over 600 in killed, wounded and missing. 



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The attack was led by General Benham, the 
defense being conducted by Colonel Lamar. — 
A skirmish took place at Tunistall Station, Va. 

June 15. — Three hours skirmishing took 
place in front of the division of Sumner ; mys- 
terious rebel movements were observed in front 
of the position of McClellan, and rumors were 
rife of a rebel advance from Richmond towards 
l^'redericksburg with the design of marching on 
Washington. — Action at Secessionville, S. C. 

Junk 17. — Union troops, belonging to the 
command of Halleck occupied Holly Springs, 
Miss. — A skirmish took place at St. Charles, 
White River, Ark., and at Warrensburg, Mo. 

June 18. — Skirmishing all along the line 
before Richmond, which was continued through 
the followingday.— Union forces occupied Cum- 
berland Gap.— Near Smithville, Ark., Union 
forces under Major Zeley defeated the rebels 
under Captain Jones, wounding four and cap- 
turing 15 prisoners; the Union loss was three 
killed and four wounded. — A skirmish took 
place on the Williamsburg road, Va. — Activities 
occurred at Manchac, La. 

June 20.— G,000 Union troops left Norfolk, 
\'a. — President Lincoln signed the bill forever 
]irohibiting slavery in the territories. 

June 21.— A skirmish occurred at Battle 
Creek, Tenu. 

June 22. — Military movements occurred at 
Cold Water, Miss., and at Raceland, La. 

June 24. — An action occurred at Bolivar, Va. 

June 25.— On this date the seven days' fight- 
\n^ before Richmond commenced and a brief 
synopsis is given. The advance of Hooker's 
forces resulted in the battle of Oak Grove in 
which the Union loss was 200; the confederate 
pickets were withdrawn half a mile nearer 
Richmond. June 2Gth, the rebels under Jack- 
son attacked McCall's division near Mechanics- 
ville and forced the Union troops to retire to the 
Chickahominy. June 27th, the rebel advance 



on Gaines' Mills was repulsed, the Union troops 
under Porter pushing to the south side of the 
Chickahominy and joining the main body of 
McClellan's army. The Union loss was more 
than 1,500. June 29th, fighting was renewed 
at a point between the battle field of Fair Oaks 
and Peach Orchard Station. The fighting 
lasted five hours with terrible carnage and the 
Union troops fell back from Peach Orchard. 
While weakened by fatigue, they were attacked 
near Savage Station by a large and fresh body 
of rebels. The exhausted troops repulsed the 
attack and made several gallant charges. June 
30th saw the commencement of the battle of 
White Oak Swamp or Glendale, which continued 
nearly the whole day. The artillery firing was 
very effective. The Union troops fell back to 
the James River whei'e the Union gunboats 
opened fire on the rebels. July 1st closed the 
fighting, the last battle taking place at Malvern 
Hill and lasting about two hours. The rebels 
were repulsed at every point and the base of 
operations of the Union army was removed to 
the James River. The total Union loss in the 
seven days before Richmond was 15,224. 

June 25. — Slight actions occurred at Ger- 
manto\vn,Tenn.,and at Little Red River, Ark. 
— General Grant was placed in command of 
Western Tennessee. 

June 26.— Battle of Mechanicsville, Va.— The 
rebels burned several of their gunboats on the 
Mississippi. 

June 27.— Battle of Gaines' Mills, Va.— A 
skirmish took place at Village Creek, Ark., in 
which the Union force of Colonel Brackett lost 
two killed and 31 wounded. — A portion of the 
lower Mississippi fleet attacked and passed the 
rebel batteries at Vicksburg, Miss., losing 50 in 
killed and wounded. — Petitions were offered by 
the governors of 18 loyal States to the President 
to call out more troops for the speedy suppres- 
sion of the rebellion.— Skirmishes took place at 



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William's Bridge, La., at White House, Va., at 
Powhattan, and Moorefield, W. Va. 

June 28. — Action on Golden's Farm. 

June 29. Battle of Peach Orchard Station, 
Va., and Savage Station. — Skirmishes at Willis' 
Church. 

June 30. — Actions occurred at Luray, Xa.., at 
Fort Darling and Bottom's Bridge. 

July 1. — A cavalry skirmish without results 
occurred near Boonesville, Miss., and an action 
took place at Morning Sun and Russcllville> 
Tenn. 

July 2. — A cavalry action occurred at Mil- 
ford, Va. 

July 3. — City Point, Va., which had been 
made a shelter for rebel sharpshooters, was de- 
stroyed by the Union forces and a skirmish 
took place at ElvingLon Heights, Va. 

July 4. — Activities on the James River in 
which a detachment of McClellau's command 
captured three small batteries and a rebel gun- 
boat was taken the same day. — A cavalry ac- 
tion took place at Grand Haze, Ark. —Maine 
cavalry engaged in an action at Sperryville, Va. 

July 6. — At Grand Prairie, Ark., a slight 
skirmish took place. — ^At Bayou Cache, Ark., a 
Union force under Colonel Hovey, and a force 
of Texans under Albert Pike engaged in an 
action which had been brought on liy a rebel 
attack on the Union force descending the Wiiite 
River and the assaulting party was routed with 
heavy loss. 

July 8.— Burnside united his command with 
that of McCIellan. — .\ skirmish took place at 
Black River, Mo. 

July 9. -Hawkin's Zouaves with the aid of 
Union gunboats captured Hamilton, N. C. — 
Skirniislies took place at Aberdeen, Ark., and 
Tompkinsville, Ky. 

July 10. — An action occurred at Scatterville, 
Ark. 

July 11. — General Curtiss' troops reached 



Helena, Ark. — Active movements took place at 
New Hope, Ky., and at Pleasant Hill, Mo. 

July 12. — Butler confiscated 5,000 negroes 
employed by the rebels on the Vicksburg 
canal. — At Fairmount, Mo., at Lebanon, Ky., 
and Culpeper, Va., military movements were 
in progress. 

July 13. — A rebel attack on Murfreesboro, 
Tenn., was made by about 4,000 rebel guerrillas, 
which resulted in the surrender of a Michigan 
regiment and the loss of a large number of 
Union soldiers ; $30,000 worth of Union arms 
and stores were destroyed by the guerrillas, 
whose loss was proportionately heavy. Gener- 
als Crittenden and Duffield were captured. — 
An action took place at Fairfax, Va. 

July 14. — Pope assumed command of the 
Arm}- of Virginia. — John Morgan's guerrillas 
captured Cynthiana, Ky. — Miller's Union cav- 
alry routed the rebels near Fayetteville, Ark., 
with heavj' loss. — A skirmish took place at 
Batesville, Ark. 

July 15. — General Blunt's troops defeated 
the rebels in Indian Territory. — The rebel iron 
clad, Arkansas, escaped the blockade of the 
Yazoo River and ran the gauntlet of the Union 
fleet on the Missi.ssippi, taking refuge under 
the rebel batteries of Vicksburg; she threw a 
shell ou the Tyler and killed several Wisconsin 
soldiers. 

July 17. — -A detachment from Pope's com- 
mand occupied Gordonsville, Va. — Activities 
at Cynthiana, Ky. 

July' 18. — Actions took place at Newburgh 
and Columbia, Tenn. — Near Memphis, Mo., the 
rebels were defeated in a skirmish. — An action 
took place at Trenton, Tenn. 

July 19. — Activities occurred at Booneville, 
Miss. 

July 22. — The canal at Vicksburg not prov- 
ing a success, the siege of the city was aban- 
doned to await the rise of the water in the fall. 



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— A raid was made into Florence, Ala., by rebel 
guerrillas. — Arrangements were made on the 
James River for the exchange of prisoners. — 
At Florida, Mo., the rebels defeated the Union 
troops under Major Caldwell and inflicted a loss 
of 26 men. — Movements occurred at Carmel 
Church and on the North Anna River, Va. — 
In a skirmish near Decatur, Ala., the rebels 
were defeated, losing 40 killed and wounded. — 
Active movements occurred at Sumnersville, 
Va., and a skirmish took place at Trinity, Ala. 
July 25. — A skirmish took place near Orange 
C. H , in which the command of General Gibson 
inflicted a loss of 17 in killed and wounded on 
the rebels. — In a skirmish at Sante Fe, N. M., 
the 3d Iowa Cavalry were engaged and skir- 
mishes took place on Cortland Bridge, Ala., at 
Big Piney and Mountain Stone, Mo. 

July 26. — Movements took place at Madison, 
Va., and Richmond, Ky. — In a skirmish at 
Young's Cross Roads, N. C, two regiments of 
infantry and cavalry wei'e engaged. — Military 
operations occurred at Greenville, Mo., and 
Buckhannon, W. Va. 

July 27. — At the mouth of the Arkansas 
River a number of river boats were captured 
by Curtiss' command. — Near Bolivar, Tenn., 
Captain DoUin's force routed a body of rebels, 
capturing 13 with slight loss. — Iowa cavalry 
skirmished at Brown's Springs, Mo., and mili- 
tary movements occurred at Beaver Dam, Va. 
July 28. — In a battle at Moore's Mills, Mo., 
the rebels were defeated with a loss of 52 killed 
and 100 wounded, most of whom were left on 
the field ; the Union loss was about 40 in killed 
and wounded. — Grand Junction, Miss., was 
captured by the rebels. — Skirmishes took place 
at Bayou Bernard and Cherokee Nation. 

July 29. — At Brownsville, Tenn., Captain 
Dollin's command engaged in a fight and lost 
four killed and six wounded. — Humboldt, 
Tenn., was occupied by the rebels. — Skirmishes 



took place at Russellville, Ky., and movements 
were in progress at Luray, Va., and Bolinger's 
Mills, Mo. 

July 30. — A skirmish occurred at Paris, Ky. 

July 31. — Near Mount Sterling, Ky., an ac- 
tion took place in which 13 guerrillas were 
killed and 195 captured. — A gunboat action 
took place at Toggin's Point, Va. 

Aug. 1. — A skirmishing party from McClel- 
lan's command crossed the Potomac at Harri- 
son's Landing, and destroyed houses and woods 
which had sheltered rebel sharpshooters. — 
Skirmishes took place at Newark, Mo., and at 
Canton, Miss. 

Aug. 2. — Embarkation of Burnside's com- 
mand at Fortress Monroe for Acquia Creek, Va. 
— A reconnoitering expedition from Pope's 
command occupied Orange C. H., Va., losing 
four killed and 12 wounded. — An indecisive 
action took place at Ozark, Mo. — ^A skirmish 
occurred in Coahoma county, Miss., in which 
the 11th Wisconsin was engaged. — At Austin, 
Mi.ss., the 8th "Indiana was engag'id. 

Aug. 3. — 4,000 Union troopd attacked the 
rebels near Memphis, Tenn., and were defeated 
with heavy loss. — Arrival of Burnside's expe- 
dition at Acquia Creek. — Halleck ordered 
McClellau to leave the Peninsula.— Skirmishes 
and other activities occurred at Chariton Bridge, 
Mo., at Jonesboro and L'Anguille Ferry, Ark., 
and in the latter the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry was 
engaged. 

Aug. 4. — Activities occurred near Alexan- 
dria, La., on the Wiiite River, Ark., and at 
Sycamore Church, Va., a cavalry force was en- 
gaged in a skirmish. — A draft of 300,000 men 
to serve for nine months was ordered, and an- 
other draft to fill the preceding call for 300,000 
men. — Activities occurred at White Oak Swamp 
Bridge, Va., and Sparta, Tenn. 

Aug. 5. — A reconnoissance was made from 
Malvern Hill, Va., and another on the James 



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River, which resulted in the withdrawal of the 
rebel fleet. — Near Baton Rouge, La., 7,000 rebels 
attacked 3,000 Union troops under General 
Williams, and retreated after six hours' fighting 
with a loss of 600. — Near New Market, Ala., 
General Robert L. McCook, while being con- 
veyed in an ambulance, was attacked and shot 
and his death occurred the next day. 

Aug. 6. — The ram Arkansas was sunk by 
the Essex on the Mississippi River near Vicks- 
burg. — Stuart'.s troops captured 75 Union pri.s- 
oners near the Mattapony River, Va. — A por- 
tion of the Vii'ginia Central Railroad near 
Fredericksburg, with stores for the rebel army, 
was destroyed by a detachment from Burnside's 
command. — Movements near Monticello, Mo., 
and at Beach Greek, Va.,and Tazewell, Tenn. — 
The 3d Wisconsin engaged in a skirmisli at 
Montevallo, Mo. 

Aug. 7. — A skirmish occurred near Wolf- 
town, Va., and the rebels crossed the Rapidau 
at Bennett's Ford. — At Kirkville, Mo., a Union 
victory was obtained by the Union.troops under 
Colonel McNeill.— The force of Colonel Faulk- 
ner routed the rebels near Trenton, Tenn., kill- 
ing 20 and wounding three. — At Fort Fillmore, 
N. M., General Canby's troops worsted tlie 
rebels. — Orders were issued by Secretary Stan- 
ton for the arrest of persons interfering with 
enlistments; lie also prohibited persons liable 
to draft from leaving the country, their county 
or state, and the same order suspended the writ 
of habeas corpus in such cases. — At Huntsville, 
Ala., General Rousseau ordered the arrest of 12 
prominent secessionists, one of whom was placed 
on board each Union military train on account 
of such trains being fired into by the rebels. — 
A rebel attack occurred at Portland, Mo., and a 
skirmish took place at Panther Creek, Mo. 

Aug. 9. — The rebels under Jackson, after 
two days' march from the Rapidan, attacked 
the Union troops under B:inks near Cedar 



Mountain, Va. The rebel advance was rapid 
and the mountain sides were soon occupied. 
About five o'clock p. m., the rebels pushed for- 
ward in strong force. Banks advancing to meet 
them and, by six o'clock the engagement had 
become general. The battle was very severe 
and lasted for over an hour and a half, when 
it was terminated Ijy darkness, although a 
desultory artillery fire continued throughout 
the night. General Banks barely maintained 
his position but, at daylight on the following 
morning, the rebels fell back two miles and the 
attack was not resumed. The Union loss was 
about 1,.500 in killed, wounded and missing, 
including 200 prisoners, among the latter 
being General Prince and among the wounded 
Generals Augur and Geary. The rebel loss 
was equally heavy. — Rear Admiral Farragut 
destroyed Donaldsonville, La., the rebels hav- 
ing fired on the Union vessels from the shelter 
of the lijuses. — Movement took place at Cul- 
peper, Va. — A rebel attack by General Stevens 
on General De Courcey, took place at Tazewell, 
Tenn., and was repulsed with heavy loss to the 
assailants. The Union loss was three killed, 
15 wounded and 57 prisoners. — Skirmishes 
took place at Stockton, Mo. 

Aug. 10. — An action took place at Neuces, 
Texas. 

Aug. 11.— At Kinderhook, Tenn., Colonel 
McGowan's force had a skirmish with the reb- 
els under Anderson, killing seven and captur- 
ing 27 prisoners. — At Compton's Ferry, Mo., a 
skirmish took place.— At Clarendon, Ark., Gen- 
eral Ilovey with six regiments defeated a supe- 
rior rebel force, capturing GOO and the loss of 
life on both sides was heavy. — From Corinth, 
Miss., General Grant issued an order prohibit- 
ing the return of fugitive slaves. — General But- 
ler at New Orleans, by order, confiscated the 
property of .lohn Slidell, rebel envoy to France, 
and disarmed all male citizens. — Skirmishes 



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took place at Taborville, Ark., and at Indepen- 
dence, Mo., and Salisbury, Tenn. — The "2nd 
Wisconsin Cavalry skirmished at and about 
Helena, Ark. 

Aug. 12. — Near Gallatin, Tenn., Union troops 
under Colonel Miller defeated the band of the 
guerrilla, Morgan, killing six and wounding 
many. — General Jackson's command, having 
fallen back after the battle of Cedar Mountain, 
a body of Pope's cavalry under Buford started 
in pursuit and on 

Aug. 13. — An indecisive skirmish occurred 
not far from Cedar Mountain. — Rebel guerrillas 
under Quantrell and Hughes took possession 
of Independence, Mo., and Morgan's raiders 
were again beaten near Williamsport, Tenn. — 
In a steamboat collision on the Potomac, 80 
Union soldiers were lost. — Activities took place 
at Swansboro, N. C, and also at Clarendon, 
Ark. — Draft ordered to begin Sept. 1st. 

Aug. 14. — General Breckenridge, by order of 
Van Dorn of the rebel army, threatened to raise 
the black flag. — The entire army of the Poto- 
mac was in motion under McClellan to evacuate 
the peninsula. 

Aug. 15. — At Merri weather's Landing, Tenn., 
Union troops under Colonel T. W. Harris, de- 
feated a force of rebels under Captain Banfield, 
killing and wounding 20 and capturing 9 pris- 
oners. — By General Order No. 107, issued from 
the U. S. War Department, " no officer or pri- 
vate soldier might, without proper authority, 
leave his colors or ranks to take private prop- 
erty or enter a private house under penalty of 
death." 

Aug. 1G. — An engagement took place at 
Lone .Jack, Mo., between the Union forces under 
Major Foster and the rebels, the former's Io.ss 
being 160 in killed and wounded and the lat- 
ter's 110. — Union garrison at Baton Rouge was 
withdrawn. — The evacuation of Harrison's 
Landing, Va., was completed by McClellan's 



army, his retreat having been concealed by 
strategy ; his advance (on the retreat) reached 
Williamsburg, Va , and, on the following day, 
Hampton, Va., by which time his rear guard 
had safely crossed the Chickahominy.^The 1st 
Louisiana Infantry (Union) was organized at 
New Orleans. — Skirmishes occurred at Haines 
Bluff, Miss., and Hopkinsville, Ky. 

Aug. 18. — A guerrilla force under Morgan cut 
off railroad communication with the North. — 
The 5Stli and 76tb Ohio Infantry captured the 
rebel steamer Fair Play at Milliken's Bend, La. 
— At Red Wood, Minn., a company of the 5th 
Minnesota Infantry was massacred by Indians. 

Aug. 19. — At Clarksville, Tenn., the 71st 
Ohio, Colonel Rodney Mason commanding, 
surrendered to an inferior force of rebels with- 
out firing a gun ; the officers were held re- 
sponsible.— In an action near Hickman, Ky., a 
rebel force was defeated with a loss of four 
killed and 19 captured ; the 2d Illinois Cavalry 
were engaged and two soldiers were wounded. 
— Skirmish at Rienzi, Miss. 

Aug. 20. — A Union force under Major Price 
routed the rebels near Union Mills, Mo.— At 
Edgefield Junction, Tenn., a troop of Morgan's 
guerrillas were defeated. — An important cavalry 
fight occurred at Brandy Station, Va. 

Aug. 21.— At Pinckney Island, S. C, a skir- 
mish took place, in which the Union force lost 
10 killed and wounded and 32 prisoners. — The 
army under Rosecrans left Corinth for luka. — 
In a fight with Indians at Fort Ridgely, Minn., 
two companies of the oth Minnesota and the 
Renville Rangers were engaged at intervals for 
two days. — The cavalry of the Army of Vir- 
ginia engaged in an action at Kelley's Ford, 
Va. — Military movements occurred at Bowling 
Green, Ky. 

Aug. 22.— Near Gallatin, Ky., 800 Union 
troops under General .Johnson attacked a large 
force of Morgan's cavalry and were defeated ; 



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100 Union soldiers were killed, 64 wounded and 
so many taken prisoners that scarcely one-half 
the force returned to their rendezvous. — Arrival 
of McClellan's command at Alexandria. — The 
42nd Illinois engaged in a skirmish at Cort- 
land, Tenn.— At Crab Orchard, Ky., the 9th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry engaged in an action. 

Aug. 23. -Artillery firing along the Rappa- 
hannock induced General Pope to fall back. — 
A skirmish took place at Catlett's Station, Va. — 
Skirmishes occurred at Big Hill, Ky., and the 
actions on the Rappahannock were at Waterloo 
Bridge, Lee's Springs, Freeman's Ford and 
Sulphur Springs, Va., and the latter actions 
covered three days. 

Aug. 24. — Military actions took place at La- 
mar, Dallas, and Cape Girardeau, Mo. 

Aug. 25. — A rebel attack on Fort Donelson, 
Tenn., was repulsed by four companies of the 
71st Ohio Infantry and the 5th Iowa Cavalrv. — 
At Bloomfiold, Mo., the 13th Illinois Cavalry 
was engaged in a skirmish.— At New Uim, 
Minn., an Indian figlit occurred and military 
movements took place at Shelby Farm, Va.; 
the former continued two days to Aug. 26. — 
The rebels under Evvell, numbering 10,000, 
drove in the Union pickets at Manassas Junc- 
tion, overpowered the force at Bull Run Bridge 
and pu,shed on towards Alexandria.— Rebel 
works destroyed at City Point, Va.— An action 
occurred at Cumberland Iron Works, Tenn., in 
which the 71st Ohio Infantry and 5tli Iowa 
Cavalry were engaged. — A cavalry engagement 
took place at Madisonville and Harrodslnirs, 
Ky., and another cavalry figlit occurred at 
Rienzi and Kossuth, Mi.ss., in which the 2nd 
Iowa and 7th Kansas Cavalry were engaged. 

Aug. 27. — Pope marched northward from 
Warrenton Junction, and his forces, which had 
been joined by Hooker's division, encountered 
Ewcll at Kettle Run. The fighting continued 
until dark and a Union victory resulted. — A 



skirmish took place at Battle Creek, Tenn., and 
at Waterford, Miss. — The 33rd Ohio Infantry 
engaged in a skirmish at Fort McCook, Ala. 

Aug. 28. — .\t Readyville, Tenn., the com- 
mand of Colonel Murphy defeated the rebels 
under Forrest. — Near Centerville, Va.., an attack 
by the rebels under Jackson on the troops under 
McDowell and Sigel, was repulsed with a loss of 
many prisoners and heavy casualties in killed 
and wounded. — A cavalry fight took place at 
Shady Springs, Va. — A movement occurred at 
Hernando, Miss. 

Aug. 29. — Second battle of Groveton and 
Gainesville, Va. An advance was made on the 
troops of .lackson and Longstreet by those of 
General Sigel. The engagement became gen- 
eral about half-past six in the morning and 
before noon the Union position became critical, 
when the commands of Kearney and Reno ar- 
rived, and in the afternoon the force of Hooker 
arrived, and at six at night the victory was with 
the Union troops, the enemy falling back after 
having lost heavily and inflicting severe loss. — 
On this date the battle of Richmond, Va., be- 
gun. General Monson's brigade, Army of the 
Ohio, attempted to check the advance of the 
rebels under Kirb}' Smith, and a two days' battle 
ensued : the fighting on August 29th was favor- 
able to the Union force ; the action of the second 
day resulted in the withdrawal of the Union 
force with a loss of 200 killed, 700 wounded 
and 2,000 prisoners, the estimated rebel loss 
being 750 in killed and wounded. — Two com- 
panies of the ISth Ohio and one of the 9th 
Indiana engaged in a skirmish at Manchester, 
Tenn. 

Aug. 30.— Second battle of Bull Run. The 
troops of Ileintzelman, Porter, McDowell and 
Banks under Pope, were engaged with the 
whole rebel army under Lee on the historic 
field of Bull Run, and were defeated, the Union 
loss being 800 killed, 4,000 wounded and 2,000 



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prisoners; the rebel loss in killed and wounded 
being 3,700. — Near Bolivur, Tenn., a Union 
force under Colonel Leggett engaged 400 rebel 
cavalry, and for seven hours tlje Union troops 
repulsed every charge. They wore reinforced 
and the rebels withdrew, the Union troops also 
falling back within their picket lines. The 
Union loss was five killed, IS wounded and 64 
missing. — A hot action took place at McMinu- 
ville, Tenn., and at Buckhannon, Va. 

Aug. 31. — Bayou Sarah, La., was burned by 
the crew of the Essex, the inhabitants having 
fired on the vessel. — Activities occurred at 
Weston, AV. Ya., and at Stevenson, Ala. ; the 
!J4tli Ohio was engaged at Yates' Ford, Ky., 
and, at Toombs' Station, Tenn., the 54th Illinois 
and 7th Missouri had a fight. 

Sept. 1. — A rebel attack was made on Ger- 
mantown, Va., which was repulsed and a simi- 
lar afl'air atChantilly met with a similar result; 
the fighting in both places was very severe, 
General Kearney was killed and General Ste- 
vens and the rebels were driven a mile, leaving 
their dead and wounded. — At Britton's Lane, 
Tenn., the force of Colonel Dennis fought the 
rebels four hours, whose total loss was 400 ; the 
Union loss was five killed, 78 wounded and 92 
missing. — Burnside's array evacuated Fred- 
ericksburg, Va. — The Union forces evacuated 
Lexington, Ky. — A rebel attack on Louisville 
was anticipated and the alarm in Cincinnati 
and Covington, Ky., was great; the entire male 
population of the latter place was organized 
into companies for service under General Lew 
Wallace. — Near Natchez, Miss., a series of 
movements were commenced which occupied 
IG days, and a skirmi.sh took place at Paris, Ky. 

Sept. 2. — In a skirmish near Plymouth, N. 
C, the rebels were defeated. — Near Slaughters- 
ville, Ky., a cavalry force gained a Union vic- 
tory. — A cavalry skirmish took place at Mor- 
gansville, Ky. — The 1st Minnesota was involved 
in a skirmish at Vienna, Va. 



Sept. 3. — All the troops of the Army of Vir- 
ginia were brouglit within McClellan's lines. 
Pope submitted the report of his campaign, 
blaming several of his subordinates for his de- 
feat and asking to be relieved of his command ; 
he was a.ssigned to the Department of the North- 
west. — Indian fights occurred at Acton and 
Hutchinson, Minn., and also at Fort Abercrom- 
bie, D. T. — A cavalry action took place at 
Geiger Lake, Ky. 

Sept. 4. — The northward movement of Lee's 
troops commenced, his army crossing the Poto- 
mac near Poolesville, Md., in force, and Governor 
Curtin called out the militia force of Pennsyl- 
vania to repel the invasion of that State. — 
Kirby Smith at Lexington, Ky., ordered the 
acceptance of the confederate money at face 
value. — At Cumberland Gap, Tenn., a rebel 
defeat occurred. 

Sept. 5. — McClellan's forces moved from 
Washington to the upper Potomac on the 
Maryland side. 

Sept. 6. — The advance of Lee's army reached 
Frederick, Md.— At Washington, N. C, the 
Union garrison was surprised and the attacking 
party was driven out, the Union loss being 
eight killed and 36 wounded, and the rebel lo.ss 
being five times as great. During the engage- 
ment, the magazine of a Union gunboat ex- 
ploded, killing and wounding 18. — In an action 
near Martinsburg, Va., a Union victory occurred 
and 50 rebels were captured. — Buell's troops, 
numbering 24,000, occupied Nashville, Tenn., 
in anticipation of the rebel force under General 
Hood, which was moving northward. — Clarkes- 
ville, Tenn., was retaken and 15,(k00 rebels 
driven out. — Union- troops occupied Covington 
and Newport, Ky., preparatory to the defense 
of Cincinnati. — The Alabama captured the Oc- 
mulgee, her first victory as a privateer. — The 
1st New York Cavalry engaged in a skirmish 
at Cacapon Bridge, Va. — A cavalry fight oc- 



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curred at La Grange, Ark.— At Olathe, Mo., and 
at Chapmansville, W. Va., skirmishes took pkice. 

Seit. 7. — General Banks was assigned to the 
command of tlie fortifications around Wash- 
ington, and McClellan took the field at the head 
^ of tlic Army of the Potomac. — Tlie rebels oc- 
cupied Frederick, Md., in force.— Acquia Creek, 
Va., was evacuated by the Union troops. — At 
Martinsburg, ^'a., a rebel attack was made on 
General AVliite and rejml.^ed with heavy loss. 
Tlie Union loss was two killed and JO wounded. 
— Rebels captured Shepherdsville, Ky., taking 
85 Union prisoners. — The 3rd Indiana and 8th 
Illinois Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at 
Poolesville, Md. — At Clarkesville, Tenn., the 
11th Illinois, 13th Wisconsin, 71st Ohio Infan- 
try, with the 5th Iowa Cavalry and two bat- 
teries engaged in a fight. — The array of McClel- 
lan reached Rockville, Md. 

Sept. 9. — Stuart's cavalry received a repulse 
at Edward's Ferry, Va., with a loss of 90 men. 
— An unsuccessful attempt was made by the 
rebels to capture Williaiusburg, \'a. — The 42nd 
Illinois engaged in a skirmish at Columbia, 
Tenn. — A cavalry action took place at Nolan.s- 
ville, Md., and a fight occurred at Des AUe- 
mands. La. 

Sept. 10.— At Fayette C. H., W. Va., 5,000 
rebels attacked the Union garrison, who cut 
their way through and escaped, losing 100 in 
killed and wounded.— Gauley Bridge, Va., was 
evacuated by the Union troops. — The gunboat 
Essex bombarded Natchez in retaliation for 
having ])een fired into and the city surrendered. 
— Colonel Grierson's men attacked the Union 
force near Cold water, Miss., and inflicted a lo-ss 
of four killed and 30 wounded. 

Sept. 11. — Pennsylvania militia occupied the 
Cumberland Valley in Pennsylvania and .Mary- 
land. — New Market, Va., and Sugar Loaf Mount- 
ain, Md., were occupied by Union troops. — 
Rebels took possession of Hagerstown, Md., 



Maysville, Ky., and Bloomneld, Mo. — Activities 
took place at Cotton Hill, W. Va., and Ridge- 
ville. — Business in Cincinnati was suspended 
and citizens were in readiness for military duty, 
rebel movements in Kenton County, Ky., caus- 
ing much apprehension. 

Sept. 12. — McClellan's advance entered Fred- 
erick, Md. — A sharp fight occurred near Mid- 
dletown, Md., the Union loss being 80. — West- 
minster, Md., was abandoned by tlie rebels. — 
Bloomfield, Mo., was retaken by the Union 
troops. — A military movement took place at 
Charlestown, W. ^'a., which was evacuated by 
the Union forces, the officer in command being 
unable to hold the position on account of the 
withdrawal of the forces to aid in the expulsion 
of the rebels from Maryland. — Colonel Ford 
abandoned his position at Maryland Heights. 
— The rebels demanded a surrender of Mun- 
fordville, Ky. — An action took place at New- 
tonia and at Palmyra, Mo. 

Sept. 14. —Capture of Harper's Ferry by the 
rebels. Colonel Miles surrendering the garrison, 
comprising 11,000 prisoners and a large amount 
of arms and ammunition, the commandant 
being killed. — McClellan's army overtook the 
rebels at South Mountain, Md. ; Burkettsville 
Gap was occupied and, in the action which en- 
sued, the loss on both sides was very heavy, the 
Union army losing 443 killed and 1,806 
wounded ; the rebel loss was 500 killed, 2,343 
wounded and 1,500 prisoners. — The advance of 
Longstreet reached Boonesboro, Md. — Mun- 
fordville, Ky., surrendered to the rebels, the 
garrison of 4,000 defending the place until the 
ammunition was exhausted. — Three New Eng- 
land regiments engaged in an action a Pont- 
chatoula. La. — Activities took place at Bacon 
Creek, Ky., at Fayette, W. Va., and at Bolivar, 
Va. 

Sept. 15. — Rebel pursuit at Boonesboro, Md. 
— The rebels in front of Cincinnati fell back to 



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Florence, Ky. — 8,000 rebels attempted to de- 
stroy the railroad bridge across the (ireen 
River, and were repulsed after 20 hours' fight- 
ing with heavy loss. — Actions took place at 
Shelburne, Mo., and Paris, Ky. 

Sept. 17.— Battle of Antietani. The forces 
engaged on each side numbered about 100,000 
men ; the fighting began about daylight and 
raged until dark, the rebels being driven late 
in the day and during the night they retreated. 
General Mansfield was killed and Richardson 
and Rodman were seriously wounded. Hooker, 
Meagher, Hartsuff, Sumner, Sedgwick, French, 
Ricketts, Dana and Duryea were wounded. Mc- 
Cleilan's report made the Union loss 2,010 killed, 
9,416 wounded and 1,043 missing. He placed 
the rebel loss at more than 25,000. The rebels 
lost 40 Hags and 13 guns, and no Union flag or 
gun was captured by the rebels. — Kirby Smith 
retired his forces from Florence, Ky., to join 
(Tcneral Bragg and a slight skirmish occurred. 
— In a skirmish at Falmouth, Ky., one Union 
soldier was wounded. — A rebel defeat occurred 
near Burhamville, Tenn. — Cumberland Gap, 
TeiHi., was evacuated by the l^nion troops, who 
rendered the Gap impassable before leaving it. 
— Kilpatrick defeated the rebels at Leesburg, 
Va. — Active movements took place at St. Johns, 
Fla., and at Goose Creek, Va. 

Sept. 18.— Rebel evacuatiou of Sharpesburg, 
Md. — The citizens of Hagerstown, Md., assisted 
in burying the dead on the litld of Antietam. 

Sept. 19. — The rebels evacuated Harper's 
Ferry, leaving 300 sick and wounded, and de- 
stroying all government stores. — Rebel defeat 
at Owensburg, Ky. — Military action at Hickory 
Grove, Mo. 

Sept. 19. — Late in the afternoon Rosecrans 
attacked Price south of luka. Miss., and a 
sharp fight followed. The fighting was re- 
sumed in the morning and resulted in a Union 
victory, The Union loss was 135 killed and 



507 wounded.— Near Shirley's Ford, Mo., the 
Union troops under Colonel Ritchie defeated 
the rebels, who lost about 60 in killed and 
wounded. 

Sept. 20. — Actions occurred at Shepherds- 
town, Va., Helena, Ark., and Williamsport, Md. 
— At Bolivar, Miss., the Queen of the West 
with several transports and the 33rd Illinois 
regiment, engaged in an action. 

Sept. 21.— At Blackford's Ford, Va., a con- 
siderable action occurred. Colonel Barnes, 
commanding a brigade, crossed the Potomac 
witliout orders, and, being attacked by a supe- 
rior force of rebels, was forced to retire, sustain- 
ing a loss of about 50 in killed and wounded 
and missing. — Union cavalry under Colonel 
McCook drove the rebels out of Munfordsville, 
Ky., and occupied the place. — At Shepherds- 
ville, Ky., Colonel Granger defeated the rebels, 
killing five and capturing 28.— A cavalry skir- 
mish occurred at Cassville, Mo. 

Sept. 22. — President Lincolu issued the 
Emancipation Proclamation. — General Nelson, 
in command of Louisville, K}'., ordered the 
women and children to leave the city in antici- 
pation of rebel attack and declared martial law. 
— The rebels were defeated at Sturgeon, Mo., by 
the Union force under Captain Cunningham. 
— Colonel R. B. Price's troops defeated Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Green's rebel force at Ashley's Gap, 
Va., capturing three prisoners, among them 
the commander. 

Sept. 23. — The 55th Ohio Infantry engaged 
in an action at Wolf Creek Bridge, Miss. — An 
action occurred at Sutton, Va. — Minnesota 
troops engaged in a fight at Wood Lake, Minn. 

Sept. 24. — General Buell with his troops ar- 
rived at Louisville, Ky. — Movements took place 
at Sabine Pass, Ark. 

Sept. 26.— The U. S. Ram, Queen of the 
West and two transports having been fired into 
by the rebels at Prentiss, Miss., (seven having 



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1862 — SEPT. 27— OCT. 6—1862. 



been killed and many wounded), the town was 
shelled and burned. — Actions occurred at Cam- 
bridge, Mo., and Warrenton Junction, Va. 

Sept. 27. — Six hundred rebel cavalry raided 
Augusta, Ky., defended l>y 120 Union soldiers, 
nine of whom were killed and 15 wounded 
before they surrendered ; the town was fired ; 
tile rebel loss was 90 killed and wounded.— An 
action occurred at Buffalo, W. Va. 

Skpt. 28. — Military movements took place at 
Black water, Va. 

Sept. 29.— At Louisville, Ky., Jeff C. Davis 
shot General Nelson under great provocation, 
was arrested and released without trial.— KeLel 
activities occurred at Sharpesburg, Md. 

Sept. 30. — At Newtonia, Mo., the Union 
troops under General Solomon were defeated 
with a loss of 50 killed and wounded and the 
capture of 100 prisoners. — A rebel defeat oc- 
currei at Russellville, Ky., and a loss of 45 
was intiicled. — A skirmisli took place at Ship- 
ping Point, Va., and activities occurred at New- 
port, Ky., Grayson and Bluffton, Ark. 

Oct. 1. — Buell's army left Louisville, Ky.,to 
encounter the rebels under Bragg. — At Galla- 
tin, Tenn., the command of Colonel Stokes de- 
feated a rebel force, killing 40, wounding many 
and capturing 39. — PI easanton's cavalry crossed 
the Potomac at Shepherdstown, Va., notwith- 
standing the resistance of Wade Hampton's 
cavalry, losing 12 wounded and three prisoners ; 
the rebel loss was 60 killed and wounded and 
nine prisoners. — Skirmishes occurred at Mar- 
tinsburg, Va., and Batchelor Creek, N. C. 

Oct. 2. — Rebel evacuation of Shelby ville, Ky. 
— General Bragg occupied Lexington, Ky. — 
Skirmishes occurred at Olive Hill, Ky., and 
Hamilton, N. C, also at Floyd's Fork, Ky., and 
Baldwin, Miss. — Morgan's cavalry assaulted the 
Carter County Home Guards and was rej)ulsed 
with a loss of 20. — General Morgan (Union) ar- 
rived at Greensburg on the Ohio River. — At 



Franklin on the Black Water River, Va., the 
lltii Pennsylvania Cavalry defeated a body of 
rebels. — A rebel fort was captured in a gunboat 
expedition up the St. John's River, Fla. 

Oct. 3. — On this date a succession of engage- 
ments took place near Corinth, Miss. ; 28,000 
rebels under Van Dorn, Price and I^ovell at- 
tacked the Union defenses and drove the troops 
of Ord, Hurlbut and Leach into the town. The 
battle was renewed on the 4th, and before noon 
the rebels were retreating in disorder. The 
Union loss was 315 killed, 1,812 wounded and 
232 missing; the rebel loss was 1,423 killed 
and 5,092 wounded, with 2,268 prisoners in- 
cluding 137 officers; colors, artillery, small 
arms, ammunition, accoutrements, wagons, 
etc., w'ere captured by the Union troops in great 
quantity. 

Oct. 4. — Bardstown, Ky., was evacuated by 
the rebels and occupied by Crittenden's corps. 
— Lexington, Ky., evacuated by the rebels. — 
Galveston, Texas, was occuj)ied by the Union 
troops. 

Oct. 5. — Battle of Hatch ie River. Generals 
Ord and Hurlbut overtook and whipped the 
rebels, capturing 28^ prisoners and quantities 
of spoils, losing about 500 in killed and wounded 
and continuing the pursuit. — Rebel defeat at 
Fayetteville, Ark. --Occupation of Jacksonville, 
Fla., by Union troops. — Activities occurred at 
Glasgow, Ky., Fort Point and Leesburg, Ky., 
and Pawpaw and Galveston, Texas, and at 
Madisonville, K}'. 

Oct. 6. — At Lavergne, Tenn., the rebels 
opened an artillery tire and were silenced by 
Palmer's brigade ; the infantry became engaged 
and the rebels fled in wild disorder after a fight 
of 30 minutes, losing 80 in killed and wounded ; 
the Union loss was IS killed, wounded and 
missing. — A cavalry action occurred at Ciiarles- 
ton, \'a. — General Buell with a large Union 
force reinforced Crittenden at Bardstown, Ky. 



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Oct. 7. — Rebel guerrillas under Quantrell 
and Childs were defeated near Sibley'.s Land- 
ing, Mo. 

Oct. 8. — Battle of Perry ville. Bragg's troops 
attacked the corps of General McCook, whose 
force under Rousseau and Jackson, numbered 
14,000, the confederate array being much 
stronger. The rebels retreated, fleeing in the 
night towards Harrodsburg, Ky. The Union 
loss exceeded 3,200 in killed, wounded and 
missing, while the rebel loss was 1,200 killed 
and 3,000 wounded besides 200 prisoners. 

Oct. 9. — In a battle near Lawrenceburg, Ky., 
Colonel Parrott's Union troops defeated the 
rebels with considerable loss and lost six killed 
and IS wounded. — The rebel Stuart ordered an 
invasion of Pennsylvania. — At Aldie, Va., a 
cavalry skirmish occurred. 

Oct. 10.— J. E. B. Stuart with 1,800 cavalry 
crossed the Potomac at McCoy's Creek, captured 
tiie horses of the videttes, surprised and cap- 
tured the signal station between Hancock and 
Hagerstown, passed Mercersburg at noon and 
reached Chambersburg, Va., at dark. The 
town surrendered to Wade Hampton's force ; 
about 300 sick and wounded soldiers were 
paroled and property seized. — On the 11th, the 
rebels evacuated Chambersburg and proceeded 
to Eramettsburg, doing all mischief possible 
along the B. & 0. track. On the 12th, they 
passed tlu'ough Hagerstown and charged Stone- 
man's troops near Poolesville, driving* them 
across the Monocacy. They advanced to White's 
Ford and reerossed the Potomac and the Union 
troops arrived just in time to witness the ar- 
rival of the last rel)el raider on the opposite 
side of the river. — The rebels were driven by 
General Schofield across the Missouri line into 
Arkansas. — An Indian fight occurred on the 
Upper Missouri. — A skirmish took place at 
Hanerville, Va. 

Oct. 11. — Near Helena, Ark., the rebels were 



defeated by the command of Major Rector. — 
Nashville, Tenn., was threatened by a large 
rebel force. — An action took place at La Grange, 
Ark., and a gunboat fight took place on the 
Cape Fear River, N. C. — Activity of Stoneman's 
troops on the Monocacy and an action at Caca- 
pone Bridge, Va. 

Oct. 12. — An action occurred at Hyattstown, 
Md., and Darnestown, Ky. 

Oct. 13. — A slight skirmish took place at 
Paris, Va. 

Oct. 14.— In a fight at Stanford, Ky., 14 
rebels were taken prisoners and several killed. 
— Skirmishes occurred at Hazel Bottom, Mo., 
and Caseyville, Ky. 

Oct. 15. — A company of the 7th Pennsylva- 
nia Cavalry, under Lieutenant Williams, de- 
feated the rebels in a skirmish near Garsville, 
Va. — At Taylor's Bayou, Fla., a naval engage- 
ment occurred. 

Oct. 16. — In a reconnoissance near Charles- 
ton, Va., the Union loss was one killed and 
eight wounded ; the rebel loss was greater. 

Oct. 17. — An action occurred on the Tennes- 
see shore opposite Island No. 10, in which the 
attacking force of rebels were defeated with a 
loss of 15 men, including the leader, who were 
taken prisoners. The action occurred after dark 
and the rebels fired on each other. — One hun- 
dred rebels surrendered to General Stahel at 
Thoroughfare Gap, Ga. — A skirmish occurred 
'at Sabine Cross Roads, La. 

Oct. 18. — Morgan's cavalry dashed into Lex- 
ington, Ky., and out again, killing six and 
capturing 120. — Quantrell raided and burned 
Shawneetown, Kansas. — A cavalry engagement 
took place at Haymarket, Va. — An infantry 
action occurred at Helena, Ark. 

Oct. 19. — A brigade of Union troops at- 
tacked Forrest's cavalry near Nashville, Tenn., 
dispersing the force and capturing prisoners 
and supplies. The 78th Pennsylvania was 



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1862— OCT. 20 — OCT. 29 — 1862. 



conspicuous in the action for tlieir bravery. — 
At Gallatin, Tenn., and at Commerce in the 
same State, military movements occurred. 

Oct. 20. — Morgan's guerrillas captured a 
wagon train near Bardstown, Ky. — At Marsh- 
field, Mo., the 10th Illinois Cavalry skirmished 
with the rebels and a Missouri cavalry regi- 
ment were in action on the Auxvois River, Mo. 

Oct. 21. — The rebel forces in West Virginia 
left the Kanawha Valley and went into East 
Tennessee after destroying tlie salt works. — An 
expedition was sent into Loudon county, Va., 
by General Slocum and 32 rebel cavalry were 
captured, including their captain ; 1.5 rebels 
were injured. — At Woodville, Tenn., a detach- 
ment of the 2nd Illinois cavalry under Captain 
J. J. Mudd, captured 40 rebels, 100 horses and 
a number of mules. — An Indian fight occurred 
at Fort Cobb, I. T. 

Oct. 22. — General Terry made an unsuccess- 
ful attempt to capture the Charleston & Savan- 
nah railroad. — A large force of Union troops, 
composed of Eastern regiments, had a fight 
with Beauregard's troops near Pocotaligo, S. C, 
and lost 30 killed and 180 wounded. The 47th 
Pennsylvania suffered heavily. — General Bragg 
escaped from Kentucky to Tennessee without 
fighting. — At Maysville in Northwestern Ar- 
kansas, General Blunt routed 5,000 rebels after 
an hour's fight and caj)tured all their artillery, 
many horses and part of the rebel transjtorta- 
tion and gairison equipments, — The 4th Penn- 
sylvania Cavalry skirmished at Hedgeville, Va. 

Oct. 23.-At Waverly, Tenn., the 83rd Illi- 
nois defeated the rebels, losing one killed and 
five wounded, and killing, wounding and 
capturing 70.— At Shelby Depot, Tenn., Colonel 
Stuart with the 55th Illinois made a reconnois- 
sance and defeated a rebel force. — A cavalry 
engagement under E. McCook took place at 
Point Lick, Ky. — Military movements took place 
at VVarrenton, Va., and Indian River, Fla. 



Oct. 24. — In a skirmish at Grand Prairie, 
Mo., the reliels were defeated, the Union loss 
being three wounded. — A cavalry engagement 
took place at Catlett's Station, Va., and General 
Terry's troops skirmished at Blackwater, ^'a. — 
An unimportant action occurred at Morgan- 
town, Ky. 

Oct. 25. — A skirmish took place near Ma- 
nassas Junction, Va., in which 17 Union sol- 
diers were captured. — The Army of the Potomac 
began to move to a position east of the Blue 
Ridge. 

Oct. 26. — A body of rebels under Gen. Henrj' 
A. Wise of Virginia moved from Richmond 
along the peninsula. — Activities occurred at St. 
Mary's River, Fla , and at Donaldsonville, La., 
and Indianola, Texas. 

Oct. 27. — Burnside's command crossed the 
Potomac. — General Pleasanton's cavalry drove 
the rebels at Snicker's Gap, Va. — General Weit- 
zel's troops met the rebels at Labadieville, on 
Bayou LaFourche, La., on the way from Donald- 
sonville, La., and routed them in an infantry 
charge lasting half an hour; the Union loss 
was 18 killed, 74 wounded, and the rebels lost 
six killed, 15 wounded and 208 prisoners. — At 
Pittman's Ferry, Mo., the command of Colonel 
Lewis defeated the rebels, killing several and 
capturing 40 prisoners. 

Oct. 28.— At Fayetteville, Ark., Colonel Her- 
ron, commanding two Union cavalry regiments, 
attacked a superior force, the rebels executing 
a hasty retreat after an hour and abandoning 
their camp equipage and wagons; five Union 
soldiers were wounded. — Skirmishes occurred 
at Clarkson, Mo., and at Williamsburg, Ky. 

Oct. 29. — In a cavalry skirmish near Peters- 
burg, Va., the rebel cavalry under Stuart de- 
feated a body of Union troops under Iswick. — 
Near Butler, Mo., Colonel Seaman's force en- 
gaged the rebels and captured 16 with 200 
head of cattle. — Plre at Harper's Ferry. 



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Oct. 30 — Buell was superseded by Rose- 
crans in command of tlie 14th Army Corps — 
Burnside's troops joined the command of Sigel 
near Manassas .Junction, Va.— Leesburg, Va., 
was occupied by Stoneman's division. — General 
Mitcliell died at Port Royal, S. C. 

Oct. 31. — Furtlier movements of the Army 
of the Potomac in Virginia near Berlin. — 
Pleasanton's cavalry occupied all the gaps in 
the Blue Ridge. — Cavalry movement at Aldie 
and Maysville, Va., and also at Franklin. 

Nov. 1. — General Pleasanton's cavalry en- 
gaged in a five hours' skirmish at Philomont, 
Va., and lost one killed and 14 wounded and 
occupied the position. Pleasanton sent a force 
after the retreating rebels and overtook them 
near Bloomfield, where another skirmish oc- 
curred. — At Germantown, Tenn., a skirmish 
occurred and detachments of Union troops 
participated in activities at Pungo River, 
Swan's Quarter and Middletown, N. C. 

Nov. 2. — Pleasanton's cavalry drove the 
rebels beyond Union, Ya. — The batteries of 
Hancock's command drove the rebels from and 
took possession of Snicker's Gap, Va. — An ex- 
j)edition under Foster left New Berne, N. C. 

Nov. 3. — Reconnoissance through Snicker's 
Gap ; a skirmish followed in which the Union 
cavalry drove the rebels in confusion across the 
Shenandoah River. After four hours' fight 
Pleasanton's cavalry occupied Upperville, Va. 
— General Stahel's cavalry drove the rebels out 
of Thoroughfare Gap, Va. — Am^aig the hills of 
Webster county, Ky., Colonel Foster's men 
captured 25 prisoners, horses and war material, 
killed three rebels and wounded two without 
loss. — Skirmishes occurred at Rawles' Mills, N. 
C, and a gunboat action occurred at Bayou 
Teche, La. — A cavalry action took place at 
Ilarrisonville, Mo., and unimportant move- 
ments occurred at Ripley and Orizeba, Miss., 
and also at Belle River. 



Nov. 4. — Occupation of Ashley's Gap, Va., 
by the Army of the Potomac. — Foster's expe- 
dition occupied Hamilton, N. C. — Actions oc- 
curred at Bolivar, Va., and King's Bay, N. C. 

Nov. 5. — McClellan superseded by General 
Burnside. — At New Baltimore, Va., 1,500 Union 
soldiers drove the rebels. — Near Barbour, Va., 
Pleasanton and Stuart had a cavalry fight and 
the rebels fell back. — Near Nashville, Tenn., a 
general skirmish took place and the rebels re- 
treated. — Twenty-five hundred guerrillas under 
Morgan made a dash on Colonel Snick's camp, 
north of Cumberland, Tenn., and received a 
repulse. — At Piketon, Ky., the rebels were 
routed with a loss of SO prisoners and a quan- 
tity of war material. — A cavalry action took 
place near Greenville, Ky. 

Nov. 6. — Warrenton, Va., was occupied by 
Reynolds' command ; prisoners were taken and 
army supplies. — Skirmishes took place at 
Leatherwood and Garrettsliurg, Ky. 

Nov. 7. — An unsuccessful rebel attack was 
made upon Bayard's command at Rappahan- 
nock Station. — General Burnside assumed com- 
mand of the Army of the Potomac and Gen- 
eral McClellan issued his farewell address. 

The first enlistment of negro troops took place 
at Port Royal, S. C. — Movements at Beaver 
Creek, Mo. — An action took place at La Grange, 
Ark. 

Nov. 8.— The 5th U. S. Cavalry under Lieu- 
tenant Ashe, charged the rebels near Gaines' 
Cross Roads, Va. ; eight Union soldiers were 
wounded; a number of confederates were killed 
and five of their wounded taken prisoners. — 
General Fitz .John Porter was ordered to Wash- 
ington to answer charges preferred against liiin 
by General Pope. — The Union troops under 
Colonel Lee defeated the rebels at Hudsonville, 
Miss., killing 16 and capturing 175 prisoners. 
— An unimportant action took place near Mari- 
anna, Ark., in which the Union troops were 



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commanded by Captain Perkins. The Uqion 
loss was one wounded; the rebels lo.st five and 
several wounded. — Tlie advance of Rosecrans' 
army reached Gallatin, Tenn. — A cavalry en- 
gagement occurred at Hudsonville, Miss. 

Nov. 9. — The Union troops under Captain 
Ulric Dablgren made a das'n into Frederick- 
town, Va., and captured two wagon loads of 
grey cloth, etc. The Union loss was one killed 
and four mi.ssing; the rebels lost three killed, 
several wounded and 39 prisoners. — A portion 
of Grant's army occupied La Grange, Tenn. — 
General Butler confiscated all the property in 
La Fourche, La., recently taken possession of 
by U. S. troops, promising protection, however, 
to loyal citizens in holding their own property ; 
that of rebels was to be worked for and on ac- 
count of the United States. — St. Mary's, Fla., 
was shelled and burned by the U. S. gunboat 
Mohawk, for treachery of the inhabitants in 
firing on the ship after communicating under 
flag of truce. — Activities occurred at Halltown, 
Va. 

Nov. 11.— Near La Grange, Tenn., Colonel 
Lee in command of Kentucky and Michigan 
cavalry, captured 134 rebels, killing 10 and 
losing two men. — Near Garrettsburg, Ky., Gen- 
eral Riinsom's expedition captured a rebel force 
and lost three killed and 17 wounded, and the 
defeat ended in a rout, the rebels being driven 
out of Kentucky. — Morgan's guerrillas were 
defeated near l^ebanon, Tenn. — Near Hunts- 
ville, Tenn., the Tennessee Home Guards under 
Captain Duncan defeated the rebels. — General 
AfcClellan retired to New Jersey. — Ileavj' ex- 
change of prisoners; the rebels surrendered 
three brigadiers, 18 colonels, 19 lieutenant- 
colonels, 431 captains and 545 lieutenants and 
received 27 colonels, 17 lieutenant-colonels, 467 
captains, 1,085 lieutenants; the exchange 
of privates was about 21,000 and a balance of 
6,000 privates was due the United States. — 
Action at New Berne, N. C. 



Nov. 12. — Hooker assumed command of the 
5th Army Corps. — At Holly Sitrings, Miss., the 
2nd Illinois, 2nd Iowa, 3rd Michigan and 7th 
Kansas Cavalry under Colonel Lee occupied 
Hollj' Springs, after a skirmish in which four 
rebels were killed. — A skirmish occurred near 
Wliite Sulphur Sjjrings, Va. 

Nov. 13. — At Calhoun, La., a slight action 
occurred. 

Nov. 14. — A Union force passed Snicker's 
Gap, Va. 

Nov. 15. — Warrenton, '\'^a., was evacuated by 
the rebels and occupied by the Army of the 
Potomac. — In an artillery skirmish near Fay- 
etteville, Va., the troops of Sturgis engaged 
the rebel batteries. 

Nov. 17. — Burnside's troops occupied Fal- 
mouth, Va. — At Cove Creek, N. C, the 3rd New 
York Cavalry had a severe fight and the Union 
flying artillery shelled the rebels from their 
position. — The 104th Pennsylvania Infantry 
engaged in a skirmish at Gloucester, Va. 

Nov. 18. — A cavalry skirmish occurred, in 
which Colonel Hawkins defeated the rebels at 
Rural Hill, Tenn. — Military movements oc- 
curred at Helena, Ark., and Little River, ^[o. 

Nov. 19. — A bkirmish took place at Black- 
water, Mo. 

Nov. 20. — An action occurred at CliarUs- 
town, Va. 

Nov. 21. — General Sumner demanded the 
surrender of Fredericksburg, on account of the 
firing of citizens on the Union troops, but 
rescinded the order on the following day on 
being assured that the offense should not again 
occur. — A skirmish occurred at Bayou Bonnet 
Carre, La. 

Nov. 23. — Reconnoissancefrom Fortress Mon- 
roe to the Chickahominy. — A skirmish took 
place at Onslow, N. C. 

Nov. 24. — A cavalry and infantry skirmish 
took place at Beaver Creek, Mo. 



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Nov. 25. — At Sinking Creek, Va., a rebel 
camp was surprised by the '2nd Virginia Cav- 
alry and 118 prisoners were captured, besides 
arms, sabres, horses, loaded wagons and camp 
property; two pickets were killed and, with 
this exception, not a shot was iired. — Fortifica- 
tion on the Mississippi at Port Hudson. — Cav- 
alry raid occurred at Poolesville, Md.— Slight 
actions occurred at Winchester, Shepherdstown 
and Zuni, Va. 

Nov. 26. — Twenty guerrillas dashed into 
Urbana, Md., pillaging a store and killing one 
citizen. — At Summerville, Miss., the 7th lihnois 
Cavalry engdged in a skirmish. — At Berry ville, 
Va., movements occurred. 

Nov. 27. — A skirmish occurred near La- 
vergne, Tenn., without decisive results. — A cav- 
alry skirmish occurred at Carthage, Ark., and 
also at Rienzi, Miss. 

Nov. 28.— At Cane Hill, Ark., the troops of 
the frontier made a forced march, attacking 
Marmaduke's troops en route for Missouri. 
The battle raged over 12 miles of ground and 
the rebels retreated to ^'an Buren, Ark. — Two 
detachments of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry 
on picket on the Rappahannock were captured 
by a greatly superior force of rebels. — The 
action referred to under this date as Cane Hill, 
included also Bo.ston Mountain and Boones- 
boro. Ark. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
Cold Water River, Miss. 

Nov. 29.— At Snicker's Ferry, Va., General 
Stahel with 300 cavalry scattered the rebels, 
killing 50, capturing 40 and taking 80 head of 
cattle and horses. — A cavalry expedition to the 
fork of the Mingo and St. Francis Rivers cap- 
tured a rebel officer and 10 privates. —An 
action occurred at Plaquemine, La., and at 
Waterford and Lumpkin's Mills, Miss.— Activ- 
ities occurred at Yellville and Abbeville, Miss. 

Dec. 1. — An expedition from Suffolk, Va., 
under General Peck, recaptured the celebrated 



Pittsburg Battery, held by the rebels at Frank- 
lin, Va. 

Dec. 2. — General Geary's command en route 
to Winchester, defeated the rebels near Charles- 
ton, killing and wounding 70 and capturing 
145 prisoners. — Grenada, Miss., was occupied 
by 20,000 Federal troops under General Hovey ; 
the rebels desti'oyed 15 locomotives and 100 
cars. 

Dec. 3.— At Oxford, Miss., Colonel Hatch 
captured 92 prisoners with a loss of 20 killed 
and wounded. — The rebels abandoned their 
fortihcalions at Abbeville, Miss. — General Geary 
den:anded the surrender of Winchester and 
the rebels complied. 

Dec. 3. — The 1st Indiana Cavalry engaged 
in a skirmish at Oakland, Miss. — A slight 
action occurred at Princeton, K}'. 

Dec. 4. — The rebels were driven on the 
Rappahannock in an action between the Union 
gunboats and rebel batteries. — Skirmishing at 
Tuscumbia, Miss. — Cavalry action at Water 
Valley, Miss. 

Dec. 5. — A rebel attack on Helena, Ark., 
was repulsed. — A considerable tight occurred at 
Coiieeville, Miss., and a cavalry action occurred 
at Reed's Mountains, Ark. 

Dec. 6. — Banks' expedition left New York 
for New Orleans. — Rebel activities occurred at 
Hackett's Point, Va., and at Chicot Pass, Ark. 
— The 93rd Ohio engaged in a skirmish at 
Lebanon, Tenn. 

Dec. 7.— Battle of Prair'e Grove. The forces 
under Blunt and Herron defeated 28,000 rebels, 
who retreated during the following night, 
abandoning their dead and wounded ; the 
Union loss was about 1,000 and that of the 
rebels 1,500.— Morgan's guerrillas captured the 
104th Illinois, 106th and 108tii Ohio, and a 
detachment of the 2nd Indiana Cavalry at 
Hartsville, Tenn., killing 55 and wounding 100. 
Tlie rebel loss was about tiie same.— At Prairie 



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1862 — DEC. 9 — DEC. 20 — 1862. 



d'Ann a plight action occurred. — At King 
George C. 11., Va., GO of tlie 8tli Pennsylvania 
Cavalry were attacked by 3UU rebels ; 40 of the 
garrison escaped. 

Deo. 9.— Concordia, Ark., was burned in 
retaliation for the burning of tlie Lake City 
tiie day before. — The Union gunboats at Port 
Royal were attacked by rebels, who were driven 
off. — Sharp actions occurred at Lavergne and 
Brentville, Tenn. 

Dec. 10. — Plymouth, N. C, was destroyed by 
the rebels during an engagement. — An action 
occurred at Indian River, Fla. 

Dec. 11. — Leesburg, Va., was occupied by 
the Union troops. — Bombardment of Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., which was partially destroyed) 
the Union troops meanwhile crossing the Rap- 
pahannock on jioutoon bridges, whose construc- 
tion was retarded by rebel shooters, who were 
dispersed by a Union force sent over the river 
in boats. — At Dumfries and Warrensburg, Va., 
military movements occurred. 

Dec. 12. — Askirmisli took place near Corinth, 
Miss., the rebel loss exceeding that of the Union 
troops. — At Franklin, Tenn., General Stanley 
defeated the rebels, losing one man, killing five 
and wounding 10. — Activities in the vicinity 
of Nashville. — Skirmishes at Little Bear Creek, 
Ala. — Foster's expedition started for Goldsboro, 
N. C. 

Dec. 13. — Battle of Fi'cdericksburg, Va. 
Burnside's army attacked the fortifications 
which proved impregnable, the arrangements 
permitting an enfilailing fire from above ; every 
charge of the Union troops was repulsed and 
nightfall found the armies in the same position 
as in the morning. Tiiere was no figiiting on 
the 14th, and, on the night of the loth and the 
morning of the 16th, Burnside's army with- 
drew across the Rappahannock, effecting the 
retreat and removing the pontoon bridges with- 
out the knowledge of the rebels. The Union 



loss was 1,512 killed, 6,000 wounded and many 
prisoners. — Foster's expedition engaged the 
rebels near Southwest Creek, N. C, retiring to 
Kinston, where he was again attacked and 
driven with loss.— ( )n the Yazoo River the gun- 
boat Cairo was sunk by a torpedo. — An action 
took place at Tuscumbia, Ala. 

Dec. 14. — About 400 rebel cavalry raided 
Poolesville, Md., capturing one-half of the gar- 
rison. — Banks' expedition arrived at New Or- 
leans. — Skirmishes occurred at Coffeeville, 
Miss., at Woodsonsville and Wireman's Shoals, 
Ky., at Ringgold, Ga., and Helena, Ark. 

Dec. 15. — At Bear ^Vallow, Ky., a rebel 
movement took place. 

Dec. 16. — General Foster moved from Kin- 
ston to White Hall, N. C, ami routed the rebels 
after a three hours' figiit. — Slightaction at New 
Haven, Ky. 

Dec. 17. — Occupation of Baton Rouge, La., 
inimediately following the evacuation of the 
])lace by the rebels.— General Foster's command 
drove the rebels out of Goldsboro after a short 
light; "after destroying the railroad communi- 
cations the expedition pushed on to New Berne, 
arriving December 20th. 

Dec. 18.— a cavalry action, involving the 
11th Illinois, 5tli Ohio and 2ud Tennessee Cav- 
alry took ]>lace at Lexington, Tenn. — The same 
troops, assisted b)' the 43rd and 61st Illinois, 
engaged in an action at Jackson, Tenn., repell- 
ing the rebels. — A skirmish took place at Com- 
merce, Miss. 

Dec. 19. — At Occoquan, Va., a body of rebel 
cavalry made a raid on the 10th New York 
Cavalry, capturing 30 prisoners and six sutlers' 
wagons.— Rebel cavalry movement at Rijdey, 
Va. 

Dec. 20.— Surrender of Holly Springs, Miss., 
to the rebels by Colonel Murphy, including 
2,000 prisoners ; $2,000,000 worth of war sup- 
plies were destroyed ; this caused an entire 



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change in the plans on Vicksburg.— Destruc- 
tion of the railroad near Jackson, Tenn., by 
rebel cavalry.— At Trenton, Tenn., Forrest cap- 
tured a body of cavalry and infantry troops. — 
Activities at Halltown, Va., and Humboldt, 
Tenn. 

Dec. 21. — An expedition under Carter left 
London, Ky., for East Tennessee, and, on the 
same day, destroyed important railroad com- 
munications and captured 550 prisoners and 
700 stand of arms.— At Davis Mills, Miss., a 
rebel defeat occurred and many small arms 
were taken. — Active movements occurred in 
the vicinity of Nashville. 

Dec. 22.— At Isle of Wight C. H., Va., a 
cavalry skirmish took place. 

Dec. 23. — Sigel's command repulsed a rebel 
attack on Dumfries, Va. 

Dec. 24. — Morgan's guerrillas defeated Dick- 
ey's troops near Munfordville, Ky. — A de- 
tachment of the r2tli Michigan Infantry en- 
gaged in a skirmish at Middleburg, Miss. — At 
Glasgow, Ky., a detachment of the 2nd Michi- 
gan Cavalry had a skirmish. — Movements oc- 
curred at Dallas and Delhi, Ga., and at Joiner's 
Bridge, Ky. 

Dec 25. — At Munfordville, Ky., Morgan's 
guerrillas were defeated in turn by Colonel 
Gray, nine rebels being killed and 22 wounded. 
— In an action at Green's Chapel, Ky., soldiers 
of the 4th and 5th Indiana Cavalry defeated a 
body of rebels. — At Bear Wallow, Ky., another 
cavalry engagement took place. 

Dec. 26. — At Nolansville, Tenn., McCook's 
corps. Army of the Cumberland, made an ad- 
vance. — The 2nd Michigan Cavalry engaged in 
a skirmish at Bacon CVeek, Ky. 

Dec. 27. — At Dumfries, Va., Colonel Canby 
routed the rebels under Stuart and Lee, inflict- 
ing a severe loss. — A body of Pennsylvania 
cavalry was surprised and captured at Occo- 
quan, Va. — Three hundred and fifty rebels 



were captured at Elk Fork, Tenn., by half 
their number of Union troops. — 2,800 of Mor- 
gan's guerrillas attacked 250 soldiers belonging 
to the 91st Illinois and compelled the garrison 
to retreat. 

Dec. 28. — Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. On 
the 26th an expedition under Sherman moved 
up the Yazoo River and landed, and on the 
following day an assault was made on Haines' 
Bluff, auxiliary to the attack at Chickasaw 
Bayou. A slight advantage was gained in the 
action on the 28th, and the movement was 
abandoned by Sherman the next day, princi- 
pally on account of the failure of Grant, whose 
plans were frustrated by the disaster at Holly 
Springs, and it was decided soon after to aban- 
don the attempt, which had been made at a 
cost of 191 killed, 982 wounded and 756 miss- 
ing. — Van Buren, Ark., was captured by the 
forces of Blunt and Herron, the rebels having 
fled on the approach of the Army of the 
Frontier, which had defeated two regiments of 
rebel cavalry at Dripping Spring. — A cavalry 
action took place at Muldraugh's Hill, Ky. — 
A reconnoissance took place at Suffolk, Va., 
and at Occoquan, Va. ; two Pennsylvania cav- 
alry regiments were engaged.— At Clinton, La., 
an action took place in which Western troops 
were engaged. — At New Madrid, Mo., a skir- 
mish took place. 

Dec. 29. — A Kentucky cavalry regiment en- 
gaged in an action at Stuart Creek, Tenn. 

Dec. 30. — At Parker's Cross Roads, Tenn., a 
sharp action took place under Sullivan, who 
fought the rebels under Forrest. The rebels 
lost a thousand men while the Union loss was 
239. — Two cavalry regiments belonging to the 
expedition of Carter in East Tennessee de- 
stroyed a bridge at Carter's Station. — A detach- 
ment of soldiers east of Knoxville, Tenn., de- 
stroyed railroad communication and captured 
400 rebel prisoners.— A wagon train near Je*"- 



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1862 — DEC. 31— JAN. 7 — 1863. 



ferson, Tenn., was attacked by rebels. This 
action was preliminar}' to tiie battle of Stone 
River, and is known to liistory as Jefferson 
Pike.— The Monitor foundered ott' Hatteras. 

Dec. 31.— Battle of Stone River, or Murfrees-- 
boro, Tenn. Tiie skirmish which had been 
mentioned near Stuart's Creek, which continued 
two days with a loss of 70 Union soldiers, was 
preliminary also to the action at Stone River 
proper which continued two days. At daylight 
of the last day of the year the onset became 
general and continued with great fury. After 
desperate fighting and severe loss, McCook's 
corps fell back, and, after another rail}', the 
Union army was again driven by the enemy. 
January 1st, the fighting was continued with 
slight advantage to the Union force. January 
2nd, the fighting was desultory until 4 o'clot-k 
in the afternoon, when the rebels advanced 
with reinforcements, and a desperate fight of 30 
minutes occurred witli the odds in tlie rebel 
favor, but Negley moved up, checked llie rebel 
advance and drove the enemy back to a wooded 
hill where a futile attempt to stand was made. 
In this repulse the rebels lost over 2,000 men, 
the Union loss being 455. January 3rd, the 
88th Indiana and 3rd Ohio carried a rebel 
redoubt in a bayonet charge. During the fol- 
lowing night, the rebels under Bragg evacuated 
Murfreesboro, retiring to Tullalioma. 43,500 
Union troops were engaged at Stone River, the 
Confederates numbering 62,000 ; the total 
Union loss was 1,474 killed, 6,813 wounded 
and 222 prisoners. The rebel loss was 12,000 
killed and wounded and 3,500 prisoners. 

1863. Jan. 1. — Emancipation Proclamation 
went into effect. — Near Lebanon, Ky., Morgan's 
guerrillas made a raid and were defeated, losing 
several killed and 90 prisoners, besides war sup- 
plies. — Near Red Mound, Tenn., a complete 
rout of Forrest's troops took place after 12 days 
skirmishing with Union troops under Sullivan. 



The Union loss was 20 killed, 100 wounded and 
60 missing, the rebels losing 700 in killed, 
wounded and prisoners. Forrest's troops num- 
bered 7,000 and the Union forces 3,000 infantry, 
a company of cavalry and six guns, while the 
rebels were all mounted and had 11 pieces of 
artillery. — A rebel surprise by land and water 
took place at Galveston, Texas. The garrison 
was captured and the gunboat, Harriet Lane, 
was boarded and her officers and crew nearly 
all killed. The flagship, Westfield, was blown 
up, Commodore Renshaw and Lieutenant Zim- 
merman perishing in the explosion. — An action 
took place at Lavergne, Tenn., and Baton 
Rouge, Ij&. 

Jan. 2. — A detachment of Stuart's cavalry 
dashed into Dumfries, Va., capturing army 
supplies. — At Moore field, W. Va., the rebels at- 
tacked the Union position and were repulsed 
after capturing 60 Union prisoners. — A rebel 
camp near La Grange, Ark., was captured. 

Jan. 4.— Rosecrans' forces occupied Mur- 
freesboro, Tenn. — Clarkesville, Tenn., was re- 
captured with a quantity of provisions. — Gen- 
eral Sherman was superseded by McClernand. 

Jan. 5. — The cavalry of the Army of the 
Cumberland engaged with the rebels of Bragg's 
army in Middletown, Tenn. — A skirmish oc- 
curred at Hardy Co., Va., 33 Union prisoners 
being captured. — Near Little River, N. C, a 
party of rebel skirmishers was defeated and 
captured without Union loss. — The MonUiuk 
and Passaic arrived safely at Beaufort, N. C. — 
Military movement at Jupiter Inlet, Fla. 

Jan. 6. — An English steamer loaded with 
arms, presumably for the rebels, was captured 
by the Pocahontas off Mobile. 

Jan. 7 — Battle of Springfield, Mo. Marma- 
duke, with 5,000 rebels, attacked the town and 
was repulsed by the Home Guards. Reinforce- 
ments arrived on the next day and the rebels 
retired with a loss of 300. The Union loss was 



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17 killed and 50 wounded, General Brown, the 
commander, losing an arm.— Lieutenant W. B. 
Gushing and 25 men landed near Fort Gaswell, 
N. C, and captured a rebel redoubt. — A rebel 
force attacked, captured and destroyed a con- 
struction train near Antioch, Tenn. — Colonel 
Moore, witli 100 men of the 2nd Illinois Cavalry, 
destroyed a rebel camp at Hontoon's Mills 
near Ri]>ley, Tenn., killing 16 and capturing 
40 prisoners. — A Union force destroyed a rebel 
train at White House, Va., captured the mail, 
cut the telegraph and burned all the river craft 
and the commissary stores, the depot and other 
buildings. — Further movements at Jupiter 
Inlet. 

Jan. 9. — At Providence Gliurch on the Black- 
water, Va., a cavalry force defeated the rebels. 
— Exchange of prisoners in which 26,000 
Union soldiers were released. — The rebel 
secretary of war declared that the Union pris- 
oners taken at Stone River would be held in 
close confinement until General Butler was sur- 
rendered to be punished. 

Jan. 10. — Near Hartsville, Mo., a body of 
Western troops attacked 4,000 rebels under 
Marmaduke and Porter and drove them five 
miles; the rebels made a circuit into Harts- 
ville, and were driven out. This action has 
been called Wood's Fork and was concluded 
Jan. 11th. The Union loss was 35 killed and 
wounded, an-d the rebel loss was 150. — A body 
of rebels near Catlett's Station, Va., was attacked 
and defeated with heavy loss. — Galveston, 
Texas, was bombarded by a Union gunboat. — 
Fort Hindman was invested by the gunboats of 
tlie Mississippi squadron and the corps of 
McClernand and Sherman. 

Jan. 11.— Fort Hindman, Ark., surrendered 
unconditionally by the rebels. 4,720 prisoners 
were captured and the armament and stores. 
129 Union soldiers were killed and 831 wounded. 
The rebel loss was estimated at 5,500. — At Mill 



Creek, Tenn., Wheeler's cavalry destroyed the 
railroad bridge and captured a squad of Union 
soldiers.— The Hatteras was sunk off the coast 
of Texas by the Alabama. 

Jan. 12.— The steamer Charter was destroyed 
at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., by a detachment of 
Wheeler's cavalry.— Rebel raid at Holly Springs 
and outrages on the citizens. — A brigantine, 
which had been captured by the privateer. 
Retribution, was recaptured from the prize crew 
by the wife of the captain, who made the rebels 
drunk, put them in irons and took the vessel 
into the port of St. Thomas.— The 2nd Wiscon- 
sin Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Lick 
Creek, Ark. 

Jan. 13.— Col. Daniel Ullmann of the 78th 
New York Infantry was made brigadier and 
empowered to raise a brigade of negro troops. 
— Four boats with wounded troops were cap- 
tured on the Cumberland River, the men robbed 
and three of the boats burned. 

Jan. 14.— At Bayou Teche, near Patterson- 
ville. La., the gunboats Calhoun, Diana, Kins- 
man and Estrella, assisted by Weitzel's brigade, 
had a fight with the rebel steamboat Cotton and 
a land force. The Cotton was destroyed, but 
the Union commander, Buchanan, was killed 
by a sharpshooter. — The Queen of the West 
was captured by the rebels on Red River. 

Jan. 15. — 17 Union couriers of the 2nd Wis- 
consin Cavalry were captured between Helena, 
Ark., and Clarendon.— Mound City, Ark., was 
burned by the Union troops because it was a 
rendezvous for guerrillas. 

Jan. 16. — Three Union steamers were cap- 
tured at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., by Wheeler's 
cavalry. — The Columbia stranded at Masonboro 
Inlet, N. C, and surrendered to the rebels. — 
The rebel privateer Orato run the blockade of 
Mobile and sunk the brig Estelle of Boston, 
proceeding to Havana pursued by the Oneida. 
— Duvall's Bluff and Des Arc, Ark., were cap- 



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tured by the 24th Indiana and the gunboat 
DeKalb on tlie Wliite River witli 150 prisoners 
and arms. 

Jan. 17.— The .3rd New York Cavalry drove 
1,300 rebels from Pollocksville, N. C, and 
occupied the town. 

Jan. 19. — A reconnoissance was made by the 
5th Pennsylvania Cavalry to Burnt Ordinary, 
Va., during which 12 Union cavalry dashed 
among 100 rebels to recapture pri.«oners. — A 
cavalry skirmish took jJace near Clifton, La. — 
Military movements at Wash Channel. 

Jan. 21. — An expedition sailed from Hilton 
Head for Ossabaw Sound, Ga. — Two blockading 
vessels, the Morning Liglit and Velocity, were 
captured off Sabine Pass by rebel steamers. — A 
rebel camp near Columbia, Mo., was broken up 
by Union troops. 

Jan. 22. — The privateer Orato departed from 
Havana and captured the brig Windward. 

Jan. 23.— At Fish Springs, Tenn., a band of 
loyal Tennesseeans were attacked by the rebels 
under Polk. Several were killed and wounded 
and three prisoners captured were hung, in- 
cluding Taylor, the Union leader. —Arkansas 
Post was evacuated by the Union troops after 
blowing up the fortifications at Fort Ilindman. 
• Jan. 24. — Near Woodbury, Tenn., the rebels 
were defeated with a loss of 35 wounded and 
100 prisoners captured. — General Foster started 
from New Berne for Kingston, N. C. 

Jan. 25. — The first regiment of colored vol- 
unteers was organized at Port Royal, S. C. — 
A rebel repulse took place on the railroad near 
Nashville, Tenn. — Foster's troops made a cap- 
ture near Kingston, N. C. — An attack on a con- 
struction train near Murfreesboro, Tenn., was 
repulsed l)y the guard, with tlie assistance of a 
detachment of the 10th Michigan. 

Jan. 26. — Hooker succeeded Burnside in the 
command of the Army of the Potomac. — Tlie 
gunboat Chillicothe shelled the lower batteries 



at Vicksburg. — A detachment of the 5th New 
York Cavalry .skirmished at Mi<ldleburg, Va., 
defeating the rebels. — Au Indian fight occurred 
at Bear River, Washington Territory, during 
which the cold was so intense that about 150 
of the soldiers had their feet frozen. 

Jan. 27. — In an action at Bloomfield, Mo., 
the rebels were driven out and 52 prisoners 
captured.— A cavalry force belonging to Weit- 
zel's brigade routed a rebel force at Indian 
Village, La. — Fort McAlister on the Ogeeche 
River, Ga., was bombarded without results. 

Jan. 28.— Near Van Buren, Mo., a steamer 
and 300 rebels were captured. 

Jan. 29. — General McClernanil landed oppo- 
site Vicksburg. — A skirmish occurred at Pinos 
Altos, Arizona Territory. 

Jan. 30.— At Dyersburg, Tenn., the 22nd 
Ohio defeated the rebels, inflicting a loss of 34. 
— At Deserted House near Suffolk, Va., Pryor's 
command was defeated by a force under Cor- 
coran and Spear, the loss on both sides being 
about 100. — Tlie gunboat, Lsaac Smith, was 
captured while aground at Stono River, S. C. 

Jan. 31. -Two rebel defeats occurred at 
Rover and Middleton, Tenn.; in the former 
the rebel cavalry of Wheeler was routed with 
35 killed and wounded and 300 prisoners cap- 
tured ; at the latter jilace a rebel camp was 
broken up and 100 jirisoners captured. — The 
Union troops under Jeff. C. Davis occupied 
Slielbyville, Tenn.— Union troops were attacked 
in Morgan count\', Ind., while arresting desert- 
ers, which was accomplished. — The rebel iron 
clads. Palmetto State and Chicora and three 
small steamers, attacked the blockading fleet off 
Ciiarleston, disabling two vessels and killing 
an<l wounding 43 men. Beauregard declared 
the blockade raised, but on the stxme day tlie 
English steamer Princess Royal was captured, 
while running the blockade at Charleston with 
a full cargo of arms and supplies for the rebels. 



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Feb. 1.— Attack on Fort McAlistcr, Ga., by 
the Moiitauk, supported by the Union gun- 
boats; the attack was unsuccessful. — Franklin, 
Tenn., was occupied by Union troops. — A rebel 
attack was made on Island No. 10, which was 
repulsed by the gunboat Era. 

Fee. 2. — The rebel garrison at Warrenton, 
Va., was surprised and captured by Wyndham's 
cavalry brigade. 

Feb. 3. — At Mingo Swamp, Mo., a cavalry 
force under Major Reader, routed the rebels, 
killing nine and wounding 20. — Tiie Union 
garrison at Fort Donelson, Tenn., repelled a 
rebel attack of Wheeler's cavalry, killing and 
wounding a.d capturing over 600 with a loss 
of 126.— A Union reconnoissance was made 
into Eastern Tennessee, the command of Rey- 
nolds occupying Liberty, Auburn and Lebanon 
and driving the rebels in every direction. 

Feb. 4.— a brigade of cavalry under Colonel 
Warring defeated the rebels under Marmaduke. 
— Another rebel defeat took place on Lake 
Providence, La. 

Feb. 5. — A jxarty of guerrillas were routed 
on Bear Creek, Mo., by the Missouri militia. — 
A trivial skiruiish occurred near Stafford's 
Store, Va. 

Feb. 6. — The Union troops raided Middle- 
burg, Va., capturing several prisoners. — In a 
skirmish near Millwood, Va., the rebels were 
defeated. — A mail coach was captured l)y the 
rebels near Winchester, Va., which was recap- 
tured on the same day. 

Feb. 7.— A detachment of the 5th Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry was sent out from Williamsburg, 
Va., drawn into a rebel ambush and routed 
with a loss of 35 killed, wounded and captured. 
—The rebel guerrilla, Dawson, with several of 
his men, was captured near Dyersburg, Tenn. 
Feb. 8. — The Queen of the West captured 
three rebel steamers on the Red River.— 600 
rebels were captured at Lebanon, Tenn., and a 



band of guerrillas was routed at Independ- 
ence, Mo. 

Fer. 9. — Near Summerville, Va., the rebels 
were routed by Knox' battalion of cavalry. 

Feb. 10.— In a fight at Old River, La., the 
rebels were defeated with a Union loss of eight 
killed and wounded. — A band of loyal Dela- 
ware and Shawnee Indians took possession of 
the rebel agency at Wachita, Texas, killing the 
agent and capturing 100 disloyal Indians, many 
horses and Pike's treaties between the Indians 
and the rebel government. — An unimportant 
action took place at Gloucester Point, Va. — The 
Missouri Home Guards repulsed a rebel attack 
at Bone Yard, Tenn. 

Feb. 12. — At Bolivar, Tenn., 11 rebels were 
killed and wounded in a skirmish. 

Feb. 13. — In a skirmish near Charleston, Va., 
the rebels retreated. — The Indianola pa.ssed the 
batteries at Vicksburg. — At Smithfield, Va., the 
12th Pennsylvania Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
mish. 

Feb. 14. — Union cavalry was surprised at 
Anandale, Va., and 15 were killed and mi.ssing 
and several wounded. — The Queen of the West 
grounded near Gordon's Landing on the Red 
River in Louisiana in range of a rebel battery 
and was abandoned, after havnig her steam 
pipe cut by the enemy's shot. — The 1st Michi- 
gan Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Brents- 
ville, Va. 

Feb. 15. — A Union force defeated the rebels 
at Arkadelphia, Ark., losing two killed and 12 
wounded. — At Gainesville, Tenn., 250 cavalry 
defeated 500 of Morgan's guerrillas, killing, 
wounding and capturing 36, with 50 horses and 
arms. — The rebels attacked the Union train 
near Nolansville, Tenn., and were repulsed with 
loss. 

Feb. 16.— Near Roraney, Va., a detachment 
of soldiers was captured while guarding a 
wagon train. — An attack on Union infantry by 



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Forrest's cavalry near Helena, Ark., was re- 
pulsed. 

Feb. 18. — Union mortar boats opened fire on 
Vicksburg. — Clifton, Tenn., was destroyed by 
the Union forces. — At Frankfort, Ky., a dis- 
loyal convention was dispersed. 

Feb. 19. — Hopefield, Ark., opposite Memphisj 
was burned because it had become a guerrilla 
nest. — Near Cold water, Miss., the 1st Indiana 
Cavalry routed a force of reljels without loss.— 
An action occurred at Spring River, Mo. 

Feb. 20. — The 5th Illinois Cavalry dispersed 
a force of rebels at Yazoo Pass, Miss., and five 
soldiers were wounded. — Rebel guerrillas 
raided Shawneetown, Ky.— In a gunboat recon- 
noissance up the Rappahannock a rebel battery 
was silenced. 

Feb. 21. — A cavalry skirmish occurred at 
Prairie Station, Miss., the 2d Iowa Cavalry 
winning. 

Feb. 22. — Tuscumbia and Florence, Ala., 
were occupied by a cavalry brigade. — The mili- 
tary expedition througli Yazoo Pass reached 
Moon Lake. — A skirmish took place at Gates- 
ville, Va. 

Feb. 23. — At Deer Creek, near Greenville, 
Miss., a sharp action took place. — A skirmish 
took place at Athens, Ky., resulting in the rout 
of the rel)els, the guerrilla Morgan's brother, 
being captured. — 700 rebel cavalry raided Win" 
Chester and other towns in Eastern Kentuckv. 
—Actions took place at Hazel Green, Miss., and 
Straw Hill, Va. 

Feb. 24. — The Indianola was captured near 
Grand Gulf on tlie Mississip]pi liy the rebel 
rams. Queen of the West and William H. Webb 
and two armed steamers. 

Feb. 25.— Averill's cavalry routed the rebels 
near Harlwood Church, Xa.., and they escaped 
across Keiley's Ford. — The rebels weredisperseil 
at Licktown, Ky.— An action took place at 
Tappahanuock and Falmouth, Va. 



Feb.' 26. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
Woodstock, Va., on the Strasburg Road, the 
Union loss being 200 killed, wounded and pris- 
oners. — Near Woodburn, Tenn., rebel guerrillas 
captured and rifled a Government train and 
started the locomotive under full steam, in a 
fruitless attempt to wreck an aj)proaclung pas- 
senger train. 

Feb. 27.— The 2nd New York Cavalry routed 
the rebels near New Berne, N. C, and captured 
48 rebels, losing one soldier. 

Feb. 28. — The rebel steamer Nashville was 
destroyed by the ram Montauk under the guns 
of Fort McAlister. 

March 1. — Near Bradyville, Tenn., the 
guerrillas of Duke were routed by a cavalry 
command, detached fnmi Rosecrans' army 
under General Stanley, the Union loss in killed 
and wounded being 15, and that of the rebels 
47 beside 89 prisoners. — At Bloomlield, Mo., a 
Union raid resulted in the capture of tlie rebel 
Marshall and 20 prisoners. — A cavalry skir- 
mish took place at Aldie, Va., and Mosby's 
guerrillas captured 50 Union prisoners. 

March 2.— On the Salem turnpike, near 
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Morgan's cavalry was 
i defeated by United States Regulars. — Near 
Petersburg, Tenn., the rebels were defeated 
with a loss of 12 killed and 20 wounded. — 30 
of Mosby's guerrillas were captured near Aldie, 
Va. — At Eagleville, Tenn., a skirmish took 
place. 

March 3. — Bombardment of Fort McAlister 
for eight hours without sul)stantial results. — 
The iron-clad, Indianola, captured by the rebels, 
was blown up on the approach of a sham 
Monitor, sent past the \^icksburg batteries by 
the Union forces from above. — An action took 
place at Charlotte, Fla. — At Owne's \'alley, 
Tenn., a cavalry skirmish occurred. 

March 4. — Near Chapel Hill, \a., the rebels 
were routed with a loss of 84 in killed and 



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wounded. — At Skeet, N. C, a detachment of 
the 3rd New York Cavalry defeated the rebels, 
killing 28 and losing IS. 

Mauch 5. — Near Franklin, Tenn., an engage- 
ment which was known as the battle of Thomp- 
sonville or Spring Hill took ]>lace. The force 
of Van Dorn, estnnaled at 20,000, attacked five 
infantry regiments, three cavalry regiments 
and a battery. After a desperate fight, the 
Union force surrendered, losing 100 killed, 300 
wounded and 1,300 jirisoners. The rebel loss 
was over 400. 

March 7.— At Unionville, Tenn., the com- 
mand of Colonel Minty defeated the rebel cav- 
alry, inflicting a loss of 50 killed and 180 
wounded. — A Union expedition from Belle 
Plaine, Va., returned to that place, having cap. 
tured a large quantity of stores and prisoners. 

March 8. — Mosljy's guerrillas dashed into 
Fairliix, Va., and captured General Stoughton 
with 30 officers and privates and their equip- 
ments. — The 42nd Massachusetts caj)tured a 
company of rebel cavalry near New Berne, N. C 

March 9. — In an action below Port Hudson, 
a small rebel force was captured. — Near Bolivar, 
Tenn., 18 guerrillas were taken. — In a. skirmish 
on Comity River, La., the rebels were dispersed. 
— A trifling action occurred at Blackwater 
Bridge, Va.— At Franklin, Tenn., the l-25th 
Ohio engaged in an action. 

March 10.— Grierson, with detachments ot 
the 6th and 7th Illinois Cavalry, routed 400 
guerrillas, killing 25 and taking many prison- 
ers. — Colonel Minty's 4th Michigan Cavalry 
made a capture at Rutherford's Creek, Tenn. — 
A colored regiment under Col. T. W. Higgin- 
son, assisted by another colored regiment, oc- 
cupied Jacksonville, Fla. 

March 11.— At Greenwood, Miss., the Union 
expedition up the Yazoo Pass, including gun- 
boats and a land force, had a skirmish without 
results. — The guard of a forage train repulsed 
a guerrilla attack, 13 miles from Paris, Ky. 



March 12. — An armed reconnoitering expe- 
dition under Gordon Granger returned to their 
point of departure, after driving Van Dorn 
beyond the Duck River; in the skirmishes 
which occurred the Union loss included nine 
soldiers. 

March 13.— The Union fleet bombarded 
Fort Pemberton at Greenwood, Miss., without 
success and withdrew. — At Spanish Wells, S. C, 
the rebels burned a U. S. signal station.— Near 
Berwick City, La., the IGOth New York Infan- 
try dispersed a rebel force. 

March 14. — A rebel bombardment of New 
Berne, N. C, was terminated after four hours 
by the appearance of Union gunboats — Ad- 
miral Farragut with a fleet of eight gunboats 
made a night attack on the batteries at Port 
Hudson without results. The Mississippi ran 
aground, 05 of her crew were lost and she was 
abandoned and burned. — Colonel Minty's com- 
mand made a reconnoissance of 11 days and 
returned to Murfreesboro, Tenn., on this date, 
with 50 prisoners. 

March 15.— U. S. officers took possession of 
the steamer Chapman, as she was about to sail 
as a rebel privateer from San Francisco, Cal. 

March 16. — A land force under Sherman 
and a naval force under Porter started on an 
expedition up Steele's Bayou, Miss., and was 
absent six days. 

March 17. — Near Franklin, Va., a Union 
repulse occurred, with a loss of 17 killed and 
wounded. — At Kelley's Ford, Va., the cavalry 
under Averill defeated a force under Fitz Hugh 
Lee, fighting four hours and capturing bO 
prisoners. 

March 18. — Near Berwick Bay, La., the 
rebels were routed with a loss of 30 killed and 
wounded. — A United Stales gunboat was sunk 
while attempting to pass the Vicksburg bat- 
teries. 

March 19. — Skirmish on the Duck River, 



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Tenn. — The English steamer, Georgiana, laden 
with confederate military stores, was captured 
off Charleston, S. C 

March 20. — At Vaught's Hill, near Milton, 
Tenn., a battle occurred between six regiments 
under Colonel Hall, and a large rebel force 
under Wheeler and Morgan, the latter being 
defeated with a loss of 200, tlie winners losing 
48 soldiers. 

March 21. — Two thousand guerrillas at- 
tacked the Union trooj)s at Cottage Grove, 
Tenn., who were repulsed and pursued several 
miles. — At Seneca, Va., a slight Union defeat 
occurred. — Return of the expedition to the 
Yazoo after movements up tlie baj'ous, in 
which large quantities of cotton, corn and some 
houses were destroyed. — Admiral Farragut's 
flagship, with the Monongahela, passed War- 
renton, Miss , and anchored near Vicksburg. 

March 22. — At Blue Springs, Mo., Quan- 
Irell's guerrillas defeated the Missouri militia. 
— Rebel cavalry cajitured Mount Sterling, Ky., 
with 200 men of the 10th Kentucky Cavalry. 
March 23. — An expedition under Rust re- 
inforced Jacksonville, Fla. 

March 24. — Pontchatoula, La., was occupied 
by six Union regiments, the rebels retiring. — 
A skirmish occurred at Danville, Ky. 

March 25.— At Brentwood, Tenn., 5,000 
rebels under Wheeler, Forrest and Wlieaton, 
attacked a garrison of 300, who were captured 
with all the stores. Gen. Green Clay Smith 
came to the relief of the garrison, pursued tiie 
rebels and recaj)tured all the stores, which lie 
destroyed. — Two Union rams were disabled in 
an attempt to run the batteries at Vicksburg. — 
Dupont's fleet sailed from Hilton Head for 
Charleston, S. C. 

March 26. — An expedition returned to Carth- 
age, Tenn., after capturing prisoners and sup- 
plies at Rome, Ga. — Jacksonville, Fla., was 
evacuated and burned. — Admiral Farragut 
bombarded Warrenton, Miss., without results. 



March 28. — The U. S. gunboat Diana with 
detachments of the 12tb Connecticut and 160th 
New York, was captured by the rebels otf Pat- 
tersonville. La. — On the Amite River, La., two 
Maine regiments engaged in a skirmish. — Cole's 
Island, near Charleston, S. C, was occupied by 
the Union troops. — A foraging expedition re- 
turned to Belle Plain, Va., after accomplishing 
their purpose. — The steamer Sam Gaty was 
stopped at Sibley, Mo., by rebel guerrillas, who 
killed a number of passengers and committed 
wholesale robbery, besides murdering 20 
negroes and destroj'ing government property. 
— A skirmish occurred at Hurricane Bridge, 
W. Va. 

March 29. — A detachment of the 6th Illinois 
Cavalry was attacked by guerrillas near Sura- 
merville, Tenn., who were repulsed after killing 
40 soldiers. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
Williamsburg, ^'a. — An expedition en route to 
Jacksonville, Fla., engaged in a skirmish at 
Baldwin- 

March 30. — A rebel force attacked \^'^ashing- 
ton, N. C, which was garrisoned by Foster and 
were driven ofif by Union gunboats. — Rich- 
mond, La., was captured by the Union troops. 
— At Somerset, Ky., General Gilmore, with 
1,200 men, routed 2,800 rebels under Pograra, 
killing, wounding and capturing 300 with little 
loss. — At Point Pleasant, W. Va., the rebels 
drove out the Union garrison, who recaptured 
the place on the same day. — An Indian fight 
took place at Tahliquab, I. T._The 3rd Wis- 
consin Cavalry engaged in a skirmish on The 
Island, Mo. 

Aritir, 1. — Admiral Farragut, with three 
boats, passed the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf, 
Miss. — At Richmond, Va., a riot occurred, in 
which 3,000 women participated, the mob 
breaking into confederate stores, and seizing pro- 
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II speecli and promised- cessation of grievances. 
— Detachments of tlie 5th Vermont and 5th 
New Yoi'k Cavahy engaged Mosby's guerrillas 
at Broad Run, Va. — A cavalry fight took place 
at Chalk Bluff, Ark. 

April 2. — In an action of two days at Wood- 
l)ury, Tenn., Ohio Cavalry dispersed 1,200 
rebels. — At Snow Hill, Ky., Stanley's troops 
I'outed Morgan's rebel cavalry with small loss, 
tlie rebel losses amounting to 110 with 300 
horses. — A portion of Farragut's fleet ascended 
the Red River, destroying rebel gunboats on the 
way. Rebel attack on the gunboat St. Clair by 
rebels above Fort Donelson. — The Japan left 
Greenock, Scotland, for the coast of France, 
received an armament, hoisted the rebel flag 
and proceeded to sea under the name of the 
Georgia, as a rebel privateer. 

April 3. — A skirmishing party returned to 
Fayetteville, Ark., after four successful skir- 
mishes with the rebels. — At Reading, Penn., 
Knights of the Golden Circle were arrested. 

April 4. — An attempt was made at Wash- 
ington, N. C, to capture the rebel battery at 
Rodman's Point on the Pamlico River. — 
Lieutenant Fitch, commanding the gunboat 
Lexington, burned Palmyra, Tenn., in retalia- 
tion for firing into the St. Clair. — Two cavalry 
encounters occurred at Madison and in Farral 
county, Ark. 

April 5. — An expedition of 8,000 Union 
troops started for New Berne, N. C, to reinforce 
Foster at Washington, N. C. — Steele's expedition 
started for the Black Bayou, Miss. 

April 6. — At Green Hill, Tenn., the Union 
cavalry dispersed a rebel camp, killing five and 
cajituring 15 and the camp equipments and 
returning to Nashville. — Gunboats arrived at 
Pass a rOutre, La. 

April 7. — First attempt to recapture Fort 
Sumter. Nine iron clads and other vessels 
under Dupont opened fire on Fort Sumter. The 



firing from the rebel batteries was terrific and 
incessant for three hours. — A cavalry expedi- 
tion left Murfreesboro, Tenn., destined to move 
through Alabama and Georgia, for destructive 
purposes, but were pursued by Forrest's cavalry 
and, after a severe fight at Cedar Blutt", sur- 
rendered to Forrest. 

April 8. — Near Clarksville, Tenn., the 
steamers Saxonia and Lowell were destroyed 
by a force of 1,200 rebels. — At Broad River, 
S. C, the steamer George Washington was fired 
upon and a shot exploded the magazine, destroy- 
ing the vessel with 29 men. — A cavalry fight 
occurred in St. Francis county, Missouri. 

April 9. — A skirmish took place at Blount's 
Mills, N. C. — EastPascagoula,La., was occupied 
by a colored regiment; a cavalry attack was 
repulsed, the rebels losing 70. — Execution of 
Captain A. G. Webster as a spy at Camp Lee 
near Richmond. 

April 10.— At Franklin, Tenn., 1,500 rebels 
under VanDorn attacked the command of Gor- 
don Granger and were repulsed with a loss of 
300 dead, who were left on the field. — The 
rebels were routed near Germantown, Ky. — 21 
LInion soldiers of the 5th Iowa Cavalry were 
captured near Waverly, Tenn. 

April 11. — A Union cavalry camp was 
routed near Williamsburg, Va. — A raiding 
force under Colonel Streight left Nashville, for 
Georgia. — Unimportant actions at Mount Ver- 
non, Ky., and Blackwater, Va. 

April 12. — Dupont's fleet returned from 
Charleston harbor to Port Royal. — The 5th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry were surjirised at AVhit- 
taker's Mills, Va., but the rebels were driven 
off by the fire from Fort Magruder.— Activities 
at Irish Bend and Bisland, in w'hich three 
divisions of the 19tb Corps were involved. — 
The beginning of the siege of Suffolk, which 
continued to the 4th of May. 

April 13. — A transport ran the batteries be- 



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1863-— APRIL 14 — APRIL 23 — 1863. 



low Washington, N. C, carrying aid to General 
Foster.— The 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry drove 
a large rebel force near Suffolk, Va. — Steele's 
expedition returned to the point of departure, 
after destroying 3,000,000 dollars worth of 
property belonging to the rebel government 
and to citizens in sympathy with the guerrillas. 
— Weitzel's command captured New Iberia, La. 
The Diana, which had been captured, and the 
Hart, an iron clad, were destroyed by the rebels 
when abandoning the place. The Union loss 
was about 300 and that of the rebels much 
larger. This is also known as the battle of 
Bayou Teche. 

April 14.— The Union gunboats, Stepping 
Stone, Mount Washington and Commodore 
Barney, after four hours cannonade, silenced 
a heavy battery on the Nansemond River, Va., 
the Union loss being 23 in killed and wounded. 

April 15.— Franklin, La., was occupied by 
the Union troops. — The siege of Washington, 
N. C, was raised by the rebels after an invest- 
ment of three weeks. — A dash by mounted 
Union infantry was made into Pikeville, Ky., 
and 17 rebel officers and 61 privates captured. 
— 200 Indians were captured at Spanish Fork 
Canon, Utah.— A cavalry skirmish took place 
at Dunbar's Plantation, La. 

April 16. — Admiral Porter, with 11 vessels, 
ran the Vicksburg batteries at night, losing the 
Henry Clay. — Stoneman's expedition left Fal- 
mouth, Va. — An Indian fight occurred on the 
Watonwan River, Minn., in which a detach- 
ment of the 7tli Minnesota was engaged. 

April 17. — At Vermillion Bayou, La., a de- 
tachment of the .19th Corps drove the rebels, 
who burned a bridge. — A skirmish took place 
near Suffolk, Va. — Grierson left La Grange, 
Miss., on a raiding expedition ; the force in- 
cluded 100 cavalry and, after marching 800 
miles, reached Baton Rouge, La., May 1st. — 
Rebel stores were destroyed at Okalona and I 



Newton, a train carrying 3,000 shells to Vicks- 
burg was exploded and the confederate 
ordnance works at Enterprise were destroyed, 
the whole loss being estimated at §6,(i00,000. 

April 18. — A reconnoitering party at Sabine 
Pass, Tex., was captured by ambushed rebels. — 
200 Union troops repulsed 3,000 rebels at Fay- 
etteville. Ark. — A cavalry brigade engaged in a 
fight at Hernando, Miss. — At Hill's Point, Va., 
a skirmish incident to the siege of Suffolk 
took place. — Activities at Cape Romain Inlet, 
S. C. 

April 19. — A Union victory occurred in a 
fight with rebel cavalry near Xoncona, Tenn. — 
A rebel battery at West Branch on the Nanse- 
mond was stormed and captured with five 
cannon and 161 prisoners. — The Union force 
which fought at Hernando, engaged in another 
skirmish at Coldwater, Miss. — At New Albany, 
Miss., the 7th Illinois Cavalry, connected with 
Grierson's command, engaged in a skirmish. 

April 20. — Bute La Rose surrendered to an 
attacking force of Union gunboats. — At Patter- 
son, Mo., 3,000 rebels attacked a Union force 
under Colonel Stuart and were repulsed ; the 
Union loss was 50. — At Opelousas, La., a Union 
force made an unsuccessful attack. —At Helena, 
Ark., a cavalry skirmisli took place. — The 5lh 
Indiana Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at 
Selina, Ky. — Minty's cavalry brigade captured 
McMinnville, Tenn. 

April 21.— At Berryville, Va., several rebels 
were captured. — West Virginia admitted into 
the Union. 

April 22. — Rebel guerrillas entered Tomp- 
kinsville, Ky., killed five Union soldiers and 
burned several buildings. — On the Strasburg 
Road, A'^a., a sm;ill rebel force was defeated. — 
At Palo Alto, Miss., Grierson's raiders engaged 
in a skirmish. 

April 23. — At Tuscumbia, Ala., the Union 
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place. — A gunboat attack took place at Chucka- 
tuck, Va. 

Apkii, 24.— At Webber Falls, Ark., a rebel 
camp was captured. — A skiriuisb took place 
near Suffolk, ^^a.-At Beverly, Va., 1,000 Vir- 
ginia loyalists were defeated by the rebels 
under Imboden and Jackson. — The 1st Wiscon- 
sin Cavalry engaged in an action at White 
Water, Mo. — At Duck River Shoals the Lexing- 
ton and Monarch silenced the rebel batteries. 

April 25. — At Greenland Gap, W. Va., a 
garrison surrendered to 15,000 rebels, their 
building having been tired after they had re- 
pulsed three attacks and killed a number of 
rebels, exceeding the number of the entire 
garrison. 

April 26.— Battle of Cape Girardeau. 8,000 
rebels under Marmaduke and Burbridge at- 
tacked McNeill's command and were repulsed 
with heavy loss. — A LTnion raid was made upon 
Ueer Creek, Miss., resulting in great destruction. 

April 27. — Llooker began his movements on 
Fredericksburg, Va. — 2,000 rebel cavalry occu- 
pied Morgantown, W. Va. — Near Franklin, 
Tenn., a Union cavalry force surprised a Texas 
command, captured more than 100 prisoners 
and destroyed eight wagon loads of arms. 

April 27. — Movements in Streight's raid, 
Ga., and Stoneman's raid, Va. 

April 28. — Three corps of the Army of the 
Potomac crossed the Rappahannock at Kelley's 
Ford and General Meade advanced to Chancel- 
lorsville, Va. — Near .Jackson, Mo., Marmaduke's 
force was overtaken and badly defeated. — An 
unimportant skirmish took place near Mill 
Spring, Ky. — At L^nion Church, Miss., an action 
connected with Grierson's raid took place. — A 
skirmish occurred near Dover, N. C, and at 
Town Creek, Ala. 

April 29. — Fitzhugli's Crossing. The 1st 
corps of Hooker's army skirmished with the 
rebels during this and the day following, while 



effecting a passage over the Rappahannock. 
The remainder of the army, six corps, crossed 
at the various other fords above. — Fairmount, 
W. Va., was attacked and captured by 500 
rebel cavalry, who compelled the surrender of a 
gallant garrison of 300 Union troops. — Porter's 
fleet silenced the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf, 
Miss.— At Bloomfield, Mo., the 1st Wisconsin 
Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. 

April 30.— The 6th New York Cavalry, 
while reconnoitering near Spottsylvania C. H., 
Va., were surrounded by four rebel regiments 
and cut their way out.— Actions took place 
near Snyder's Bluft', Miss., the Union troops 
effecting a landing. — Grant's forces crossed the 
Mississippi River at Bruinsburg, Miss. — Rebel 
Ijatteries were silenced by the Union gunboats 
on the Nansemond River, Va. —On this date 
the movements at Chalk Bluff, Mo., and Day's 
Gap, Ala., commenced. 

May 1 — 4. — Battle of Chancellorsville. On 
the 1st day of May, the Union armj' com- 
menced movements at 11 o'clock in the fore- 
noon, which were designed to precipitate action 
witii Lee's forces, and the two armies encoun- 
tered each other about two and a half miles 
from Chancellorsville, the various movements 
continuing through the day without de- 
cisive results. On the 2nd, Stonewall Jackson 
with 40,000 men attacked the right wing of 
Hooker's army under Howard, which point he 
gained by a flank movement. That part of the 
command broke and a panic ensued. A dis- 
astrous defeat was prevented by the resolute 
bravery of Bushbeck's and McLean's brigades, 
which obstinately defended their positions. 
May 3rd, the engagement was resumed and, 
after a bloody battle, the Union troops forced 
back and drove the rebels, occupying the in- 
trenchments from which they had been driven 
the previous day. On the following day the 
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hard]}' pressed. During tlie night a consulta- 
tion was held between Hooker and his corps 
commanders and a retreat was ordered. It 
was begun and successfully consummated after 
one o'clock a. m., May .5tli. The Rappahannock 
was crossed without the knowledge of the con- 
federates. All the Union dead and many 
wounded were left on the field. The estimated 
Union loss was 15,000 and that of the rebels 
not far from the same figures. No historian 
should pass even the most incomplete account 
of the battle of Chancellorsville, without pausing 
to pay tribute to the memory of Major Peter 
Keenan, commanding 400 men of the 8th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, who charged 10,000 
rebels at the sacrifice of his life and those of 
nearly the whole of his command, thereby 
preserving the army from utter ruin and his 
country from an ineffacable disgrace. By this 
plan of General Pleasanton, the advance of 
Stonewall Jackson after the rout of the 11th 
Corps was checked. — Battle of Port Gib.^on, 
Miss. General Grant defeated 12,000 rebels 
under General Bowen and the latter left 1,550 
killed and wounded on the field ; 500 rebels 
were captured and the reported Union loss was 
about 850. The rebels fled across Bayou 
Pierre, destroying the bridges behind them, 
which were rebuilt by Grant, whose forces con- 
tinued the pursuit. — At Monticello, Ky., Carter's 
brigade drove out the rebels and occupied the 
place. — A Union defeat occurred near La 
Grange, Ark.— At South Quay Bridge on the 
Nansemond Kiver, Va., the U9th New York 
defeated a strong rebel force and lost 41 men. 
May 1. — A cavalry skirmish in the course of 
Grierson's raid occurred on the Tickfiiw River, 
Miss., in which the 7th Illinois Cavalry was 
engaged. — At Rapidan Station, Va., Averill's 
cavalry division connected with Stoneman's 
command engaged in a skirmish, and the 1st 
Maine Cavalry, belonging to the raiding expe- 



dition of Stoneman, engaged in a skirmish at 
Louisa C. H., Va. 

May 2. — Fredericksburg, Va., was occupied 
by Union troops. — .\n armed reconnoissance 
up the Nansemond River was made by a strong 
force under Getty, supported by a battery. — 
Marmaduke's command was driven into Ar- 
kansas. — Grierson's expedition reached Baton 
Rouge, La., after a successful march. — Heavy 
skirmish at Blount's Farm, La., during 
Streight's raid. 

May 3.— Charge at Marye's Heights. A suc- 
cessful assault was made on tlie rebel intrench- 
ments in the rear of Fredericksburg by a part 
of General Sedgwick's command. In spite of 
the terrific fire of the rebel batteries, the Union 
troops, with dauntless courage, crossed the 
works, capturing eight guns and 800 prisoners. 
— Mosby's guerrillas were routed near Warren- 
ton Junction, Ya. — A troop of colored raiders 
returned to Beaufort, S. C, having captured 
and liberated 800 slaves and destroyed 
§2,000,000 worth of rebel property.— Near 
Gadston, Ala., 1,500 soldiers belonging to 
Streight's raiding force were captured. This 
was the termination of the movement. — .\t 
Hankenson's Ferry, Miss., a division belonging 
to the command of Grant, engaged in a skir- 
mish. 

May 4.— The fleet of Admiral Porter took 
po.ssession of Fort de Russy, La., at the mouth 
of the Red River, which had been evacuated 
by the rebels. — During Stoneman's raid, the 
5th New York Cavalry engaged in a skirmisli 
at Shannon Hill, Va., and the 12tli Illinois 
Cavalry at Tunstall Station, \'a. 

May 5. — An advance on the rebel works on 
the Nansemond River was made by three 
columns of Union troops, and it was found 
that they had been abandoned during tlie pre- 
vious night. — Arrest of C. L. Vallandigham at 
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May 6. — Admiral Porter occupied Alexan- 
dria, Miss., witliout resistance. — At Tupelo, 
Miss., a reljel attaclc was made on a Missouri 
and Kansas Cavalry regiment, wliicli was de- 
feated with a loss of 90 prisoners and a large 
quantity of arras. — The U. S. gunboat, Cuyler, 
captured the Eugenia off Mobile, Ala. 

May 7. — A reconnoissance toward White 
House, Va., resulted in the recapture of several 
prisoners taken by the rebels at Fredericks- 
Ijurg. — A force belonging to Stoneman's expe- 
dition arrived at Gloucester Point, Va., having 
marched ai'ound Lee's army. — Farragut's gun- 
boats bombarded and dismantled the rebel 
batteries at Washington, Miss. 

May 8. — Bombardment of Port Hudson, 
La. — A raiding expedition left Helena, Miss., 
and returned after 10 days, reporting the de- 
struction of a large amount of rebel stores and 
other property. — Stoneman rejoined Hooker on 
the Rappahannock, after one of the m»st 
brilliant, daring and efficient cavalry raids of 
the war. 

May 9. — Resumption of the bombardment 
of Port Hudson without result. — Tlie vicinity 
of Stone River, Tenn., was scouted by the 2nd 
Lidiana Cavalry under Colonel E. M. McCook, 
guerrillas were dispersed and a large number 
of prisoners were captured. 

May 10. — At Civiques' Ferry, La., a skirmish 
took place, in which three infantry regiments 
were supported by a battery. — The assault on 
Port Hudson was renewed and the batteries 
silenced. — Death of Stonewall Jackson. 

May 11. — At Horseshoe Bend and Bottom 
Narrows, Ky., a seven hours' engagement took 
place and 4,000 rebel guerrillas under Morgan 
were defeated with a loss of more than 100, 
the Union loss being 25. — Crystal Springs, Miss., 
was captured and burned by Union cavalr}'. — 
At Mount Vernon, Ark., a cavalry skirmish 
took place under Colonel Clayton. 



May 12. — At Raymond, Miss., the rebels 
were defeated by McPherson, the rebel loss 
being 900, and the Union loss about half that 
number. — An expedition left Amite River, La., 
on an expedition into Mississippi. They routed 
the rebels at Tickfaw, pursued them to Camp 
Moore and destroyed a bridge over the Tangi- 
palio River. — Military operations at Hammond 
Station, La. — Colonel Breckenridge made a 
brilliant dash into Linden, Tenn. — Between 
Franklin and Woodbury, Ky., a body of 
Union troops routed a squad of mounted rebels. 
— At Fourteen Mile Creek, Miss., an infantry 
skirmish connected with the Vicksburg cam- 
paign took place. 

May Id. — At Pontchatoula, La., the command 
of Colonel Davis dispersed a body of guerrillas 
and Choctaw Indians, capturing 17 of the 
latter and destroying the camp. — Evacuation 
of Yazoo City, Miss., by the rebels. — At South 
Union, Ky., the rebels were defeated. — The 2nd 
Illinois Cavalry engaged in a skirmish at Hall's 
Ferry, Miss. 

May 14. — Jackson, Miss., was captured by 
Grant's command after three hours' obstinate 
fighting. — Joe Johnston retreated northward, 
leaving 450 killed and wounded ; the Union 
loss was 286. After three days Grant aban- 
doned the city, after destroynig such buildings 
as could be of use to the rebels. — Near War- 
renton Junction, Va., a Union scoutiug force 
engaged in a skirmish with the Black Horse 
Cavalry. — Destruction of Hammond Station, La. 

May 15. — Infantry skirmishing near Cars- 
ville and Suffolk, Va., without results and ex- 
tending through two days. — At Edward's Sta- 
tion, Miss., Grant's troops defeated the rebels 
under Pemberton. — Destruction of Camp Moore, 
La. — At Jolinson's Island near Sandusky, Ohio, 
two men were executed for enlisting rebels 
within the Union lines. 

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desperate figliting Grant defeated remberton ; 
more than 5,000 rebels were killed, wounded 
and captured, and the Union loss was 426 
killed, 1,842 wounded and 280 missing.— A re- 
caj)ture of a company of United States cavalry 
took place at Piedmont Station, Va. — At Berry's 
Ferry, \^i., a skirmisli took place, in which 
Union prisoners captured by Mosby were re- 
taken. — At Cripple Creek, Tenn., a brilliant 
cavalry dash was made by General Palmer. — 
The privateer Cuba was destroyed by the gun- 
boat DeSoto off the harbor of Mobile. — Vallan- 
digliam was sentenced to Fort Warren, Boston. 
M.\Y 17.— At the Big Black River Bridge, 
General Pemberton was again defeated with 
great slaughter by General Grant; the latter 
captured 3,000 prisoners and lost 273. — Pem- 
Ijerton retreated to Mcksburg. — Commencement 
of cavalry skirmishing near Fayetteville, Va., 
which continued four days. 

May 18. — Grant's army crossed the Big 
Black River on pontoon bridges and invested 
Vicksburg; Haines' Blufi' was abandoned by 
the rebels and occupied by Porter. — Near Sher- 
wood, Mo., 45 Union soldiers were attacked by 
200 guerrillas, and 32 of the Union force were 
killed, wounded or captured. — The Crescent 
City with the 3rd Iowa Infantry on board was 
attacked by guerrillas. — The 170th New York 
Infanlry engaged in a skirmish at C'arsville, 
\'^a.— Investment of Vicksburg by the land 
forces under Grant and the fleet of Porter. 

May 19. — Near Winchester, Va., the rebels 
were defeated in a skirmish. — At Richmond, 
Ray Co., Mo., a body of guerrillas defeated the 
home troops and drove them out. — Unsucces.s- 
ful assault on Vicksburg. 

May 20. — The rebels were defeated in a skir- 
misli at Fayetteville, \'a. — Near Fort Gibson, 
Ark., and Fort Blunt, I. T., an Indian brigade 
with the assistance of the Glh Kansas and 3rd 
Wisconsin Cavalry defeated the rebels, killing j 



100 and losing 4G. — Unsuccessful assault on 
Vicksburg. — Union cavalry raid on the Rappa- 
hannock below Fredericksburg, Va. 

May 21. — A general assault on the works at 
Vicksburg was repulsed after nine hours' severe 
fighting, and a Union loss of about 2,000 killed 
and wounded. — A skirmish between guerrillas 
and Missouri troops occurred at Plattsville, Mo. 
— At Middleton, Tenn., a considerable action 
occurred in which both infantry and cavalry 
were engaged. — At Snyder's Bluff and Walnut 
Hills the rebel batteries were captured by 
General Steele. 

May 22. — Another assault on Vicksburg was 
repulsed with terrible slaughter among the 
Union troops. — A rebel camp at Gum Swamp, 
N. C, was captured and desti-oyed. As the 
Union force was retiring, the rebels were rein- 
forced and a severe fight followed, resulting in 
the repulse of the rebels with a loss of 200, the 
Union loss being 67. — Kilpatrick's cavalry re- 
turned to Gloucester Point, after a successful 
raid in two counties in A'irginia, a Union gun- 
boat having operated in conjunction with the 
land forces. — Actions occurred at Bachelor's 
Creek, N. C, and near Austin, Miss. — The Pres- 
ident changed Vallandigham's sentence to ban- 
ishiuent within rebel lines. 

May 24. — Austin, Miss., was destroyed in re- 
taliation for an attack on a vessel belonging to 
Ellett's command. — Lieutenant Walker started 
up the Yazoo River on a sccoikI exjiedition. — 
At Shawnee Creek, Kan., a wagon train was 
captured by guerrillas. 

May 25. — A force of rebels crossed the Cum. 
berland River at Fishing Creek, Ky., and met 
with a repulse. — At Senatobia, Miss., the rebels 
were routed and driven south of the Talle- 
hatchie. — General Corcoran cut the Norfolk and 
Petersburg Railroad. — A skirmish occurred at 
Helena, Ark., in which the 3rd Iowa and 5th 
Kansas Cavalry engaged. — An action took place 
at Franklin, La. 



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May 26.— The 17th Indiana Cavahy under 
Wilder returned to Murfreesboro, after an ex- 
tended scout to Mc'Minnville, Tenn., having 
routed the rebel cavalry, captured many jaris- 
oners and destroyed property. — Colonel Corwin 
left Coiinth on an expedition into Alabama. — 
The U. S. gunboat Cincinnati was sunk while 
attempting to pass the Vicksburg batteries, 40 of 
her crew being lost. — A cavalry action took 
]ilace at AVoodbury, Tenn. 

May 27. — Siege of Port Hudson, La. Gen- 
eral Banks assaulted Port Hudson along the 
whole line, the columns being commanded by 
Sherman, A\'eitzel, Grover, Paine and Auger ; 
Arnold commanded the artillery and Farragut 
the gun and mortar boats. The action of this 
day was unsuccessful, the Union loss in killed 
and wounded being 800. The 1st Louisiana 
negro regiment acquitted themselves with great 
bravery. — At Lake Providence, La., a colored 
regiment engaged in a skirmish. — At Big Elk 
River Bridge, Miss., a skirmish occurred. 

May 28. — Return of Clendennin's scouting 
party on the Rappahannock and the Potomac 
to Hooker's headquarters after 11 days, in 
which a great amount of mischief to the rebels 
was wrought. — The 54th Massachusetts Regi- 
ment of colored troops, the first sent from the 
North, left Boston for Hilton Head, S. C— In a 
skirmish near Doniphan, Mo., a slight Union 
defeat took place, the Union loss being 80. — 
Bluffton,S. C, was destroyed. — A rebel victory 
occurred near Somerset, Ky. 

May 29. — Stuart's cavalry was routed near 
Thoroughfare Gap, Va. — A successful raiding 
party returned to Lake Providence, La. 

May 30. — A cavalry engagement took place 
at Greenwich, Va., the U^nion force i)ursuing 
and defeated a body of rebels. — Near Kettle 
Run, Va., a forage train of 14 cars was de- 
stroyed. — A rebel camp near Carthage, Tenn., 
was captured. — Four U. S. gunboats took pos- 



session of Tappahannock, Va. — Return of a 
successful expedition from the Teche country 
to New Orleans, which brought in G25 wagons, 
1,500 cattle, 3,120 mules and 5,975 negroes. 

May 31. — Colonel Corwin returned to Cor- 
inth, having defeated Roddy's guerrillas on the 
27th, at Florence, Ala., and destroyed factories, 
mills, foundries and a large amount of ammu- 
nition and arms. — The rebels defeated the 
Union militia in Lincoln county, Mo. — 16 
rebels were captured near Monticello, Ky. — 
The gunboat, Alert, burned accidentally at the 
Norfolk navy yard. 

June 1. — A reconnoissance in search of Joe 
Johnston under E. P. Blair, which started May 
29th, returned without success. — Skirmishing 
occurred in Howard county. Mo. — James' Island 
was evacuated by the rebels. 

June 2. — West Point, Va., evacuated by the 
Union troops. 

June 3. — Admiral Foote relieved Admiral 
Dupont from the command of the South At- 
lantic squadron. — A regiment of colored troops 
left Beaufort and went up the Coosaw' River, 
destroying a million dollars worth of property 
and returning with a thousand negroes for the 
Union service. — The rebel privateer, Florida, 
captured the ship, Tacony, of Philadelphia, 
and the rebel command was transferred to the 
captured vessel ; the Florida was burned. — 
Continuation of the bombardment of Port 
Hudson. — Skirmish near Winchester, Teim. 

June 4 — Near Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wheeler 
was repulsed by two Indiana regiments. — Sim- 
ultaneous rebel charges were made at Franklin 
and Triune, Tenn., and both commands were 
defeated. — A rebel force was defeated at Sarto- 
ria, Miss. — An expedition from Yorktown, Va., 
proceeded to Walkertown and thence to Ay left's 
Inlet, where they destroyed a foundry, mills and 
stores. — Rebel guerrillas were defeated near 
Fairfax, Va. — Lynnsport, La., was destroyed 



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by Union gunboats. — At Bluffton, S. C, the 
48tb New York engaged in a skirmish. — A 
cavah-y engagement took place at Frying Pan, 
^'a. — At Clinton, La., Grierson's cavalry en- 
gaged in a skirmish. 

.Junk 5. — A fight took place at Deep Run^ 
Va., which was a Union success, 150 rebel 
sharpshooters being captured. — Another por- 
tion of the same command made a successful 
reconnoisfance of the rebel position at Frank- 
lin's Crossing on the Rappahannock. In the 
skirmishing, 75 Union soldiers were killed and 
wounded and 96 rebel prisoners captured. — 
On the Warwick River,. Va., a detachment of 
the 6th New York Cavalry destroyed 23 boats 
and a schooner. — A rebel guerrilla force was 
routed at Lil)erty, Tenn. 

June 6.— In a railroad accident near Nicho- 
lasville, Ky., 18 Union soldiers were injured. — 
The rebel General McCulloch, with 2,500 troops 
attacked the 2.3r(l Iowa and 575 colored soldiers 
at Milliken's Bend; 100 negroes were killed 
in cold blood, the rebels refusing to take them 
j)risoners. Tiie entire Union loss was 500 and 
that of the rebels 725, who were repulsed, leav- 
ing 125 dead on the field.— An action took 
place at Shawneetown, Kan. — The 67th Penn- 
sylvania Infantry engaged in an action at 
Berryville, \'a. 

June 8. — .Skirmishes occurred at Culpeper, 
Va., and Brunswick, Mo. 

June \). — At Monticello and Rocky Gap, Ky., 
a cavalry action took place in which the Union 
loss was 4 killed and 26 wounded, the rebels 
losing 20 killed and SO wounded. — An engage- 
ment between the troops of Pleasanton and Lee 
occurred at Brandy Station and Beverly Ford 
resulting in the killing and wounding of 500 
Union soldiers and a rebel loss of 700. 

June 11. — A cavalry skirniisji, supported bv 
a U. S. battery of artillery occurred at Middle- 
ton, V'a., the rebels suffering a loss of eight killed 



and 42 wounded. — Skirmishes and other mili- 
tary movements occurred at Orleans, Md., 
Poolesville, S. C, Slate Creek, Va., Seneca, S. C. 
and Darien, Ga. 

June 13. — Battle of Winchester, Va. Ewell, 
with a large force advanced upon Milroy, who 
had been lying some time at "Winchester with 
7,000 troops. After a heavy hght, Milroy 
retreated to Chanibersburg, Pa., having lost 
2,300 men captured, a considerable number in 
killed and wounded and with his command 
utterly broken and routed. — Skirmishes took 
place at Wil.sons' Creek, Mo., Eunice, Ark., 
and Alligator Harbor, Fla. 

June 14. — Military movements took place at 
Hagerslown, Md., Fairfa.x, and Martinsburg, 
Va. 

June 15. — Activities occurred at Greencastle, 
Ky., Chanibersburg, Pa., New Kent, Va., and 
at Richmond, La. 

June 16. — A severe skirmish occurred at 
Triplett's Bridge, Ky., with a Union loss of 15 
killed and 30 wounded. — Activities took place 
at Fleming's, Teiui., Harper's Ferry, Md., 
Littles Town, Penn., and at Riclimond, Miss. 

June 17. — Kiipatrick's cavalry raided Aldie, 
Va., suffering a loss of 24 killed, 41 wounded 
and 89 missing ; the rebel loss was 100 wounded. 
Movements at Chattahoochie, Ga., Paoli, Kas., 
Point of Rocks, Md., Warsaw Sound, Ga., Cory- 
don, Ky., Orleans, Md. — In a skirmish at West- 
port, Mo., 14 were killed and si.x wounded. — 
The rebel gunboat Atlanta was captured by the 
U. S. iron clad, Wcehawken, the rebels losing 
one killed, 17 wounded and 145 prisoners. 

.Iune 18. — SkirniislR'S took place at Middie- 
burg, Va., Ripley, Tenn., Pocahontas, Miss., 
Fernando, Miss,, and at Philoniont, Va. 

.Junk 20. — Activities occurred at Frederick, 
Md., and South Quay, Va.— In a skirmish at 
Rocky Crossing, Miss., the Union loss was seven 
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occurred at La Fourche Crossing, La., in which 
the Federal loss was eight killed and 40 
wounded ; the rebels lost 35 killed and 150 
wounded. 

June 21. — Pleasanton's cavalry met the 
rebels at Upperville, Va., and won the day 
with a loss of 94 wounded ; the rebel loss was 
20 killed, 100 wounded and CO missing. — 
Skirmishing took place at South Mountain, 
Va., Cypress Bend, Miss., and Middleburg, Va. 

June 22. — In a skirmish at Hill's Planta- 
tion, Miss., the Union loss was four killed and 
10 wounded. 

June 23. — A skirmish took place at Brashear 
City, La., resulting in a Union loss of 46 killed, 
40 wounded and 300 missing; the rebel loss 
was three killed and 18 wounded. At Boston 
Mountain, Ky., and at Thibodeaux, La., skir- 
mishes occurred. 

June 23 to 30. — In the course of Rosecrans' 
campaign from Murfreesboro to Tullahoma, 
fights occurred at Shelbyville, Middleton, 
Hoover's Gap, Beech Grove, Liberty Gap, Elk 
River, Tenn., and Winchester and Tullahoma 
were occupied. 

June 24. — Skirmishes took place at Hanover 
C. H., Va., West Point, Va., Shippensburg, Pa., 
Panola, Miss., Thibodeaux, La., Cold water 
River, Miss. 

June 25. — Skirmishes occurred at Wartrace, 
and Duck River, Tenn., Carlisle, Pa., and Fair- 
fax, Va. 

June 20. — The Union forces, commanded by 
Colonel Spear, captured the command of Gen. 
W. F. Lee at South Anna, Va., with 300 horses 
and 35 wagons, loaded with supplies and 
munitions of war. 

June 27. — Activities took place at Fairfax 
and Anandale, Va., Portland, Md., Wrights- 
ville, Tenn., and at York, Pa.; the rebels de- 
manded $100,000 of the citizens at the latter 
place. 



June 28. — At the points named under this 
date various movements occurred ; South Anna 
and Rockville, Va.; Hillsboro and Hillsboro 
River, Ark., Columbia, Pa., Sporting Hill, Pa., 
Rover, Tenn., Oyster Point and Pinola. 

June 29. — Skirmishes took place at Wrights- 
ville, Tenn., Hagerstown, New Windsor, Sykes- 
ville, Reistertown, Md., Mariottsville, Ga., 
Dechard, Tenn., and Goodrich's Landing. 

June 30. — Skirmishes occurred at Sporting 
Hill and York, Pa., at Cashtown, Pa., Columbia, 
Tenn., Maryland Heights, Md., and Cabin 
Creek, Kas. 

July 1. — Battle of Gettysburg. After the 
fight at Chancellorsville, the two armies re- 
mained for some time inactive. Rumors of 
preparation in the rebel army for an invasion 
of Maryland or Pennsylvania prevailed during 
the latter days of May, and in June reconnois- 
sances by details from the Federal army began. 
Engagements took place at Beverly Ford and 
Brandy Station and, at the latter place, letters 
were captured which indicated that Longstreet 
was already advancing Northward. It was dis- 
covered that cavalry were massing on the upper 
Rappahannock and, before Hooker was aware, 
the rebel movement was far advanced. There 
were also indications that Washington might 
be the objective point of the rebels, and Hooker 
disposed his command for the protection of the 
Federal capital. The main army of Lee ad- 
vanced into Pennsylvania in two divisions, and, 
on the 27th of June, one column was 13 miles 
from Harrisburg. The other passed Gettysburg 
on the 28th and advanced to a point 30 miles 
south of Harrisburg. On the 2Sth, York was 
placed under a levy of $100,000 in Treasury 
Notes and a large amount of supplies. On the 
same date, Lee ordered a concentration of his 
forces on Gettysburg. Hooker's command had 
advanced to Fredei'ick, Md., and, on this date 
he asked to be relieved, when General Meade 



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was appointed to tlie command of the Army of 
the Potomac. The army was put in motion 
the next day and Reynolds was ordered to move 
forward to Gettysburg. .July 1st he sent Gen- 
eral Buford with a cavalry force of 6,000 on a 
reconnoissnnce. He followed closely to find 
that Buford was liotly engaged with the i-ebels 
and JKudly pressed. With the 1st Corps, com- 
prising 8,000 men, he dashed into the town and 
formed his lines under cover of Seminary Hill, 
opposing his weary soldiers against 20,000 
rebels fresh from rest and inaction. He sent an 
urgent message to General Howard, in command 
of the 11th Corps comprising 15,000 men, and 
continued the struggle against the fearful odds. 
He fell early in the fight and General Double- 
day, assuming the command, held the Spartan 
troops until one o'clock, when two divisions of 
Howard's command arrived on the field. That 
general ordered his remaining forces to occupy 
Cemetery Hill, foreseeing that a retreat was 
inevitable. The rebels charged the Union 
troops through the streets of Gettysburg and 
considerfble confusion ensued when, suddenly, 
an artillery fire opened from Cemetery Hill and 
the rebel advance was checked. At one o'clock 
in the morning General Meade arrived on 
Cemetery Ridge witli the main part of the Army 
of the Potomac. On the morning of the 2nd 
of July General Lee found himself confronted 
by the bulk of the Army of the Potomac. Ac- 
tivities wore delayed until about four in the 
afternoon, wIkt Longstreet hurled his force 
against the LTnion "left" with the purpose of 
occupying Round Toj) Hill. The fighting was 
terrific ; for a time it seemed as though the 
Union lines must yield but, reinforcements ar- 
riving, the Federal troops dashed down upon 
the rebels, and with fierce cries, drove them in 
utter rout over the sharp and rolling stones. 
Meanwhile, General Ewell had been massing 
his troops to take the Baltimore road. About 



sundown he attacked the 11th Corps, which 
was posted just northeast of Cemetery Hill, 
and he gained a fooihold there which might 
give him control of the desired position in 
the morning. Such w;is the situation when 
night fell. Early on the morning of the 3rd, 
General Slocum made a vigorous attack on 
Ewell, with a determination to regain the po- 
sition lost the day before. The engagement 
soon became general ; rebel sharp-shooters were 
posted in the houses of Gettysburg, and per- 
formed eftlsctive service in picking off Union 
officers. This necessitated the shelling of the 
houses, but, fortunately, only a few were de" 
stroyed. Ewell's resistance was stubborn, but 
before noon he was driven back with fearful 
loss, and the Union lines were re-established. 
For two hours hardly a gun was fired. Lee, 
becoming convinced of tlie uselessness of 
further attempts on the Ihiion right, deter- 
mined on a desperate onslaught on the Union 
left center, held by Hancock and in line of 
Meade's heailquarters. About two o'clock the 
silence was broken by the thunder of 200 rebel 
guns. The scheme was understood by the 
Union commanders, and every Union gun on 
Cemetery Ridge and to the right and left, was 
placed in position to act at the moment of a 
crisis. The rebels followed their artillery on- 
set with an infantry charge, and a line four 
miles in length rolled forward in a billow of 
battle, until it was near enough for a deadly 
and effective fire from the Union guns, and 
Meade hurled against it his lines of infantry 
in unison with the cannonade with such terrific 
force, that at four o'clock in the afternoon of 
July 3rd, the day was won at Gettysburg. On 
the 4th, the dead were buried, the wounded 
were cared for, and in the afternoon, the rebel 
trains began to move vSuutliwanl, and at dark 
the remainder of the rebel army was in motion. 
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tired as Meade advanced, and continued liis 
retrograde until he reached theRappaliannock. 
The Union losses at Gettysburg included 2,834 
killed, 13,709 wounded and 6,643 missing. 
The aggregate rebel loss was 31,621. 

July 1 — Skirmishes and other affairs inci- 
dent to war occurred at Dechard, Tenn., Cabin 
Creek, Kas., Baltimore and Baltimore Cross 
Roads, Ky. ; and at 

July 2. — Beverly, Bottom's Bridge, Hunters- 
town, Rock Creek and Spriffgs, Va. 

July 3. — Skirmishes occurred at Cashtown 
and Manchester, Pa., Cowan, Tenn., Morris 
Ferry and Farm, Suffolk, Va., and at Harper's 
Ferry, Md. 

July 4. — Surrender of Vicksburg, Miss., by 
General Pemberton to General Grant. The 
casualties of the siege (lasting SO days) in- 
cluded 8,575 killed and wounded on the Union 
side and 10,000 confederates killed and 
wounded ; 27,000 prisoners surrendered who 
were paroled on the spot. — At Helena, Ark., an 
engagement between General Prentiss' division 
of the 16th Corps and the U. S. gunboat Tyler, 
and the confederates under Generals Price, 
Holmes and Marmaduke, took place, in which 
the latter were defeated with a loss of 173 
killed and 687 wounded, 1,000 prisoners being 
taken; Union loss: killed 57, wounded 117 
and missing 32. — Skirniishes at Tebb's Bend, 
Ky., Middletown, Md., and Rockey Hill, Va. 

July 4 and 5.— At Bolton and Birdsong 
Ferry, Miss., General Sherman's forces captured 
2,000 confederates, forming the rear of Johns- 
ton's army. — In a cavalry skirmish at Monterey 
Gap and Smithsburg, Md., and Fairfield, Pa., 
Kilpatrick's cavalry lost 30 in killed and 
wounded ; confederate loss was 30 killed and 
800 wounded. 

July 5.— Skirmish at Lebanon, Ky., with a 
loss to the Union force of eight killed and 15 
wounded ; confederate loss, three killed and six 
wounded. 



July 5.— Skirmish at AVade's Point, Va., and 
at Chambersburg, Mo. 

July 6.— At Quaker's Bridge, N. C, a fight 
occurred, in which six regiments and two bat- 
teries (Union) were involved. — At Hagerstown 
and Williamsjjort, Md., Kilpatrick's cavalry 
had a skirmish with the rebels. 

July 7. — In a cavalry encounter at luka, 
Miss., the Union force lost five killed and three 
wounded. — Skirmishes took place at Corinth 
and Natchez, Miss., Cumberland, Ky., and 
Lookout Mountain and Valley, Tenn. — At 
Boonesboro, Mo., a skirmish took place be- 
tween the cavalry of Buford and Kilpatrick, 
resulting in a loss to the latter of nine killed 
and 45 wounded and covering two days. 

July 8. — Affair at Antietam, Md. 

July 9.— Surrender of Port Hudson by Gen- 
eral Gardner to General Banks after an invest- 
ment of 45 days. During the campaign and 
siege 5,000 prisoners had been taken, and, on 
the date mentioned, 6,400 prisoners of war 
marched out of the city. This removed the 
last barrier to the free navigation of the Missis- 
sippi River by the U. S. Government. — An en- 
gagement at Jackson, Miss., was followed by 
others at Bolton Depot, Canton and Clinton, 
Miss., within a week, and including a loss of 
100 killed, 800 wounded and 100 missing to 
the Union forces engaged, and to the confeder- 
ates, 71 killed, 504 wounded and 764 missing. 

July 10. — Admiral Dahlgren commenced 
the attacks on the forts in Charleston harbor, 
supported by a land force under General Gil- 
more. Fort Wagner was attacked and surren- 
dered September 6th. Between the two dates, 
the Union loss was 1,757 killed, wounded and 
missing; confederate loss, 561. Skirmishes, 
etc., at Boonesboro, Sharpsburg, Md., Salem, 
Ind., Morris Island, S. C, also at 

July 11. — Antietam, Funktown, Md., and 
Vienna, Mo. 



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July 12. — Skirmishes and other activities 
occurred at Funktown and Hagerstown, Md., 
and at Natchez, Miss. — An encounter between 
the Union soldiers and confederates at Jackson, 
Miss., involved a loss to the former of 300 
killed and wounded. On the same day, an en- 
gagement took place in the vicinity, with a 
Union loss of 13 killed and wounded, while 
that of the confederates included 175 killed 
and wounded and the release of 400 conscripts. 
— A skirmish at Ashby's (mp involved a Union 
loss of two killed and eight wounded. 

July 13. — At Yazoo City, Miss., the division 
of General Herron with three gunboats, made 
an attack and captured 250 prisoners. — In an 
engagement at Jackson, Tenn., between four 
regiments of Union cavalry and several regi- 
ments of confederate troops, the casualties to 
the former were two killed and 20 wounded, 
and that of the latter included 38 killed and 
150 wounded.— At Donaldson ville, La., an at- 
tack on the rebels was made by portions of 
Weitzel's and Grover's divisions of the l!>th 
Army Corp.s, in wliieli the attacking force met 
with a loss of 450 killed, wounded and miss- 
ing.— The draft in New York commenced on 
the 11th and on Monday the 13th, the riot 
began with the destruction of the building in 
which it was prosecuted and, simultaneously, 
robbery, malicious acts towards citizens and 
general defiance to law and order supervened. 
The scenes of confusion continued four days 
and the disturbance was finally quelled by 
troops ordered from the army in Virginia to 
New York; 1,000 persons had been killed 
among the rioters. and about 50 of the opposers 
of the riot. $2,000,000 worth of property was 
destroyed. — Skirmishes, etc., took place at Bin- 
Miami, Harrison and HarrisDu's Island, Ohio, 
at Venice and Williamstown, \'a., and at 
Williamsport, Md. 

July 14.— The 3d Cavalry Division of the ' 



Army of the Potomac attacked the rebels under 
General Pettigrew at Falling Waters, Md.; the 
rebel commander was killed together with 125 
soldiers and 1,500 prisoners were captured. The 
Union loss was 29 killed and 36 wounded. — 
An engagement occurred at Elk River, Tenn., 
with a Union loss of 10 killed and 30 wounded; 
confederate loss, 60 killed, 24 wounded and 100 
missing. — Skirmishing, etc.: Williamsport, Md.; 
Williamsburg, Va.; La Fourche, Ark.; Fort 
Powluittan, Va.; Cbillicothe, Mo.; Chattanooga, 
Tenn.; Red River, La. 

July 15. — President Lincoln issued a procla- 
mation, ajipointing Aug. 6th a day of National 
Tlianksgiviiig for the LTnion victories of Gettys- 
burg and Vicksburg. — In a skirmish at Pulaski, 
Ala., the confederate loss was three killed and 
50 missing. — An encounter with the rebels at 
Ilaltown, Va., resulted in a loss of 25 L^nion 
soldiers and 20 confederates. — Skirmishes at 
Charleston, Va., and Hickman, Ky. 

July 16. — Tlie steamer Imperial arrived at 
New Orleans from St. Louis ; .this was the fir.st 
trip made on the Mississippi River in two years. 
— A skirmish occurred at Shepherdstown, Va., 
in which the rebels lost 25 killed and 75 
wounded. — Skirmishes occurred at Elk Creek, 
Ark., Piketon, Mo., and James Island, Va. 

July 17. — At Honey Springs on Elk River, 
Ark., a hot engagement took place between 
General Blunt with 3,000 infantry, 250 cavalry 
and four pieces of artillery and General Cooper 
with 6,000 rebels; after several hours' heavy 
fighting the rebels were defeated, leaving the 
Federals in possession of the field and 150 of 
their dead, 77 prisoners and 400 wounded, 
whom they afterwards removed. Cabell arrived 
too late for tlie fight with 3,000 Texans and 
rctirrd during the night. The Union loss was 
17 killed and GO wounded. The rebel supplies 
and munitions of war were also captured. — A 
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loss of 17 killed and 61 wounded among the 
Union soldiers and a confederate loss of 75 
killed and 125 missing. — Six regiments of in- 
tantr\', four of cavalr}- and a battery of artillery 
encountered the rebels in force at Canton, Miss., 
forcing them to evacuate the town. — Skir- 
mishes, etc.: Elk Creek, Ark.; Huntsville, Ala., 
Corinth, Miss. 

July 18. — The action known as "Potter's 
cavalry raid" to Tar River and Rocky Mount, 
N. C, resulted in a Union loss of 60 wounded. 
— Skirmishes, etc.: Morris Island and Holly 
Springs, Miss. 

July 19. — The Union forces, commanded by 
Colonels Tolland and Powell, destroyed the 
Virginia and Tennessee railroad at Wytheville, 
Va., and lost 65 in killed and wounded. Con- 
federate loss, 75 killed and 150 prisoners. — 
Skirmishes occurred at Sparta, Tenn., Cooley- 
ville, Miss., and Greenville, ]\Io. 

July 20. — Skirmishes at Guiger's Creek, Pa.; 
Gregg's Creek, and Pomeroy. 

July 22. — Skirmish at Brashear City, La. 

July 23. — In an encounter with the rebels 
at Manasses and Chester Gaps, Va., the Union 
force lost 30 killed and 80 wounded. The con- 
federate loss was 300 killed and 60 prisoners. 
An unimportant affair transpired at Front 
Royal, Ya.. 

July 24. — Skirmishes took place at Brashear 
City, La.; Washington, Ohio; Big Mound, Miss., 
and Charleston, S. C. 

July 26. — In a skirmish at Pattacassey 
Creek, N. C, three Union soldiers were killed, 
and 17 wounded. They belonged to the force 
of General Hickman. — An affair of small mo- 
ment took place at Smyrna, Tenn. 

July 27. — Collision at Lexington, Tenn. 

July 28. — Affair at Richmond, Ky. 

July 29. — Skirmishes on this and the follow- 
ing dates at the following places: Natchez; 
Paris, Ky.; Paris, Va.; St. Catharines, Mo. 



July 30 and 31. — Fairfax, and Paris, Va.; 
Paris, Ky.; Winchester, Ky.; Stanford, Ky. 

Aug. 1. — Actions to August 3d, at Rappa- 
hanock Station, Brandy Station and Keiley's 
Ford, Va., with a Union loss of 16 killed and 
134 wounded. — Skirmishes at Aldie, Va., and 
Bird's Point, Mo. 

Aug. 3 — At .Jackson, La., three regiments of 
U. S. colored troops had an encounter with the 
rebels in which they lost two killed, two 
wounded, and 27 missing. — Skirmishing took 
place at Smith's Island, and Jackson, N. C. 

Aug. 5. — In a naval engagement on the 
James river, at Dutch Gap, Va., in which the 
U. S. gunboats. Commodore Barney and Co- 
hassett were engaged, the loss on the Union 
side was three killed and one wounded. — Skir- 
mish at White Oak Bridge, Va. 

Aug. 6. — Slight skirmish at Fairfax, Va. 

Aug. 7. — In an action at New Madrid, Mo., 
the Union loss was one killed and one wounded. 

Aug. 9. — A cavalry encounter took place at 
Sparta, Tenn., in which the Union force lost six 
killed and 25 wounded. — Small affair at Wood- 
ville. Mo. 

Aug. 11. — At Accatink, Va., an unimportant 
skirmish occurred. 

Aug. 12. — On Point Rock River, Md., an 
affair of no consequence occurred. 

Aug. 13. — A considerable engagement took 
place at Grenada, Miss., in which several Union 
regiments were engaged ; casualties not obtain- 
able. 

Aug. 14.— At West Point, on the White 
river. Ark., an action took place, in which the 
32d Iowa Infantry was supported by the United 
States gunboats, Lexington, Cricket and Mar- 
iner. The town was shelled and the Union 
loss included two killed and seven wounded. — 
At Poolesville, S. C, an affair took place with- 
out important results. 



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Aug. 15. — Skirmishes occurred at Pasquo- 
tonk and Hertford. 

Aug. 16. — A slight engagement witiiout re- 
suits took place at Bridgeport, Ky. 

Aug. 17. — Fort Sumter fired on ; attacks fol- 
lowed on the 20th and 22d. 

Aug. 18. — At Pocahontas, Ark., a slight affair 
occurred. 

Aug. 21. — Quantrcll, with a guerrilla force 
of 300, raided Lawrence, Kansas, destroying the 
finest Iniiidings and at 10 o'clock in the morn, 
ing 140 men hal been slaughtered, 24 wounded 
and 240 buildings pillaged and burned and, 
when the rebels took their departure, the flames 
were raging. — On the same day unimportant 
scrimmages occurred at Chattanooga, Tenn., 
and Leestown, Va. 

Aug. 22.— At Pocahontas, Ark., Gen. Jeff C. 
Thompson, (rebel) and staff, together with 100 
prisoners were captured. 

Aug. 23.— Skirmish at Shell Mound, Miss., 
without important results. 

Aug. 24. — In a skirmish at Coyle's Tavern 
in the vicinity of Fairfax C. H., Va., two Union 
soldiers were killed and tliree wounded; the 
confederate loss was two killed and four 
wounded. — At Fredericksburg, Va., Little River, 
Mo., and Corbin's Bridge, skirmishes of little 
moment took place. 

Aug. 25. — Averill, with a cavalry force, made 
a raid in West Virginia, which occupied five 
days, and in wliicli were slaughtered three 
Union soldiers and 10 others wounded. — At 

PerryviJle, Ky., a slight encounter occurred. 

Davidson with a considerable cavalry force 
made a six-days' raid on Brownsville, Texas. 
— A skirmish took place at Bayou Metoe and 
Austin, Ark., in which 13 Union soldiers were 
killed and 72 wounded. 

Aug. 2G.— In a cavalry dash into We.st \'ir- 
ginia, a lively skirmish occurred at itucky Gap 
in the Allegheny Mountains, in the vicinity of 



Wliite Suljihur Springs, in which the Union 
loss was 1(3 killed and 113 wounded; confeder- 
ate loss, 156 killed and wounded.— A consider- 
able encounter occurred at Perryville, Ark., 
also at Vinegar Hill in the series of actions 
under General Gilmore on the forts in Charles- 
ton harbor. 

Aug. 27. — Skirmishes occurred at Hartwood 
Church, Va. ; Bayou Metoe, Ark. ; Clark's Neck, 
Ky. ; Vicksburg, Miss. ; also at 

Aug. 29. — Bottom's Bridge, Va. ; Maysville, 
Ala., and 

Aug. 30. — At Stevenson, Ala., and Falling 
Waters, \'^a. 

Aug. 31. — At Vandalia, Ind., a riot was 
threatened; at Austin, .\rk., a slight cavalry 
skirmish took place. 

Sept. 1. — In a scrimmage at Barbee's Cross 
Roads, Va., the 6th Ohio Cavalry encountered 
a force of rebels, and lost two men killed and 
four wounded. — In Arkansas, at Devil's Back 
Bone, known also as Fort Smith and Cotton 
Gap, a sharp encounter occurred conducive to 
the general results of Steele's operations to se- 
cure the State to the United States. — At Fort 
Royal and Knoxville, Tenn., unimportant 
affairs occuri-ed. 

Sei>t. 2. — Skirmishes at Kingston, Tenn., 
and Port Conway, Va. 

Sept. 3. — On this date, two infantry regi- 
ments and one cavalrj' regiment, had a fight 
with the Indians at Wliite Stone Hill, Dak. 
Ter., which continued until the night of the 5th. 
Sept. 4. — Continuation of theafiairat Knox- 
ville, Tenn. 

Seit. 5. — In a skirmish at Limestone Station, 
Tenn., in which five coinpunies of the lOOlli 
Ohio Infantry was involved, the action resulted 
in a loss to the command of 12 killed and 20 
wounded ; confederate loss, 6 killed and 10 
wounded.— At Moorelield, W. Va., the 1st West 
Virginia Infantry sustained an attack from 
rebel invaders. 



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Sept. 6.— At Brandy Station, Va., a cavalry 
encounter occurred. — The beginning of tlieend 
of tlie actions in Charleston harbor was mani- 
fest. 

Sept. 7. — Evacuation of Fort Wagner. Two 
fruitless assaults were made on Fort Wagner 
by the ironclads under Admiral Dahlgren. 
Heavy siege guns were placed in position, and 
the land forces under Gilmore made another 
effort to accomplisli the desired result, and met 
with repulse witli great loss, especially to tlie 
colored regiments. Other batteries were placed 
in position and the work carried on, the 
"Swamp Angel" sending shells into the city of 
Charleston. (The gun burst on the 36th round.) 
An order was issued by (iilmore to carry the 
fort by storm, but the entrenchments were 
evacuated by the rebels on the 7th, after a 
bombardment of three weeks. Fort Gregg 
surrendered or was evacuated, and 26 heavy 
guns were captured. Meanvhile, Charleston 
had been persistently shelled and Fort Sumter 
reduced to shapeless ruin. — At Cumberland 
Gap, Ky., and Aforgan's Bend, skirmishes took 
place; also at Bear Skin Lake, Mo., at Ashley's 
Mills, Ark., and on tlie Atchafaylaya River, La. 
Sept. 8. — On this day and on the 9th and 
10th, operations were carried on at Chattanooga, 
Tenn., including an overlooking of the situa- 
tion at Lookout Mountain. — Skirmishes, etc., at 
Baton Rouge, La., Bath, Va., Frick's Gap, Pa., 
Trenton, Tenn., Sabine Pa.ss, La., and Winston's 
Gap, Md. — A night attack on Fort Sumter was 
made. 

Sept. 0. — Skirmishes, etc. : Dardanelle, Ark., 
Fort Moultrie, S. C, Tilford, Cumberland Gap, 
Tenn , Weber's Falls, Ind. Ter. 

Sept. 10. — Kiioxville, Tenn., was occupied 
by the Union force under General Burnside. — 
At Fort Smith a skirmish occurred. — At Little 
Ruck, Ark., and Brimstone Creek, Tenn., skir- 
mishes occurred. — Little Rock, Ark., surren- 



dered to the Union troops under General Steele. 
— At Graysviile, Ga., a squad of cavalry be- 
longing to the Army of the Cumberland en- 
countered the rebels. 

Sept. ll.^Skirmishes, etc. : Pine Bluff, Ark., 
Moorefield, \V. Va., Stevens' Gap, Ringgold, 
Ga., Waldron, Ark. ; at Ringgo'd, the Union 
loss was eight killed and I'J wounded ; confed- 
erate casualties, three killed and IS missing. 

Sept. 12. — In an action at Sterling's Planta- 
tion, La., the Union troops lost three killed and 
three wounded. 

Sept. 13. — At Culpeper, Xa., an encounter 
resulted in a Union loss of three killed and 40 
wounded ; confederate loss, 10 killed, 40 
wounded and 75 mi.ssing. Skirmishes, etc. ; 
Swallow Bluff and Paris, Tinii. ; Grant's Blufl', 
Ind.; Lett's Tan yard, Ga. In the latter, Wil- 
der's mounted brigade sustained a loss of 50 
killed and wounded and the confederates the 
same. 

Sept. 14. — Cavalry skirmish at Rapidan 
Station, in which the lo.ss to the Union troops 
was eight killed and 40 wounded. — In a similar 
encounter at Vidalia, La., the P^ederals lost two 
killed and four wounded ; confederate loss six 
killed and 11 wounded. — The 5th Kansas Cav- 
alry fought two days at Brownsville, Ark. — A 
skirmish took place at Seneca Station, Ind. Ter. 
Sept. 15. — Cavalry skirmishes at Hendrick's, 
Miss., and Smithfield, Va. — A scrimmage oc- 
curred at Dover Landing, Miss. 

Sept. 16. — At White Plains, Va., a skirmish 
occurred. 

Sept. 19. — Battle of Cbickamauga, Ga. This 
battle was conducted by the Army of the Cum- 
berland under Major-General Rosecrans, and 
included the 14th Army Corps, General Thomas 
commanding, the 20th Corps under General 
McCook, and the 21st Corps, commanded by 
General Crittenden with the Reserve Corps 
under General Gordon Granger. The opposing 



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confederate force was commanded by General 
Bragg, re-enforced by Longstreet, sent from tlie 
rebel army on the Potomac for that purpose, 
Buckner's division was also attached to Bragg's 
command, and, contrary to all the rules of war, 
Pemberton's men, paroled by Grant at \"icks- 
burg, increased the rebel forces. Battle was 
precipitated by the 14th Corps, and by 10 o'clock 
in tlie morning of the first day, the troops on 
both sides were heavily engaged. The rebels 
were first driven back, which was followed by 
a like result to the Union force. In many parts 
of the field the contest was virtually waged band 
to hand, batteries being taken and retaken on 
both sides, and j)risoners in considerable num- 
ber. Night came on without decisive results. 
On the morning of the 20th, a dense fog ob- 
scured the positions of the armies, and when 
it lifted, Bragg's army was discovered massed in 
line of battle on tlie right. The Union left was 
re-enforced, and, Longstreet, discovering the 
weakened condition of the Federal right, made 
an attack there and on the center with dis- 
astrous results to (lie Union troops. At this 
point Tboniiis won hi.s title of "Rock of Chick- 
anuiuga." Me held his troops inflexibly and 
secured tlie '•Key" to the situation in the 
AVestern Division. He made a successful re- 
sistance to the repeated assaults on his troops 
and, at night, the Army of the Cumberliiud 
withdrew to tlie enti'enchments at Ciiattanooga 
leaving their dead ;iiid wounded on tlie field. 
Chickamauga is considered as one of the 
hardest fought and bloodiest conflicts of the 
reljellion. While tlic advantage was to the 
rebels ostensibly, it was entirely fruitless to 
them. Bragg's army was weakened beyond 
rejiair, his loss being 2,380 killed, 13,412 
wounded and 2,000 missing. The casualties in 
the Union commands were 1,644 killed, 9,262 
wounded and 4,945 missing. — On this date 
slight skirmishes occurred at Lafayette and | 



Rossville, Ga., and also at Perryville, Ky., and 
at Fort Smith, Ark. 

Sei'T. 21. — Slight cavalry engagements took 
place at White's Ford, Va., and Bristol, Tenn. 
Sept. 22. — In a cavalry skirmish at Madison 
C. H., Va., 21 Union soldiers were killed and 
wounded. — A similar action took j)lace at 
Blountfeville, Tenn., with a loss on the I'nion 
side of five killed and 22 wounded and to tlie 
rebels, 165 killed, wounded and missing. — A 
skirmish at Rockville, Md., resulted in a con- 
federate loss of 34 killed and wounded. — At 
Carter's Station and Johnson's Depot, Tenn., 
slight actions look place. — A small skirmish 
occurred at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. 

Sept. 23. — Skirmishes took place at Rich 
Mountain, Va., and Fort Fisher, N. C. 
Sept. 21. — Skinni.sh at Zollicoffer, Tenn. 
Sept. 25. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
Upperville, Va., and a military movement 
occurred at Donaldsonville, La. — A cavaliy 
skirmish occurred at Redbone Church, Mo. 

Sept. 2G. — A cavalry fight occurred at Cal- 
houn or llaguewood Prairie, Tenn., with a 
Union loss of 66 in killed, wounded and mi.ssing. 
Sept. 27. — In a skirmish at Moffatt's Station, 
Ark., the Union casualties were two killed and 
two wounded ; confederate, five killed and 20 
wounded. 

Sept. 2S. — A skirmish occurred at McMinn- 
ville and Blue Springs, Tenn. — An attack was 
made on Fort Sumter. 

Sept. 29. — A skirmish occurredat Morganzia, 
La., in which the Union loss was 14 killed, 40 
wounded and 400 missing. — Military actions 
also occurred at Pasquotonk River and at 
Moore's Bluff and Mill, \'a. 

Sept. 30. — A cavalry skirmish took place at 
Swallow's ISlutf, Tenn., and another at Fort 
Johnson. 

Oct. 1. — In an action at Fort Simi)kins, 
Anderson's Gap, Tenn., 38 Union soldiers were 
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Oct. 2. — At Anderson's Cross Roads, Tenn., 
McCook's cavalry attacked the rebels and sus- 
tained a loss of 70 killed and wounded ; the 
confederates lost 200 killed and wounded. — A 
slight skirmish occurred at Franklin, La. 

Oct. 3. — In a skirmish at McMinnville, 
Te)in., the Union loss was seven killed and 31 
wounded ; confederate loss, 23 killed and 
wounded. — At Thompson's Cove, Tenn., a con- 
siderable cavalry skirmish occurred. 

Oct. 4. — In a fight at Neosho, Mo., the Union 
loss was one killed, 14 wounded and 43 miss- 
ing. — Skirmishes took place on this date at Ver- 
millionville and Newton, La.; Blue Springs, 
Mo.; Murfreesboro Road, Tenn. 

Oct. 5. — The rebels attacked a stockade at 
Stone River, Tenn., and wounded six Union 
soldiers and captured 44. — lu a skirmish at 
Glasgow, Ky., the Union loss was three 
wounded; the confederate loss, 13 wounded. — 
Skirmishes occurred at Harper's Ferry, Va.; 
Blue Springs and Wartrace, Tenn., and at New 
Albany, Miss. 

Oct. 6. — Massacre at Baxter's Springs, Ark. 
Quantrell's guerrillas, disguised in Federal 
uniforms, assaulted General Blunt, command- 
ing the Army of the Frontier, escorted by about 
100 cavalrymen and colored troops, en route 
for Fort Scott. The general escaped with 15 
men; the remainder were captured, robbed and 
murdered in cold blood. — At Fort Blair, Ark., 
Shelbyville, Tenn., and Brownsville, Mo., slight 
skirmishes took place. 

Oct. 7. — A fight near Farmington, Tenn., 
resulted in a Union loss of 15 killed and 60 
wounded ; the confederate loss was 10 killed, 
GO wounded and 240 missing. — Military move- 
ments occurred at Como, Miss., and on the Red 
River. 

Oct. 8. — Skirmishes took place at Raccoon 
Ford, Ga.; New Hope Church, and Charles- 
town, ^'a., at Carthage, Tenn., and Salem, Miss. 



Oct. 9. — Skirmishes occurred near Pulaski, 
Tenn., and at Fort Scott, Ark. 

Oct. 10. — A cavalry encounter at Rapidan_ 
Va., resulted in a Union loss of 20 wounded. — 
Pleasanton's cavalry attacked the rebels at 
.James City or Robertson's Run, Va., and lost 
10 in killed and 40 wounded.— Cavalry and in- 
fantry of the Army of the Ohio encountered 
the rebels at Blue Springs, Tenn., and sustained 
a loss of 100 in killed, wounded and missing; 
the confederates lost 66 killed and 150 missing. 
— Skirmishes occurred at Vermillion Bayou, 
La., and at Ingham's Plantation, Miss. 

Oct. 11.— At Henderson's Mill, Tenn., the 
5th Indiana Cavalry had an encounter with the 
rebels which cost them a loss of 11 in wounded; 
they inflicted a loss of 30 on their opponents. — 
Skirmishes occurred at Whitaker's Mills, Zol- 
licoffer's Heights, Rheatown and at Brazos 
Island, Texas. — On his way to Chattanooga, 
escorted by the 13th U. S. Infantry, General 
Sherman's train was attacked by rebels at Col- 
liersville, Tenn. ; reinforcements arriving the 
rebels were repulsed; 15 Union soldiers were 
killed and 50 wounded. 

Oct. 12. — Fight at Jeffersonton, Va.; Union 
loss 12 killed, 80 wounded and 400 missing. — 
In an action at Ingham's Mills and at Wyatt, 
Miss., the respective losses were: Union, 45; 
confederate, 50; the actions continued on the 
13th. — On the same date a fight took place at 
Warrenton Springs, (Culpeper) Va., in which 
the Union force lost eight killed and 46 
wounded. — On the same date a cavalry and in- 
fantry encounter from La mine's Crossing to 
Merrill's Crossing, in Missouri occurred, the 
Union force losing 16 killed, and the confeder- 
ates 53 killed and 70 wounded. — On the same 
date a cavalry division of the Army of the 
Ohio encountered the rebels at Blountsville, 
Tenn., and lost six in wounded ; confederate 
loss eight killed and 26 wounded. — On the 



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same date, detachments of two regiments of 
West Virginia ^'olul)teers met the rebels at 
Builtown, Va.,and inflicted a loss of nine killed 
and GO wounded. — Skirmishes took place at 
Brandy Station, Va., and Coldwater River, 
Miss. 

Oct. 13. — On the Big Black River, Miss., 
General McPherson made a cavalry and infantry 
reconnoissance. — Skirmishes occurred at Win- 
chester, Ya., Belltown, Tenn., and Maysville, 
Ala. 

Oct. 14. — In a fight at Auburn, Va., a de- 
tachment of the Army of the Potomac lost 11 
killed and 42 wounded ; confederate lo.ss, 8 
killed and 24 wounded. — At Bristoe Station, 
Va., General Warren, with detachments from 
the 5th Corps and a cavalry division, defeated 
Hill's Corp."!, capturing 500 prisoners; the Union 
loss was 51 killed, 329 wounded and that of the 
rebels was 750 killed and wounded and 450 
missing. — At Salt Lick, Va., a detachment of 
West Virginia volunteers fought the rebels, 

Oct. 15.— At Liberty Mills, Va., a fight oc. 
curred, in which the Federal loss was two killed 
and 25 wounded; confederate loss, 60 killed 
and wounded. — On the same date, a skirmish 
occurred at Blackburn Ford and Hedgeville, 
Va. — In a series of encounters at Canton, 
Brownsville and Clinton, Miss., the confederate 
loss was 200 in killed and wounded. Three 
days were occupied in the several fights. 

Oct. 16. — In a skirmish at Cross Timbers, 
Mo., the confederate loss was two killed and 
eight wounded. — At Martinsburg, Va., a slight 
collision with the rebels took place. 

Oct. 17. — Two blockade runners were de- 
stroyed in Tampa Bay, Fla., by U. S. gunboats 
Tahoma and Adela. — Skirmishes at Cliantilly 
and Accatink and Rapidan, Va., and Chnton, 
Miss., and at Humansville, Mo. 

Oct. 18. — In a scrimmage at Charlestown, 
\V. Va., the 9th Maryland lost 12 killed, 13 



wounded and 379 missing.— The 34th Massa- 
chusetts Infantry attacked the rebels at Berrys- 
ville, Va., supjjorted by the 17th Indiana Bat- 
tery, in which they lost two killed and four 
wounded ; confederate loss, five killed, 20 
wounded. — A slight affair took j)lace at Sharps- 
burg, Md. 

Oct. 19.— At Buckland's 'Mills, Va., Kilpat- 
rick's cavalry attacked the rebels, sustaining a 
loss of 20 killed, 00 wounded and 100 missing, 
while that of the confederates was 10 killed and 
40 missing. — A slight skirmish took place at 
Gainesville, Va. 

Oct. 20.— Rosecrans was relieved of the com- 
mand of the Army of the Cumberland, and 
Geneial Thomas made his successor.— On the 
same date a heavy skirmis-h took place at Phila- 
delphia, Tenn., in which the Union force lost 
20 killed, 80 wounded and 354 missing; the 
confederate casualties amounted to 15 killed, 82 
wounded and 111 missing. — At Hay market, 
Va., and Barton Station, Miss., unimportant 
actions occurred. 

Oct. 21. — A skirmish occurred at Cherokee 
Station, Ala., in which the losses to the Union 
side were seven killed and 37 wounded ; the 
other .side lost 40 in killed and wounded. At 
Opelousas, La., a detachment of Banks' troops 
from the 19th Corps met the rebels.— At Ver- 
million, La., and W^arrenton, Xix., there were 
actions of small account. 

Oct. 22. — At Beverly Ford, Va., six Union 
soldiers were killed in a scrimmage with the 
rebels.— Slight affair at Columbia, Ky., also at 
New Madrid Bend, Tenn. 

Oct. 23. — Danville, Tenn., raided by rebels. 
— At Tullahoma, Tenn., a supply train was 
attacked by rebel bushwhackers and defended 
by an Indiana regiment. 

Oct. 24. — Skirmishes, etc.: Adairsville, tia., 
Beverly, Ra])pahanock Station and Bealton, 
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Oct. 25.— Tlie 5tli Kansas Infantry and 1st 
Indiana Cavalry liad a fight with tlie rebels at 
Pine Bluff, Ark., in which their loss was 11 
l:illed and 27 wounded; confederate loss, 53 
killed and 164 wounded.— Skirmishes at Col- 
liersville, Tenn., and Creek Agency, Ind. Ter. 

Oct. 26.— In a skirmish at Cane Creek, .Via., 
two Union soldiers were killed and six wounded; 
the rebels lost 10 killed and 30 wounded. — At 
Philadelphia, Tenn., a slight skirmish occurred. 
— In a cavalry skirmish at Vincent Cross 
Roads, Miss., the Union force sustained a loss 
of 14 killed and 25 wounded.— Skirmish at 
Brown's Ferry, Tenn.; Union loss five killed 
and 21 wounded.— In a heavy encounter at 
Wauhatchie, Tenn., between the 11th Corps 
(2nd Division), 12th Corps and confederate 
troops, the Union loss was 76 killed, 339 
u'ounded and that of the rebels 300 killed and 
1,200 wounded.— At Charleston, S. C, the 
Federal attacks continued and a reconnoissance 
took place at Lookout Mountain. 

Oct. 28. — Skirmishes, etc.: Clarksville, Ala., 
Leiper's Ferry, Tenn., and Arkadelphia, Ala., 
and Greenville, Mo. 

Oct. 29. — Fight at Cherokee Station, Ala., in 
which the 1st Division of the 5th Corps engaged 
the rebels. — At Lookout Mountain operations 
still continued. 

Oct. 30. — During the closing days of this 
month and for a number of days in early 
November, the operations in the valley of the 
Tennessee continued. — In the course of the 
month of October, several steam raiDS, built by 
the Lairds in England for the confederates, were 
seized and held by the British Government. 

Nov. 1. — Actions at Washington, N. C, and 
Fayetteville, Tenn. 

Nov. 2. — At Waynesville, N. C, and Brazos 
de Santiago, Texas, slight encounters took place. 

Nov. 3. — Heavy cavalry action at Grand 
Coteau, variously designated as Carrion Crow 



Bayou, Bayou Bourbeaux and Bayou Teche. 
The 23d Wisconsin achieved much of the final 
success of this event in which General Bur- 
bridge of the 19th Corps was attacked by a 
heavy rebel force and driven until reinforce- 
ments enabled him to return the compliments 
of the confederates, with a loss of 26 killed, 124 
wounded and 576 missing; the confederate 
loss being 60 killed, 320 wounded and 05 miss- 
ing. — Action at New Lawrence. — At Bayou 
Queue, La., an action preliminary to that at 
Grand Coteau resulted in a heavy loss to both 
forces. — In a skirmish at Centerville and Piney 
Factory, Tenn., the confederate force lost 15 
killed. — In a fight at Colliersville and Moscow, 
Tenn., seven Union soldiers were killed and 57 
wounded ; confederate loss, 100 wounded ; the 
action lasted two days. 

Nov. 4. — Skirmishes at Fort Brown (con- 
tinuing two days), at Swan's Quarter, N. C, 
Lawrenceburg, Tenn., and Medley's Ford, Little 
Tennessee River. 

Nov. 5. — Skirmishes at Point Isabel and 
Brownsville, Texas, and Mill Point in West 
Virginia. 

Nov. 6. — Skirmishes at Rogersville, Tenn. 
— In a fight at Droop Mountain, Va., the Union 
loss was 31 killed and 94 wounded ; confederate 
loss, 50 killed, 250 wounded and 100 missing. 
— The Federal garrison at Rogersville, Tenn., 
was attacked by rebels from Virginia. 

Nov. 7. — Fight at Rappahannock Station, 
Va. At this point the rebel intrenchments 
were strong and defended by heavy guns. 
General Russell asked to be permitted to make 
tlie assault, stating that two regiments of his 
command could accomplish the desired result 
and the attack was accordingly made by the 
5th Wisconsin and 0th Maine. The latter was 
employed as skirmishers, the former being in 
close supporting distance and the works were 
taken at the bayonet's point. Union loss, 370 



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killed and wounded; confederate loss, 11 killed, 
98 wounded and 1,629 missing. — A heavy 
skirmish at Kelley's Ford, Va., resulted in a 
Union loss of 70 killed and wounded and a 
confederate loss of five killed, 59 wounded and 
2.59 missing. — A cavalry skirmish occurred at 
Stevensburg, Va., in which a detachment of 
the Arm}' of the Potomac was engaged. 

Nov. 8. — Skirmishes at Clarksville, Ark. 
(two Union soldiers killed), Muddy Run and 
Sulphur Spring, Tenn. 

Nov. 0. — At Bayou Sara, Miss., a small action 
took place. 

Nov. 11. — The 6th Mississippi, Colored 
Troops, attacked the rebels at Natchez with a 
loss of four killed and si.K wounded ; confeder- 
ates lost four killed and eight wounded. 

Nov. 12.— Skirmish at Roseville, Ark. 

Nov. 13.— In a skirmish at Trinity River, 
Cal., an action took place in which the Cali- 
fornia Mountaineer Infantry participated. 

Nov. 14. — A struggle occurred at Huff's 
Ferry, Tenn., in which the Union loss was 25 
wounded. — An engagement at Marysville, 
Tenn., resulted in a Union loss of lOU in killed 
and wounded. — A cavalry skirmisli took place 
at Rock ford, Tenn. 

Nov. 15. — Skirmish at Loudon Creek, Tenn., 
(near Knoxville), in which the Union loss was 
four killed and 12 wounded ; confederate loss, 
six killed and 10 wounded. — .\t Lenoire, Tenn., 
and on the Ilolston River, skirmishes occurred, 
in which infantry and cavalry were engaged. 
(These were preliminary to the approaching 
siege of Knoxville). — Slight skirmishes took 
place at Summersville, Va., and Hear Creek, 
Mo. ; also at Morton's Ford, Ala., and Corpus 
Christi, Texas. 

Nov. 16.— Skirmishes at Campbell Station, 
Lavergne, and Gallatin, Tenn., and Charges 
City Cross Roads, Va. 

Nov. 17.— Siege of Knoxville. The move- 



ments preliminary to the active operations 
against the city commenced on the 14th. 
Grant had operated strategetically to draw 
Longstreet to Knoxville, and f'le Union forces 
were disposed accordingly. After falling back 
to Lenoire, Burnside designed to continue the 
movement until he arrived at CampbelFs Sta- 
tion. Longstreet made an unsuccessful attempt 
to reach that j>osition first and, while Har- 
tranft's division engaged the rebels there on the 
16tli, Burnside hastened towards Knoxville. 
He formed in line of battle in a position which 
covered the approaches to Knoxville, and was 
there attacked. The rebels were repulsed with 
a loss of 570 killed and wounded, the L^nion 
casualties being 60 killed and 340 wounded. 
On the same daj', Longstreet assaulted the rear 
of Burnside's position, who fell back to one 
equally secure. Longstreet repeated his at- 
tempt with vigor, but was forced to withdraw. 
At night, Burnside retired to the intrench- 
ments within the city. On the 17th, skirmish- 
ing continued on the Lenoire Road, and on the 
18th, the direct attack on the city was made, 
falling principally on Sanders' cavalry, the 
purpose being to drive them into the city and 
to follow with a charge. The cavalry resist- 
ance lasted three hours, and when they were 
forced back, the onset of Longstreet was checked 
by the batteries at Rebel Point. Sanders re- 
newed the conflict against fearful odds, and he 
fell about four o'clock in the afternoon, the 
position he bad so strenuously defended being, 
soon after, occupied by the enemy. This ad- 
vantage was of no practical account to Long- 
street, and he determined to cease active opera- 
tions, but to reduce by regular siege. Burnside 
was supplied with the "sinews of war" beyond 
the knowleilge of the rebel chief, and after 
several tlays. Grant's success at Lookout Moun- 
tain and Mission Ridge, increased the peril of 
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Fort Sanders on the morning of the 29th of 
November, to meet witli terrible punishment, 
and, after six days of repeated reverses and 
great loss, retired. 

Nov. 17. — Sicirmislies, etc. : Willow Creek, 
S. C. ; Mount .Jackson, \'a. ; Mustang Island, 
Texas. 

Nov. 18. — Skirmishes, etc. : Newmarket, Va.; 
Germania Ford, Alexandria, La. ; Bridgeport, 
Ala. ; Carrion Crow Bayou, La. 

Nov. 19. — Lincoln made his celebrated speech 
at the dedication of a National cemetery at 
Gettysburg, Pa. — In a skirmish at Union City, 
Tenn., the Union force sustained a loss of one 
killed ; the confederate loss included 11 killed 
and 53 prisoners. 

Nov. 20. — A skirmish of little account took 
place at Abbeville, La. 

Nov. 21. — At A\'aterproof, La., the steamer 
Welcome was attacked by a rebel squad. 

Nov. 23.— Battle of Lookout Mountain and 
Missionai'y Ridge. General Grant's armycom- 
])rised the Army of the Cumberland, the 11th 
and 12tli Corps of the Army of the Potomac 
under Hooker, and the Corps of Sherman. The 
confederate forces were commanded b}' General 
Bragg. On the 23rd, General Thomas seized 
Orchard Knob and the next day General Hooker 
took Lookout Mountain. Meanwhile, Sherman 
was attacking the rebels intrenched on Mis- 
sionary Ridge. On the 25th, Bragg disposed 
his force to repel Sherman, and Grant ordered 
Thomas to attack the point whence Bragg had 
withdrawn his troops. In accordance with 
this, an attack was made on the rifle pits at the 
base of the ridge, and the glorious onset which 
resulted in the cajiture of the summit and the 
l)lanting of the Union colors thereon. The 
success of the [Tnion arms was wholly due to 
the enthusiasm under which the charge up the 
heights was made. The captured batteries of 
the rebels were turned against them, and Grunt 



ordered an immediate pursuit of the fleeing 
troops of Bragg, who made a feeble resistance 
at Ringgold and fled. The situation at Knox- 
ville precluded a continued chase of Bragg's 
army. In these actions, the loss to tlie Union 
army was 6,000. That of the confederates, in- 
cluding prisoners, was 9,000. Their loss in 
guns, small arms, provisions and ammunition 
was heavy. — Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill and 
Citico Creek, Tenn. 

Nov. 24.— A skirmish took place at Sparta, 
Tenn., resulting in a slight confederate repulse. 
— At Barnwell's Island, S. C, a regiment of 
colored troops encountered a rebel squad. 

Nov. 25.— A cavalry and infantry regiment, 
supported by a battery, had a lively skirmish 
with the rebels. 

Nov. 26.— Mine Run, Va. In the several 
actions at Raccoon Ford, New Hope, Robert- 
son's Tavern, Bartlett's Mills and Locust Grove, 
between the rebels under General Lee and Gen- 
eral Meade commanding the Army of the 
Potomac, consisting of the 1st, 2d, 3d, 5th 
and 6th Corps, and the 1st and 2d Cavalry 
Divisions of the army, the Union loss was 100 
killed and 400 wounded, while the rebels lost 
about the same number as nearly as can be as- 
certained. These operations lasted two days. 
— Skirmishes occurred at Beersheba Springs 
and Kingston, Tenn., at Bonfouca, La., Gireen- 
ville and Warm Springs, N. C, Rapidan Sta- 
tion and Brandy Station, Ya., Chickamauga, 
Ga. 

Nov. 27. — Andersonville confederate military 
prison established by Capt. W. S. Winder at 
Andersonville. A strong stockade was erected 
and fortified with eartliworks. Feb. 15, 1S64, 
the first Union prisoners were taken there. The 
aggregated number of Union soldiers confined 
there was 49,485. August 9th of the same 
year, 33,006 prisoners were within its enclosure. 
The number of escapes was 328. 14,460 pris- 



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oners died tliere. Henry Wirz, the command- 
ant of the prison, was tried after the close of 
the war and executed Nov. 10, 1865. The 
National Government took charge of the ceme- 
tery and placed it in a condition suited to the 
dead heroes, whose hodies honored their resting 
place. — At Cleveland, Tenn., 200 confederates 
were captured by a cavalry brigade without 
casualties on either side. — In a fight at Ring- 
gold and Taylor's Ridge, Ga., the Union loss 
was 68 killed and 351 wounded; rebel loss, 50 
killed, 200 wounded and 230 missing. — At 
Matagorda Bay and Island, operations were 
carried on, covering a period of four days. — At 
Orange C. H., Va., skirmishing was in opera- 
tion four days. — An action took place at Bay- 
port, Fla. 

Nov. 27. — An action of considerable import- 
ance occurred at Fort Esperanza, Texas; an 
assault on the works continued two days. 

Nov. 28. — Skirmishes at Louisville, Tenn., 
and Washington, N. C. 

Nov. 30. — Skirmish at Salversville, Ky., at 
Doboy Sound and River and Pass Cabello; the 
latter occupied two days. — At Dalton, Ga., a 
slight skirmish occurred. 

Dec. 1. — A cavalry skirmish at Ripley, Miss. 
— Activity at Chattanooga, Tenn., and May- 
nardsville, Tenn., the latter occupying parts of 
I wo days. 

Dec. 2.— In a fight at Walker's Ford, W. ^'a., 
the Union loss was nine killed and 39 wounded; 
rebel loss 25 killed, 50 wounded. — Skirmishes 
at Indianola, Texas, Watson's Ford, Va., Wolf 
River Bridge, Miss., (including several days), 
Pocahontas, Miss., and Lafayette, Tenn. 

Dec. 3. — Skirmish at Salisbury, Tenn. 

Dec. 4. — Continuation of the skirmishing at 
Lafayette. — The actions at Ripley and Moscow, 
Miss., and at Salisbury, caused a loss of 175 in 
killed and wounded in the Union forces and 15 
killed and 50 wounded in the rebel forces. 



Dec. 6.— Skirmish at Clinch Mountain, Tenn. 

Dec. 7. — A cavalry skirmish at Creelsboro, 
Ky., and Celina, Tenn., resulted in a rebel loss 
of 15 killed. 

Dec. 8. — Averill's raid in southwestern Vir- 
ginia, occupying 13 days. The L'uion force 
captured 200 prisoners and lost six killed and 
five wounded. — A cavalry skirmish at Prince- 
ton, Ark. 

Dec. 9.— At White River, Ark., and Charles 
City Court House, Va., skirmishes occurred, 
the former continuing at intervals for several 
days. 

Dec. 10. — Shackelford's cavalry encountered 
Longstreet at Bean's Station and Morristown, 
Tenn. A sharp fight took place, the Union 
loss being 700 killed and that of the rebels 
932 killed and wounded and 150 prisoners. — 
At Moresburg, Tenn., on the same day, a de- 
tachment of the same force (the Army of the 
Ohio), fought a rebel detachment. — A slight 
affair took place at Elizabeth City, N. C. 

Dec. 12.— At Big Sewell and Meadow Bluff, 
W. Va., a skirmish took place, in which the 
12th Ohio Infantry was engaged. — At Decatur, 
Ala., and La Fayette, slight atfairs occurred. — At 
Duval's Blufl', Ark., the Stli Missouri Cavalry 
had an encounter with the rebels. 

Dec. 14. — At Bean's Station, Tenn., the 
cavalry of the Army of the Ohio encountered 
the rebels. — At Kinston, N. C, a small Union 
force had an engagement. 

Dec. 15. — At Sangster's Station and Fairfax, 
Va., skirmishes occurred. 

Dec. 16. — Skirmish at Doboy River. 

Dec. 17. — A cavalry raid on Rodney and 
Port Gibson, Miss., took place with slight losses 
and was in progress seven days. 

Dec. 18.— At Indian Town, N. C, the U. S. 
colored troops and North Carolina soldiers had 
a skirmish.— An action of small importance 
took place at Clinton Forge, Va. 



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Dec. 19.— a fight at Barren Rock, Ind. Ter., 
between the rebels and Union Indian regiments 
resulted in a confederate slaughter of 50. 
Dec. 21.— Skirmisliesat Middleburg, Miss. 
Dec. 23. — Skirmisli at Jacksonport, Ark., 
and at Luray, Va., the latter extending over 
two days at intervals. 

Dec. 24. — Cavalry skirmish at Bolivar and 
Suminerville, Tenn., the Union loss being three 
kil^sd and eight wounded.— Skirmishes at 
Columbus, Ky., and Centerville, Mo. 

Dec. 25.— General Dodge captured 50 of 
Forrest's guerrillas at Pulaski, Tenn. — Skirmish 
at La Fayette, Tenn., in which the 117th Illinois 
Regiment was engaged. — Skirmishes at Bear 
Creek, N. C, Stono River and Inlet, N. C, 
Bealton and Culpeper, Va. 

Dec. 26. — At Port Gibson, Miss., the skir- 
mishing continued. 

Dec. 27. — The cavalry of the Army of the 
Tennessee skirmished with the enemy two days. 
Dec. 28. — Colonel Lai bold captured 121 pris- 
oners from the rebel Wheeler at Colliersville, 
Tenn., sustaining a loss of two killed and eight 
wounded ; the rebels lost eight killed and 39 
wounded.— Skirmishes took place at Charles- 
ton, Ya., Calhoun and La Fayette, Tenn. 
• Dec. 29. -At Talbot's Station and Mossy 
Creek, Tenn., a brigade of infantry, several 
cavalry regiments and a battery were engaged 
in a considerable action without decisive results. 
— A skirmish at Williamsport, Md. — Three 
companies of the loth Maine and the gunboat 
Sciota attacked the rebel gunboats in Matagorda 
Bay, Texas. The action continued on the fol- 
lowing day. 

Dec. 30. — A skirmisli took 
Augustine, Fla., resulting in a 
one killed and six wounded ; rebel loss six 
killed. — At Greenville and Washington, N. C, 
skirmishes occurred, also at Waldron, Ark. 
1861. .L\N. 1. — At Rectorstown and L(aidon 



place at St. 
Union loss of 



Heights, Va., the rebels were met by the 1st 
Maryland Cavalry of the Home Brigade, the 
latter force meeting with a loss of 29 killed and 
41 missing; the rebel loss was four killed and 
10 wounded. The affair was extende<l through- 
out 10 days at intervals. 

Jan. 2.— Skirmishes at Moorefield and Alle- 
ghany Junction, W. Va., and at Patterson's 
Creek. 

Jan. 3. — At Jonesville, Va., a fight occurred 
in which the Union loss was 12 killed and 48 
wounded; rebel loss, four killed and 12 
wounded. 

Jan. 4. — At Fort Sumner, New Mexico, a 
fight took place between a California regiment, 
Apache Indians and citizens with the Navajos. 
— A small affair transpired at Harper's Ferry, 
Xii. 

Jan. 6.— At Winchester, Va., a cavalry force 
made a slight demonstration. 

Jan. 7. — A skirmish occurred at Martin's 
Creek, Ark., the Union loss being one killed 
and one wounded. — A skirmish at Madison- 
ville. La. 

Jan. 8. — Cavalry skirmish at Petersburg, W. 
Va. 

Jan. 9. — Infantry encounter at Turman's 
Ferry, Ky. 

Jan. 10. — Cavalry action at Strawberry 
Plains, Tenn. — Cessation of the cavalry raids 
at Loudon Heights, Va. 

Jan. 11. — Skirmishes at Bull's Gap, Teiui., 
and Lockwood, Ky. 

Jan. 12. — At Mayfield, Ky., companies A 
and B, 58th Illinois Infantry, engaged in a 
skirmish, resulting in a Union lossof one killed 
and one wounded, and a rebel loss of two killed. 
Jan. 13. -McCook's cavalry engaged in a 
skirmish at INIossy Creek, Tenn., and sustained 
a loss of 14 killed. 

Jan. 14. — Skirmish at Bealton, Va., with a 
Union loss of two killed and a rebel loss of 



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1864— JAN. 15 — FEB. 1 — 1864. 



three killed and 12 wounded. — Cavalry engage- 
ment at Terrisville. Tenu. — Action of two days 
continuance at Dandridge, Teun., involving 
cavalry and infantry. 

Jan. 15. — Skirmish at Saint Catherine's, 
Miss.; 72d Illinois \'olunteers.— Skirmish 
near Seviersville, Tenn. 

Jan. 16 — 17. — Cavalry and infantry skirmish 
at Grand Gulf, Miss. 

Jan. 17.— Cavalry skirmish at Lewisburg, 
Ark. 

Jan. 18.— Skirmishes at Strawberry Plains, 
and Newmarket, V-d., and at St. Mark's, Fla. 

Jan. 19. — Skirmish at Branchville, Ark., in 
which the 5th Kansas Cavalry engaged. — 
Skirmish at Plolston River, Tenn. 

Jan. 20.— At Island No. 76, Miss., Battery F, 
Colored Light Artillery, had a scrimmage with 
an attacking rebel force. — A detachment of the 
20th Connecticut Infantry skirmished at Tracy 
City, Tenn., and lost two men killed. — Matters 
assumed a lively aspect at Knoxville, Tenn. 

Jan. 21. — Skirmish at Chuckatuck, Va. — In 
the vicinity of Dalton, Ga., the 28th Kentucky 
and 4th Michigan Cavalry encountered a force 
of rebels, and made a dash among them. 

Jan. 22. — At Armstrong Ferry, Tenn., a 
skirmish took place. 

Jan. 23. — In a skirmish at Rolling Prairie 
Ark., 11 Union soldiers were killed, (lltli 
Missouri Infantry.) — At Brandon Farms, Va., 
actions occurred on the 23d and 25th. 

Jan. 24. — Cavalry skirmish at Baker Springs, 
Ark., in which the 2d and 6tli Kansas Cav- 
ah-y were engaged ; the I'nion force- sustaining 
a loss of one killed and two wounded ; confed- 
erate loss was six killed and two wounded. — 
At Tazewell, Teini., the 34th Kentucky, 116th 
and llStli Indiana \'olunteers, 11th Tennessee 
Cavalry and 11th Michigan Battery engaged, 
with a confederate loss of 31 killed. 

J.\N. 25. — Skirmishes at Athens, Ala., and 
Corinth, Miss. 



Jan. 26. — At Florence, Ala., the 72d Indiana 
Infantry under Col. A. 0. Miller, had a slight 
encounter with rebels. — Skirmish at Alton, 
Miss. 

Jan. 27.— Sturgis' Cavalry Division, Army 
of the Ohio, fought at Kelley's Ford, Tenn., 
and sustained a loss of 100 killed and wounded 
inflicting a loss to the rebels of 68 killed and 
cajituring 100 confederates. — Skirmish near 
Knoxville, Tenn. 

Jan. 28. — A portion of the 14th Corps, Army 
of the Cumberland, fought at Tunnel 1 1 ill, 
Ga., with a loss of two wounded ; rebels lost 32 
wounded. — Skirmish at Scottsville, Ala. — 1st 
California Cavalry have a skirmish in the 
Oregon Mountains. 

.Jan. 29. — A lively action occurred at Medley 
W. Va., in which the Union loss was 10 killed," 
70 wounded ; rebel loss, 100 killed and 
wounded. — Skirmishes at Danville, ^'a., and 
Windsor and Cumberland Gap,- Tenn. 

Jan. 30. — Operations in the vicinity of Pe- 
tersburg, \'a. — (Kit Carson had an encounter 
with the Indians at Canon de Chelly.) 

Jan. 31. — .\ctions at Chuckatuck, Va., Dal- 
ton, Ga., and Ringgold, Ga. 

Jan. 30. — Federal supply train guarded by 
Colonel Snyder, captured near Petersburg, \\'. 
Va., and 80 Union soldiers were killed and 
wounded. — General Rosser (confederate) made 
a successful raid into Harding County, Xa., in 
the Valley of the Shenandoah, capturing stores 
and 270 prisoners. 

Feb. 1. — In an encounter at Smithfield, Va., 
90 Union soldiers were captured. — In the sev- 
eral actions at Bachelor Creek, Newport Bar- 
racks and New Berne, N. C, the Union troojis 
lost 16 killed, 50 wounded and 280 missing; 
the rebels lost five killed and 30 wounded ; 
they covered a period of two days. — At A\'al- 
dron. Ark., the 2d Kansas Cavalry were en- 
gaged in a skirmish, and at New Creek Valley, 



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W. Va., an infantry regiment had an encoun- 
ter with rebels. — On the same day an expedi- 
tion started up tlie Yazoo River, in Mississippi, 
including colored troops (cavalry and infantry), 
the lltli Illinois Infantry, and a portion of 
Admiral Porter's fleet; the expedition lasted 
until March 8th. 

Fki!. 3. — Skirmishes at Patterson's, Spring- 
tield, W. Va., and North Branch, Belton, Miss., 
Saltpetre Cave, Va., Lebanon, Ala., Liverpool 
Heights, Miss., (Yazoo expedition). — The Merid- 
ian expedition, under General Sherman. The 
purpose of this movement was to destroy pub- 
lic property in Mississippi, and to disperse a 
force of rebels collecting to recapture Vicks- 
burg. On this day an advance was made to 
Jackson and from there to Meridian, the force 
meanwhile devastating the country. An ex- 
pected cavalry reinforcement failing to join 
him there, Sherman fell back to Canton, fol- 
lowed by hundreds of Union refugees and ne- 
groes. Large organizations of rebels were dis- 
persed and not a railroad or public building 
w'as left intact. During the expedition en- 
counters occurred at Meridian, Champion's Hill, 
Raymond, Clinton, Jackson, Decatur, Chunky 
Station, Lauderdale Spring and Marion, Miss. 
The Union loss was 56 killed and 1.38 wounded; 
rebel loss 503 in killed and wounded and 212 
prisoners. — Fight at New Berne, N. C, between 
the forces under General Foster, Union, and 
General Picket, confederate, resulting in a loss 
to the former of 212 in killed and wounded, 
and to the latter of 300 in killed, wounded and 
missing. 

Feu. 4. — At Clinton, Miss., a confederate bat- 
tery was defeated witli a loss of 15 killed and 
30 wounded to the Union force. (Yazoo expe- 
dition). — Skirmishes at Rolling Prairie, Mo., 
Hot Springs, Ark., Moorefield, W. Va., and 
Canton, Miss. — On this date occurred the Mer- 
idian skirmishes at Champion's Hill, Baker's 
Creek, Raymond and Bolton Depot, Miss. 



Feb. 5. — General Wistar led a raiding force 
of 1,500 towards Richmond without decisive 
results, the rebels having been warned. — Skir- 
mish at QuaUown, N. C, in which the 14th 
Illinois Cavalry was engaged, losing three 
killed and six wounded; 50 confederates were 
captured. — Meridian skirmishes at Clinton and 
Jackson, Miss. — Skirmish at Cape Girardeau, 
Mo.— Troubles at Jacksonville, Fla.— At Wyatt's 
Miss., the 114th Illinois have a skirmish. 

Feb. 6.— a fight occurred at Morton's Ford, 
Va., a part of the 2d Corps being engaged ; 
the Union loss was 10 killed and 201 wounded ; 
the rebel loss was 100 in killed, wounded and 
missing. — The 7th Indiana Cavalry had a 
skirmish at Bolivar, Tenn., losing one killed 
and three wounded ; the rebels lost 30 wounded. 
— Skirmishes at Orange C. IL, and Bottom's 
Bridge, Va. 

Feb. 7. — At Barnett's Ford, Va., the cavalry 
force of General Merritt had a skirmish, and 
lost 20 killed and wounded.— In a skirmish at 
Vidalia, La., the confederate loss was six killed 
and 10 wounded.— Slight affair at New Berne, 
N. C, and Camp Finegan. 

Feb. 8. — Meridian skirmish at Morton, Miss. 
— 4th Wisconsin Cavalry skirmish at Donald- 
sonville. La. — Skirmishes at Rome, Ga., Tunnel 
Hill, Ga., and Martin's Creek, Ala. 

Feb. 9. — Cavalry encounter at Morgan's Mills, 
Ark., the Union casualties being one killed and 
four wounded ; confederate loss, 65 killed and 
wounded. — Actions at Barber's Place, St. Mary's 
River, Lake City and Gainesville, Fla., by the 
Massachusetts Mounted Infantry and Massa- 
chusetts Independent Battalion of Cavalry, 
continuing five days, and resulting in a Union 
loss of four killed and 16 w^ounded ; the rebel 
loss was four killed and 48 wounded.— Slight 
action at Jacksonville, Fla.— Near Point Wash- 
ington, Fla., a detail from the 7th Vermont In- 
fantry had a skirmish. 



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Feb. 10. — Smitli's raids from Germantown, 
Tenn., into Mississippi. This was the cavalry 
movement which was intended to co-operate 
with Sherman's Meridian expedition, and was 
composed of Smitii and Grierson's cavalry 
divisions. The time occupied included 15 days, 
and 45 Union soldiers were killed and 267 
wounded ; the rebel loss was 50 killed and 300 
captured. 

Feb. 12.— Skirmish at Rock House, W. Va., 
resulting in a confederate loss of 12 killed and 
four wounded. — At Caddo Gap and Scott's Farm, 
Ark., and I^iike City, Fla., skirmishes took 
place, also at Decatur and Chunky Station, 
Miss., (Meridian expedition). 

Fet.. 13. — Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill, Ga., 
Pontotoc and \'icksburg. Miss., and South Fork, 
Va. 

Feb. 14. — At Gainesville, Fla., Captain Rob- 
erts of the Massachusetts cavalry attacked the 
rebels, who lost 100 in killed and wounded. 
The same force skirmished at Lake City, Fla. — 
In a skirmish at Ross' Landing, Ark., the 
Union loss was 13 killed and seven wounded. 
— A skii-mish at Brentsville, Va., resulted in 
the loss of four Union soldiers killed and one 
wounded. — At Waterproof, La., the 49th U. S. 
Colored Troops and the Union gunboat Forest 
engaged the rebels, losing eight killed and 14 
wounded. — Meridian, Miss., occupied by the 
forces of General Sherman. — Skirmish at Wayne 
Court House, W. Va., Hillsboro, Ga., Quitman 
and Enterprise, Miss., and Canton, Mies., on the 
Yazoo expedition. 

Feb. 16. — At Laudersdale, Miss., a skirmish 
occurred. — Fort Powell, (Dauphin's Island) Ala., 
defended Grant's Pass. — Skirmish at Okalona, 
Miss. (Smitli's cavalry raid). 

Feb. 17. — Action at Marion, Miss.; Meridian 
expedition. — The Ilousatonic destroyed in 
Charleston harbor by a torpedo boat. — Skir- 
mishes at West Bay, Fla., and Tiptonsville, P"'la. 



Ffb. 18. — Skirmishes at East Bay, Fla., and 
Baldwin, Fla. 

Ffb. 19.— At Grosse Tete Bayou, La., the 4th 
Wisconsin Cavalry engaged the rebels, inflict- 
ing a loss of four killed and six wounded, their 
own casualties including two wounded. — Skir- 
mish near Batesville, Ark., with a Union loss 
of three killed and four wounded, the rebel loss 
being six killed and 10 wounded. — Skirmishes 
at Aberdeen and Egypt, Miss. 

Feb. 20. — Olustee, Fla. A fleet of steamers 
and one gunboat was sent by General Gilmore 
to repossess Florida, and he allowed his com- 
mand to be inveigled into a fight on ground 
selected by the rebels, sustaining severe defeat 
and losing 193 in killed and 1,175 wounded 
and 460 missing. The rebel loss included 100 
killed and 400 wounded. — Skirmish at Holston 
River, Tenn., the respective Union and rebel 
losses being five killed and wounded and 15 
killed and wounded. — Skirmishes at Saint 
Mark's, Fla., West Point and Prairie Station, 
Miss., Philomont, Va., Strawberry Plains, and 
Sanderson. 

Feb. 21. — Skirmisliing at Canton, Quitman 
and Enterprise, Miss., at Hillsboro, Ga., and 
Lake City and Saint Mark's, Fla. 

Feb. 22.— Tunnel Hill, Ga. General Pal- 
mer's troops encountered General Wheeler 
with a rebel force of cavalry and captured 300 
prisoners ; Union loss, 75 killed and wounded ; 
confederate loss in killed and wounded heavy. 
— A lively cavalrj' action transpired at Mul- 
berry Gap, Tenn., resulting in a loss to the 
Union force of 13 killed and wounded and 256 
captured ; the lOtli Tennessee, (Union), was 
opposed to a large force. — Mosby's guerrillas 
defeated a detachment of the 2d Massachusetts 
Cavalry at Draine.'^villc, Xn., inflicting a loss of 
seven wounded and 57 captured ; Mosby lost 
two killed and four wounded. — Skirmishes at 
Powell's River Bridge, Johnson's Mills, Cumber- 



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land Gap, Calfkiller Creek, Tenn., Ivy Mills, 
Miss., Luna Landing, Ark., Wilmarsh Island, 
8. C— In an action at Johnson's Mills, Tenn., 
prisoners captured from the 5th Tennessee 
Regiment (Union) were slaughtered. — Skir- 
mishes at WarrentoAvn, Va., and Joy's Farm. 
Feb. 23.— Taylor's Bayou, Tenn. 
I'^EB. 25.— The action begun at Tunnel Hill, 
was continued until this date and to the 27tli 
(if February and included conflicts at Buzzard's 
KuDst, and Rocky Face Gap, with a Union loss 
of 17 killed and 272 wounded; confederates 
lost 20 kiUed and 120 wounded. 

Feb. 26. — At Fort Powell, Ala., activities 
were carried on and skirmishes took place at 
Upperville, and Goose Creek, Va. 

Feb. 27. — Foraging, detachments from two 
Iowa regiments skirmished near Canton, Miss. 
— Another action took place at Saint Mark's, 
Fla. 

Feb. 28. — Kilpatrick's raid from Stevens- 
burg to Richmond, Va. The cavalry chief 
advanced with 5,000 soldiers to make an at- 
temj)t to release the Union prisoners at Belle 
Isle, and in Libby. The effort was lost but 
much confederate property was destroyed, many 
miles of railroad torn up and some prisoners 
were taken. The Union loss was 330 killed 
and wounded and missing; the rebels lost 500 
men. — The 7th Tennessee Cavalry had a skir- 
mish at Dukedom, Ky., and a skirmish took 
place near Yazoo City, Miss. — Skirmishes at 
Spott.«*ylvania and Charlottesville, Va., at Ra- 
venna, Miss., and Baldwin, Fla. 

Feb. 29.— Skirmish at New Berne, N. C. — 
At Taylorsvilie, Va., one of the actions of Kil- 
initrick's raid took place. 

March 1- — At Standardsville, and Burton's 
Fork, Va., a cavalry raid under General Custer 
took place, in which tlTe Union force lost 10 
wounded, and captured 30 rebels.— Skirmishes 
at Saint Mark's, Fla., and Black River, Miss. 



(Yazoo expedition). — Skirmishes at Brook's 
Turnpike by Kilpatrick's Cavalry. 

March 2. — The Mississippi squadron under 
Porter had an action at Harrisonburg, La.; 
Union loss two killed and 14 wounded. — Kil- 
patrick raids near Walkertown, Va. 

March 3. — 7th Michigan and 1st Vermont 
Cavalry under Kilpatrick raid Tunstall Station, 
Va. 

March 4. — Grant made Lieutenant-General ; 
the office was re-created for him, it having been 
vacant since it was conferred on General Wash- 
ington. — Skirmish on Chowan River, N. C. — 
Skirmish at Rodney, Miss. 

March 5. — Fight at Panther Springs, Tenn., 
with a Union loss of two killed and eight 
wounded ; 22 were captured by the rebels, 
whose loss was 30 wounded. — In a conflict at 
Yazoo City, the losses were six killed and 20 
wounded in tiie Union force, the confederate 
casualties being much larger. — The Mississippi 
Marine Brigade had an encounter at Coleman'.s, 
Miss. — At Ely's Ford, Va., and Liverpool 
Heiglits, insignificant military affairs transpired. 

March 6. — At Flint Creek, Ark., the 14th 
Kansas Cavalry had a skirmish. 

March 7. — At Decatur, Ala., the troops of 
the Army of the Tennessee, under General 
Dodge, had an indecisive action with the rebels. 
— Skirmishes at Cherry Stone, Brandon Farms, 
Ga., and on the Plankatank River. 

March 8. — Skirmish at CarroUton, Va. 

March 9. — At Suffolk, Va., a skirmish took 
place between the 2d U. S. Colored Cavalry 
and the confederates, in which the former lost 
eight killed and one wounded ; the rebels lost 
25 wounded. — Skirmish at Bristoe's Station, Va. 

March 10. — Skirmislies at Palatka, Fla., and 
at Cabletown, \'a. The latter involved the 1st 
New York Veteran Cavalry. 

March 13. — Skirmishes at CarroUton Store, 
Va., by New York and Pennsylvania Cavalry, 



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1864— MARCH 14— MARCH 30—1864. 



at Semmesport, La., Natchitoches in the Red 
River expedition and Indiauola, Texas. 

March 14. — Detachments of the 16th and 
17th Corps and Porter's Mississippi Squadron, 
attacked Fort de Russj', La., sustaining a loss 
of seven killed and 41 wounded. The confed- 
erates were defeated, with a loss of five killed 
and four wounded and 300 prisoners, besides a 
large amount of munitions of war and ordnance 
stores. — A Free-State Government organized in 
Arkansas. 

March 15. — Skirmish at Clarendon, Ark., 
the Federal force losing one killed and three 
wounded. — Action at Alexandria, (Red River 
expedition). 

March 16.— In a fight near Fort Pillow, 
Tenn., the rebels were defeated with a loss of 
50 killed and wounded. — Action at Shreve- 
port, La. 

March 17. — At Manchester, Tenn., the 5th 
Tennessee Cavalry attacked the rebels and 
killed 21. 

March 18. — The same Union force attacked 
a squad of rebels at Calf killer Creek, Tenn. — 
At Monticello, Ark., the 7th Missouri Cavairv 
had a skirmish. 

March 19.— Activity at Port Royal, S. C. 
March 20. — The 5th Tennessee Cavalry 
made another attack on the rebels at Beer- 
sheba Springs, Tenn. 

March 21. — At Henderson's Hill, La., the 
troops of General Mower, including detach- 
ments of the 16th Corjis and the cavalry divi- 
sion of the 19th Corps, attacked a confederate 
camp and captured 282 prisoners.— Skirmish 
at Magnolia, Miss. — General Banks attacked 
the rebels near Alexandria, La., and took 306 
prisoners. 

March 24. — At Union City, Tenn., Forrest 
attacked the 5th Tennessee Cavalry and took 
450 prisoners. 

March 25. — Paducah, Kv., was held bv Col. 



S. G. Hicks with a garrison of 650 men. For- 
rest attacked and the garrison retired to Fort 
Anderson where a stand was made, assisted by 
two Union gunboats. Forrest demanded im- 
mediate surrender without conditions, adding, 
"if you surrender you shall be treated as pris- 
oners of war ; but if I have to storm your 
works, you may expect no quarter." Hicks 
refused and the rebels made three assaults, 
losing 1,500 men and the rebel General 
Thompson. Forrest retired on the 26th. The 
Union loss was 14 killed and 46 wounded. 
The town was nearly destroyed in the bom- 
bardment. 

March 26. — Skirmish at Longview, Ark., in 
which the 28th Wisconsin, 5th Kansas and 7th 
Missouri Cavalry engaged. — On the same date, 
the 2d Kansas Cavalry had a skirmish at 
Danville, Ark. — At Canton, Miss., (Black River) 
a slight skirmish took place. 

March 28. — At Charleston, 111., the copper- 
heads attacked the 54th Illinois Infantry, re- 
turning to the front from veteran's furlough. 
The regiment lost two killed and eight wounded. 
The attacking party lost three killed, four 
wounded and 12 were taken prisoners. — Activ- 
ity at Fort Powell, Ala. — Skirmish at Cane 
River, La. (Red River expedition). — At Arka- 
delphia. Ark., the cavalry of the 7th Corps 
made a movement to advance. 

March 29. — In a skirmish at Bolivar, Tenn., 
the Union loss was eight killed and 35 wounded ; 
the 6th Tennessee Cavalry were engaged. 

March 30. — At Mount Elba, Ark., the force 
recorded on the 28th had a skirmisii, the 
aggregate losses of the several actions from the 
26th to the oOth including four Union soldiers 
killed and 18 wounded; the rebel loss was 12 
killed, 35 wounded and 300 prisoners. — At 
Grosse Tete Bayou, La., the 118th Illinois In- 
fantry had a skirniish. — Skirmishes at Natchi- 
toches, La., and Monticello, ^lo. — Riots at 
Matloon, 111. 



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March 31— The 3d U. S. Cavalry (colored), 
had a skirmisli ;it Snydersville, Miss., losing 16 
killed and three wounded; the confederate loss 
was three killed and seven wounded. — Action 
at Ball's Ferry, Va. 

April 1. — At Augusta, Ark., in a skirmish, 
the 3d Minnesota Infantry and Sth Missouri 
Cavalry lost eight killed and 10 wounded, and 
inflicted a loss of 15 killed and 45 wounded. — 
Slight 'skirmish on the Rappahannock, Va. — 
Skirmishes at White Rivei-, Ark., and Grant's 
Pass, Ala. — A collision occurred at Fitzhugh's 
Woods, Va. 

April 2.— At Spoonville, Ark., the 29th 
Iowa, 50th Indiana and 9th Wisconsin Infantry 
and the 1st Missouri Cavalry, belonging to 
Steele's expedition, had a skirmish and lost 10 
killed and 35 wounded ; rebel loss, 100.— Skir- 
mish at Crump's Hill, La., by the regiments of 
the Red River expedition, in which the Union 
loss was 20 wounded ; 35 rebels were lost. — 
Skirmishes at Camden, N. C, Antoine, Texas, 
Cleveland, Tenn., and Pen.saco]a, Fia. 

April 3. — At Okalona, Ark., another action 
was had, iji which Illinois and Missouri cavalry, 
and Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Ohio infan- 
try participated ; the Union loss was 16 killed 
and 74 wounded ; the rebels lost 75 in killed 
and wounded. 

April 4. — Compti, La., was made famous by 
a skirmish in the Red River expedition, and 
the Federal loss was 10 killed and 18 wounded. 
— Skirmish at Plymouth, N. C— The tight at 
Elkin's Ford, Ark., was commenced and the 
skirmishing continued at intervals for three 
d;iys. Three infantry regiments, one cavalrv 
regiment and a battery were engaged and the 
loss was five killed and 33 wounded on the 
Federal side. 

April 5.— At Roseville, Ark., detachments 
of the 2d and 6th Kansas Cavalry had a 
guerrilla skirmish, and lost 19 killed and 11 



wounded; the confederate casualties included 
15 killed, 25 wounded and 11 prisoners.— At 
Stone's Farm, Ark., 26 men of the 6th Kansas 
Cavalry were attacked by guerrilbis, and 11 of 
them were captured and massacred, among 
them Surgeon Fairchilds.— Skirmish at Grand 
Ecore, La., (Red River expedition). 

April 6. — In a skirmish at Quicksand, Ky., 
one company, 14th Kentucky ^'olunteers, had 
a skirmish and lost 10 men killed and seven 
wounded.— Skirmishes at Fort Plalleck, Ind. 
Ter., Columbus, Mo., and Shreveport, La. (The 
activity at the latter place continued three 
days).— Skirmish at Peach Hill, Va. 

April 7.— At Wilson's Farm, La., the ad- 
vance cavalry of the 19tli Corps in the Red 
River expedition, engaged the rebels with a 
loss of 14 killed and 39 wounded, the rebel loss 
being 40 wounded men and 100 prisoners. — 
At Harney Lake ^"alley, Ore., a skirmish took 
place, in which the 1st Oregon Cavalry was 
engaged.— Detachments from Illinois cavalry 
and infantry and a battery were engaged m a 
skirmish at Plain's Farm, near Port Hudson, La. 
April 8.— Battle of Sabine Cross Roads or 
Mansfield. The advance of Banks' army en- 
gaged in heavy skirmishing with the rebels in 
a line of battle that was, practically, an ambus- 
cade, the forces being disposed in a wedge 
shape. After the first onset the wings of the 
rebel c immand closed about the Union troops 
and confusion resulted. A complete rout was 
prevented only by the timely arrival of rein- 
forcements. The Union troops engaged num- 
bered about 8,000, and the losses aggregated 
2,000 in killed, wounded and missing. The 
rebels pursued three miles and a half, when 
they were checked by General Emery's division. 
Tlie rebel loss at Mansfield numbered 3,500. — 
A Missouri battery became involved in a skir- 
mish at Pembescott Bayou, Ark.— At Wolf 
River, Tenn., Grierson's cavalry had a skirmish. 



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1864— APRIL 10 — APRIL 18 — 1864. 



— At Cane lliver, La., the advance of the Red ! 
River expedition met ihe reliels in force, and 
tlie hitter were put to flight with a loss of 600 
prisoners. 

April 10.— The troops belonging to Steele's 
expedition had a heavy fight at Prairie d'Ann, 
Ark., in which the Union loss was 100 killed, 
wounded and missing. Several days were oc- 
cupied in the conflict.— At Little Cacapon, Va., 
a company of the 54th Pennsylvania Infantry 
engaged in a skirmish. 

April 12. — At Pleasant Hill Landing, La., 
the 17lh Corps, assisted by the gunboats Lex- 
ington and Osage, had a considerable fight, 
resulting in a loss to the Federals engaged of 
seven wounded. The rebel loss included 200 
killed and wounded. (Red River expedition.) 
— The massacre at Fort Pillow took place on 
this date. The garrison included 19 officers 
and 538 men, 262 of whom were negroes, com- 
manded by Major L. F. Booth. Forrest attacked 
the fort suddenly, no intimation of it reaching 
the garrison, until the onset was made and the 
Union pickets driven in. Major Booth was 
killed early in the struggle and was succeeded 
by Major W. V. Bradford, who retired with the 
force within the intrenchments. The artillery 
defense included six guns and aid was received 
from a gunboat. In the afternoon, Forrest sent 
in a flag of truce demandiiig surrender without 
conditions and the commandant asked an hour 
for consideration. Meanwhile the rebels, re- 
gardless of the flag, were taking an advantage- 
ous position. As soon as the reply was com- 
nmnicated the confederates rushed over the 
fortications, raising the cry: "No quarter." 
Indiscriminately of age or sex the slaughter 
was pressed until nightfall and renewed at day- 
light, about oUO people being killed in cold 
blood.' The 'entire Union loss was 350 killed, 
00 wounded and 164 missing. The confederate 
loss was 80 killed and wounded. — At Fremont's 



Orchard, Col. Ter., two cavalry companies had 
a scrimmage with the Indians. 

April 13.— Steele's raiders had a skirmish 
at Moscow, Ark., losing five killed and 17 
wounded. The rebel loss was 30 killed and 
wounded. — Kentucky infantry encountered a 
rebel force at Paintsville, Ky., and fought the 
next day at Half Mount, Ky. — A slight afl'air 
took place at Columbus, Mo. — Skirmishes at 
Indian Bay, Ark., Florence, Ala., Cleveland, 
Tenn., Paducah, Ky., Grand Ecore, La., and 
Wayne C. H., W. Va. 

April 14. — An infantry skirmish took place 
at SmitJi field, Va., the losses being to the 
Union and confederates engaged, five and six 
respectively. — The 6tli Kansas Cavalry raided 
Dutch Mills, Ark. (Steele's expedition). 

April 15. — Advance of Steele's force on 
Camden, Ark., the place being occupied the 
following day. — At Bristoe's Station, \'a., a 
cavalry action occurred with inconsiderable 
loss. — Another force of Steele's command raided 
Liberty, Ark. 

April 16. — Skirmi.sh at King's River, Ark., 
and at Scullyville, Indian Territory, in which 
the Indian Home Guards were engaged. 

April 17. — At Plymouth, N. C, an import- 
ant engagement took place in which the 85th 
New York, 103d Pennsylvania and the 16th 
Connecticut Infantry under General Wessels, 
assi.>^ted by a strong naval force under Lieu- 
tenant Commander Flusser, fought three days 
for j)ossession of the western entrance to .\lbe- 
marle Sound, the action resulting in the defeat 
of the Federal troops. The loss to the latter in- 
cluding Flusser was 20 killed and 80 wounded ; 
the confederate loss was about 500. — The same 
day a skirmish took place at Decatur, Ala., 
with slight loss, in which the 2otli Wisconsin 
engaged and two were wounded. 

April 18. — A forage train, escorted by the 
18th Iowa, 79th U. S. Colored Infantry and 6th 



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Kansas Cavalry, was attacked at Poison Springs 
near Camden, sustaining a loss of 113 killed, 
SS wounded and 68 missing. (Steele's expedi- 
tion). — Slight .skirmish at Bokken's Mills, S. C, 
two soldiers being killed and 18 wounded. 

Aprii, 19. — At Natchitoches, La., the 4th 
Brigade, Cavalry Division, lOlli Corps, Red 
River expedition, had an encounter with bush- 
whackers and guerrillas. — The 45th Kentucky 
was involved ni a skirmish at Pound Gap, Ky. 
— Skirmish at Burkesville, Ky. 

April 20. — A regiment of colored troops had 
a skirmish at Waterproof, La. 

April 21. — At Cotton Plant, Cache River, 
Ark., the troops of Steele's expedition had a 
skirmish. (98th Missouri Cavalry). — The 2d 
Wisconsin Cavalry had a brush with bush- 
whackers at Red Bone, Miss., one man being 
killed and six wounded. 

April 22. — Three companies of the 3d 
Rhode Island Cavalry on tran.sj)orts at Tunica 
Bend, Red River, were attacked from the 
banks, suffering a loss of two killed and 17 
wounded. 

April 23. — In a skirmish at Nickajuck Trace, 
Ga., a detachment of the 92d Illinois Infantry 
was engaged in which they lost five killed and 
nine wounded and 22 taken prisoners. — Two 
divisions of Banks' array had an encounter at 
Moneti's Bluff, La., and at Cloutiersville, the 
latter extending into the following day. It 
was a determined movement of the confed- 
erates to prevent the Federals crossing the Cane 
River and the advance had sharp work to 
repulse and drive back the rebels. General 
Banks was iu possession of the rebel plans and 
pushed his command through swamps and 
almost impenetrable morass, steadily advancing 
and arriving at Alexandria on the 26th, having 
suffered a loss of 350 killed and wounded. The 
confederate loss in killed and wounded was 
about 400.— At Swan Lake, Ark., the 5tli 



Kansas Cavalry, belonging to Steele's expedi- 
tion, was engaged in a skirmish. 

April 24.— At .Jacksonport, Ark., the 1st 
Nebraska Cavalry repulsed the rebels. 

April 25. — The rebels attacked a forage train, 
escorted by several infantry regiments and a 
battery and captured the wagons and guard 
while en route from Little Rock to supply 
Banks' army ; the encounter transpired near 
Pine Bluff; 2,000 prisoners were taken. — At 
Mark's Mills, General Pagan's force, 6,000 
strong, attacked the rear of a supply train of 
240 wagons, cut off the advance from the rear, 
compelling the surrender of both columns and 
inflicting a loss of 250 killed and wounded, and 
the destruction or capture of the wagons, the 
negroes being shot after surrender, the rebels 
never taking colored prisoners. The rebel 
casualties were small. — Skirmish at Wautauga's 
Bridge, Tenn., in which the lOlh Michigan 
Cavalry was involved, losing three killed and 
nine wounded. 

April 26. — Steele's troops again encountered 
the rebels at Moro Creek, Ark., sustaining a loss 
of five killed and 14 wounded. — At Alexandria, 
a Missouri Cavalry regiment and a New York 
regiment of infantry became involved in a skir- 
mish. (Banks' expedition.) 

April 28.— At Offett's Knob, Mo., the 1st 
Missouri Militia Cavalry had a brush with guer- 
rillas. 

April 29. — At Princeton, Ark., two infantry 
regiments, one cavalry and a battery belonging 
to Steele's expedition, had a short, sharp skir- 
mish without loss. 

April 30. — Jenkins' Ferry. Steele's division, 
which had suffered heavily in incessant skir- 
mishing through the entire march from Little 
Rock to make connection with Banks, was at- 
tacked on the Sabine River in Arkansas by the 
consolidated forces of Kirby Smith and Price — 
5,000 Union soldiers against 20,000 rebels— 



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1864— MAY 1— MAY 5 — 1864. 



a battle of about eight hours' duration ensuing, 
whicli was one of the sharpest contests of the 
war in the southwest, hut resulted in a victory 
of the Union force which saved Little Rook and 
Arkansas to the U. S. Government. General 
Salomon of Wisconsin won the honors by deter- 
mined bravery, and the j)ursuit of the rebels 
was prevented only by lack of supplies. 1,175 
Union soldiers were lost and about 2,000 rebels. 
— Activities at Little Washington. 

May 1. — In the early days of May, 'le 
operations of the Union armies were to be co; • 
bined. Sigel commenced his movements up 
the valley of the Shenandoah on the 1st day of 
the month. — The 7th U. S. Inf jv, Colored 
Troop-s, had a skirmish at JacksOrtville, Fla., 
losing one man killed. — At Hudnot's Planta- 
tion, La., and near Alexandria, a skirmish took 
place between cavalry of the 13th and 19th 
Corps, resulting in a loss of 33 killed, 87 
wounded and the loss to the rebels included 
2.') killed and 100 wounded. — At Ashwood's 
Landing, La., the 64th U. S. Colored Troops 
skirmished with guerrillas. — At Clinton, La., a 
slight affair occurred. 

May 2. — Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey, 
of the 4th Wisconsin commenced the construc- 
tion of a dam for the release of 10 gunboats 
and two tugs imprisoned by low water on the 
Red River. The work was concluded on the 
8th and resulted in tlie safe passage of the fleet 
five days later, with the loss of one man and 
insignificant injuries to the boats. — Fight at 
Governor Moore's Plantation, La. ; Union loss 
two killed and 10 wounded.— 7th Kansas Cav- 
alry encountered a small force of reliels at 
Memphis, Tenn.— Skirmish at Harrisonburg, 
La. 

May 3.— Red Clay, Ga. The 1st Cavalry 
Division of the Army of the Cumberland was 
engaged and lost 10 killed and wounded. — 
Skirmish at Richland, Ark., involving the 2d 



Arkansas Cavalry, the command losing 20 in 
killed and wounded. — A cavalry engagement 
took place at Bolivar, Tenn. — At Baton Rouge 
La., a cavalry encounter occurred in which the 
4th Wisconsin was engaged. — The r20th Ohio 
Lifantrj' and 73d U. S. Colored Troops on 
board tlie transport City Belle, were attacked 
by rebels on the banks of the Red River near 
Snaggy Point, La., and the loss and suffering 
was severe, the soldiers abandoning the trans- 
port, and many were murdered and captured 
by the pursuing rebels. — Preparations in the 
Army of the Potomac for operations in the 
Wilderness. 

May 4. — In a fight at Doubtful Canon, Ari., 
a detachment of the otli Califurnia Infantry 
and the 1st California Cavalry lost one killed 
and six wounded, and inflicted a loss of 10 
killed and 20 wounded. — Hancock took posi- 
tion at Chancellorsville. — Kautz cavalrj' raid 
commenced from Suffolk, Va., on the Wcldon 
railroad and included the movements at Wall 
Bridge, Stony Creek Station, Jarrett's Station 
and White's Bridge, to City Point, which was 
reached on the 12th. — Marye's Heights, Orange 
C. H. and Bermuda Hundred were occupied. — 
Yazoo expedition in Mississijjpi commenced ; 
the 3d U. S. Cavalry, Colored, 11th, 72d and 
76th Illinois Infantry being detailed aJid the 
5th Illinois Cavalry and 7th Ohio Battery. 
Actions took place at Vaughn and Benton, a 
slight loss being sustained. The expedition 
consumed nine days. 

May' 5. — The U. S. gunboats Ceres, Commo- 
dore Hull, Matabesett, Sassacus, Seymour, 
Wydusing, Miami and Whitehead, attacked 
the rebel ram Albemarle, on the Roanoke 
River, N. C, with a loss of five killed and 20 
wounded ; the rebels lost 56 prisoners. — The 
transport Warner, steamer Covington and gun- 
boat Signal, liaving the 56th Ohio Infantry on 
board were attacked by rebels at Dunn's Bayou 



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on the Red River. The soldiers fought as long 
as possible and the residue abandoned the 
boats, making their way to Alexandria through 
tlie woods. More than half the command was 
lost. — Battle of the Wilderness. The rebel 
General Ewell, with his division, disputed the 
occupation of the Wilderness and a terrific 
fight ensued, which was participated in by the 
2d, 5th, 6th, 9th and Cavalry Corps of the Array 
of the Potomac under Hancock, Warren, Sedg- 
wick, Burnside and Sheridan, Major-General 
Meade commanding. It was practically a 
hand-to-hand struggle, and at dark was not at 
an end. The rebel General Hill had joined in 
the contest and, during the ensuing night, 
Longstreet made connection with Lee's army, 
and there was no alternative but to continue 
the conflict and urge matters to a determina- 
tion on the 6th, the fight being resumed as 
soon as day broke. The fighting was no less 
vigorous than on the previous day, but at the 
close both armies were indisposed to renew ac- 
tive hostilities, although no decisive state of 
affairs had been reached. The killed of the 
Union army was 5,597, wounded 21,463 and 
missing 10,677. Brigadier-Generals Wads- 
worth, Hayes and Webb were among the killed. 
The loss of the rebels was 2,000 killed, 6,000 
wounded and 3,400 missing. The confederate 
generals Jenkins, Pickett and Jones were killed 
and Longstreet, Pegram, Stafford and Hunter 
wounded. — Action at Craig's Meeting House, Va. 
May 6. — Sherman commenced his move- 
ment on the 27th of April. On the 6th day of 
May, the three branches of his command were 
in position. Three corps of the Army of the 
Cumberland, two corps of the Army of the 
Tennessee and one corps of the Army of the 
Ohio, were located respectively at Ringgold and 
Red Clay. Preparations were put in progress 
for the triumphant campaign known to history 
forevermore as the " March to the Sea ;" the 



days from the 5th to the 9th inclusive were 
made conspicuous by the movements by way 
of Ship Gap, Villanow, and Snake Creek Gap, 
Tunnel Hill, and the sharp actions at Rocky 
Face Ridge and Buzzard's Roost. An effort 
was made to compel the evacuation of Dalton 
but failed and, May 13th, General Sherman 
dec' ed to move towards Resaca. Skirmishing 
c imenced on the 14th, the rebels having 
taken possession of the city. Calhoun was 
threatened and a force sent against the railroad 
to cut off' c munications. Resaca was aban- 
doned by A . rebels and occupied by the Fed- 
eral troops. At Ley's Ferry a slight action 
took place on the 15th, and, on the same day, 
an action occurred at Tanner's Bridge. On 
the daj'^ following. May 16th, another fight 
took place at Rome Cross Roads ; a two days' 
encounter occurred at Adairsville and included 
the minor actions at Graves' House and (Jalhoun. 
May 18th, the Army of the Cumberland was 
in action at Rome, and, on the 19th, the 20th 
Corps was involved at Cassville. The action 
there continued until the 22d ; on the 24tli the 
fight at Kingston, in which three regiments of 
Union infantry and one regiment of cavalry 
were engaged, took place. On the 25th, the 
series of operations known as the battle of Dal- 
las, New Hope Church, Burnt Hickory, Pump- 
kinvine Creek and Allatoona Hills commenced, 
and was concluded on the 4th of June without 
decisive results. May 25tli, a fight occurred at 
Cassville Station followed by a skirmLsh at 
Burned Church. From the 5th to the 9th of 
May, the Union casualties included 200 killed 
and 637 wounded. In an assault on Resaca, 
600 were killed and 2,147 wounded. The total 
loss at Dallas in the nine days' operation, was 
2,400. The Army of the Cumberland was 
commanded by General Thomas, that of the 
Tennessee by McPherson and that of the Ohio 
by Schofield. General Johnston was the guid- 



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ing spirit of the rebels. The confederate loss 
was variously estimated, but doubtless reached 
6,500 in round numbers from May 6th to June 
4th. — The gunboat, Commodore Jones, attacked 
the rebels on the James River near City Point ; 
Union loss, "23 killed and 4S wounded. — De- 
tachments of the 10th and ISth Army Corps, 
Army of the Potomac, encountered the rebels 
at Chester, Va., on the Richmond i Petersburg 
Railroad, and sustained a loss of 4S killed and 
256 wounded : the rebel loss was 50 killed and 
•200 wounded. — At Princeton, W. Va., the forces 
under General Crook made an advance. 

Mat 7. — A portion of the 16th Army Corps, 
belonging to Banks' Red River expedition, met 
the rebels at Bayou La Mourie, La., and lost 10 
killed and 31 wounded. — At Benton, Miss., the 
Yazoo expedition had an engagement, in which 
three Illinois regiments and an Ohio battery 
were in action. — Tunnel Hill, Ga. — Mill Creek 
and Dug Gap. — Stoney Creek Station, Va. — An 
unimportant action at Tazewell, Tenu. 

May 8. — The ^d Division of the cavalry corps 
of the Army of the Potomac engaged the rebels 
at Todds Tavern, Va., and inflicted a loss of 
40 killed and 1-50 wounded. — The movements 
which culminated in the battle of Spottsylvania 
Court House commenced. Lee moved his com- 
mand forward on the night of the 7th and 
reached the place in advance of Grant. On the 
Sth, Lee's forces made their position sure and 
sharp fighting ensued. On the 9th, desultory 
skirmishing was continued, the confederates at- 
tacking various points where Federal batteries 
were being placed. On the 10th, Grant made 
heavy demonstrations on the rebel lines and 
sent his deathless despatch, "I propose to fight 
it out on this line if it takes all summer" to 
Washington. The three days' indeterminate 
battle had already cost 10,000 men, "the flower 
of the Army of the Potomac." The 11th found 
the Federal forces in preparation for hard work 



to drive the confederates from what seemed an 
impregnable position. Hancock's corps made 
a dash at the rebel center and the battle thus 
precipitated raged all day and part of the night 
without decisive results. The fighting con- 
tinued six days longer and Grant withdrew to 
the North Anna River. — The cavalry connected 
with the command of General Crook made a 
dash at Jeffersonville, Va. — Actions at Snake 
Creek Gap and Buzziird's Roost. 

May d. — Sheridan's raid toward Richmond 
commenced as soon as Grant had taken his 
position at Spottsylvania. He was sent by his 
chief to cut off Lee's communications. He took 
a large cavalry force and destroyed a portion of 
the Virginia Central r;^iIroad, considerable roll- 
ing stock, 1,500,000 rations and set free 400 
Union prisoners en route to Libby prison. An 
assault was made on the outer works about 
Richmond. During the raid, the Union force 
engaged the rebels at Beaver Dam Station, 
South Anna Bridge, Ashland and Yellow 
Tavern. The loss of the Federals was 50 killed, 
174 wounded and 20<) missing : the rebels lost 
heavily in killed, wounded and prisoners. The 
confederate general, J. E. B. Stuart, was killed 
and General Gordon was wotinded. — At Dalton 
and at Varnell's Station, Ga., actions took place. 
— The 6th Ohio and 1st New Jersey regiments 
belonging to Sheridan's command, raid Childs- 
bury, Va. — An action was commenced by the 
10th and ISth Corps of the Army of the -James 
at Arrowfield Church, or Swift Creek, which 
continued tmtil the following day. The Union 
loss was 90 killed and 400 wounded ; the reljel 
loss was 500 killed and wounded. — On the 
same day, the 12th, 23d, 34th and 36ih Ohio, 
9th, 11th, 14th and 15th West Virginia Infantry 
and 3d and 4th Pennsylvania Reserves, Army 
of West Virginia, had a tight at Cloyd's 
Mountain and New River Bridge, Va. Union 
loss, 126 killed, 3S5 wounded: confederate loss 



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600 killed and wounded and 300 missing. Tlie 
action extended over two days. — Four infantry 
and one regiment of mounted soldiers engaged 
in a skirmish at Cove Mountain, Va. The 
fighting occupied two days. — Skirmish at 
Beaver Dam Station, Va. 

May 10 Action at Ground Squirrel Church 

Bridge, on the South Anna, Va. (Sheridan's 
raid.]— Skirmish at Dardanelle, Ark., in which 
tiie 6th Kansas Cavalry was engaged. — Move- 
ments at Appomattox, Va., and New Btrne, N. C. 

May 11. — At Ashland, Va., the 1st Massa- 
chusetts Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — At 
Yellow Tavern, Va., the 1st and 3d Divisions, 
Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, made a 
raid. (Sheridan's command.) 

May- 12. — Battle of Fort Darling at Drury's 
Bluff, Va. Butler was in command of the 10th 
Corps under AV. F. Smith and the 18th under 
Gilmore ; the comhined forces numbered 25,000 
with 3,000 cavalry under Kautz and with this 
force the fort was attacked ; it was the extreme 
southern point of the defenses of Richmond, 
and was held by Beauregard with 20,000 men. 
The outer lines were carried and, after two 
days' deliberation, Butler determined to make 
a general assault on the fort on the morning of 
the 16th. At midnight before, a fog arose and 
the rebel chief quietly assembled his entire 
command in the dense darkness and, before 
dawn, made an assault on the sleeping Union 
camps, moving his troops through a gap which 
was guarded weakly by a small cavalry force. 
Beauregard's plans were frustrated by the fog, 
his generals failing to perform their alloted 
work. However, Butler ordered a general 
retreat. Beauregard attempted to follow, but 
a heavy rain came on and, by nightfall of the 
16th, was within his intrenchmente. The 
Union loss was 422 killed, 2,580 wounded and 
1,400 prisoners. The rebel loss was 400 killed, 
2,000 wounded and 100 missing. While the 



action at Fort Darling was in {)rogress and the 
infantry engaged there, the cavalry of General 
Kautz were doing effective service on the line 
of the Richmond & Lynchburg railroad. — At 
Meadow Bridge, Va., the 1st and 3d Divisions 
of the cavalry corps belonging to Sheridan's 
command made a dashing raid. 

May 13.— The battle of Resaca, Ga. (See 
previous date.) — At Pulaski, Tenn., the 11th 
U. S. Colored Troopshad a skirmish. — AtTiltou, 
Tenn., the 1st Division of Cavalry belonging to 
the Army of the Cumberland had a sharp 
skirmish with the rebels. — In an engagement 
at Point Lookout, Va., a detachment of colored 
troops and seamen from the flotilla of the " 
Potomac engaged in a lively encounter with 
the confederates. 

May 14. — The troops belonging to Banks' 
Red River expedition had an engagement at 
Mansurara, La. The action occupied two days. 
— At Rood's Hill, Va., a portion of the Army 
of West Virginia engaged in a skirmish. 

May 15. — Sigel and Breckenridge met at 
Newmarket, Va., and the Union force was de- 
feated, falling back and leaving behind the 
trains and a hundred prisoners, 120 dead, 560 
wounded and 240 missing ; the rebel loss was 
85 killed and 320 wounded. — A skirmish took 
place at Mount Pleasant Landing, in which the 
Union loss was three killed and five wounded. 
— At Tanner's Bridge, Ga., the L^uion force lost 
two killed and 16 wounded.— At Ley's Feny, 
Ga., part of the 16th Corps of Sherman's army 
was in action. 

May 16.— At Rome Cross Roads, Ga., the 16th 
Corps of the Army of the Tennessee, belonging 
to Sherman's command, had a tight. — At 
Ashepoo River, S. C, the 34th U. S^ Colored 
Troops engaged in a slight action. — At Pond 
Creek, Ky., the 39th Kentucky Infantry en- 
countered bushwackers.— At Clear Creek, Mo., 
two companies of the 15'ih Kansas Cavalry 



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fought guerrillas.— Tlie division of General 
Tyler, 5th Corps, took position on the Freder- 
icksburg road preparatory to taking part in the 
battle at Spottsylvania Court House. — At Smoky 
Hill, Col., one company of colored troops and a 
Colorado baltery encountered bushwackers. — 
At Belcher's MilLs, Va., the 3d New York, 5th 
and 11th Pennsylvania and the 1st District of 
Columbia Cavalry engaged in an action ; the 
force belonged to the command of Kautz — 
Hardee, commanding the confederates, attacked 
the Union rear under Howard at Calhoun. — At 
Adairsville, Jackson, a detacliment of the con- 
federate cavalry of General Polk fought the 
advance of the army of General Thomas under 
Newton. 

May 17. — The Armies of the Cumberland, 
Ohio and Tennessee moved southward in the 
third part of the plan of Shermau. The com- 
mand of Jeff C. Davis captured eight guns 
and valuable property of the confederates. — A 
skirmish took place at Madison Station, Ala , 
in which the 3d Division and 15th Corps of the 
Army of the Tennessee engaged. — At Kings- 
ton, Ga., the 2d Cavalry Division of the Army 
of the Cumberland had a fight. — At Bayou de 
Glaize, La., portions of the 16th and 17th In- 
fantry Corps and cavalry belonging to the 19tli 
Corps of the army under General Banks, had 
an encounter with the rebels, whom they re- 
jiulsed, inflicting a loss of 500 killed and 
wounded, their own casualties amounting to 60 
killed and 300 wounded. General Smith moved 
his command to the rear and attacked, defeated 
and pursued the rebels. The loss of the con- 
federates in this action was 325 in killed and 
wounded and 250 prisoners. 

May 18. — The 1st Oregon Cavalry had a 
skirmish at Crooked River, Oregon, with the 
Indians. 

May 19. — Skirmish at Fayetteville, Ark., in 
which the 6th Kansas Cavalry were engaged. — 



In a skirmish at Welaka and Saunders, Fla., a 
dehichment of the 17th Connecticut Infantry 
fought tlie rebels. — The action at Cassville, Ga., 
begun, the 20th Corps, Army of the Cumber- 
land, being engaged two days. 

May 20.— At Downer's Bridge, Va., the 5th 
New York Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — 
At Milford Station, Va., the 1st Cavalry Division 
of the Army of the Potomac made a raid. 

May 21. — A skirmish, in which the 2d 
Colorado Cavalry participated, occurred at 
Snia's Hills, Mo. — At Mount Pleasant, Miss., 
two soldiers of the 4th Missouri Cavalrj' were 
killed in a skirmish. 

May 22.— At Old River, La., the 6th Mis- 
souri Cavalry engaged in a slight skirmish. — 
On the Mattapony River, Va., activities were 
progressing towards the finale of the plans of 
Grant. 

May 23. — The actions on the North Anna 
River, including Jericho Ford, Taylor's Bridge 
and Tolopotomy Creek, were participated in by 
the 5th, 2d and 9th Corps of the Army of the 
Potomac, commanded by General Meade. They 
covered three days and involved a loss to the 
Union force of 223 killed, 1,460 wounded and 
290 missing. The loss to the rebels was 2,000 
in killed and wounded. — At Horse Landing, 
St. John's River, Fla., the steam tug Columbine 
was captured by the rebels. The 35th U. S. 
Colored Troops and the sailors on the tug were 
engaged. 

May 24. — In a skirmish at Holly Springs, 
Miss., the 4th Missouri Cavalry was engaged. 
At Kingston, Ga., the 50th Ohio and 14th 
Kentucky Infantry with the 2d Kentucky 
Cavalry, engaged in a lively skirmish, in which 
the Union force lost one killed and two 
wounded. — At Wilson's Wharf Landing, Va., 
a well conducted skirmish took place, in which 
the 1st D. C. Infantry and 10th U. S. Colored 
Troops and Battery B, U. S. Colored Artillery, 



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inflicted a loss on tbe confederates of 20 killed 
and 100 wounded. — In a skirmish at Nashville, 
Tenn., the Union loss to the 15th U. S. Colored 
Troops amounted to four killed and eight 
wounded. — At Sahine Pass, La., a slight skir- 
mish took place. — The activity of the rebels at 
Gaines' Cross Roads and Landing became 
marked. — At Fort Powhatan, N. C, the colored 
troops were assaulted by rebels and repulsed 
tliem. 

May 25. — The action at Dallas, Ga., com- 
menced. — At Cassville Station, Ga., the 1st and 
11th Kentucky Cavalry were engaged. 

May 2G. — At Burned Church, Ga., the cav- 
alry of the 1st Division of the Army of the 
Cumberland fought with a detachment of the 
rebels. — At Laue's Prairie, Mo., two comj^anies 
of the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry had a skirmish. 
— A torpedo explosion occurred on Bachelor's 
Creek, N. C, in which the 132d and 158th 
New York Infantry and 58th Pennsylvania 
lost 35 killed and 19 wounded. — In a lively 
fight at Decatur and Moulton, Ala., the 1st, 3d 
and 4th Oliio Cavalry, 3d Brigade, 4th Divi- 
sion, 16th Corps, were engaged, with a loss of 
48 killed and wounded, the rebels losing 60 in 
killed and wounded. The action included 
several days. 

May 27. — The movements of the Army of 
the Potomac on this date are known to history 
as the passage of the Pamunkey River. At 
dark of the 26th, the withdrawal of the troops 
to the North Anna commenced, and was effected 
without the knowledge of the rebels. At nine 
in the morning, General Sheridan reported 
himself at Hanover Town. On the Hanover 
Court House Road a rebel cavalry force was en- 
countered and driven back to Crump's Creek, 
five miles away. The road from Sheridan's 
position was occupied by Union cavalry to 
Atlee's Station and Richmond. At noon. Gen- 
eral Russell reported his arrival at the south 



side of the Pamunkey and, 24 hours later, the 
6th Corps had crossed. The 2d Corps followed. 
The 5th had crossed earlier and at midnight 
the 9th Corps was in position. On the morn- 
ing of that day a severe engagement was begun 
at Hawes' Shop, and the fighting there was 
continued until late in the evening, when Cus- 
ter's brigade carried the intrenchments and 
drove the rebels. A series of fights occurred 
on the 28th, 29th 30th and 31st, in the attempt 
of Grant to force the front lines of the rebels. 
The loss was 1,607 in killed, wounded and 
missing, that of the confederates being much 
larger. Grant made a flank movement and, 
on the 1st day of June, took possession of Cold 
Harbor. — At San Carlos River, Cal., an engage- 
ment took place, in which Company K, 5th 
California Infantry was involved. 

May 28 —At Little Rock, Ark., the 57th 
U. S. Colored Troops had a skirmish.— At 
Pleasant Hill, Mo., the 2d Colorado Cavalry 
became involved in a slight skirmish. — At 
Jacksonville, Fla., the 7th U. S. Colored Troops 
were engaged.— The 1st, 3d and 4th Ohio 
Cavalry of the Army of the Cumberland fought 
at Moulton, Ala. 

May 29. — The action belonging to the cross- 
ing of the Pamunkey River, known as Tolopo- 
tomy Creek or Salem Church, was fought by 
the 2d and 5th Corps, Army of the Potomac, 
and continued to the 31st of May. 

May 30. — The 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, 
Army of the Potomac, fought at Hanover 
Court House, Va. ; a skirmish also took place 
at Ashland, Va., in which the same troops 
under General Wilson were engaged. The loss 
in both were 26 killed and 130 wounded. — At 
Old Church, Va., the 1st Division of the Cav- 
alry Corps, Army of the Potomac, had an en- 
gagement. The command was under General 
Torbett and the loss was 16 killed and 74 
wounded.— At Dardanelle, Ark., a slight skir- 
mish took place. 



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May 31. — A convention of persons wlio be- 
lieved the measures of the Administration too 
lenient, was held at Cleveland, Ohio, and John 
C. Fremont was nominated for President and 
.John C. Cochrane for Vice President. Later, 
the action was rescinded and adhesion to the 
Administration of Lincoln and .Johnson was 
advised. 

June 1. — Grant's possession of Cold Harbor 
cost 2,000 men. On this date the rebels made 
two determined efforts to dislodge Sheridan's 
troops, to meet with repulse and heavy loss. 
Sharp fighting was maintained until the early 
afternoon of the 3d, when the activities be- 
longing properly to the battle of Cold Harbor 
came to an end. The losses of the Army of 
the Potomac were 1,905 killed, 10,570 wounded 
and 2,456 missing. The confederate losses 
were reported and estimated considerably less, 
the holding of the place being accomplished at 
heavy cost to the Union troops. Brigadier- 
Generals Brooks and Byrnes were killed and 
Tyler and Stannard wounded. — A slight skir- 
mish occurred at Greentown, Mo. 

June 2. — The 10th Corps, Army of the Po- 
tomac, fought Longstreet's reserve at Bermuda 
Hundred, sustaining a loss of 25 killed and 100 
wounded. — The engagements on the Pamunkey 
referred to above, took place at Gaines' Mills, 
Salem Church and Hawes' Store, Va. The 
cavalry of Sheridan was engaged. — At Ossabaw 
Sound, Ga., an engagement of slight moment 
took place. 

June 3. — A detachment of the 3d Missouri 
Cavalry had a skirmish at Searcey, Ark. — At 
Panther and Buffalo Gap, W. Va., Hayes' 
Brigade, 2d Division, Army of West Virginia, 
had a sharp encounter with the rebels with a 
loss of 25 killed and wounded to both. — At 
Ackworth, Ga., the 2d Division of Cavalry, 
Army of the Cumberland, belonging to Sher- 
man's troops, were engaged. — A slight skirmish 
occurred at Georgetown, Va. 



Ji'NE 4. — Slight action at Jasper, Tenn. 

June 5. — At Piedmont or Mount Crawford, 
W. Va., the troops of General Hunter encoun- 
tered General W. F. Jones and defeated him, 
taking 1,500 prisoners and three guns. Hun- 
ter lost 130 killed and G50 wounded. The 
rebels lost 4G0 killed and 1,450 wounded, the 
commander being among the former. 

June 6. — Active operations were in progress 
at Atlanta, on the Chattahoochie at Columbia, 
Ark., and at Chicot Lake in that State. The 
latter is variously known as Old River Lake, 
Ditch Bayou, Columbia and Fish Bayou. The 
16th Corps of Steele's command was involved 
and the loss was 40 killed and 70 wounded. 
The rebel loss was 100 killed and wounded. — 
At Greenland Gap Road, near Moorefield, W. 
Va., the 22d Pennsylvania Cavalry made a raid. 
— Slight activities at Ackworth, Ga., and 
Staunton, Va. 

June 7. — National Republican Convention 
was held at Baltimore, which took a decided 
stand on the war question, strenuously oppos- 
ing any comjiromise. Abraham Lincoln was 
nominated for President and Andrew Johnson 
for Vice President. — At Ripley, Miss., the cav- 
alry of General Sturgis' command made an ad- 
vance and had an engagement ; the skirmish- 
ing in the expedition to Guntown connnenced 
on the 5th of the month and lasted until the 
10th. — Skirmish at Rienzi, Miss. 

June 8. — At Lost Mountain, Ga., and Paris, 
Ky., activities took place. 

June 9. — Sherman moved from New Hope 
Church to Ackworth and fortified and gar- 
risoned Allatoona Pass, making it a base of 
supplies. Johnston transferred his army in 
accordance with the operations of the Union 
force and intrenched. Meanwhile, Sherman 
gave his attention to making ready for a pro- 
tracted series of operations, receiving reinforce- 
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order railroads and highways in readiness for 
possible emergencies. The veterans and cav- 
alry that made connection with his command 
on the Sth, supplied his former losses and the 
deficit made by soldiers left behind on garrison 
dut}'. On the 9th he took position at Big 
Slianty, half way between Ackworth and Ken- 
esaw and, two days later, McPherson, Schofield 
and Thomas, with their commands, were in 
position for the fights which made the period 
until the 30th famous. Sherman assaulted the 
lines of the rebels in every manner known to 
modern warfare. The fighting at the various 
points is known to histoiy under the name of 
Kenesaw Mountain, and included the engage- 
ments which will be found on the dates on 
whicli they occurred. The fighting was heavy 
and, on the 14th, Pine Mountain was abandoned 
by Johnston. The Union general pressed up to 
the new position selected by the rebel com- 
mander, Kenesaw being the poiiit d'avantage. 
On the 22d, Hooker was suddenly attacked by 
Hood near Gulp's House and at first was in the 
lurch, being driven b}'^ the rebels. Soon, how- 
ever, the Union lines rallied and Hood was 
driven back in great confusion, leaving his dead 
and wounded and losing many prisoners. On 
the 24th the order was issued for the attack of 
Kenesaw, which was carried into effect on the 
27th. On that day Thomas and McPherson 
made the assault in their fronts, after a period 
of vigorous use of the heavy artillery. They 
met with repulse with heavy loss and another 
flank movement became a necessity. The en- 
tire loss of the fighting of more than twenty 
days, aggregated 1,370 killed, 6,500 wounded 
and 800 missing, the rebels losing 1,100 killed 
and 3,500 wounded and missing. Generals 
Harker and Dan. McCook on the Union side 
were killed, the rebels losing General (Bishop) 
Leonidas Polk. — At Point of Rocks, Md., the 
2d U. S. Colored Cavalry had a skirmish, in 



which they lost two men killed. — At Mount 
Sterling, Ky., Burbridge's Cavalry of the Divi- 
sion of Kentucky engaged in a figlit in which 
they lost 35 killed and 150 wounded ; the 
rebels lost 50 killed and 200 wounded and 250 
captured. — At La Fayette, Tenn., the 7th Kan- 
sas Cavalry engaged in a skirmish of little ac- 
count. 

June 10.— Gen. S. D. Sturgis with 9,000 
infantry and 3,000 cavalry, the latter com- 
manded by Grierson, the former comprising 
the bulk of the command of Gen. A. J. Smith, 
advanced through West Tennessee, under 
orders to find and disperse the force of Price. 
They crossed into Northern Mississippi and en- 
countered the rebels at Guntown on the Mobile 
railroad, Grierson's cavalry meeting that of 
Forrest, and the dauntless Union cavalry chief 
pushed the cavalry of Forrest back upon his 
infantr)-. Sturgis, with the infantry of the 
Federal command, was some miles distant, but 
hearing of Grierson's position, pushed forward 
on the double quick. The excessive heat so 
exhausted the troops that they were totally un- 
fit for the business of precipitate action, and 
defeat awaited them. They were routed and 
their trains captured. Between three and four 
thousand prisoners were taken by the rebels. 
The action is also called Brice's Cross Roads. — 
In a fight near Petersburg, Va., a portion of the 
10th Corps and the cavalry force of Kautz were 
engaged and lost 20 killed and 67 wounded. — 
At Cynthiana and Kellar's Bridge, Ky., the 
168th and 171st Ohio (100-day men) encoun- 
tered the guerrillas under John Morgan and 
suffered heavily, losing 21 killed and nearly a 
thousand captured. — On this date occurred the 
engagement at Old Church, Va., in which the 
3d Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Poto- 
mac, were in action. Morgan raided Frankfort, 
Ky., and was confronted by the enrolled militia 
and citizens. — At Lexington, Va., on this and 



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the following day, the 2d Division of the Army 
of AVest Virginia engaged in an indecisive ac- 
tion, in which the Union loss was six killed and 
18 wounded.— At Cane Creek, Ala., the 106th 
Ohio Infantry skirmished with guerrillas.— At 
Lexington, Ky., the 4th Kentucky Cavalry 
skirmished without decisive results.— At Prince- 
ton, Ky., an action took place.— The 2d New 
.Jersey Cavalry fought at Corinth during the 
( luntown expedition. 

June U. — Another action took place at 
('ynthiana, Ky., in which the cavalry of the 
Division of Kentucky had a skirmish with 
Morgan's force. They captured 400 of the 
raiders and killed and disabled 300 more, losing 
150.— At Wilson's Landmg, Va., the 1st U. S. 
Colored Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — At 
Ripley, Miss., the 3d and 4th Iowa, 2d New 
.Jersey and 4th Missouri Cavalry have a lively 
engagement during the Guntown expedition. — 
At Trevillian Station, Central R. R., Va., the 
1st and 2d Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of 
the Potomac had an engagement, in which 8.5 
were killed, 490 wounded and IGO missing; 
rebel loss was 370 missing. Two days were 
consumed in this action. 

June 12. — The heaviest part of the action 
mentioned on the 11th occurred on this date. — 
At McAfee's Cross Roads, the cavalry belonging 
to the command of Sherman, (Army of the 
Cumberland) engaged in a fight. — At Kings- 
villc. Mo., a scouting detail from the 1st Mis- 
souri Militia Cavalry encountered the rebels. — 
Activities at Gordonsville, Va. 

June 13.— At White Oak Swamp Bridge, the 
cavalry connected with the commands of Gen- 
erals Wilson and Crawford engaged in a heavy 
skirmish, losing 50 killed and 250 wounded. — 
At White Post, W. V., the 6th West Virginia 
Cavalry had a slight engagement.— An en- 
counter between Union soldiers aud rebels took 
place at Wilcox' Landing, N. C. 



June 14. — Pine Mountain fight during the 
general engagement at Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. 
— At Lexington, Mo., a detachment of the 1st 
Missouri Militia Cavalry engaged a small rebel 
force and lost eight men in killed and one 
wounded. — At Buchanan, near Lexington, Va., 
the Army of West Virginia made an advance. 

June 15. — The cavalry force of General Wil- 
son encountered the rebels in aheavy skn-mish 
at Samaria Church and Malvern Hill, Va. The 
killed were 25 and the wounded three in num- 
ber; the rebels lost 100 killed and wounded. — 
At Moscow, Tenn., in an engagement between 
the 55th U. S. Colored Troops and the rebel 
guerrillas, the loss was insignifioant. — Com- 
mencement of activities preparatory to the siege 
of Petersburg, Va. The feasibility of the cap- 
ture of the city was not apprehended until the 
opportunit}' had ])assed and it became evident 
that it was, practically, the key to the advance 
on Richmond. On the 15th, matters approached 
a focus at that place and battle was in fierce 
progress on the next day. Disaster waited on 
the rebel arms and, on that day, the work of 
taking the city seems to have been assured if 
the correct view of aff'airs had been taken. But 
by nooTi of the next day the rebels were again 
on the defensive and the fighting throughout 
that day was indecisive, and resulted only in 
the inauguration of the siege which was not 
terminated until April 2d, 1865. When the 
fighting was renewed by the Union troops on 
the IStli, it was found that the rebels were in an 
impregnable position for the nonce. The troops 
engaged in the three days' encounters included 
the lOtli and 18th Corps, Army of the .James 
under Butler, the 2d, 5th, 6th and 9th Corps, 
Army of the Potomac commanded by Meade. 
The loss in killed was 1,298, wounded 7,474 and 
1,814 missing. Baylor's Farm, Va., was in- 
cluded in the above action on the 15th. — At 
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expedition had a skirmish witli tlie rebels on 
the banks of the river. 

June 16. — At Otter Creek, Va., the troops of 
Hunter's comnumd, Army of We.?t Virginia, 
skirmished with guerrillas and lost three killed 
and 15 wounded. — At Wier Bottom Creek, Va., 
(Siege of Petersburg,) the 2d Division, 10th 
Corps, Army of the James, engaged in one of 
tlie fights included in one of the actions out- 
lined above. — At Golgotiia, Ga., the 2d Corps of 
Sherman's army had a fight.— Walthal, Va., 
was the scene of one of the engagements before 
Petersburg in which the 1st Division of the 
10th Corps was engaged. — At Pierson's Farm 
the 36th U.'S. Colored Troops fought the rebels. 

June 17. — Lynchburg, Va. Hunter had been 
reinforced by Crook's division of infantry and 
Averill's cavalry, making his command 18,000 
strong, with 30 guns. He pressed towards 
Lynchburg, destroying Staunton and the fac- 
tories of the rebels and helping himself to such 
supplies as his troops needed. It is said that 
the troops waded in tobacco that was ruth- 
lessly scattered in the streets. The Virginia 
Central railway was destroyed for several miles 
and the railroad shojis and supplies burned, 
the culverts and bridges being ruined beyond 
repair. On the 12th, Crook's advance met and 
repulsed McCausland's forces; Hunter took 
possession of the town. At Waynesboro, 
Duffie's cavalry tested the mettle and position 
of the rebels and moved by a different route. 
They broke the railroad at Amherst Court 
House and repulsed Imboden, who followed. 
The rebel cavalry lost about 100 prisoners, in- 
cluding 17 officers; 400 horses were taken and 
two iron furnaces, and large quantities of com- 
missary stores were destroyed and a part of 
Imboden's train, which was returning by White 
(xap. The loss of Duffie was not serious. The 
delay saved Lynchburg, which had been 
reached and its outposts taken on the 17th by 



Cook and Averill. Early's infantry made a 
sally to meet the attack but was driven back, 
the Union soldiers showing conspicuous bravery, 
the 116th Ohio planting their colors on the 
breastworks of Early. Hunter became assured 
that Lynchburg was invulnerable and, at night, 
of the 17th, withdrew. The Union loss was 
100 killed, 500 wounded ; the rebels lost 200 in 
killed and w'ounded. — At Nose Creek, Ga., an 
action took place. — At Quaker Church, Va., a 
slight engagement occurred. 

June 18.— An action took place at Bards- 
town, Ky. 

June 19. — During the battle known as Kene- 
saw Mountain, a fight took place at Pine Knob. 
— The capture of the Alabama at Cherbourg, 
France. The rebel war steamer arrived in 
French waters eight days before. Three days 
later, the Kearsarge entered the bay. Semmes, 
the commander, decided on a fight and, on the 
morning of the 19th, took a position at the limit 
of neutral waters, escorted by the iron clad 
Couronne, a French vessel. The Deerhound, 
an English yacht, was at hand to see the sport. 
When the Kearsarge had passed a distance of 
seven miles she turned to give battle and 
steamed straight for the Alabama. Within a 
mile, the latter opened fire on the Kearsarge, 
which sheered around and gave a broadside 
with great effect. The steamers made a series 
of concentric circles, the Kearsarge endeavoring 
to prevent this course in vain. At the seventh 
revolution, the Alabama, perceiving the hope- 
lessness of her case, headed for the shore, five 
miles away. Two miles would bring her within 
French waters but the attempt was too late. 
She became disabled, the Kearsarge taking a 
raking position and firing across her bows and 
Semmes run up the white flag. A small boat 
containing an officer came alongside the Kear- 
sarge and stated that she surrendered and -was 
fast sinking. The boats of the conqueror were 



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1864— JUNE 20 — JUNE 22 — 1864. 



lowered to save the enemy's men from drown- 
ing, and Captain Winslow requested llie com- 
mander of tlie Deerhound, which approaclied, 
to aid in the rescue. The men and ofhcers of 
the Alabama took to the water and 40, in- 
cluding Semnies, were j)icked uj) by the Deer- 
hound, which steamed for Cheibourg and her 
passengers e.scaped cajiture through the clem- 
ency of Winslow. The latter took 70 prisoneis 
and had the satisfaction and honor of ridding 
the eai'th of a rebel privateer which had been 
the terror of the American shipping for a long 
period. The lo.ss in killed and wounded on 
the Kearsaige was three; that of the Alabama 
included nine killed and 21 wounded. 

June 20. — The fighting in front of Peters- 
burg, \'a., was continued without accomplish- 
ing determinate results. From the 18th, when 
the siege proper began, to the 20th, the loss of 
the Federal forces before the city amounted to 
112 killed and 506 wounded, Generals Cham- 
berlain and Egan being among the latter. The 
number of missing was 800 in round numbers. 
— General Abercrombie of the Army of the 
Potomac was attacked by a purlion of the force 
of General Wade Hanijiton, and the affair was 
terminated by the arrival of General Sheridan. 
The attacks were made in the vicinity of White 
House and continued until the 24th. — At Lib- 
erty, Va., tlie 2d Division of Cavalry, Army of 
West Virginia, were engaged. — At Powder 
Spring, Ga., the cavalry of the Army of the 
Cumberland fought one of the engagements 
mentioned in the account of the march of 
Sherman above. — At Lattamore's Mills, Ga., 
the cavalry mentioned had another encounter 
in the same campaign, or Kenesaw Mountain. 

June 21. — At Salem, Va., the 2d Division of 
Cavalry, Army of West Virginia, commanded 
by Averill, encountered the rebels, sustaining a 
loss of six killed and 10 wounded. The con- 
federate loss was 10 killed and wounded. — On 



the .James River at Dutch Gap, a naval engage- 
ment occurred in the neigiiborbood of the 
canal. — At Buford's Gap, Va , the 23d Ohio 
Infentry had a skirmish with a loss of 15 killed. 
— At White House Landing, Va., portions of 
the 1st and 2d Divisions, Cavalry Corps, Army 
of the Potomac, drove the rebels, wiio were at- 
tacking the position of Abercrombie. — At Pine 
Bluff, Ark., the 27th Wisconsin, belonging to 
General Steele's force, had a lively skirmish. — 
Skirmishes at Aiken's Landing, S. C, Kingston, 
N. C, Davis' Farm, Va. — Lincoln visited the 
army and the situation was discussed ijetween 
him. General Butler and General Grant. 

June 22. — The movements against the \'ir- 
ginia railroads were put in progress. The 6lh 
and 2d Corps started for the line of the Weldon 
railroad, and the forces of General Barlow were 
attacked by the rebels who inflicted ruinous 
results. The fight continued through the day, 
a large number of Union soldiers was killed 
and wounded, and 2,000 jirisoners were taken 
by the rebels. The corps rallied and made an- 
other attempt to accomplish effective work on 
the 23d. Meanwhile, Sheridan's cavalry was 
assailed at White House, fifty miles away, and 
narrowly escaped destruction. On the 25th he 
succeeded in crossing the James with an enor- 
' mous wagon train, the rebels worrying the rear 
of the command. The fighting was urgent 
during the passage from the Pamunkey, but 
Sheridan preserved his trains. — The cavalry of 
Wilson and Kautz started at two o'clock on the 
morning of the 22d for the Danville railroad. 
They struck the Weldon at Ream's Station, 
which they destroyed and did other mischief. 
They swept across to the Lynchburg road and 
commenced tearing up the track at Suther- 
land's Station, and destroyed the track to Ford's 
Station, a distance of 22 miles, burning loco- 
motives and depots. On the 23d, Kautz started 
for Burksville, the intersection of the Rich- 



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JUNE 23- 



JUNE 29—1864. 



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mond & Dauville and Petersburg* Lyncliburg 
railroads. At tliat point lie destroyed depot 
and cars and commenced tearing up the track. 
In the afternoon he was attacked by a rebel 
force and at night the rebels retired. On the 
24th, AVilson and Kautz started for Meherrin 
on the Danville road, the troops of Wilson 
crossing the country and those of Kautz follow- 
ing the track of the railroad. From Meherrin 
they went to Keysville, destroying the road and 
stock as they advanced. At Staunton they 
were interrupted in their devastating progress 
by a strong rebel force and failed to destroy 
the bridge. They set out on their return, an- 
noyed by attacking forces of rebels at various 
points. At Stony Creek the confederates op- 
posed them in great numbers, and in the night 
Kautz started for Ream's Station to find it in 
the possession of the rebels. Wilson soon 
joined him, but their combined forces only en- 
countered disaster. In disordered condition 
the troops of Kautz started for their old camps 
which they reached on the 30th, exhausted 
and worn out, many sleeping in their saddles. 
Wilson arrived at the Union lines on the 1st 
of .July in no better condition than his col- 
league. Notwithstanding the terrible cost of 
the destruction of the railroads, it accomplished 
the pur]iose sought. Grant's report very sin- 
gularly omitted mention of this attempt on the 
Weldon railroad mentioned in the first part of 
this section under the same date. The loss to 
the Army of the Potomac was reported to an 
early historian as 5,316 in 10 days from the 
20th to the 30th of July, but it is not certain 
whether this includes the cavalry losses, there 
being no battles, but rather heavy skirmishing. 
It has been estimated that the losses in the 
several cavalry raids on the roads and the en- 
counters with the rebels aggregated about 3,000. 
— At White River, Ark., three companies of 
the 12th Iowa Infantry, aided by the gunboat 



Lexington, skirmished with the rebels and lott 
two killed and four wounded, the rebel loss 
being about the same.— The action at Gulp's 
House (Kenesaw Mountain) took place on this 
day.— At St. Mary's River, Fla., a slight skir- 
mish occurred. 

June 23.— At .Jones' Bridge, Va , the 1st and 
2d Divisions, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Po- 
tomac, and 2Sth U. S. Colored Troops were at- 
tacked by the rebels, the same action including 
that at Samaria Church, and occupying two 
days. The Union loss was 54 killed and 235 
wounded. The rebels lost 250 killed and 
wounded.— Wilson's raid at Nottaway C. H. — 
At Collinsville, Miss., a train on the Charleston 
& Mississippi Railroad was attacked by bush- 
whackers.— At La Fayette, Tenn., an action of 
little importance occurred. 

June 24. — At White River, Ark., the steamer 
Queen City and gunboats had an engagement 
with the rebels. The steamer was captured 
first and blown up. The tinclads Tyler and 
Naumkeag and unarmored boat Fawn followed 
with a deliberate attack and drove the rebels 
from their position.— An action at Staunton 
Bridge, Wilson's raid. 

June 25. — The 11th Missouri, 9th Iowa and 
3d Michigan Cavalry, the 126th Illinois In- 
fantry and Battery D, 2d Missouri Artillery, 
engaged with the rebels at Clarendon on the 
St. Charles River, Ark. The loss to the Union 
troops was about 200 ; that of the rebels being 
the same in missing.— At Point Pleasant, La., 
the 64th U. S. Colored Troops had an action of 
little importance. 

June 27. — General assault at Kenesaw 
Mountain.— At Charleston, W. Va., the 1st 
Division of the Army of West Virginia fought 
the rebels. 

June 28. — At Stony Creek, Va., Wilson's raid. 

June 29. — Ream's Station, Va., Wilson's raid. 
—Action at Lafayette, Ga., in which the 4th 
and 6th Kentucky Cavalry engaged. 



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1864— JULY 1— JULY 7—1864. 



JiLY 1. — Action at Seabrcok Isliuid, S. C. 

Jui.Y 2. — A skinnisli took ])la<.'e at Pine Bluff, 
Ark., in which the 64th U. S. Colored Troops 
were engaged with a loss of six killed. — A sharp 
engagement occurred on James' Island at Fort 
.Tohnston, in which the troops of the Depart- 
ment of the South suffered a loss of 19 killed, 
97 wounded and 135 missing. — The 3d Iowa 
Cavalry became involveil in a skirmish at 
Salisbury, Miss. — At Nickajack Creek, Ga., 
Sherman's troops engaged the rebels and sus- 
tained a loss of 60 killed and 310 wounded, the 
rebel loss being 100 killed and wounded; the 
action covered about three days; the regiments 
of the Armies of the Cumberland and the Ten- 
nessee were involved. — At White Point a slight 
action occurred. 

July 3. — In an expedition from Vicksburg 
to Jackson, Miss., which included six days, tlie 
1st Division of the 17th Army Corps was 
engaged in several skirmishes in which the 
aggregate Union loss was 150 wounded, and 
the rebel loss was 200 wounded. — The 10th 
West Virginia and 1st New York Cavalry 
engaged with the rebels at Leetown, Va., re- 
sulting in a loss of three Union soldiers killed 
and 12 wounded. — At Ilammack's Mills, W. 
Va., a detail from the 153d Ohio National 
Guard lost three killed and seven wounded in 
a rebel attack. — Skirmishes, etc., at Platte City, 
Mo., Martinsburg and Wincliester, Va. 

July 4. — At Searcy, Ark., a detachment of 
Arkansas cavalry engaged in a raid. — At Vicks- 
burg, Miss., a regiment of colored troops sus- 
tained a loss of one killed and seven wounded 
in a skirmish. — Skirmishes, etc., in Clay county, 
Mo., and Point of Rocks, Md.— The 2d Wis- 
consin Cavalry encountered the rebels at 
Clinton, Miss., while en route to Jackson. — In 
an action near Port Gibson, Miss., two regi- 
ments of Union soldiers lost six killed and 18 
wounded. — At Bolivar and Maryland Heights, 



Va., the troops under General Sigel commenced 
an action which included three days with a 
loss of 20 killed and SO wounded. 

July 5. — The advance of General A. J. 
Smith against Forrest at Tupelo commenced, 
the Union force leaving La Cirange, Tenn., and 
marching to the place where the rebels were 
concentrated and Forrest was defeated with a 
loss to the L'nion forces of 85 killed and 567 
wounded; the confederate loss was 110 killed 
and 600 wounded. — The troops of General 
Foster fought the rebels at John's Island with 
a loss of 16 killed and 82 wounded ; rebel loss, 
20 killed and 30 wounded. — In a .skirmish at 
Hagerstown, Md., two Union soldiers were 
killed and six wounded. — Slight affair at 
Mechauicstown, Md. — The 2d Wisconsin, 5th 
and 11th Illinois Cavalry with three Illinois 
infantry regiments and a colored cavalry regi- 
ment set out on an expedition to Jackson, Miss. 
— Tlie 2d Colorado Cavalry engaged in an 
action on the Little Blue River, Mo., and lost 
eight killed and one wounded. — At Mount Zion 
Church, Va., the 2d Massachusetts Cavalry 
had an engagement of slight importance. — The 
Armies of the Ohio, Tennessee and Cumberland 
prepared to move across the Chattahoochie 
River. 

July 7. — At the mouth of Soap Creek, Gen- 
eral Schofield, commanding the Army of the 
Ohio, surprised the confederate guard ; Gar- 
rard's cavalry moved to Rosswell and destroj'ed 
factories engaged in maimfacturing cloth for 
the rebel armies; an infantry division from the 
command of Thomas moved to his su])port at a 
ford and the entire command of McPher.'^on 
took position; Howard's corps constructed a 
bridge at Power's Ferry and moved to a posi- 
tion on the right of Schotield ; in these move- 
ments, during which Johnston crossed the river 
and took his position at Peach Tree Creek and 
on the river, covering Atlanta, the loss to the 



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Union force was 80 killed and 450 wounded. — 
In a skirmish at Solomon's Gap and Middle- 
ton, Md., the Union troops lost five killed and 
20 wounded. — Skirmishes and other activities 
occurred at Ilager's Mountain, Md., Clinton 
and Ripley, Miss., and Harper's Ferry, Md. 

July 8. — An unimportant affair occurred at 
Parkersville, ^"a. 

July 9. — Early's raid. — General Wallace se- 
lected a position at Monocacy, Md., to check the 
operations of the restless rehel who attacked 
and defeated the Union force ; troops from 
Pennsylvania and New York, convalescent 
veterans from the hospitals at Washington and 
Smith's corps from the Ai'my of the Potomac 
moved to the defense of Washington and Early 
retreated after having inflicted a loss of 90 
killed, 579 wounded and the loss of a consider- 
able quantity of supplies which he captured ; 
the loss in killed and wounded of the rebels 
was 400. — During this movement slight skir- 
mishes took place at Rockville, Darnestowu, 
Reistertown and Cockeysville, Md. 

July 11. — Rousseau's raid in Alabama and 
Georgia. — The movement of Johnston across 
the Chattahoochie caused the despatching of 
Rousseau with a cavalry force and two pieces of 
artillery from Decatur, Ala., and a part of the 
command crossed the Coosa July 13th and 
were attacked at Stone's Ferry by General 
Clayton, commanding a force of rebel cavaliy; 
they were routed and the Union troops pro- 
ceeded to Selma, where they dispersed a camp 
of 700 rebel conscripts and moved on to the 
West Point railroad at Chewa Station where 
Clayton was again encountered and driven with 
a loss of 40 killed and a large number of 
wounded ; great quantities of supplies were 
captured and the railroad destroyed. — Rousseau 
arrived at Marietta July 22d, having destroyed 
25 miles of railroad; he brought in 400 mules 
and 300 horses and sustained a loss through- 



out of 12 killed and 30 wounded.— At Tenally- 
town near Washington, during Early's retreat, 
a slight skirmish took place. — A slight action 
took place at Magnolia, Miss.— At Pontotoc, 
Miss., in the expedition to Tupelo, the 8th 
Wisconsin, 5th Minnesota and the Uth Mis- 
souri Infantry with the 2d Iowa Cavalry, had 
an encounter with the rebels. 

July 12. — Early made a threatening move- 
ment on Fort Stevens, a remote fortification be- 
longing to the defenses of Washington, and was 
driven by a brigade of the 6th Corps after a hot 
engagement, in which the Union loss was 54 
killed and 319 wounded. — At Petit .Jean, Ark., 
a company of Arkansas cavalry have a slight 
action.— At Lee's Mills, Va., a detachment from 
the Army of the Potomac encountered the 
rebels, sustained a loss of three killed and 13 
wounded and inflicted on the rebels a loss of 25 
killed and wounded. 

July 13. — In the Tupelo expedition, the 
forces of Smith engaged in a sharp action at 
Harrisburg, Miss. 

July 14. — In Rousseau's raid on the Coosa 
River, Ala., the 8th Indiana and the 5th Ohio 
Cavalry encountered the rebels under Clayton. 
— In a skirmish at Ozark, Mo., the 14th Kansas 
Cavalry sustained a loss of two men killed and 
one wounded. — At Farr's Mills, Ark., the 4th 
Arkansas Cavalry engaged in an action. 

July 15. — At Stone's Ferry on the Talla- 
poosa River, Ala., the rebels contested the 
crossing of Rousseau's troops. — An engagement 
connected with the Tupelo expedition took 
place at Oldtown Creek, Miss. 

July 16. — At Grand Gulf on the Mississippi 
River the 72d and TGth Illinois Infantry, 2d 
Wisconsin Cavalry and 53d U. S. Colored 
Troops were attacked by the rebels on their 
way to Texas ; the action covered two days. 

July 17. — At Fredericksburg, Mo., the 2d 
Colorado Cavalry encountered the rebels. 



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1864— JULY 18— JULY 22 — 1864. 



July 18. — Battle at Windiester, Va. Gen- 
eral Early attacked the thiioii troops under 
Torbett, stationed to cover the withdrawal of 
Sheridan, who did not con.sider the position at 
Winchester defensible and who deemed it wisest 
to move his command back to Berryville ; 
Torbett held his troops until the withdrawal 
was accomplished, losing [)~ in killed and 
wounded from his infantry force, witli 200 
prisoners, and also sustained a loss of 50 cav- 
alry. — At Auburn, Ga., the !Hh Ohio and 4th 
Tennessee Cavalry have a skirmish. — In the 
action at Chewa Station the 8th Indiana, 5th 
Iowa and 4th Tennessee Givalry engaged in an 
action which has been mentioned above in 
connection with Rousseau's raid. — During 
Early's retreat the actions already mentioned 
— Snicker's Ferry, Island Ford on the Shenan- 
doah River, Va. — occurred on tliis date. — The 
cavalry of the Army of West Virginia forced 
their way through Ashby's Gap. 

July 19. — Action at Darkesville, Va. Union 
loss 37 killed and 175 wounded. 

July 20.— Battle of Peach Tree Creek. The 
rebel army was posted on the west bank of 
Peach Tree Creek, their line extending from 
Turner's Ferry to the Augusta road ; the com- 
mand had been turned over three days previ- 
ous to Hood by General Johneton-mider orders 
from the confederate Secretary of State, by 
whom he was relieved of his command because 
he had failed to check the progress of Sher- 
man's army. Johnston remained with Hood 
at headquarters and explained his plans for 
the defense of Atlanta, until the afternoon of 
the 18th. On that day, McPherson reached 
a point seven miles east of Decatur and de- 
stroyed four miles of railroad; Schofield ar- 
rived at Decatur the same day, and Thomas 
constructed bridges over Peach Tree Creek and 
moved his troops across in the face of the 
enemy. Hood ordered an attack on the lines 



of Thomas .July 20th, and, after a stubborn 
contest, withdrew his troops, sustaining a loss 
of 1,113 killed, 2,-500 wounded and 1,183 miss- 
ing, most of whom were prisoners ; the lose to 
tlie Army of the Cumberland formed an ag- 
gregate of l.GOO killed and wounded.— Slight 
action at Gonzales, Tex. 

July 21. — Construction of tlie pontoon 
bridges at Deep Bottom, Va., by the command 
of Butler. — Unimportant skirmish at Hender- 
son, Ky. 

July 22.— Battle of .\tlanta. Hood's attack 
On the Army of the Tennessee under McPher- 
son. General Hood was a fighter and not a 
strategist; his attack on the Army of the Cum- 
berland having failed, the movement of the 
Army of the Tennessee to the right of his po- 
sition would necessitate the evacuation of At- 
lanta if not checked, and Hood abandoned the 
position to which he had withdrawn after the 
battle of Peach Tree Creek, and on li)e night of 
the 21st, he pushed his lines close to Atlanta. 
The movements of McPherson at the same 
time, and the fact that Blair had pushed for- 
ward and taken a commanding position within 
two miles of Atlanta, gave the Federal army 
an advantage, which was increased by the 
strengthening and contracting of Sherman's 
entire force, and the battle of Atlanta followed, 
the rebels being driven from the field with 
great slaughter, the general fighting by the 
Federal forces being rendered mostettective by 
the enlilading fire from the Ijatteries from 
Schofield's command, which poured continu- 
ously upon the rebels until they retired. Tlie 
cavalry under Garrard had been employed in 
the destruction of the Augusta railroad west of 
Atlanta, and this movement, coupled with that 
of Rousseau on the West Point railroad, left to 
the rebels but one line of communication — the 
Macon railroad. To reach this, Sherman 
transferred his army to the west of Atlanta. 



1864— JULY 23— JULY 27—1864. 



HI 



The reports of the commanding general of the 
battle of July 22c), give the aggregate of 
killed and wounded and prisoners at 3,722, and 
estimates the rebel loss at 8,000. ]\IcPherson 
was killed. — The (ith U. S. Colored Artillery 
encounter the rebels at Vidalia, La. 

July 23. — General Crook, in command at 
Harper's Ferry, moved up the valley with a 
small force and encountered Earlj' at Kerns- 
town, sustaining defeat and being driven back 
to Martinsburg with a loss of 1,200 in killed 
and wounded, the aggregate rebel loss being 
600. The action included two days. 

July 24. — At Carrolton Landing, Caroline 
Bend, Miss., the 6th Michigan Artillery, on 
board the Clara Belle, had an encounter with 
the rebels on the shore. 

July 25.— At Cortland, Ala., the 18th Mich- 
igan and 32d Wisconsin Infantrj' engaged in 
a continuous skirmish with the rebels, who 
had attacked a wagon train, and gave them a 
successful thrashing, foiling all their efibrts to 
capture the supplies. 

July 26. — In a fight at Wallace's Ferry on 
Big Creek, Ark., the 15th Illinois Cavalry and a 
company of colored artillery, and the 60th and 
56th U. S. Colored Infantry, engaged in a 
sharp action, losing 16 killed and 32 wounded, 
the rebel loss being 150 killed and wounded. — 
At Des Arc, Ark., the 11th Missouri Cavalry 
had a slight skirmish. — At Haxall's Landing, 
Va., Early's cavalry and a small force of Union 
cavalry met in an unimportant scrimmage. — 
The 25th Mounted Ohio Infantry sustained a 
rebel attack at St. Mary's Trestle, Fla.— Stone- 
man's raid. General Stoneman, in command 
of 5,000 cavalry, and General E. M. McCook, in 
command of 4,000 cavalry, commenced the 
movement known to history under the caption 
which has been given. The two cavalry com- 
manders, moving respectively to the left and 
right, were under orders from General Sherman 



to meet on the night of July 28th, on the Ma- 
con railroad, near Lovejoy Station, a consider- 
able distance south of Atlanta, and eflerlually 
destroy the railroad, which, it has been stated 
already, was the only line of rebel communi- 
cation. McCook moved down the west bank of 
the Chattahoochie to a location near River- 
town, crossed the river and destroyed a portion 
of the West Point railway, and, at Fayttteville, 
destroyed a large rebel wagon train, and after- 
wards accomplished much destruction at Love- 
joy's; Stoneman disregarded all instructions, 
ignored the main purpose of his movement, 
and did not effect the junction with McCook. 
He was surrounded by the rebels under Iver- 
son, and, despatching a large portion of his 
command, (a part of which returned to Sher- 
man) he surrendered with the small force he 
had retained. No advantage was gained. 
Stoneman had asked permission to press on to 
Macon and Anderson ville and release the Union 
prisoners there held. He reached Macon but 
made no attempt on the town, and, although 
some damage was done to the railroad, it was 
not sutliciently effective to cut off the rebel 
communication. McCook succeeded in extri- 
cating himself, but lost about 500 of his force. 
The 1st Wisconsin, 6th and Sth Iowa and 2d 
and 8th Indiana, were incorporated in McCook's 
command in his raid to Lovejoy Station. 

July 27. — At Mazzard Prairie, Fort Smith, 
Ark., 200 soldiers of the 6th Kansas Cavalry 
were attacked by a greatly superior force ; the 
rebels killed 12, wounded 17 and captured 150 
Union soldiers, and sustained a loss of 12 killed 
and wounded. — The Army of the James began 
the passage of the river Deep Bottom and 
drove the rebels from Bailey's Creek and also 
captured a rebel battery on the Newmarket 
Road. Sheridan encountered Kershaw's cav- 
alry and fought him with a dismounted force. 
— The aggressive movements of the Union 



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forces at the points nanud and at Malvern 
Hill, convinced Lee that Richmond was the 
objective point of the Federal movements. — 
The colored troops in Florida at Whiteside, 
Black Creek, sustained a rel)el assault. 

July 28. — Hood's attack on Sherman's 
tronjis at Ezra Church, Ga. On the 27th of 
July, the Arni}- of the Tennessee was trans- 
ferred to a position in which it prolonged the 
Federal lines, and on the morning of the 28th 
firing commenced from the rebel position. 
About noon an attack was made on the- corps 
of Logan by the rebels under General Cheat- 
ham, who rejieated their assaults until late in 
the afternoon, each of them being repulsed 
with great loss to the rebels ; Logan's loss was 
less than 700 ; Cheatham abandoned the field, 
leaving 642 killed and 1,000 of his men were 
missing and prisoners; he had 3,000 wounded 
men to look after. — Several regiments of Min- 
nesota, Iowa and Dakota troops had a sharp 
tight with the Indians at Tah-kah-o-kuty, Dak. 
Ter. — At Atchafalaya River, a portion of the 
19th Corps have an engagement. — At West 
Point, Ark., the 11th Missouri Cavalry had a 
skirmish with the rebels. — At Campbelltown, 
Ga., a portion of McCook's cavalry, while re- 
tracing their route after their encounter at 
Lovejoy's with the rebels, engaged in a success- 
ful skirmish with a rebel cavalry force. — At 
Flat Shoals, Ga., a detachment of Garrard's 
cavalry in Stoneman's raid engaged in a skir- 
mish. — Unimportant affaiis at Chambersburg, 
Pa., and Four-Mile Creek, Va., and at Palmetto 
Station, Ga. (On this date the continuous siege 
of the city of Atlanta, lasting until Sept. 22d, 
was commenced.) 

July 29. — In a skirmish at Clear Springs, 
Md., the confederate loss was 17 killed and 
wounded. — At Fort Smith, Ark., a slight skir- 
misli occurred without casualty on either side. 
— The cavalry belonging to McCook's com- 



mand met the rebel cavalry at Lovejoy Station, 
Ga. (This affair has been treated previously.) 
July 30. — E.xplosion of the mine at Peters- 
burg, Xa. The explosion took place at half 
past 3 o'clock in the morning. It was wholly 
a surprise to the rebels and the discharge of 
8,000 pounds of powder created a cavity which 
has gone into history as "the crater ;" the con- 
cussion had hardly ceased before the head of 
Ledlie's division began to move for the breach ; 
the deep excavation, rt'ilh its sides of loose sand 
into which protruded the beams and timbers 
of the fort, presented a seemingly impassable 
obstacle, and all militar}' order was abandoned, 
the soldiers pressing forward in great confusion. 
A considerable space on the sides of the top of 
the crater had been abandoned by the rebels 
and upon these the advancing brigades crowded 
until the breach was filled with a disorganized 
mass of soldiers; a single regiment climbed 
the slope and advanced toward a point beyond 
which was the object of the assault but, not 
being sujjported, the command fell back to the 
crater. The rebels sjieedily recovered from the 
first shock and with great dispatch planted 
batteries to sweep the approaches to the crater. 
The position of the Federal troops was most 
dangerous and in their withdrawal the destruc- 
tion from the mortar shells, musketry and 
artillery which poured upon them was fearful. 
In addition, they were suffering from having 
been crowded into the narrow slaughter pen 
where they had been eight hours without water 
under the fierce rays of the midsummer sun. 
The loss in killed and wounded was 2,100 and 
1,900 soldiers were taken prisoners, and nothing 
was gained to the Federal forces. — The 2d 
Cavalry Division of Davis' Brigade, Arm}' of 
the Potomac, encountered the rebels at Lee's 
Mills, Va., and in the engagement lost two 
killed and 11 wounded. — Early's cavalry de- 
stroyed the defenceless city of Chambersburg, 




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Pa., and 'fled Southward. — McCook's cavalry 
engaged in a skirmish at Newman, Ga. — The 
cavalry under Stoneman willidrew a sliort 
distance from Macon without action. — At 
Lebanon, Ky., one company of the 12tli Ohio 
Cavalry engaged in an unimportant brush with 
the rebels. 

July 31. — At Hillsboro, Ga., Stonernan's 
cavalry engaged with the rebels. 

Aug. 1 — Skirmish at Rolla, Mo., in which 
the oth Missouri Cavalry (State troops), were 
engaged. — At Cumberland, Md., a detachment 
of the force under General B. F. Kelley have 
an encounter with the rebels. 

Aug. 2. — A skirmish took place at Green 
Springs, W. Va., in which the 153d Ohio In- 
fantry were engaged and sustained a loss of one 
killed, five wounded and 90 missing, the con- 
federate loss being five killed and 22 wounded. 
— An engagement took place at Osceola, Ark., 
in which the 2d and 3d Missouri (State troops) 
and 1st and 6th Missouri Cavalry were engaged. 

Aug. 3.— Slight skirmish at Elk Shute, Mo., 
in which a detachment of troops under Colonel 
J. L. Burris were engaged. 

Aug. 4. — Action at New Creek, Va.; unim- 
portant. 

Aug. 5. — At Donaldsonville, La., the 11th 
New York Cavalry were assaulted by the rebels 
and lost 60 prisoners. — Fort Gaines attacked. 
Two days previous General Gordon Granger 
joined Admiral Farragut with 1,500 men, who 
were landed at Dauphin Island and marched 
under cover of the fleet and, on the 4th, in- 
trenched williin half a mile of Fort Gaines. 
On the 5tb, the fleet of 15 vessels steamed up 
to Fort Morgan, Farragut being lashed to the 
rigging of the Hartford. Forts Morgan and 
Gaines simultaneously opened fire on the fleet 
and the Tecumseh was sunk in the channel by 
a torpedo, with 120 men, only 10 of whom were 
rescued. After an hour's engagement in which 



the flagship took the lead, the fleet passed the 
forts and entered the bay. The confederate 
fleet disputed their progress and a lively naval 
action ensued. The Union vessel, Metacomet, 
captured the rebel gunboat, Selma, and the 
rebel ram, Tennessee, surrendered after two 
hours fighting with 20 officers and 170 men ; 
Admiral Buchanan was seriou.sly wounded and 
10 of her crew were killed or wounded ; the 
rebel gunboat, Morgan, escaped and the Gaines 
fled for protection under the guns of Fort 
Morgan. The Federal loss was 52 killed and 
17U wounded. Fort Powell was evacuated on 
the same day and was blown up by the rebels 
to prevent its occupation by the Union forces. 
The action continued until the surrender of Fort 
Gaines on the 8th and of Fort Morgan, August 
23d. — Sherman's army made a crossing on the 
North Fork of Utoy Creek ; the movement of 
the three armies of the Tennessee, Cumberland 
and Ohio, occupied two days. — A movement of 
troops took place on the Jerusalem Plank Road, 
Va. — In Missouri, the State Militia engaged 
with assaulting parties of rebels, the skirmish- 
ing continuing at intervals for three days. — 
The 2d Cavalry Division of the Army of the 
Cumberland changed position east of Decatur, 
Ala.— At Cal)in Point, Va., the colored troops 
defended the position from rebel assault. 

Aug. 6. — At Plaquemine, La., a skirmish 
occurred, in which the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry 
and the 11th Heavy Artillery engaged. 

Aug. 7. — At Moorefield, Va., a considerable 
fight took place in which the 14th Pennsyl- 
vania, 8th Ohio, 1st and 3d West Virginia and 
1st New- York Cavalry engaged, resulting in a 
Union victory with a loss of nine killed and 22 
wounded, the rebels losing 100 killed and 
wounded and 400 missing.— On this date, the 
cavalry of the 16th Corps under Hatch and the 
infantry under Mower commenced a series of 
movements on the Tallahatchie River, in- 



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eluding the actions at Abbeville, Oxford and 
on Hurricane Creek, extending to the 14th of 
August. — At Tah-kah-o kuty Mountain, Dak. 
Ter., a threatened movement of the Indians 
was repressed. 

Aug. 8. — In Dakota Territorj' four regiments 
of infantry, including the 8th and 2d Minne- 
sota and the 6th and 7th Iowa, supported by 
two battalions of cavalry, rout a considerable 
force of Indians. — At Uldtown, \'a., an unim- 
portant action took place. 

Aug. 9.^An explosion of ammunition oc- 
curred at City Point, Xa., killing 70 Union sol- 
diers and wounding 130. 

Aug. 10. — The cavalry raid under Torbett 
commenced on this date; at Sulphur Springs 
Bridge, Berryville Pike and White Post, Va., 
a cavalry division of Sheridan's command 
under Torbett, dispersed the rebels, consisting 
of stragglers from the command of Early ; the 
Union troops lost 34 killed, 90 wounded and 
200 missing; the movement occupied two days. 
— The United States steamer Empress was fired 
on by confederate batteries and sustained a loss 
of six killed and 12 wounded. — The 2d and 
6th Kansas Cavalry engaged in a raid. 

Aug. 12. — A detail from the 7th Iowa Cav- 
alry engaged in a skirmish with guerrilla 
squads on the Little Blue River in Dakota 
Territory. — At Montauk, in Missouri, a raid by 
rebel guerrillas took place. 

Aug. 13.— At Snicker's Gap, Va., the 144th 
and 149th Ohio engaged in a skirmish in 
which they lost four killed, 10 wounded and 
200 prisoners; the rebel loss was two killed 
and three wounded ; the Ohio regiments were 
engaged in guarding a supply train when 
attacked. — At Shawnee Mound, Mo., an unim- 
portant action took place. 

Aug. 14.— At Gravel Hill, Va., the 2d Cav- 
alry Division of the Army of the Potomac, a 
detachment from Sheridan's command, encoun- 



tered the rebels with a loss of three killed and 
18 wounded. — Battle of Strawberry Plains, 
Grant and Leo commanding their respective 
forces. August loth, a detachment of the Army 
of the Potomac under Hancock, Birney and 
Gregg crossed the James to Deep Bottom and 
pressed on towards Richmond, reaching the 
rebel line of intrenchments in the afternoon of 
the 14th, where an attack was made bj* two of 
Hancock's divisions which was repulsed. L'ntil 
the 18th, a series of rapid, but indecisive en- 
gagements were kept up while Hancock endeav- 
ored to find a weak point. These were of no 
particular advantage to the immediate pur- 
pose, but they prevented reinforcements being 
sent to Early and weakened the rebel strength 
at Petersburg and thereby conduced to a sub- 
sequent movement against the Weldon rail- 
road. The aggregate Union loss was 400 
killed, 1,755 wounded and 1,400 missing; tiie 
rebels lost 1,000 in killed and wounded. — At 
Dalton, Ga., an active skirmish occurred which 
covered two days. — The action at Hurricane 
Creek under Hatch and Mower, cavalry com- 
manders of the 16th Army Corps, occurred. 

Aug. 15. — In an action at Fisher's Hill, Va., 
the 6th and 8th Corps and the 1st Cavalry Di- 
vision of the Army of the Potomac, in an en- 
gagement with detachments of Early's com- 
mand, lost 30 from their fighting force in 
wounded. — At West Point, Miss., an unimport- 
ant action took place. 

Aug. 16. — At Crooked Run, Front Royal, 
Va., the cavalry force of General Merritt at- 
tacked the rebels under Lomax and Wickham, 
and inflicted a loss of 30 killed, 150 wounded, 
and 300 prisoners ca}itured ; their own loss be- 
ing 13 killed and 58 wounded. — At Smoky 
Hill Crossing, Kas., a cavalry action took place. 

Aug. 17. — At Winchester, Va., the New Jer- 
sey brigade belonging to the 6th Corps, witii 
Wilson's cavalry, engaged in a tight while on a 



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reconnoissaiice, in which they sustained a loss 
of 50 killed and 250 missing.— In a skirmish at 
(Jainesville, Fla., the 75th Ohio Mounted In- 
fantry received a heavy assault in which they 
lost 16 killed, ."0 wounded and 102 missing. — 
At Cleveland, Tenn., the 6th Ohio Heavy Artil- 
lery were engaged in an unimportant action. 

Aug. 18. — On this date General Warren 
struck the AV'eldon railroad four miles helow 
Petersburg; leaving Oriffin's division to hold 
the position, he moved with the divisions of 
Ayres and Crawford a mile up the road and 
encountered the rebels in line of battle. His 
situation was critical, as his movements had 
left him practically isolated, and the command 
of Ayres was assaulted by the rebels, who ap- 
jiroached by an unknown road on his left and 
drove the troops back for a time, when Ayres 
rallied his command and repulsed the attack- 
ing force. Warren intrenched his position on 
the railroad and, on the 19th, Lee attacked 
Warren with a large force. By some mishap a 
space between Warren and Burnside had been 
left open into which a rebel division under 
Mahone entered, striking Warren's left and 
gaining his rear. The rebels pushed on to 
Warren's left which was thrown into confusion 
and 2,000 Union prisoners were captured. At 
an opportune moment Warren, who held his 
center firm, was reinforced by 2,000 men from 
the 9th Army Corps and he succeeded in forc- 
ing the rebels back into their lines. Every- 
thing was quiet on the 20th and Warren 
strengthened his position. On the morning of 
the 21st, Lee opened the action with a terrific 
fire from 30 massed guns, under cover of which 
a heavy infantr}' force moved on Warren's 
front and, at the same time, an assault was 
made on his left. The attack on the center 
was repulsed and the result of the attempt to 
turn Warren's left flank was especially dis- 
astrous to the rebels, who broke in confusion 



and in their flight left 500 prisoners behind. 
In the three days struggle the Union loss was 
212 killed, 1,155 wounded and 1,166 missing, 
in addition to the 2,000 prisoners taken on the 
19th. The confederate loss was 4,000 in killed 
wounded and missing. Generals Saunders and 
Lamar were killed and the Weldon railroad 
was destroj'ed for 12 miles south of the posi- 
tion held by Warren. — Kilpatrick's raid on the 
Macon railroad was begun on this date. Kil- 
patrick commenced operations in front of 
Atlanta, destroyed the road to West Point 
and advanced to Jonesboro, where he met the 
rebel cayalry under Ross and, after repulsing 
them, destroyed a portion of the road and, on 
the same day, he was attacked by a body of in- 
fantry and cavalry which stopped h\A opera- 
tions there and he went on to Lovejoy's Station 
and there defeated the rebels, capturing four 
guns and returned thence to Atlanta with a 
large number of prisoners. The Union loss in 
killed and wounded was 400. During this raid 
the localities where actions occurred are speci- 
fied as Fairburn, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's. 

Aug. 19.— At Snicker's Gap Pike, Va., Mos- 
by's guerrillas captured a detachment of the 
5th Michigan Cavalry, killing 30 and wound- 
ing three in the fight and afterwards putting 
the prisoners to death. — Company B, 83d Illi- 
nois Mounted Infantry, in a skirmish with 
guerrillas at Pine Bluff", Tenn., lost eight killed. 
— At Martinsburg, Va., a company of the com- 
mand of Averill had an engagement with a 
portion of the command of Early. — About this 
date a company of the 115th Ohio Infantr\- 
received a rebel charge at Block House No. 4 
on the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad in 
Tennessee. — At Red Oak, Ga., the cavalry of 
Kilpatrick engaged the rebels during the raid 
on the Macon railroad. 

Aug. 20. — In the same movement the action 
at Lovejoy's Station occurred on this date. — 



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At Stewart's Landing on the Tennessee River 
an action occurred. 

Aug. 21. — Battle at Summit Point, Berrj-- 
ville and Flowing Springs, Va. Early, having 
been reinforced, determined to attack Sheridan, 
who was proceeding through Smithfield to- 
wards Charleston, and, on the 20tli, disposed 
his troops for a combined attack. On the 21st 
Sheridan's pickets on the Opequan were driven 
in and Early at once pressed against the 6th 
Corps and a sharp engagement ensued, the 
Union loss being 37 killed, 175 wounded; the 
confederate loss aggregating 300 killed and 
wounded and 200 prisoners.— Fori'est's cavalry 
dash into Memjjhis. The city was gua'rded by 
Wisconsin and Illinois troops, principally com- 
posed of 100-day recruits. The invasion was 
made in the night when the men were asleep. 
As soon as possible the regiments were under 
arms. Forrest penetrated to the headquarters 
of General Washburn but was forced to retire. 
— In a skirmish at Oxford Hill, Miss., which 
continued at intervals through the 22(1 the 
confederates lost 15 killed. — At Duvnl's Bluff, 
Ark., the 11th Missouri Cavalry had a slight 
skirmish. 

Ai!G. 22. — At Canton, Ky., and Rodgersville, 
Tenn., skirmishes occurred. 

Aug. 23. — Skirmish at Abbeville, Miss., with 
a Union loss of 20 wounded and 15 rebels 
killed. — Surrender of Fort Morgan with the 
garrison under Cokmt-l Page. 

Aug. 24. — Fight at Bermuda Hundred, in 
which the 10th Corps, Army of the James, en- 
gaged, with a loss of 31 wounded, the rebel 
loss being Gl in killed, wounded and missing. 
— In a skirmish at Fort Smith, Ark., the Union 
loss was one killed and 13 wounded. — The 9th 
Iowa and 8th and 11th Missouri Cavalry fought 
the rebel cavalry at Jones' Hay Station and at 
Ashley Station, sustaining a loss of five killed 
and 41 wounded, the aggregate confederate 



loss being 60 killed and wounded. — Action at 
Clinton, Miss. — At Halltown, Va., a portion of 
the 8th Corps of the Army of the Shenandoah 
took position after the tight at Summit Point. 

Aug. 25. — Battle at Ream's Station. The 
Federal troops under Hancock occupied iu- 
trenchments at this point, which were too weak 
to sustain an attack which was made upon 
them by a strong force under Hill, preceded 
I by a rebel movement which had pushed the 
cavalry some distance to the left. Hancock's 
force repelled two assaults, when the rebels as- 
sumed another position and made an im- 
petuous charge of the most disastrous character, 
seemingly, but the broken lines rallied and a 
series of encounters were maintained until 
night when Hancock withdrew, and the rebel 
forces, having no idea of the real situation, also 
retired. The loss to Hancock's force was 127 
killed, 546 wounded and 1,7(>0 missing; the 
confederate loss was 1,500 killed and wounded. 
— On the 25th, actions at Smithfield and Shep- 
herdstown, Va., in which the 1st and 3d Cav- 
alry Divisions, Army of the Potomac, engaged 
General Early, with his infantry and cavalry, 
excepting the command of Fitz Hugh Lee, 
which had been sent to AVilliamsport, and also 
his artillery force attacked Sheridan, and were 
compelled to retreat after rough handling; the 
Union loss was 20 killed and 61 wounded and 
that of the rebels was 400 in the aggi'egate. — 
At Conee Creek, Clinton, La., a cavalry action 
took place. — At Leestown, Va., and Sacramento 
Mountain, New Mexico, actions occurred. 

Aug. 26.— At Bull Bayou, Ark., the 3d Wis- 
consin and 9th Kansas Cavalry, while on a 
scout, were engaged in a skirmish. — At Hall- 
town, Va., Sheridan, with the 1st and 2d Divi- 
sions of the 8th Corps of the Army of West 
Virginia, took position in the best place for de- 
fense in the Shenandoah Valley; the move- 
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Aug. 27. — At Owensboro, Ky., a slight skir- 
mish occurred in wliieh a colored regiment was 
engaged. — On the 27th, the Federal and rebel 
troops met at Holly Springs, and in the several 
encounters on tliat day and the next, one Union 
soldier was killed and two wounded. 

Aug. 28. — At Fort Cottonwood, Nev., the7lh 
Iowa Cavalry had a fight with Indians. — In 
Howard county. Mo., Company E, 4th Missouri 
Cavalry, State Troops, had a skiraiisli. 

Aug. 29. — A part of the Gth Corps, with 
Torbett's Cavalry, Sheridan's command, had a 
tight witii a detachment of Early's command 
at Smithfield, Va., and sustained a loss of 10 
killed and 90 wounded ; 200 rebels were killed 
and wounded. — A colored regiment sustained 
an attack at Ghent, Ky. — At Wormly's Gap, 
\'a., a detachment of troops from the 9th Ohio 
Infantry, commanded by Captain Blazer, skir- 
mished with a detachment of Eai'ly's troops. — 
At Artluir's Swamp, Va., the 2d Cavalry Divi- 
sion of the Army of the Potomac, engaged in 
a series of skirmishes extending throughout 
two days. 

Aug. 31. — A slight skirmish took place at 
La Grange, Tenn. — At Block House No. 5 on 
tlie Nashville & Chattanooga Railway in Ten- 
nessee, a detachment of Ohio troops were at- 
tacked by the rebels and lost three men ; they 
repulsed the assault and the rebels retired witli 
a loss of 25 wounded. — Beginning of the action 
at Jonesboro. A large portion of the day 
was passed by General Logan, General Blair 
and General Ransom, with their several corps 
in strengthening and arranging tlieir lines for 
battle, and the Army of the Tennessee was at- 
tacked by Hardee about the middle of the after- 
noon who retired, leaving more than 400 
dead on tlie field ; he also lost a thousand men 
in wounded and GOO missing. The Union loss 
was 1,149 in killed and wounded. The battle 
continued the next day. Meanwhile, the Union 



forces of Sherman's command under Stanley, 
Schofield and Thomas, with a jiart of Davis' 
Corps, were engaged in the destruction of the 
railroad at several points. Sherman discovered 
the advantage and ordered his three corps to 
move on .lonesboro. In the afternoon of Sep- 
tember 1st, there was some skirmishing, and 
on the morning of the 2d, Hardee was in full 
retreat and Sherman pursuing. 

Sept. 1. — Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler. 
During the action related in which Sherman's 
troops were engaged, Wheeler had been en- 
gaged in raiding Sherman's communications, 
but to small purpose. He had been held in 
check by the command of Colonel Laibold 
until the force of General Steedman had turned 
his course into East Tennessee, and, on this 
date, Rousseau and Granger, uniting their 
commands with Steedman, started after him, 
and, in the course of a week, had driven jjim 
from Tennessee; the respective losses of the 
Federal and rebel forces engaged were 40 killed 
and wounded and 300 killed, wounded and 
captured. 

Sept. 2. — Soon after midnight following the 
battle of .Jonesboro, the booming sounds in the 
direction of Atlanta, which was 20 miles from 
the position of Sherman, indicated that the 
rebels were taking decisive measures, and in 
the course of the day the command of Slocum 
entered Atlanta to find that it had been evacu- 
ated. The fall of Atlanta was an irreparable 
loss to the South. It was the culmination of a 
long series of military movements and was the 
third of a series of Union triumphs, each of 
which formed a decided step forward in the 
Union cause, and the general effect of the loss 
of Atlanta to the South and its gain to the 
North was most wliolesome. On the 7th of 
September, Sherman reached Atlanta with his 
entire army ; he had lost 1,500 men during his 
pursuit of Hardee and had captured 3,000 



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1864— SEPT. 3 — SEPT. 13 — 1864. 



prisoners and several batteries. Tlie force of 
Slocum, on arrival at Atlanta, captured 200 
rebels.— On tliis date, active skinnislinig at 
Lovejoy's on tlie line of the Macon railroad 
commenced in which the 4tli and 23d Corps 
were engaged. The losses were not heavy and 
the skirmishing continued until the 6th of the 
month. On his withdrawal from Atlanta, 
Hood moved to Lovejoy Station and was fol- 
lowed by the corps mentioned. — Skirmish 
at Franklin, Tenn., between Rousseau and 
Wheeler's guerrillas. — At Big Shanty, Ga., 
the 9th Ohio Cavalry, while changing position, 
were attacked on a railroad train. 

Sept. 3.— Early's retreat. On this date, 
Early started towards Berryville in his attempt 
to recross the Blue Ridge and was pursued by 
the cavalry of the Army of the Potomac under 
Merritt and Wilson who engaged in a fight 
with Anderson. General Early hastened on 
the 4th to the assistance of Anderson, leaving 
Gordon at Winchester; on the 4th a heavy 
action took place in which Torbett, who was 
returning from the left, was engaged ; the rebels 
were compelled to withdraw and the entire 
command of Early crossed the Opequan. In 
these two fights the Union loss was 30 killed, 
182 wounded and 100 missing; the rebel loss 
included 25 killed, 100 wounded and 70 miss- 
ing. — At Murfreesboro, Tenn., a regiment of 
colored troops defended a position. — At Triune, 
Tenn., a detachment from Rousseau's force 
engaged in a slight skirmish.— Activities at 
Perryville, Tenn.— At Darkesville, Va., the 3d 
Cavalry Division of the Army of the Potomac 
engaged in a skirmish with Early's stragglers. 

Seit. 4.— Capture of Jolm Morgan at Green- 
ville, Tenn. The 13th and Oili Tennessee Cav- 
alry and 10th Michigan Cavalry were encamped 
about 18 miles from Greenville and, on the 
night of September 3d, were ordered to move 
to Greenville. Two miles from that place a 



force was deployed between the pickets and the 
town and were captured without a shot. Several 
thousand rebels were camping in the streets 
and were charged by a company from the 13th 
Tennessee and, on being aroused from sleep by 
44 men, ran in every direction in general con- 
fusion. The Union men took a battery and 
afterwards one of the men, J. G. Birchfield, was 
informed that General Morgan was in the city. 
The soldier informed his captain who, with his 
squad of 20 men, surrounded the building. 
Soon after, a man in his shirt sleeves ran across 
the yard and was immediately fired on and fell. 
This was Morgan. (This is a certified account 
of the capture and death of the guerrilla chief, 
Morgan). 

Sept. 5. — At Campbellsville, Tenn., Rous- 
seau's cavalry, in pursuit of Wheeler, engage 
in a skirmish. 

Sept. G. — At Searcey, Ark., a detachment of 
the 9th Iowa Cavalry had an engagement with 
a loss of two killed and six w'ounded. — At Mat- 
tamoras, ^'a., a movement took place. 

Sept. 7. — At Ready ville, Tenn., a slight affair 
in the course of Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler 
took place, in which a detachment of the 9th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry participated. — At Dutch 
Gap, Va., and near Pine Bluff, Ark., actions 
took place. 

Sept. 10.— Fort Sedgwick, on the Jerusalem 
Plank Road, known in history as "Fort Hell," 
and one of the intrenchments in the triple line 
that surrounded Petersburg, was captured by 
the Union forces with a loss of 20 wounded 
and they captured 90 prisoners; the 99th Penn- 
sylvania, 2d U. S. Sharpshooters and 20th 
Indiana Infantry were engaged. — A gunboat 
action at Bonsecour Bay, La. 

Sept. 13.— At Locks Ford, Va., Torbett's 
cavalry charged the rebels and captured 181 
prisoners, sustaining a loss of two killed and 18 
wounded ;. this was a cavalrv action. 



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Sept. 16. — At Sycamore Cliurcli, Va., the 
cavalry divisions ol Gregg and Kautz engaged 
the rebel cavalry under Wade Hampton and 
lost 400 in killed, wounded and missing; the 
aggregate rebel loss was 50 killed and wounded ; 
the J St District of Columbia and 1st Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry were engaged in the action. — On 
this date a fight was begun at Fort Gibson in 
the Indian Territory, in which a colored in- 
fantry regiment and the 2d Kansas Cavalry 
wne involved, the Union loss being 38 killed 
and wounded and 48 missing; tlie skirmishing- 
continued throughout the 16th, 17th and ISlh. 

Sept. 17.— A cavalry action at Fairfax Sta- 
tion, in which the loth and 16th New Yoik 
Cavalry were engaged. — At Belcher's Mills, the 
cavalry force of Kautz and Gregg engaged in 
an action in which they lost 25 wounded. 

Sept. IS.- At Martinsburg, Va., the 2d 
Division of Cavalry in the Army of West 
Virginia, engaged in a cavalry action with the 
troops of Early, who liad been sent to that 
place in force. — At Fort Cottonwood, the 7th 
Iowa Cavalry engaged in a skirmish with the 
Indians. 

Sept. 19. — Battle of the Opequan, also known 
as Winchester and Fisiier's Hill, Va. ()n this 
date the encounter of the forces of Sheridan 
and Early which had been imminent, came to 
a focus. The respective armies were so posted 
that action could be precipitated by either, but 
the resfiective commanders were not disjmsed 
to attack the other in a position of his own 
choosing. A difference of opinion between 
Grant and Sheridan existed, the former desiring 
to hold the latter in check, as defeat would 
leave Maryland and Pennsylvania open to 
invasion, but he yielded his judgment on 
examination of Sheridan's plans. The latter 
proposed to throw his forces on the rear of the 
rebel army but, on learning that Early had sent 
a destroying force to Martinsburg, he changed 



his plans and made an attack on Early's troops 
left at Winchester. The fighting commenced 
on the morning of the lOih, Early having 
returned with his divisions and the contest 
raged with great fury through the day, both 
sides being repeatedly d-riven from and regain- 
ing their position. The battle hung for some 
time in even .scales. Sheridan finally made a 
furious charge which broke the rebel ranks 
and sent them flying in confusion. The shat- 
tered lines entered Winchester at nightfall 
closely pursued. They continued their flight 
and halted at the intrenchments at Fisher's 
Hill. The loss to Sheridan's troops was 653 
killed, 3,719 wounded and 618 missing; 3,600 
confederate prisoners were captured ; in the 
hospitals at Winchester 2,000 w'ounded rebels 
were found, besides those which were with- 
drawn with the army and the dead from Early's 
command considerably exceeded the Union 
loss. — At Cabin Creek, I. T., three regiments of 
Kansas Cavalry and two companies of Kansas 
Indian Home guards were attacked while 
escorting a train. 

Sept. 21.— At Front Royal Pike, Va., and 
Luray in the valley of the Shenandoah, the 3d 
Division, Cavalry Corps of the Army of the 
Potomac, the cavalry under General Wilson, 
charged the rebels on the Pike and drove them 
six miles up the valley. 

Sept. 22.— Battle of Fisher's Hill. On the 
morning of this date the Federal columns con- 
fronted Early who was flanked and attacked in 
the rear by General Crook. The united action 
was an entire surprise and the greatest con- 
sternation ensued, the rebels breaking and 
fleeing. The rout was complete and the victory 
was achieved with little cost, the Union loss 
being 297 in killed and wounded ; the rebel 
loss was not much greater but they lost 1,100 
prisoners. 

Sept. 23. — In an action at Athens, Ala., 



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three regiments of colored cavalry and a 
Tennessee cavalry regiment engaged in a 
heavy skirmish and were reinforced by the 
18th Michigan and 102d Ohio Infantry. Gen- 
irul Forrest frightened the garrison into sur- 
render and 950 soldiers were taken [)risoners; 
the confederate loss was five killed and 25 
wounded. — In a skirmish at Rockport, Mo., in 
wliich several companies of State Militia were 
engaged in skirmish, the Union loss was 10 
killed. — Actions of similar character took place 
at Blackwater, and Bloomfield, Mo. 

Sei't. 24. — The 1st Division, Cavulry Corps 
of Sheridan's force under Wilson and Merritt 
moved to Luray, skirmishing with Mosby's 
guerrillas and inflicting considerable loss. — At 
Fayette, Mo., the Missouri State troops engaged 
in a skirmish and lost three killed and five 
wounded, the rebel loss numbering six killed 
and 30 wounded. — At Fredericktown, Mo., the 
State militia had a skirmish with guerrillas. — 
An unimj)ortant affair took place at Surry C. 
H., Va. — A cavalry scrimmage took place at 
Bull's Gap, Tenn. — Price's invasion of Missouri. 
The rebel raider entered Southwestern Missouri 
and his movements necessitated immediate 
operations for the protection of St. Louis, which 
was the base of supplies for a huge army. On 
this date, he was advancing Northward and 
throwing out his divisions in various directions, 
and the Missouri State cavalry with the cav- 
alry of A. J. Smith's command, the Kansas 
State troops and the cavalry of the Army of 
the Frontier under Blunt, were immediately 
set in motion to check his progress. 

Sept. 25. — At Sulphur Branch Trestle, Ala., 
a colored regiment of infantry and the iHh In- 
diana Cavalry bad a skirmish. — At .lohnson- 
ville, Tenn., and at Henderson, Ky., unimport- 
ant actions occurred. 

Sei't. 20. — At Vache Grass, Ark., the 14th 
Kansas Cavalry sustained an attack from the 



rebels wliile guarding a train. — .U Brown's 
Gap, ^'a., two cavalry divisions of the Army of 
the Potomac skirmished with the forces of 
Early, retreating after the battle of Fisher's 
Ilill. — At Richland, Tenn., a troop of colored 
infantry sustained a rebel attack. — At Pulaski, 
Tenn., Rousseau endeavored to have a fight 
witb Forrest who declined the engagement and, 
on the following day, the Union general pushed 
on after him. 

Sept. 27. — The 2d Division of Cavalry, Army 
of West Virginia, moved to Weyer's Cave, Va., 
in pursuit of Early. — At RoUa, Mo., Ewing 
made an effort to take a position to check the 
movements of Price. — At Centralia, Mo., the 
guerrillas under Price attacked a railroad train 
on the Northern Mi-ssouri railroad and slaught- 
ered three companies of the o9th Missouri 
Infantry under Major Johnson, killing 122 men 
in cold blood, only two escaping death. — At 
Mariana, Fla., an action took place in which 
the 7th Vermont Infantry and 2d Maine Cav- 
alry, with a colored regiment, were engaged, 
sustaining a loss of 32 wounded ; the con- 
federate loss being 81 missing. — At Carter's 
Station, Ark., a force of cavalry and mounted 
infantry under General Ammen engaged in a 
fight. — At Fort Rice, Dak., a detachment of the 
6th Iowa Cavalry, engaged in escorting a 
United States train, were attacked by Indians. 
— Fight at Pilot Knob, Mo. The garrison at 
Ironton, consisting of 100 men under Ewing, 
made an obstinate and successful stand against 
three times their number under Price. At 
night, the rebels had gained position and the 
surrender of the post would have been a neces- 
sity, but Ewing blew up his magazine, spiked 
bis heavy guns and moved toward Rolia. 
During the action of the 27tb, Price lost 1,500 
in killed, wounded and missing, the Union loss 
being but 28 killed, 56 wounded and 100 miss- 
ing. 



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Sept. 28.— Battle of New Market Heights, 
also called Chapin's Farm and Laurel Hill. 
Capture of Forts Harri.son and Gilmoj-e. Gen- 
erals Ord and Birney, with two corps of the 
Army of the James crossed the river and 
made a fierce assault on the line of intrench- 
ments near Chapin's Bluff. Fort Harrison was 
captured and the rebels made a desperate at- 
tempt to retake it, as it was the main defense 
in that part of the confederate lines and occu- 
pied a commanding position. The attempt 
was unsuccessful and Butler thereby held a 
secure position from which to threaten Rich- 
mond, and Lee was obliged to maintain a 
larger force on the James than before. An at- 
tempt to take Fort Gilmore proved abortive 
and the action of that day closed with a loss to 
tlie assaulting division of 594 killed and 
wounded. Meanwhile, skirmishing was carried 
on, on the New Market Road, and the actions 
between the armies continued throughout the 
■29th. On the 30th, another desperate attempt 
was made by the rebels to retake Fort Harri- 
son. The losses to the Union side were 394 
killed, 1,554 wounded and 324 missing; the 
rebel loss was about 2,000. — At Clarksville, Ark., 
the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
mish. — Sheridan's troops engaged in a skirmish 
at Waynesboro, Va., with a squad from Early's 
command. — Attack on Fort Sedgwick and de- 
fense by the 3d Division of the 9th Army 
Corps. 

Sept. 29.— A skirmish occurred at Center- 
ville, Tenn., in which the Union loss was 10 
killed and 25 wounded; a Tennessee cavalry 
regiment was engaged. — In a fight at Leesburg 
and Harrison, Mo., in which Price's command 
was engaged, two Union regiments and one 
battery was engaged. This action continued 
two days. 

Sept. 30. — Battle of Poplar Springs Church 
or Pi-eble's Farm. General Warren, with four 



divisions, captured rebel fortifications on the 
farm which he held while Gemral Parke ad- 
vanced to meet a furious rebel charge. A thou- 
sand Union prisoners were captured. Reinforce- 
ments checked the rebels and the fortifications 
were held by the Federal command ; Parke's 
loss in killed and wounded aggregated 485, 
while the rebel loss was 900 in killed, wounded 
and missing. This action extended through 
October 1st. (The confederate loss has never 
been fully ascertained. The attack was made 
by Hampton's cavalry.) — At Arthur's Swamp, 
Va., a cavalry action under Gregg took place, 
resulting in a loss of 60 wounded and 100 miss- 
ing.— -At Huntersville, Va., an action took place, 
in which a detachment of Sheridan's cavalry 
was involved. 

Oct. 1. — Athens and Huntsville, Ala. The 
73d Indiana Infantry and detachments of the 
12th and 13th Indiana Cavalry engaged in ac- 
tivities with General Buford in Northern Ala- 
bama. — At Franklin, Mo., the Missouri State 
troops engaged in a skirmish with Price's 
guerrillas.— Spear's cavalry brigade and Ter- 
ry's brigade made a reconnoissance on the 
Charles City Cross Roads ; these troops belonged 
to the Army of the .James. — At Yellow Tavern 
on the Weldon railroad, the 3d Division of the 
2d Corps of the Army of the Potomac com- 
menced a movement, in which they were en- 
gaged five days. — At Sweet Water, Moses and 
Powder Spring Creeks, Ga., the cavalry of the 
Army of the Cumberland commenced a move- 
ment which covered three days. 

Oct. 2. — A portion of cavalry detached from 
the commands of Custer and Merritt's cavalry. 
Army of the Potomac, had a fight at Waynes- 
boro, Va., and suffered a loss oi 50 killed and 
wounded.— At Saltville, Va., a heavy action 
occurred, in which 13 cavalry regiments and 
mounted infantry were engaged, in which the 
Union loss was 54 killed, 190 wounded and 104 



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missing; the rebel loss was 18 killed, 71 
wounded and 21 missing. At Gladesville, 
Pound Gap, Va., two Kentucky cavalry regi- 
ments engaged in a scrimmage. 

Oct. 5.— Near Memphis, Tenn., a company I 
of the 7th Indiana Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
mish. — Battle at Allatoona, Ga. At this point a 
million of rations were stored preparatory to 
the operations of Sherman in the campaign 
which he proposed to open in the spring. Hood 
attacked the position which was held by a gar- 
rison of 890 men under Colonel Tourtellotte. 
General Sherman, in anticipation of an attack, 
had arranged a system of signals and he or- 
dered, through tliat method, the reinforcement 
of the post by General Corse, and, on the night 
of the 4th, Rowett's Brigade, with 165,000 
rounds of ammunition, reached Allatoona in 
season. The garrison was increased to 1,900 
men. Rowett repelled the first charge from the 
western spur of the ridge and continued to re- 
pulse repeated assaults. Tourtellotte delivered 
a fire from his position on the east which broke 
the rebel ranks and the assaulting force retired, 
after losing 231 killed, 500 wounded and 411 
missing ; the Union loss was 142 killed, 352 I 
wounded and 212 missing. — In a skirmish at ; 
Jackson, La., the 23d Wisconsin Infantry, 1st 
Texas and 1st Louisiana Cavalry and the 2d 
and 4th Massachusetts Battery engaged in an 
action, in which they lost four killed and 10 
wounded. — At Fort Adams, La., the 2d Wis- 
consin Cavalry with a regiment of colored cav- 
alry, engaged in a skirmish while performing 
heavy scouting duty. — At Big Shanty and Ken- 
nesaw the troops of Sherman moved into posi- 
tion. 

Oct. 6.— The GOth Illinois Infantry, with 
two regiments of Kansas Cavalry, engaged in 
a fight at Florence, Ala. — At Prince's Place on 
the Osage River in Missouri, the State troops 
contested the progress of Price's guerrillas. — ; 



An action occurred at Woodvrlle, Miss., and 
another at Clinton, La. 

Oct. 7. — At Darkeytown, Va., a skirmish 
occurred and at Bahia, S. A., the rebel privateer 
Florida was captured by the steamer Wachu- 
sett, Captain Collins, and taken to Hampton 
Roads and sunk. 

Oct. 8. — The rear guard of Sheridan's force 
under Custer, was subjected to the attacks of 
the stragglers from Early's force in the vicinity 
of New Market, and was ordered by the chief to 
prepare to attack the rebel cavalry and whip 
them or get whipped. — Raid of McCook's cav- 
alry at Hopkinsville, Ky. 

Oct. 9.— Battle of Tom's Brook. Torbett 
completed his preparation to move in pursuit 
of the rebel cavalry, and two hours after day- 
light had obeyed the command of Sheridan to 
the letter, giving the rebels entire satisfaction ; 
he routed and chased them 20 miles, captured 
11 guns and 330 prisoners, and inflicted a loss 
of 100 in killed and wounded, his several divi- 
sions losing altogether nine- killed and 67 
wounded. This was one of the most important 
victories in that campaign. 

Oct. 10. — Price's invasion of Missouri. On 
the 7th, Price reached Jefferson City but did 
not dare to attack, and moved to California and 
Booneville ; his progress was contested by Mis- 
souri regiments of cavalry under Sanborn, who 
made an attack on the rear guard of Price at 
Versailles, while Price was still moving west- 
ward. — At South Tunnel, Tenn., the rebels 
attacked a regiment of colored infantry. — At 
East Point, Miss., two infantry regiments sus- 
tain a loss of 16 killed and 20 wounded in a 
rebel attack. 

Oct. 11. — At Stony Creek Station, Va., the 
13th Pennsylvania Cavalry had a slight skir- 
mish. — At Narrows, Ga., the division of Gar- 
rard skirmished with the rebels. — At Fort Uon- 
elson, Tenn., an active skirmish took place, in 



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which a battery of heavy artillery was engaged, 
the respective losses to the Federal and rebel 
troops being 13 and 26 in killed and wounded. 
— Slight actions at Harpeth Shoals, Tenn., and 
Fort Nelson occuri'ed on this date. 

Oct. 12. — At Greenville, Tenn., an action 
occurred. — A garrison stationed at Resaca, Ga., 
under Colonel Weaver was attacked by Hood's 
force and summoned to surrender, but the com- 
mandant sent him a spirited answer and was 
soon after reinforced, and Hood moved a por- 
tion of his command to Tilton and Dalton and 
captured a garrison at the latter place. At 
Tilton, the garrison was bravely defended and 
only surrendered when the defenses were torn 
to pieces. At Mill Creek Gap a similar trans- 
action occurred. (These two latter actions took 
place on the 13th but belonged to the same 
movement.) At Tilton, 400 prisoners were 
captured and at Mill Creek Gap, where the 
115th Illinois Infantry were on duty, five were 
killed, 36 wounded and the remainder captured. 

Oct. 13. — At Strasburg, Va., the cavalry 
forces under Emory and Crook made a recon- 
noissance in force and sustained a loss of 214 
in killed, wounded and missing. — At Darby- 
town Road, Va., on the 7th of October, an ac- 
tion commenced on this highway, in which a 
cavalry force under Kautz was attacked by two 
infantry brigades and a brigade of cavalry, and 
lost 72 in killed and wounded and 202 missing. 
Kautz moved to the protection of the 10th 
Corps and was followed b\' the rebels, who 
made an attack on the infantry command ; the 
movements continued until the 13th, when 
General Butler made a reconnoissance in force 
but without material results save that of find- 
ing the position of the rebels to be invincible. 
In the movements after the 7th, the loss was 
105 killed and 502 wounded. — At Piedmont, 
Va., a rebel cavalry squad awaited the arrival 
of a portion of Sheridan's command under 



General Wright. — At Poolesville, Md., a slight 
action occurred. 

Oct. 15. — Price's invasion of Missouri. In a 
fight of seven hours at Glasgow, Mo., Price 
captured the place and a number of prisoners 
belonging to Missouri regiments and a detach- 
ment of the 17th Illinois Cavalry ; the Union 
loss was 400 in killed, wounded and missing, 
and the rebel loss was 50 in killed and wounded. 
— At Bayou Biddell, La., an action took place 
in which a colored regiment was engaged. — 
At Snake Creek Gap, Ga., a part of the Army 
of the Tennessee followed the rebels to this 
point, which was blockaded by the confederates, 
but the obstructions were removed by Howard's 
troops while Stanley crossed the bridge north 
of the Gap. — At Sedalia, Mo., two regiments of 
Missouri cavalry contested the advance of 
Price's invaders. — At Mossy Creek, Tenn., a 
slight action occurred. 

Oct. 10. — The Army of the Tennessee drove 
the rebels from Scrip's Gap, Taylor's Ridge, 
Ga., and captured a few prisoners. 

Oct. 17. — At Cedar Run Church, Va., a de- 
tachment of the first Connecticut Cavalry, in- 
cluding three officers and 20 men, were at- 
tacked by Rosser and tlie whole confederate 
army under Early moved out to protect Rosser 
who had been led by his scouts to believe that 
Custer's brigade occupied the position. 

Oct. 18. — At Peirce's Point, Blackwater, Fla., 
the 19th Iowa and 2d Maine Infantry, with the 
1st Florida Cavalry, bad an engagement with 
the rebels. 

Oct. 19.— Sheridan's Ride. The battle of 
Cedar Creek opened while Sheridan was at 
Washington under special orders ; his com- 
mand was in position on Cedar Creek. Early 
had determined upon a surprise and at 1 o'clock ■ 
on this date moved forward, the command 
stripped of everything which could make a 
clatter. In accordance with the plans for the 



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combined action of the infantry and cavalry, 
the attack was made on Torbett's division, tlie 
advance of tlie confederate cavahy being aideii 
by the thick fog, and before the Union troops 
were fairly awake an infantry division under 
Kershaw, which liad crept over a hill, covered 
every part of the fortifications. Kershaw's 
troops took seven loaded guns and turned them 
on the Union force, which had turned to retreat 
in confusion. Emory, Crook and Wright, with 
their divisons of cavalry, advanced to the pike 
and made every efibrt to arrest the movement 
of the Union troops, but did so in vain, and the 
confusion and terror of the flying infantry 
spread dismay through the cavalry and the en- 
tire force broke and the command of Early 
moved to the camping ground of Sheridan. 
Sheridan was returning and reached Winches- 
ter about seven o'clock in the morning where 
he heard the guns from the conflict. He rode 
hurriedly forward to Mill Creek where he met 
the troops and trains from the broken lines. 
(On this incident the immortal poem of Read 
is founded; at this writing it is uppermost in 
the minds of the American people, the cavalry 
chief having been witliin a few days laid to rest 
at Arlington, August 21, 1888.) Sheridan ral- 
lied the fugitives under orders and a promise 
to go back "and lick them out of their boots." 
The invincible spirit of the great cavalry com- 
mander inspired the infantry of his command 
and the reorganized force turned to obey and 
to witness the fulfillment of his promise. The 
whole Union line responded to Sheridan's order 
to advance after the retreat of Elarly began, and 
the confederates broke in confusion and became 
a confused mass of fugitives, losing many prison- 
ers. At Cedar Creek, the infantry were checked, 
but the cavalry continued the pursuit and, 
when a bridge broke down, the way was at once 
blocked with the impedimenta of artillery and 
trains which were collected by the troops under 



Custer and Deven ; 2-1: rebel guns were taken 
and the Union batteries recaptured with all 
ambulances and 5G belonging to the rebel com- 
mand, the spoils including a number of battle 
flags. Early succeeded in retaining 1,420 pris- 
oners captured in the morning who were sent 
to the rear and immediately dispatched to Rich- 
mond. The Union loss was 560 killed, 3,425 
wounded and 1,870 missing, including the 
number stated as captured. The rebel loss was 
much greater and Early's array was no longer 
a power in the valley of the Shenandoah. — At 
Lexington, Mo., Price attacked Curtiss, in com- 
mand of the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry, with the 
5th, 11th, 15th and 16th Kansas Cavalry. — 
Confederate activities at !Middletown, \a., and 
at Middkton, Md. — At Strasburg, Va., the cav- 
alrj' under Crook made a reconnoissance. 

Oct. 20. — At Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a 
detachment of troops belonging to the com- 
mand of General Blunt of the Army of the 
Frontier commenced a series of movements 
which occupied six days and in which detach- 
ments of Indians and Texas Cavalry were dis- 
persed. — At Little River, Tenn., the cavalry 
and a part of the infantry of the 15th Corps of 
Logan moved to a position preparatory to a re- 
organized campaign. 

Oct. 21. — Price's invasion of Missouri : Battles 
of Little Blue and Independence, Mo. General 
Curtiss was pursued from Lexington to Inde- 
pendence and fell upon General Blunt's Kansas 
division in force and drove the Federal troops 
to the Big Blue River; Pleasanton drove Price's 
rear guard to Independence on the 22d and 
made a charge at nightfall which was suc- 
cessful. He sent a force under McNeal to Santa 
Fe to head off Price's guerrillas and, on the 
morning of the 23d a general engagement 
was fought on the Big Blue by Pleasanton and 
Marmaduke and Fagan, the latter being rein- 
forced by Shelby and the rebels were driven. — 



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At Harrodsburg, Ky., a regiment of colored 
cavalry sustained an assault. 

Oct. 22. — At White River, Ark., a regiment 
of colored troojis was attacked. The rebel 
gunboats attacked the Union batteries on the 
James River in Virginia and tli^ assault was 
repulsed with a loss of 11 rebels. — 40 rebels 
raided St. Albans, Vt., murdering several citi- 
zens and taking $200,000 from the banks. 

Oct. 2.3. — In a skirmish at Hurricane Creek, 
Miss., the Union loss was one killed and two 
wounded ; the 1st Iowa and 9lh Kansas Cavalry 
were engaged. — At Westport, Mo., a skirmish 
took place between Pleasanton's cavalry and a 
force under Marmaduke. — At Princeton, Ark., 
a Missouri cavalry regiment was engaged in a 
skirmish. 

Oct. 24. — At Cold water Grove, on the Osage 
River, the Kansas Cavalry of Blunt's command 
skirmished with the troops of Price. 

Oct. 25. — At Mine Creek on the Osage 
River, in the pursuit of Price, the rear guard 
of the rebels under Marmaduke were routed 
and the rebel commanders, Marmaduke and 
Cabell, were captured. — At Fort Scott, a scout- 
ing expedition had an engagement with a 
party of rebels attacking a train. 

Oct. 26.— Battle of Decatur, Ala. After 
Hood's evacuation of Atlanta, his movements 
were of a character calculated to perplex Sher- 
man and the Army of the Cumberland under 
Thomas was detached to look after his move- 
ments. The rebels moved to the Tennessee 
River and made an attempt to cross at Decatur, 
Ala.; in the afternoon. Hood attacked the gar- 
rison which was commanded by Colonel Doolit- 
tle, whose forces included his own regiment, 
the 18th Michigan, 102d Ohio, and 68th Indi- 
ana Infantry, and a regiment of colored troops. 
Colonel -Doolittle repulsed the cliarge and, 
vi'hen reinforcements arrived, a sortie was 
made from the garrison under the protection of 



the guns of the fort and the rebels were dis- 
lodged with considerable loss. The casualties 
in the Union force were 10 killed, 45 wounded 
and 100 missing, and the confederate loss ag- 
gregated 400 killed and wounded. — At Milton, 
Fla., the 19th Iowa Infantry and the 2d Maine 
Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. — Actions at 
Stone Mountain, Ga., and AVinfield, La. 

Oct. 27.— Battle at Hatcher's Run. The 
fight commenced b}' a charge on the confeder- 
ate force by the 9th Corps under General 
Parks, the entire Army of the Potomac being 
on the alert for the action. The confederates 
were overborne and were driven from the field, 
leaving behind them nearly a thousand pris- 
oners. The Union loss was 15G killed and 
1,047 wounded, while that of the rebels in- 
cluded an aggregate of 800. — Battle of P^air 
Oaks. In support of the movement at Hatch- 
er's Run, General Butler had been instructed 
to make a demonstration on the north side of 
the James. The rebel skirmishers were pushed 
back and the fortifications were repeatedly as- 
saulted until nightfall to no purpose. General 
Weitzel moved across through White Oak 
Swamp to the Williamsburg Road near Seven 
Pines, within seven miles of Richmond, where 
the rebels were found in force and strongly 
intrenched. The Union charge was repulsed 
with a bloody loss. On the 28th, General 
Grant ordered a flank movement to the rebel 
right, to be followed by a movement north to 
obtain possession of the South Side railroad. 
The object of this attack on the intrenchments 
was to hold the attention of the rebels to in- 
sure the purpose of the flank movement re- 
ferred to. In this battle, which is known as 
Fair Oaks, 120 Union soldiers were killed, 783 
wounded and 400 were missing ; the confeder- 
ate loss was 60 killed, 311 wounded and 80 
missing. The entire maneuvre was a failure. 

Oct. 28. — An action took place at Fort Hei- 



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man, Teiin., on the river, in which the Union 
gunboats j)articipated. Forrest attacked the 
Undine, captured and burned her. — At Fay- 
etteville, Aik., tlie 1st Arkansas Cavalry sus- 
tained a raid from rebel cavalry. — Destruction 
of the ram Albemarle. Lieutenant Gushing, 
who had perfected a ])lan for the destruction 
of the ram, moved to carry it out on the night 
of October 27th, taking with him a picked 
crew of 13 men, and he planted a torpedo un- 
der lire from the enemj-'s infantry on the shore. 
When the torpedo exploded, his own boat was 
in the immediate vicinity, and Gushing and one 
com])anion were the only persons who escaped ; 
all others of the party were shot or captured and 
he received a bullet in his wrist. The explo- 
sion sunk the Albemarle and secured the re- 
capture of the riymouth, which was surren- 
dered to the naval squadron the next day; 
among the results was the acquisition of the 
command of the North Carolina sounds, and 
the release of a fleet of 16 vessels which had 
been watciiing the Albemarle. — At Morristown, 
Tenn., Gillem's cavalry was attacked by a force 
under the confederate Colonel Vaughn, which 
resulted in a loss of eight killed and 42 
wounded to the Union force, the confederate 
loss being 240 missing. — At Newtonia, Mo., the 
cavalry of Colonel Blunt in pursuit of Price, 
skirmished throughout two days and inflicted a 
loss of 250. 

Oct. 29. — At Beverly, West Virginia, the 8th 
Ohio Cavalry engaged in an action, in which 
they inflicted a loss of 17 killed and 27 
wounded and 92 missing, and themselves sus- 
tained a loss of eight killed, 25 wounded and 
13 missing. 

Oct. 30. — At Brownsville, Ark., the 7th Iowa 
and 11th Missouri Cavalry engaged in action 
with slight loss. — At Muscle Shoals, Ala., a 
cavalry division of the Army of the Cumber- 
land, (command of Thomas), engaged in a 



skirmisli with a detachm-ent of Hood's com- 
mand. — At Ladija, Terrapin Creek, Ala., a 
cavalry force under Garrard engaged in an ac- 
tion. 

Oct. 31. — At Plymouth, N. C, the steamers 
Commodore lUlI, Shamrock, Otsego, Wyalus- 
ing and Tacony withdrew from surveillance 
of that part of the North Carolina coast. 

Nov. 1. — The lOtli Missouri Cavalry engaged 
in a skirmish at Union Station, Tenn., sustain- 
ing slight loss ; the series of actions included 
four days. — At Black River, La., a batteiy of 
heavy artillery (colored troops) engaged in an 
action. 

Nov. 3. — At Vera C'ruz, Ark., one company 
of the 40th Missouri Infantry engaged in an 
action. 

Nov. 5. — In a flglit at Fort Sedgwick, in 
which the 2d Corps engaged, the Union loss 
was 15 in killed and wounded and the confed- 
erate loss was 50. — On the 4th, a detachment 
of Hood's army attacked Johnsonville, Tenn., 
which was an important base of supplies; the 
place was defended by the 11th Tennessee 
Cavalry, the 43d A\'isconsin Infantry and a 
regiment of colored troops ; tlie Union loss 
was slight and the rebels were repulsed, the at- 
tack lasting two days. — At Big Pigeon River, 
Tenn., a raid was made by a North Carolina 
regiment of mounted infantry. 

Nov. 9. — Atlanta, Ga. The 2d Division of 
the 20th Corps of the Army of the Cumber- 
land engaged in a skirmish at this point, and 
inflicted a loss on the confederates of 20 killed 
and wounded ; a detachment moved to Ma- 
rietta. — At Shoal Creek, Ala., the 5th Division 
of Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland, engaged 
in a flght with Hood's troops. 

Nov. 10. — The same force were engaged at 
Pine Barren Ridge. 

Nov. 12. — At Newton and Cedar Springs, 
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had a brush with the enemy, in which they 
lost 84 wounded and 100 missing, the rebel 
loss being 150; in this action Rosser, with his 
command, was driven across Cedar Creek, and, 
on the 13th, Early, with his command, had 
moved away to Middleton. — At Front Royal, 
Va., Powell routed and drove a rebel l)rigade 
under McCausland. — Activities at Nineveh, Va. 

Nov. 13. — At Morristown, E. Tenn., General 
Gillem was attacked by a force of 300 under 
Breckenridge and his command dispersed ; this 
disaster was the result of the sejiaration of 
Gillem from Thomas' command. — At Panther 
Springs, Tenn., an action took place. — At Bull's 
Gap, Tenn., the 8th, 9th, and 13tli Tennessee 
Cavalry engaged in a skirmish, in which the 
rebel and Union loss was respectively 36 
wounded and five killed. 

Nov. 14. — The 15th Corps under Howard 
commenced a movement to the crossing of the 
Ockmulgee and pursued the movement three 
days, also building pontoon bridges. This 
was the real start of Sherman's march to 
the sea. — At Cow Creek, Ark., a series of skir- 
mishes commenced on this date, in which col- 
ored troops and Union Indians engaged, cov- 
ering a period of 14 days. 

Nov. 15. — At Clinton, La., Liberty Creek, the 
expedition under General Lee commenced op- 
erations. 

Nov. 16. — At Lovejoy Station and Bear Sta- 
tion, Tenn., Kilpatiick, with a cavalry force, 
drove the rebel skirmishers, and, on arrival at 
the station, dismounted his men and carried 
the works on foot, and captured 50 prisoners. — 
At Cotton Hills, West Virginia, a slight action 
occurred. 

Nov. 17.— The iOOth Pennsylvania Infantry 
engaged in a skirmish at Bermuda Hundred 
with a loss of 10 wounded and 120 missing, 
and a confederate loss of 10 wounded. — At Ab- 
erdeen and. Battle Creek, Ala., the 2d Iowa 



Cavalry had a skirmish. — The 15th Corps un- 
der Howard marched through McDonough, 
Ga. — Movements in the vicinity of Covington, 
Ga. 

Nov. 18. — At Meyerstown, Va., a detachment 
of the 91st Ohio Infantry lost 60 killed and 
wounded in a skirmish, and the rebels lost 10 
killed and wounded. — At Rutledge and Social 
Circle, Ga., activities of the Union cavalry and 
infantry connected with the commands of 
Thomas and Kilpatrick. 

Nov. 19. — At Bayou La Fourche, La., the 
11th Wisconsin Infantry, with a regiment of 
colored troops, while on an expedition, engaged 
in a skirmish. — At Walnut Creek, N. G, a 
slight skirmish took place. 

Nov. 20. — At Macon, Ga., three regiments of 
cavaJry under Kilpatrick made a feint on Ma- 
con, destroying a train of cars and tearing up 
the railroad track ; this movement was made 
to divert the attention of the rebels from How- 
ard. — The 14th Corps of Sherman's command 
moved to Milledgeville, Ga. — At Greensboro, 
Ga., a rebel movement occurred. — At Brook- 
ville, Ga., activities occurred. 

Nov. 21. — At Liberty and Jackson, La., the 
4th Wisconsin Cavalry and the 1st Wisconsin 
Battery engaged in an expedition with marked 
success. 

Nov. 22. — The rebel militia umler Cobb 
moved from Macon to Griswoldsville, and at- 
tacked Walcott's infantry brigade and a por- 
tion of Kilpatrick's cavalry, and encountered 
severe punishment, losing 2,000 troops; the 
Union loss was 62 killed and wounded ; Wood's 
division of infantry (Union) were engaged. — 
At Rood's Hill, Va., Torbett's cavalry engaged 
in a skirmish, with a loss of IS killed and 52 
wounded. — Hatch's cavalry, belonging to the 
command of Thomas, raided Lavi'renceburg, 
Campbellville and Lynnville, in East Tennes- 
see, and lost 75 in killed and wounded, the 



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rebels losing 50 in killed and wounded. — At 
Rolling Fork, Miss., a colored cavalry regiment 
engaged Avith tlie rebels. — At Clinton, Ga., the 
loth Corps of Sherman's command under How- 
ard advanced toward Gordon. 

Nov. 24. — Sherman commenced to move 
from Milledgeville, Ga. — Schofield continued 
his movement on a parallel line witJi Hood in 
the vicinity of Columbia and Duck River and 
meanwhile, the skirmish between Capron's 
brigade and Forrest's cavalry was in operation 
at Columbia ; the Union line of battle was 
formed near Bigby Creek and the movements 
referred to contin.ued in East Tennessee until 
the 28th ; at times, skirmishing took place and 
the garrison at .lohnsonville received orders to 
go to Clarksville with Ihe su{)plies which were 
stationed there ; all efforts to bring Forrest to 
action were futile. — On this date, the 1st Ala- 
bama Cavalry led the advance of the Army of 
the Tennessee across the Oconee River at Ball's 
Ferry. — Activities at Jackson, Miss. 

Nov. 2.5. — At Pawnee Forks, Kansas, a com- 
pany of the 1st Colorado Cavali'y had a skir- 
mish with the Indians, while escorting a train. 
— At St. Vrain's Old Fort, a cavalry company 
defended the movements of a train. — Attempt 
to fire the city of New York. 

Nov. 26. — At Sandersville, Ga., the con- 
federates opposed the passage of Howard's 
corps across the Oconee and inflicted a loss 
which included 100 missing, the casualties in 
the confederate command being the same. — 
At Sylvan Grove, Waynesboro and Brown's 
Cross Roads, the command of Kilpatrick con- 
tinued the movements inaugurated and ojier- 
ated on a plan to deceive the rebels as to Sher- 
man's movements. On the night of the 26th, 
Kilpatrick's command was attacked at Sylvan 
Grove and made a stout resistance. It had 
been a part of his plan to relieve the prisoners 
at Millen, but they had been removed. He lost 



in the movement 46 wounded, the confederate 
loss being 600 killed and wounded.— At Decatur, 
Ala., Granger commenced tlie withdrawal of 
his garrison, and also from Athens and Hunts- 
ville, and his movement continued until the 
29th. — At Madison Station, Ga., a regiment of 
colored troops engaged in a skirmish. 

Nov. 27.— At Big Black River Bridge, on 
the Mississippi Central railroad, a cavalry and 
artillery command under Colonel Osband en- 
gaged in a skirmish. 

Nov. 29.— At Spring Hill, Tenn., the 4th 
Corps and cavalry take position preparatory to 
the battle of Franklin. — Cavalry skirmish at 
Big Sandy, Col. 

Nov. 30.— Battle of Franklin. The artillery 
attached to Wagner's l)rigades opened the battle 
of Franklin which was followed by infantry fire 
from the same command. This move was dis- 
astrous and precipitated the action of the rest 
of the army. Two colonels. White and Opdycke, 
on seeing the rout of Wagner's forces, made 
headlong charges which had excellent effect 
and after that the charges of the rebels were 
repeatedly repulsed. The fighting began late 
in the afternoon and continued until late in 
the night. The Union loss was 189 killed, 1,033 
wounded and 1,104 missing. The rebels were 
ordered forward with the recklessness which 
characterized Hood's entire movement after 
supplanting Johnston and his lo.«s in killed and 
wounded was much greater, 1,750 being killed' 
3,800 wounded and 702 missing. The greater 
part of the missing was from Wagner's brigade. 
The confederate loss in officers was great; that 
of the Union force was hardly large enough to 
mention, only two officers being wounded. — At 
Grahamsville or Honey Hill, S. C, General 
Hatch moved for action, anticipating that the 
operation would be useful to the plans of Sher- 
man. — He landed at Boyd's Neck and attempted 
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oV)ject by strategy and he unexpectedly met 
their forces and was forced backtohisintrench- 
nients at Boyd's Neck. Tlie Union loss was 65 
killed and 645 wounded ; the confederates re- 
ported their loss as less than 50.— At Bermuda 
Hundred, Va., the pickets belonging to a col- 
ored regiment repeatedly sustained the assaults 
of rebels. 

Dkc. 1.— Skirmishing and fighting in front 
of Nashville commenced on this date and con- 
tinued until the 14th, prior to the general en- 
gagement. The army ol Schofield, that of A. 
J. Smith, the troops of Steedman, Granger, Mil- 
roy and others were ordered to Nashville or 
Murfreesboro and, during the time mentioned, 
affairs advanced to a condition which left the 
Federal forces in advantageous position for the 
battle of Nashville. — Gregg's cavalry attacked 
Stony Creek Station on the Weldon railroad 
and captured 175 prisoners ; the cavalry suffered 
a loss of 40 wounded. — At Yazoo City, Miss., a 
skirmish took place in which a detachment of 
the 2d Wisconsin Cavalry was engaged under 
Lieutenant Colonel Dale, who fought a large 
body of rebels with 250 men, 25 of the Wiscon- 
sin .soldiers were missing, five were killed and 
nine wounded.— Skirmish at Tangipaho, La. 

Dec. 2. — At Rocky Creek Church, Ga., the 
3d Kentucky and 5th Ohio Cavalry moved in 
the advance of Sherman. — At Buckhead Creek 
the position was held by the two regiments 
previously mentioned, while Kilpatrick's com- 
mand crossed, and the bridge was afterwards 
burned. Kilpatrick attacked Wheeler on this 
date and drove him, and Kilpatrick succeeded 
in delivering to Wheeler a satisfactory "return 
blow."— Block House No. 2 at Miil Creek, Chat- 
tanooga. The Union garrison was attacked by 
rebels and sustained a loss of 12 killed, 46 
wounded and 57 missing; the action continued 
two days. 

Dec. 3. — At Thomas Station, on the Savan- 



nah Road, the 22d Illinois Mounted Infantry 
sustained a loss of three in a skirmish.— Sher- 
man reached Millen and cut railroad communi- 
cations between Savannah and Augusta. Kil- 
patrick drove Wheeler across Briar Creek.— 
Movements of tlie rebels and Federal troops at 
Charlestown and in the vicinity of Waynesboro, 
Va. 

Dec. 4.— At Block House No. 7, the garrison 
under General Milroy was attacked \>y rebels, 
the loss to both sides being about 100 in killed 
and wounded.— The 25th Ohio Infantry, while 
endeavoring to hold a position on the Coosaw 
River, S. C, engaged in a skirmish.— At States- 
boro, Ga., a foraging party detailed from the 
15th Corps became involved in a skirmish.— 
Overall's Creek ; movement of Sheridan's troops. 

Dec. 5.— Forrest atU^cked Murfreesboro which 
was defended by Milroy's troops, and was de- 
feated and compelled to retire with heavy loss, 
his infantry alone losing 218; 207 prisoners 
were captured, while the Union loss was 30 
killed and 175 wounded. The actions covered 
three days. 

Dec. 6.— At White Post, Va., in a rebel as- 
sault on 50 of the 21st New York Cavalry, 30 
were wounded.— At Deveaux's Neck, S. C, a 
fight occurred in which ten regiments of infan- 
try, a battery and several United States gun- 
boats were involved, in which the Union loss 
was 39 killed, 390 wounded and 200 missing; 
the confederate loss being 400 killed and 
wounded ; the fight continued three days. 

Dec. 6. — At Hatcher's Run, three cavalry 
regiments and a division of the 3d Corps en- 
gaged in a series of actions which occupied two 
days, and the Union loss was 125 killed and 
wounded. The raid of Custer and Merritt to 
Gordonville commenced ; the movement occu- 
pied 20 days, and 43 men belonging to their 
respective commands were wounded. 

Dec. 7.— At Ebenezer Ci-eek, Cypress Swamp 



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and at Eden Station cm tlie Ogeeche River, the 
troops connected with Slierman's army, ad- 
vanced in their march to the sea ; in the former, 
the 9th Michigan and 9th Ohio Cavalry formed 
the rear guard of the left wing, and took up 
pontoon bridges to prevent refugees following, 
and in the latter, the troops referred to were the 
15th and 17th Corps of the right wing of the 
command. — At Sister's Ferry, Ga. (Savannah 
Riverj, the rebels prepared to oppose the pro- 
gress of Sherman's army. — Milroy fought For- 
rest and Bates, driving them, and capturing 
200 prisoners ; the Union loss was 200 kil'ed 
and wounded. — Warren started to destroy the 
Weldon railroad at a point which should sever 
railroad communication between Wilmington 
and Savannah. The movement occupied six 
days and 20 miles of road was destroyed, when 
the rebels were encountered in force, and the 
expedition returned, having marched a hundred 
miles in six days ; the 2d Division of the Cav- 
alry Corps of the Army of the Potomac and the 
5th Corps and 3d Division of the 2d Corps of 
the Army of the Potomac were engaged. 

Dec. 8. — Action at Nottaway, Va. 

Dec. 9. — An expedition went into Western 
North Carolina in pursuit of rebels, in which 
the 3d North Carolina Infantry was occupied 
five days. — At Fort Lyons, in Ind. Ter., an 
engagement occurred, in which a colored cav- 
alry regiment was engaged, and 500 Indians 
were massacred. — The 14th Corps of the left 
wing of the Army of the Military Division of 
the Mississijipi engaged in an action at Cuyler's 
Plantation, Montieth Swamp, Ga. — In an ex- 
pedition to Hamilton, N. C, the 27th Massa- 
chusetts and 9th New Jersey Infantry, 3d Cav- 
alry and 3d New York Battery engaged in a 
skirmish ; this action was connected with the 
expedition previously mentioned, and included 
a skirmish at Foster's Bridge and Butler's 
Bridge in Jackson county, N. C. — During the 



expedition of Warren on the Weldon railroad, 
cavalry skirmishe.s occurred at Bellefield and 
Hicksford, Va. — Movements in the vicinity of 
Florence, Ala. 

Dec. 10. — At Blooraingdale, N. C, a rebel 
movement took place. 

Dec. 12. — At Elkton, Ky., a movement was 
made by the cavalry commanded by General 
E. M. McCook. 

Dec. 13. — Fort McAlister. The investment 
of Savannah River to the Ogeeche was com- 
pleted on the 12th, and on this date an at- 
tack was made on Fort McAlister. The attack- 
ing column was formed of a portion of How- 
ard's troops under General Hazen, and, within 
15 minutes after the first charge, the stars and 
stripes supplanted the confederate flag ; the 
Union loss was 24 killed and 110 wounded, the 
rebel loss being 84 killed and wounded. The 
Great Ogeeche River was placed under control 
of Sherman and the sea was practically reached, 
the rear of the right of Sherman's command 
obtaining a base on the sea. 

Dec. 14. — At Bristol, Tenn., a detachment of 
cavalry under General Burl^ridge (Stoneman's 
raid) engaged in the destruction of the Virginia 
and Tennessee railroads. — At Memphis, Tenn., 
the 4th Iowa Cavalry was attacked by rebels, 
and lost three killed and six wounded. — At 
Mount Aii'y, Ky., an action occurred. 

Dec. 15. — The battle of Nashville commenced 
in the early morning, and the attack of Steed- 
man on Hood's right was made with great vigor. 
At nightfall, tlie victory was clearly with the 
Union army, and ajijiearances seemed to in- 
dicate that Hood would retreat. The action 
continued through the 10th, and, before the 
close of the afternoon, the entire rebel army 
was in precipitate flight; at nightfall, the vic- 
tory was complete, and orders were issued for 
immediate pursuit. Hood's army was routed 
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his soldiers flinging aside everything tliat could 
2)ossibly impede their movements, while the 
confused mass of fugitives fled in wild disorder 
through Brentwood Pass. The 4th Corps was 
close in pursuit and followed until darkness 
concealed the retreating rebels. The dead and 
wounded of the confederate army were left on 
the tield, and in the morning the pursuit was 
continued. Four miles north of Franklin, the 
rear of the flying column was overtaken by 
Wilson, and the force was dispersed and more 
than 400 j/risoners captured. A cavalry force 
liad anived there and Hood was obliged to 
abandon Frank lin , leaving 2,000 of h is w ounded 
in the hospital The disorganized remnant of 
liis command crossed the Tennessee, December 
27th, falling back to Tupelo, Miss., where Hood 
resigned his command and was never again a 
power in the rebel army. The Union loss was 
400 killed and 1,740 wounded ; the rebel loss 
was very heavy in killed, wounded and miss- 
ing; 8,000 prisoners had been taken, 53 siege 
guns and thousands of small arms had been 
seized by the forces of Thomas, and a rebel force 
about 40,000 strong had been killed, captured 
or routed in confusion and dismay. 

Dec. 15. — At Murfreesboro, Tenn., Jackson's 
division, belonging to Rousseau's command, cap- 
tured a railway train going thither from Stev- 
enson, Ala. — Movements at Pascagoula, Miss. 

Dec. 16. — At Hopkinsville, Ky., two bri- 
gades from McCook's division of cavalry en- 
gaged in a movement. — At Overton's Mills, 
Tenn., a portion of the battle of Nashville took 
place, already referred to as Brentford. — Rebel 
activity at Pollard, Ky. 

Dec. 17.— At Mitchell's Creek, Fla., a col- 
ored regiment had a fight and another colored 
regiment engaged in an action at Pine Barren 
Creek, Ala., their united loss in killed, wounded 
and missing being about 75.— At Millwood, 
Va., the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, while on 



a scouting expedition, engaged in a skirmish. 
— Thomas followed the flying rebels through 
the Brentwood Hills to the Franklin Pike ; 
Wilson overtook the rear guard at Hollow Tree 
Gap with the 5tli and 7th Cavalry Divisions; 
the former force was the 6th Cavalry division 
of the same army.— At Ashbysburg, Ky., Mc- 
Cook's cavalry skirmished wiih the rebels. 

Dec. 18.— Action at Franklin Creek, Miss. 

Dec. 19. — At Rutherford Creek, Tenn., a 
pontoon bridge was laid, the operation giving 
the rebels a considerable advantage. — Move- 
ment at Duck River. — At Hardeeville, S. C, 
General Foster protected his position. 

Dec. 20. — At Lacy's Springs, Custer's cav- 
alry engaged in a skirmish and lost two killed, 
22 wounded and 40 missing. — At Madison C. H., 
Va., a brigade of Michigan cavalry belonging 
to the Army of the Potomac engaged in a 
skirmish. 

Dec. 21.— Stoneman's raid. On the 9th of 
December, Stoneman started to clean the rebels 
out of East Tennessee. He moved from Bean's 
Station, Tenn., to Saltville and went also to 
Abingdon, Wytheville, Glade Spring and 
Marion, Ga. One of his commands met the 
rebels at Kingsport, as stated above ; at Bristol, 
another force was encountered by the brigade 
of Burbridge and the rebels retreated. Bur- 
bridge moved to Abingdon which was also 
reached by Gillem on the 15th, and on the 10th 
they overtook the rebels at Marion, routed the 
force and captured the artillery, trains and 198 
prisoners. Wytheville, its stores and supplies, 
lead works and railroad bridge were destroyed, 
and Stoneman moved on to the capture and 
destruction of Saltville and the salt works; he 
captured two locomotives, siege guns and am- 
munition and returned to Knoxville with his 
own and Gillem's command and Burbridge fell 
back into Kentucky. 



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Dec. 22.— At Liberty Mills or McLean's 
Ford, Va., an unimportant action took place. 

Dec. 23.— At Lynnville, Tenn., tlie cavalry 
of Thomas continued the jnirsuit of Hood's 
army. — At Jack's Shop, near (Joidonville, Va., 
a cavalry division of the Army of the Potomac 
and one from the Army of Virginia engaged in 
a movement. — At Buford's Station, Tenn., the 
pursuit of the rebels by the cavalry of Thomas' 
army continued. 

Dec. 24.— At Elizabethtown, Ky., the 1st 
Wisconsin Cavalry overtook the rebels flying 
from the pursuing columns of Thomas and 
Colonel La Crange with 20 picked men charged 
400 rebels and captured 11 prisoners. — At Moc- 
casin Gap, Va., the 8th Tennessee Cavalry 
connected with Stoneman's raid engaged in a 
(lash. — At Murfreesboro, Tenn., the rebels at- 
tacked a garrison of colored troops. 

Dec. 25. — Assault on Fort Fisher, N. C. The 
city of Wilmington was under the protection of 
the fort which was located at the mouth of the 
Cape Fear River; this was one of the principal 
forts of the confederates and was assaulted by 
the Nortli Atlantic squadron commanded by 
.Vdmiral Porter, and the 10th Corps of the 
Army of the James under Butler. Tlie Iwm- 
bardment commenced on the 24th and was 
continued to some purpose on the morning of 
the 2r)th, which was Sunday and Christmas. 
The Union loss was eight killed and 38 
wounded, while the confederates lost three 
killed, 55 wounded and 280 prisoners. — At 
Verona, Miss., the 7th Indiana Cavalry en- 
gaged witii the fleeing rebels arriving from 
Hood's army. 

Dec. 27. — At Decatur, Ala., General Steed- 
man was established over a provisional depart- 
ment. 

Dec. 28. — At Egypt Station, Miss., a heavy 
action took place, in which the 2d Wisconsin 
Cavalry, the 4th and 11th Illinois Cavalry, the 



7th Indiana, the 4th and 10th Missouri, the 2d 
New Jersey, 1st Mississippi and 3d U. S. Col- 
ored Cavalry were engaged, and in which the 
Union loss was 111 killed and wounded and 
the confederates lost 500 prisoners. 

Dec. 29.— At Pond Spring, Ala,, the 15th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, with detachments of 
Tennessee Cavalrj' and from three Indiana 
cavalry regiments, engaged in a skirmish. 

Dec. 31. — In the skirmishing and fighting 
in front of Petersburg, Va., the Federal force 
lost 40 killed and 329 wounded during the 
month. 

1SG5. J.\N. 1. — General Butler relieved of 
the command of the Army of the James. 

Jan. 2.— In a skirmish at Franklin, Miss., in 
which the 4th and 11th Illinois and a coloi'ed 
cavalr}' regiment engaged, the Union force lost 
four killed and nine wounded, and the confed- 
erate loss in killed and wounded was 50. — At 
Nauvoo, Ala., the same force of cavalry, men- 
tioned December 29tli, captured and destroyed 
Hood's supply and pontoon train. 

Jan. 3. — The same troops engaged in a skir- 
mish with Hood's command at Thorn Hill, 
Ala. 

Jan. 5. — At Smitliticld, Ky., a cavalry regi- 
ment was attacked by the rebels. 

Jan. 6. — At Owensboro, Ky., an action took 
place, in which a colored cavalry regiment was 
engaged. — Activities at Hawesville and Hen- 
derson, Ky. 

Jan. 7. — At Julesburg, I. T., a company of 
the 7th Iowa Cavalry engaged in a fight with 
the Indians. 

Jan. 8. — At SkipwiUi's Landing, Miss., on 
the Mississippi River, an action took place. — 
At Scottsboro, Ala., 54 men belonging to a col- 
ored regiment engaged in a skirmish. — At Ivy 
Ford, Ala., a colored regiment sustained au as- 
sault. 

Jan. 11.— At Beverly, W. Va., the 34th and 



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8th Ohio Cavah'y stationed there as a garrison 
were .surprised by Rosser and 583 prisoners 
captured, 25 being killed and wounded. 

Jan. 13.— Capture of Fort Fisher, N. C. 
The bombardment was commenced on the 13th, 
continuing all night and tiirough the 14th ; on 
the loth the assault was made successfully and 
the fort captured. The Union loss was 184 
killed and 749 wounded ; the rebels lost 400 
killed and wounded and 2,083 captured. 

Jan. 14. — Pocotaligo, N. C. In the move- 
ment of Sherman's troops from this place a 
skirmish occurred, in which the 17th Corps, 
Army of the Tennessee, were engaged and sus- 
tained a loss of 25 wounded. The movement 
continued until the 16th — At Reed Hill, Ala., 
the 15tli Pennsylvania Cavalry continued to 
harass Hood's disorganized soldiery. At Dar- 
danelle, Ark., the 2d Kansas and Iowa Cavalry 
regiment engaged in a skirmish. 

Jan. 15. — At Federal Hill, Va., rebel activi- 
ties occurred. , 

Jan. 16. — Explosion at Fort Fisher. This 
disaster was caused by the carelessness of the 
soldiers who approached the magazine with 
burning candles ; 25 soldiers were killed and 
66 wounded. — On this date Fort Caswell, to- 
gether with all the works on Smith's Island in 
the vicinity of Smithville, and Reeve's Point 
was abandoned in consequence of the fall of 
Fort Fisher; all armaments were captured. 

Jan. 18. — In the vicinity of Columbus, Ky., 
the Tennessee Cavalry engaged in a skirmish. 

Jan. 19. — At Half Moon Battery, Sugar Loaf 
Hill, N. C, a detachment from the Army of 
the James were engaged in the destruction of 
the railroad. 

Jan. 21. — Activities at City Point, Va. 

Jan. 24. — At Fort Brady, Va., a detacl^ment 
from the Army of the James on gunboats 
broke the chain which had obstructed Dutch 
Gap Caual. 



Jan. 25. — On this date two Corps of the 
Army of the Tennessee made a demonstration 
against Combahee Ferry and the railroad bridge 
across the Salkahatchie, the river having been 
con.stituted the rebel line of defense covering 
Chai'leston on the south. The rebels were held 
at this point until after Howard's army was on 
the move and on the 1st of February, the main 
body of the army moved westward up the Sal- 
kahatchie. Howard crossed the river in the 
face of the enemy at River's and Beaufort's 
Bridges. The rebel situation on the 3d of the 
month was carried by Mower's and Smith's 
divisitn. The confederate killed and wounded, 
numbering 88, wore sent back to Pocotaligo. 
The 15th Corps crossed at Beaufort's Bridge 
almost without resistance and the rebels fell 
back to Branehville, S. C. ; the columns of 
Sherman occupied the South Carolina railroad 
connecting Charleston with Augusta, and the 
entire Union loss through this movement, 
which occupied from January 25th to February 
9th, was 138 killed and wounded. — At Simp- 
sonville, Ky., an engagement occurred between 
the rebels and a regiment of colored cavalry. 

Jan. 29. — An expedition started into western 
North Carolina, which was principally com- 
posed of the 3d North Carolina Infantry; this 
movement occupied about two weeks. 

Jan. 30. — Movement of Union troops at 
Sister's Ferry, Ga. 

Feb. 2.— At Midway, Barnwell Co., S. C, 
and at Whippy Swamp, Beaufort Co , S. C, ac- 
tivities connected with the movements of the 
Union troops in South Carolina took place. 

Feb. 4. — At Little River, Tenn., a slight ac- 
tion occurred. 

Feb. 5. — Dabney's Mills or Hatcher's Run, 
Va. The railroads being cut, the rebels brought 
supplies to Petersburg on wagon trains ; to in- 
tercept these trains and to put an end to these 
operations, General Gregg with his cavalry was 



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ordered to march with Warren'.s Corps for the 
purpose of turning tlie rebel lines at Hatch- 
er's Run, and lie went by way of Keanx's Sta- 
tion to Dinwiddie C. H., and moved up and 
down the Boydton plank roads on which the 
trains were reported to be. General Warren 
cro.'sed the Run and General Humphries, in his 
advance to assist the movement, was furiously 
assaulted. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the 
rebel jirtiilery opened on Ilumpliries' infantry 
in a desperate manner, only to be repulsed. 
Gregg found that the Boydton road was of but 
little use; Warren sent a force up the stream, 
through swamps, which drove before them 
a force of rebels to Dabney's Mills. A division 
under Ayres, which was advancing to support 
('rawford, was driven upon him by a rebel force 
which had moved unexpectedly to the loft of 
the Union force, and both commands fell back 
to the Run, hotly pursued by the rebels, who 
were met by a fire from Humphries' intrench- 
ments, and they fell back within their lines. 
The Union loss was 232 killed, 1,062 wounded 
and 186 missing. Generals Morrow, Smythe, 
Davis, Gregg, Ayres, Sickles and Gwynn were 
wounded. The confederate loss was 1,200 
killed and wounded. General Pegram being 
among the .slain.— At Moorefield,Rosser captured 
a rebel train of 95 wagons, with valuable stores. 
— At Orange C. H., Va., activities occurred. — 
On Rowanti Creek, Va., the troops referred to 
ill the first mention under this date, occupied 
positions. 

Feb. 7. — Sherman's advance northward. 
The left wing of the army, with Kilpatrick's 
cavalry, crossed the Savannah River on this 
date under orders to move to Coosawatchie on 
the Cbarleston Road and to Robertsville, on 
the road to Columbia. Two divisions of the 
20th Corps under Jackson and Geary had 
crossed the river at Purisburg, had readied 
Hardeeville, S. C, and established communica- 



tion with Howard at Pocotaligo. Tlie general 
features of tlie march through tiie Carolinas 
were a repetition of that through Georgia. The 
operations of the rebels, defensive and otl'en&ive, 
were of the same character, and Sherman 
rightly estimated ihat strongly foitified and 
important posit idiis would be held by the 
rebels to the bitter end, and that the route be- 
tween Augusta, Ga., and Charlestown would be 
clear, with the exception of the operations of 
Wheeler's cavalry and the local organizations 
of armed rebels. Kilpatrick moved to Black- 
ville, WillLston and Aiken along the Soutli 
Carolina railroad, losing slightly, taking 100 
prisoners and killing and wounding 240 rebels, 
and entirely destroying the road between Edisto 
and Blackville, and Slocum reached the latter 
place on the lOtli. The destruction of the road 
was continued to Windsor, and, on the 11th, the 
entire army was concentrated midway between 
Augusta and Charleston, the position being of 
eminent advantage, as the rebel forces covering 
these two points would be thus divided. The 
right wing of the army reached Orangeburg on 
the 12th, carried the intrenchments, drove the 
garrison across the Edisto, and the force was 
flanked immediately. General Blair pushed 
on to the railroad and commenced its destruc- 
tion, and Slocum advanced westward, covered 
by Kilpatrick. Felj. KJtli, Sherman's arm}' 
was in sight of Columbia from the south bank 
of the Congaree ; Slocum crossed the Saluda at 
Zion Church and pushed on to AVinnsboro, 
destroying the railroad communication near 
Allston, while Howard moved on Columbia 
from the north. On the 17th, the corps was 
crossing a jtontoon bridge laid on Broad River, 
and, during its i)assage, the mayor of Columbia 
rode out and surrendered the city to General 
Stone, who took possession with his brigade. 
General Hampton, commanding the rearguard, 
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citj', and it was stacked in the streets, with all 
the bands removed ; the fierce gale blew 
tufts of burning cotton hither and thither, and 
the city was soon an uncontrollable mass of 
flame. Every effort was made to arrest the 
fire, but it was not checked until the morning 
of the 18th. Slocum reached Winnsboro on 
the 21st, and on the 2od, the 20tli Corps crossed 
the Catawba River. The same night, Kil- 
patrick made a feint on Charlotte, whither 
Beauregard had retreated with the rebel cav- 
alry. On the 26th, the 20th Corps reached 
Hanging Rock. Slocum pushed on toCheraw, 
N. C, which was 70 miles southwest of Char- 
lotte. Feb. 22d, Kilpatrick reported 18 of 
his men murdered and left in the highway, 
with threatening labels attached to their per- 
sons, and the cavalry commander was ordered 
to retaliate man for man. The right wing 
pushed on to Peay's Ferry, and a detachment 
was sent to destroy communications on the 
Wateree and between Florence and Charleston, 
which was prevented by rebel cavalry. March 
3d, Sherman's army had reached Cheraw, N. 
C. The losses on both sides were small. 

Feb. 8.— At Shallotte Inlet, N. C, move- 
ments following the surrender of Fort Fisher 
took place. — Kilpatrick reached Branchville, 
S. C. — Destruction of the railroad to Williston, 
S. C, by Kilpatrick's command. 

Feb. 9. — Skirmish at Binnaker's Bridge, 
South Edisto River, S. C; 17th Corps, Army of 
the Tennes.see. — On this date, the 11th Ohio 
and 7th Iowa cavalry engaged in a fight with 
Indians at Rush Creek, I. T. 

Feb. 10. — In a fight at James Island, in which 
the forces of General Gilmore engaged, they lost 
about 80 men, and effected the possession of the 
island. The rebel loss was about the same. 

Feb. 11. — In a fight at Sugar Loaf Battery, 
Federal Point, N. C, a detachment from the 
Army of the James being engaged, 14 Union 



soldiers were killed and 114 wounded. — Attack 
on Orangeburg, S. C, by Sherman's army. — At 
Honey Hill, Ga., the rebels tired on a detach- 
ment of Union soldiers. 

Feb. 15. — On this date, Sherman's army ar- 
rived at Lexington, S. C. A part of Sheridan's 
command crossed Water Lick Creek, Va. 

Feb. 16. — The colored troops at Cedar Creek, 
Fla., were assaulted by the rebels. 

Feb. 17. — Evacuation of Charleston. This 
movement was commenced on the night of this 
date, and occupied two days.— Attack on Fort 
Anderson on the Cape Fear River, N. C, and 
capture of Wilmington. On this date. Admiral 
Porter attacked Fort Anderson on the Cape 
Fear River. The river had been previously 
dragged for torpedoes, and the flotilla, compris- 
ing five vessels, the Montauk, Pawtuxet, Lena- 
pee, Unadilla and Pequot, had been variously 
disposed on the stream. On the 18th, a large 
force of gunboats took possession and bombarded 
the fort, which was silenced at three p. m., the 
Union firing being maintained until evening. 
During the night of the I8th,the fort was aban- 
doned, the flying rebels removing six field 
pieces. Ten heavy guns were captured, and in 
the engagement throughout, the Union loss 
was three killed and four wounded. On the 
20th and 21st, the search for torpedoes beyond 
the fort was continued, and the gunboats passed 
on to attack the batteries nearer Wilmington, 
which was evacuated on the 22d. On the 
20th, two guns and 375 rebel prisoners were 
caj)tured. The rebels fired their stores and 
General Cox entered the town. The entire 
Federal loss was about 200 in killed and 
wounded. The rebel loss was much greater. 
Fort Strong on Big Island was bombarded and 
the rebels driven from the fort. 

Feb. 18. — Forts Moultrie and Sumter in 
Charleston Harlwr abandoned. — At Fort Jones, 
Ky., a battery of colored artillery engaged in 
an action. 



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Feb. 20. — An action took place at Fort 
Myers, Fla. — At Town Creek, N. C, a part of 
the Army of the Ohio drove the rebels flying 
from Fort Anderson to this place. Cox occu- 
pied the place on tliis date and ca{)turcd the 
•armament. 

Fei5. 21. — Activities at Cumberland, Va. 

Feb. 22. — In a skirmish at Douglas Land- 
ing, Pine Bluff, Ark., the Union loss was 40 
wounded and the rebels lost 26 wounded; the 
13th Illinois Cavalry was engaged. 

Feb. 23. — Activities at Georgetown, S. C, 
and at Fort White. 

Feb. 24. — Movements of troops at Camden, 
Mo. 

Feb. 26— At Mount Clio, S. C, a detach- 
ment of mounted infantry under the noted 
scout. Captain Duncan, engaged in a thrilling 
adventure. — At Lynch Creek, S. C, the advance 
of the IStli Corps. 

Feb. 27. — Sheridan moved up the Shenan- 
doah Valley from Winchester to destroy the 
Central Railroad and the canal, to take Lynch- 
burg, and afterwards to join Sherman or Grant 
as circumstances decreed. On the 28th, he 
i-eached Staunton and desj)atched several 
brigades to drive Early from Waynesboro. The 
attack was made on the morning of March 2d, 
and nearly all of Early's force and supplies 
were captured, the prisoners numbering ],(>G7; 
the Union loss being 35 killed and wounded; 
this was the end of Early's power in the Shen- 
andoah, and Sheridan's troops commenced 
operations by destroying the railroad and canal. 
On the 3d of March the troops took possession 
of Charlotteville and the railroad to Gordons- 
ville and Lynchburg was destroyed. On the 
6th of March active operations on the canal 
were commenced and the destruction was made 
a success. March 10th, Sheridan readied Co- 
lumbia and determined to join Grant and ar- 
rived at White House on the 19th. 



Feb. 28. — A colored regiment sustained an 
assault in the defen.ses at Chattanooga. 

Makch 1.— At Clinton, La., the 4th Wiscon- 
sin Cavalry entered on a foraging expedition. 

Makch 3. — Howard arrived at Cheraw. — At 
Chesterfield, S. C, movements of Sherman 
took place. 

March 6. — The 4th Wisconsin Cavalry en- 
gaged in a skirmish at Olive Branch, La., and 
lost three killed and two wounded. — Two regi- 
ments of colored troops engaged in a heavy 
skirmish at Natural Bridge, Va., and lost 22 
killed and 46 wounded. — At Fredericksburg, 
Va., movements of the Army of N'irginia. — At 
North Fork in the Shenandoah, a portion of 
Sheridan's cavalry, commanded by Colonel 
Thompson of the 1st New Hampshire Cavalry, 
engaged in lively action in the destruction of 
the canal. 

March 7. — Kilpatrick reached Rockingham, 
N. C. 

March 8. — At Wilcox' Bridge or Wise's 
Fork, N. C, the divisions of Palmer, Carter and 
Ruger engaged in an action of heavy calibre. 
The fighting on this date was without results 
and information was received of a heavy rebel 
force in front; on the 10th, the rebels made an 
attack in force after keeping up the skirmish- 
ing on the previous day. The fight was a 
sharp one, about 16,000 rebels being included 
in the attacking corps. Bragg retreated with 
his force on the night of the 10th, the battle 
being without practical results excepting the 
demonstration to the rebels of the determined 
and invincible character of the columns of 
Sherman. The Union loss was 80 killed, 421 
wounded and 600 missing; the confederates 
lost 1,500 killed. This action is known to his- 
tory as the battle of Kingston. — Kilpatrick's 
troops at Laurel Hill, N. C. — At Jackson, N. C, 
activities occurred connected with the destruc- 
tion of the Weldou Railroad. 




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1865— MARCH 9— MARCH 21 — 1865. 



137 



Marcpi 9. — On the night of this date, Wade 
Hampton dashed into Kilpatrick's camp and 
captured his headquarters and some of his 
guns. Kilpatrick rallied, retook the guns and 
re-occupied the camp. This was a complete 
surprise because of the night, the soldiers being 
in sound sleep. Hampton took several hundred 
prisoners whom he afterwards released and the 
rebels lost more than a hundred killed and 
wounded, who were left on the field. This ac- 
tion took place near a village called Solemn 
Grove, Moore Co., N. C. — Hardee crossed the 
Cape Fear River at Fayetteville, N. C. — At 
Grant's Creek, N. C, activities connected with 
the reunion of the different divisions of Sher- 
man's army took place. 

March 11. — Skirmish at Beaver Dam, N. C. 
— Johnston arrived in person at Fayetteville. — 
At Clear Lake, Ark., a detachment from Com- 
pany A, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry were led into 
an ambush, in which two were killed and three 
wounded. 11 missing were reported. — (Stone- 
man's raid).- 

March 15. — At the South Anna River in 
Virginia, the 5th U. S. Colored Cavalry engaged 
in a skirmish. — Activities at Moore's Cross 
Roads, Va. — Movement at Brandenburg, Ky. 

March 16. — Battle of Averysboro, N. C. — 
Sherman's army was on the Cape Fear River; 
he had hitherto maneuvered to divide the rebel 
forces, but they had concentrated under the 
command of .Jolmston, and, on this date, an 
attack was made on the left and center of Har- 
dee's intrenched lines, and a brigade acting as 
rear guard was routed with more than a hun- 
dred dead left on the field and more than 200 
captured. Repeated charges were made, and 
night onlj' closed the fighting, and Hardee re- 
treated. The Federal loss was 77 killed and 
aV>out 500 wounded, the rebel loss being about 
the same and most of their wounded left to the 
care of the Union force. For two or three days 



Sherman's strategic movement continued, and, 
on the 19th, troops began to concentrate for the 
fighting at Bentonville. The battle at Averys- 
boro was a hard one for the Union troops, the 
nature of the ground being swampy and diffi- 
cult to traverse, and the victory which was 
gained, proved to the rebels the uselessness of 
endeavoring to cope with an army who had 
been engaged for months in making their way 
over many miles of similar territory. — Activi- 
ties in the vicinity of Kinston, N. C, and at 
Taylor's Bayou, La. ; Schofield leaves Kinston, 
to join Sherman. 

March 18. — A colored regiment engaged in 
an action at Boyd's Station, Ala. — Hardee 
reaches Smith field, N. C. 

March 19. — Battle of Bentonville. On this 
date the corps of Logan approached Benton- 
ville, and soon after the cavalry and artillery 
fighting commenced. The lett flank of .John- 
ston's army declined to meet the corps of Lo- 
gan, which was practically assuming the de- 
fenses. On the 20th, three corps of Sherman's 
army were in an impregnable position in front 
of the command of Johnston, who retreated to 
Smitlifield unimpeded, as the great invader at 
the head of the Union troops did not desire a 
general engagement at this point. The Union 
loss in this approach on Bentonville was 191 
killed, 1,168 wounded and 287 missing. The 
confederate loss in killed, wounded and missing 
was over 3,000. — On this date, a movement 
took place at Morris' Farm, N. C, on which a 
position was held in the Bentonville fight. 

March 20. — Stoneman's raid into southwest- 
ern Virginia and North Carolina. This move- 
ment progressed from this date to April 23d. — 
Three brigades under Gillem moved from Vir- 
ginia to North Carolina. 

March 21. — Goldsboro occupied by Scho- 
field. — At Cox's Bridge and Mount Olive, in 
that vicinity, activities occurred connected with 



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the military movements of Sherman's column. 
Gillem's advance reached Marion, Va. — Military 
movements at Plantersville, Ala., and at Padu- 
cah, Ky. — On this date Wilson moved south- 
ward from Chickasaw, Ala. This movement 
occupied from Jhirch 22d to April 24th. The 
12th Pennsylvania Cavalry engaged in a skir- 
mish at Hamilton, Va. 

March 22. — Activities at Ream's Station, 
Va., and Paducah, Ky. 

March 23. — Action at Sumterville, S. C. 

March 24. — Redrock, Arizona Ter. ; a regi- 
ment of New Mexico cavalry engaged in a 
scrimmage. — On the same date at Cox's Bridge, 
N. C, the command of General Terry laid a 
pontoon bridge and Sherman entered Smith- 
field, N. C. 

March 25. — Attack on Fort Steadman. Gen- 
eral Lee's command commenced operations at 
Fort Steadman at the break of day, and the 
storming party, moving upon the redoubts, 
carried them and overwhelmed the garrison in 
ihe fort, capturing the guns and turning them 
upon the Federal troops. As soon as General 
Parke learned of the affair, he ordered a move- 
ment to recapture, and before eight o'clock in 
llie morning, important advantages had been 
gained, and soon after that hour Fort Stead man 
was again in the possession of the Federal 
army; nearly 2.000 prisoners were captured 
and the Union loss in killed, wounded and 
missing was about 1,000. In connection with 
this action the forces of Humphries at City 
Point were placed under arms and reconnois- 
tances made in readiness to assault the rebel 
intrenchments and heavy artillery and mus- 
ketry fire was kept up. In this action the 
train was laid for the victorious operations on 
the 2d day of April. — Activities at Hatcher's 
Run, Ya., at Fort Fisher, N. C, at Fort Has- 
kell and Hare's Hill. — On the same date an 
action occurred at Pollard, Ala., between Gen- 



eral Steele and the rebel General Clayton, in 
which the latter was seriously wounded and 
130 prisoners captured. — At Pine Barren Creek, 
Ala., the cavalry of Steele advanced previous 
to the action mentioned. 

March 26. — Siege of Mobile. This action 
commenced on this date and terminated April 
9th. — Stoneman reached Boone, N. C. — Military 
movements at Mitchell's Creek, Fla. 

March 27. — Investment of Spanish Fort. — 
Kilpatrick made connection on this date with 
the forces of Grant, and the Army of the 
James, with a cavalry force, made a secret 
movement. 

March 29.— At Quaker Road, Va., the 5th 
Corps under Warren moved to position and 
one of his columns under Gritfin encountered 
the rebels in force and a sharp fight took place, 
involving a loss of about 400 on eacli side, the 
rebels being driven back to their intrenchments. 
The troops moved on Vaughn Road near Grav- 
elly Run, and on this day Siieridan placed his 
command in position south of Hatcher's Run, 
which was also crossed by Humphries and 
Warren. 

March 30. — At Halifax Road the move- 
ments continued on Hatcher's Run and on the 
Dabney Mill Road, the rebels being driven, 
and the Crow House intrenchments occupied 
by the Federal troops. — Movements on Cham- 
berlain's Creek, Va. 

March 31. — On the morning of this date, 
the corps of Warren was in sight of White Oak 
Road, ^'a. ; the position wa.* sutb that regular 
Inie of battle could not be foriufd, Imt the divi- 
sions were so disposed that they could change 
front for action in any direction. A fierce at- 
tack was made by the rebels with slight advan- 
tage, but Griffin's division held its ground and 
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon the rebels had 
ceased their onset, and when Warren resumed 
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139 



of his brigades were involved to an}' extent and 
an entire confederate regiment was captured 
and soon after the rebels had retreated to their 
breastworks and a victory was won. Warren's 
loss was 177 killed, 1,134 wounded and 556 
missing. The confederate loss in killed and 
wounded was about 1,00(1. — Dinwiddle C. H., 
Va. After the fight at White Oak Roads, 
Warren moved to Dinwiddie and attacked the 
rebels on one side while Sheridan operated 
against them on the other, and soon after mid- 
night, the rebel force was compelled to retire 
towards Five Forks, having lost 400 in killed 
and wounded ; the Union loss was 67 killed 
and 354 wounded. — At Montevallo, the troops 
belonging to Wilson's command on his raid in 
Alabama, engaged in the destruction of a rail- 
road ; the work included iron works and roll- 
ing mills and was chiefly performed by Crox- 
ton's brigade, a skirmish taking place at Trion 
and King's Iron Works. — At Six Mile Creek 
near Montevallo, Roddy's cavalry engaged in a 
skirmish and captured 50 prisoners. 

April 1. — Battle of Five Forks. This action 
was fought by Warren's corps and the 1st, 2d 
and 3d Cavalry Divisions under Sheridan. 
The first assault was made on the rebel left, 
which was soon driven in nearly to the center 
with a loss of more than half of the confed- 
erate force captured and the balance surged 
down the White Oak Road in a demoralized 
mass. GrifRn and Ayres pressed on the left 
and Crawford pushed upon the rear. A deter- 
mined etibrt was made to stop the latter and 
the brigade of Coulter was terribly cut, but the 
movement was in vain, and almost the entire 
force surrendered to Crawford. Another at- 
tempt to make a stand was made a mile beyond 
the Forks and proved equally futile. The 
Union loss was 124 killed and 706 wounded, 
the rebel loss being 8,500 killed, wounded and 
captured. — At Triana, Ala., a battle took place, 



in which the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division ot 
the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of 
the Mississippi, Wilson's raid, engaged. In 
this movement Wilson's force encountered 
Forrest at Ebenezer Church and gained com- 
plete victory, capturing two guns and 200 pris- 
oners, the victors pressing on and destroying 
communications to Burnsville in the direction 
of Selraa. — At Boone, N. C, an action took 
place in which a part of the troops connected 
with Stoneman's raid were engaged. — At Mount 
Pleasant, Ala., a detachment of cavalry under 
Canby engaged in a skirmish. 

April 2.— Fall of Petersburg. The troops 
connected with this action included the 2d, 
6th and 9th Corps of the Army of the Potomac 
and the 24th Corps of the Army of the James. 
The assault commenced just before daybreak, 
the advancing columns being accompanied by 
" Pioneers " with axes and details of artillery- 
men to man any guns which might be cap- 
tured. The whole front outer line was carried 
by Wilcox's command who made the assault in 
this place to induce the confederates to concen- 
trate and the feint was successful. The signal 
for general assault was given at half- past four 
in the afternoon, and the troops moved forward 
without heeding a hailstorm of bullets and car- 
ried the line by storm, Hartranft's division cap- 
turing 12 guns and 800 prisoners. The divi- 
sion of Potter drove the rebels on the left and 
the simultaneous attacks which had been made 
in other quarters had been equally successful, 
and the Federal troops occupied Petersburg. 
The Union loss was 296 killed, 2,565 wounded 
and 500 missing; the confederate loss was 
about the same and over 3,000 of their soldiers 
were made prisoners of war. — Activities at Fort 
Fisher, Fort Welch and New Berne, N. C— 
Battle of Selma. In this action the garrison 
numbered 7,000 and was placed under the com- 
mand of Forrest; the fortifications were carried 



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1865— APRIL 3 — APRIL 6 — 1865. 



by the division of Long, tlie Union loss being 
40 killed, 260 wounded ; the rebel loss in- 
cluded 2,700 prisoners, 32 siege guns and a 
quantitj' of stores captured ; 25,000 bales of 
cotton had been previously burned. 

April 3. — Surrender of Richmond. At 
nightfall of April 2d, orders were issued for 
the Union army to assault the Petersburg and 
Richmond lines in the early morning of the 
3d, but it was discovered before daylight that 
all the intrench ments in the vicinity of those 
two cities had been abandoned and that Lee 
was in retreat towards Danville and a little 
after eight the confederate capital was surren- 
dered to General Weitzel witli 600 prisoners 
who were chiefly sick and disabled. — At Salem, 
N. C, a force under General Palmer of Stone- 
man's command fought the action known as 
the battle of Salem. — Military movements at 
Deep Creek, Va. — At Amelia C. H., Va., (Jet- 
tersville), Lee began the concentration of his 
forces and Grittin marched to that place. — 
Activities at Sutherland Station, Va., connected 
with the movements of Lee's retreating armj'. 
— At Wytheville, Va., the 12th Pennsylvania 
Cavalry of Stoneman's command engaged in a 
skirmish and large quantities of supplies were 
destroyed with 90 miles of railroad and railroad 
bridges. — At Northport, Ala., a body of troops 
connected with Wilson's raid engaged in a fight. 
— At Namozin Church and Willicomack, Va., 
the division of Custer engaged in a sharp scrim- 
mage and lost 10 killed and 85 wounded. 

April 4. — Tuscaloosa, Ala., captured by Wil- 
son's command. — At Deep River Bridge, N. C, 
the forces connected with Stoneman's raid en- 
gaged in a cavalry skirmish. — At Bethanj' and 
Fairhaven, W. Va., slight movements occurred. 

April 5. — At Amelia Springs, Va., Crook's 
cavalry, Sheridan's command, engaged in a 
fight with Fitz Hugh Lee, the Union loss being 
20 killed and 9G wounded. — On the same date 



at Paine's Cross Road, a reconnoissance by 
Davies of Crook's division took place; this was 
previous to the action already mentioned on 
this date. — At Howe's Cross Roads a movement 
took place. 

April 6. — Pursuit of Lee. On the morning 
of this date Lee and Longstreet made connec- 
tion at Rice's Station and were joined soon after 
by Fitz Hugh Lee, Ewell, Anderson and Con- 
don. General Grant notified Meade on the 
evening before that he should attack Lee in 
the early morning and ordered an advance of 
the 2d, 5tli and Gth Corps. Sheridan was also 
ordered to move forward. General Ord had 
been on the march three days and had de- 
stroyed High Bridge and other highway and rail- 
road communications and General Humphries 
sent a force to Flat Creek to attack what 
he supposed to be the rear of Lee's army. On 
the 6th Gordon's corps was attacked in a run- 
ning fight of about 15 miles, the pursuit being 
continued with remarkable swiftness and system, 
accompanied by artillery so disposed as to be 
ready for effective business. The movements 
were continued, the corps of Gordon while in 
flight relieving itself by abandoning all im- 
pedimenta and on Little Sailor's Creek made 
an attempt to secure foothold for a stand ; in 
the onset the action was very sharp, resulting 
in a decided victory which was the last straw 
that broke the camel's back and made it ap- 
parent that the end was at hand. Pursuit was 
resumed the next morning. Nearly 6,000 
prisoners had been captured and the rebels 
must have lost about 7,000 in killed, wounded 
and captured. The Union loss was about 
1,200 in killed and wounded. — Skirmi.«h at 
Burksville, Va. — At Sidney Swamp, Ala., a 
cavalry fight, in which Wilson's troops engaged, 
took place. — General Read engaged in a sharp 
fight at Burke's Junction and his force surren- 
dered to the rebels; General Read, Colonel 



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141 



Westburn and many other officers wei'e killed 
and the loss to the command was fearful. 

April 7. — Continued flight and pursuit of 
Lee. 

Aprii, S. — Lee's flight continued and General 
Grant, through these two days, conferred with 
Lee, proposing surrender which was rejected. 

April 9. — Surrender of Lee. The confer- 
ence between Lee, Longstreet and Mahone re- 
sulted in the decision of Lee to hold a confer- 
ence with Grant which was equivalent to sur- 
render. Appomattox C. H., was fixed upon as 
place of surrender and the terms were ar- 
ranged in a house belonging to a man named 
McLain and, in an insignificant village of less 
than a hundred souls, arrangements were con- 
cluded which practically terminated the Civil 
War. The last fighting was done on the 7th 
near Farmville before arrangements were en- 
tered upon and, on tlie 9t]i at daj'break, an 
attack was made on Gordon's command on the 
Lynchburg Road ; Crook was attacked a little 
later, both of which actions resulted in the 
retiring of the rebels. General Ord was pre- 
paring for a decisive action, his divisions 
moving on the double quick, when a white flag 
from General Lee arrested the movements and 
he acceded to a request of the rebel chief to 
suspend hostilities until he could confer with 
General Grant and the Union force was sounded 
to halt by the bugles. About 4 o'clock in the 
afternoon the rebel surrender was announced. 
— At Sumterville, S. C, the troops of the 
Department of the South engaged in an action. 
— Surrender of Spanish Fort. The bombarding 
of the fort was carried on actively on the day 
preceding this date for 14 hours and at nigiit- 
fall the 8th Iowa under Colonel Bell fought the 
decisive action on the parapet. The Union 
infantry carried a portion of the garrison by 
storm and before the hand-to-hand contest was 
over an entire brigade had taken possession 



and commenced to intrench. Under feint of a 
determined resistance the garrison abandoned 
the fort, moving to Fort Huger and crossing 
the Appaiachie. A part of the force was inter- 
cepted by Canby's troops and 500 prisoners 
were captured. Canby took possession of the 
fort April 9th. — Fort Blakely was carried by 
assault at nightfall of the 9th and about .'i.SOO 
men were captured ; the Union loss was 054 
killed and wounded. — Fort Tracy was occupied 
by the rebels flying from Spanish Fort. The 
siege of Mobile included Forts Spanish and 
Blakely. The fortifications about the city were 
very strong. The attack was made by Canby 
commanding the Army of the West Mississippi, 
one cor[)S marching from Fort Morgan up the 
east side of the bay to a small stream called 
Fish River. A landing was secured and the 
remainder of the command was brought to the 
same point in transports. At the same time a 
column under General Steele left Pensacola, 
directing its march upon Blakely, a port near 
the mouth of the Blakely River. A short 
distance below Blakely lay Spanish Fort on 
whose defense the city depended. It became 
a necessity that the communication by water of 
the city with the fort be cut off while the army 
made the land investment. The virtual sur- 
render of the city was made at nightfall of the 
8th. The Union loss was 213 killed, 1,211 
wounded and that of the rebels 500 killed and 
wounded and 2,952 captured and missing. 

April 10. — Sherman's army began its ad- 
vance on the Neuse River. 

April 11. — Evacuation of Forts Huger and 
Tracy. — Destruction of the railroad towards 
Lynchburg, Va., by Stoneman's troops. — Move- 
ment towards Montgomery by Wilson's forces. 
— Evacuation of Mobile. 

April 12. — Surrender of Mobile. — In the 
campaign 5,000 prisoners were taken and the 
entire loss of Canby was less than 1,500 killed 



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1865— APRIL 13 — MAY 13 — 1865. 



and wounded. — The news of Lee's surrender 
received by Sherman at Sinithheld, N. G. 
Movements of Sherman's army in the advance 
to Grant's Mills, N. C. — Formal surrender of 
Montgomery and movement of the same cav- 
ah'y force under Wilson to Georgia. — Release 
of Union prisoners at Salisbury, N. C. 

ApRii, 1,3. — Canby's troops moved to Whistler 
Station, Ala. — Occuj)ation of Kaleigh, N. C, by 
Sherman's troops. 

Ai'KU. 14. — Flag of truce from Johnston to 
Sherman, i)reliminary to surrender. — Assassina- 
tion of President Lincoln. -^Conference of Sher- 
man and .Johnston at Durham Station, N. C, 
and arrangements for a meeting on the 17lh. 

April 16. — Columbus, Ga., occupied by 
Upton's troops and the caj^ture of 1,200 pris- 
oners. — Confederate ram .Jackson destroyed by 
the same force, with the arsenal, navy yard, 
railroad stock and a large quantity of cotton. — 
Fort Taylor, West Point, Ga., taken by Mc- 
Cook's command and 300 prisoners taken. — 
Cavalry action at South Vovk, Oregon. 

ApRir. 17. — At Durham Station, N. C, con- 
ference between Sherman and .Johnston. — Con- 
ference between Mosby and Hancock. 

April 18. — Continuation of the conference 
between Sherman and Johnston. — Military 
movements at Boykin's Mills, S. C. 

April 20. — Macon, Ga., surrendered to Wil- 
son, and Croxton's brigade made connection 
with Wilson at that place. 

April 23. — Arrival of Grant at Morehead 
City, N. C, where he communicated with Sher- 
man. 

April 26. — Surrender of Johnston to Sher- 
man. — Wade Hampton's Cavalry withdrew and 
refused to surrender. — Movement of the Federal 
troops from Raleigh. — General Halleck ordered 
the generals of the Army of the Potomac to 
move their commands into the department 
where Sherman was operating. 



April 28. — The troops of the Array of the 
Potomac arrived at Danville, Yd., en route to 
assist Sherman. — Explosion of the Sultana with 
a loss of 1,320 lives, mo.st of whom were return- 
ing Union prisoners. In 1888 the rebel en- 
gineer confessed that it was deliberate. 

M.w 4. — Movement at Citronville, Ala. — 
Activities at Germania Ford, Va. — Movements 
at Coltonville, Ala. — Skirmish at Nana Blutf. 
— Burial of Lincoln at Springfield, 111. 

May 10. — Capture of Jeff Davis at Trwins- 
ville, Ga. In fact, the flight of Davis com- 
menced on the day following the surrender of 
Lee. Danville, the new capital, was abandoned 
and, on the 11th, Davis reached Greensboro, 
N. C, and soon after was in consultation with 
Johnston and Beauregard. He insisted that 
Johnston resume hostilities, but the latter re- 
fused. Davis received no attention at Greens- 
boro, and on the 14tii he went to Charlotte, 
where the news of the assassination of Presi- 
dent Lincoln and of the surrender of Johnston 
was received. Davis started for Texas, passing 
through Abbeville, S. G, Washington, Milledge- 
ville and Macon, Ga., and the forces of Wilson 
were ordered to j)ursue and were soon dispersed 
from Kingston to Florida. May 7th, a detach- 
ment of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, stationed 
at Dublin, ascertained that Davis was on the 
Jacksonville road, and he was pursued to the 
Ockmulgee River ; it was learned at Abbeville 
that he was on the way to Irwinsville. Colonel 
Pritchard of the 4th Michigan reached Irwins- 
ville at two o'clock on the morning of this date, 
and learned iiis whereabouts and captured him 
at daylight, while attempting to escape in 
women's clothing. — Surrender of Sam Jones to 
Wilson's Cavalry. 

M.w 11. — Surrender of Jeff Thompson to 
General Dodge at Chalk Bluff, Ark. 

M.VY 13. — Last engagement of the war at 
Boco Chico, Texas. lu a light at Palmetto 



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Ranch, in which the 34th Indiana, 2d Texas 
Cavahy and a regiment of colored troops were 
engaged, the Union loss was 118 killed and 
wounded. The last volley of the war was tired 
on this day in hattle by a colored regiment. 

May 14. — All the confederate troops east of 
the Mississippi River surrendered to General 
Canby on this date. 

May 23.-24. — Grand Review at Washington. 

May 24. — Movements connected with the 
cessation of hostilities at Duval's Bluff, Fort 
Manahasset and Fort Griffin. 

May 25. — Movements of troops at La Bone 
Pass, La., and at Sabine Pass. 

May 26. — Surrender by Kirby Smith of all 
the troops in the department west of the Missis- 
sippi River and in Texas. 

June 1. — Movements of troops at Browns- 
ville, Texas. 

June 2. — Movements at Galveston, Texas, 
and at Alexandria, La. 

June 26. — Blockade rai.sed. 

July 9. — Execution of the conspirators, 
David E. Harold, George A. Atzerodt, Lewis 
Payne Powell and Mrs. Mary E. Surratt; 
Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel A. Mudd and 
Samuel Arnold were sentenced to hard labor 
for life at the Dry Tortugas ; Edward Spengler 
was sentenced to hard labor for six years. 
These were the coadjutators of Wilkes Booth. 

Aug. 22. — Mi-ssissippi rej)ealed her ordinance 
of secession, having previously declared slav- 
ery abolished. 

Sei'T. 13. — South Carolina nullified her se- 
cession ordinance, declared that slavery was 
abolished and also set the example of repudi- 
ating her war debt. 



Oct. 2.5. — Georgia followed in the wake of 
South Carolina in the matter of repudiation of 
her State debt, declaration of the abolishment 
of slavery and repealed her secession ordinance. 

Oct. 28. — Florida repealed her secession or- 
dinance. 

Nov. 10. — Execution of Henry Wirz for 
atrocities perpetrated on Union prisoners at 
Andersonville. 

1866. Feb. 10.— Texas declared slavery 
abolished, repealed her secession acts, and also 
repudiated her State debt. 

April 2. — President Johnson issued a proc- 
lamation declaring the war at an end. 

July 23. — Senators and representatives from 
Tennessee formally admitted to Congress ; they 
were the first from the reconstructed States. 

July 25. — The office of Lieutenant-General 
was conferred on General Grant. 

1867. May 13. — Jefferson Davis released 
from Fortress Monroe ; Horace Greeley and 
others signed his bail bond for $100,000 at 
Richmond, Va. 

Aug. 20. — President Johnson declared by 
proclamation that the United States were once 
more in full possession of peace and good order. 

Sept. 7. — President Johnson issued a jjroc- 
lamation granting amnesty and the franchise 
to nearly all the white citizens of the South. 

During the war about 1,500 vessels were cap- 
tured or destroyed for violation of the blockade ; 
most of these were condemned and, when the 
claims were adjudicated, the prize money and 
that paid to the United States approximated 
$50,000,000. The claimants numbered nearly 
20,000. IjCss than 500 Union vessels were 
captured or destroyed by the confederate 
privateers. 



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STATISTICAL HISTORY. 



The muster out of the soldiers at the close of 
the war was as remarkable as any other of its 
features and was accomplished in a manner 
that commanded the admiration of the whole 
civilized world. Tlie system was so conducted , 
that before the expiration of January, 1866, 
almost 1,000,000 soldiers had gone peaceably 
to their homes. There were still some regi- 
ments on the frontiers, sent to other service in 
the interest of the United States, and the small 
number of consequent mutinous movements 
eminently manifested the admirable discipline 
of the volunteer service. When the disbanding 
was completely finished, the civil ranks of life 
had re-absorbed more than a million of lives. 
But, notwithstanding this tremendous influx, 
it was hardly noticeable in its effect on business 
or society. 

The aggregate number of enlistments in the 
Union army was 2,678,967 and that of tlie con- 
federate army in round numbers (for no other 
are available) is estimated at 2,000,000. The 
proportion of crippled included a little more 
than 400,000 on both sides. More than a 
million men were killed or permanently dis- 
abled. 

The array disbursement during the war was 
aiore than $1,100,000,000. 

From the beginning of the war until after 
tliclinal disbanding, the cases treated medically 
numbered 5,825,000 in round numbers. Of 
these 166,623 were fatal ; 273,175 were wounded 
and of this number 33,777 died. This dis- 
crepancy shows how small a proportion of men 
died in battle of those who took the chances of 
war in climates to which they were unaccus- 
tomed. Thousands died of disease in the 



Chickahominy swamp.s, to which numbers the 
casualties of war were comparatively small. 

The experiences of this war were of the 
greatest value to tlie nations of the world as a 
school of instruction in every department of 
warfare. Missiles of every description were ex- 
perimented with and the art of murder accord- 
ing to the rules of war was reduced to a demon- 
stration. The additions to the supplies of war 
formed an immense array of articles whose 
statistical detail would make a chapter of 
curiosities. 

Nor should the work of the Commissions be 
forgotten or overlooked. The Sanitary Com- 
mission commenced its work on the day Presi- 
dent Lincoln issued his first call for troops, and 
societies were organized in Bridgeport, Conn., 
and Charlestown, Mass. The press and the 
pulpit lent their efforts to the furtherance of 
the work and in tlie large cities great sums 
were raised to facilitate its operations. The 
story of the Sanitary Commission is written on 
the hearts of thousand.s of soldiers who were its 
beneficiaries. The work of the Cliristian Com- 
mission was no less valuable to the service. 
And beside its labors to elevate the morale of 
the army, it was a blessing in another sense, 
for it fed no man's soul which had a hungrier 
or more needy body and its ministrations fell 
like the dew of heaven where they were sorely 
needed. As a fitting close to this sunnnary of 
the war let honorable mention be made of the 
Women of America, who bore their share of the 
burdens uncomplainingly under the sorest 
trials and whose personal ministrations in the 
hospitals, in the commissions and as adjuncts 
at home can never be estimated. 




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EN.JAiM[N FRENCH BRY- 
,,^ANT, La Crosse, Wis., De- 
/ j):irhnent Coinniander of 
^ Wisconsin, (1890-91),Grancl 
i^ipyjArniy of tlie Republic, a 
'~"^- in'oininent citizen and at- 
torney of the Badger State, 
'J was born Sept. 3, 1837, at Rockland, 
f Maine. He belongs to stock which 
". J located on the Atlantic border in an 
I'ly pei'iod and which earned an in- 
^if;^ disputable title to the heritage of 
p^ American citizenship by service in 
WP the wars which decided the right of 
■Ay the people of the New World to exist 
as a Nation. On both sides his fore- 
fathers fought in the Revolution. In his 
veins courses the blood from two pure straijis 
of descent, his parents having been i of Eng- 
lish and Scotch linenge. ISlicah Bryant, his 
paternal grandfather, was born on Martiia's 
A'ineyard, that fact alone telling a whole his- 
tory' ; and he descended from Puritan ancestors 
of the right stam]), wlio believed in a man's 
po.sscssing his manhood intact and preserv- 
ing his privileges as such from the domina- 
tion of other men. His sons had Bible names, 
transmitted to thoni from earlier genera- 
tions, tliat of the father of Colonel Bryant 
being Benjamin, which became his heritage 



according to family custom. Benjamin Bryant, 
senior, was born April 2s, 180:!, at Industry, 
Maine, and married Lucy F. French, who was 
born in .luly, 1805, at Chesterville, Maine. Her 
first ancestor reached the New World in 16G5 
and settled at Ipswich, Mass. The senior 
Bryant was a physician and a graduate from 
the first homceopathic college established in 
America at Philadelphia. He practiced his 
profession in Maine and afterwards in Oliio, 
continuing in its active duties as long as he 
was able to do so ; and his useful, generous life 
terminated soon after he became disal)led, after 
he had jiassed his allotment of life by several 
years. He died at Wakeman, Ohio, in Feb- 
•ruary, 1879; his wife died Sept. 18, 188(:), at 
the advanced age of 81 years in Kingsland, 
Indiana. She was a woman of uncommon 
strength of character and intelligence and 
reared her six children as the typical mothers 
of the country did, in reverence of good, in 
eschewment of evil and in infiuences of the 
type which constitute the best maturity in the 
world. John E., Benjamin F., Lucy \., Thomas 
C, Mary E. and Luella F. were the names of 
the children who came to her home and heart 
in succession and survived infancy and only 
Lucy and Luella are deceased. The sons all 
became soldiers when their country required 
their services. 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



Two brolliers of Colonel Bryant, John E. and 
Thomas C, were soldiers in the civil war. The 
former was a Captain and Brevet Lieutenant- 
Colonel iu the 8th Maine Infantry, and served 
tiiree years. The latter enlisted in 1863 in the 
3d Ohio Cavalry and served in the ranks until 
the end of the war. 

Until he was 16 years old, young Bryant was 
under the shelter of the home roof-tree, obtain- 
ing a rudimentary education in the common 
schools. After 1853 he lived successively with 
his mother's people and at home. In 1854 he 
attended the Maine Wesleyan Seminary, at 
Kent's Hill, Maine, and remained a student 
there four years, attending two terms in each 
year, and alternating study with farm work. 
During his winter vacations he taught school 
and, altogether, passed the years of his prepar- 
atory for the w'ork the world had in prospect 
for him as a typical New England boy, born to 
a heritage of effort, without reference to the 
circumstances of his ])arents. He educated 
liimself in the most thorough manner with a 
full understanding of the prospective value to 
himself of such a course. He was fitted for 
matriculation at the celebrated Bowdoin College 
in his native State, when, in 1859, he registered 
for a course in its classic halls. It was his in- 
tention to take his degree with the class of '63 
and lie matriculated with tijat j)urpose, Imt the 
all'airs of nations do not hinge on individual 
plans and in the summer of 1861 he went to 
Ohio, whither his father had removed. He 
entered tlie law ofiice of Kennan & Stewart at 
Norwalk, Huron Co., Ohio, in the fall of 1861. 
In the winter of 1861-2 he taught school and in 
the spring resumed his law studies. The con- 
dition of affairs in the country in the summer 
of 1862 made it apparent to him that, if his 
labors and aspirations were to be of any avail 
it must be at a cost of which he had little 
dreamed when he began his preparations for a 



life-wurk which should rank fairly witii what 
otlier men had accomplished, and he deter- 
mined to enlist, as events in the Eastern army 
foretold of disastrous days worse than those 
which had come and he decided accordingly 
tliat his duty was jilain before him. 

Aug. 'J, l.S()2, he enlisted in Company A; 
lOlst Regiment, Ohio Infantry, and on the 
organization of the regiment was made Ser- 
geant. Aug. 30th, with Colonel Leander Stem, 
the command was mustered into the U. S. 
service at Monroeville and was ordered to the 
front Septem1»er 4th. From rendezvous to Cin- 
cinnati and Covington to remain there in an- 
ticipation of Kirby Smith's invasion a few days, 
was the outline of movement until a return to 
Cincinnati was made and thence the command 
moved to Jeffersonville, crossed the river, and 
went to Louisville, whither Buell's army was 
coming. October 1st, the 101st Ohio became a 
part of the 31st Brigade under Col. Wm. P. 
Carlin, the division being commanded by Oen. 
Robt. Mitchell and the corps under General 
Gilbert, with General Buell in chief com- 
mand. The latter was in clo.se ])nrsuit of 
Bragg, forcing him to change his route and 
meanwhile the Western troops were pouring in 
at difl'crent points ready for the fray whicli 
was innnincnt. The confederates massed at 
IVrryville and on the Slh, battle was pre- 
cipitated there where Colonel Bryant was in his 
first action with the rebels. He was in the 
pursuit to Crab Orchard, being frequently under 
tire, the rebels making every effort to i)reserve 
their supply trains. The 101st Ohio returned 
to Danville and went south to Lebanon Junc- 
tion and on the 26th of October encountered a 
snow storm. Their next move was to Bowling 
Green, arriving aliout the last of October and, 
Rosecrans having succeeded Buell, orders were 
received to move to Nashville. Thence a re- 
moval south was made and, Dec. 26, 1862, after 



PERSONAL RECORDS. 



147 



performing military and miscellaneous dut)^ 
a movement was begun which preceded the 
battle of iStone River. Carlin's Brigade now 
formed a part of General Jefi' C. Davis' Divi- 
sion of the Right Wing of the Array of the 
Cumberland. It was Friday and the troops 
marched until about four in the afternoon, the 
brigade advancing and driving the rebels in 
their front about two miles where they made a 
stand' at Knob Uap on the Nolansviile Pike. 
The brigade was confronted by a body of 
mounted infantry, supporting a batter}^ on 
which the brigade opened fire, drove the rebels 
and took two guns, Sergeant Bryant being one 
of the first of the Union soldiers to reach the 
spot. The command camped on the field and 
advanced all the next day. Saturday night, 
Dec. '27tli, they were near Triune, spent Sunday 
there and on Monday marched nearer the bat- 
tle field of Stone River. At night they con- 
fronted the rebel lines and Tuesday morning 
formed line of battle and advanced. At even- 
ing the brigade charged a battery which was 
driven liack, and during an hour and a half 
the command was under sharp artillery fire 
from both sides. A picket line was formed 
under cover of darkness, and on Wednesday 
luorning they were attacked by the rebels and 
the battle of Stone River was open, Dec. 31st. 
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 
the fighting went on, and on Sunday morning 
the rebels gave up the contest. In this battle 
the 101st Ohio lost its Colonel and Lieutenant- 
Colonel killed and five line officers and 212 
men killed and wounded. The command 
buried the dead and went into winter quarters, 
taking part through the following months in 
several expeditions. In .January, 1863, Ser- 
geant Bryant became First Lieutenant, his rank 
to date from .January 4, 1863. In June, 1863, 
the Right Wing had become the 20th Corps, 
and the Army of the Cumberland moved out 



on the Tullahoma campaign. The 101st Ohio 
was in the action at Libert}' Gap, in which the 
rebels were driven after a stubborn contest. 
Tlie command of Rosecrans followed up after 
Bragg, the 101st Ohio reaching Winchester, 
Tenn., July 3d, where it remained until August 
when the Chickamauga campaign opened. 
The command went to the Tennessee River, 
crossing the mountains and halting at Steven- 
son, Ala. The last day of August they crossed 
the Tennessee at Capertons' Ferry, moved 
southward, crossing another mountain range 
into Wills' Valley, being then west of Lookout 
Mountain, the whole of the 20th Cor]is being 
on the march. They crossed Lookout to 
Broomtown Valley, which is forty miles south 
of Chattanooga, and a portion of the command 
went to Alpine, Ga. Sunday, September 12th, 
the 101st Ohio moved out of Broomtown V^al- 
ley and recrossed Lookout Mountain back to 
Wills' Valley, reaching there the next day. 
Wednesday another move onto Lookout was 
made and thence northeast to the Trenton 
road. Thursday morning the whole corps de- 
scended into McLemore's Cave, uniting with 
the balance of Rosecrans' army and taking 
position on the right, and on Friday night at 
dark the command moved north marching 
until midnight, antl going into camp on Chick- 
amauga Creek. Saturday morning they passed 
Crawfish Springs and kept moving under 
orders until tlie headquarters of Rosecrans 
were reached at Widow Glenn's Cottage. They 
turned east until they reached the line of 
battle reinforcing and taking position on the 
right, where they fought all day. Sunday 
morning the command again took position on 
the right and fought all day. He went into 
the battle of Chickamauga in command 
of his company with 15 men and three 
were left after the termination of the fight, 
12 being killed or wounded. His com- 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



mand remained in Chaltanooga until Oct. 'iij, 
LSGo, when orders were received to move to 
Bridgeport, Ala., wliere it remained until tlie 
latter part of January, 1864, when thej' went 
again to Chattanooga and tlien.ee to Ooltewah, 
remaining there until the opening of the At- 
lanta campaign. The brigade now foiiued a 
part of tlie 4th Corps. March 19, 1804, Lieu- 
tenant Bryant was commissioned Cajitain of 
Company A, and soon after he went on de- 
tached service until winter, when lie rejoined 
his regiment in East Tennessee. The com- 
mand remained there until tlie close of the 
war, and in Aj)ril went to Nashville and parti- 
cipated in the last review on the field where 
the battle of Nashville had been fought. The 
101st Ohio remained at Nashville until shortly 
subsequent to June 12, 1805, and the final dis- 
charges bear date at Nashville, Tenii., June 12, 
18G."i, but moved as a regiment to Cleveland, 
Ohio, where the men were mustered out and 
])aid off" June 20, 1865. During the whole of 
the active service of Colonel Bryant he was not 
injured and was not an inmate of a hosjiital. 

After he assumed again the relations of 
civil life, he resumed his law studies in Ajiril, 
18G0, was admitted to the Bar in Huron county, 
Ohio. He jiracticed there two years and in 
1868 located permanently at La Crosse, Wis- 
consin. He lias advanced in his profession as 
an honorable, high-toned and jiersevering busi- 
ness man deserves, and his abilities have been 
recognized and utilized by his generation. 
From 1870 to 1874 he served as County Judge 
and was three times elected District Attorney 
of his county, serving two years in each. He 
acted two years as United States Pension Agent 
and also ofllciated as Postmaster at La Crosse 
under President Arthur from 1882 to 1885. 
Since the Order of the Grand Army has been 
prominent as a })crmanent in.stitution, he has 
been actively engaged in its interests, and was 



a charter member of \\'ilson Colwell Post at 
La Cro.sse, of which he was Commander two 
terms. He has served one year as Senior \'iee 
Commander of the Department of Wisconsin, 
and was elected Department Commander in 
Marcli, ISno. He was also one of the incor- 
porators of the Wisconsin ^'eteran^s Home at 
Waupaca, Wis., of which he was for three 
years Treasurer and is still a Trustee. He is 
a member of the Order of Masonry. Gov. C. 
C. Washburn and also Gov. W. E. Smith ap- 
pointed him aide-de-camp on their stafi' with 
rank of Colonel. 

July 12, 1804, he was married at Nortli 
Fayette, Maine, to Augusta A., daughter of 
Richard and Harriet Stevens. Her father is 
deceased, Ijut her mother is an inmate of lier 
family. 

^^ EORGE W. DRAKE, first \\'isconsin 
^ soldier killed in the War of the Re- 
bellion. This name, which will live 
forever on the pages of tliehistoiy of Wisconsin 
and grace those of the annals of the country for 
which he was a martyr, represents one who was 
but a boy when he fell at Ahirtinsburg, or Falling 
Watei's, \'a. He was born Aug. 25, 1842, in 
the city of PhiladeljJiia. He resided in Mil- 
waukee after he was 13 years old and was in 
the employ of a railroad cor])oration when the 
war between the North and South began. He 
enlisted in April, 1801, in Company A, 1st Wis- 
consin Infantry and was among the first to 
hasten to the aid of the Nation. June iltli fol- 
lowing he left the State for scenes of prospective 
warfare in Virginia and, July 2d, in the skir- 
mish named above, he was the only soldier 
killed on the field. The fatal bullet pierced 
his breast, passed through his body ami was 
afterwards removed from his knapsack. His 
death was almost instantaneous and his dying 




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breath faded ui the words "what will mother 
say?" His innate nobleness of character rose 
to the sublimity of the higliest chivalry in the 
supreme moment when, knowing himself to be 
in tlie border-land of the infinite he remembered 
what her faithful mother lieart would suffer. 
His body was tenderly cared for, prepared for 
burial and laid beside the remains of a soldier 
of the Revolution on the banks of the Potomac 
at Williamsport, Md. This sacred obligation 
was discharged by Captain Kennedy, a I'uionist 
resident in that vicinity who had fought in 
1812, and there he still lies, his friends, on 
learning the circumstances of Captain Ken- 
nedy's considerate kindness, declining to 
disturb the dust of him whose short record as 
a hero honors this page. Battle-scarred veterans 
of the Civil War at Milwaukee have acknowl- 
edged their veneration of his memory in the 
name of G. A. R. Post Geo. W. Drake, No. 223. 
lie was the son of "William and Martha .Jane 
(Carr) Drake. The former was a native of Phil- 
adelphia and died in Milwaukee, May 10, 1886, 
wlierc he had been a respected citizen since 
1S55. The wife and mother survives and is a 
lady who has won a reputation for womanly 
character excelled by few of her generation. 
She was born in Philadelphia and represents 
some of the stanchest blood in our composite 
Nationality. Her father fought in 1812, and 
in every generation, her ancestors were distin- 
guished for patriotism. James Carr, her brother, 
went to "\'irginia about the date of the war in 
charge of a force of laborers to fulfil a railroad 
contract and, with his men, enlisted as soon as 
his services were needed by his country. Mr. 
Carr and all his men, with one exception, were 
killed at Bull Run. His young wife died, 
broken hearted, six months afterwards. 



J||?r ARION F. HUMES, first Wisconsin 

^^^iiV ^*^^f''6i' to fall in l)attle in the 
: .AOV. (jj^.jl \y.jj. jjg ^^.,,j. |jQ,.j^ peh. 17, 

1843, in Janesville, Wis., and was inherently a 
son of the Commonweallh. He typified the 
spirit which fostered his inheritance as a citizen 
of the Republic in his enrolment as a soldier 
in defense of his country when still a boy. It 
is a remarkable fact that the catalogue of Wis- 
consin martyrs is led by the names of two 
youth, instead of by those of reflective, experi- 
enced men. 

Marion F. Humes was the son of Amos and 
Susan Ann (Vreeland) Humes and was fifth in 
order of birth of a family of seven children. 
It is remembered of his last days hi Wisconsin 
that he was making every possible struggle to 
ht himself, as he expressed it with tears on 
being disappointed in obtaining a position at 
Milton to work to pay his way in college "for 
doing some good in the world." 

But he won a prouder distinction than that 
of a student. He enlisted in April, 1861, in the 
"Belle City Rifles" which was mustered in as 
Company F, 2d Wisconsin Infantry. On many 
pages of this work the story of that gallant 
organization is told and he was the first to win 
distinction on the field of Bull Run. .July 21st, 
when advancing in the line of battle, a round 
shot from a six-pound field piece struck the 
ground, ricochetted and pa.ssed through the 
ranks of Company F, shattering the gun of a 
man in front and carrying away the arm of 
Marion Humes. He started for the hospital, 
which his comrades believed he reached, but 
nothing is definitely known about his fate. All 
the particulars of him afterwards are in the 
realm of mystery, save that he came not back. 

But on historic pages, in the hearts of sur- 
viving friends and relatives and in frequent 
mention with hushed breath and quivering 
lips, his venerated memory lives. 



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UFUS KING, the first Brigadier-Gen- 
eral appointed to the command of 
Wisconsin troops during tlie war, was 
of old and distinguished family, lie was horn 
in New York city, Jan. 2()th, 1813, the eldest son 
of Charles King, LL. D., who was for years 
President of Columhia College, and grandson 
of Kufus King, twice minister to Enghiml and 
I'niled States Senator from New York. The 
latter was the son of Richard King, a vvealthy 
ship-owner of Scarborough, Maine, and re- 
moved to Massachusetts shortly before the 
revolutionary war : was delegate of that com- 
monwealth at the ratification of the constitu- 
tion at Philadelphia, subsecjuently removed to 
New York and purchased the homestead at 
Jamaica, Long Island, where his descendants 
still reside. 

General King's mother was Eliza Gracie of 
Elizabelhtown, New Jersey, a woman of rare 
accomplishment and M'orth. His early educa- 
tion was at the hands of an old French soldier- 
scholar, who had emigrated to New York after 
Waterloo, but, when only fourteen years of age 
King was prepared for West Point, where he 
was graduated in 1833 at the age of nineteen, 
standing fourth in rank in a large and brilliant 
class, and was commissioned in the C'orps of 
Engineers. As Lieutenant King his first dut}* 
was in connection with the building of Fortress 
Monroe — his associate being Lieutenant Robert 
E. Lee, with whom he was soon afterwards sent 
to survey the boundary line between Ohio and 
Michigan, in 1835. This was his first look at 
the wilderness of the West, and one he bore in 
mind. In September, 183(5, he resigned from 
the army to take the position of Assistant 
Engineer of tlie New ^'ork and Erie Railway, 
and held it until nearly 1839, when the new 
enterprise became crippled in its finances and 
King returned to Albany, N. Y. Governor 
AVilliam II. Seward was just entering on his 



first term, and King received at his hands the 
ajjpointment of Adjutant-tieneral of the State, 
which, despite his youth, he filled with marked 
credit for four years, through both of Seward's 
terms. During this i)eriod he was brought 
frequently under the notice of Thurlow Weed, 
who detected the inherent editorial stuft' in him 
(Charles King had been for years editor of the 
New Yoik Amerkait) and he became associate 
editor of the Albany Eietiing Journal under 
Weed's tutelage. In 1844, the proprietors of 
the Seiitinel, an infant paper, in the infant town 
of Milwaukee, Territory of Wisconsin, souglit 
Thurlow Weed's advice as to the selection of 
an editor to take entire charge, and Rufus King 
in the fall of 1845, moved to Milwaukee with 
his young wife and baby boy and took the 
helm. He threw himself heart and soul into 
every enterprise that promoted the growth and 
welfare of his adopteil home. He was member 
of the convention that framed the final consti- 
tution of Wisconsin; first (and, for all the 
j'ears there were no emoluments attached to 
the ofiice, only) Superintendent of Public 
Schools; a leader in every meeting; an author- 
ity nn many a (juestion in the growing State, 
and all the time he labored at his paper until 
in a few years the Milwaukee Sentinel had no 
rival in the Northwest. With the defeat of 
Winfield Scott and the dissolution of the Whig 
party, General King devoted himself to the 
task of building up the new Republican and 
Anti-Slavery organization that was fostering in 
the East. There are many to-day who call him 
the father of tlie Republican party in the Bad- 
ger State, but he was the last man to think it 
himself or to seek personal reward. His whole 
career was an e.xamj)le of tirele-ss effort for 
principle, party and jirogress utterly to the ex- 
clusion of any thought of self. 

Naturally, General King warmly advocated 
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dency in 1860, but when Abraham Lincoln lie- 
came the choice of the party, the Scndnd was 
his staunch supporter. Soon after the inaugu- 
ration on the 4th of March, 1861, King was ap- 
pointed Minister to Rome, as delightful a berth 
as the new President could tender him. All 
Milwaukee seemed to rejoice in his good for- 
tune, for no man had done more to win the 
affection and esteem of his feliow-citizens, and 
the farewell banquet was something long re- 
membered. The new diplomat's baggage was 
aljoard the steamer at the New York pier wlien 
the l)oom of Sumter's guns startled the nation- 
King speeded to A\"ashington and asked for 
service with the army ; was directed to return 
at once to Wisconsin to organize the brigade 
required from the Badger State ; was com- 
missioned Brigadier-General of Wisconsin Vol- 
unteers on May 7th, and to the same rank in 
the United States service. May 17th, 1861, 
being summoned at once to the defenses of 
Washington, where in the summer of 1861, in 
camp at Kalorama Heights, he organized the 
command of Wisconsin and Indiana troops 
destined to win in fiercest battle the proud title 
of the "Iron Brigade." A month was spent in 
drill and preparation ; then in September the 
brigade was ordered up the Potomac to Chain 
Bridge, where one of his favorite regiments — 
the 5th Wisconsin — was transferred to give 
General Hancock an equal command, but it 
was immediately replaced by the arriving 7th, 
and in the winter of 1861, King's brigade went 
into camp around Arlington House and the 
General occupied rooms under the roof tree of 
his old friend Lee. Early in the spring he was 
promoted to the command of as fine a Division 
as the Army of the Potomac contained, con- 
sisting of his old brigade and those of Generals 
Hatch, Doubleday and Patrick, and it was 
King's Division that first entered the works of 
Manassas, where McClellan made liis tardy ad- 



vance. Being in McDowell's Corps, the divi- 
sion was detained in front of Washington 
during McClellan 's operations on tlie Peninsula, 
and its first sharp service was along the line 
of the Rapidan, when Lee, Longstreet and 
Jackson leaped forward to crush Pope before 
McClellan could reinforce him. The evening 
of August 28tli, King's Divi-sion — all alone on 
the Warrenton turnpike — -was suddenly and 
fiercely assaulted by Jackson's Corps between 
Gainesville and Groveton. The attack fell 
mainly on the Wisconsin brigade, which, for 
over an hour, stood like a rock against the 
charges of an overwhelming force from Ewell's 
and Taliaferro's Divisions. Darkness put an 
end to the fight, and late at night, after being 
urgently advised by three of his brigade com- 
manders that it was his only chance of saving 
the division from being surrounded by Jack- 
son's Corps with the coming morn, King or- 
dered a withdrawal towards Manassas. He 
had infiicted fearful loss to the enemy, but the 
Iron Brigade had lost 40 per cent. Doubleday 
had suffered severely. It was impossible to 
find McDowell, the Corps Commander, or Pope, 
and, all ignorant that Sigel's men were not far 
distant on his right. King fell back. No orders 
of any kind — -from any quarter, reached him 
that night, but in his official report General 
Pope made it appear that he had sent King 
repeated orders to hold his ground, and infer- 
entially it was reasoned that he received them 
and disobeyed. Although Pope has since pub- 
licly admitted that he never even sent orders 
to King, but that all were sent to McDowell, 
and though letters from the War Department 
fully exonerated him, both in Wisconsin and 
in Congress the affair was utterly misrepre- 
sented and by many ignorant, and a few de- 
signing people, King was accu.sed of having, 
against orders, abandoned the field. Some such 
report, with evident design, was brought to the 



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ears of McClellaii as tlie division was about 
moving in to the attack at South Mountain, 
and he directed that King be relieved and 
granted leave of absence on the ground of evi- 
dent ill health. Though speedily restored to 
duty and given important command at York- 
town he never regained his health or s])irits. 
Our diplomatic affairs were becoming en- 
tangled abroad. Ciovernor Kaudall, who was 
occupying King's post at Rome, desired to re- 
turn, and in the fall of 1863, the President 
called on his minister to proceed to liis station 
at the Paj>al court. Here King remained 
rendering important and faithful service to the 
Nation, returning to the United States in 1SG7 
and receiving a cordial welcome from his Mil- 
waukee friends. After serving a year or two 
as Deputy Collector of the port of Xew York 
City, he there died of pneumonia October 13, 
1876, and was buried among five generations 
of his race in the old church-yard at Jamaica, 
Long Island. 

General King left a wife, son and daughter 
to survive him. Of his character it is recorded 
by a contemporary who knew him well that as 
engineer, editor, .soldier and diplomatist, he did 
honor to them all, but his chief title to remem- 
brance was his own noble manhood, fervent 
patriotism and affectionate disposition which 
enshrinid his image in the heart niches of 
hosts of ardent admirers. In writing he had 
an easy, graceful style of great purity and ele- 
gance; was just, generous and honorable in all 
he expressed; and though often wielding a 
partisan pen, his vigorous blows were given 
with the mace of a templar knight. It was 
not within the possibilities of his noble nature 
to willingly wound a friend, and even for the 
bitterest foe he always had Christian chaiity. 
Captain Charles Kixci, V. S. A. 



"T^r OX. CAPTAIN] 
'' IP)-1I '"t'^i'^^'it at Trc 



INLINDSEYJ. SMITH, 

roy ('enter, Walworth 
Co., Wis., member of G. A. R. Post, 
No. 171, at East Troy, where he is a prom- 
inent business man, was born .Jan. 8, 1840, 
in Lafayette, in the same county in which he 
lives. His father, Sylvester G. Smith, was born 
in Berk.shire, Ma.ss., June 10, 1796, and was the 
son of Willard Smith, who fought in 1812. 
The latter is supposed to have been of English 
origin. The mother, Diana Ward before mar- 
riage, was born in Onondaga County, New 
York, in February, 1803. She went with her 
husband to Detroit, Mich., in 1836 and the 
next year to Walworth County, Wis., where 
they fixed their permanent abode on a farm. 
The senior Smith died in June, 1878, and the 
decease of the mother took place in February, 
1852. Their children were nine in number 
and five died in early infancy. Sarah grew to 
womanhood and died in Minnesota in 1872. 
Three are living of wlmm two are daughters — 
Caroline W. and Ada N. The latter was the 
wife of Harrison N. Montague, a memlier of 
Company A, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, who 
died uf injuries ret'eived in the service. 

Caj)tain Smith passed his earlv youth at 
home as an assistant on the farm, obtaining a 
practical and available education in the district 
school. When he was 18 years old he was 
competent to teach and engaged in that occupa- 
tion two successive winter.s, passing the in- 
tervening summers on his father's farm. 
When he attained his majority he was attend- 
in<r a term of school at Miltim Academv in 
Rock Counly. He farmed and taught alter- 
nately until he decided to eritcr the military 
service of his country. Aug. 15, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company I, 28th Wisconsin In- 
fantry and September 8th was elected First 
Lieutenant of his company. October Hlh he 
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weeks passed in Wisconsin in State service in 
quieting tlie draft rioters on which service his 
regiment was detailed, lie left the State for 
Colunil)US, Ky., where active warfare was 
imminent. The command went to Union 
City and back to Columbus and went tlience in 
January to Helena to be assigned to the 2d 
Brigade, 13th Division and 13th Army Corps. 
The following detail was for St. Charles on the 
Wliite River expedition and a part of the com- 
mand went to Duvall's Blutl to reconnoiter, 
the regiment returning to Helena. In Feb- 
ruary they were in another expedition which 
had for its ultimate object the accomplishment 
of one of Grant's plans, having been trans- 
ferred to the 1st Brigade of the same division 
and corps. The command was in j^rospect of 
activities of lively character, but the expedition 
had little practical results and returned once 
more to Helena. The regiment was in the 
sharp action at Helena, July 4th, in which one 
of the triumphs of the Union troops over over- 
whehning numbers was achieved through the 
bravery and discipline of the regiment, in con- 
junction with the artillery and gunboats on the 
river. The 28th remained at Helena until 
August and in that month Lieutenant Smith 
was mustered as Captain of his company, his 
commission to date from May 1, 18G3, and he 
accompanied the regiment witli the expedition 
against Little Rock. Until the first of Novem- 
ber, the command operated on the Saline River 
and in other localities in pursuit of Marmaduke 
and in other military service. They went into 
winter quarters at Pine Bluff and in March were 
again in active warfare in wliicli they were 
successful, capturing one day more than 300 
pri-soners. On the last day of November, 1863, 
they were relieved and returned to Little Rock. 
During a portion of this time Captain Smith 
was ranking officer and was in command of 
the regiment. Much heavy marching was 



accomplished throughout the various expedi- 
tions and transfers of the command in which 
the Captain was always at the head of his men. 
In January, 1865, he was in an expedition to 
the Saline River and after again returning to 
Ijittle Rock, orders were received to move to 
join the forces whose destination was the assault 
on the defenses of Mobile. They proceeded to 
Algiers and went to Mobile Point and thence 
on the tedious march to Spanish Fort and 
passed nearly two weeks in the trenches before 
Spanish Fort, going thence to Blakely before 
daylight on the morning of the 9th of April 
to find it had also surrendered. Returning to 
Mobile, they remained until orders were re- 
ceived for Texas and the command proceeded 
on transports to Brazos Santiago, and suc- 
cessively to Clarksville and Brownsville, and 
were mustered out at the latter place alter per- 
forming heavier duty tiian in warfare in 
camp and patrol duty and in interminable 
marches, over almost impassable roads and 
through hitherto almost untraversed territory. 
When they arrived at Madison they were 
finally paid off and tiieir connection witii mili- 
tary life brought to an honorable termination. 
Captain Smith resumed operations on his 
farm (which he still retains in his possession) 
and followed agriculture exclusively as a call- 
ing until 1875 when he embarked in other 
enterprises, including grain buying and traffic 
in other farm products, and, a little later, he 
also commenced the sale of lumber in which 
his business has increased to large pi'oportions. 
He also handles brick, coal and builders' sup- 
plies and is considered one of the solid, reliable 
and substantial business factors of Troy Center. 
In 1880 he served as a member of the State 
Legislature, fulfilling the duties of the position 
in a manner every way creditable to his abili- 
ties and experience. He belongs to the Order 
of Odd Fellows and has been a member of tlie 



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Order of Good Templars since lie was 18 years 
old. 

He was married in 1871 to Helen M. Stewart, 
of La Grange, a native of Walwoitli county and 
the daugliter of James and Margaret (Guthrie) 
Stewart. ■ Their ciiildren are named Roliin L., 
Mary D., Clara L., Carol W., Harold B. and 
Osmer. The mother died in 1SS7. 



3<t^ 



•Sr'AMES DARLING, Genoa Junction, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post, No. 27, at 
Geneva Lake, was born at Poughkeepsie, 
Dutchess Co., New York, Sept. 26, 1844. His 
father and mother, Philo and Elizabeth (Har- 
rington) Darling, were both natives of the 
State of New York. Tlie former was a farmer 
and located on a farm in 1849 in Kenosha 
county, Wisconsin, where he died Feb. 22, 1886. 
The mother died on the old farm in that 
county in 1873, aged 62 years. They had six 
children who survive them. Paltic is the wife 
of Louis Rollow. Sarah is the widow of John 
Bohart, a soldier in the civil war. James is 
third in order of birth. Augusta is the widow 
of Henry Ray, who was also a soldier; she 
lives in Delavan, Wis. Jane M. (Mrs. E. Sher- 
man) lives at Genoa Junction. Frank is a 
farmer on the homestead in Kenosha county. 
James was hardly five years of age when his 
parents removed from the place of his birth to 
Wisconsin, and until he was 18 he encountered 
the experiences of the ordinary farmer's boy. 
At the age mentioned he went to Clinton, Iowa, 
where he engaged in farm laiior until he en- 
tered the army. Sept. 28, 1864, he enlisted in 
Company F, 8th Iowa Infantry, was mustered 
at Davenport and joined the regiment at Mem- 
phis, Tenn., the command being engaged in 
patrol duty on the railroad. About March 1, 
1865, he went with the regiment to New Oi-- 



leans and thence to Dauphin's Island, where 
they were placed on a transport and went to 
Fish River; landing and making the terrible 
march to the trenches of Spanish Fort, where 
he was wounded by a shell and a minie ball at 
the same moment. The former missile shat^ 
tered his thigh and a piece entered liis stomach. 
The minie ball penetrated his abdomen and 
passed out beneath the short ribs. He was 
taken from the field hospital to a hospital at 
New Orleans, and was there about a month, 
receiving a furlough of (iO days, May 1, 1865. 
After its expiration he was sent to a hospital at 
Davenport, Iowa, where he was mustered out 
Sept. 28, 1865. He returned to Clinton and 
was unable to do any work. He went back to 
Kenosha county, where he operated as a farmer 
and tried to recover his health. In 1870, he 
removed to Walworth county, where he has 
occupied his time as an agriculturist, and is 
the owner of a farm near the limits of Genoa 
Junction. Oct. 12, 187(i, he was married to 
Mrs. Elizabeth (Fuller) Greer. She was born 
at Genoa Junction, and is the daughter of 
Joseph and Mary A. Fuller, natives of the 
State of New York. Her parents are farmers 
near Genoa Junction. They have eight sur- 
viving children and one deceased ; Mrs. Dar- 
ling is the third in oi-der of birth. She is the 
mother of four children born as follows: 
Myrtie, at Bloonifield, Oct. 24, 1871; Elizabeth 
A., at Randall, Kenosha county, Sept. 3, 1873 ; 
Joseph Philo, May 13, 1876, at Genoa Junction. 
Louis E. was born April 17, 1882, and died 
when 20 months old. Mrs. Darhng was first 
married to Gustavus Adolphus Greer, who was 
a soldier in Company D, 95th Illinois Infantry, 
and died April 29, 1866, leaving a daughter 
named Gustavie May, who was born May 14, 
1866. She is an estimable young lady and 
and lives with her parents. Mrs. Darling is a 
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Corps, and, witli her husband, takes an active 
interest in all matters pertaining to the well- 
being of both Orders. 

RTIS McBRIDE, Brodhead, Wis., mem- 
^ ber of G. A. R. Post, No. 102, was 
born at Columbus, Bartholomew Co., 
lad., March 27, 1837. His parents, P^zekiel 
and Mary (Hampton) McBride, were both of 
Southern birth, the father being a native of 
Nashville, Tenn., and tiie mother of ^'irginia. 
The McBride family is of Scotch descent and 
has been known in the several wars of the 
country. General McBride, one of the rebel 
officers at the battle of Pea Ridge, resigned his 
commission in the rebel army on the death of 
his son, Lieutenant McBride, who was shot in 
that action. A brother of Mr. McBride, David, 
was a soldier and fought on that field, and saw 
his cousin's body after death. It is still a bitter 
thought that in more than one instance frater- 
nal and kindred blood contested title to rights 
on battle fields. General Wade Hampton is 
the cousin of Mr. McBride, being the son of 
his mother's brother. His parents were mar- 
ried in the South, where they engaged in agri- 
culture until 1845, when they removed to a 
farm near Monroe, W^is., and they are now 
residing in retirement in that village enjoying 
a competency. They had 10 children and the 
son who is represented in this sketch is the only 
survivor. Two of his brothers were in the 
service. .James enlisted in Company B, 31st 
Wisconsin and served three years. David 
served in Company A, 0th Iowa Infantry 
through his enlistment. 

When he was llj years old, Mr. McBride 
founded the basis of his own fortune by work- 
ing as a farm laborer for a short time, and as 
soon as possible became the proprietor of a 



farm of his own. It was situated near Monroe, 
and he was resident thereon until he became a 
soldier, enlisting Jan. 27, 1864, in Company C, 
3d Wisconsin Infantry, was mustered at Madi- 
son and joined the regiment at Fayette ville, 
East Tennessee. In March, he went to join 
the command of Sherman, and had his first 
taste of rebel powder in one of tlie actions in 
the vicinity of Dalton, Ga. They were in a 
slight action at Kingston and also at Buzzard's 
Roost, going thence through Snake Creek Gap, 
where 100 soldiers could have driven them 
around the mountains. In May they made 
connection with Sherman and on the 14th 
were in line of battle at Resaca. The bulk of 
the fighting there took place on the 15th, but 
Mr. McBride was in the- six days' successive 
fighting at Dallas. May 25th he received a 
bullet in the knuckles of his right hand and 
was obliged to withdraw from the field. It 
was near night and he lay down near a spring, 
placing his hand in the water, and, overcome 
with fatigue and loss of blood, fell asleep. He 
was aroused in the morning by officers who 
sent him to the field hospital ; the spring was 
red with the admixture of the blood he had 
lost and he was very weak. After arrival at 
the hospital, his case loolced unimportant and 
more serious cases received attention, the phy- 
sicians advising him to keep his hand in cold 
water, which he did until he arrived at Nash- 
ville, and, after seven days' delay, he received 
medical treatment. An attempt was made to 
remove the ball but it held the fort and does 
still, the arm being withered, the fingers and 
wrist stiff and the whole side benumbed and 
threatened with paralysis. At Nashville he 
was detailed for Murfreesboro, and about .July 
9, 1864, he received a 30-day furlough which 
was extended to 60 days. He reported at 
Madison, was examined and held there 
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the War Department, when he was assigned to 
tlie Veteran Reserve Corps, Company 137, 2d 
Battalion, and sent to Detroit, where the com- 
mand was occuj)ied in camp duty, and lie re- 
mained tliere unable to perform much duty 
until final discharge, July 28, 18()5, by special 
instructions from the Department. 

He returned to his Wisconsin home whtn- 
he has given every possible attention to the 
recovery of the use of his hand but in vain. 

He was married at Monroe, Aug. 20, 18G0, to 
Emma Williams, a native of Wales. She was 
the daughter of John and Emma (Jones) Wil- 
liams, who removed to America in 1840, when 
the daughter was five years old, (she having 
been born July 4, 1835), and located in Rock- 
ford, 111., where they were pioneer settlers. 
Her father died while she was young and her 
mother is still living; one brother and two 
sisters yet survive. Henry Williams was a 
soldier in Company B, 31st Infantry and resides 
in Monroe. Rachel married Edward Craig of 
Warien, 111.; Joanna married James E.Sher- 
man of Greenwood, Kansas; Jane married 
Bate GrilHth of Brownton, A\'i.«. The wife of 
Mr. McBride died Dec. 23, 1888, leaving six 
children, l)orn as follows: Artis Edward, July 
20, 18(;l : John E.,Man. 3, 18G3; Clarence, 
April 11, Lsr,.-); George, Sept. 22, 1867; Frank, 
Oct. 16, 1869; Nellie B., Sept. 27, 1876. 
George is the father's assistant on the farm and 
the daughter is the manager of the house- 
keeping, although only 13 years old. Mr. 
McBride was devotedly attached to his wife, 
who endured with him all the vicissitudes at- 
tendant U])on his army life, and her loss is one 
whicli he will feel keenly until he joins her. 
He i)urchased a farm near Monroe, and there 
and in the village of Monroe he lived until 
1881, when he purchased his property near 
Bi'odhead, and which includes 20 acres within 
the corpoi-ation un which he proposes to pass 



his declining years. He is a soliil farmer of 
excellent reputation. 

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TF^^r Wis., niei 
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SHELDON, r.urlington 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 
Ijorn in I'tica, Macomb Co., 
Mich., May 13, 1835. His parents, Orson and 
Rose Ann (Lippitt) Sheldon, were both Ameri- 
can by birth and of English origin. Mr. Shel- 
don is one of seven children — four boys and 
three girls — and four still survive, Julia E. 
(Mrs. L. W. Conkey), \\'illiam C, H. Eugene 
and Mr. Sheldon of this .sketch. Orson Shel- 
don was born in Rupert, \'i., Aug. 12, 1807, 
and was the son of Chauncey and Lucy (Whit- 
ney) Sheldon, the Ibimer being a soldier 
through the whole extent of the war of 1812. 
Orson Sheldon is the oldest of 10 children and 
has two sisters living. He resides with his son 
in Burlington, and, although he is in his Sod 
year (188'J) he still retains undimished his 
mental and physical faculties. 

The family moved from Michigan to Bur- 
lington, Wis., in 1842 in the month of Decem- 
ber, where the son obtained a good common 
school education, which he supplemented with 
a year of study at Beloit College. In 1859 he 
established his relations to the hardware busi- 
ness at Burlington, which he has since con- 
ducted there. Aug. 28, 1861, he joined the 
I'tley Guards, and, on the reorganization of the 
1st Wisconsin Infantry, was assigned to Com- 
pany C, with the commission of Second Lieu- 
tenant and accompanied the regiment from 
Camp Scott, Milwaukee, to Jefferson vi lie, hid., 
crossing to Kentucky with the expectation of 
soon encountering Kirby Smith who was 
threatening that locality, lie went in com- 
mand of his comjiau}' to service at West Point, 
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varied military duty and constructing bridges, 
meanwiiile watching rebel movements, the in- 
dications showing threatened trouble on the 
border. Lieutenant Sheldon received i)roiuo- 
tion to First Lieutenant Feb. 22, 1862, and on 
the 6th of the following August he was made 
Captain of Company C. March 8th he fought 
at "Granny White's Pike," where his company 
lost their blankets, and through the ensuing 
summer he assisted in the varied military duty 
in which his regiment was involved ; and was 
next in action Oct. 8, at Perryville, where he 
had the satisfaction of assisting in a triumph 
over the rebels whose strength exceeded that 
of the Union troops. His regiment was in 
McCook's Corps and Ransom's Division. His 
company lost seven men killed and 13 wounded. 
He was next in heavj^ action at Stone River, 
where he was in the several days' action, lielped 
to win another victory and mourned the loss 
of another considerable number of his men. 
The regiment was assigned after this action to 
the 14th Corps which moved southward under 
Thomas and, en route, was in frequent skir- 
mishing and other military duty. September 
10-20 he fought at Chickamauga, going into 
action with .31 men, of whom 10 answered to 
their names after the fight was over. I>ut his 
.sorrow was mitigated by the splendid courage 
they had manifested. The command went to 
Chattanooga to prepare for a continuation of 
hostilities, where they performed hard labor 
and suflered many hard.ships, resulting from 
their being almost wholly cut otf from supplies. 
Mr. Sheldon recalls the severities of the pre- 
liminary conflicts before Chickamauga in view 
of the sharpness of those contests and also that 
at Mission Ridge. When the Atlanta campaign 
commenced, with his recruited company, he 
started to connect with the troops of Slierman, 
fought at Resaca, at Dallas and in the several 
positions in Georgia known as Kenesaw Moun- 



tain where its situation was one of the most 
dangerous. July 20th, through the action at 
Peach Tree Creek, the regiment was in a similar 
situation. They remained in the trenches 
before Atlanta until they went to fight at 
.Jonesboro, where the company again lost 
heavily ; and afterwards returned to Atlanta, 
and remaining about two weeks, were ordered 
to Nashville preparatory to proceeding to Mil- 
waukee to be mustered out Oct. 13, 1864, their 
term having expired. 

With his military laurels, in wiiich he takes 
just pride, Captain Sheldon retui'ned to Bur- 
lington and resumed the duties of his business 
and his citizenship. He was married Feb. 28, 
186.5, to Paulina A. Bristol and they have had 
two children named Robert H. and Mabel. 
The son is deceased, his death having occurred 
-Jan. 21, 1877. The daughter is completing a 
liberal education at the Northwestern Univer- 
sity at Evanston, 111. She is a promising young 
lady and the light of her father's home. The 
mother died Sep. 12, 1888. Captain Sheldon 
was the first man to suggest the feasibility of 
raising an entire volunteer company for the 
war, when the Government fixed a recruiting 
office at Burliufjton. 



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.,r^-j;^ APTAIN PETER J. MISEREZ, Darien, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post, Abra- 
ham Lincoln, No. 3, was born at 
La .Joux, Canton of Berne, Switzerland, Dec. 
15, 1829. His father, .Joseph Miserez, was a 
machinist, and was descended from a Spaniard 
who left his native country and located in 
Switzerland. He married Genereuse, daughter 
of Francis Reutf, who, with four brothers, 
fought in the German contingent of the army 
of Napoleon, and afterwards went with his 
family to Switzerland. Peter was the only 



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cliild and lost his I'atlier wlien five months 
old. His mother married again and he re- 
mained in his native land until 1S4!». In 
the spring of that year, when he was not quite 
•20 years old, he sailed for America and landed 
at New York. He proceeded to Ft. Wayne, 
Ind., where he remained a year, working at 
the trade of a shoemaker, which he learned in 
Switzerland. In 1850 he went to Notre Dame 
University, and after a year of study there 
went to South Bend, Ind., where he remained 
until 18o7, when he went to Mound City, Kan- 
sas, as correspondent of the New York TVibune, 
the Kansas troubles having again come to the 
front. He was thereabout three months when 
he went to Warrensburg, Jackson Co., Mo., 
where he continued to reside until the Spring 
of 18G1, operating meanwhile as correspondent 
of the Tribune and becoming prominently 
known as a decided Abolitionist. The war 
troubles coming on, he was compelled to leave 
Missouri and returned to Kansas, where he en- 
listed as soon as possible. May 14, 18(51, in 
Company F, 2d Kansas Infantry. The regi- 
ment became famous in the Missouri warfare 
under General Lyon whose coolness and cour- 
age preserved Missouri to the Union. The regi- 
ments participated in the fights at Forsythe, 
Dug Springs, Wilson's Creek and Shelbina. 
and in all other miscellaneous service involved 
inits movements during that period. Oct. 31, 
ISO I, Captain Miserez was mustered out at 
Leavenworth, his term having expired long 
before. In .June, 1862, he again enlisted in 
Ct>inpany K, 12th Kansas Infantry, and was 
mustered in as First Lieutenant of his com- 
pany. The regiment remained at Leavenworth 
several months, and CapUiin Miserez was de- 
tailed to the command of the Post at Kansjis 
City, which was established there May 1, 1SG3, 
and he remained there two months, and was 
next detailed to the charge of the military 



prison in the same city (under General Ewing), 
and was on duty there until November, when 
he went with bis regiment to Fort Sniilli, Ark., 
and was there assigned to the command of 
General Thayer. In the sjiring of 1804, the 
regiment was assigned to the commaftd of 
General Steel and went on the Red River ex- 
pedition. Captain Miserez, who had been com- 
missioned Captain and was acting as Adjutant, 
was in the movement to Shreveport to make 
connection with the expedition, and be was in 
the fisrbt at Prairie d'Ane and at .lenkins' Ferrv, 
where he received a gunshot wound in his 
right shoulder. He was then acting as Fii-st 
Lieutenant and was the second junior officer 
on the field, all others, with the exception of 
Captain James Chestnut, being either absent 
or disabled. After Jenkins' Ferry, the regi- 
ment returned to Little Rock, Ark., thence to 
Fort Smith and to Little Rock for muster out, 
remaining there until the close of the war, the 
Captain being discharged June 30, 1865. His 
experiences in the Army of the Frontier would 
fill a volume, and his duties of all varieties 
were sometimes anything but agreeable even 
to a man who recognizes and discharges his 
duty at all hazards. He had the honor of 
hanging "Jim Vaughn," one of Quantrell s 
most distinguished guerrillas. The regiment 
disbanded at Lawrence, and Captain Miserez 
located at Kansas City, where he was made 
Marshal of the Criminal Court and of the 
Court of Common Pleas, and ofliciated as such 
two years, after which be I'eceived the appoint- 
ment of local agent of the Post t^ftice Depart- 
ment and officiated in that capacity seven 
years. He went thence to Phillips county, 
Kansas, and remained two years on a soldier's 
homestead claim, and in 1884 went to Concor- 
dia, Cloud county, Kansas, where he remained 
until 1889 when he removed to Darien, where 
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iiig a prosperous business us a (kuiler in hoots 
and slioes. lie was married in 1(S52 to Mary 
.1 , daugliter of John B. Ronlo of South Bend, 
and they liad six cl:ildren. Louise, the lirst- 
horn, is deceased, as is tlie second child who 
died unnamed. Emma, Mrs. Garver, lives in 
San Francisco, CaL ; Mrs. Wm. Culver is a 
resident of l>os Angeles, Cal. ; Mrs. Ilattie 
Gingles lives at Aldrieh, Neb.; Joseph T/)uis 
is an attache of the Santa Fe railroad, stationed 
at El Paso, Texas. After the death of his first 
wife, Captain Mi.serez was married to Mrs. 
Margaret Frye, daughter of Bariiaid lluber 
of Darien. 

A\'ID CU.VK;, I'almyra, Wis., charter 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 138, 
was born Sept. 28, 1833, in Ciiili, 
Monroe Co., New York, and is the son of Wil- 
liam and Margaret (Rush) Craig. In both lines 
of descent the son represents one of the best 
strains in American nationality, Ijoth his 
parents being descended from forbeai's who 
came to America from the North of Ireland in 
1709, the ancestors in the paternal line being 
David ('raig and Kugh Rush. The oi'iginal 
stock from Scotland went to the North of Ireland 
in IGUi* to esca])e the persecutions of the Scot- 
tish "kirk" only to find themselves in a worse 
condition from the inhabitants, who were 
liostile to them and, in J70!t, the Scotch-Irish 
began to emigrate to America. The elans 
Craig and Rush were jn-ominent in all the 
early struggles (jf Scotland and hardly a 
romance has been written, founded on Scottish 
history, whicli has not mentioned these families. 
William Craig became a soldier in the war of 
1812 when scarcely 19 years old and Sej)t. 20, 
1846, he removed to a farm in Palmyra, Wis- 
consin, (when his son was 13 years old), and 



where he died in 1877 ; the mother's demise 
occurred in 1838, before her son was five yeai-s 
old. He remained on the home farm in 
I'almyra until he was 20 years old and in July, 
1801, he went to Iowa and, Aug. \r,, 18G2, 
enlisted in Company K, 2.5th Iowa Infantry. 
He was mustered at Mu.scatine, Sept. 19, 1862, 
and went to Helena, Ark., and performed mili- 
tary duty, skirmishing and raiding through 
the winter. In the .spring of 1803 be went to 
Milliken's Bend and was occupieil in all the 
varieties of duty in the X'icksburg campaign, 
going to Grand Gull'. He was in the Red 
River expedition and when the regiment was 
sent to join the Ea.stern troop.s, his regiment 
was (;onnected with Sheridan's comniaml in 
the Army of the Shenandoah and the division 
went thence to the relief of General Geary at 
Savannah. The next movement was to report 
to General Terry at Wilmington, and they went 
thence by ve.ssel to Morehead Harbor; and on 
the way to join Sherman at Goldsboro, they 
foraged for llu! command of Sheridan. At 
Goldsboro, Mr. Craig was detailed to go with a 
squad of .soldiers as escort for a supjjly train 
and after returning he accompanied the com- 
mand to Savannah and Augu.sta, returning a 
month later to Savannah for muster out, July 
17, lilO,5. Mr. Craig went to Davenport, where 
he was finally discharged Aug. 2, 1805. Fol- 
lowing is the complete roster of battles in which 
he took a soldier's j)art iind which represents 
far more than the manifest exhibit of names 
and dates ; it will be observed that the in- 
cluded territory compassed most of the im- 
portant localities of the hottest j)ortion of the 
rebellion, from the Mississijjjii River to the 
Atlantic sealjoard : The Red River expedition 
with its dangers, incessant marches and un- 
remitting skirmishes, a detail of which would 
swell the whole list incredibly; the campaign 
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forms one of the most thrilling episodes in the 
whole liistory of the war. Mr. Craig fought at 
Port Gibson, May 1, 18G3; Champion's Hill, 
May 16, 1S()3; siege of Vicksburg from May 
19 to July 4, 1863 ; siege of Jackson, from .Inly 
9 to 14; Carrion Crow Bayou, Nov. 3, 1863; 
Mansfield or Sabine Cross Roads, April 8, 1864 : 
Cane River, April 23, 1864: Middle Bayou, 
May 5, 1864; Marksville, May 1"., 1864; Win- 
chester, Sept. 19, 1864; Fisher's Hill, Sept. 22, 
1864 ; Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864. 

In the spring of 1866 Mr. CVaig engaged in 
the warehouse business at Palmyra in which 
he operated nine years and was then compelled 
bv impaired hoaltii to close active connection 
with business life, lie became assistant Town 
Treasurer and was afterwards elected to the 
cliief office and served seven consecutive 
years. lie has also officiated four years as 
Town Clerk. He has been connected with the 
Order of Odd Fellows since 1868. 

He was married Dec. 26, 1858, at Buena 
Vista, Richland Co., Wis., to There.sa A. Cran- 
dall. She is the daughter of Samuel and Ada 
(Goodrich) Crandall. Mr. and Mrs. Craig are 
the parents of two children named Willie <). 
and Jennie M. The former is head clerk in a 
railroad office at Millbank, Dak., and the latter 
is the wife of George A. Leadbetter, of Rome, 
Jefierson Co., Wis. The purenls are both 
members of the M. E. Church and are of ex- 
cellent social standing. A. J. Craig, a brotlier 
of Mr. Craig, has been State Superintendent 
and also member of the .Vssemlily of Wisconsin. 

AMUFJ> SUTCIJFFE, Elkliorn, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 76, was 
born at Uttersfield, Yorkshire, Eng- 
land, Aug. 14, 1826, and is the son of William 
and Eliza (Wood) Sutclitfe, who, about 1839, 



emigrated to America with their family, land- 
ing at the port of New York. After a residence 
of several years in southern Massachusetts the\' 
went to Kenosha, ^^'isconsin, where their son 
remained a few years. About 1847 he went to 
Elkhorii where he engaged in painting and 
that has been liis occupation when able to work. 
Me has been a bus}-, active man and only re- 
tired from active life when approaching age 
compelled. Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
pany 1, 28th Wisconsin Infantry, and went into 
rendezvous at Milwaukee until the regiment 
started for the South. His health failed and 
he was obliged to take counsel of tlie surgeon 
and returned home on a furlough. His di.s- 
ability w'as one that totally unfitted him for 
military duty and he received honorable dis- 
charge May 26, 1863. 

Mr. SutclifFe has been twice married. His 
first wife, to whom he was married in IS-JO, 
W'as named Mary Wise and they had two 
children — a son and a daughter. John W. 
resides in Kansas and Eliza A. is Mrs. W. M. 
Simmons, of Elkhorn. The second wife, Mary 
Goody before marriage, was born in England 
and came to America when 23 years old. She 
was a resident of Chicago until her marriage. 



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^I^HOMAS DEVEREAUX, Eagle, Wis., 
vly was l)orn in County Wickluw, Ire- 
'^ land, June 9, 1824. His parents, 
Michael and Catherine (Burns) Devereaux, 
were natives of that t'ountry, and his father 
was the son of a man whu was born in France. 
Mr. Devereaux is one of 10 children of whom 
four sons and a daughter emigrated to America. 
He came to this country in 1848, and after re- 
maining a year in the city of New York went 
to Springfield, Mass., wliere he was 14 years a 
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time at Mukwonago where his brother resided, 
and soon after decided to enter the array. He 
enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Company B, 28th 
\yisconsin Infantr}', and after being mustered 
in at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, went to 
Port Washington, whither the regiment went 
to assist in controlling tlie draft rioters. He 
returned to Milwaukee and went to Columbus, 
Ky., leaving the State December 10th, expect- 
ing to enter into immediate active service, but 
went to Union Cit}-, where Mr. Devereaux was 
detailed to go to Fort Hickman to obtain war 
munitions left by rebels, and went to Island 
No. 10 to find the guns spiked. He went after- 
wards to Helena, where he was in the hot fight 
of July 4, 1863. Prior to that he was in sev- 
eral expeditions, one of which went to Duvall's 
Bluff and afterwards to the Yazoo Pass expe- 
dition. At Helena he was seriously injured by 
a fall, by which he sustained injuries to his 
head and one arm ; the physician decided that 
his hand must be amputated, but its owner in- 
sisted on retaining it and taking his chances. 
He was afterwards detailed to manage a gang 
of negroes in the construction of a piece of 
highway. After the fight at Helena, the com- 
mand went to Little Rock by way of Duvall's 
Bluff, and afterwards pursued Marmaduke's 
troops, returning to Little Rock. The next 
movement was to Pine Bluff, where they went 
into winter cpiarters, and afterwards Mr. 
Devereaux was in the action in which the 
rebels assaulted the regiment. In this action 
and the expedition of which it was a part the 
regiment captured 320 prisoners. The regi- 
ment went into c^uarters at Pine Bluff' and left 
there in December for Little Rock. Afterwards 
Mr. Devereaux was in a long march to the Sa- 
line River, returning to Little Rock where 
orders were received to join General Canby at 
New Orleans, whither they journeyed on the 
White and Mississippi Rivers and went to Al- 



giers, La., and thence to Mobile Point where 
they were assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3d Divi- 
sion and 13th Army Corps. Mr. Devereaux 
went thence with the regiment to the terrible 
march on Fish River to Spanish Fort, where 
he was in the trenches 13 days, and on the last 
at midnight, started on the double quick to the 
assistance of Fort Blakely after the surrender 
of Spanish Fort to find Blakely had surren- 
dered just before their arrival. The regiment 
went next to assist in the closing scenes in 
Alabama and returned to Mobile on one of the 
transports surrendered by Dick Taylor on the 
Tombigby River. Soon after, the command 
went to Texas, landing at Brazos Santiago. 
Thence they went to Clarksville ; and Browns- 
ville was their final point of removal where 
they were mustered out Aug. 2, 1865, and 
returned to Wisconsin where, at Madison, Mr. 
Devereaux took final and formal leave of mili- 
tary life. He returned to Mukwonago where 
he remained until March, 1866. He bought a 
homestead in Eagle which he afterward sold 
and purchased the small place on which he is 
at present resident. He was married to Mary 
Malone in 1859 at Springfield, Mass. She is a 
native of Dublin, Ireland, and came to America 
when seven years old. They have two chil- 
dren. Thomas H. is a clerk with the whole- 
sale firm of Montgomery Ward & Co., in Chi- 
cago, 111. A daughter, Mary A., wife of Philip 
Belan, lives at Little Prairie. The parents are 
practically childless through the fate which 
overtakes all parents who rear their children 
to maturity. Mr. Devereaux still maintains 
his active relations with business, working at 
his trade and gardening on his place- 




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^v^j^> APTAIN FREDERIC KUSEL, Water- 
town, Wis., member of 0. D. Pease 
Post No. 94, was born Nov. 1, 183!t, at 
Douiitz, now in the province of Mecklenburg, 
Germany. He was 10 years ol<l when lie came 
to America with his parents and the family 
located at Watertown, Wis. His father, Daniel 
Kusel, was a tinner in his native country and 
established his interests in that line of business 
at Watertown, the son becoming acquainted 
with its details. He went South about the time 
he attained his majority and when secession 
ruled tlie hour, he was at Galveston, Texas, en- 
gaged in the tin and hardware business. In 
18()1 Captain Kusel was waited on by a com- 
mittee of citizens, who requested him to sign 
the papers declaring the State out of the Union, 
but he declined on the ground that he was not 
a citizen of Texas, and stated that he desired 
to return to Memphis where he belonged. Tliis 
he did because his life would be jeopardized if 
it became known that he was a citizen of the 
North. He .secured pas.sage on the "Alexander 
Scott," a freight boat which stopped at Baton 
Rouge and took possession of the equipments 
and stores of the U. S. arsenal there. The 
booty was left at Memphis and the boat was 
presented with a rebel flag, bearing nine stars. 
Following is an extract from the presentation 
speech of the Mayoi-: "There she rises with as 
yet but nine stars. If our sister States have 
not the good will and courage to come up and 
join us, we have the powerful hand to bring 
them out." The larger guns were conveyed to 
Island No. 10 and the boat proceeded to Cairo, 
where the Unionists put an uncomfortable rebel 
aboard to get rid of him. Mr. Kusel went to 
St. Louis, and about the same time the strategy 
of General Lyon secured Camp Jackson to the 
Union and the city became loyal. Soon after, 
he returned to Wisconsin and resumed his con- 
nection witli his father's business. In the sum- 



mer of 1862, associated with C. A. Menges, he 
commenced recruiting for the service of his 
countr}', and raised a company for the 20lii 
Wisconsin Infantry. August 11th they re- 
ceived commissions as recruiting officers from 
Governor Salomon and three days later re])orted 
103 men ready for duty. August ISth Mr. 
Kusel was commissioned First Lieutenant of 
Company E, his associate being made Second 
Lieutenant of the same. The regiment was 
ready for active service on the 23d and on the 
30th started for Missouri. September 6th they 
started on their weary route to Rolla, and 
marched thence to Springfield under the most 
burdensome conditions, many falling out, 
utterly worn out b}' tlieir burdens and the 
heat. At Springfield the heavy Rus.-;ian guns 
were exchanged for the lighter Austrian rifles. 
Another forced march to Cross Hollows followed 
where activities were expected, but the rebels 
fled and soon after a march was made to 
Fayetteville, Ark. Tlie 20th was there first 
placed in orders for set battle and went into 
action after a heavy march without other 
rations than a small sujiply of whiskey. The 
Missouri Mounted Infantry had been driven 
back by rebels ; half the 20Lh Wisconsin were 
deployed as skirmishers and soon after were 
lying down, while an artillery duel followed. 
They charged a battery a half hour later, cap- 
turing it with a loss of about 300 men. Lieu- 
tenant Kusel received seven bullets in his 
clothing and another which inflicted a flesh 
wound in his hip. Tlie rebels approaching in 
solid column, the regiment was forced to fall 
back, and meantime destroying such guns of 
the battery as they could. Tiie command was 
saved from utter disaster by the arrival of 
General Blunt. In this action the 20th Wis- 
consin won its deathless renown, and Prairie 
Grove leads its roster of glory. December 27th, 
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Buren was begun and 10 miles from that place 
they captured several hundred prisoners, a 
ferryboat and two steamboats loaded with sup- 
plies. Tlie victors carried away what they 
could of the cargoes and destroyed the rest with 
the boats. On the last day of the month they 
returned to Prairie Grove battle field and, a 
week later, crossed the White River, went 
through Arkansas to Lake Springs, Missouri, 
and went into camp while the command was 
being recruited. Orders were received about 
the first of -June to move to take part in the 
\^icksburg campaign, whither they went via 
Rolla to St. Louis and by steamboat to ^'icks- 
burg. Lieutenant Kusel was actively engaged 
in the siege until the surrender when, as Cap- 
tain of Company E, he had the happiness of 
celebrating the National Anniversary in the 
city of the rebels, protected by the flag of his 
country. July 12th they started up the Yazoo 
River and on the route a gunboat was lost by 
striking a torpedo, but the guns were saved. 
The "20th" landed at the plantation and went 
to the rear of the city, which surrendered with 
several hundi-ed prisoners, who were paroled. 
After some daj'S passed in provost dutj', the 
regiment returned to "N'icksburg. The day fol- 
lowing, they went to Port Hudson, thence to 
New Orleans and into camp at Carrolton. Cap- 
tain Kusel was there seized by illness and re- 
turned to AVisconsin on a furlough. Some 
time later, he went to Madison for medical ex- 
amination, was informed that his ultimate 
recovery was doubtful and was advised to resign, 
which he did Oct. 2, 1863. 

On the first of .January, 1804, he formed a 
partnership with his brother, D. H. Kusel, and 
they have since prosecuted the hardware busi- 
ness at Watertown. Captain Kusel is a repre- 
sentative of the besl order of citizenship in 
Wisconsin. He is a man who has continued 
to honor his relations with his adopted country 




and his claims have been recognized by his 
townsmen. He has served the municipal in- 
terests of Watertown several years as its Mayor 
and in 1881 he was elected to the Senate of 
Wisconsin. He declined a renomination on 
account of his business relations. 

Captain Kusel was married March 4, 1864, 
to Maria Bodeen and their children include a 
daughter and four sons. 



AM PENN LYON, .Jus- 
kipreme Court of Wiscon- 
Idier of the civil war 
and resides at Madison. (1889). His father, 
Isaac Lyon, was the son of a Revolutionary 
patriot and a soldier of 1812. His j^aternal 
grandfather and great grandfather were sol- 
diers of the Revolution, and the latter died in 
captivity in a British prison. In line of descent 
from both parents Judge Lyon is of Quaker ex- 
traction and reveres above all other tenets those 

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of the Society of Friends. His mother, Eunice 
Coffin, was descended from a family which 
was resident on Nantucket Island from about 
1630, and traces are still to be found there of 
some of the generations. 

Judge Lj'on was born in Chatham, Columbia 
Co., New York, Oct. 28, 1822, and obtained, ac- 
cording to his own graphic statement, an edu- 
cation in "common schools which were very 
common." He was a boy of that period, 
brought up with a sense of the responsibiHties 
in life, and became early impressed with the 
understanding that the carving of his future, 
if he should have one worth while, was wholly 
in his own hands. His youthful associations 
formed in his mind the conviction that educa- 
tion was the mould of manhood and, not how 
mucli, but how well he could acquire the fitting 



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he felt to be a uecessity, was the desideratum, 
even wlien opportunities were few and when 
ambition seemed only aroused to be thwarted, 
so limited were his advantages. "They also 
serve who only stand and wait" became essen- 
tially true in his case and he availed himself 
of positions of labor when avenues of improve- 
ment such as he would have liked were closed. 
Through all his busy, honorable life he has 
recognized the dignity of eHbrt, nor has he 
waited for convenience, and he lives to reap 
the reward in the estimation of his genera- 
tion. He received no systematic instruc- 
tion in "book learning" after he was 11 
years old, l)ut he persistently studied in his 
leisure moments at home and in such avenues 
as were then considered, and justly, as the best 
possible basis of a disciplined mentality. Until 
he was 18 he had opportunities to study, which 
he improved, and what he learned was very 
thoroughly acquired. He had a small ex- 
perience as a clerk, which was valuable to him 
through the opportunities the position afforded 
to observe affairs which he felt a need of un- 
derstanding. 

When he was 18 he removed to Walworth 
County, Wisconsin, where lie passed several 
years in farm labor, meanwhile continuing his 
studies, and he acquired a very comprehensive 
knowledge of the commentaries of Kent and 
Blackstone. Afterwards he read law with Hon. 
Geo. Gale, of Elkhorn, and, after an interim of 
enforced inactivity from diseased eyes, he com- 
pleted his preparations for the profession of an 
attorney under the guidance of Hon. C. M. 
Baker, of Geneva, and was admitted to practice 
in the Territorial Courts in 18-10. He com- 
menced his business at Hudson (Lyons) and 
also served as a magistrate in the now town. 
In 1850 lie became associated with C. P. Barns, 
of Burlington, Wis., where he pursued the prac- 
tice of his profession until 1855, when he re- 



moved to Racine. He was elected District Attor- 
ney in 1854, and he officiated in that capacity 
four years. In 1859 he was member of tlie As- 
sembly from that District and received the very 
unusual compliment of l>eing made Speaker of 
the Lower House, having never been before a 
member of any legislative body. He w'as liis 
own successor in the next election and was 
again made Speaker. 

He was a born and bred patriot and no other 
than " United America" had ever been pre- 
sented to his thoughts as a possibility; and 
when the refrain of every note borne on the 
breezes told of fratricidal war, he was ready for 
his country's service. He enlisted a company 
and, Aug. 7, 18G1, was commissioned its Cap- 
tain, the organization being assigned to the 8th 
Wisconsin Infantry as Company K, and he was 
a part of the history of that regiment until he 
was commissioned Colonel of the loth Wiscon- 
sin Infantry. During the months of his re- 
cruiting and in rendezvous at Camp Randall, 
he was a faithful student in the tactics of mili- 
tary service. Leaving the State for active duty 
on the field October 12th, only a few days 
elapsed before he was leading his troops to vic- 
tory at Fredericklown, Mo. A little later he 
was in action at New Madrid and afterwards 
pursued the rebels on Iheir evacuation of Island 
No. 10. He was in the action at Farmington, 
fought before Corinth and passetl the time 
which intervened before he went lo his charge 
of the 13th Wisconsin in varied military duty. 
He joined the 13th Wisconsin at Fort Henry 
early in October after a brief stay in Wiscon- 
sin, and towards the close of the same month, 
made connection with the force under Ransom, 
j)reparatory to an expedition to attack Morgan 
at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Morgan was not 
there, but a slight compensation for the disap- 
pointment was had in the action in the evening 
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Woodward was attacked near Garrettsville and 
severely punished, tlie confederates escaping 
in the darkness with a loss of 4G killed and 
wounded. Colonel Lyon returned to Fort 
Henry and, during the remainder of the year, 
was engaged in expeditions in pursuit of For- 
rest and his guerrillas. February 3d, at four in 
the afternoon, he received intelligence of the 
attack on Donelson, some IG miles distant, and 
in half an hour his soldiers were moving to re- 
inforce the garrison there. They arrived to 
find that a victory had been accomplished. 
The regiment waa retained there as a part of 
the right and front of the Army of the Cum- 
berland. During the spring and summer en- 
suing, the service performed by the 13th un- 
der the management of Colonel Lyon was one 
that receives little due on historical pages, but 
in this instance its value was incalculable, as 
the locality and the wandering bands of de- 
tached and malicious rebels made the situation 
one of great danger from the formation at short 
notice of considerable bodies of desperate out- 
laws. Tliis danger to the L^nion troops there 
was wholly overcome by the efforts of the sol- 
diers under the command of Colonel Lyon. 
When the Army of the Cumberland moved 
forward, the 13th left Fort Donelson August 27th 
for Stevenson, Ala., where Colonel Lyon was put 
in command of the post and the small garrison 
there stationed. The defenses were meager 
and the position one of peculiar danger, being 
easily accessible to the enemy under General 
Bragg. However, Colonel I^yon and his troops 
jierformed the service expected of them and 
held the position until the Army of the Cum- 
berland was relieved by the arrival of Hooker 
with reinforcements from the Army of the 
Potomac about the tirst of October. Oct. 20, 
1863, Colonel Lyon left Stevenson with his 
regiment and passed the winter in quarters at 
Edgefield opposite Nashville, where the com- 



mand veteranized and whence the soldiers 
went to Wisconsin on furlough, returning to 
their former camp March 25th. They per- 
formed garrison duty there until the last of 
April, when they proceeded again to Steven- 
son, where Colonel Lyon was a second time 
made Commandant of the post. On the re- 
organization of the army the 13th had been 
assigned to the Fourth Array Corps. .June 6th, 
Colonel Lyon left Stevenson for Claysville, Ala., 
and disposed his troops for the defenses of the 
fords and crossings of the Tennessee River to 
protect the movements of Sherman, who was 
effecting the changes which prefaced the At- 
lanta campaign. In the latter days of August 
he was sent to Huntsville, where his peculiar 
abilities in making the most of his resources 
were in demand, and he was invested with 
almost plenipotentiary power over the situation, 
being empowered to make such disposition of 
his troops, (consisting of considerable forces of 
infantry and cavalry and one battery,) as his 
judgment dictated. All the important points 
along the river from Huntsville to Stevenson 
were under his supervision, and he performed 
the duty required of him in a manner that 
afterward received suitable recognition from 
the general Government. He remained at 
Huntsville until the practical suspension of 
hostilities brought about by events in the East 
and, about the first of April, he resumed per- 
sonal command of his regiment which passed 
the early summer in East Tennessee and after- 
wards went to Texas in July, arriving at Green 
Lake on the 16tli of the month, where Colonel 
Lyon was mustered out Sept. 11, 1865. He 
was breveted Brigadier-General of U. S. Vol- 
unteers, his commission to date from October 
26th. In the splendor of the actions of the 
forces under Grant and Sherman the services 
of troops at points of apparently less prominence 
have welbnigh been ignored. That performed 



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by the 13th Wisconsin was of a cliaracter 
entithng it to a recognition no less conspicuous. 
The vigilance unceasing and the forethought 
and judgment required of every man constituted 
a service which a conscientious biographer, en- 
gaged in compiling annals for the benefit of 
those wlio shall examine the only records made 
singly in behalf of the Union soldiers, rejoices 
in placing on permanent record. In the duties 
on the several fields to which he was summoned, 
Colonel Lyon displayed a sagacity and ma- 
turity of judgment such as was needed at many 
a point during the great struggle. He held 
hi^iself inflexibly and unremittingly to the de- 
mands of the several situations which required 
untiring watchfulness and the exercise of cor- 
rect judgment at exactly the right instant. 
The advantages to the general result of his 
management are not to be estimated. 

Prior to his release from military obligations, 
Colonel Lyon was made Judge of the 1st Circuit 
of Wisconsin and, on the first of December, 
1865, he entered on the duties of the position, 
serving for five years. July 4tli, 1866, he de- 
livered the address at Madison when the sur- 
render to the State of the Wisconsin battle 
flags by the regiments which had borne them 
was made, and his review of events of the war 
and in behalf of the soldiers who brought back 
the banners to the State was a masterly effort. 

In 1870 he was a candidate for Congress from 
the 1st District but was defeated. In January, 
1871, he was appointed to fill the vacancy 
caused by the death of Byron Paine, Associate 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. 
In April following, he was elected to fill the 
unexpired term and the full term succeeding. 
He was re-elected in 1877 and again in 1884 
and is serving ni the latter at this writing. 
His position is that of senior of four associates. 
In 1871 Judge Lyon added to his duties those 
of law lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, 



which he continued two years. At commence- 
ment, 1872, he received from the institution 
the degree of LL. D. 

The life work of Judge Lyon as a citizen, 
soldier and jurist is elaborated on many pages 
of many volumes which will be in existence as 
long as the Government continues. Every line 
of appreciation of his character is amply 
merited. He is a ripe scholar : he is a man 
who has borne his res])onsibilities among men 
conscientiously, without fear or favor of any 
ollier's opinion. He is a typical jurist and 
such as are becoming a necessity and whose 
lack will, in time, cause a revolution in the 
profession. Above all written law, he respects 
the native independence of manly convictions ; 
and he has a keen discrimination in matters of 
detail which are too often lost sight of in the 
heat of important cases. It may be said of him 
that, while he recognizes the majesty of law, he 
yields only to the sublimity of equity. 

In 1847 he was married to Adelia C, daugh- 
ter of Dr. E. E. Dunconib, of St. Thomas, 
Canada. Two of their five children survive. 
Clara Isabel married J. O. Hayes and resides 
at San Jose, CaL A son, named for his father, 
was born in 1861, and resides at Hurley, Wis. 

Tiie portrait of Judge Lyon appears on page 
164. As the similitude of a man who typifies 
one of the highest ideals of manhood it is in- 
serted in this volume by tiu' pul)lishers with 
intense gratification. 



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"ILLIAM L. HENRY, Eagle, Wau- 
kesha Co., Wisconsin, a soldier of 
i^^^iL. the civjl war and formerly a 
member of the G. A. R. Post at Eagle, was born 
June 15, 1829, at Middlesex, Yates Co., New 
York. Lie is the son of \'erus and Hattie 




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(Crane) Henry, both of whom were natives of 
Connecticut. In the paternal Hne he is of 
Scotch descent and in the maternal lineage 
comes from the Holland Dutch. When he was 
12 3'ears of age he went to Eagle, Wisconsin, 
where he had two married sisters and remained 
three j'ears. He returned to his father's home 
and four years later persuaded his parents to 
remove to Wisconsin. Thej' did so in 1845, 
and located on a farm near Eagle where he 
remained until he was about of age. His 
father died in 1854 and his mother survived 
until 1888, when, she died at the age of 98 
years; she retained a full use of her faculties 
and was in firm health until her death. 

After a stay of six years with his parents 
after their removal to Wisconsin, Mr. Henrj' 
began business as a shoe dealer at Eagle which 
he started about the date of the completion of 
the St. Paul railroad through that place. He 
sold out in five years and went to the pineries 
where he passed three years, engaged alter- 
nately in lumbering and teaching. He re- 
turned to Eagle and was married in 1858 to 
Elizabeth E., daughter of .John A. and Margaret 
(McDonald) Logan. The former was a native of 
Nova Scotia and the mother was born in Glas- 
gow, Scotland, After his marriage, Mr. Henry 
was engaged for seven years in the livery busi- 
ness at Eagle. Feb. 15, 1865, he enlisted in 
Company E, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, and was 
mustered at Madison with the rank of Sergeant. 
The regiment left Madison for Louisville, and 
went thence to Athens, Alabama, as guard on 
the Nashville & Decatur railroad, where it was 
stationed until about the time of discharge. 
Mr. Henry acted much of the time on detached 
duty in command of squads of soldiers per- 
forming guard and patrol duty at various points 
on the railroad. He was mustered out at Nash- 
ville, Sept. 27, 18G5, and reached Madison on 
the 2d day of the next month wliere his con- 



nection with military life was finally severed. 
He returned to Eagle and, acting on the ad- 
vice of physicians, went to Fort Atchison, Iowa, 
where he operated three years as a merchant. 
He went thence to Jacksonville in the same 
State and after passing a year there as a hotel 
keeper, he returned to Eagle and engaged in 
farming and, latterly has been occupied also in 
expressing merchandise from Eagle to Mil- 
waukee by teams. To him and his wife three 
children have been born — two sons and a 
daughter — Edgar L., George W. and Nettie C. 
The latter is a teacher at Philips, Price Co., Wis. 



^^^UGENE D. ODELL, Darien, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 6, was 



born Oct. 15, 1843, at Painted Rock, 
Chemung Co., New York, and he is the son of 
John A. and Betsey (Boughton) Odell. His 
father w^as born in Steuben County, New York, 
Dec. 13, 1815, and followed the profession of a 
farmer to which he was impelled by the failure 
of his eyesight which precluded his following 
his business as a millwright and sawyer. He 
resided in Bradford County, Penn., and removed 
to Chemung county and in 1846 located in 
Walworth County, Wisconsin. He died Sept. 
3, 1888, at Harvard, Illinois. His parents, 
Robert and Hester Odell, were of Scotch-Irish 
descent and were born in America. The 
mother was born in Bradford County, Penn., 
and was married in 1837 at South Creek in her 
native county. She became the mother of 
three sons who became soldiers and one gave 
his life for his country. The sketch of Larmer 
G. Odell is to be found on another page. 
Robert, the eldest, enlisted in Comjiany M, 3d 
Wisconsin Cavalry enrolling Jan. 1, 1862, and 
died at Fort Scott, Kansas, Feb. 11, 1863. The 



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motlier died at Richmond, Walwortli county, 
when her son of this sketch was three years old. 
He resided with his grandparents until the 
second marriage of his father in 1850, when he 
returned home and remained until 1857, the 
date of his entering upon an apprenticeship to 
learn the husiness of a printer in the office of 
the Walworth County Republican. In Decem- 
ber, 1858, he went to Crystal Lake, 111., where 
he attended school until the fall of 1850, when 
he became a member of the household of ('. A. 
Wheeler, a farmer of Piano, III., with whom he 
remained until he entered the array. Aug. 2, 
1861, he enrolled in a company which was 
mustered as Company A, Light Dragoons of 
the 36lh Illinois Cavalry. Nov. 7, 186:3, the 
company was consolidated with Company I, 
15th Illinois Cavalry and in January, 1865, it 
was again consolidated with Company M, 10th 
Illinois Cavalry. After enlistment, Mr. Odell 
was in rendezvous at Camp Hammond, Aurora, 
111., and went thence in September to Benton 
Barracks at St. Louis and thence to Rolla, Mo., 
where the company engaged in scouting service 
until December, 1861, when, in conjunction 
with other cavalry commands they went as 
advance to the Gasconade River and awaited 
the arrival of Curtiss with the main army. 
Jan. 13, 1862, they entered Springfield, Mo., 
will! tlie command, having a brush with the 
rebels at that time. They went next to Osage 
Springs, where they made connection with 
Sigel's command and wenttoBentonville, Ark., 
whither that officer conducted liis supply trains 
in apprehension of the movements of \'an Dorn, 
Price, McCulloch and Pike. About midnight, 
orders were received to consolidate the forces 
which had been scattered the better to facilitate 
subsistence and, soon after, the commanding 
general discovered that he was surrounded and 
determined to cut his way out and, collecting a 
body guard of 500 cavalrymen, (Mr. Odell being 



one) he gave the requisite orders and that 
action constituted the first day's fight at Pea 
Ridge, one of the hardest fought and most 
complete victories of the war. The battle raged 
two days afterward ; the pursuit lasted two 
days longer and they went thence to Forsythe, 
Batesville and to Little Rock, where orders 
were received to make a forced march to Cape 
Girardeau. Tliey went on the river to Ham- 
burg Landing and thence hurried forward to 
the siege of Corinth. The company of Mr. 
Odell was assigned next to the service of Gor- 
don Granger and acted as messengers and in 
escort duty, going from that to the service of 
General Stanley and succes.sively to General 
Beaufort and General Rosecrans. Mr. Odell 
fought in the battle of luka, Sept. 19, 1862, 
near the latter officer and also at the second 
fight at Corinth, October 3d and 4th. He was 
in the pursuit to Hatchie River where Hamil- 
ton took command when Rosecrans relieved 
Buell. Mr. Odell's company remained in Hamil- 
ton's service until they joined Grant at Oxford, 
Mi.ss., who was in readiness for the movement 
on Vicksburg. Dec. 19, 1862, with 14 com- 
panions, Mr. Odell received orders to go to the 
base of supjily at Holly Springs for cavalry 
supplies and on the morning of the 20lh, Colonel 
Murphy surrendered, the loss of the stores com- 
pelling Grant to wholly change his plans. Mr. 
Odell received immediate parole and went to 
Memphis and thence to St. Louis, Mo., to await 
exchange, which he received about June 20, 
1863, and he entered the service of General 
Lanmann as escort and the command under 
that officer was engaged in guarding a ford on 
Black River, having several skirmishes there. 
Not long after, Mr. Odell was detailed to do 
messenger duty for Colonel Parks and on going 
to Warrenton with .despatches he ascertained 
that the city had surrendered. He was pre- 
sented by his colonel with a horse, which had 



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been taken from the rebels. The whole com- 
niand received orders to concentrate at Vicks- 
burg and went to New Orleans. In September, 

1863, they went to Morganzia Bend and were 
in an engagement there on the 29th, when Mr. 
Odell lost his horse in the action. He was 
afterwards taken witli the ague and sent to 
New Orleans and went into the camp of dis- 
tribution in charge of a company and operated 
in that capacity until Jan. 22, 1864, when he 
veteranized, re-enlisted in the company in which 
he first enrolled, being ignorant of the con- 
soHdation in Company I, 15th Illinoi.s. He re- 
ceived his furlough and on the way home was 
taken with diphtheria and went to tlie Marine 
Hospital in Chicago, where he passed most of 
his furlough, going thence to Piano, and not 
being able to go back with his command, his 
furlough was extended to 90 days. He made 
connection with his company at New Orleans, 
July 8, 1864, and in August they received 
orders to connect with the 15th Illinois at 
Helena, Ark., and were afterwards known 
as Company I, 15th Illinois cavalry. The 
official records show that from Dec. 1, 1863, 
to Dec. 1, 1864, Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, 
G, H, I and L captured and killed more 
rebels two to one than their entire muster roll 
during the war exhibited names. In .lanuary, 

1864, the consolidation with tiie lOtli Illinois 
took place and they were mustered out with 
that regiment. From Helena the command 
went to Duvall's Blufl' and to Brownsville and 
in the spring to New Orleans, where they re- 
mained until July, when they went to Shreve- 
port on the Red River, and there his old lung 
disease again made itself manifest and he went 
successively to New Orleans to the hospital and 
to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, and, three 
weeks later, was detailed to the Government 
printing office where he was mustered out as 
"absent and sick" Nov. 22, 1865, received or- 



ders to join his regiment and was mustered 
out at Cairo. Jan. 5, 1866, he received his final 
discharge. He went to Springfield and ex- 
pected to work at his trade, but his health 
failed and he returned to Delavan and engaged 
in carriage-making. July 1, 1867, he went to 
River Falls and again embarked in the same 
business until the entire failure of his health, 
when he sold his property and in 1883 removed 
to Darien. During his active business life he 
had acquired a thorough knowledge of law, 
and in 1884 he established a pension claim 
agency. He has been admitted to practice in 
all the departments at Washington and devotes 
his entire time to his business as claim agent. 
He records with pride that he has never lost 
a claim which he presented, which is sufficient 
manifest of the care and judgment he exercises 
to conduct his business with justice. He has 
had the satisfaction of placing many much 
needed dollars in the possession of the heroes 
of the civil war. In 1885 he was a clerk in the 
Wisconsin Assembly and on his return home 
was elected Justice of the Peace, which position 
he still holds. Physically, he is but a wreck of 
a man, his sickness of 1864 costing him the use 
of his right lung, and to the efforts and minis- 
trations of a faithful wife he owes all the com- 
fort he has in existence. He is popular with 
his friends and in liis business relations and is 
known as an enterprising business man. In 
political affiliation he is a Republican. June 
23, 1868, he was married to Orrell A. Thayer, 
of River Falls, and their children are Mabel Z., 
Raymond C, Lulu N., Robert E., Bessie A. and 
Larena. Mrs. Odell is the daughter of Josiah 
and Matie (Stone) Thayer, and her parents 
were born respectively in Massachusetts and 
Connecticut. They were married at Thomp- 
son's Hill, Conn., Sept. 4, 1848, and started for 
Republic, Seneca Co., Ohio, where they resided 
16 years and where seven children were born 



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to tliem, of whom Mrs. Odell is the oldest. In 
1864 the}' went to River Falls and the father 
died Ahirch 18, 1889. The mother is 70 years 
old. 



HARLES EDWIN BUELL; a leading 
citizen of Lake Geneva, Wis., a solid 
business man and a prominent mem- 
ber of the Order of the Grand Army, is the repre- 
sentative of William Buell, who formed the 
connecting link between the family in England 
and that wliich has been resident in America 
nearly three hundred years, and from whom 
Mr. Buell is seven generations removed. Wil- 
liam Buell was born in Chesterton, Hunting- 
tonshire, England, in 1610, and emigrated to 
America in 1630. He was a genuine New 
England Puritan, located in Dorchester, Mass., 
and died in Windsor, Conn., Nov. 23, 1661 ; he 
was married in 1640 and to him and his wife 
the following children were born : Samuel, 
.Sept. 2, 1641 ; Mary, Sept. 3, 1642; Peter, Aug. 
19, 1644; Hannah, .Jan. 8, 1647; Hepzibah, 
Dec. 11, 1649; Sarah, March 21, 1654; Abigail, 
Feb. 12, 1656. Samuel Buell was born at 
Windsor, Conn., and died at Killingworth in 
the same State, .July 11, 1720. He was married 
Nov. 13, 1662, to Deborah Griswold ; she was 
born June 28, 1646 and died at Killingworth, 
Feb. 7, 1719. Their children were born as fol- 
lows: Samuel Buell, (Captain), July 20, 1663; 
Deborah, Oct. 18, 1665; ILumah, Sept. 6, 1667; 
Mary, Nov. 20, 1669; John, (Deacon), Feb. 17, 
1671 ; Mannah, May 4, 1674; William, Oct. 18, 
1676; David, (Major), Feb. 1, 1679; .Josiah, 
March 16, 1681 ; Meliitable, Aug. 22, 1682 : 
Peter, Dec. 3, 1684 ; Benjamin, in 1 6S6. Samuel 
Buell (3d) was born at Windsor and died at 
Killingworth, Nov. 2, 1732 ; he was married to 
Judith Stevens in 1686 and she died Oct. 31, 
1732. Their eleven children were born as fol- 



lows: Samuel, May 29, 1687; Samuel, (Cap- 
tain and Ensign), March 8, 1690; Josiah, (Lieu- 
tenant and Captain), March 7, 1692; Deborah, 
Jan. 24, 1694; Mary, May 17, 1696; Daniel, 
(Lieutenant and Deacon), June 19, 1698 ; 
Nathaniel, Sept. 29, 1700 ; Lydia, March 9, 1703 ; 
Mehitable, May 8, 1705 ; Lucy, May 25, 1708 ; 
Jo.seph, Aug. 24, 1710. Joseph Buell was born 
at Killingworth, removed to Somers and died 
at Newport, N. H., about 1780. He was mar- 
ried April 10, 1733, to Anna (Submit) Colton, 
who died at Newport, Dec. 27, 1772. He was 
afterward married to Miss Lane, of Newport. 
Of the first marriage twelve children were born 
as follows : Matthew, March 10, 1734 ; Thank- 
ful, March 20, 1736; Joseph, Sept. 1, 1738; 
Samuel, Nov. 29, 1740 ; Mehitable, July 6, 1743 ; 
Josiah, Nov. 7, 1745; Anna, Aug. 22, 1748; 
.Tudith, March 12, 1750; Lucy, April 8, 1753; 
Thomas, May 15, 1756; Joanna, .Jan. 23, 1759; 
(the name and birth of the twelfth child are 
unknown.) Thomas Buell was born at Somers, 
removed to Newport and Lebanon, N. Y., and 
died on a farm near EarlviUe, Oct. 1, 1820: he 
was married in December, 1779, to Irene, 
daughter of Captain John Blodgett, of Hart- 
ford, Conn.; she was born Jan. 31, 1760, and 
died .March 17, 1839 ; their children included 
ten sons and three daughters, born as follows: 
Darius, Sept. 14, 1780; Samuel, Scjtt. 21, 1782; 
Thomas, March 8, 1785; Ro.\ie, Jan. 22, 1787 ; 
Eli, Feb. 14, 1789; Ira, Jan. 10, 1791; Elijah, 
Sept. 17, 1792; Irene, Sept. 13, 1794; Joseph, 
May 21, 1796; Irene, June 24, 1798; John B., 
May 21, 1800 ; Chauncey, March 6, 1803 ; Orrin, 
June 28, 1805. Ira Buell, father of Charles 
Edwin, was born at Newport, and removed with 
hi.s family to Lebanon, N. Y., the journey being 
j)erformed in sleighs through a rough, sparsely 
.settled country and consumed si.v weeks. With 
his bi'ollier's help he cleared a piece of land 
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Later, lie went to Plynioutli, N. Y., wliere he 
married Cliloe, duugliter of Abrani Holcomb, 
Sept. 21, ISK). They passed the first years of 
their married life in iveeping the "tavern" at 
tiie "settlement" and afterwards went to a farm 
in tlie vicinity about 1S4G. They removed 
thence to Earlville and the father engaged in 
the manufacture of Trask's Magnetic Ointment. 
In 1849 they went to Wisconsin, locating on a 
farm on the west side of Bloom Prairie, town 
of Linn, and there the father died Aug. 16, 
1874, aged 83 years, seven months and six days. 
The mother was born Aug. 2, 1798, and died 
June 17, 1884, aged 85 years, 10 months and 
15 days. Following is the record of their chil- 
dren : .Joseph Sidney, born March 7, 1819; 
Harriet Amelia, Jan. 3, 1821 ; Per.sis Annette, 
April 5, 1823 ; Helen Maraud William Wallace 
(twins), March 21, 1826, (died Nov. 17, 1826); 
William Ira, Oct. 28, 1828 ; Henry Clark, Dec. 
20, 1832; Charles Edwin is the youngest. 

He passed his early life in school and went 
to AVisconsin with his parents when about 13 
years of age. During several winter seasons 
he attended a school of advanced grade at 
Elgin, 111., and passed the intervening seasons 
on the home farm until he commenced teach- 
ing. He was occupied in that business three 
seasons and was on the homestead until he 
entered the army" when the exigencies of 1862 
made it apparent that "men were needed at the 
front." He enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, from Lake 
Geneva in Company C, 22d Wisconsin Infantry 
under Colonel Utley ; went to Cincinnati and 
thence into Kentucky to head off Bragg who 
was threatening that section and later, after re- 
peated change of base, to Danville, passing a 
part of the winter looking after John Morgan 
and his guerrillas. In the spring of 1863 the 
regiment went to Louisville and thence to Nash- 
ville and in March the brigade was ordered on 
a I'econnoissance to search for the enemy and 



found Van Dorn at Spring Hill. An engage- 
ment followed at Thompson's Station in which 
the bulk of the command was captured by the 
combined forces of Forrest, Xan Dorn and 
Wheeler, including about 6,000 rebels. Mr. 
Buell was taken to Columbia, stripped of cloth- 
ing and valuables at Tullahoma, and went with 
hundreds of prisoners to Libby. He was ex- 
changed May 15th, went to City Point and 
thence to Annapolis, whence, after recruiting 
and receiving supplies, he went to St. Louis, and 
proceeded thence to Nashville and Murfreesboro 
where he performed guard and camp duty and 
other obligations pertaining to a provost guard 
of which he was in command, and in February, 
1864, went to join the army at the front, 
making connection with the corps of Hooker 
for the Atlanta campaign. He fought at Re- 
! saca, New Hope Church, Lost Mountain, Culp's 
Farm, Kenesaw Mountain, Peach Tree Creek, 
and the siege of Atlanta, until the fall of the 
city. At Resaca he was put in command of 
Company H, (whose officers were all killed or 
wounded), and held the position until Novem- 
ber, commanding during the s^jege, the com- 
pany registering eight set battles and innumer- 
able skirmishes while under his management. 
Mr. Buell enlisted as a private, and was made 
Orderly Sergeant on the organization of his 
company. At Brentwood, Feb. 28, 1862, he 
was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and, 
April 18, 1864, he was commissioned First 
Lieutenant as the command was about starting 
for the Atlanta campaign. Feb. 27, 1863, he 
was discharged as Sergeant to take his commis- 
sion as Lieutenant and received final discharge 
June 12, 1865, at Washington, after attending 
the regiment to Savannah on the march to the 
sea, taking part in the activities, and went 
to Goldsboro and Raleigh, going on the long 
foot race through Virginia and Washington to 
be mustered out after the Grand Review. 



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He returned to Lake Geneva and worked on 
the farm about two years, becoming meanwliile 
a married man. In 1868, be became an assist- 
ant in the Bank of Geneva, with his father-in- 
law, and has since been an attache of that in- 
stitution, wliich is the leading financial house 
in tlie city, and of which he is cashier (1889.) 
He was appointed Postmaster at Geneva and 
served under his commission as such eight 
years, between 1870 and 1879. 

He was married Dec. 23, 1867, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of E. D. and Alma Richardson, by 
Rev. Dr. .Tohn McNamara. Mrs. Buell is a 
native of Geneva, where her father located 
July 24, 1842, when that section of Wisconsin 
was in its pioneer days; he has since been con- 
nected with the development of the county 
and has been a leading financier for many 
years. Mr. and Mrs. Buell have two children ; 
Helen Mudge was born Nov. 11, 1868; Kittie 
May was born May 31, 1877. In his Grand 
Army connection, Mr. Buell has served three 
terms as Commander of his Post, and in 1889, 
(current year) as Adjutant. He is also Treas- 
urer of the Odd Fellows Order at Lake Geneva. 
He has been a member of the School Board 
about 20 years and is now Treasurer ; he has 
served his generation in other capacities, acting 
many years as member of the Village Board 
and was President of that body when the vil- 
lage was incorporated a city. In all his active 
interests he is a loader in all projects which 
promise advantage to the place and his influ- 
ence is felt in all circles to which he belongs. 

SCAR B. ROBERTSON, Burlington, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
201, was born at Walton, Delaware 
Co., New York, March 1, 1833, and is tlie son 
of William and Susan (Butler) Robertson. 




There were eight children in his father's 
family, born as follows: William, Cornelia, 
Addie, Elizabeth, Mary, Frances, Andrew J. 
and Mr. Robertson of this sketch. The parents 
were natives of America and were respectively 
of English and Scotch descent. The father 
died about the year 1835 at Walton, and when 
the son was 11 years of age he accompanied his 
mother to Honey Creek, Walworth Co., Wis. 
The family located on a farm and Oscar went 
to school and made himself as useful as pos- 
sible until he was about 15 years of age, when 
he went to serve an apprenticeship to acquire 
a knowledge of the trade of a painter. He fin- 
ished his trade and remained there in all about 
seven years. He went tiience to Weyauwega, 
Wis., where he remained until called to resume 
charge of the farm by the death of his mother, 
which occurred Jan. 11, 1856. He remained at 
Honey Creek, engaged in farming and also in 
working at his trade. His business was inter- 
rupted by the advent of war, and as events 
progressed he did not like the outlook and de- 
termined to enter the army. Feb. 15, 1862, he 
enlisted as a bugler in the 9th Battery, Com- 
pany H, Captain C. H. Johnson, and was mus- 
tered into service at Burlington. March 19, 
he stai'ted for Benton Barracks with the com- 
mand, where they received their equipment of 
six pieces of artillery. Their next move was 
to Leavenworth, Kas., and on the 26th of 
Anril the whole command started for their long 
march of more than 500 miles to Denver, Col., 
where they arrived in 32 days. There the bat- 
tery was divided into sections. The riglitwent 
to Fort L'nion, New Mexico, under Capt. Dodge. 
The second section went to Fort Larned, Kas., 
and the left, to which Mr. Robertson belonged, 
went to Fort Lyon, Col. This involved another 
long march. It was frontier service, and as the 
rebels were there, many varieties of fighting 
were experienced as well as that of repuls- 



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ing the Indians, wliicli was very satisfac- 
tory work with the hattery. Mr. Robertson 
remained witli the battery there until ordered 
cast to Fort Larned, Kas., and again engaged 
in a long march. Oct. 14, 18(>4, the command 
went to Shawneetown to join Blunt in resisting 
the encroachment of Price, who had that sec- 
tion again under menace. lie was in the fight 
at W^eston, Mo., with Ahirmaduke, in whicii a 
retreat to avoid Price's flank movements be- 
came necessary. They followed Price, who was 
driven across the Ai-kansas River as far as Fort 
Scott, and Mr. Robertson was in the action in 
which Marmaduke was captured October 24th, 
and where Price narrowly escaped. Tlie battery 
returned to Fort Leavenworth, Kas., and re- 
mained thei'e until mustered out .Jan. 26, ISGo. 
He returned to his home and resumed his 
former occupation. The following spring he 
removed to Burlington, where he has since 
pursued his business as a painter. He was 
married Oct. 13, 1866, to Julia A., daughter of 
Jonathan and Mary (Turner) Trott and their 
children are named "William and Ursula. The 
mother died Nov. 19, 1887. 



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ICy YMAN A. RICHARD.SON, Milton 
'^o'^l Junction, Wis., a member of G. A. R: 
^^ Post No. 60, was born May 4, 1844, in 
the State of New York. His father, Alanson 
Richardson, died when he was 12 years old, 
and he became wholly an orphan, his mother 
having died in his infancy. Two years later, 
he chcse J. M. Hanchet, of Janesville, as 
guardian. Mr. Richardson has been a resident 
of Wisconsin since the fourth year of his life, 
his parents having removed to Johnstown in 
1845. He remained under the charge of Mr. 
Hanchet and operated as a farm laborer until 
he entered the army. Sept. 16, 1861, he en- 



listed in Company B, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, 
and left the rendezvous at Janesviile in Feb- 
ruary following for Kansas. He went succes- 
sively to Leavenworth and Fort Scott, the march 
to the latter location being one of extreme 
hardship from the frozen rain which made the 
ground so slippery that the "boys" aided their 
progress with their fi.xed bayonets; Mr. Rich- 
ardson froze both ears, and only saved them by 
packing in snow. He tried to obtain shelter in 
a barn, but it was filled and the night was 
passed in fruitless endeavors to obtain rest. 
The warmer weather melted the snow next day 
and they did not find the mud any improve- 
ment, but the roads were good when they 
reached the fort. Mr. Richardson had an en- 
counter there with a rebel who proposed that 
the "Yankee" should leave, but Mr. Richard- 
son found means to turn tlie tables on him and 
he did some fine running. Some time was 
passed in moving from place to place in Kan- 
sas, and once Mr. R. expected to go to Texas, 
but orders were received to reinforce Corinth, 
Miss., and a forced march was made to Leaven- 
worth, whence the command went by boat 
down the river. They were held by a snag 
over one day in the Missouri Riv'er, and when 
they reached Cairo, the battle at Corinth was 
over. Mr. Richardson was on guard duty at 
Columbus, Ky., when he was taken sick, and 
was extremely ill, his friends being notified 
of the impossibility of recovery. But he lived 
to I'esume military duty. His company was 
stationed in a fort to prevent smuggling 
on the river and it sometimes became his 
duty to search traveling apparatus. Once 
while going through a valise, its owner of- 
fered him §1,000 to let him pass without in- 
spection. The individual was taken to the 
provost marshal, who, after a private interview, 
permitted him to pass. Mr. Richardson sup- 
jioses he had gold for buying cotton and that 



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the p. m. was bribed. The command went to 
Fort Henry and afterwards to Donelson. Here 
Mr. Kicliardson was one of a party on picket, 
who discovered a number of unexploded shells 
which they piled up and surrounded with 
wood. It was fired and made an interesting 
occasion in several senses, as a squad of cavalry 
and regiment of nifantry were sent to see what 
the commotion meant. But they made no dis- 
coveries and went back in wonder. The duty 
of the regiment called its members to various 
points in Tennessee and Mr. Richardson veter- 
anized .)an. 20, 1864, at Nashville, whither he 
returned after his furlough. He was a skilled 
draftsman and was detailed at Department 
Headquarters, Army of the Cumberland, in 
the ofKce of the topographical engineer as clerk. 
He remained there some time and, Dec. 22, 
1864, was specially detailed as draftsman and 
was engaged in making maps and plans of 
fortitications. When General Thomas sent a 
cavalry force under General Rousseau to cut 
the Montgomery & West Point Railroad, he 
accomj)anied the command to prepare notes 
for a map of the locality. He went via Decatur^ 
Blountsville and Ashville, and crossed the 
Alabama River at 10 Island under heavy firing 
and a detachment was sent down the river to 
flank and drive them away. Talladega and 
Dade.ville were passed and the railroad cut be- 
tween Cheraw and Opelika — 30 miles. A re- 
turn was maile to Marietta, where Mr. Richard- 
son parted witli the chief and staff and went to 
Nashville, making his roundabout journey of 
about 500 miles on horseback in 15 days, 
traveling mostly night and day. His company 
went to the front leaving him to make three 
maps of the country traversed by the detail 
referred to. He had a comparatively easy time 
for several weeks and was afterwards employed 
as draftsman until ordered home to be mus- 
tered out. Mr. Richardson was an expert pen- 



man before the war and applied his natural 
abilities in drawing to the duties of his position 
in the service wMth success. Mr. Richardson 
has taken an active part in his Post since it was 
chartered, having held nearh' all positions; in 
1889 was .Junior A'ice-Commander. April 8, 
1889, he was elected Town Clerk of Milton. 

He was married Dec. 7, 1871, at Johnstown 
Center, to Mary A. Williams. Sjie was born 
March 5, 1852, in Lima, Rock Co., Wisconsin. 
Her father was a native of Genesee Co., New 
Yurk. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Richard- 
son were born as follows : Mary A., May 30, 
1873; Minnie A., Sept. 24, 1875; Maud M., 
Dec 25, 1876. • 



OHN ADAM SCHNEIDER, Racine, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post, No. 17, 
was born in Saxony, Germany, Jan. 16, 
1840. "Das Vaterland" was also the birthplace 
of ills parents, Nicholas and Ettie Margaretta 
(Bittdorf) Schneider. His father was born in 
1804 and was a shepherd by calling. Mr. 
Schneider is the oldest child and his brothers 
were named Charles and Henry and his only 
sister Loui.-^e. In 1843 the family came to the 
United States, traveling in a sailing vessel to 
New York and thence to Milwaukee on the 
lakes and by canal. They went to Milwaukee, 
and a year later went to Elkhorn, Walworth 
county, and there the father worked on the 
Racine cfe Mississippi railroad until the re- 
moval to Racine, and the parents are still re- 
siding there. While in Elkhorn the son 
worked at the blacksmith's business for a time, 
after which he attended school. He went to 
Racine where he worked as a molder with Mr. 
Skinner and completed his trade with J. I. 
Case, with whom he remained until he deter- 
mined to enter the army. He enlisted Aug. 



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•21, 18G2, ill Company D, 26th Wisconsin In- 
fantry and was mustered into service Septem- 
ber 16th. He went to Washington witli the 
regiment, which crossed the Potomac, and 
was assigned to the lltli Corps under Sigel, be- 
ing connected with tlie 2d Brigade and 3d Di- 
vision. Thej' went to Centerville tlirough 
Thoroughfare Gap to Gainesville, where the 
corps was ordered to join the command of 
Burnside at Fredericksville, reaching tliere on 
the day after the retreat of December 13th. 
They went into winter quarters at Round 
Brook Station and passed the time in preparing 
for the spring campaign. Mr. Schneider was 
in all the disastrous fighting at Chancellors- 
ville (in the command of Howard), and he 
relates that when they were moving in the re- : 
treat that General met them and begged them 
to make a stand, but it was impossible and they 
pressed on to Chancellor House. The company 
and regiment suffered severely. In the morn- 
ing the retreat was continued across the Rap- 
pahannock and the command went into camp 
at Aquia Creek, remaniing there until oidered 
in pursuit of Lee, tiien making his invasion of 
Penn.sylvania, and Mr. Schneider was next in 
battle at Gettysburg, his brigade being on the 
right of Randall's Corps. They were driven 
back to Cemetery Hill, formed in line of battle 
later in the day and fought nearly all day of 
the 8d of .July, which decided the victory for 
the North and Lee betook himself towards the 
setting sun. The command followed him 32 
miles to Middletown and went thence to Hagers- 
town to reinforce Kilpatrick. They went to 
Warrenton .Junction where they remained 
engaged in picket and patrol duty, going later 
to Rappahannock Station and commenced 
preparations for winter quarters when they re- 
ceived orders to accompany the 12th Corps to 
the Army of the Tennessee and they moved 
successively to Columbus, Ohio, Bridgeport, 



Ala., and in October crossed the Tennessee 
River and took part in the tight at \Vauhatchie. 
Their next move was to the Lookout Valley 
and with another regiment the 26tli was on the 
reserve and witnessed the actions of three of 
the most brilliant days in history, which con- 
cluded with the masterly victory at Mission 
Ridge. Tliey pursued the rebels for a few days 
and went next to the relief of Burnside at Knox- 
ville. Longstreet proved himself as slippery as 
bad done the other leaders in the rebel army, 
and the command returned to the Lookout 
Valley, where they remained until January, 
went thence to Whitesides on the Chattahoochie 
and in the spring, the two corps fi'om the Army 
of the Potomac joined the 20th Army Corps 
and the 26th went on the Atlanta campaign 
with the 3d Brigade and 1st Division. Mr. 
Schneider was in the actions at Resaca, at 
Cassville, at New Hope Church, J)allas and 
Kenesaw. July 20th he fought at Peach Tree 
Creek, where the 26th had a close engage- 
ment with the 33d Mississippi. Sherman 
left the corps to operate against Atlanta, 
where the 26th was deployed as skirmishers 
and they were the first troops to enter the city, 
where they camped until November 19th, when 
they started on the route to the sea and were 
in all the contingencies of every description of 
that memorable tramp across to Savannah. 
Mr. Schneider was in the action at Averys- 
boro, where the Corps assisted the 14th under 
Kilpatiick anil was afterwards in the fight at 
Bentonville, going thence to Goldsboro, to 
Raleigh, to Richmond, to Washington and to 
the Grand Review, after which Mr. Schneider 
was mustered out June 13, 1865. He was in 
the collision on the Baltimore railroad and was 
taken from a dangerous position between two 
cars, but unhurt. The entire trip to Milwau- 
kee was a perfect ovation, the people of Pitts- 
burg, Cleveland, Detroit and Grand Haven re- 



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ceiving them with the greatest enthusiasm. At 
Milwaukee they were entertained at a l)anquet 
at Turner Hall. For four years Mr. Schneider 
was inactive from rheumatism contracted in, 
the army, but has recovered and is one of the 
most skillful molders in the employ of the .J. I. 
Case T. M. Co. He was uominated in 1886 on 
the labor ticket, and being supported by the 
Democrats, received the election to the posi- 
tion of slieritr. He was married in 1872 to 
Anna, daughter of Wenzel Truscha, and their 
surviving children are named Charles H., 
Florence and Arthur. Their tirst-born child 
is deceased. Mr. Schneider is a member of 
the Masonic Order and also of several other 
social organizations. 






OHN F.IULKNER, Genoa .Junction, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, at Lake 
Geneva, was born Sept. 13, 1813, at Wall- 
kill, Orange Co., New York. His father, 
Matthew Faulkner, was a farmer and fought 
under Jackson in the war of 1812, receiving a 
wound at New Orleans Jan. 8, 1815. He mar- 
ried Martha Robinson and died at the age of 
06 years in 1831 in Orange county. His wife 
was the daughter of Thomas Robinson, a native 
of Edinburg, Scotland, whence he came to 
America. The wife and mother died in 1833 
on the old homestead when 86 years old. She 
was the mother of 17 children and her son of 
this sketch is the sole survivor. Michael Faulk- 
ner, paternal grandfather, was a native of 
Ireland and was a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war. He received a shot through the lungs at 
Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill) and saved his life 
by lying down in a spring of running water, 
which ciiecked the How of blood until he could 
receive medical attention. Mr. Faulkner passeil 
his early days on his father's farm, obtaining 



little schooling. When 14 years old he went 
to the city of New York to learn the trade of a 
mason in which he was occupied six years and 
he served his master fifteen years after the ex- 
piration of his apprenticeshi]). In the spring 
of 1847 he enlisted in the Mexican war, enroll- 
ing in Company K, 6th U. S. Infantry, and 
sailing from New York for Galveston, Texas. 
The command marched to Matamoras and to 
Point Isabel, going thence to Fort Brown, 
crossed the Rio Grande, marched to Monterey, 
Buena Vista and Vera Cruz, where a contin- 
gent of the command was met which had come 
by way of New Orleans, and the whole division 
marched by the Bay of Tampico, fighting at 
Cerro Gordo April 18th, and on the 22d, Perote, 
town and castle, were occupied by the troops of 
Worth. March 15th they went to Pueblo, re- 
maining three months while negotiations for the 
termination of hostilities were discussed. Mr. 
Faulkner was in the after movements of his 
command, and wiien General Scott took formal 
possession of the city of Mexico he was with 
his troops. They marched l)ack to Tampico, 
thence to .\capulco, where tiiey remained about 
tiiree months and returned to Mexico, where 
Worth was placed under arrest and his com- 
mand taken by General Cadwaliader. They 
went leisurely back to Xertx Cruz, passing three 
months en route, and there took passage for St. 
Louis, and Mr. Faulkner was discharged from 
Jefferson Barracks in November, 1848. He had 
been a soldier in the regular army two years 
before going to Mexico, his captain being D. 
Walker. As a veteran of the Mexican war, he 
received the Government badge with the fol- 
lowing roster of battles inscribed on it: Tobas- 
co, Vera Cruz, Palo Alto, Buena Vista, Cerro 
Gordo, Cherubusco, Chepultepec and San Pas- 
cual. After his discharge he returned to New 
York, where he engaged in the business of a 
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abode' in 1855, where he was occupied as a 
mason until he again became a defender of his 
country's honor. June 17, 1861, he enhsted in 
Company A, oGtli Illinois, the quota from Wis- 
consin being filled and no enlistments going on 
at that point. The regiment was under Colonel 
Grissell and Company A was commanded by 
Captain Baldwin. Mr. Faulkner was mustered 
at Aurora, 111., and sent with the regiment to 
Rolla, Mo., and performed military duty in 
that locality in which the Union troops were 
endeavoring to guide the ship of State through 
the swelling tide of rebellion, and remained 
there through the fall until he contracted 
pleurisy of serious type and was discharged on 
surgeon's certificate in January, 1862, at Rolla. 
He had friends at Richmond, 111., with whom 
he remained until he re-enlisted. Soon after 
reaching Richmond he attemj^ted to enlist as a 
marine on the gunboat Thomas Benton, but 
her complement was filled, and in March, 
1862, he enlisted in Company K, 8th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, at Cairo, 111. Many of the mem- 
bers were his friends and he went with the 
regiment to Saxton, Mo., and thence to New 
Madrid, crossing the river to the Kentucky 
shore to liold the rebels in check from re- 
inforcing at Island No. 10. The military duty 
he performed through the spring was of varied 
character, and on the Dth of Ma^' he was in the 
fight at Farmington. He took part in the 
siege of Corinth, and was in the charge in 
which the troops drove the rebels, and was 
next in action at luka. He fought again at 
Corinth and spent the winter in heavy labor at 
various points, beside performing all necessary 
military duty. In March he accompanied the 
command to the rear of Vicksburg, where he 
worked on the famous canal and took part in 
the battle of Jackson. He was in the move- 
ments of the regiment in connection with 
Grant's operations on the Mississippi and 



against '\''icksburg, participating in the siege 
until he became ill from rheumatism and 
diarrhea, when he was again discharged on 
surgeon's certificate of disability Nov. 6, 1863. 
He returned to Richmond as soon as able and 
10 days after his arrival there again re-enlisted 
Feb. 3, 1864, in the Gth Illinois (Elgin) Battery. 
After receiving equipments and drill in heavy 
and light artillery practice beside infantry tac- 
tics, the battery was sent to Kuoxville, Tenn., 
and soon after to Chattanooga and through to 
Atlanta, whence they returned to Chattanooga, 
and in December, 1864, was in the battle of 
Nashville. The battery went thence to Louis- 
ville, Ky., journeyed thence to Cincinnati and 
Washington, whence they went to Newbern, 
N. C, preparatory to joining the command of 
Sherman, who was crossing the State of 
Georgia, and then went fi'om Newbern to 
Kingston and moved with the troops of Sher- 
man through the Carolinas to Charlotte ; they 
connected with the command of Kilpatrick at 
Rolla, Mo. There Mr. Faulkner was mustered 
out and was discharged at Chicago, Nov. 27, 
1865. 

He returned to Richmond and worked at his 
trade there until 1871, when he located in Wis- 
consin. In 1872 he was married in Erie, Pa., 
to Mrs. Mary Coppersmith, who had two chil- 
dren named .John and Ella. The former is 
postmaster at Genoa Junction and the latter 
has been for several years a successful teacher. 
Mrs. Faulkner is the daughter of Herman Pat- 
terson. Her brother, William, was a soldier in 
a Pennsylvania regiment and was wounded in 
the Wilderness. With her husband and chil- 
dren, she is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. 



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'ILBER PERSONS, Whitewater, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 3-4, was bora May 22, 1810, 
in Byron, Wyoming Co., New York. He is 
tlie son of Franklin and Mary (Rowley) Persons, 
and in the maternal line represents the old 
Puritan stock of the date of the settlement of 
tliis country. On tlie father's side, Mr. Persons 
is of mixed English and Gaelic extraction, but 
considers himself as belonging to the genus 
Yankee, as both his grandsires fought in tlie 
war of the Revolution and one of thein in the 
war of 1812. His parents belonged to the 
agricultural class and he was reared to the same 
business. In 1844, his father removed his 
famify to Wisconsin, settled in Waukesha 
county on a farm, removed thence to .Jefferson 
county near Rome, where he remained eight 
years, and permanently settled in Rock county, 
where the son was brought up, receiving the 
common school education only whicli was ac- 
cessible in those days. When he was 22 years 
old, he determined to enter the army and he 
enlisted Aug. 22, 1862, in Company K, 13lli 
Wisconsin Infantry, and joined the regiment 
as a recruit. The command was at Fort Henry 
and soon after he made connection therewith 
lie went to Fort Donelson. He performed duty 
there as a soldier and experienced some of the 
fate of war in heavy marching, scouting and 
skirmishing. He was in a chase after Morgan 
and went successively to Forts Henry and 
Donelson. He went next in pursuit of Forrest, 
and was afterwards engaged in guard duty 
until intelligence was received of the attack on 
Donelson, when he moved there to find the 
rebels repulsed. The entire history of tlie 13th 
is that of Mr. Persons, as he was witli the com- 
mand to which lie belonged tliroughout until 
his discharge June 21, 18G5, excej)t a short 
time passed in hospital at Nashville with 
measles. He made the long march of nearly 



300 miles from Donelson to Stevenson, where 
he remained guarding the depots of supplies 
until he went into winter quarters at Edgefield, 
and in the spring he went to East Tennessee to 
perform guard duty. His jegiment was there 
assigned to the 1st Brigade, 4th Division and 
20th Army Corp.?, and expected to go to Atlanta 
but was assigned to duty on the Tennessee. 
In guard there and on the Memphis tfe Charles- 
ton railroad, and in other duty to prevent the 
rebels' interference with Shorman's jilans or 
communications, in skirmishing with and 
searching for Forrest, two months were passed. 
When Hood attacked Nashville, Mr. Persons, 
with the regiment, performed hard service in 
constructing obstacles to prevent the rebels 
crossing the river, while Stead man's forces won 
an easier victory and wore the glory. In March, 
with the 4th Corps, to which the 13th had been 
assigned, Mr. Persons went to Knoxville en 
route to Jonesboro, expecting to go to Virginia, 
but to turn back to Nashville when news of 
Lee's surrender was received. There he was 
ill and discharged as stated. 

He returned from the war to .Johnstown, 
Rock County, Wis., where he resumed farming. 
Seventeen years later, in 1882, he became con- 
nected with the marble works in A\'hitewater 
and is the representative salesman of that in- 
stitution. Dec. 25, 1SC5, he was married to 
Hattie C. Henderson, of Bradford, Rock Co., 
Wis., and their children are named Fred W., 
May E., Leverett W., Wallace C. and Laura B. 




RANK HOLMES, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., 
member of the G. A. R Post, No. 15!>, 



was born in Cazenovia, Madison Co., 
New York, .July 7, 182G. His parents, Benja- 
min and Ruth (Edgerton) Holmes, were natives 
of the same State, and were respectively of 



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Holland and English ancestry. His fatlier 
was a mason by trade and also a farmer, and 
the son was reared at home on the farm, re- 
ceiving a limited common school education 
and, at the age of 15, in 1843, he took charge 
of his own affairs. He went to New Bedford 
where he signed on board the whaling ship 
Adelaide, and was absent on his voyage three 
years. He regards his seaman's protection 
papers as among his most valued relics of that 
long ago past. After his return he was 
variously occupied and learned the business of 
a painter. In 1849, lie caught the gold fever 
and joined the Cayuga Joint Stock Company, 
and started for a trip around the " Horn." At 
the southern point of South America they 
purchased their own vessel which they manned 
and proceeded to Sau Francisco. Mr. Holmes 
was occupied about a year in painting and then 
went into the mines where he remained a year. 
He was in the United States assay office three 
years and one year was employed in the 
"Branch Mint." He returned to his native 
State and in the Fall of 1855, he came to Wis- 
consin, locating on a farm near Ft. Atkinson, 
where he pursued agriculture until he decided 
he was needed in tlie military service of his 
country. Oct. 26, 18G1, he enlisted in Com- 
pany E, od Wisconsin Cavalry at Janesville, 
and was in rendezvous in that city until March 
■26th, when he went to St. Louis, Mo. He re- 
mained at Benton Barracks, until May 3d, when 
the regiment started for Leavenworth, Kas., 
wliere equipments as cavalry were received and 
the regiment distributed nito battalions and 
sent to different points. The 1st Battalion, to 
which Company E was assigned, remained in 
Leavenworth on special provost duty until 
September, when the command went to Fort 
Scott, Mr. Holmes having been appointed Cor- 
poral in .June. In October, the company went 
to connect witli the forces of General Blunt in 



the Army of the Frontier, in readiness to take 
part in the coming conflicts with the combined 
Indians and rebels. Mr. Holmes fought at 
Cane Hill and Prairie Grove ; in the latter he 
was detailed in charge of a mountain howitzer 
and with another in the same detail, fired 21 
shots, receiving orders from General Blunt to 
suspend firing, as they were killing too many 
of the enemJ^ He took part in the Boston 
• Mountain raids and went afterwards to Van 
Buren still in charge of the howitzer. He 
fought successively at Fort Blunt, Cabin Creek, 
and Honey Springs, after which he was again 
in regular cavalry service of the frontier, fight- 
ing, raiding and dispersing guerrillas until his 
return to Van Buren, after which he was in 
the Indian raids to Waldron. He was in the 
activities on the Arkansas River and in several 
raids. In June, 1863, he received while at 
Forsythe, a short furlough and rejoined his 
company at the same place. He passed the 
winter of 1864 in quarters at ^^an Buren, 
where they engaged in building telegraph 
lines, and Mr. Holmes was in tlie detail after 
supplies for that work to Little Rock, where he 
witnessed the hanging of the rebel spy, David 
0. Dodd. He did not veteranize but remained 
with the non- veterans, who passed a severe 
summer deprived of all comforts, and where 
he was taken ill from the combined effects of 
exposure and hunger, and went to the hospital 
at Van Buren, Aug. 1, 1864, where he re- 
mained until October of the same year. He 
rejoined the company at Little Rock and again 
engaged in the same sort of duty as before. 
He was, soon after, sent to St. John's College, 
(which had been converted into a hospital) at 
Little Rock, where he stayed until sent home 
for discharge with the non- veterans, Feb. 15, 
1865, after a connection with the army of 
three years and four months. Mr. Holmes 
belongs to a race, which for three generations 



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furnished soldiers for their country, his grand- 
father having fought in tlie Revolution, his 
father in 1812 and himself having been an en- 
listed man for the Mexican war. He enrolled 
one day to be discharged the next on the 
declaration of peace. After the war, Mr. 
Holmes was variously engaged until 18S1, 
when finding himself disabled for contest with 
the world he retired and has since been occu- 
pied with his garden. He has served the 
township of Koshkonong as Treasurer. He 
was married March 4, 1856, to Rexaville A. 
Bartholomew, and tlieir children are named 
Cora, Marion, Ella, Herbert, Rodell and Ernie. 
Mr. Holmes is a strong Republican in political 
faith. 



^^ ERDINAND J. G. KRUEGER, be- 

1^^ longing to Robert Chivas Post, No. 2, 
^ Milwaukee, is a native of Prussia, 
where he was born April 15, 1841, and whence 
his parents, Johanu Gottlieb and Maria Sophia 
(Elizabeth) Krueger, emigrated with their fam- 
ily in 185G. They located in Manitowoc, Wis- 
consin, where the son passed the intervening 
years until he became a soldier. He entered 
the army on attaining his majority, enlisting 
in Company F, 2Gtli Wisconsin Infantry, en- 
rolling Aug. 17, 1802. Thereafter he was 
a part of the history of the first German 
regiment from the Badger Htate, and the 
earlier details of the muster, departure 
from Wisconsin, drill at Washington, and 
en route to scenes of activity, may be found 
on many other pages of this work. The 
roster of Mr. Krueger includes 15 names, which 
glorify the name of every man who fought in 
any, none being unimportant and eacli afford- 
ing its share in the grand results, which secured 
a united country to those who had sought the 
privileges of their manhood denied to them 



under the form of government where they had 
their birth. Mr. Krueger marched to the field of 
disaster at Chancellorsville, fouglit three days 
at Gettysburg, and, when fighting Joe Hooker, 
led his contingent to the Army of the Tennes- 
see, Mr. Krueger was one of his command. He 
was in the fight at Wauhatchie, and scaled the 
heights at J.,ookout and Mission Ridge, and 
was in the surging throng that fought the 
battle above the clouds on the 25th of Novem- 
ber — the action in which the volunteer spirit 
which won the final victories asserted itself 
triumphantly. More than any other action of 
the war was it proven at Mi.ssion Ridge that 
God's cause is never lost. Mr. Krueger 
marched to Knoxville, back to old headquar- 
ters at Lookoutj and went, after the winter 
was over to the Atlanta campaign. He was in 
the reconnoissance at Buzzard's Roost and 
fought at Resaca. He was in the movements 
at Cassville, and in action again at New Hope 
Church. (Action near Dallas.) He was at 
Pine Knob, Lost Mountain, and in the other 
actions belonging to the affair known as Kene- 
saw, and helped win distinguished honor for 
his regiment at Peach Tree Creek. He fin- 
ished his military record in the conquering 
columns of Sherman, performing service at 
Savannah, Averysboro, Bentonville, (ioldsboro 
and Raleigh, and niaile the long march to the 
country's capital where the officials re- 
viewed the war-worn and war-stained vet- 
erans before they again became citizens and 
entered uj)on the rest and peace they had 
earned. 

Mr. Krueger was reared a farmer, and, before 
and after the war engaged in that business at 
Manitowoc. He became a resident of Milwau- 
kee in 1887 and has since maintained the 
wholesome, honest character lie established in 
his boyhood and early manhood on the ^\'is- 
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stock, and represents races tenacious of life 
and liardy. His father still lives and is 86 
years of age. His mother died Aug. 21, 1874, 
at Manitowoc, still the site of the family home- 
stead. His ancestors were identified with 
the European wars, his grandfather, Martin 
Kreiser (maternal line) having fought in the 
Prussian service through the seven years war. 
Gottlieb'Michael Krueger, his brother, enlisted 
on the same day in the same company, marched 
and fought beside him until Gettysburg where 
he was wounded. He recovered and went 
West with the " 26th " and was killed at Mari- 
etta, Ga., .June 22, 1S64. Julius Krueger, a 
cousin, enlisted on the same day in the same 
comjxmy and died in the hospital at Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn., Dec. 30, 1863, of disease. 

Mr. Krueger was married in 1866 to Louisa 
Margaretha ]Mueck, and their children are 
named Henrietta, Anna, Maria, Louis and 
Augusta. 

LBERT MITCHELL, Milwaukee, Wis., 
^ member of Robert Chivas Post, No. 2, 
was born in the city of Philadelphia. 
His father, Aljram Mitchell, died when he w'as 
four years old and he was brought up to the 
age of 15 years by his uncle, Samuel Schull, in 
Bucks county. He had had an idea of striking 
out for himself from the date his ideas com- 
menced and had kept close account of the re- 
ports of opportunities for young men in the 
Great West; in 1855 he came to Milwaukee, 
settling permanently and being variously oc- 
cupied until the second year of the war. Aug. 
20, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 24th Wis- 
consin Tnfantr}-. He passed his preliminary 
season in Camp Sigel and was there mustered 
into service. Within a month after leaving the 
State he went into action and lias since rejoiced 




that his name was among those of the defenders 
of the flag at Perry ville. He was in the sub- 
secjuent movements of his command until the 
fight at Stone River, finishing one year and 
commencing another on that field. In the fol- 
lowing summer, the regiment was re-assigned 
with the 1st Brigade, General Lytle, the 3d 
Division, General Sheridan and the 20th Army 

I Corps, General McCook — all names which are 
honored second to none on the pages of historj-. 
Mr. Mitchell was in all the movements of that 
command through the summer and fought at 
Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th. He 
went to Chattanooga where Sheridan mentioned 
the character of the figliting and was in the 
gallant action at Mission Ridge, where the 

I regiment elicited special comment for bravery. 
(At this action Robert J. Chivas, whose name 
designates Post No. 2 in Milwaukee, was killed.) 
The 24th Wisconsin was placed in the new 4th 
Corps resulting from Grant's reorganization of 
the army and marched to relieve Burnside at 
Knoxville. He was in the pursuit of Long- 
street and went next to Newmarket and after- 
wards was in a severe skirmish in the vicinity 

j of Dandridge. Tlie next movement took him 
to Plain Cross Roads again and thence to 
Loudon, Tenn. In the spring he went to the 
work of war under Sherman and fought at 
Resaca, May 14th. At the battle of Chick- 
amauga, wliile endeavoring to capture a rebel 
Hag, he was injured by a blow from a clubl)ed 
musket in the hands of a rebel. He lay un- 
conscious two hours and, on recovery, found 
his regiment, after a night's search. After 
Resaca, the results of his injury became so 
serious that he was sent to the field hospital at 
Chattanooga and thence to Nashville. He re- 
turned home on a furlough and was finally 
discharged at Milwaukee, July 4, 1865, for dis- 
ability. While lying on the field, suffering 
fi'om the IjIow referred to, a rebel attempted to 



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finish liini with his bayonet and his face still 
bears the scar of this last atrocity. A comrade, 
Dan Hutcliinson, attempted to aid him but was 
driven away and while he was crawling on his 
hands and feet the bayonet act was performed. 
Mr. Mitchell was married Dec. 25, 1866, to 
Carrie Shupe, daughter of .John A. Shupe. 
Mr. Mitchell is in the employ of the United 
States in the Government building in Mil- 
waukee. He is descended from the Pennsyl- 
vania Dutch of Bucks county, in that State. 



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FRANCIS L. ANDRUS, Troy, Wal- 
worth Co., Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 171, was born in Connecticut, 
near the city of Manchester, and is the son of 
Elisha L. and Clarissa (Dean) Andrus. The 
family is of long establishment in Connecticut, 
whither the first ancestors, John and Mary 
Andrus, emigrated in 1640 and in 1G4.5 John 
Andrus is named on the records of "Farming- 
towne," formerly Tunxis, as one of 84 pro- 
prietary owners of that town. He died in 1072 
and his wife in 1694. His son John has no 
considerable data from which to give an ac- 
count, but he died before 1713, aged about 78 
years. His son Stephen was the first clerk of 
Easlbury School Society, officiating from 1731 
to 1743, when his son Elisha (1st) was his suc- 
cessor. He married Sarah Gillett and his .«on 
was born July 10, 1700, was married Feb. '), 
1726, and died Jan. 29, 1750. Elisha (2d) was 
born May 4, 1730, and married Jerusha Keeney, 
who died March 13, 1825, her husband having 
died exactly 12 years earlier on the same day 
of tlie month. Their son, Eli.sha (3d), was 
born Aug. 17, 1755, and was married in July, 
1780, to Mary Skinner, who was horn in No- 
vember, 1761. She died Feb. '25, 1797, and 
Oct. 18th, of the same year, her husband mar- 



ried Phebe Hollister, who died Nov. 26, 1834. 
Elisha Andrus (4th) was born Oct. 15, 1789; 
was captain of a militia company: was married 
Feb. 4, 1812, to Sarali Wallace, born Jan. 5, 
1797, and he died Aug. 29, 1870. Elisha (5th) 
was the oldest son of the captain aforesaid and 
the father of Islr. Andrus of tiiis sketch. He 
was born May 31, 1813, and married Clarissa 
Dean, Aug. 27, 1843. He died Marclr6, 1854. 
She was born in Connecticut, the daughter of 
Sprowell and Clarissa Dean, her descent being 
Engli.sh and Scotch. Slie is still living on the 
homestead in Troy, where she settled with her 
liusband on coming to Wisconsin in 1845, 
exactly 200 years after his first ancestor was 
recorded as a landholder on this continent. 
Her sons were born in the following order: 
Francis Leroy, Sept. 7, 1844 ; Arthur D., March 
29, 1849; Aaron Sprowell, Feb. 22, 1853. (Mr. 
Andrus is the po.sse.ssor of an elaborate genealogy 
of his family, published by C. A. Andrews, of 
Chicago.) His parents located on a farm in 
Troy, where he grew to youth, and in 1854 the 
mother removed with her children to Racine 
to oljtain the advantages of the schools. Their 
youth was there passed and wlien the war 
came on the two elder sons were eager to enlist 
as their country's defenders. But Francis was 
20 years old when he enrolled at Racine with 
his brother Artlmr, May 11, 18(14, in Company 
E, 39th Wisconsin Infantry, under Cajitain F. 
P. Lawrence. They were mustered at Milwau- 
kee and went to Mem])his, where they remained 
several months, performing such military duty 
as the situation demanded, consisting chiefiy 
of guard and camji duty with picketing in the 
vicinity. Mr. Andrus had a lively experience 
at the time of Forrest's night raid on the city 
and was made Sergeant June 3, 1864; he re- 
ceived honorable discharge Sept. 22, 1864. He 
returned to Racine and, Feb. 9, 1865, enlisted 
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under Captain A. J. Cheney, being mustered 
as 1st Sergeant. He went witli tlie regiment to 
Rolla, Mo., where he did duty until his com- 
pany were sent on detached service to Fort 
Wyman, where he guarded Government stores 
until ordered to St. Louis, August 14th, and 
he performed all varieties of guard duty in 
various portions of the city until he was mus- 
tered out Nov. 8, 1805. He acted under all 
conditions in a manner that reflected the high- 
est credit on his character and was made 2d 
Lieutenant by brevet for bravery and manly 
conduct. After returning to Racine, the re- 
united family went back, in 1867, to the home- 
stead at Troy. Mr. Andrus was married Oct. 
6, 1869, to .Jennie E., daughter of John and 
Mary Nobes, and a native of Cleveland, Ohio. 
She died Oct. 30, 1880, and is survived by a 
son named Eugene L., who was born .June 24, 
1870, and is at school at Valparaiso, Ind. 
Four young children died witliin a short time 
of diphtheria. Mr. Andrus was again married 
Sept. 30, 1889, to Mary V. Watrous, who was 
born in' East Troy, in 1863. Mr. Andrus is a 
member of the Masonic Order, St. James Lodge. 
He is also a prominent Good Templar. He is 
a man of firm principles and has always ex- 
erted every influence in favor of the best in- 
terests of the community of wliich he is a 
member. In all the relations of life, whether 
social, business or public affairs, he sustains 
his repute for integrity and elevation of char- 
acter. 



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OHN H. MILLER, Racine, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born in 
Hanover, Germany, Sept. 25, 1836, and 
he was the only child of his parents, John and 
Mary Ann Miller. A\'hen he was nine j-ears 
old he came to America with his uncle, ^\'il- 



liam Miller, with whom he went from New 
York to Dayton, Ohio. He was employed first 
on the canal and afterwards worked in his 
uncle's distillery. In 1854, when 18 years old, 
he came to Wisconsin, locating in Racine, 
whither he traveled on the lakes. He passed 
some time as a farm assistant and then went 
into Dickey's establishment to learn the trade 
of blacksmith. In 1859, he entered the employ 
of tlie St. Paul railroad and worked for that 
corporation as a blacksmith until he entered 
the army. Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted in Com- 
pany A, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, and went 
from Camp Utley to Cincinnati, where Kirby 
Smith had stirred up the fears of the com- 
munity, being close by in Hardin county, Ky., 
without any ostensible business. The regiment 
was sent to Covington and remained until the 
first week in October, when they went to Camp 
Smith and was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 
General Burbridge. Within 24 days they made 
four removes and the 31st found them in the 
brigade of Colonel Coburn of the 33d Indiana. 
They went next to Nicholasville, after moving 
in a dozen different directions trying to keep 
trace of Morgan and Bragg. They went next 
to Danville, whence they made several raids. 
In January they started for Nashville and 
stopped on the route at Fort Donelson, expect- 
ing to reinforce the garrison which had been 
attacked by Forrest, who had been repulsed the 
previous day and the troops pressed on to 
Nashville, thence to Franklin and March 3d 
Mr. Miller was in the reconnoissance to ascertain 
the probable intentions of Van Dorn and 
Forrest. On the 4th, he was under Lieutenant 
Colonel Bloodgood at Thompson's Station, 
escaping the capture in which most of the 
brigade was involved. He went^to Brentwood 
Station an^l March 25, 1863, tiie guard was 
surprised by Forrest before seven in tiie morn- 
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marched through the cold T\'aters of Duck 
River, taken to Columhia, paroled, went to 
Tulluhoma to be robbed and thence on cattle 
cars to Richmond, remaining a day at Libby. 
They were "swapped" for rebels at City Point, 
went thence to Annapolis and in a couple of 
weeks, equipped with many necessaries, started 
for St. Louis to await exchange, after whicli 
they joined their regiment. They went to 
Nashville and Louisville and to Murfreesboro 
where they performed picket, parole and camp 
duty until the spring of 1(SG4. There Mr. 
Miller was taken ill, suilering with diarrhea 
and also some difficulty with his limb which 
he thought had been caused by the exposure 
on his march to prison. His surgeon ordered 
his -discharge, but he refused to return home 
without his regiment. He was sent to a farm 
in the vicinity whore he tried fresh milk and 
digging in the earth, which was of great benefit 
to him. He joined his command at Lookout 
Mountain, when the regiment was about to go 
to the front, whither he went on the railroad. 
Wlienhis regiment arrived, betook his gun and 
went into the ranks, where he remained until 
after tlie action at Buzzard Roost, when he was 
placed on detached duty in the ambulance corps. 
He was found unfit for this service, and 
refusing the surgeon's instructions to obtain 
his discharge and return home, he man- 
aged to remain with the regiment until the 
surrender of Atlanta. He went to hosj)it.al 
until the command moved on the march to the 
sea, when he obtained a horse and went 
through the State to Savannah, through the 
Carolinas to Richmond and Washington, and 
remained at Alexandria during the Review, 
being unable to Join the parade. He was 
nuislered out June 12, 1865, and returned to 
Racine, where, he performed such light work 
as was possil)le. He weighed on return 115| 
j)Ounds ; his weight on entering the army was 




185 pounds. Since 1878 he has worked for 
the J. I. Case T. M. Co. He was married Aug. 
1, 18G1, to Mary Ann, daughter of .Jacob Fox. 
The births of their children occurred in the 
following order: Christine L., (now Mrs. Har- 
ris), Aug. 7, 1866; .John V., June 8, 1875; 
Emma, Feb. 13,1878; Albert, April 23, 1881. 
The mother was born Dec. 14, 1842. Mr. 
Miller is a typical citizen of the Republic. He 
is giving his attention to the education and 
training of his young children, fully under- 
standing the value of right education and dis- 
cipline for those on whom will devolve the re- 
sponsibilities of a government like that of his 
adopted country, the United States. 

ORMAN McMARCLEY, Eagle, Wis., 
was born in Sharon, (now Seward), 
Schoharie Co., New York, May 2, 
1819. His parents were named Frederick and 
Isabel (McFarland) McMarcley, and the former 
was the son of a soldier of the Revolution — 
Michael McMarcley. His brother, Martin 
McMarcley, was a soldier in the war of 1812. 
Norman McFarland, his maternal grandfather, 
was a Scotti-sh Highlander, who married Mar- 
garet McLean, and made one of the voyages 
to this country which were common in its 
early days, consuming 14 weeks. Isabel 
(McFarland) McMarcley was born in Schenec- 
tady Co., New York, and became the mother 
of 1(1 children. Both parents died in the Em- 
pire State. Mr. McMarcley was their second 
child and he left his native State in 1844, go- 
ing to Mineral Point, Wis., where he worked 
as a cari)enter and joiner about seven months. 
He returned to his former home in New York, 
remained five years and in 1841) fixed his resi- 
dence at Eagle. Aug. 2, 1862, lie enlisted in 
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known before tlie close of the war as one of 
the best equipped and best drilled batteries in 
tiie service. He was mustered into service in 
Pahnyia, .Jefferson Co., Wis., and went to Fort 
Cass, \'a., remaining there six months; subse- 
quently went to Fort Ellsworth, remaining 
a half year, and after some time at Fort Worth 
went to Alexandria, where the battery con- 
tinued until the close of the war. In Novem- 
ber, 1864, Mr. JSIcMarcley was mustered out 
for disability and returned to Wisconsin. He 
had been subjected to the hardest kind of 
labor in light and heavy artillery dn'l and in- 
fantry practice, besides working as a carpenter 
on the fortifications. He was married June 
30, 1852, to Lucinda Reeves of Eagle, who was 
l)orn in Rome, Oneida Co., New York, Dec. 25, 
1832, and is the daughter of William and 
Mary (Casler) Reeves. She is of mixed Hol- 
land Dutch and English extraction, her fiither 
having been of the former and her mother of 
the latter nationality. Her only daughter, 
Alzina, was born .Jan. 2, 1854. 




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"ILLIAM BURT, Kenosha, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 
^3iL. 230, was born in Greenwich, 
England, June 4, 1835. His father and 
mother, William and Caroline (Gasleyn) Burt, 
were of English origin and were the parents 
of 16 children, of whom only 5 are living. 
Susan resides in Brooklin, Iowa, Laura near 
Joliet and Mary Louisa, Robert and William 
reside in Kenosha. The family removed to 
the United States in 1843, locating first at Mil- 
waukee, and successively at Racine, where the 
father engaged in the business of a carriage 
trimmer. He removed to Kenosha in 1853 
and died there in 1885. The mother died in 
1861. The son learned the trade of a painter 



and engaged with J. I. Case at Racine until 
1853. He returned to work in his factories in 
1856, remaining until he entered the army. 
Aug. 18, 1862, he enlisted in Company H, 22d 
Wisconsin Infantry, for three years and went 
into rendezvous at Camp L'tley, Ricine. He 
was mustered in September 2d and loft the 
State for Cincinnati on the 16th. He went 
from the city of jiork to Covington, thence to 
Nicholasville and to Danville, Ky., reaching 
that place in December after a series of con- 
tinual movements, and from there they 
operated in foiling the plans of Morgan. 
Colonel Utley was a decided abolitionist and 
sturdily refused while in Kentucky to recog- 
nize anybody's claims to property in man, in 
which the regiment sustained him. But there 
was plenty of excitement through this fact and 
the men were glad to receive orders to go to 
Louisville, and they went successively to Nash- 
ville and towards Spring Hill, where they had 
an encounter with the rebels. Marcli 4th the 
action at Thompson's Station took place, which 
was a disastrous affair for the 22d Wisconsin. 
More than 200 of its members were either 
killed, wounded or captured, and among the 
latter were the colonel, 11 commissioned officers 
of tlie command and a number of soldiers, in- 
cluding Mr. Burt. 

They were taken to Columbu.s, Teun., kept 
three days in an old log house where lialf a 
hundred wounded soldiers were confined on 
the first night and in the morning it was found 
that more than a dozen had passed beyond the 
reach of rebel malice. From the woods in the 
vicinity they were marched to Tullahoma, sent 
thence on box cars to Richmond and incarcer- 
ated in Castle Thunder. Two guards on the 
car, containing 70 men, on which Mr. Burt was 
placed, had whiskey enough to make them 
reckless and they lay down to sleep in front of 
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need of fresh air and they were rolled out. 
Tlieir fate afterward was not known. En 
route, Mr. Burt stole a bone, thinking that the 
marrow would be good for soup in his need, 
hut on arrival at Castle Thunder he was placed 
in a tower whose center was monopolized by a 
supporting pillar and he remained there 24 
hours without being able to obtain a comfort- 
able position. After 11 days at Libby he was 
exchanged and went to City Point, thence to 
Fortress Monroe and A.nnapolis,where two weeks 
were passed in recruitiug and obtaining fresh 
clothing and other necessaries. He joined his 
regiment at St. Louis, and went successively to 
Nashville, Franklin and Murfreesboro, where 
they were detailed to duty on the river and re- 
mained through the winter. In the spring 
they were assigned to the 3d Brigade, 3d Divi- 
sion and 20th Corps and moved in front of 
Resaca. Mr. Burt was injured during the 
fight by being stepped on by a horse, went to 
the rear and thence to the convalescent camp 
at Kingston, where he remained a month. 
After return to the command he operated in 
skirmishes, foraging expeditions and other 
military service, and afterwards fought at 
Dalla.s, Pine Knob and Lost Mountain. Mr. 
Burt states his belief that (tcneral Sherman 
himself sighted the gun which killed General 
Polk at Lost Mountain, as he saw him take 
chafge of one of the guns, sight it and direct 
the artilleryman to fire. The shot struck in 
the midst of the spot where Polk and his staff 
were standing. Mr. Burt was in all the actions 
in the immediate vicinity of Kenesaw, fought 
at Peach Tree Creek and went to the trenches 
in front of the city until the regiment moved 
to the Ciiattahoocliie River and threw vip breast- 
works while Sherman moved to the right of the 
city. Cue morning the pickets ran in, driven 
by rebels who were in front of Union troops and 
that dav Atlanta surrendered. The command 



remained near Atlanta until Sherman moved 
to the sea, when the regiment accompanied the 
troops to Savannah. Mr. Burt was in the 
activities at Averysboro, went to Goldsboro and 
Raleigh and to llichiuond, where Mr. Burl was 
badly burnt on his foot and leg and was sent 
to Alexandria. He saw the Grand Review in 
an ambulance and was mustered out at Wash- 
ington, -June 16, 1865. He retui'ned to Keno- 
sha and went, soon after, to the employ of Fish 
Brothers at Racine. Five years after he en- 
gaged with the Bain Wagon Company at 
Kenosha, where he has since operated. Mr. 
Burt is a much respected citizen of Kenosha 
and honors in his private life his long service 
as a soldier. He was married July 4, 1865, to 
Mary Devlin. 




EOR(iF C. BROWXELL, Palmvra, 



p|^ Wis., a former soldier of the war, was 

born at Lawrence, St. Lawrence Co., 
New York, .July 18, 1842. His father and 
mother, Clark and Laura (Simonds) Brnwneli, 
both of whom were descended from New York 
families of long standing, removed to Sullivan, 
Wisconsin, when the son was about two years 
of age. His father worked at his business as a 
blacksmith and when his health failed, about 
1854, returned to Lawrence. The family con- 
sisted of four children, Mr. Brownell of this 
sketch being the oldest and the only son. His 
father died in Lawrence at about the age of 40 
years and the mother survived to the age of 60. 
Minnie, the oldest daughter, married G. B. 
Stacy, a prominent lawyer of Nicholville in 
her native county. Louisa is the wife of Hiram 
Rose and Jjaura married Myron Munson, both 
still being residents of St. Lawrence county. 
' Mr. Brownell passed his boyhood and youth in 
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scliools and occasionally a school of higher 
grade until he was 18, when he determined to 
become a soldier. He was infused with the 
patriotism inculcated in the educational in- 
stitutions of those days and, when enlisting in 
his county commenced under the impetus of 
the assault on the flag at Sumter, lie had but 
the one thouglit and he enlisted in April, 1861, 
in Company F, 16th New York Infantry, for 
two years or during the war and afterwards re- 
enlisted for two years or the war. His regiment 
was mustered at Albany and went immediately 
to Washington, going into camp at Capitol 
Hill. About a month was passed there, the 
soldiers obtaining a knowledge of military 
tactics and later the command crossed the 
Potomac, going into camp at Fort Ellsworth. 
They went thence to build Fort Lyon and were 
engaged in that work when they were ordered 
to the front and went into the fight at Bull 
Run. Returning to Fort Ellsworth, they pre- 
pared for the campaign to Manassas in the 
spring and marched to Fairfax C. H., to hear 
of the evacuation under the protection of the 
Quaker guns, and returned to Alexandria. 
The regiment were ordered with the command 
of Sedgwick to West Point, where they landed 
May (ith and on the next day, in the action in 
M'hich the rebels were defeated, Mr. Brownell 
was wounded, receiving a shot through the left 
thigh, being in the skirmish line early in the 
action. He was taken prisoner and conducted 
to a plantation in the vicinity. It was the 
home of a rebel physician named Vernon P. 
Jones and Mr. Brownell received professional 
care of the best type. After the repulse of the 
rebels, his company turned their attention to 
ascertaining his whereabouts and his captain, 
major and colonel came to the house to attend 
to the matter of removing him North. But he 
was in no condition to be moved and finding 
that he must be left, Gol. Jos. Howland gave 



him $10 and his captain, John C. Gilmore, gave 
him |5 to be certain he might need for nothing. 
He remained on the plantation 10 weeks and 
then went to Williamsburg and obtained trans- 
portation to Fortress Monroe, where he entered 
Chesapeake Hospital and remained there until 
finally discharged Sept. 14,1862. He returned 
to Baltimore, obtained his paj' and went home 
to St. Lawrence county. As soon as able to 
work he learned the business of a harness 
maker in which he was occupied there until 
1866, when he went to Sullivan in -lefferson 
Co., Wisconsin, with his family and engaged 
in farming until 1879. In that year he went 
to Whitewater, removing to Palmyra in 1883 
and that has since been his place of residence. 
He was married in 1864 at Potsdam, New 
York, by Rev. Samuel Call of the M. E. Church, 
to Olive, daughter of Francis and Mary Lee. 
She was born in the State of New York and her 
family and ancestors were natives of tlie same 
commonwealth. Mr. and Mrs. Brownell have 
three children, born as follows: Ella M., Sept. 
20, 1867 ; Ira G., March 25, 1876 ; Frank W., 
Jan. 1, 1879. The father, mother and oldest 
daughter are members of the Free Methodist 
Church at Palmyra. 

LVA J. SWARTS, Genoa Junction,Wis., 
^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, was 
born in Newstead, Erie Co., New York, 
June 13, 1848. His parents, Michael and Mary 
Jane (Cox) Swarts, are both living and have all 
their lives belonged to the agricultural class. 
The father was born near the Susquehanna 
River, where his ancestors for several genera- 
tions were born before him. The family is of 
German origin of early date in this country, as 
Mr. Swarts has lost all traces of the founder of 
his familv in America. The father and mother 




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reside on a larm about 12 miles south of Lin- 
coln, Neb. Tl ley are aged respectively 77 and 
72 years. The maternal grandsire, John Cox, 
was born in England and came to Darien,New 
York State, where lie married a lady of Irish 
birth, who had her nativity in the city of Dub- 
lin. Mr. 8 warts is one of 12 children, six of whom 
are living. lie is the oldest survivor and 
the others are named in order of birth: Oliver 
was born Aug. 5, 1S45, and resides in Nebraska; 
William, born March 4, 1854, lives in the same 
State; Frank, born June 18, 1855, is employed 
on the Atchison & Nebraska railroad in the 
capacity of foreman ; John, born June 27, 1858, 
lives in Nebraska; Nellie, born Sept. 14, 18G8, 
is the wife of Lay nor Sheldon of the same 
State in which her parents live. 

The family removed to Brighton, Kenosha 
county, in ISGO, when the son was about 12 
years old, locating on a farm on which they 
lived three yeans, and removed thence to Lake 
Co., Illinois, to a farm on which they lived 14 
years, removing thence to their present place 
of abode in 1872. Mr. Swai'ts remained with 
his parents until he entered the army. He 
passed his early days like the average farmer's 
son, attending a short term of school in winter 
and working during the remainder of the year. 
He enlisted wlien 15 years and Id munlhs old, 
enrolling from Milwaukee, Jan. 20, 1864, in 
Company G, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, belonging 
to the Iron Brigade. lie Joined the command 
at Culpeper, and, after reaching that point, 
the regiment was ordered to tlie front, where 
he had his first taste of rebel ])owder, shot and 
shell in the light in the Wilderness. This was 
a terrific experience for a boy of less than K!, 
associated with valiant veteran soldiers of the 
war, and he was under fire seven consecutive 
hours. He was next in hot action at Laurel 
Hill,(Spottsylvania C. H.)and fouglitat Jericho 
Pass, Nor lb .\nna, Bethesda Chureh, Cold Har- 



bor and in the trenches at Petersburg, where 
he was exposed to rebel fire every day and 
worked on the fortifications every night, wit- 
nessing the explosion of the mine July 30th. 
A piece of shell hit his right ankle and he was 
picked up at night ; from the field hospital he 
was sent to City Point, where he remained a 
week before the surgeons permitted his re- 
moval. He went thence to Whitehall to a hos- 
pital 10 miles from Philadelphia, where he re- 
mained under treatment until Jan. 1, 1865, 
when he was allowed to rejoin his command. 
He found the regiment on the march and he 
accompanied the command to fight at Hatch- 
er's Run, Bo^'dtown, Five Forks, South Side 
Railroad, and all the hot work in which the 
Ii'on Brigade participated until the closing 
scenes of the drama at Appomattox. He went 
with the brigade to Washington, passed in the 
Grand Review and after a week in camp started 
for Wisconsin by way of Louisville, Kv. Ar- 
riving at Madison they were feted by tlie citi- 
zens and July 16th were there released from 
military obligations to the State and country. 
Mr. Swarts assisted on his father's farm until 
the following spring and went thence to the 
business of a lumberman at Ludington, Mich. 
He returned to Wisconsin and was married 
I)ee. 11. IStiG, to Inez Z. Strong. She was burn 
in Lake Co., 111., and is the daughter of 
Chauncey and Eunice J. (Lehigh) Strong. Her 
father was born in the State of New York of 
Irish descent, being in the third generation 
from an Irish nobleman whose sons came to 
America and founded the Strong family in this 
country'. He married a lady of American 
descent. When Mrs. Swarts was five years old 
her father went to California and was never 
again heard from ; it is supposed that he was 
murdered for his money, of which he had a 
considerable amount. Tiie mother of Mrs. 
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family included three eliildien. Ciiarlotte mar- 
ried Harry Stark, of Chicago, and Judsnn 
Irving Strong lias been a resident of Colorado 
since 1879. Homer Ellsworth, the only child 
of Mr. and Mrs. Swarts, was born Sept. 1, 18G8. 
One child born to them, died in infancy. 

In 1877 Mr. Swarts went to Tloca, Neb., and 
engaged in farming two years, when he went 
to Marathon Co., Mich., and was interested in 
lumbering a year. In 1880 he located on a 
farm in Bloomfield, A\'a]worth county, and in 
1887 he commenced agricultural operations 
where he now resides. Mrs. Swarts is a mem- 
ber of the M. E. Church and the family ranks 
among tlie leading social element of Genoa 
Junction. In character and career, Mr. Swarts 
belongs to the best type of citizenship. His 
ai'my record is one that reflects the greatest 
credit on his patriotism and sense of obligation 
as a citizen of a Republic. He holds two 
valuable relics of the war, one of which is a 
ring cut from a piece of the root of a laurel 
tree under which Lee surrendered. The other 
is a fragment of the flag of the 7th Wisconsin 
which was torn from the banner at the battle 
of Five Forks. 



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ACON J. HAND, (ieneva Lake, Wis., 
a member of G. A. R. Post, No. 27, 



y was born at Lyons in the county in 



which he resides, Sept. 22, 1843. His parents, 
Harvey and Martha (Twentamon) Hand, were 
of English and Scotch parentage respectively. 
Three brothers Hand were passengers on the 
Mayflower to this country, and in the maternal 
line, his grandmother Twentamon was a sister 
of General Winfield Scott. Mr. Hand was 
reared on his father's farm until he was 13 
years old, when he went to Milwaukee and en- 
gaged in the Alliance shops, where he passed 
six months of each vear and attended school 



alternately until 1859, when, in company with 
his brother and cousin, he started for Pike's 
Peak. He was in Denver when there were but 
two houses and he remained in Colorado until 
j September, when he went to California and re- 
mained there two weeks. He traveled through 
(ireat Salt Lake, going to the Pacific coast, and 
on his return went by the isthmus. He made 
two subsequent trips to the Golden State with 
horses, journeying thither overland and return- 
ing to New York by water. He then returned 
to his former position in the shops at Milwau- 
kee, which he left to enlist; and he enrolled 
Aug. 15, 1862, in Company C, 22d Wisconsin 
Infantry, under Colonel Utley, his captain be- 
ing W. C. Smith. (Afterwards Major.) He 
was an old Mexican veteran. The regiment 
was mustered in at Racine and went to Cincin- 
nati, crossing the river on pontoons to Coving- 
ton to fight the rebels who were threatening 
the locality, and went thence to Nicholasville 
and Danville, where the regiment lost many 
men by disease. Not long after they went to 
Louisville to head off Bragg, going on a forced 
march. Mr. Hand was taken with measles on 
the first day out, but he could neither be left 
nor go back and he kept on the march, going 
165 miles in five days. At Louisville orders 
were received to go to Nashville. They had a 
lively time trying to get through the streets of 
Southern cities with the throngs of negroes 
which followed; Colonel L^^iey's abolition no- 
tions making the camps a rendezvous for fugi- 
tives. The mayor forbade their leaving the city 
with their sable attendants and the captains on 
the boats refused to take them aboard. On 
their way to Nashville they stopjied at Donel- 
son, expecting to take part in the fight, but 
Forrest had been repulsed the day previous, 
and they went on to Nashville. In tw'o weeks 
they went to Brentwood Station and thence to 
Franklin, and on the 3d of March thev were 



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ordered to a recoiinoisance at Spring Hill to as- 
certain the whereabouts of Xnn Dora. He 
was found to be at Thompson's Station, and at 
8:3U on the morning of the 5th, battle was pre- 
cipitated along the line. The 22d was support- 
ing the 18th Oliio Battery until 4:30, when dis- 
aster overtook them, 2,200 soldiers and 11 com- 
missioned oth'cers being captured. Mr. Hand 
was among the prisoners, and on the way to 
Columbia, while passing through a cornbrake, 
he lay down and was passed unnoticed. He 
returned to Franklin and found Lieut-Colonel 
Bloodgood and 100 of the regiment. Blood- 
good organized the dismembered command 
and went to guard the trestle at Brentwood, 
where on the morning of the 25th, before light, 
Forrest surrounded and captured the whole 
force. Mr. Hand was in charge of sick com- 
rades and while tlie rebels were rifling the 
camp, they made their escape, going to Nasli- 
vilU'. They remained at the ZoUicoffer House 
a week and when volunteers were called for to 
accompany the paymaster to Clarksville, Mr. 
Hand, with a comrade named Goodwin, went 
on the transj)ort. En route, they were attacked 
by the rebels on the Eclipse, who shelled them 
without much damage for some time, but they 
were finally riddled, two men being injured. 
They reached Clarksville in the night and they 
were awakened from sleep in the morning to 
find tlie rebels bombarding the fort. Not being 
under command, they returned to Nashville 
and on the way the force accompanying burned 
Palmyra above Donelson. At Nashville Mr. 
Hand obtaineil a general pass from General 
Lyon and reported to General Bear at Franklin ; 
was assigned to camp without command and 
was in a fight of two days' duration, the rebels 
under Van Dorn, Wheeler and Forrest with- 
drawing when re-enforcements arrived. Mr. 
Hand was next assigned to the signal cori)s 
near Brentwood and was, soon after, sent three 
miles into the country, ill with small pox. He 



returned to Franklin and witnessed the hang- 
ing of two rebel officers who assumed the Union 
uniform, fov;ght in the fort several days and 
went thence to Nashville and Murfreesboro, Mr. 
Hand being in charge of an ambulance corps. 
Dec. 15, 1863, lie was discharged by surgeon's 
order for disability, although he had never 
lost a day of service and he returned to Lyons, 
where he was under medical treatment three 
months. In April, 1S()4, he returned to the 
Army of the Tennessee and was sworn into 
service as an engineer on the road from Nash- 
ville to Bridgeport and al.'^o operated on the 
Louisville & Nashville railroad and, .lune 18, 
181)5, he resigned and came home. He per- 
formed little work until the following year 
when he engaged as engineer on the Milwaukee 
it La Crosse railroad and in April, 1SG7, he 
engaged to run the engine on the mail packet 
(h'ay Eagle from Keokuk, Iowa, to St. Louis. 
In 1SG8 he went to work in the machine shop 
at Milwaukee and bought a farm in the same 
year in Lyons on which he resided 10 years. 
His impaired health compelled him to sell the 
farm in 1878 and he went to Lake Geneva, 
where he has since been engaged in buying 
and selling stock and farm produce. July 25, 
1868, he was married at Lyons to Adelia, 
daughter of Richard and Martha Short. Her 
father was a soldier and enlisted in Company 
E, 19th Wisconsin Infantry, .Ian. 26, 1862; 
he veteranized ; served as a corporal ; was cap- 
tured at the battle of Fair Oaks, Oct. 27, 1864, 
and taken to Libby prison where he died March 
7, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. Hand have had the follow- 
ing children: Eleanor M., Irving S., Burton A., 
Jesse R., Adaline, Willie L., Lillie M. and 
Martha A. The two youngest are twins. The 
oldest is in Kansas. Mr. Hand belongs to the 
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BONALD D. SCOTT, Walertown, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
born June 5, 1824, in Cornwall, Stor- 
mont Co., Ontario, Canada, and is tbe son of 
Duncan and Cbristina (McDonald) Scott, both 
of whom were of Scotch birtli and descent and 
emigrated to the Dominion of Canada in ex- 
treme youth and were there married. They 
became the parents of 11 children, of whom 
Donald was sixth in order of birth. While he 
was under the authority and direction of his 
father, he remained on the home farm, work- 
ing as assistant, but on reaching his majority, 
he went to the State of New York, where he 
obtained employment on a railroad then being 
built between Vermont and the Empire State. 
Later, he engaged as a contractor and operated 
in that capacity in building tbe great tunnel in 
Ohio on the Cincinnati, Wilmington & Zanes- 
ville railroad. He went afterwards to Water- 
town, Wis., (1855), where he engaged as a con- 
tractor to build 20 miles of the railroad now 
known as the Milwaukee & St. Paul, the por- 
tion lying between Watertown and Columbus, 
About the time of its completion, the hostilities 
of the civil war precluded the possibility of a 
reflective man's operating in any extensive 
capacity until the consequent effects on busi- 
ness were counteracted in some manner, and he 
applied to Governor Randall for a commission 
to raise recruits. His papers were dated Oct. 
15, 1861, and he proceeded under its authority 
in the capacity of a Lieutenant, to enlist men. 
He interested about 200 men in their country's 
cause and went into rendezvous at Camp Ran- 
dall. March 11, 1862, he was commissioned 
Captain and, March 18th, when mustered, his 
company was assigned to the 17th Wisconsin 
Infantry as Company D, and remained in Madi- 
son until ordered to St. Louis. From tliere 
they went in April to Pittsburg Landing where 
they arrived the day following the battle and 



camped until ordered to join the movement to 
Corinth. They had been assigned to the 6th 
Division and in May to the command of General 
Mc Arthur. Captain Scott and his company 
were participants in all the hardships before 
Corinth and the siege of that place, meanwhile 
numbering camps, and reaching the number of 
10 before Beauregard quitted the city. The 
company performed provost duty in the cap- 
tured city and was again united with the regi- 
ment on the Chewalla road, prior to the battle 
of Corinth, where the ITtli Wisconsin distin- 
guished itself in a charge which is remembered 
as one of the most remarkable of the war. 
Bodies of rebels were making their way forward 
until they were in the front of the regiment, 
when General McArthur ordered the 17th to 
stop their onset and they expelled tbe rebels 
from their midst; when the latter received re- 
inforcements, only by contesting every inch of 
the ground did the regiment save itself from 
capture. This was on the 3d of October and 
prior to this action September 19th, the regi- 
ment was in the fight with Price and Van Dorn 
at luka. Colonel Scott wishes to record that 
Price was altogether right when he made the 
statement that "Great pride could be taken in 
the thought that I or my ancestors fought at 
Corinth." Company D was in all the sub- 
sequent movements that followed Corinth, fight- 
ing with the rear guard of Price's army in the 
pursuit until orders were received to return and, 
later on, the command went to Grand .lunction 
and when intelligence of the disaster at Holly 
Springs, Miss., reached them they went about 
30 miles on the double-(iuick to that place. 
Orders for Grand .Junction were received and 
they moved to that place on the double-quick, 
more than 40 miles. They remained there 
vnitil ordered to Memphis, Tenn., in .January, 
1863, and the Colonel states that while 
quaitered there he experienced the cold- 



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est weather from wliicli he ever suffered. 
The regiment was connected with the command 
of Grant and was a part of his plan for the 
siege and caj)ture of Vicksburg ; and tlioy went 
to Young's Point where they assisted in Iniild- 
ing canals until tliey went to Lake Providence 
on the same service, for which Captain Scott 
was particularly fitted by his former operations 
as a railroad builder. He and his command 
also assisted in constructing tlie canal at Milli- 
ken's Bend. They left that place to connect 
with tlie troops of McPherson who was fighting 
at Champion Hills and were ordered to pursue 
a flying force of rebels. They went to Black 
River Bridge and assisted in laying the floating 
bridges, marching afterwards to the rear of 
\'icksburg. They were in the trenches before 
tliat jilace 80 days and their first service after 
taking position was on the 18th of May, when 
they held a ravine under a murderous tire. 
They covered the retreat of the Illinois regi- 
ments, which was an action of the same char- 
acter as that at Corinth. The history of the 
brigade is matter of record on many noted 
pages and afforded an example of the grit and 
discipline of the 17th and the other regiments 
of which it was composed. It was the first 
body to enter the captured city July 4th as an 
honor it had earned. From there the regiment 
went to Natchez, where it received cavalry 
equipments and performed much unrecognized 
work until about 300 men went to Trinity on 
an expedition. July 2'.), 1863, Captain Scott 
was commissioned Major and he was in 
command of the detail and t)n consulta- 
tion, it was decided to destroy a rebel 
steamer with stores captured on the Black 
River. This took place ou the 2d of Septem- 
ber. At Trinity, Colonel Malloy of the 17th, 
called for volunteers to swim the river to obtain 
possession of the small boats which were on the 
opposite bank and wbicli the people refused to 



bring over in obedience to orders. At the word, 
soldiers were in the water in spite of the 
alligators and the firing from the banks. An 
order to bombard the town was issued and in a 
few minutes a white flag was flying, when the 
Mayor and others made haste to bring over the 
boats. The command was next in action at 
Fort Beauregard and after sacking it and 
destroying a considerable amount of other 
j)roperty, the 17th returned to Natchez, 
^hijur Scott went in October to \'icksburg, 
where the regiment veteranized. After liis 
furlough he, with his regiment, was assigned 
to the command of G neral Sherman prepara- 
tory to the Atlanta campaign, and was con- 
nected with the 'Id Brigade, 3d Division and 
17th Army Corps. Soon afterward they were 
reassigned to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, un- 
der General Leggett, after which Major Scott 
was acting Lieutenant Colonel until his com- 
mission to that position Sept. 24, 1864. A long 
march signalized the commencement of the ex- 
j)eriences of the regiment in connection with 
one of the most remarkable movements of the 
war. The 17th fought in all the actions, was 
in the skirmisliing, and at Kenesaw was in all 
the movements of McPherson's Corps. July 
21st, the action under General Leggett, which 
changed the name of Bald Hill to that of the 
commander, took place, in which the 17th was 
pi-ominent. On both this ami the following 
day, the regiment was heavily engaged until 
the cessation of activities at Atlanta, and was 
present at the battles of Jonesboro and Love- 
joy's, after which tliey camped at Atlanta, 
where Major Scott was promoted as stated. He 
afterwards chased Hood and went to Marietta 
and Atlanta and, soon after, Sherman's mai'ch 
to Savannah was begun. The experiences of 
the regiment were of no different ciiaracter 
from those told on many pages of this volume, 
and included much foraging, scouting, wad- 




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ing swamps and building roads until tlie 
actions in the vicinity of Savannali, tlie occu- 
pation of the city and the triumphant marcli 
tlirougli Nortli Carolina to Goklsboro, and after 
the surrender of Johnston came the movement 
to A\'ashington, taking in the capital of 
Virginia en route. After the Grand Review, 
Ma}- ■24th, Colonel Scott accompanied his com- 
mand to Louisville, where he received muster 
out July 14, 1865. He received l)ut one injury 
while in service and that was from a misstep, 
which caused a sharp end of a sapling to enter 
his limb between the knee and ankle, inflicting 
a gash three inches long, which has never been 
healed and which has troubled him ever since. 
This occurred on the field of >Shiloh. 

After his return to civil life he engaged in 
building railroads as a contractor and has con- 
structed many miles, including portions of the 
Northern New York, the Rutland & Burling- 
ton (Vt.), Springfield, Ohio, Cincinnati, Hamil- 
ton ifc Dayton (Ohio), Cleveland & Ohio, AVis- 
consin, Milwaukee & St. Paul, Milwaukee & 
Prairie du Chien, St. Paul & Duluth, Stillwater 
Branch, also a tunnel under the Mississippi at 
Dubuque. 

He was married in 1856 to Miss Catharine 
McGillis, of Quebec, Canada, but she survived 
their union less than eight months. In 1866 
he was married to Emma Stewart Leonard, of 
Watertown, and their two children are botli de- 
ceased. Politically, Colonel Scott is a Democrat. 



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WILLIAM DEMPSTER HOARD, 
Governor of Wisconsin, (1889), a 
resident of Fort Atkinson, and 
meml)er of G. A. R. Post No. 159, was born in 
Stockbridge, Madison Co., New York, Oct. 10, 
1836. His father, Rev. William B. Hoard, was 
a native of the same county in the Empire 



State, as was his wife, Sarah Catherine AN'hite, 
before marriage, and both were representatives 
of stock which fought in the wars of tlie Revo- 
lution and of 1812. The mother's father was a 
soldier in 1812, and Captain Jesse Sawyer, great 
grandfather of Governor Hoard, commanded a 
company of Green Mountain Rifles in the 
Revolution. The father was a clergyman of 
the Methodist Episcopal church, belonging to 
the Oneida Conference. He was also, as was 
customary in pioneer days, a farmer and reared 
his sons to that calling, giving tiiem such edu- 
cation as was possible, and until he was 16 
William was sent to common school. He had a 
fine musical taste and a voice which has always 
been a source of delight to him and wiiich he 
cultivated in his boyhood as best he could, at- 
taining an understanding of vocal culture which 
he utilized in teaching singing school in the 
winters and alternated that vocation with farm 
labor in the spring, summer and autumn. 
.Such was the rovTtine of bis life until the era of 
the Nation's history marked by the year 1861. 
In 1857, when he attained his majority, he 
located in Oak Grove, Dodge Co , Wisconsin, 
and, since that date, when he felt that he had 
assumed the duties of a son of the State, he has 
been devoted to her service, with the exception 
of a short interim. He early formed a deter- 
mination to give practical expression to his 
sentiments regarding the factional action of the 
South, and within a month after the assault at 
Sumter, in May, 1861, he enrolled in Company 
E, 4th Wisconsin Infantry, at Jefferson, and the 
details of the history of that command are his, 
until after the capture of New Orleans, when 
he was discharged for disability incurred in the 
severities of the exposures to which that regi- 
ment was subjected. Little has ever been said 
regarding the passage from Ship Island to New 
Orleans, where the usage rivaled that of the 
Black Hole of Calcutta in a sense-, and with re- 



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suits approximately fatal. He returned to his 
native State, where he was occupied in tlie 
nursery business until Oct. 1, lS64,\vhen here- 
enlisted in Company A, 1st New York Light 
Artillery. He joined the command as a recruit 
and served in the capacity of a private until his 
discharge and muster out, .July '1, 1805, after 
tlie end of the war. He came to Wisconsin 
within the year again and located at Columbus 
and operated there until 1870, engaged in tlie 
business of a nurseryman and in hop culture. 
In accord with a plan lie iiad been considering 
in the year last mentioned, he went to Lake 
Mills and e.stablished the .lefFerson County 
W(/o(i, devoted j)rincipaliy to farming interests, 
and entered upon a vigorous agitation of dairy- 
ing interests, and also became prominent iis a 
lecturer in the same avenue, as he had had 
thorough practical training in that pursuit in 
New York. He continueil to urge the claims 
of tlie industry in Wisconsin and, in 1872, he 
issued a call to the dairymen of the State to as- 
semble in convention at Watertown for the pur- 
])Ose of organizing a State Dairymen's Associa- 
tion. Six interested parties responded ; Mr. 
Hoard was elected Secretary and acted in that 
capacity until 1S74, when he resigned. The j>re- 
vious year he had fixed his permanent resi- 
denceat Fort Atkinson. In 1878 he was made 
President of tlie Northwestern Dairymen's As- 
sociation, an organization embracing the entire 
section known as "Tiie Norlli west,*' and has 
been re-elected at every subsequent convention 
of the association. 

The journal known as "Hoard's Dairyman" 
was commenced in 1884 and has extended its 
circulation steadily from that date until it is 
acknowledged authority in all the dairy dis- 
tricts of the United States and Canada. (Jov- 
ernor Hoard lias been a prime factor in the 
establishment of the "Farm Institute" sys- 
tem, which -has come to be recognized as a 



most effectual method of agricultural educa- 
tion. In the course of his career as a 
lecturer in this field he delivered about 350 
addresses to Wisconsin farmers and has, be- 
sides, operated largely in convention work of 
varied type in other States and Canada as oc- 
casion has demanded or suggested. He pre- 
sided at the great Inter-State Agricultural Con- 
vention held at Jackson, Miss., in 1887, receiving 
from the citizens there a public testimonial of 
their appreciation of his labors. He has been 
President of the Wisconsin Editorial Associa- 
tion two years and has come to a prominent 
position as a newspaper man in the Badger 
State and, although ])ublisliing a journal with 
a specific purpose, his infiuence in the craft is 
properly recognized. In fact, whatever Gov- 
ernor Hoard does, he does with the might of a 
man of honest convictions which sum up 
energy, intelligence and skilled judgment. 

Governor Hoard has never been a politician 
in any sense in which tliat term is commonly 
ajiplied. He exercises great energy in j)ressing 
wliatever engages his interest and wdiich he 
believes to possess claims demanding the at- 
tention of refiective friends of the common 
welfare ; and in the jiolitical arena might have 
won distinction at an early period of his life. 
He served as Sergeant-at-Arms in the Wiscon- 
sin Senate in 1872, but had already fixed on 
the business to which he devoted his time until 
his nomination for the place of chief executive 
of Wisconsin in 1888. In the spring of that 
year he was named by the Milwaukee Sciitind 
for nomination by the Kcpublican gubernatorial 
convention, which was received with favor 
throughout the State and supported by other 
journals, and he received the nomination on 
the first ballot in the convention of August. 
He received 175, 669 votes against 153,423 for 
the Democratic candidate, 14,373 Prohibitionist, 
and 0,196 on the Labor ticket. In a less 



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prominent capacity he has acted in tlie munici- 
jial oliices at Fort Atkinson and in every posi- 
tion of trust has exercised the traits of char- 
acter whose recognition has called hiin to places 
of honor, because places of trust. 

Governor Hoard is a man whose entire record 
reflects honorably on his manly character. 
" He is ready to act " is perhaps his best tribute 
of worth. His sensibilities are keen, his tastes 
correct, his character spotless. In temperament 
he is genial, warm and reliable. His intellect 
is far above the average and in his intercourse 
with the public he has made and bound to 
himself a constituency of friends whose fidelity 
to him is rivaled only by liis to them. He 
never fails to win a friend — never loses a friend. 

He was married Feb. 9, 18(30, to Agnes E., 
daughter of William and A. E. (Edgerton) 
Bragg, of Lake Mills, Wis. Tliey have three 
sons named Albert Louis, Ralj)h Artiiur and 
Frank Wai'd. 

The portrait of Governor Hoard is presented 
on page 196. 



IDXEY W. HART, Whitewater, Wis., 



member of G. A. R. Post No. 190, at 
Manchester, Iowa, was born in Geneva, 
Ashtabula, Co., Ohio, and is the son of Elijah 
and Cynthia (Williams) Hart. He is of almost 
unmixed Yankee origin, save a half strain of 
Pennsylvania Dutch l)lood he inherits from his 
mother. His parents belonged to the agricul- 
tural class and he was reared to that calling, 
which he followed until his lawful service to 
his father was rendered and until he entered 
the army at the age of 26 years. He felt it his 
duty from the beginning of the struggle to be- 
come a soldier and he enlisted Aug. 20, 1861, 
in Company F, 2d Ohio Cavalry. He joined 
his regiment in rendezvous at Cleveland, where 




he drilled and received instruction in cavalry 
tactics. After passing the time from Decem- 
ber, 1862, to February, 1863, at Camp Denison, 
tlie regiment received orders to go to Foit 
Leavenworth, and thence went on a long march 
to Fort Scott, where they were assigned to the 
Western Department under General Hunter. 
The headcjuarters were at Fort Scott, where the 
regiment was divided into battalions; a part 
remaining there performing provost duty and 
one company being detailed as body guard to 
General Blunt. Company F was assigned to 
escort trains between the forts, and its members 
were in constant activity, defending their 
charges from the Indians and rebels, tlie for- 
mer being allies of the confederates. They 
went as far as Fort Gibson. They had frequent 
encountei'S witii the gueri'illas of Quantrell and 
Coffey and onh' escaped destruction l)y alert- 
ness. They had lost their Colonel by promo- 
tion in the spring of 1862, and in the fall of 
the same year Colonel Kauntz assumed com- 
mand of the regiment. The new official sum- 
moned the regiment together and under orders 
from the Secretary of War, the command, leav- 
ing all equipments at Leavenworth, retgrned 
to Columbus to receive new outfits throughout 
in the way of ecpiipments. All the soldiers be- 
longing to the regiment were subjected to 
medical examination, and such as were con- 
sidered permanently disabled were discharged. 
Mr. Hart, who had been promoted to the posi- 
tion of Corporal, was condemned as to health 
on surgeon's certificate, and received honorable 
discharge Feb. 9, 1863, and returned to his for- 
mer home, where he remained in idleness, en- 
deavoring to recruit his health. When he was 
well he went to Wisconsin, locating at White- 
water and entering the employ of H. A. Conger 
& Co., as representative salesman. After a time 
he again determined to enli.st and enrolled in 
Company E, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, 



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Sept. 1, 1864. He joined tlie command at 
Madison, whence it was .sent to tlic defenses in 
and about the Federal capital, Battery E being 
a.ssigned to duty at Fort Lyon, Alexandria. 
Tiie labor of the several varieties of drill was 
severe and Mr. Hart continued at Fort Lyon, 
acquiring a knowledge of every sort of military 
service except cavalry, until the end of the 
war, and received his discharge as Sergeant (to 
which he was elected on the formation of the 
organization,) -June 2G, ISGo. Soon after re- 
ceiving his pay at Camp Washburn, Milwau- 
kee, he went to Iowa, wliere he established 
himself in the hotel business, operating in that 
avenue many years. In 1889 he returned to 
Whitewater, locating permanently. He was 
married Feb. 13, 1856, to Caroline P. Cole, of 
Painesville, Oliio. Their only child is named 
Elmer S. Hart. Mr. Hare is a member of the 
Order of Msisonry, is a Republican of decided 
stamp and records himself as one of the Aboli- 
tionists of the old Western Reserve. 



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LIVER A. FRIDDLE, Mdton, Wi.s., 
■ a member of G. A. R. Post No. (SO, 
was V)ftrn Jan. 24, 1840, in Germany. 
In 1849 Tiis parents came to America, locating 
in .Jefferson Co., Wis., where they lived and 
died. In ISoC) the son removed to Janesville, 
residing there until ISlil. When the first shot 
of the rebellion called from Sumter for de- 
fenders of the insulted flag of a united Nation, 
Mr. Friddle felt it his duty to enter the army. 
He enlisted April 20, 1801, in Company D, 2d 
Wisconsin Infantry (Captain Ely), was mustered 
.June lull, left Wisconsin on tlie 20th and 
reached Washington June 2.5th. He camped 
on Glh street, moved across the Potomac July 
2d, started for Richmond July 10th, and two 
davs after was in line as reserve at Blackburn's 



Ford. In that action Company B suffered the 
loss of one mortally wounded and two others 
injured. Tiie regiment lay at C^jnterville 
until July 21st and on that historic day he was 
engaged during the forenoon in supporting 
Pickett's battery. In the afternoon he went on 
the double-quick to "the right'' and thence to 
the opposite side of the field, leaving equip- 
ments on the way. The regiment was badly 
disorganized in the action, Mr. Friddle becoming 
separated from his command and making his 
way to the rear as he best could, with his gun 
and shoes in either hand. He found a jtortiun 
of the "2d" at Centerville and went to Fort 
Corcoran. He went thence, later, to Calorama 
Heights where the consolidation was made, 
which afterwards became famous as the "Iron 
Brigade." (Mr. Friddle's recollection is that it 
received its distinguishing title after South 
Mountain.) Here he was ill of mea.sles and re- 
joined his company in Virginia. He performed 
.scout and camp duty until he went into winter 
quarters at Camp Tillinghast, in the rear of 
the Arlington House, and on ground now 
known as the "National Cemetery." He passed 
the time in guard duty about the headquarters 
of Generals McDowell and King, (see sketch), 
and in picket and .scout duty until spring, when 
he was in the movement to Manassas of wooden 
gun notoriety. Mr. Friddle participi\ted in the 
severe duties jierformed in the vicinity of 
Fredericksburg under McDowell and was 
among the re-enforcements which moved to 
support the action at Cedar Mountain, but ar- 
rived too late for action. August 28th he was 
in the hot fight at Gainesville, engaged in the 
all-day struggle in which the "Big Hat" 
brigade passed the day without re-enforcements. 
The wounded were provided for but the dead 
lay unburied more than a year. Mr. Friddle 
carried a wotnided comrade named Joe Trum- 
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action. He was in the " 2d Bull Run " two 
days after, the brigade fighting Iheir way out 
of an ambuscade, so to speak. September 14th, 
he fought at South Mountain where the clothing 
was torn from his shoulders by a sliell. Sep- 
tember 17th he was at Antietam, receiving- 
three bullets in his clothing and kna[)sack,and 
was the only man in liis company not killed or 
wounded. He was in the operations of Burn- 
side at Fredericksburg, participating in the 
" mud campaign " and started in April, 1863, 
with the command for active operations. He 
crossed the Ra]ipahannock and wemto fight at 
Chancellorsville. June 12tli the marcii to 
Gettysburg commenced and on that date a de- 
serter from the IDth Indiana, was shot. On the 
first day on that field, the 2d Wisconsin under 
Colonel Fairchild led a charge in which Mr. 
Friddle was wounded at" the outset. A bullet 
struck him in the left side and knocked liim 
down. In a moment lie heard a sound and 
saw General Reynolds with two of his staff 
galloping forward. Almost instantly tliC Gen- 
eral seemed sinking and slid off the left side of 
his horse, the momentum of the animal causing 
his body to slide along the ground. In another 
moment Colonel Fairchild rode past toward the 
rear, calling to know if his men were wounded. 
Mr. Friddle answered "yes" and the Colonel 
showed him his dangling, useless arm, hanging 
loosely from his shoulder. Mr. Friddle hobbled 
to the Lutheran Theological Seminary at the 
rear, but was forced to move from his resting 
place under the trees by the missiles of war 
which fell thick and fast. On his way toward 
the town he was overtaken and passed by a 
stretcher bearing Colonel Fairchild, looking 
like a dead man from loss of blood. 'Sir. 
Friddle obtained siielter in town, but it fell into 
the hands of the rebels and he jumped through 
a window, escaping capture also by vaulting 
over a high board fence. The needs of others 



in worse condition left no time for him and he 
was hurried to the rear, going to hospital at 
Germantown where his injury first received 
attention. He passed five months under treat- 
ment and was recommended for the Veteran 
Reserve, but he insisted on returning to his 
regiment which he did in the winter following. 
He veteranized and on his return from his 
furlough he was taken sick at AVashington 
about April 1st, found he had the small pox 
and went to hospital north of Georgetown. 
After 14 days he was sent to his regiment at 
Culpeper and participated in the movements 
of Grant in the spring campaign of 1804. May 
5th, in the Battle of the Wilderness, he received 
a bullet in his right thigh and was sent from 
the field to West Hospital at Baltimore. His 
wound was obstinate in healing and before it 
entirely closed he went to join the " Independ- 
ent Battalion " which had been organized, the 
regiment proper having been mustered out 
June 11th. He was in the activities of tiie re- 
constructed 2d, a.ssisted in the destruction of 
the Weldon railroad and fought at Hatcher's 
Run. He participated in all the experiences 
of the command until the close of the war, 
took part in the Grand Review, and was mus- 
tered out of service with his regiment at Madi- 
son, July 14, 1865. In the fall of 1864 he was 
made Sergeant and was afterward promoted to 
2d Sergeant. He has been a resident of Milton 
since the war, where he has operated as a 
blacksmith. 



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/^^ HARLES BANNISTER, Troy Center, 
\v^xV/ ^^''^'^^'O'"''!^ ^0., Wis., a member of G. 
^i^ A. R. Post, No. 171, at East Troy, was 
born Nov. 8, 1845, in Mukwonago, Waukesha 
Co., Wis., and is the son of Dr. Charles B. and 
Maria W. (Lawrence) Bannister. His father 
was born at Bennington, A'ermont,.in 1816, and 



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was reared to manhood in his native State, 
wliere he studied inedieine witli his fatiier and 
removed to Eagle, Wis., in 1842, where lie be- 
came a pioneer farmer and physician. He is 
still living and engaged in the practice of his 
profession. The mother of Mr. Bannister was 
born April 11, 1822, in Wampsville, Madison 
Co., New York, and was married to Dr. Ban- 
nister when she was 19 years old and accom- 
panied him to Wisconsin. Her ancestors were 
natives of the Empire State. In 18G6 the 
family removed to Eagle, where she died June 
June 21, 1878. Of their three children only 
Mr. Bannister of this sketch is living. Emma 
died in 1864, aged 16 years, and Venora died 
some years later. Charles was reared as the 
son of a pioneer on a farm in Mukwonago, and 
when 17 years old enlisted in the 2Stli Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, but parental authority prevented 
his departure with the command, although 
every influence w_as brought to bear to that 
effect. When he was 19, Feb. 10, 1865, he en- 
listed in Company E, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, 
for one year or during the war. He was mus- 
tered at Madison, went to Louisville, and thence 
to Athens, Ala., where he was occui)ied until 
his discharge in camp and guard duty on the 
Nashville it Decatur railroad. He contracted 
malarial fever, from which he was in hospital 
several weeks, and also found entertainment in 
chasing guerrillas. Sept. 27, 1865, he received 
honorable discharge and returned to his home, 
where he operated on the farm about two years. 
Since that date he has been occupied in an im- 
portant position by the Chicago, Milwaukee & 
St. Paul radroad corporation. He was mar- 
ried Sept. 18, 1870, to Esther Morrow, a native 
of the North of Ireland. Her parents, Thomas 
and Mary (Lackey) Moi'row, were of the race 
of Scotch- Irish, coming to this country when 
their daughter was five years old, and she was 
the fourth in order of birth of their five chil- 



dren. They located in Walworth, and the 
father died in 1863; her mother is still living 
in Troy. Mr. and Mrs. Bannister have four 
sons, born and named as follows: Harvey, 
Aug. 24, 1871; Byron B., Aug. lo, 1875; 
Charles B., July 6, 1880; Harry H., April 27, 
1882. Mr. Bannister is a prominent citizen of 
Troy Center and is a member of Royal Arch 
Masons at Elkhorn, Wis. 



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j AMES D. LINZEY, Decatur, Green Co., 
Wis., a charter member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 90, was born at Orangeport, Niagara 
Co., New York, May 10, 1836. His father, 
Datus Linzey, was born in the Dominion of 
Canada, and went to the State of New York in 
1829 where he married Eunice Patterson: he 
lost his life by an accident while working on 
the locks at Lockport, New York, when his 
only child was three j'ears old, leaving his 
wife unprovided for. She was born Jul}' 28, 
1817, in Williamsfield, N. Y., and was the 
daughter of Jessie and Pattie (Groves) Pat- 
terson. Her father was born June 8, 
1761, in Brimtield, Ma.ss., and was a patriot 
of the Revolution, dying Dec. 11, 1852, in 
Royalton, Niagara Co., N. Y. Iler mother 
was born in Colerain, Mass., July 5, 1790, and 
died Feb. 7, 185;j. Mrs. Lin/.ej' is one of 
four children — a sou and thi'ee daughters; 
and only herself and a sister, Mrs. Lucy 
Simon.s, survive; the mother learned the 
business of a tailoress and sustained herself and 
child, removing to Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, 
where she still resides, aged 74 years. Tlic 
father was the single member of his family 
who removed to the States. 

When her son was si.x years old the mother 
of Mr. I>inzey went to Albion, N. Y., and when 



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he was 10 years old he took upon himself the 
burden of his own support which he lias never 
transferred to another. He liecame the friend 
and assistant of a sporting man named Jerome 
Hard}-, and rode his horses privately until he 
was capable of doing so in a profitable manner 
and, when lie was 13 years old, he rode a win- 
ning race on a running horse in favor of his 
employer, who retained his services several 
years and lie rode the winning horse on many 
occasions. The mother married James H. 
Hart, of Ashtabula Co., Ohio. AVhen he was 
19 years old Mr. Linzey engaged in an inde- 
pendent enterprise as a horse trainer and 
operated two years at Buffalo, going to St. 
Louis, Mo., where he was pursuing his business 
when the local interests were thrown in chaos 
by the advent of civil war. He sold out (at a 
sacrifice of §7,000) expecting to enlist in tlie 
14th Missouri Infantry, but went to Illinois and 
enlisted at Alton, May 28, 1861, in Company 
D, 2d UHnois Cavalry. He was mustered at 
Springfield, June 13th, and after a montii in 
Cairo went successively with the regiment in 
cavalry movements to Fort Holt, Ky., Bird's 
Point, Mo., and Carbondale, 111., where the 
troops drilled on the farm of General Logan. 
In order to preserve the crops from injury the 
cavalry drilled on a new piece of land where 
stumps were abundant. Many accidents oc- 
curred, Mr. Linzey being tiirovvn by a vicious 
]ior.«e and bis arm literally "smashed." His 
aversion to tiie hospital was so great tiiat he 
determined to bear everything and accompanied 
his command to Fort Holt, Clarksville, Mo., 
Cape Girardeau, Bloomington, Clarksville and 
other places on the intermediate routes, per- 
forming cavaliy service all the time. During 
the spring and summer of 1862 the regiment 
was constantly on tlie move until the fall of 
New Madrid, where Mr. Linzey was placed under 
guard and sent to the hospital, but made his 



escape and rejoined his regiment at Memphis, 
where he was taken to hospital again, to be 
transferred six weeks later to hospital at Mound 
City, 111., where he was discharged under Gen- 
eral Order relieving all disabled men, Jan. 15, 
1863. He went sti'aight back to his company 
and reported to General Grant for duty, who 
detailed him as a scout in secret service. He 
was in the fight at Little Eock, carrying a mus- 
ket and performed scouting duty thereabouts 
for two montiis, when he was ordered to report 
for duty to Colonel Hardy of the 14th Missouri. 
After five months he went to Bloomington as a 
scout for General Davidson and, two months 
later, went to General Carr at Little Rock, re- 
maining with him until July IS, 1865, — and was 
captured twice by Quantrell and his Lieutenant, 
Jesse James, on the same service, — when 
he received final discharge. During his ex- 
periences as a scout Mr. Linzey passed through 
many perilous incidents, being captured once 
at Circe, near Little Rock, and making his 
escape after four days by eluding his captors. 
Once he gave a guard a countersign and as he 
rode past, the man's piece was accidentally dis- 
charged which terrified his horse and he had 
to run the gauntlet of a line of Union soldiers 
who believed him a fugitive. His former resi- 
dence in St. Louis, combined with his business 
there wrought him much good, as his acquaint- 
ances were ignorant of his entering the Union 
army. The soldiers of the 14th Missouri con- 
fiscated a vaiualile habit, saddle and bridle be- 
longing to the daughter of General Price and 
Mr. Linzey, formerly known to her father as a 
horse dealer, kindly offered his services to re- 
cover the property. General Price gave iiini a 
pass which perijiitted him to visit any and all 
rebel posts and he visited 57 camps and forti- 
fications, ostensibly in pursuit of the l)usiness 
which sent him forth in Union interests. The 
pass had been countersigned by Jeff Davis, 



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(ulio was buried on the clay this sketch was 
transcribed, Dec. IJ, 1889). 

After the war, Mr. Linzey went into the same 
business at Barry, Pike Co., IIL, dealt in horses 
two years, mariied and bouglitafarni on wliich 
lie located. Tlie ne.\t year lie farmed in 
McLean Co., III., and in 187U went to Brod- 
head, Wis., and purcliased his agricultural 
propertj' in tlie vicinity. He was married Oct. 
20, 1867, to Emma, daughter of Andrew Booth, 
and born in Pennsylvania, whence she was 
taken by her parents when a year old to Barry, 
where her mother is .still living aged 90 years; 
her father died in 1873. One child born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Linzey died in infancy; Eunice 
L was born Sept. 30, 1868 ; Hattie F., Dec. 7, 
1869; Effie L., April 29, 1874; Jay IL, Feb. 20, 
1880. 

Mrs. Linzey is one of the charter members of 
the Woman's Relief Corps at Brodliead and she 
and her hu-!iaiid are prominent members of 
the organizations to which they belong. 




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^v^=^ HARLES KNUTSON, (Army Register 
K Hudson), Menomonie, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was born May 
14, 1839, in Christiana, Norway, and is the 
only son of Knud Halvorson and Bertha Maria 
Peterson. His fatlier and mother died wliile 
he was an infant and lie was reared by an uncle 
and aunt, coming to America in 1861, landing 
in the spring at Quebec and coming direct to 
Menomonie, where he had relatives. He en- 
gaged in the lumljer business and worked for 
Ihe same tirin until he enlisted at Menomonie 
and was mustered Sept. 13, .1862, in the 5tli 
Wisconsin Infantry in Company K, which 
was recruited at Menomonie by Captain 
Mott, and he went from rendezvous at Madi- 
son to the regiment, joining it just after 



the fight at Antietam in Hancock's Bri- 
gade, 1st Division, 6th Corps. After re- 
maining in camp at Ilagerstown until De- 
cember, they crossed the Rappahannock to 
fight at Frederiek.sburg. At Hagerstown the 
companies were reorganized, Mr. Knutson be- 
ing jilaced in Company G. The winter was 
passed at Belle Plain until the Mud Campaign, 
after wliich the regiment remained there until 
spring, when the " Light Division " was organ- 
ized, including five regiments, and in April 
went on the campaign of the Rappahannock, 
forming the skirmish line on tiie Fredericks- 
burg and Chancellorsville road. Mr. Knutson 
was in the picket line and from the deep bed 
of the road, which served as breastworks, at 
ilaylight May 1st, he saw rebel heads jioji uji all 
along tiie line, followed by the sort of inter- 
course called " blackguarding." The firing 
commenced about 11 o'clock and in a half hour 
sujiport came, the lines being doubled. The 
troops made their charge and drove tiie rebel 
line, taking several prisoners. This opened 
the road to Fi'edericksburg and ended the fight- 
ing of May 2d, and on the 3d tiie regiment 
marched into Fredericksburg, formed a line in 
front of Marye's Heights, about 400 yards from 
the line of rebel works, where they stayed two 
hours drawing the fire of the batteries and 
practically without protection. About 1 1 o'clock 
Colonel Allen w'alked in front of them, under 
fire, and addressed them as follows, which was 
distinctly heard liy them: " Boys, do you see 
those Heights? You have got to take them! 
You think you cannot do it; but you can! 
You will doit! Wiien the order " Forward " 
is given, you will start at double-quick — you 
will not tire a gun — you will not stop until you 
get the order to halt ! You will never get that or- 
der!" An order followed and the charge was 
made on the double-quick amidst the shells of 
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behind stone walls. The rifle pits were first 
taken and the men climbed to the top, taking 
the Itatteries. Mr. Knutson was wounded just 
as lie entered one of the rifle pits by a sharp- 
shooter, the ball entering his right shoulder 
and knocking liira down. By the time support 
came he was on his feet and aided in taking 
the batteries and remained with the regiment 
during the day, loss of blood compelling him 
to go to the Corps hospital at night to have 
iiis hurt dressed. The command could not 
hold the position sogaljantly taken, and retired 
during (he night across the Rappahannock 
River, Mr. Knutson remaining a few days at 
hospital at Belle Plain and afterwards rejoining 
bis companj'. In June the regiment crossed 
the river and skirmished with the rebels while 
their army was crossing on the way to Penn- 
sylvania, and while on the march to Gettysburg 
the gun and knapsack of Mr. Knutson were 
carried for him to enable him to keep up, and 
he arrived on that field with his regiment 
about noon, July 2, 1863, after marching all 
night. The regiment was held in reserve 
through the succeeding fighting, exposed to 
constant fire from the batteries. During the 
night of July 3d they were in position on 
Little Round To]) and Mr. Knutson, in the pur- 
suit after the rebels on the 4th, had to take a 
gun from the field. The regiment was in the 
advance on the -retreat and went into camp 
near Warrenton. About two weeks later the 
command was ordered to New York to aid in 
quelling the draft riots, and the companies 
were distributed at various points. Company G 
being stationed at Poughkeepsie, and there 
drew clothes and money. About the middle 
of October, the rebels cro-ssed the Rappahan- 
nock and the regiment received orders to re- 
turn to camp at Warrenton, and, November 
7th, was in the charge on the fortifications 
at Rappahannock Station, taking position 



about 10 o'clock, 600 yards in front of the 
works. A conference followed as to the best 
plan of taking them, and General Russell snid 
he could take them without aid from the 6th 
Corps. Sedgwick told him to proceed and he 
deployed half of the 5th Wisconsin and 6th 
Maine on the skirmisli line and tlie other half 
as support and gave the order to charge. While 
moving on the double quick, the discovery was 
made that the guns were not loaded nor 
bayonets fixed, and they .stopped in the midst 
of a sliower of shot and canister. The skir- 
mishers charged and were repulsed, but the 
support rushed forward and took the forts, cap- 
turing a battery of six guns and many prison- 
ers. Seven full regiments were defending the 
forts and seven regimental colors were taken. 
Mr. Knutson was struck by a ball on his foot 
and by another in his haversack, whicli spoiled 
the hardtack he had left. On the morning 
after the battle they crossed tlie Rappahannock 
and went into winter quarters at Brandy Sta- 
tion. November '24th they were ordered out 
to the Mine Run fight for naught and went to 
the campaign of the Wilderness in the spring. 
During the winter a call was made for naval 
recruits and, as Mr. Knutson had had experi- 
ence on the sea in his youth, he enlisted as a 
sailor on the gunboat Proteus, and was sent to 
Baltimore for examination and thence to the 
naval station at Key West to the Proteus and 
engaged in cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, and 
participated in the bombardment of Galveston. 
During the cruise the Proteus captured several 
valuable blockade runners and returned to 
! New York after the war, leaving Key West the 
1st of May. Mr. Knutson was placed on the 
receiving ship. North Carolina, and was mus- 
tered out June 7, 1860, and returned to Menom- 
onie. He engaged with the firm for which he 
had formerly worked, remaining with them 
until the fall of 1888, engaged as a saw filer. 



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In 1879-80 he was Town Treasurer. At tlie 
election in tlie fall of 1888 he was tlie successful 
candidate on the Republican ticket for Register 
of Deeds of Dunn County and is serving in 
that official position. 

He was married June 14, 1867, at Menomo- 
nie to Caroline, daughter of Ole Evenson, and 
tiie oldest of ten children: she was very 
patriotic and active in aiding tlie Cnion cause, 
taking a deep interest in the soldiers and their 
welfare. Her fatlier is a farmer by occupation, 
has resided in Dunn County since 18.57, and is 
one of the oMesl and most substantial citizens. 
Mr. Knutson by marriage has one son, Oscar. 
Mr. Knutson is a member of the A. O. U. W. 



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^v^Y^ HARLEB FRANTZ, Kenosha, Wis., 
member of (J. A. R. Post No. 230, was 
iKirn ill Minden, Westphalia, Germany, 
.June 21, 1810, and is the son of Frederick and 
Dora Frantz. 11 is father was a teacher in the 
public schools of Minden 55 years and is now, 
at the age of 82 years, living in retirement on 
half pay in Minden where his wife died. In 
1855 Mr. Frantz and his sister Dora came to 
America. (His father's family included five 
children, llerman, his twin brother, is the 
only one deceased ; Fritz is the eldest; Dora is 
Mrs. Henry ReinboU, of Kenosha; .Julia is the 
youngest.) They landed at the port of New 
York in February, ]8.")5, and went directly to 
Kenosha. Mr. Frantz worked on a faiiii for a 
short time, when he went to Ciiicago and en- 
gaged as a clerk in a grocery and was so occu- 
pied successively at St. Louis and Davenport, 
Iowa, and linally returned in 1850 to Kenosha 
where he engagccl in tlu' same occupation with 
R. H. Winslow. 

When the recruiting olliee for the Itth Wis- 
consin Infantry was opi'Ut'd at Kenosha, he was 



appointed recruiting officer and enrolleil a 
number of men. On the organization of the 
connnand he was made Second Lieutenant of 
Company C, his commission dating Sejiteniber 
7, 1861. He was mustered under it October 
2<Jth and left the State Jan. 22, 1862, for Fort 
Leavenworth, Kansas, where he expected to take 
part in the expedition under General Lane, and 
a long march to Fort Scott was experienced to 
little purpose. When they moved subsequently 
to Baxter's Springs, they had plenty of mis- 
cellaneous military duty in the way of lighting 
guerrillas and rebel Indians. Through the 
difficulties with Colonel Wier, the regiment 
suffered needlessly from marching and when 
transferred to Salomon's management they i)ro- 
ceeded to Fort Scott. A\'lien the .Vrmy of the 
Frontier was organiz.ed, the 9tb was assigned 
to the 1st Brigade under Salomon. March 10, 
1862, Mr. Frantz was promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant of Company A. .V ]iart (if tlie regiment 
were in the fight at Newtonia and sufiered 
severely. The command afterwar<ls moved to 
reinforce the troops fighting at Prairie Grove, 
Mo., marching on the double-quick 55 miles in 
a few hours to reach there at nightfall after the 
battle was over, as it proved, the rebels muliiing 
their wheels and retreating in the night. The 
command remained at Prairie Grove or Rheas' 
Mills ami was in various expeditions. Mr. 
Frantz engaged as a scout and in forag- 
ing and skirmishing until the regiment went 
to St. Louis, where thej* performed guard 
duty. They went thence to Helena and next 
to Little Rock. Dec. 25, 1862, Lieutenant 
Frantz was commissioned Captain of Comjiany 
G. He was in an expedition to the White 
River, going to Duvall's Hlutf. After several 
raids and skirmishes through the winter, the\- 
remained in the vicinity of Little Rock, Ark. 
They had been assigned to the 7th Corps under 
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oil the Red River expeilitioii. While endeavor- 
ing to do so, the regiment was constantly under 
assault from guerrillas and fought in skirmishes 
which partook of tiie character of battles in 
importance. An action with the troops of 
Marmaduke detained them until news was re- 
ceived of tlie failure of Banks, wlien Steele set 
out on his return to Little Rock with every 
])romise of a battle on tlie way. The outlook 
was good for, April 80th at Jenkins' Ferr}', 
Ark., the enemy under Kirby Smith and 
Price, engaged the Union troops. The fight- 
ing commenced before seven in the morn- 
ing and while the Union troops were cross- . 
ing the river, Captain Frantz was shot in his 
left arm by a minie ball. He was taken pris- 
oner and witii half a hundred wounded men 
passed three days in a small log cabin. On the 
first morning a dozen were found dead. The 
rest were marched to Princeton, where Captain 
Frantz sutt'ered amputation of his arm, the 
regimental surgeon having been retained with 
the wounded. Four weeks later he went with 
the others to Tyler, Texas, to the stockade 
prison, where they were exchanged in February, 
1865, and marclied thence to the mouth of the 
Red River, barefooted and under strict guard. | 
Their prison fare was about a pint of cornmeal 
daily and a small amount of meat once a week. 
Sometimes they had nothing but unground corn. 
They went thence to New Orleans and, four 
weeks later, joined their regiment at Little 
Rock. Captain Frant/. received a furlough, as 
he was very feeble and after his arrival at home 
was discharged under General Order No. 15, 
issued May 15th for the discharge of all officers 
then on furlough. Pie proceeded to St. Louis, 
Mo., where lie was mustered out. He returned 
to Kenosha where he resumed the duties of 
civil life and gave his attention to recovering 
his health. His straightforward career in 
private as iu soldier's life recommended him 



for po.sitions of trust and, in the spring of 1S6G 
he was elected City Treasurer and was twice re- 
elected. In the fall of 1868 he was elected 
Register of Deeds. He was appointed Post- 
master at Kenosha, was re-appointed suc- 
cessively in 1873, 1877 and 1881, and field the 
position until August, 188G, when his successor 
was sworn in. In .January, 1887, he was ap- 
pointed to a position in the land office at Madi- 
son, in which he served until June following, 
when he met with an accident which disabled 
him for life. He was crossing the track at 
Kenosha depot when the cable of a gravel 
train broke and struck him in the back, throw- 
ing his body into the air. He was taken home, 
remained unconscious several weeks and did 
not leave his bed for seven months. Captain 
Frantz has borne his misfortune with the same 
fortitude and courage which characterized his 
career as a soldier. He has always been an 
honored citizen of Kenoslia, commanding the ■ 
respect and confidence of the community and 
his name honors the page of history. 

He was married Feb. 17, 1870, to Angeline, 
daughter of Joseph and Angeline (Brooks) 
Martin and their children are named Charles 
G., Albert W., Ralph H., Mamie C, Lulu B. 
and Dora M. The parents of the wife and 
mother died in Kenosha. 

ILLIAM A. LOGAN, Eagle, Wis., 
a prominent business man and 
■^^jL. formerly a member of Franklin 
Bigelow Post, No. 167, while it was in exist- 
ence, was born Oct. 11, 1842, in Nova Scotia, 
and is the son of John A. and Margaret (Mc- 
Donald) Logan. The father was born in Nova 
Scotia and the motlier in Glasgow, Scotland. 
Their family included eight children and three 
sons and two daughters are still living. Wlien 




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William was ahinU t'uur years olJ his parents 
removed to Bangor, Maine, and three years 
later they located in Waukesha Co., Wis. 
Soon after the father and oldest daughter died, 
leaving seven children for the motiier to pro- 
vide for as hest she could. The son, being a 
boy of independent character, when eight years 
old went to live with a fanner, with whom he 
remained until the family was reunited under 
the roof tree of John Oriflilh, a farmer, to 
whom the naother was married. William at- 
tended school when opportunity served and 
worked on t!ie farm until he entered the army. 
He enlisted Nov. 11, 18lJl, in Company K, 1st 
Wisconsin Cavalry, at Eagle and went to Keno- 
sha, where he was mustered at Camp Harvey, 
going thence to St. Louis, and, after passing the 
intervening time until April in Henton Bar- 
racks, the regiment went down the river on 
transports to Cape Girardeau and operated dur- 
ing the following summer in scouting and skir- 
mishing with the guerrillas of Quantrell, Mar- 
inaduke and Mosby. June 12, 1862, Mr. Logan 
was seriously injured by a fall from his horse, 
which cri]>pled his right arm and shoulder. 
No medical aid was at hand, the surgeon. Dr. 
Gregory, having been killed on the 11th day 
of the month at Chalk Bluffs by a rebel sharp- 
shootei-. After five days Mr. Logan went to 
Bloomfield, 30 miles distant from the camp, 
where for the first lime his injuries received 
medical attention. He remained a day in hos- 
pital, received a 20-day furlough and returned 
to Eagle, reporting at Madison on the expira- 
tion of his leave of absence. He was there ex- 
amined and discharged as unfit for militiiry 
duty, July 22,1862. He carried his arm in a 
sling nearly a year and, after supervising the 
work on his mother's farm through the sum- 
mer of 1803, in the fall of 1SU4 he went to 
Washington, D. C, to enlist in a battery of 
Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, but the command 



was filled and, after staying at the Capital 
some time, he returned to Eagle. He learned 
that the 4t)th Wisconsin Infantry was in process 
of organization and, Feb. 7, 1865, he enlisted in 
Company E and went from camp of rendezvous 
at Madison to Louisville, en route to Athens, 
Ala., where the regiment was assigned to duty 
on the Nashville & Decatur railroad. He 
served as Corporal of his company and was oc- 
casionally engaged with the rebels in slight 
encounters, his military service there compar- 
ing very favorably with his earlier experiences. 
He was mustered out at Niishville, Tenn., Sep- 
tember 27th, and was discharged at Madison 
three or four days later. 

He returned to Eagle, Wis., and engaged iij 
farming. In the fall of IsOtihe married Mary 
L. Ackley, a resident and native of Walworth 
county. Mrs. Logan is the daughter of Charles 
and Louisa (Bunker) Ackley, farmers of Wal- 
worth county, where the father is still living. 
He was formerly a lake caj)tain. The mother 
died in 1808. After marriage, Mr. and Mrs. 
Logan went to Winnesheik Co., Iowa, and re- 
turned after a year to Eagle. He engaged 
again in farming and also in expressing mer- 
chandise to Milwaukee, in which he was en- 
gaged until 187"), when he became interested 
in lumber business at Eagle, in which he 
operated 13 years. The firm with which he 
was connected dissolved partnershi]) and Mr. 
Logan was occupied in a hotel at Waukesha 
three summers. In 1887 he engaged in lum- 
ber interests at Eagle, and in October, 1888, he 
commenced to buy grain for F. Kraus A Co , 
of .Milwaukee, grain merchants, and is managei' 
of the elevator at Eagle. His family includes 
three daughters, named Anna M., Gertrude L. 
and Edith M. Mr. Logan is a member of the 
Order of Modern W'oodmen. He had three 
brothers in the civil war. George enlisted July 
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fuiitrj', and fought at Perryville, Stone River 
and Cliickaniauga, being shot to deatli in the 
latter tiglit, Sept. 20, 1863. John A. Logan 
enlisted in Company I, 13th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, an<l died from injuries received in serv- 
ice. Robert M. was a member of the 7th Bat- 
tery, Wisconsin Light Artillery, and is now 
(1889) Clerk of tlie Circuit Court at Philips, 
Price Co., Wis. He is also engaged in lumber 
business. 



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c;/,A\^ HARLES E. HARRIS, Palmyra, Wis., 
'O^; u former soldier of the civil war, was 
i)orn near Newburg, Orange Co., New 
York, (Jet. 7, 1841, and in 1856 accompanied 
his parents, Abram and Eliza A. (Mitchell) 
Harris, both of whom were natives of New 
York, to .Jefl'erson Co.,^\'is., and they afterward 
located at Palmyra, where the father is still 
living on a farm. The mother died about 
1885. Mr. Harris passed his childhood and 
youth on the farm and at school and learned 
tiie trade of a harness maker. This was his oc- 
cupation until he entered the army. Aug. 11, 
1862, he enlisted in Company A, 1st Wisconsin 
Heavy Artiller}', and was mustered into service 
at Madison. The battery was sent forward 
thence to Arlington Heights and successively 
to several forts in the defenses of Washington, 
the company being detailed with heavy guns 
to attempt to reach Manassas during the second 
tight at Bull Run, but reached there in time 
only to perform some effective service on the 
Loudon railroad. The battery returned to 
Washington and during the Hnal months of its 
stay in the defenses of the Capital was stationed 
at Battery Rogers, where Mr. Harris performed 
severe labor in heavy and light artillerj' drill 
and in infantry practice. He was mustered 
out in August, 1865. He returned to Wiscon- 



sin and located at Palmyra, where he passed 
three months in recruiting his healtii, finally 
resuming his trade. Later lie went to Rome in 
.Jefierson county, where he conducted a harness 
shop. Four years after he returned to Palmyra, 
purchased a home and, a few years later, went 
to Whitewater, where he was again occupied in 
harness making until he hxed his permanent 
abode at Palmyra. He was married at Oak 
Hill, in 1866, to Adelia Brockway, a resident 
of Palmyra and a native of Ohio. Her father 
died in the Buckeye State when she was young 
and after her mother's second marriage she ac- 
companied her to Wisconsin ; her mother died 
at Wauwatosa in 1883. Mr. and Mrs. Harris 
have two daughters and two sons, named Eva, 
(Mrs. Stahl): Frank, (with the C. M. & St. P. 
R. R.); William and Ida. Mr. Harris is occu- 
pied in farming; while a resident at Whitewater 
he became a men:ber of the G. A. R. Post of 
that place. 



NTHONY HAMMOND, a charter mem- 
A ber of G. A, R. Post No. 27, at Lake 
Geneva, Wis., where he is a resident, 
was born in Ripon, North Riding, Yorkshire, 
England, .Jan. 16, 1838, in a house and on a 
farm on which his ancestors had lived for 
generations and whose succession had passed 
through four descendants named John, the last 
being his father. John and Elizabeth (Black- 
man) Hammond, his parents, whose family 
comprised 11 children — six sons and five 
daughters — lived and died on the home place. 
Fo\u' only of the sons came to America. Mr. 
Hammond passed his early life in the manner 
his ancestors had done, going to school a few 
weeks in the winter and working on the farm 
summers. When he was 14 years old he was 
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and, six uiontlis before liis indentures ex- 
pired, he came to America with his brotlier 
Ciiristoi)her, two others, named Jolin and Ed- 
mund, liaving preceded them in their removal 
to the New World. He was just at manliood 
when lie became a part of the New World, with 
its Ijusiness and its hurrying rush for place, 
and, after lantling at the port of New York, 
with his l)r()ther, he hastened to Racine, where 
he was occupied in gardening two years. His 
brother John died in 1862; Edmund lives in 
Nevada; Christopher is a wagon maker in 
Burlington, Racine county. Mr. Hammond 
resided in Racine until 18G7. He was occu- 
pied in vaiious employments until he obtained 
a situation as clerk in a drug store where he 
was interested when he enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, 
in Company A, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel 
Utley. After leaving the State the regiment 
went to Cincinnati which was in a considerable 
state of alarm from the threatening movements 
of Kirby Smith in Northern Kentucky, and, 
after crossing to Covington, they made various 
changes of base, finally going to Danville and 
tlience to Louisville and Nashville. In March 
they were in the reconnoisance to Spring Hill 
and in the action on the next day, Mr. Ham- 
mond escaping the general disaster which over- 
took tlie bulk of the troops at Thompson's 
Station only to be captured by Forrest, March 
25tli, while guarding a trestle at Brentwood 
Station, being taken before day and marching 
to Columbia. Thence they went to TuUahoma 
where they were stripped of everything which 
could be available to the rebels, sent to Rich- 
mond in cattle cars and passed a short time in 
Libby, whence they went on parole which they 
had received at Columbia to Annapolis and, 
after being clothed and supplied with other 
necessaries, they went to Baltimore and Pitts- 
burg en route to St. Louis, where they awaited 
exchange and went thence to join their com- 



mand at Murfreesboro in time to take jiart in 
the Atlanta campaign. There Mr. Hammond 
was assigned to the 9tii Ohio Battery and he 
was in the tight at Resaca, Buzzard's Roost and 
the various struggles known as Kenesaw Moun- 
tain. He fought at Culp's Hill, at Big Shanty 
and Peach Tree Creek and was in all the mis- 
cellaneous movements of the regiment until the 
fall of Atlanta in September. Ilis health had 
been failing and after the evacuation he was 
sent to Chattanooga to hospital No. 4, rejoining 
his company after two months at Goldsboro, 
the march to the sea having been accomplished. 
The actions in the Carolinas were the only 
tights in which his regiment was in\'olved in 
which he did not participate. He accompanied 
the command through Virginia to Alexandria 
and Wa.shington and received honorable dis- 
charge .lune 12, 1865. He returned to Racine 
where he engaged in railroad work and he re- 
mained until 1867, wlien he went to Elkhorn 
and thence after nine years to (iencva Lake, 
o])erating in both ))laces as a blacksmith and 
he is still engaged in that calling. 

He was married at Delavan, Wis., Aug. 8, 
1871, to Margaret, daughter of Thomas and 
I)iantha( Black man) Percy, a native of Vermont. 
Mr. and Mrs. Hammond have had several 
children, two of whom died in early childhood. 
Mary E. was born .July 8, 1872; Ann S., Aug. 
12, 1875; Chrisloi)her in 1881. The parents 
are communicants in the Episcopal Church at 
Geneva Lake. 



UGENE BARTLETT, a manufacturer 
^ of Brodhead, Wis., ami a member of 
G. A. R. Post No. 90, was born in 
Schuylerville, Saratoga Co., New York, .Jan. 7, 
1844. He traces his origin to an ancestor who 
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the Mayflower and whose descendants settled 
for successive generations in Massachusetts. 
His father and mother, L. G. and .Jane A. 
(Ellsworth) Bartlett, are still living in Brod- 
head. Natlian Bartlett, great grandfather of 
Eugene, resided at Royalston, Mass., and there 
married: his family included three sons nnd 
three^ daughters named Silas, Tra, Nathan, 
Sallie, (Mrs. Van Patent); Elizabeth, (Mrs. Col. 
Fisher), and Nancy, (Mrs. Gregory). Nathan 
Bartlett was born in Royalston, and married 
^hiry Miller, removing to Vermont about ISlO, 
and there engaged in farming until 1845, when 
he went to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in 
Newark, Rock county, which his son, L. C. 
Bartlett, had located the previous year. He 
died on the place at the age of 86 years. His 
family comprised 11 children, of whom his 
son, L. C, was sixth in order of birth. The 
latter was born at Waterford, Caledonia Co., 
Vermont, .Jan. 20, 1821, and resided in the 
Green Mountain State until 1854, when he went 
to Wisconsin, and after residing at Beloit two 
years went to Albany, Greeii county, and in 
1868 fixed his permanent residence at Brod- 
head, engaging in the manufacture of wagons 
and sleighs and other stock of the same char- 
acter, and is still actively occupied in the 
prosecution of his business, associated with his 
son. He is in firm, sound health and gives his 
personal attention to the details of his affairs 
daily. The mother of Mr. Bartlett is the 
(laughter of Charles and Mary Ellsworth ; her 
marriage took place in 1823 ; her children in- 
cluded six sons and a daughter, all iif whom 
are living, named in the order of their birth as 
follows: Eugene, George W., .John E., Emmett, 
Kate, (widow of H. T. Stewart of Brodhead), 
William and Charles. 

.John E. and Eugene enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, 
in Comjiany F, 31sl Wisconsin Infantry. After 
being mustered in in October, the company 



went to Prairie du Chien and performed guard 

duty over rebel prisoners and engaged in' drill 
practice until the final organization at Racine 
in .January, 1863; tliey left the State March 1st 
and went to Columbus, Ky., to Fort Halleck 
and were engaged six months in garrison and 
picket guard on the river and scouted and skir- 
mished about six months. In Septeml)er they 
went to Nashville, thence to LaVergne and 
Murfreesboro and, until .June, the latter place 
was headquarters while they picketed the in- 
tervening distance to Normandy. They per- 
formed important service, scouting in the sur- 
rounding country and keeping it clear from 
rebels and removed to Nashville and did patrol 
and guard duty; -July 5th they were transferred 
to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 20th Army 
Corps, receiving orders to connect with troops 
for the Atlantic campaign. July 21st they 
entered the Union line of battle and Mr. Bart- 
lett was in all the fighting of whatever char- 
acter through the siege of Atlanta. After the 
surrender he went with the regiment into the 
fortifications, where recruiting for the march 
to the sea took place and in November joined 
the forces of Sherman for the Great March. 
During its course, Mr. Bartlett experienced all 
the vicissitudes and dangers incident to such a 
journey and after reaching Savannah lived on 
a pint of rice and roasted acorns daily while 
awaiting the subsidence of tlie water. After 
the surrender of the city they moved within 
and remained some time, making expeditions 
to the surrounding country in the interest of 
the Union Government. Thence they marched 
through South Carolina, crossing into North 
Carolina at Cheraw and proceeding towards 
Goldsboro. At Averysboro they were in action 
in which the 31st lost heavily, but the rebels 
were driven to Bentonville, where the regiment 
was again in action and sutt'ered greater losses. 
Reaching Goldsboro, after 65 days of marching, 



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during wliieli they had torn up railroads, 
destroyed rel^el su{)plies, burned villages and 
had been in u driving rain more than a third 
of the time, they were in almost as distressed 
condition from hunger and privation and ex- 
posure as the multitudes who hud been rclciised 
from the rebel jtrisons in anticipation of the 
arrival of Union troops at the various points. 
Many were barefooted and all were in tattered 
clothing, which was replaced at CJoldsboro, and 
they started for Rideigh and were in pursuit of 
the fleeing rebels when intelligence of the sur- 
render of Johnston was received. Mr. Bartlett 
accompanied his command to Richmond, 
marching thence to Washington, and he was 
in the Grand Review, remaining in Virginia 
two weeks, after which he was mustered out 
and returned to Madison, where he was paid 
and discharged .luly 8, 1865. He returned to 
Albany where he resumed connection with the 
business of a manufacturer and in 1868 went to 
B rod head. 

He was married at Albany, Sept. 30, 1866, to 
Augusta Davidson, a native of the State of New 
York. Mortimer, born Aug. 29, 1870, is the 
only cliild. Mrs. Bartlett is prominent in 
society in Brodhead and is an active worker in 
the Woman's Relief Corj)s. The position of the 
family is second to none in the vicinity and 
the business firm is considered one of the most 
substantial of the locality. 



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OllN 11. llOLh.ANI), (ienoa .lunctiou. 
Wis., a soldier of the civil war, was born 
at Somerset, Crawford Co., Pa., Nov. 14, 
1826. llis father and mother, .lohn H. and 
Anna (Dearborn) Holland, were born in the 
State of New York, llis fatiier was a .sailor 
and a ship carjienter and died of yellow fevei' 
at Michigan City, Ind., where he had gone to 
build a pier. The son was three years old and 



in the next year his mother died. When 
wholly orphaned he was taken in charge by his 
uncle, .John Dearborn, with whom he remained 
until be was 13 years old, when be went to 
work on a farm and also performed such other 
labor as opportunity offered. He had a brother 
and sister, named Anna Charlotte and Peter 
Joseph, of whom he has lost all trace. In 1844 
he went to Ashtabula Co., Ohio, returning after 
five months to Penn.sylvania and, in the spring 
to New York, whence he went to Kenosha, Wis., 
in 18ol and, soon after located in Bloomfield, 
Walworth County, engaging in farm labor until 
he entered the army. Aug. 10, 1S6"2, he en- 
listed in Company H, 95tli Illinois Infantry 
and was mustered at Rockford, 111., whence he 
went to the seat of war. The command was 
sent to Jackson, Tenn., via Chicago and Cairo, 
and two weeks later went to Grand Gulf, the 
regiment being sent in pursuit of Price and Mr. 
Holland was in a fight at Coldwater. After- 
wards lie accompanied the command down the 
river and worked on bridges and performed 
other military service en route to Abbeville, 
where he was taken sick and sent to Holly 
Springs hospital, where he leinained about one 
month. When Murjihy surrendered, Decem- 
ber 20, 181)2, the sick were sent to La Grange 
and Memjihis, Tenn.: and Mr. Holland re- 
mained at the former place until his discharge, 
April 6, 1863, on surgeon's certificate of perma- 
nent disability. He returned home and was 
wholly unable to rise from his bed or chair for 
three months, when he became able to move on 
crutches. The next year he was able to work 
a little and during the following year was com- 
pelled to sell the place and he moved to Genoa 
.Junction, where he opened a meat market and 
continued its management from 1870 to 1886, 
when he retired from active and regular busi- 
ness. He is alllicted with a spinal disease 
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He was married Jan. 1, 1846, at Lancaster, 
Erie Co., New York, to Jeanette, (laughter of 
John and Kate (Goodcourage) Scliermerhorn. 
She was born in New York of ancestors wiio 
belonged to the early settlers of the city and is 
a lineal descendant of the family on her father's 
side which was allied to Aneka Jans, and she 
is an heir to the Trinity church estates in the 
great metropolis. Mr. and Mrs. Holland are 
the parents of 10 children, of whom five survive. 
Harriet A. is married to Warren Palmerston, 
of Genoa Junction ; Warren is a farmer in Lake 
County, Illinois; Marcy 0., resides at Geneva; 
he was five years a member of the regular 
army, enlisting Sept. 19, 1876, and receiving 
discharge in 1881, from Company K, 2d U. S. 
Cavalry. He enlisted soon after the Custer 
massacre. Wallace L. is a blacksmith of 
McHenry Co., 111.; Elmer E. is a painter and 
resides at Genoa Junction. 

ENJAMIN GASSER, a resident of 
Watertown, Wis., and a member of 
0. D. Pease Post, No. 94, was born 
Feb. 11, 1832, in Berne, Switzerland. His 
father's name was John Gasser. The son 
learned the trade of a shoemaker in his native 
country and at nineteen came alone to 
America. He passed iive years in Milwaukee 
when he removed to Watertown and established 
his business as a shoemaker. In 1860, he 
went to Brookfield, Wis., and remained there 
until he entered the military service. March 
7, 18G5, he enlisted in Company H, 48th Wis- 
consin Infantry and made connection with the 
command at Milwaukee. Fifteen days later 
he left the State for St. Louis and a week later 
left Benton Barracks under orders for Paoli, 
Kansas. There the eight companies which 
had been mustered were distributed to dififerent 




points, Company H going to Olathe. About 
three montlis after it moved across the plains 
to Fort Earned where the company performed 
guard duty, protecting the settlers and fort 
from Indians. The march there, after being 
disappointed in expectation of being mustered 
out after the war had closed, was particularly 
severe, being nearly 300 miles in extent late in 
the season. About the middle of December 
the company went to Fort Leavenworth and 
thence to Madison, where it was mustered out 
Jan. 3, 1866. 

Mr. Gasser returned to his farm at Brookfield 
where he managed his property and engaged 
also in shoemaking. He returned to Water- 
town in 1873, where he has since worked at 
his trade. 

He was married in 1859 to Magdalene Win- 
zenried, and they have seven children — six 
daughters and a son. Two of the former are 
married. 



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ARLAN PAGE GOODMAN, White- 
Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 34, was born in Bethlehem, 
Albany Co., New York, June 11, 1843, and his 
father, Stephen Goodman, was born in the 
same place, Dec. 11, 1816. The latter was a 
carpenter by trade and the son of a sire born 
in the North of Ireland of Scotch descent 
and a Presbyterian in iiiitli. Stephen Goodman 
married Sarah Crosby Runnels, daughter of 
Jacob and Phoebe (Crosby) Runnels, whose 
mother was a Quakeress and both her parents 
were of English origin. They were married 
at Salesville, Sharon, New York, by a Baptist 
minister named Toppings, Dec. 9, 1834. Feb. 
6, 1854, they started with their family for Pal- 
myra, Wisconsin, where they arrivetl on the 
10th and located on a farm on which the 



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fatlier died, Nov. 13, 1861. He was a good 
man in name and in nature, an Abolitionist 
of radical stripe and a firm l^eliever in the 
Lincoln administration. The son i-emained on 
the farm until he was 19 years old when he 
determined to enlist and Aug. 19, 1S62, he did 
so in Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Ar- 
tillery, the only regiment of that character the 
State sent to the war. He went to Madison 
and thence to Washington where he joined his 
company at Fort Cass. The period was one of 
exceeding excitement there, as McClellan had 
been driven from the Peninsula and the dis- 
aster to Pope's troops soon after, ai'oused the 
greatest alarm regarding the Nation's capital 
city. The duties to which Colonel C. C. 
Meservy's command was subjected were ex- 
tremely laboriou.s, as the emergency would 
permit of little delay for red tape or anything 
else, and, in addition to their three-fold drill, 
including infantry, heavy and light artillery 
practice, they were assigned to heavy labor on 
the fortifications and Mr. Goodman assisted in 
the construction of six of the forts in the chain 
about Washington. At the time the command 
was inspected by the British officers they re- 
ceived the highest commendations for cleanli- 
ness and perfection of drill and discipline. 
Sometime in July, Mr. Goodman was attacked 
with typhoid fever, which, developing into the 
malignant type, he was sent to Battery Rogers' 
huspital, where he remained under the care of 
Dr. Burkey two months. ( )n the organization 
of the regimental band, which was detailed 
from the several companies, he was connected 
therewith and played one of the leading in- 
struments. After his return from the hospital 
he was seized with fever and ague, from which 
he suffered during the remainder of his term 
of enlistment. One of the special details on 
which he served was that which was sent to 
Fort Buffalo in anticipation of the invasion of 



Lee, 40 men being detailed for the duty. After 
his return to Wisconsin, he resinned his occu- 
pation of agriculturist which he continued 
until 1870, when he disposed of his property 
and engaged in the business of a grocer and 
Imtcher. He continued to operate in these 
until 1875, when he learned the business of 
photography, in which he has since been 
engaged. He remained in Palmyra three 
years, occupied in that avenue of business, 
when he removed to Whitewater and estab- 
lished a prosperous and profitable trade. He 
is a good type of the American Itusiness man 
and honors his record as a soldier in his daily 
life. 

July 6, 1SG5, while still a soldier, lie was 
married to Caroline L. Pease and tlieir only 
child is named Charlotte Lucinda. Mr. Good- 
man is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows, 
of the A. O. U. W. and of tlie Good Templars. 
His brother, Lieut. E. Goodman, was one of 
the 1st Wisconsin soldiers to enlist in the war, 
and fought at Bull Run. He was in the 2d 
Wisconsin Infantry and on the conversion of 
his company into artillery he was commis- 
sioned Lieutenant. Another brother, Stephen 
0. Goodman, served through the war in a 
Minnesota regiment. 



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WILLIAM STRUEBIG, Lieutenant 
in charge of the Northwest Police 
Station at Milwaukee, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 2, was born Nov. 14, 
1844, in Lesser Braun.schweig, Germany, and 
the next year after his birth his parents, 
Charles Henry and Louisa (Waltman) Strue- 
big, came to America, landing at New Orleans 
Octol)er loth. They removed successively to 
St. Louis, Red Bud, Randolph Co., Illinois, and 
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Freedom, in the Sucker State, where the senior 
Struebig engaged in the business of hotel 
keej)ing. He was a soldier in the Mexican 
war, and fouglit in the civil war, enhsting in 
ISGl and rising to the rank of Captain in Com- 
pany C, 44tli IlHnois Infantry, being made 1st 
Lieutenant on organization. He was wounded 
at Fort Donelson and resigned his commission. 
After being reheved from miHtary obHgations 
to his adopted country, he engaged in the sale 
of groceries at St. Louis as a wholesale dealer 
and lost his business by fire. In 18G4, after his 
son received discharge from the army, the 
family removed to Milwaukee, where the 
father established his business as a rope maker. 
He is a citizen of this country who does honor 
to its history of progress and success. He ful- 
filled his obligations to his own country and 
brought to America the integrity, thrift and 
capacity to perform his share of the work the 
New World had for liim to do. He and his 
wife, aged respectively 75 and 73 years, are 
still living, as are their six children. Minnie 
is the wife of Herman Rohr of Milwaukee; 
William is second in order of birth ; Anna mar- 
ried Herman Fahn of Milwaukee; Eda is mar- 
ried to Henry Schuch of Milwaukee ; Ida is 
wife of Otto Riemer, Inspector of Police of Mil- 
waukee; Robert lives in Los Angeles, Cal. 

In 1S58 William Struebig left home to go to 
Belleville, 111., to learn the l>usiness of a 
l)rewer, where he was occupied when he en- 
listed, Aj)ril 17, 1861, in Company C, 9th 
Illinois Infantry. He was one of the earliest 
to oiler his services as a soldier and was mu.s- 
tered at Cairo and sent to service at once and 
was with Lyon in routing the rebels from Camp 
.lackson, a movement that saved Missouri to 
the Union. (Lj-on suspected the character of 
Camp Jackson, where the citizens were playing 
at military maneuvers and visited the camp in 
woman's dress, inspected the whole business. 



and on his return mustered his forces and com- 
pelled the surrender of General Frost with his 
bogus command, May 10th). The operations 
lasted throughout the day, several being in- 
jured and about 1,000 prisoners were captured. 
Going thence to Cairo the regiment performed 
military duty until mustered out, July 20, 
1861. Mr. Struebig returned to Belleville, and, 
on July 27th, re-enlisted in Company B, 12th 
Missouri Infantry, for three years. This regi- 
ment was partially recruited in Illinois and, 
Aug. 8th, Mr. Struebig was mustered in at St. 
Louis, leaving there September IGth for Jeffer- 
son City and participated in the variety of mili- 
tary <luty prevalent in Missouri, where portions 
of the people were rebels and no route could be 
traversed by any command without skirmish- 
ing ; and the 12th skirmished all the way to 
Sedalia, that sort of service continuing until 
spring. Mr. Struebig was again in Lyon's 
command and fought at Wilson's Creek, where 
one of the bravest officers of the Union was 
killed, and the 12th went afterwards to Rolla 
in November, and from there many raids were 
made and much fighting with bushwhackers 
accomplished until January, 1862, when the 
command returned to Springfield. It was as- 
signed to the Western Army of Curtiss and 
went through the Indian Territory to Texas, 
the command gaining the title of "Lost Army." 
From January 13th to July 14tli the regiment, 
with others, drew no rations, subsisting on the 
country and absolutely having no bread in that 
time. July 14th they arrived at Helena, Ark., 
and took possession of the town, which com- 
pelled the evacuation of Memphis, and the regi- 
ment remained in the vicinity until December, 
when it went to take part in the plans of Grant 
for taking Vicksburg. It was on the gunboat 
Cincinnati in the Yazoo Pass expedition and 
got into Moon Lake, going to bombard Fort 
Pemberton in vain and returned to Milliken's 



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Bend, where the troops were concentrating, 
went next to Young's Point, remaining until 
May, engaged in tlie assault on Vicksburg 
across the river. Mr. Strueljig fought at 
Grand Gulf and Port Gihson, going tlience 
to fight at Jackson. May 18th, the r2th went 
to the trenches at ^^icksburg and operated 
there until the surrender, July 4th. He was 
in the after movements to Jackson and Canton, 
moving to the Big Black River and there 
camped until October, 1863. The next re- 
moval was made to Memphis and Corinth to 
reinforce Rosecrans and the command was in 
constant skirmishing all the way to Chatta- 
nooga. It was in the fighting at Lookout 
Mountain, aided in the charge at Mission 
Ridge, went to Ringgold and Dalton and 
thence to camp at Woodville, Ala., remaining 
until May, 1864. The 12th took part in the 
Atlanta campaign, fought at Kenesaw Moun- 
tain, Dallas, and in the later operations when 
McPherson was killed, Peach Tree Creek, Re- 
saca and all others of the campaign. (In the 
fight at Poa Ridge, March 7, ]862, he was 
wounded by a gun.^hot through his right ankle, 
went thence to Pilot Knob, to hospital at 
Helena and remained until he joined his regi- 
ment at Milliken's Bend. No important move 
having occurred during his absence, he can 
justly claim record in the whole service of his 
regiment). He enlisted as a private and was 
promoted to Orderly Sergeant, jiassing through 
all the intermediate grades. He received hon- 
orable discharge Sept. 20, 1864, by virtue of 
expiration of his period of enlistment, having 
as good a record as any man in the service, 
with two full terms of enlistment served 
throughout. 

October 1st, the reunited family removed to 
Milwaukee and he engaged in business with 
his father until 18()7, when he went to Denver 
City, Col., and remained until 1871, going 



theuce to Califorrtia and returning to Milwau- 
kee in 1872. In 1874 he was appointed on the 
city police force and has been promoted through 
all grades to his present position. In June, 1887, 
he was appointed lieutenant of the force and 
placed in charge of the station named. Mean- 
while he had served eight yeai"S as special 
detective of police. He was married in 1867 in 
Milwaukee to Minnie Scheffel, who died in 
April, 1879, leaving three daughters — Eda, 
Ajina Ellen and Friede. In January, 1881, 
Mr. Struebig was married to Johanna Grassow, a. 
native of Germany. Their sons are named 
Willie, Albert and Arthur. He is a member of 
the Sons of Hermann and of the Turnverein. 



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HARLES HENRY MARSH, Ft. Atkin- 
son, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 159, was born in Circle ville, near 
Cleveland, Ohio, Aug. 7, 1842. (His enlist- 
ment papers state his birth-place as Cleveland, 
as he did not know at their date that he was 
not born in the city. He takes this opportunity 
to make the correction.) He is the son of Sum- 
ner J. and Mary R. (Wilgas) Marsh and his 
father was a native of Massachusetts. His 
mother was born in Delaware. They were 
married in Circleville in 1840 and in 1842 re- 
moved to Cleveland, where his father followed 
the trade of a mason. In 1846 the fomily re- 
moved to Wisconsin and loc^vted in Hebron, 
Jefferson County. In June, 1861, father and 
son enlisted in Company E, 4th Wisconsin In- 
fantry. The father served about six months 
and received discharge as unable to jierform 
military duty, at the Relay House, Md. The 
son remained in service and was mustered 
July 2, 1861 ; he was a particii>ant in all the 
exciting experiences en route to the front, and 
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thence to Eastern Virginia in July. In Febru- 
ary following, he accompanied the regiment to 
Fortress Monroe preparatory to connection with 
the command of General Butler. The regiment 
started thence on the Constitution and pro- 
ceeded to Ship Island, enduring hardships of 
the worst description en route. After three 
months on a sandy, barren island exposed to 
malaria and other difficulties, the regiment 
embarked on the Great Republic for the mouth 
of the Mississippi River, for service in the as- 
saults on Forts St. Phillips and Jackson. After 
the vessel had proceeded as far as possible, com- 
panies E and G were placed on small boats and 
despatched to the rear of Fort Jackson. They 
lost their way and wandered fruitlessly through 
the abysmal swamp in closest connection with 
alligators and other sources of comfort until 
morning, when they made their way to the fort 
to find it had surrendered. The route to New 
Orleans was quickly traversed and Mr. Marsh 
preserves a vivid recollection of the chase to 
the city. Companies E and G were the first to 
enter and to face the howling mob. They per- 
formed needed duty in several particulars, one i 
of which was the release May 2, 1862, of the 
editor of the Picayune. They remained some 
time in quarters in the Custom House, re- 
moving thence to Baton Rouge. An expedition 
to ^'^icksburg was made and there Mr. Marsh 
was in his first action. He thinks the revolu- 
tion among the officers prevented the taking of 
that place at that time. En route there a stop 
was made at Grand Gulf which showed the 
white ttag and, after the boats liad pa.ssed on, 
rebel treachery was displayed in the attack on ' 
tiiem with grape and canister from six pieces 
of concealed artillerj'. On the return, revenge 
was taken in the burning of the place. In the 
first visit there, Mr. Marsh captured a rebel flag. 
Mr. Marsh was also in the second expedition to 
Vicksburgaud in the fight afterwards at Baton 



Rouge. He was taken sick there and sent down 
the river on a hospital boat to Baton Rouge, 
thence to New Orleans to Charity hospital 
where he received discharge as disabled in 
Deceml)er, 1S62. 

He returned to Wisconsin and, soon after, ob- 
tained the situation of clerk in a dry goods 
store, where he remained until his re-enlistment. 
He enrolled Aug. 2G, 1804, and received a com- 
mission as a recruiting officer from the Gov- 
ernor and through his efforts in filling the 
quota of the township fairly earned a commis- 
sion, of which he was depi'ived by the usual 
process in such instances and which is politely 
called "red tape." The organization was as- 
signed to the oStli Wisconsin Infantry as Com- 
pany G and he joined the regiment in front of 
Petersburg in the capacity of Orderly Sergeant. 
He arrived there the day following the ex- 
plosion of the mine and was first in decided 
action on the Weldon railroad. He was in the 
fighting, lasting three days, at Pegram's Farm, 
and returned to the trenches at Petersburg 
where the regiment was assigned to the 1st 
Brigade, 1st Division and 9th Army Corps, and 
for nine months Mr. Marsh experienced all the 
vicissitudes of the siege. He participated in 
the several actions at Fort Stead man and at 
Fort Mahone, where he was in the charging 
columns and, in the capture of the latter, was 
in command of his company. He was in the 
subsequent actions and was among those who 
first entered the city. He was in the chase 
after the rebels and witnessed the collapse of 
the Great Struggle at Appomattox. There he 
was asked for a cup of coffee by General- Lee, to 
whom he also supplied some hardtack, and the 
fallen rebel remembered to be polite to the 
Union Sergeant who gave him refreshments, 
thanking him and assuring him of the excel- 
lence of the fare. Mr. Marsh accompanied the 
troops to Washington, participated in the Grand 



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Review and received honorable discharge at 
Alexandria, June 2, 1865. His record of actions 
includes 17 names in both enlistments. 

He returned to Wisconsin and resumed liis 
duties as a clerk in wliich lie was occupied 
until 1S83 when he engaged in the sale of 
groceries in his own interest. Since liis first 
discliarge he has been in unsettled health from 
the exposures and malaria. In 1SS3 he located 
at Ft. Atkinson. 

He was married in lSG-4 to Mary Anderson 
who survived two years and left one cliild 
named Clarence B. In 180!), he was married 
to Mary Wheeler, of Oshkosh, who lived five 
years and died without children. In 1884, Mr. 
Marsh was again married to Rosa Kemp and 
their children are named Louis H., Sumner S. 
and Mertie. It should have been stated in the 
proj)er place that the father of Mr. Mar.sh, after 
his discliarge from the 4th Wisconsin, re-en- 
listed in Company K, 18th Wisconsin Infantry, 
and was fatally injured by being crushed under 
a cais.son at Shiloli. He died March 19, 18G4, 
at Madison. 

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DWIN W. PARSONS, 



Eagle, 



Wis., 



was born Nov. 10, 1844, in Eagle, 
Waukesha Co., Wis., and he is the son 
of Jonathan Parsons. His father was born in 
New Ham]ishire; his mother was a native of 
Yorkshire, England, and was 11 years of age 
when she came to America from England with 
her parents in 1828. The son pa.ssed his early 
life on his father's farm near Eagle, which was 
the homestead for many years, and before he 
was of age he entered the army of tlie United 
States. He enlisted in March, 1S64, in Battery 
•B, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. He went 
from Milwaukee to Madison and from there to 
Chattanooga, and thence to Fort Clay at Lex- 
ington, Ivy., where lie remained nearly all the 



time until the close of the war. He engaged 
in the duty common to artillery companies and 
acquired a complete knowledge of light and 
heavy artillery practice and also of infantry 
tactics, engaging in work on the fortifications 
and in guard duty. For several weeks he was 
in the office of the Provost Marshal at Lexing- 
ton. He received honorable discharge .\ug. 
30, 1865, and returned U> Eagle wliere he en- 
gaged in farming and has also been interested 
in livery and in other business. 

He was married Dec. 31, 1869, to Mary A., 
daughter of John Kilts. With her husband, 
Mrs. Parsons is a native product of the Badger 
State, both having been born within its borders. 
They have eight children named Bessie J., 
Edna, Gertrude, Minnie, George and Greely 
(twins), Ray and Roy (twins). Mr. Parsons 
was a member of I'ranklin Bigelow Post during 
its active life. 



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II^IMOTIIY SHANAHAN, Delavan, 
I y Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 6, 
'^ was born March 25, 1843, in County 
Cork, Ireland, where his parents, Cornelius and 
Margaret (O'Brien) Shanahan, were born, mar- 
ried and had eight children, of whom Timothj' 
is the youngest. When he was 11 j'earsold his 
father came to America and established a home 
for his family, who joined him the next year, 
when the son was 12 years old. The family 
became scattered, the daughters marrying and 
settling in various places, while the parents 
went to Missouri, where they remained until 
after the close of the war, when their son sent 
for them and they pa.ssed the remainder of their 
lives at his home in Delavan. Mr. Shanahan was 
very young when he went to Missouri, where 
he remained about a year, and went thence to 
Randolph, A'ermont, where a sister resided. 
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after the war came on and at the first call for 
troops he decided to enlist. The Green Moun- 
tain State thrilled with patriotism and he en- 
listed at Northfield, in June, 1861, in Company 
K, 4th Vermont Infantrj'; was mustered at 
Brattlehoro, and accompanied the regiment to 
Washington, going into Camp Griffin at the end 
of the Chain Bridge. When the spring cam- 
paign opened and the movement known as the 
Peninsular campaign commenced, his regiment 
was with Hooker's command. He went 
through the Manassas movement and returned 
after the second Bull Run to Alexandria. He 
was in the seven days fight on the Chicka- 
hominy and fought at Antietam and in the 
actions on the Rappahannock, 1st and 2d 
Frederickshurg, and in the latter was taken 
pi'isoner, taken to Belle Isle at Richmond, was 
paroled after two months, went to Fortress 
Monroe and to Annapolis and, as soon as ex- 
changed, rejoined his regiment. He was 
offered a furlough, but yielded his privilege to 
a comrade, Jerome Charic, Company K, 4tli 
Vermont, who went home in his place and Mr. 
Shanahan had occasion to be glad he did so, 
for the man was killed in his first battle after 
his return to the army in the Wilderness. Mr. 
Shanahan fought at Gettysburg, fought in the 
next spring in the battles of the Wilderness, at 
Spottsylvania, North Anna and Cold Harbor, 
and was with the portion of the Army of the 
Potomac which went to look after the rebel 
movements in the valley of the Shenandoah, 
fought at Cedar Ci'eek, Fisher Hill and then, 
after his time had expired, in the battle of 
Winchester, September I'Jth. (In this action 
several Vermont soldiers were killed whose 
terms of enlistment had expired). Mr. Shana- 
han was discharged about the 21st of Septem- 
ber at Brattleboro. . Immediately after his dis- 
charge he went to Delavan, where he remained 
in the family of his brother-in-law, James Hen- 



nessy, a Mr. Sheldon, who was drafted, offered 
Mr. Shanahan $1,000 to take his place as a 
substitute. He refused the money but went in 
his stead, reporting for service at Madison, 'Feb. 
15, 1865. The AVisconsin 5th was reorganizing 
and he met Colonel Allen (who was recruiting 
for that command) who recognized him as hav- 
ing fought at Marye's Heights. Mr. Shanahan 
had been assigned to the 22d Wisconsin and 
expected to serve therewith, but Colonel Allen 
knew all he had passed through and obtained 
an appointment for him as drill master and 
escort for soldiers who were going as I'ecruits 
to their several commands. He acted in this 
capacity until the close of the war with the 
rank of Sergeant. (Once, when escorting a 
party of drafted men to the front, one of them 
offered him |500 for an opportunity to escape, 
but he refused and the man jumped from the 
train to secure his freedom and was retaken). 
He was finally discharged June 24, 1865, at 
Madison. On his return to Delavan, he en- 
gaged in farming, in which he has since been 
occupied, together with other enterprises. Mr. 
Shanahan is a man who has a record of which 
he is justly proud. One of his most prized 
possessions is the Memorial published by Ver- 
mont for all her soldiers. 

He was first married in 1868 to Ann Holmes 
of Delavan, and she died about 1879, leaving 
four sons, named William C, Timothy J., 
Thomas and John. Jan. 10, 1880, Mr. Shana- 
han was again married to Mrs. Mary (Ken- 
nedy) Dowling, and they have one son named 
Cornelius. 






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T^^TENRYC.HL 
Tr^r burg, Wis., 
^ ^ of G. A. R. 



[ UNT, Postmaster at Reeds- 
3., a merchant and member 

R. Post No. 18, was born 
Jan. 27, 1840, in Bradford, Pennsylvania. His 
parents, A. 0. and Calista R. Hunt were 



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born respectively in 1809, and the mother 
died in the State of New York wliither the 
household had removed in 1848. The father 
was a prominent business man in Pennsylvania 
and also in Reedsburg, whither lie removed 
with his family in 1854 and where his al)ilities 
brought him into contact with public aifairs in 
the capacity of an officeholder and he was oc- 
cupied in the discharge of such duty at the 
time of his death in 1877. Mr. Hunt of this 
sketch is one of a family of three sons and three 
daughters. (His father re-married and from 
the second marriage five children were reared.) 
Of the first, three children survive; Albert C. 
enlisted in a Wisconsin regiment and was after- 
wards assigned to a U. S. Battery ; he resides in 
Virginia; Helen married John Macomber. 

Mr. Hunt is the oldest living child of his 
mother; he obtained a common school educa- 
tion and was variously occupied after his first 
youth was passed until he was 20 years of age, 
when he went to Bloomington, 111., and engaged 
as a farm assistant in 1860 until the first call 
for trooj)S after tlie attack on the Union Hag at 
Sumter. He enlisted April 21, 1801, remained 
a short time at Bloomington and went to .Joliet 
where the command was organized and he was 
assigned to C'omj>any C, 20th Illinois Infantry. 
June 13th lie was sworn into the U. S. service 
for three years and went to camj) at Alton, 
going thence to Jefferson Barracks to be 
equipped and sent with the regiment to Cape 
Girardeau. After being stationed there a 
month or two, the command went to Bird's 
Point oj)posite Oairo to move thence with a 
section of the celeljrated Taylor's Battery to 
Cape Girardeau on the river defenses, and he 
was first in action at Fredericktown, Mo., Oct. 
21, 1801, against the notorious Jeff. Thompson 
and C'olonil Lowe, the attack being made by the 
Federal force. The 20th Illinois lost several ' 
men and returned to Bird's Point, going in 



February towards Columbus to make a feint 
movement. The regiment was next in the 
movement to Fort Henry, going thither on 
transports and the day following the taking of 
the fort went to Donelson, and in action there 
Mr. Hunt received a bullet in his breast. But 
he remained with the regiment in its sul)sequent 
movements and went to fight at Shiloli, April 
Bth and 7th, 1862, his regiment taking an 
active and conspicuous part in the action and 
suffering heavily in killed and wounded. He 
was acting Corporal and on the day after the 
termination of the battle he was promoted to 
Sergeant of liis company, as a testimonial to 
his services on the field. He went to Jackson, 
Tenn., the town and railroad being taken 
to hold open communication for the troops of 
Grant. Here Mr. Hunt was detailed as Clerk 
in the Commissary Department and remained 
in that service at Jackson a year. He after- 
wards went to \'icksburg, where he o&iciated 
in a similar capacity until the expiration of his 
term of service and received discharge at Spring- 
field, III., June 24, 1864. 

He resumed connection with civil life at 
Reedsburg, where in 1866 he began business as 
a merchant, and he has maintained his com- 
mercial relations uninterruptedly ever since. 
He is considered one of the leading substantial 
business men of the city and is justly esteemed 
and honored in all his relations to j)ublic and 
])rivate life. He received his appointment as 
Postmaster in August, 1885, and is still serv- 
ing in that incumbency. He has been Town 
Treasurer and has held other official positions 
in his municipality; in 1884 he was the can- 
didate of his party for State Senator. He was 
a charter member of his Post and its first Com- 
mander. He belongs to the Masonic Order 
and to the A. O. U. W. 

He was married July 9, 1864, at Reedsburg, 
to Mary J. Smith, a daughter of Milo and 



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Elizabeth (Crandall) Smith, born in the State 
of New York. Two children have been added 
to tlie household circle of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt. 
Clinton W. is a graduate of Lake Forest Sem- 
inary in Illinois and is a student in the Law 
Department of the University at Madison, 
whence he will take his degree in 1890. (Cur- 
rent year.) Mabel, born April 4, 1875, is at- 
tending school at Reedsburg. 

/c^ HARLES DAEVEL, Milwaukee, Wis., 
l^J^xVy '""^'^ber of (i. A. R. Post No. 2, was 
^» — ^ born Dec. 14, 1836, in Holsteiu, 
Prussia. His father, Charles Daevel, was en- 
gaged in railroad business in Germany and 
never left his native land, dying there about 
1852. The mother I'emained in her native 
country until about 1884, when she joined her 
only son in Milwaukee, where she died in 1888, 
aged 79 years. In March, 1857, the son came 
to America, having passed the required time in 
school and learned the j^ainter's business, 
which he followed there according to law until 
the period for conscription arrived and he 
decided that if he took part in military service 
it would he from choice and not from com- 
pulsion, and found a home and business in Mil- 
waukee. He went South in 1858 and operated 
in Memphis and at New Orleans at his trade 
until the period of the war, when he found his 
opinions were in the way of safety and as he 
had no sympathy with rebellion or what it in- 
volved, he came North witli all j)0ssible speed 
in 1861. On reaching Milwaukee he enlisted 
in what was known as the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry 
Company, an independent oi'ganization which 
was organized in -July, 1861, and which was 
sent to St. Louis, with the expectation of being 
appointed body guard of General Fremont, but 
that oflicer had been relieved and they were 



not accepted, as cavalry was not wanted by the 
authorities there. They were assigned to the 
Benton Hussars, otherwise the 5th Missouri 
Cavalry. They remained at Carondelet and 
practiced military drill, l)eing sent to the front 
in .January, 1862, going into guerrilla and other 
cavalry service against the army of Price. The 
first heavy battle in which Mr. Daevel fought 
was the three days' action at Pea Ridge, where 
he had the satisfaction of partaking in a 
triumph. With the command of Curtiss they 
went across the country to Helena and on that 
expedition became known as the " Lost Army ;" 
they subsisted on the country and for six 
months never had any bread. They learned 
for the first time that man can live without 
bread. They reached Helena about .July 14th 
and remained several months and there many 
of their number died from malarial diseases 
contracted in tlie districts through which they 
had passed. They went next to Cape Girardeau 
on transports and thence to Pilot Knob, where 
the 4th and 5th Missouri Cavalry were con- 
solidated and " dubbed " the 4th Missouri. At- 
tached to the command of Jeff C. Davis they 
engaged in guerrilla service, meeting Marma- 
duke and ^^an Dorn with others in action in 
the work laid out for them by Price. In 1863 
they went by boat to Columbu.s, Ky., and 
stayed there until February, 1864, scouting and 
performing other duty and in that month 
(10th) went on Grierson's raid to Okalona where 
they received a sound thrashing by Forrest and 
lost many men and field pieces. Harper's work 
on the war gives the 4th Missouri great j^raise 
for gallant conduct in this engagement, claim- 
ing that they saved the entire command from 
capture. They returned to Memphis and, 
under Grierson, took part in the fight at Gun- 
town wliere they suffered severely from Forrest 
again and returned to Memphis. (Mr. Daevel 
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bis service was promoted through all the grades 
of office until just prior to the battle of Gun- 
town, he was made Second Lieutenant.) About 
100 men, conspicuous for bravery . and en- 
durance, were selected with Lieutenant Daevel, 
for service under A. J. Smith in his movement 
to Brownville, Ark., designed to aid in the ex- 
pulsion of Price from Missouri for the last time. 
He was driven out and from Cape Girardeau 
the detail took boats to Jefferson City and 
ci'ossed the country, meeting Marniaduke, with 
the tag end of the army of Price and defeated 
him. Pleasanton liere took connnand and 
drove the rebels to the Osage River, where 
Marraaduke made another stand and was cap- 
tured. Following Price across tlie Arkansas 
River, the command returned to Missouri 
and, after some rest, took boat for Caron- 
delet, disembarking on account of ice, going 
to Louisville and there applied for leave to re- 
join the regiment, as the time of many of tlie 
men had expired sometime before. They re- 
ceived permission and Lieutenant Daevel, who 
had veteranized, went with them to ^'icksburg, 
where the regiment was stationed and they re- 
mained with it until tlie close of the war, when 
they were sent to New Orleans. Li May, 18G5, 
the Order for all officers who were willing to be 
mustered out was issued and Lieutenant 
Daevel, availing himself of the privilege, re- 
signed and returned to Milwaukee. 

His first business engagement was in the 
firm of Solomon Bros., commission merchants, 
and, two years later, he engaged with Fette it 
llaertel in the coal trade. In 18G8, he started 
in his own interest in the same business, in 
connection with an associate, tlie Ih-in style 
being Sander & Daevel, which changed after 
seven years to Uhrig & Daevel, this relation 
being in existence until 1881), when Mr. Daevel 
established his present proprietorship in the 
coal business. lie is a member of the Masonic 



Order, of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, 
(Royal Arcanum), Sons of Hermann and Turn- 
verein. 

He was married in LS6G to Louise Firing, 
daughter of Henry Firing, and she died in 
1S7G, leaving three children. Tlie oldest is a 
daughter named Martha ; Alfred is employed 
by the Pritzlaff Hardware Co. ; Willie is a 
collector for his father. In 1877, Mr. Daevel 
was married to Bertha, daughter of Henry 
Oellrich, and they have a child named Emma. 
The mother died in 1883 and Mr. Daevel was 
again married in 1885 to Johanna Falkenstein. 



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EROME A\HITF, Kenosha, Wis., mem- 
(^11 ber of G. A. R. Post No. 230, was born 
July 28, 1833, in Oneida County, New 
York. He is the oldest son of Joseph and 
Philena (Topliff) White, and has three surviv- 
ing brothers named Jay, Ilenr}' and Judsoii. 
The family went to Kenosha in June, 1813, 
making their journey thitlier on tiie Erie 
canal and around the lakes. The parents were 
respectively of English and Scotch origin, and 
the father died in 1878 ; the decease of the 
mother took place Jan. 25, 1885. The son re- 
ceived a common school education and studied 
civil engineering, in which he was operating 
when the country called for soldiers. He was 
a musician and determined to enlist in that 
capacity, which he did in 1861 in the 1st Wis- 
consin Infantry on its reorganization. The 
regiment was mustered in October and went 
to the front in November, going to Louisville. 
Ky.,and Mr. White accompanied the command 
as bugler through all its movements until he 
was mustered out in June, 1802, under the 
General Order which dismissed all musicians 
from the service. The regiment was assigned 
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Negley, after going from Louisville to West 
Point and Elizabethtown. He went to Ash- 
ville, passed the winter, went to Columbia, to 
Biglej' Creek, to Rogersville, and to Bainbridge 
Ferry, afterward to Florence, returning to 
Columbia. Mr. White went to Nashville for 
muster out and returned to Kenosha, where, 
after recuperating ior a time, he commenced 
recruiting for Battery D, 1st Wisconsin Heavy 
Artillery, under a commission from Governor 
Lewis, and when the command was organized 
was made Lst Duty Sergeant. Orders were re- 
ceived to go to New Orleans, where they re- 
mained until February 9th and moved thence 
to Fort .Jackson. Until .June, 1863, they were 
engaged in fort and drill duty, including the 
varied methods of infantry, light and heavy 
artillery, beside heavy laljor, sucli as all forti- 
fications require. On the occasion of the visit 
of Admiral Farragut to I'^ort Jackson, he was 
requested by the man himself to turn his gun 
over to a subordinate, which lie did, and con- 
ducted the naval hero through the fort, after 
which tlie otHcers were drawn up in line to re- 
ceive him formally. AVhile stationed tliere, 
many of the battery died of spotted fever. 
From Fort .lackson the battery went to Ber- 
wick Bay, whore they ojierated against the 
guerrillas, and while there Mr. White was com- 
mis.sioned, Aug. H, 1S()4, '2d Ijieutenant of Com- 
jiany H, .50th Wisconsin Infantry, and ordered 
to report to Madison. He was sent thence to 
Benton Barracks in pursuit of the regiment and 
went to join his command at Miami, Mo. In 
.lune, 1865, he went to Fort Leavenworth and 
thence to Fort Rice, Dak. They went from 
there up the Missouri to Omaha, where 150 of 
the coniinand deserted. He was sent by 
Colonel Clark, with other officers, to bring them 
in, which they did with tlie exception of about 
30; the refugees were court-martialed, sentenced 
to 30 days confinement and pardoned. ^Ir. 



White remained at Fort Rice until June, 1866, 
when he went to Madison and was mustered 
out June 14, 1866. He returned to Kenosha, 
engaged as a clerk for a time, and in 1872 en- 
gaged under General Wilson at Keokuk in the 
service of the government on the public works 
at Des Moines. Subsequently he went to 
Wichita, Kas., and was engaged with the 
Southwestern Stage Company 13 years. In 
1884 he returned to Kenosha. He was married 
Aug. 3, 1868, to Selena B., daughter of William 
and .Jane Sexton of Hamilton, 111., and their 
only child, James, is a resident of Chicago. 
Mr. White was again married, Dec. 6, 1886, 
to Mrs. Helen Smith of Kenosha. Although 
he was not wounded in the war, he still suffers 
from disabilities incurred in the service. 



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ICLIARD H. CHUTE, of Eau Claire, 
Wis., Commander of G. A. R. Post 
(Eagle) No. 52, in 1800, was born 
March 14, 1843, at Woburn, Mass. He is the 
only boy of five children born to his parents, A. 
P. and Sarah M. (Chandler) Chute. Ariel P. 
Chute, his father, was born May 16, 1800, in 
Massachusetts, and died Dec. 18, 1887, at 
Sharon, in the Bay State. His wife, who is 
still his survivor, was born Dec. 13, 1805, and 
is the daughter of Peleg Chandler; slie lives 
at Sharon, Mass. The Chute family is of 
Puritan descent and came to America in 1643. 
The father of Mr. Chute was a minister of the 
Consresrational Church and was an able and 
earnest worker in religious circles. The 
daughter Ellen married Dr. A. E. Bacon ; 
Frances P., Esther A. (deceased) and Sarah B. 
were the names of the other sisters of Mr. 
Chute. He pursued a course of study at home 
until he was 16, when he became an assi-stant 
in the bookstore of the noted firm of Little, 



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Brown & Co., of Boston, and remained in that 
connection until he entered the army. Aug. 
7, 1862, he enlisted and during the same 
month he was mustered into U. S. service at 
Lyunfield, Mass., in Company C, 35th Massa- 
chusetts Infantrj'. After a few days in camp, 
the regiment received orders to proceed to Vir- 
ginia to be assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Di- 
vision and 0th Corps, going into camp at 
Alexandria. The first engagement in which 
Mr. Cliute particii)ated was at South Mountain, 
soon after starting for the scenes of war in 
Maryland, and, in the action of kSeptember 
14th, the regiment lost about lialf a hundred 
men. He was again in action at Antietam 
wliei'c his regiment formed a part of the 
assaulting column on tiie Burnside Bridge, 
losing 283 men. The regiment went iiext to 
to the Rai)pahannock campaign and was in 
the fight at Fredericksburg, going afterwards 
to connect with the Army of the Oiiio. They 
operated for a time in the State of Kentucky 
and in the spring of 1SG3 received orders 
to connect with Grant for the Yicksburg 
campaign. They went thither under Gen- 
eral Parke and their operations were con- 
fined chiefly to the movements in the Yazoo 
campaign, and the regiment performed guard 
duty on the river and held Johnston back from 
troubling the troops of Grant, trying to make 
their way to ^^icksburg. After the surrender, 
the regiment went after the rebel cliief as far as 
•Jackson and was in the figlit with him there, 
returning to Vick.sburg. Later, tiie command 
crossed into Kentucky and tlience to Tennessee 
and while at Grab Orchard, Ky., Mr. Chute ob- 
tained a furlough, going home to Chelsea, 
Mass. During his absence he was promoted 
for meritorious conduct to Second Lieutenant 
and assigned to Company F, 59th Massachusetts 
Infantry, to rank from Dec. 4, 1863. After 
acting for a time as recruiting officer he re- 



ceived orders to proceed to Reedville, Mass., the 
rendezvous for recruiting forces and there was 
placed on the staff of Gen. R. A. Prince of the 
State MiHtia. When his command, the 59th, 
was completed he was ordered to report to regi- 
mental headquarters in Virginia and was com- 
missioned First Lieutenant Feb. 18,1864. His 
regiment was assigned to his former brigade, 
division and corps and stationed for a time at 
Rappahannock Station, guarding a railroad. 
In tiie spring of 1864 tlie command went to the 
camj)aign of the Wilderness and fought at 
Spottsylvania and on the North Anna River. 
During the last named engagement, Lieutenant 
Ciiute was placed on the staff of General Lcdiie 
and while carrying dispatches from head- 
quarters he was taken prisoner, which ended 
his war experiences on the field. He was taken 
to Richmond, confined at Libby and was sent 
thence in about three weeks to Macon, Ga. 
After about the same time there he was trans- 

'] ferred to Savannah and passed nearly two 
months in a tent with other prisoners. Charles- 
ton furnished his next hotel de rigeur (severity), 
the purpose of humane and considerate rebels 
being to place liim and others sent there at the 

* same time in a position to expose them to the 
firing from the Union gunboats and attacking 
parties on the city of Ciiarleston, the City of 
Roses and the hotbed of rebellion. The Swamp 
Angel was aimed at St. Michael's and the rebel 
autliorities notified the commanding general, 
Gihnore, that 2,500 Union officers were j^iaced 
in range of tiie sliells as they should fall in the 
city. Three months were passed there, when 
they were paroled. During the imprisonment 
of Mr. Chute he had been promoted to Captain, 
on .lune 23, 1864. He received a furlough afti'r 
recruiting a little at Annapolis and went iiome, 
arriving on Christmas eve. He was whollj' 
disal)k'd and was discharged wliUe on ])aro]eby 
.special order of the War De])artment, his j)ai)ers 
being dated in February, 1865. 



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In the autumn of 1866 he went to St. Louis 
and engaged with Lamb & Quinhui, commis- 
sion merchants, remaining in their employ two 
years. Li 1868 he engaged with the Eau 
Claire Lumber Company at St. Louis and he 
has since operated in their interest, coming to 
Eau Claire and taking charge of the business 
of the company there, known as the Mississippi 
River Logging Company. 

He was married Nov. 6, 1867, at Georgetown, 
RLiss., to Susie, oldest daughter of Humphrey 
and Rebecca (Horner) Nelson. Five children 
as follows have been born to them: Arthur L., 
Mary N., Richard IL, Robert W. and Rebecca. 
Mary died when about three years old. 

Mr. Chute is a true son of New England. He 
is a man of training in business avenues and 
intellectual to an uncommon degree. Li poli- 
tics he is a Republican, and enthu.siastic and 
active in all that pertains to the advancement 
of liis party. 



/^^ HARLES FREDERICK STIMM, Ke- 
%v^I^y nosha, Wis., Commander in 1889 of 
vSx^ G. A. R. Post No. 230, was born .Ian. 
14, 1848, in Pleasant Prairie, Kenosha county, 
where his parents, Charles F. and Catherine 
(Vollmer) Stimm, .settled on their emigration 
from Germany in 1844. They were of pure 
German extraction and the father died in 
Chicago in 1865; the decease of the motlier 
occurred in Rochelle, III., in 1870. Their 
family included several ciiildren named Mar- 
garet, Mary, .lulia, Emma, Catherine, Rosa, 
Augustus, Ada and Henry, all still surviving 
excepting tlie last named. While still a youth 
Mr. Stimm commenced to learn the trade of a 
wagonmaker with the Peter Wood Company at 
Kenosha which su.spended business before the 
termination of his apprenticeship. He en- 
gaged with the \\'hitaker Skein and Engine 



Company at Kenosha and, when his former 
employers resumed business, he resumed his 
connection Avith them for the brief period in 
which they conducted business. He then ob- 
tained employment with the Bain Wagon Com- 
pany at Kenosha where he has retained his 
relations with the exception of the period he 
passed in the war. In December, 1863, he en- 
listed, and, after passing about a month at Camp 
Randall, he was mu.stered in Feb. 2, 1864, and 
was assigned to Company C, 26th Wisconsin 
Infantry and joined the regiment at White- 
.sides, Tenn. Colonel Winckler, whose sketch 
appears on another page, was in command and 
about the last of April the regiment went to 
Lookout Valley, having been transferred to 
the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 20th Corps, 
preparatory to the Atlanta campaign. Mr. 
Stimm was in the several figiits at Buzzard's 
Roost, Resaca, Cassville, Pumpkin Vine Creek, 
Pine Knob and Kenesaw. .lune 22d, when his 
regiment was under severe fire at Kenesaw, he 
felt himself somewhat ambitious to give the 
rebels as good as they sent and suddenly found 
himself alone, far in advance of the Union 
lines. Bullets were Hying and he concluded to 
join his comrades, which he did on the double 
quick. He skirmi.shed at Big Shanty and 
Burnt Hickory, and also at Kenesaw Pass, 
where Hooker's advance was attacked by .John- 
ston, the 26th losing 45 men and Colonel 
Winckler receiving a ball in his hat. The 
next movement was to the Chattahoochie 
River, remaining there a few days, exchanging 
civilities with rebels in the way of tobacco and 
other small things. July 20th, they crossed the 
river and were preparing dinner when Ihej^ 
were attacked by the 33d Mississippi. In the 
action the latter lost its State and regimental 
colors, and after it was over 137 of its soldiers 
received burial by the Union troops. All the 
superior officers were killed. The brigade was 



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commanded by Colonel Wood iuid 113 rounds 
were fired. Mr. Stimni was in the battle at 
Peach Tree Creek and went on the 22d to a 
position with his company in front of Atlanta 
and fought that day. During a lull in its 
course, a sharpshooter, stationed beliind a 
stump, was making liimself particularly dis- 
agreeahii; when (ieneral ylierman came along. 
He asked a gunner if he could not stop that 
fellow, and immediately the stump and the 
hidden scamp flew into tlie air. General Sher- 
man expressed his .satisfaction over the success 
of his suggestion. On that day McPherson 
was killed. The regiment remained a few 
days on the field, and was nnder constant can- 
nonading. The next orders were to cro.ss the 
Chattahoochie River, and protect the crossings 
and wliile there the troo]is voted for the 
President. After the fall of Atlanta they 
commenced the march into the city and 
afterwards joined Sherman in his marcli to 
the sea, on which Mr. Stimm participated in 
all the excitements of change which character- 
ized the movement, lie was in several actions 
in the vicinity of Savannah and at Averysboro 
and Bentonville. He was at Raleigh, April 
13, 18(15. While there they hoard of the fall 
of Richmond and were celebrating it when an 
Orderly rode up to the speaker with a dispatch 
announcing the assassination of Lincoln. Mr. 
Stimm was in the march to Richmond and 
Alexandria, where they prepared for the Grand 
Review and after it, were oi'dered to Company 
C, 3d Wisconsin InfaJitry at Louisville, Ky., 
(June 10, 1865), returning to Milwaukee on a 
cattle train to be mustered out July 15, 18G5. 
The father of Mr. Stimm was one of the first 
to enlist, enrolling in the 11th Illinois Cavalry 
and remaining in the service three years : he 
was with Grant at N'^icksburg. 

Dec. 11, 1873, Mr. Stimm was married to 
Anna M. Schwann; .she was born Nov. 14, 



1851, in Kenosha and is the daughter of 
Matthias and Gertrude Schwann, who were 
born respectively Sept. 9, 1822, and Oct. 11, 
1817, in Germany; their children were named 
Christopher, Anna, Herbert, Charles and 
Helena. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Stimm are Matthias, William, Benjamin and 
Helena M. 

Mr. Stimm is one of the leading citizens of 
Kenosha; in 1887 he was elected Mityor of liis 
city and served his term with honor. He is a 
member of St. George and St. Michael's Be- 
nevolent Associations. 



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ILLTS P. CLARKE, Postmaster at 
Milton, Wis., a member of G. A. 
R. Post No. ("JO, was born at Una- 
dilla Forks, Otsego Co., New York, May 15, 
1842. He traces his ancestry back to John 
Clark, who died in England in 1559. The son 
of the latter, .John Jr., was born in 1541, his 
son Thomas in 1570, and the latter was the 
father of Joseph, the first wlm settled in 
America. He was born in 1618, came to this 
country in 1()37, located at Newport, R. L, and 
died in 1694. His son Joseph was born in 
Newport in 1642, was ordained an elder in 
1712 and died in 1726. Thomas Clark, son of 
the latter, was Ijorn at Westerly, R. I., in 1686 
and died in 1767. Joshua Clark, son of Thomas, 
was born at Ilopkinton, R. I., in 1717 and died 
in 1793. His son Henry was born in the same 
place Dec. 2, 1756, and was the father of Oliver 
P., grandfather of Mr. Clarke of this sketch and 
father of Erastus P. The latter married Mary 
j J. Peck, a native of Cumberland county. New 
Jersey, and who was a representative of an 
English house which settled in New Jersey in 
an early period of the history of this country. 
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from another line of his own original stock and 
traced her origin back to Joseph Clark, who 
was their common ancestor. The male repre- 
sentatives, beginning with Henry Clarke men- 
tioned, were clergymen of the Seventh Day 
Baptist denomination. 

The parents of Mr. Clarke I'emoved to Milton 
in 1856 and he has been a resident there since 
that date. He was one of the first to enroll as 
a soldier in Wisconsin, when his yonng blood 
was stirred by the assault on his country's Hag 
at Sumter, but his mother was ill and he under 
age. He submitted to his father's wishes and 
returned home. (He enlisted April 24:, 1861). 
He was a student at Milton Academy and com- 
pleted his studies there during thesinnmer fol- 
lowing. His mother having recovered he de- 
termined to enlist, and, accordingly, Oct. 7, 
1861, he went into the ranks of Company K, 
loth Wisconsin Infantry. Soon after going 
into camp near .lanesville he was made Corporal 
and, Aug. 1, 1862, was promoted to Sergeant. 
He was made First Sergeant Feb. 15, 1865. 
His commission as First Lieutenant was dated 
March 24, 1865, and bore the signatures of Gov. 
J. T. Lewis and Lucius Fairchild, Secretary of 
State. 

In a brief sketch of a man's military career, 
few will take cognizance of the excessive labor 
jierformed aside from regular service. The 
territory traversed by the soldiers of the " 13th " 
includes that from Wisconsin to Kansas, thence 
to Tennessee and from there to the Gulf of 
Mexico. Mr. Clarke went with his command 
to Leavenworth, to Fort Scott, to Lawrence, to 
Fort Iviley, back to Leavenworth and thence to 
Columlius, Ky., and performed heavy military 
duty until he went to Fort Henry and later, 
marched to Fort Donelson. He saw much 
guerrilla service and made all the laborious 
marches in which the command were engaged 
during the winter, with Fort Henry as head- 



quarters. He returned to Fort Donelson and 
went tiience again to Fort Henry, operating on 
the Tennessee Eiver until the last attack on 
Fort Donelson, whither he went, reaching that 
fort soon after the repulse of the rebels. Aug. 
27, 1868, the long march to Stevenson, Ala., 
was begun by the " 13th " and Sergeant Clarke, 
in charge of a sick squad, proceeded with them 
to Nashville, thence to Franklin and rejoined 
the regiment at Columbia, Tenn. The com- 
mand passed the winter at Edgefield, doing 
provost duty under Assistant Marshal, .John T. 
Fish. .Jan. 16, 1864, Mr. Clarke veteranized 
and enjoyed his furlough at home. Returning 
to the front, he performed military duty on the 
Tennessee River. In .June, while aiding in the 
demolition of a building he received an injury 
to his back which unfitted him for military 
duty for some months, and he has since suf- 
fered from its effects. During his first period 
of inactivity in the field, he acted as clerk at 
post headc[uarters at Whitesburg and Hunts- 
ville. In Marcli, 1865, he went to Jonesboro, 
Tenn., where he received his commission as 
Lieutenant. The regiment had been attached 
to the 4th Army Corps, and at this place re- 
ceived the news of Lee's surrender. The vet- 
erans of the regiment went with General Sheri- 
dan to Texas, and camped for a time at Green 
Lake on the Gulf. On his arrival in the " Lone 
Star State," Lieutenant Clarke was detailed as 
Acting Adjutant of the regiment. In Septem- 
ber he accompanied the command to San An- 
tonio, where he was mustered out Nov. 24th, 
and returned to Wisconsin as superior officer of 
his company, the captain remaining in Texas. 
He received final discharge, Dec. 28, 186-5, and 
returned to Milton. 

He was variously engaged until the spring 
of 1875 when he opened a drug store and has 
since prosecuted his relations therein. His 
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in his citizenship and in tlie Post to which he 
belongs. He has served several years as Town 
Clerk and is (Juarlcrmaster of the Post, (1880). 
lie has acted as Chairiuan of the Rock Connty 
Soldiers' Relief Commission since its organiza- 
tion and been Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
of Milton College since 1877. He has also 
served seven years as Treasurer of the Wis- 
consin Pharmaceutical Association. He took 
charge of the postoftice at Milton in October, 
1889; previous to Cleveland's administration 
he had served two years in the same capacity. 
His marriage to Miss Clarke took place Oct. 
15, 18G7 ; a daughter, Bessie E., was born to 
them .June 29, 1873, and a son, Ray W., May 
27, 1879. He has been a member of the Odd 
Fellows Order since 1872 at this place (Milton) 
and lias passed the chairs in his Lodge. 

X. *^^t^*i< 

ERNARD W. DOYLE, Milwaukee, 
Wis., member of Robert Chivas Post 
No. 2, was born May 1, 1839, in Al- 
bany, New York, and is the son of Patrick and 
Ann (Mackin) Doyle. Tlie senior Doyle was 
born in Belfast, Ireland, and his wife was a 
native of Newry in the same country. He was 
a stone-cutter by trade and came to America in 
1832, locating at Saugerties, New York, remov- 
ing thence to Albany and afterwards to Mil- 
waukee, arriving in the latter place in 1844. 
His family included five children, named Ber- 
nard, Felix, Kate, Rose and Mary; all are liv- 
ing except Rose. Patrick Doyle enlisted as a 
soldier in the war with Mexico in 1847 and lust 
his life in the battle of Cherubusco in the 
charge on the castle. The wife and naother 
survived until 1880. 

The eaily life of the eldest son was passed at 
home, and at 14 he became an apprentice in 
the office of the Milwaukee Sentinel; and after 




serving his time he traveled, as wi\s the cus- 
tom, antl worked in all the i)rincipal cities of 
the United States, following this mode of life 
for several years. He returned to Wisconsin 
when the war came on and August 22, 18()1, 
enlisted to be mustered into the service in 
Company H, 11th Wisconsin Infantry. After 
passing a few weeks in Camp Randall, Madi- 
.son, he accompanied the regiment to Sulphur 
Springs, Mo., and the command was then scat- 
tered along the line of the Iron Mountain rail- 
road, Com])any H being detailed as guard of a 
bridge near Irorfton. The next spring the 
11th was brigaded with the o3d Illinois and 
tlie 1st Indiana Battery, commanded by Colonel 
Hovey. The brigade was in the command of 
General Steele and was sent down througii 
Missouri after the rebels under Price and Har- 
dee, encountering them at Bayou Cache, Ark., 
where, .July 7, 1802, a heavy engagement and a 
Union victory took j>lace. Heavy marching 
througii a malarial district followed, which 
wius severer than any fighting, and the regi- 
ment joined C4eneral Curtiss in the interior of 
Arkansas at Batesville after Pea Ridgu, tiie 
army being en route to the Mississippi. Mov- 
ing to Helena, they were in camp until the 
fall, going thence to Sulphur Sjirings. Mr. 
Doyle had been ill some time without relief 
and was sent to hospital at Pilot Knob, Mo., 
where he remained until the following June, 
(18(33,) when he secured a discharge on sur- 
geon's certificate of disability. 

He returned to Milwaukee where, after re- 
cuj)erating until able, he engaged again as a 
printer. He has always been deeply interested 
in politics, and not liking the tenets and 
practices of the old parties, he adojited the 
principles of the (ireenback element and "stut'k 
to his colors'" until him.self and Robert Schil- 
ling were the only representatives of the party. 
In 1882, in connection with others, he under- 




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took the organization of a Labor party, called 
the Trades Assembly party, which succeeded 
in electing the municipal ticket at two ditl'er- 
ent times. Subsequently, on the dismember- 
ment of that organization, he became one of 
the foremost organizers of the People's party. 
In tiie fail of 188G he received the nomination 
of the party for the position of Register of 
Deeds and was elected, and; after serving two 
years in that office, left it with a clean record. 
His next movement was to buy an interest in 
the Young Churchman Publishing Co., of 
which he is superintendent. 

He was married May 1, 1S71, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Owen O'Hase, and tlieir surviving 
children, eight in number, are named Annie E., 
James, William B., Eugene, Fannie, Catherine, 
Rose and Alice. 




(.,r^y^ OLONEL .JEROME A. WATROUS, 
Milwaukee, Wis., one of the most 
prominent citizens of the Cream City, 
editor and proprietor of the Sunday Telegraph, 
one of the foremost workers in the Order of the 
Grand Army and a member of Post No. 1, E. 
B. Wolcott, was born in Conklin, Broome Co., 
New York, Sept. 6, 1840. His father, Orin J. 
Watrous, was born in Bridgewater, Susque- 
hanna Co., Pehn., and traced his origin to one 
of three brothers Watrous, Englishmen, who 
settled in what became the State of Connecticut, 
in aljout the 17th century. Two of them were 
married to Welsh women and the third had a 
Scotch wife ; from the latter came the house of 
which Colonel Watrous is a representative in 
direct line and all the people in this country 
bearing that name are allied to one of the 
fraternity referred to. Major Ansel Watrous, 
father of Orin .1., went from Connecticut to 
Pennsylvania early in the 19th century. The 



latter mentioned to his. grandchildren the facts 
of his uncles being soldiers in the Revolution. 
The father was a lumberman and miller and 
married Jane E. Smith, the issue of their union 
being six children named in order of birth : 
Ansel, Henry 0., J. A., Demis L., Eliza J. and 
Katherine M. The motlier was born in Frank- 
lin, Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania, and her 
forefathers were of American stock for several 
generations. The father removed his house- 
hold and interests to Wisconsin in 1844 and 
lived at Sheboygan Falls until removal to 
Forest, Fond du Lac county, in 1847, and in 
the next year went to Brothertown, Calumet 
county. In 1849 another removal was effected 
to what is now Hayton, in that county, where 
the family settled on primeval land and there 
"Jack " assisted his father and brother in clear- 
ing the first half acre and to build thereon the 
pioneer's palace, a board slianty. Tliere the 
father died the next year and the mother re- 
turned with her flock to the neighborhood of 
friends in New York. During the next six 
years her son worked on a farm summers and 
obtained three months' schooling each year, 
except the last, when he worked for $0 a month 
and taught school in the winter. In July, 1857, 
he returned to Calumet Co., Wisconsin, and per- 
formed pioneer labor two summers, teaching 
also two winters. In April, 1859, he entered 
Lawrence University at Appleton and, after 
studying a term, he became an attache of the 
ofKce of the Appleton Crescmit to learn the 
" black art " and before the expiration of a half 
year assisted in the local department ; before he 
had been connected with the paper two years 
he had become one of its publishers and editors. 
The advent of war pushed personal considera- 
tions out of his mind and wlien the roar of 
cannon from Sumter announced that men were 
needed at the front, he enlisted, vainly hoping 
to go with the first troops that left the State. 



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The company disbanded and Colonel Watious 
again enrolled June 24, 1801, and went to 
rendezvous at Camp Randall, where the com- 
pany was assigned as "E" to the 6th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry. July 10, 1S61, he was mustered 
and left the State on the 23d to become a mem- 
ber of one of the most famous organizations in 
the whole volunteer service — the Iron Brigade 
— then King's Brigade, McDowell's Division, 
Army of the Virginia. Early in the spring it 
became 1st Brigade of the 1st Division and 1st 
Army Corps, of the Army of the Potomac, re- 
maining such until the consolidation of the 1st 
and 5th Corps in 1804, when the organization 
became 3d Brigade of the 4th Division and 5th 
Corps, dating its title of Iron Brigade from the 
battle of South MounUiin, Sei)t. 14, 1802. The 
first battle in which the regiment engaged was 
on the Kappahannock, Aug. 24, 1862. Colonel 
Watrous had been made Ordnance Sergeant of 
the brigade in January preceding and he held 
the position until a week after the battle of 
Antietam, (Sept. 17th) when he was made 
Division Ordnance Sergeant, and occupied the 
place until August, 1804. Meanwhile, he had 
been under rebel tire in every action of his com- 
mand from that already named to the fights on 
the Weldon railroad except Gainesville and 
South Mountain, when the duty of obtaining 
supplies of ammunition called him elsewhere. 
His roster includes Rappahannock River, Sec- 
ond Bui! Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Fitz- 
hugh's Crossing, Chancellorsville, Cettysburg, 
Mine Run, the AVilderness, Laurel Hill, Spott- 
sylvauia. Cold Harbor, Petersburg, siege of 
Petersburg, and the fights on the A\'eklon rail- 
road. About the last of August, 1804, he was 
made Sergeant Major of the 0th and on the 
19th of October was commissioned First Lieu- 
tenant and Adjut^mt and in that capacity was 
in the work of destruction on the Weldon rail- 
road, where miles of track were destroyed, other 



property rendered useless and many prisoners 
captured. On the return the regiment was 
rearguard and had four brisk skirmishes with 
the advance of the rebels. About the beginning 
of March, Colonel Watrous was made Adjutant 
General of the Iron Brigade, then commanded 
by the late General Julm A. Kellogg. On the 
31st day of March his horse was killed under 
him and he was taken prisoner, conveyed to 
Libby prison and was one of the last to be re- 
leased on the afternoon of April 2d, the day 
before the occupation of Richmond by the 
Federal troops. For gallant conduct at Gravelly 
Run, on the day he was captured, he was 
brevetted Captain and, by virtue of being a 
paroled prisoner he was mustered out May 20, 
1805, four years, lacking a month, after his 
service commenced. 

June 22d, after leaving Washington, Colonel 
Watrous purchased a half interest in the Jack- 
son Cou'idy (Wis.) Baivtier at Black River Falls. 
For a year he was the factotum of the estab- 
lishment, setting about half the type, doing 
nearly all editorial work and press work, solicit- 
ing for his subscription list, managing the 
finances of the enterprise, and "set" his 
editorial matter from tiie case without "copy," 
simply for want of time to write it. He re- 
mained editor and one of tlie publishers of the 
paper until August, 180U. In the summer of 
1866 he was appointed to fill a vacancy as 
Sciiool Suj)erintendent of Jackson county and 
in the fall was the successful candidate for the 
Assembly for the District composed of Jackson 
and Clark counties. He was the youngest man 
in the Legislature and served on three standing 
Assembly Committees and on Sjjecial Commit- 
tee to investigate the affairs of the State Insane 
Asylum at Madison. In 1809 he severed his 
connection with the Baniier and l)ecame one of 
the editors and publishers of the Fond du Lac 
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ing tlie daily Commonwealth, remaining in 
that connection seven years. In 1878 he hegan 
his connection with The Milwaukee Sunday 
Telegraph as a contributor, and in July follow- 
ing bought a third interest in that journal, be- 
coming, after two months, a half owner. Since 
1885 he has been its editor, L. J. Spice owning 
the other half interest and being business man- 
ager. Colonel Watrous was made Pension 
Agent in 1885 and held the incumbency until 
April, 1889. In the fall of 188i», October 31st, 
he was appointed Collector of Customs of the 
Port of Milwaukee by President Harrison. He 
has been a Republican editor for 25 years and 
has been active in the interests of his party. 
He served eight years as a Colonel in the Na- 
tional Guard and three years as a Brigadier 
General. He is advanced in Masonry, havmg 
taken all the degrees conferable up to the 
33d, and he is a Knight of Pythias, and be- 
longs to the Elks, in which Order he has served 
as Exalted Ruler of Milwaukee Lodge ; he 
is a member of the Royal Arcanum, of the 
National Union and Knights of Honor, 
and of numerous other organizations of more 
or less prominence, in all of which he is 
one of the most popular and genial membei'S. 
If he were allowed to speak his encomium, he 
would say, " I have distinguished myself as a 
hard worker and am proud of my record as 
such." Prominent and popular in the G. A. 
R., outspoken and fearless as an editor and 
irreproachable as a man and citizen, the com- 
pilers of this work record in this connection 
that they regard his simple sketcii an honor to 
their pages. Long flourish honest "Jack" 
Watrous, whose portrait appears on page 230. 





USSELL BROUGHTON, M. D., Brod- 
head. Wis., member of G. A. R,. Post 
No. 90, was born May 10, 1842, at 
Racine, Wis. He comes of stock which dates 
its origin in America to forbears who were a 
part of the earliest history of the country, and 
incorporated them.selves with its most per- 
manent institutions, and their descendants 
have sustained the lustrous prestige of their an- 
cestors. One of them states that "Three 
Broughton Brothers, named Waite, John and 
Thaddeus, came from England to America. 
That subsequently the two latter returned to 
England unmarried and the former remained 
and settled in America, and from him .sprang 
all of the numerous family of Broughtons now 
to be found in America." 

John and Amanda (Griffin) Broughton, the 
parents of Dr. Broughton, were both natives of 
Rensselaer Co., New York, the father I)eing 
born May 6, 1817, and is the son of a Baptist 
minister, named Russell Broughton, who mar- 
ried Hannah Phillipps, surviving until the age 
of 92 years. John Broughton followed the 
business of a millwright and removed to 
Racine, Wis., in 1841, removing thence, in 
1842, to Albany, Greene Co., Wis., where he is 
still living on a farm; he was the third settler 
in the township and encountered all the priva- 
tions of the average pioneer, clearing his farm 
from the primeval forest, living in homely 
style and rearing his children as became his 
character and record, which liave erected for 
him the best possible remembrance — the per- 
manent respect and admiration of the people 
among whom he has lived and struggled. He 
served his generation as Chairman of the Board 
of Supervisors many years and in several 
other official positions recjuiring the highest 
order of judgment and executive ability, such 
as is a necessity in the formative period of a 
municipality. His first experience as a Badger 



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State agriculturist was in the total loss of his 
first crop by inundation, and lie leased land 18 
miles from liis home, whither he went daily or 
camped out. Tlie mother was born in 1S20 and 
is one of 10 children, all of whom are living, 
the youngest being 55 years old. 

Dr. Broughton comes of stock on bolli sides 
remarkable for tenacity of life, his paternal 
grandsire dying at !J2 and his maternal grand- 
parents at the same age. Until he was 19 
years old he jmssed his time in the vocations 
and ways of the average son of the pioneer set- 
tlers in Wisconsin. In 1861 he became a 
student at Milton College, paying the expenses 
of his course by teaching at intervals and was 
within one term of being graduated wlien he 
entered the army. May 10, 1S()4, he enlisted 
in Company C, 40th Wisconsin Infantry; was 
mustered at Camp Randall, Madison, and went 
at once to Alton 111., and to Memphis, Tenn., 
the regimental headquarters until the com- 
mand was discharged. He performed detached 
duty as train escort and on guard at ^"icksburg, 
Holly Springs, Wolf River, Hatchie and New 
Grenada, as the emergencies of the locality de- 
manded, and was at Memphis when Forrest 
made his raid. All that the experience of the 
doctor lacked was the one item of blood ; all the 
other concomitants of service on the borders of 
rebellion were abundant. Stress of some kind, 
privation and disease were the order of tilings, 
and when Dr. Broughton was mustered out, 
Sept. 16, 1S64, he was ill in his bed. He passed 
a year in recuperating and after teaching a 
terrn of school went to Milwaukee and entered 
the Commercial College of R. ('. Spencer, 
whence he was graduated in 1865. He con- 
ducted a select school at Albany the following 
winter and in tlie spring went to Conover, 
Iowa, and operated one year in a warehouse. 
In 1866 lie returned to Evansville, Wis., and 
entered upon the study of medicine under Drs. 



Evans and Smith, also matriculating at Rush 
Medical College in Chicago, devoting three 
years to unremitting preparation for his profes- 
sion and took his degree at that institution 
Feb. 3, 1869. He has conducted his interests 
as a medical practitioner at Brodhead since he 
first assumed the dignities of his profession and 
has steadily won his way in business and in 
the estimation of his patrons and friends, as a 
careful and conscientious disciple of medicine 
and as one who recognizes above all other con- 
siderations his relations witli his kind. No 
more popular or inliuential member of societj' 
exists in Brodhead and all, whetiier comrades, 
friends or beneficiaries of his skill, are certain 
of symjiathy in troulile of whatever character, 
of good fcllow.ship in social hours and of 
thorough reliability in whatever emergency in 
Dr. Broughton. Tlie honest biograjiher of a 
man is always just, as such work lives after 
both; this must relieve tiiis generation whose 
fancy leads it to suspect fulsomeness in the 
adequate delineation of a man wlio has not yet 
become a memory. 

Two days prior to his graduation, Feb. 1, 
1869, he was married to Julia A., daughter of 
Daniel and Ellen (Bemis) Smiley; the wife was 
born Jan. 9, 1846, at Janesville. Her father 
was born in Ciiautauqua Co., New York, in 
1812, was a miller by calling, married in his 
[ native State, and in 1839 joined tlio pioneers 
of tlie Badger State, buying land in the vicinity 
of Janesville and later became interested in the 
mining regions of Wi-sconsin. Finally he lo- 
cated on a farm near Albany, where he passed 
his days in prominent usefulness. He was one 1 
of the first County Commissioners; was Poor ' 
Commissioner 18 years, and in 1865 was elected 
to the Assembly. He acted as Assessor and in | 
other official capacities, and died Feb. 20, 1886, 
leaving a wife, four daughters and two sons. 
The motiier belonged to a prominent and influ- 



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ential familv in Ouiatauqna ooanty. Dr. and 
Mrs. Brciughton hare two sons, named William 
Simmons and James Roffiell, the former bom 
Jan. 23, 1874, and the latter Nov. 12, 1876. 
\¥ith the exception of one rear. Dr. Brooghton 
has served his Post as Sui^eon since its organi- 
zation : he has been a member of the Masonic- 
Order since 1867, advancing to the degree of 
Royal Arch Mason. He belongs to the State 
Medical SocJetr, and has served as Medical 
Examiner of the Pension Board at Brodhead. 
He is the second of eight children h>om to his 
parents, all of whom sarvire, and are named 
John A.. Albert, William. Mrs. Delilah Enfield. 
Ikigene, E-ossell, Hannah and Mis. Harriet 
Graham. 



:^ EOBtJE P. CAR^L\N, Lake Geneva, 
* Wis., formerly a soldier of the war, 
and one of the earliest to enroll after 
ihe fall of the flag at Sumter, was bom at 
Bell's Forge. Blair 'then Huntington) Co., Pa., 
Jane 1, 18-32, and is the son of Samuel Oliver 
and Sarah (PutsgTove)Carman.who were natives 
resp>ectively of Allegany (New York) and 
Blair counties. The latter was of German and 
the fcMiner <rf English descent. The father 
was the son of Lewis Carman and was a 
teacher and shoemaker: he started in 1S3S to 
remove with his family to Allegany oounty. 
New York, by the wat^r route ; while at Steu- 
benviUe on the Allegheny River he left his 
family to attend to some matters on the boat 
and was never again seen by them : it was 
supposed that he was drowned in the river. 
The mother was the daughter of George and 
Sai^ Putegrove. The grandfather Carman took 
the mother and her little son and daughter 
to New York State, where they remained 
a year and then weut back to Pennsylvania 




where the daughter died when about three 
years old. The son was apprenticed in child- 
hood to his uncle at Logansville to learn the 
business of a tailor and remained with him 
until about 15 years old, when he went to 
Philadelphia and p»erfect^ his knowledge of 
his business. He then went to Hollidaysburg, 
Pa., and worked at his trade until 18-52 when 
he went to Williamsport, returning to the 
former place after a year. He was occupied in 
the interests of the Pennsylvania railroad cor- 
poration until the first year of the war. He 
had become interested in public events and 
hastened to enroll, within 10 minutes after the 
receipt of the news of the lowering of the 
United States colors at Sumter, in Company 
A, 11th Pennsylvania Lifantry, enlisting April 
16, 1S61. (The oi^nization was originally 
the "Woodward Guards.") April 17th he went 
to Harrisburg and thence to Westchester where 
two weeks were pased in military drill and 
his command went next to Havre de Grace 
and were detailed to guard the GDvemment 
property there. About a month later they 
went to Baltimore and thence to ChamVjers- 
burg, where they were instructed in military 
tactics and were brigaded with the Ist Wiscon- 
sin, General Starkweather ; 11th Indiana, Gen- 
eral Wallace ; 4th Connecticut : 11th Pennsyl- 
vania, Colonel Garrett, Brigade Commander, 
Colonel Abercrombie. (AU these officers were 
afterwards generals.) They went successively 
to Hagerstown and Williamsport Md., and on 
the morning of July 2. 1S61. waded the Poto- 
mac at Hokes" Run or Falling Waters where 
they found a foree of rel>els under Colonel 
Jackson. Several hours of fighting, (which 
looked at that date like a htige battle i, followed 
and the command went back to Martinsburg;, 
thence to Williamsport for supplies and again 
to Martinsburg, removing towards Wincbesf-w 
with the exj^ctation of a fight, but Fitgohn 



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Porter advised differently and the route was 
ciianged to Harper's Ferry, where tlie regi- 
ment remained until the expiration of its time, 
hut remained hy request of General Patterson 
until the arrival of tlie three j'ears men. Mr. 
(/arman was mustered out at Harriehurg about 
the middle of August and went home to re- 
enlist at Williarasport, Pa., in Company H, 8th 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, enrolling Sept. 1, 1861. 
He awaited muster about two weeks but con- 
cluded to enter an infantry command and 
went to Harrisburg where he received a 
friendly telegram asking his presence at Louis- 
burg, Pa., where be found a body of ()5 soldiers 
and was offered the position of Orderly Ser- 
geant of Company K, 51st Pennsylvania In- 
fantry, Col. John F. Hartranft. They were 
mustered at Annajiolis, Md., Nov. 10, 1861, 
drilled on the grounds of the naval school and 
at Parole Camj) until the first of .January, 1802, 
Mr. Carman meanwhile succeeding by promo- 
tion to the position of Second Lieutenant. When 
the Burnside expedition was j)lanned the 51.st 
I'ciinsylvania was assigned to it and embarked 
on the "Scout" for Fortress Monroe and joined 
the fleet in Hampton Roads, sailing thence to 
Hatteras, N. C, under sealed orders. When 
they arrived there a Cape Hatteras storm was in 
progress and the schooner was driven to Flor- 
ida, making Hatteras February 7th and on 
the morning of the 8th they took part in the en- 
gagement on Roanoke Island, assaulting Fort 
Defiance, which was taken that day; and at 
night the United States flag was the only banner 
in sight. The portion of the action in which 
Mr. Carniiin took part was that in which O. 
Jennings Wise, son of Governor Wise of Vir- 
ginia, was killed. On the 12th of March Mr. 
Carman went with the troops to Slocum's 
Creek where preparations were made for the 
attack on Newbern, which was taken March 
14th. Not long after he was with a de- 



tail which went to Elizabetli City for the 
purpose of removing the obstructions placed in 
the Dismal Swamp canal by the rebels, but be- 
came involved in a fight at Camden and re- 
treated, burning bridges and other property 
and taking a number of guns. The command 
remained at Newbern until July 1st and started 
to re-enforce the Army of the Potomac, but the 
orders were countermanded on arrival at Hat- 
teras Tnlet, and on return to Newbern they took 
transports for Fortress Monroe. The last of 
July, they left Newport News for Aquia Creek 
and Fredericksburg, went thence with Poi)e to 
the support of Banks at Cedar or Slaughter 
Mountain, arriving in time to assist a little and 
! was in the actions at Kelley's Ford, Rappahan- 
nock Station, Sulphur Springs and Warrenton. 
There was almost incessant fighting until the 
second l)attle of Bull Run in which Mr. Car- 
man fought and September 1st, he wasatChan- 
tilly. The next action was at South Mountain, 
Sei)tember 14th, and on the 17th the 51st was 
again in battle at Antietam. July 12, 1862, 
Mr. Carman was promoted to First Lieutenant 
and on the 29th of August was made Captain 
of his company on the battlefield of Bull 
Run, l)y Special Order of his command- 
ing general, Jesse L. Reno. At Antie- 
tam, Captain Carman's company was the 
first to cross the Burnside Bridge and ascend 
the heights where he received a shot in each 
arm, but did not leave his command. His 
regiment went thence to Pleasant Vallej', 
crossed the Potomac and afterwards the Rappa- 
hannock and fought at Stevensville and again 
at White Sulphur Spi'ings, (Warrenton). Cap- 
tain Carman was at the head of his men Decem- 
ber loth in the fight at Fredericksburg, and 
was not again in action until June, 1863, when 
orders were received to re-enforce Grant at 
Vicksburg, where the command arrived on the 
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driving Jolmston into Jackson wliicli was 
taken, tlie rebel cliief making his escape. Tlie 
regiment was ordered to Cincinnati to connect 
witli the Department of the Oliio and Captain 
Carman was with his men at the battle of 
Knoxville. He was in the several skirmishes, 
(in reality, battles) of Loudon Creek, Lenoirs 
and Campbell Station (November Kith) and 
was under the siege of Longstreet six days at 
Knoxville. He fought again later at Straw- 
berry Plains, Rutledge and Blaine's Cross 
Roads and veteranized Dec. 28, 1863, taking 
his veteran furlough, reaching home about 
February 7th. He immediately entered on 
recruiting service and raised 550 men in 15 
days. March 10th he went to Harrisburg with 
a company of 167 men, stayed at Annapolis 
until the middle of April and joined the Army 
of the Potomac at Warrenton -Junction, and 
was in the tights of the Wilderness May 5th, 
6th and 7th ; on the Sth went into the action at 
Spottsylvania C. H., with 95 men and after it, 
40 men and one lieutenant answered at roll- 
call ; three of the missing were prisoners and 
the remainder killed and wounded, principally 
the former. Sixteen recruits were received and 
on the following day they fought in the battle of 
the " Po ", losing two men. The command was 
in the fighting on the North Anna River, 
among the actions being the skirmish at Shady 
Grove Church and activities hardly ceased until 
the battle of Cold Harbor, June 1st. The 51st 
covered the movement of the 9th Corps to the 
Chickahominy and Captain Carman was in 
command of his regiment at the crossing of the 
James, June 16th, preparatory to moving to 
the trenches at Petersburg, taking position that 
evening. On the 17th, 17 of his men were 
killed by one solid shot ; they were repulsed 
but took a four-pound gun without orders. ()n 
the 18th they were in an exj)Osed position on 
Cemetery Hill, retiring to the rear when re- 



lieved. (In a movement to Jerusalem Plank 
Road, June 22d and 23d, Captain Carman was 
on duty as a staff officer.) His command was 
in the fights on the Weldon railroad after the 
mine explosion July 30th, going to Yellow 
House and was afterwards in the work of 
destruction on the Virginia railroads, fighting 
at Ream's Station August 25th. September 30th 
and October 1st he was in the action at Preble's 
Farm or Poplar Grove Church, and in the 
movement towards Hatcher's Run which was a 
failure as was tlie action there on the 27tli of 
October. Nov. 16, 1864, Captain Carman was 
mustered out at Preble's Farm, his term having 
expired. As soon as he arrived home, Novem- 
ber 20th, he was mustered into service in the 
Department of the Provost Marshal of the 18tli 
District of Pennsylvania with headquarters at 
Williainsport, doing duty as a Government 
detective, watching for de.serters en route to 
Canada. March 20, 1865, he received final dis- 
charge after more than four years' service. 

On resuming connection with civil life he 
engaged in his former lousiness at his former 
place of abode and in 1869 went to Marengo, 
Iowa; three years later, went to Davenport; a 
year after went to Mt. Vernon and remained 18 
months ; stayed a year at Dewit, Iowa, and at 
Marion two and a half years, going thence to 
Cedar Rapids, where he remained until the fall 
of 1880. Meanwhile, he hail been tempurarily 
ill Minneapolis, Keokuk and Chicago. In the 
spring of 1884 he went to Oshkosh and to 
Geneva in June of that year, when he pur- 
chased his present business, which he is suc- 
cessfully conducting. He was married in 1853 
at Williainsport, Pa., to Rachel E. Lyon, a 
native of the Keystone State. She died in the 
spring of 1873 at Rock Island, 111., leaving 
three children, two of whom survive, named 
Lillie and Rachel B., the former the wife of 
Jas. Robinson, of Boston, and the latter of Ed- 



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ward Sargent, of Rockford, 111. Dec. 23, 1873, 
Mr. Carman was married to Mary E. Bingham, 
of Cliicago. Captain Carman is a Royal Arch 
Mason and belongs (o the Odd Fellows. 

A paragraph elaborating the character of 
Captain Carman and eulogistic of his military 
career might fittingly be added to the account 
of his life, Ijul the most glowing words could 
not enhance the luster of his patriotism nor 
make more conspicuous his service to his 
country. A brief sunnnary shows that he rose 
from a private to a captaincy, and served more 
than once in the c^ijjacity of the highest officers 
of liis regiment in the exigencies of battle 
which pushed him forward at the fearful cost 
of the lives of his superiors in command. For 
such duty lie makes no ckiims beyond the bare 
stsitement that he fnlfilled all demauds on him 
as a soldier. 



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TIS H. THAYER, Palmyra, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 138, 
was born at Salem, Washington Co., 
New York, Aug. 1"2, 18ol. His j)arents, Ruel 
and Mary (Williams) Thayer, were born respect- 
ively in Sturbridge, Worcester Co., Mass., and 
in Whitesboro, New York. The father was a 
soldier in 1812 under Colonel Harkness; was a 
slioemaker by trade and removed with his 
family to Waukesha county in 184o, and he 
took a farm from the tiovernment on which he 
died in LS47; the mother died Feb. 7, 1876. 
They were the parents of seven children of 
whom five survive. The paternal grandfather, 
Oliver Thayer, was a cabin boy on a British 
mau-of-war before coming to this country; he 
was a soldier under Putnam, and his grandson 
has the old (^ueen Anne musket he carried in 
service. The grandfather Williams came to the 
country in the course of the war, as a British 
soldier, but being disgusted with a cause into 



which he had been forced, and sympathizing 
with the colonists, he deserted and became the 
first rebel in the family, fighting through the re- 
mainder of the contest in the Continental army. 
The farm on which his father settled is now 
in the possession of the son and he remained 
at home with his parents until he enlisted. He 
determined to do so after the first regiments 
liad marched to the scene of war and he en- 
rolled in September, 1861, in Company D, 1st 
Wisconsin Infantry (reorganized) for three years' 
service. He was in connection with his com- 
mand aliciut 21) months and was discharged 
March 9, 1863. During the period he was 
able to [)erform military duty lie was with his 
regiment in Negley's Brigade and performed 
all marches and labor required of him until he 
became ill and received his discharge. When 
he entered the army he weighed 200 pounds 
and his weight on his return was 1*8 pounds. 
He returned to his farm where he resumed 
labor as soon as recovered, and he has since 
been engaged in agriculture. About 18.S.5, with 
his brother and sister, he removed to Palpiyra, 
where they have since resided. His brother, 
Ruel, enlisted at Palmyra in Company E, 46th 
Wisconsin Infantry, Feb. 8, 1865, and was mus- 
tered at Madison, going thence to Athens, Ala., 
where he performed guard, camp, picket and 
patrol duty on the railroad until discharged 
Oct. 10, 1865, when he returned to Waukesha 
county and removed to Palmyra, Wis., with 
his brother as stated. He is also a member of 
Post No. 138 at Palmyra. 



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^JT^yJ^ILLIS HYDE, Genoa Junction, 
'^^ Wis., Member of (J. A. R. Post 
{p3iL. No. 27, at Geneva, was born in 
Warren Co., New York, Jan. 24, 1847, and is 
the son of Newton and Lola Ann (Willis) Hyde. 



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The son was brought up on his father's farm, 
attending school when not required on the 
farm. He accompanied his parents to Wiscon- 
sin in 1850 and there resided on a farm until 
1859, when they went to Boone Co., 111., and he 
was with them there until he determined to 
enlist, when lie returned to Wisconsin to carry 
out his resolution, being but 17 years old. Jan. 
20, 1864, he enlisted at Lake Geneva in Com- 
pany K, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, "Iron 
Brigade," a fact which displays the quality of 
his pluck, as that organization was one always 
certain to be where war was thickest. He was 
mustered at Madison and joined his regiment 
at Culpeper, Va., and he was in the hospital at 
Judiciary Square, Washington, and afterward 
at Chestnut Street hospital in Philadelphia, ill 
with bilious intermittent fever and mumps 
until the battles on the Weldon i-ailroad, in 
which he was for the first time in action. He 
was afterwards in the duties of his command at 
the siege of Petersburg, and in February fought 
at Halclier's Run, and, about the middle of the 
month, went to City Point to be ordered back 
to old quarters where the regiment was, with 
the 6th AVisconsin, and, afterwards, with the 
91st New York, constituted "The 1st Provisional 
Brigade." March 29, 1865, they were in 
line of battle preparatory to the fight of 
Gravelly Run, which was fought on the 
31st, and they were again in action on April 
1st at Five Forks, and followed the rebels 
to Appomattox, where Mr. Hyde had the 
satisfaction of being a witness of the sur- 
render of Lee and the collapse of the con- 
federacy. After the Grand Review in May, the 
regiment was assigned to the command of 
General Logan as the " Provisional Division," 
and they reported to " Black .Jack " June 22d 
at Louisville. Mr. Hyde was mustered out 
July 3, 1865, at Jeffersonville, Ind. He was 
promoted to Corporal in the course of his serv- 



ice, in which he saw some of the most im- 
portant of the war. 

He returned after muster out to Blaine, 
Boone Co., 111., and in the winter of 1866-7 the 
family removed to Sharon, Walworth Co., Wis., 
and Mr. Hyde entered the employ of the C. & 
N. W. R. R. corporation, remaining with them 
about 10 years, when he removed to Genoa 
Junction, and has since remained in their em- 
ploy as foreman of a section. 

He was married Sept. 1, 1872, at Allen's 
Grove, Wis., to Florence, daughter of Cyrus 
and Lydia (Bruce) Lippitt, a native of Darien, 
Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Hyde have two children, 
named Hattie M., (born at Darien, Wis., Sept. 
5, 1873) and Earl D., (born April 10, 1884). 
Mr. Hyde is a trusted and esteemed man and 
is pleasantly located at Genoa Junction. 



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TEPHEN WOLVERTON, Ft. Atkin- 
son, Wis., a member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 159, was born Oct. 5, 1822, in 
Montgomery Co., New York, and is the son of 
Asher and Jane (Kennedy) Wolverton, both of 
whom were descended from ancestral stock 
which fought in the Revolution. The families 
of both were probably settlers in New Jersey, 
the father being of pure English extraction. 
The latter was a surgeon in the war of 1812. 
He removed when iiis son was quite young to 
Genesee county, New York, and thence to 
Rochester when he was about 18 years old. In 
1845 he went to Herkimer county and in 1848 
settled in Wisconsin. In 1850 he returned to 
Herkimer county where he changed his former 
occupation of farming to that of a teamster 
and he also sold paper and rags. Later he 
went into flour and feed business at Little Falls, 
in which he engaged from January, 1862, until 
he determined to enter the army, which he did 



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Aug. 13, 1862. He enrolled in Company H, 
121st New York Infantry at Little Falls when 
he was 39 years of age. Noveniher 17th of 
the same year he was discharged fidin his oli- 
ligations on account of debility from neivous 
disease. Tlic regiment was in rendezvous at 
Fort Herkimer and Mr. Wolverton was there 
until Aug. 30th, when the command wunt to 
New York, ariiving Sunday morning, August 
30th, i)roc,eeded thence to Philadelphia and 
successively to Baltimore and Washington and 
thence to immediate duty at Fort Lincoln. 
Sunday, Septemher 7th, tiiey started on the 
chase of Stonewall .Jackson. Here Mr. Wol- 
verton made acquaintance with the privations 
of the rank and file. Each man had three 
hardtack which was served for three days' ser- 
vice and, scant as were his own sup})lies, he 
divided with an Irishman who seemed the 
hungriest man in the command. The day 
after his enlistment he had been promoted to 
Sergeant, and on this march while in cliarge of 
a squad of men near Sugar Loaf Mountain, 
they became so exhausted that he was com- 
jielled to place tiie entire number on duty. 
The next day the officers of the regiment were 
so exhausted by the marching and privations 
that they were sick and the command of the 
soldiers devolved on him. His comrades were 
falling out in all directions and he did the l)est 
he could to aid them. He received a sunstroke 
and remained unconscious for many hours. 
The surgeon l)le<l him and failed to properly 
bandage the incision in his arm and, while en 
route to Frederic City, he bled nearly to death. 
The two causes combined jiroduced nervous 
prostration of incurable character. After the 
battle of South Mountain, lie found himself in 
a house between two and three miles from 
Frederic City whither he was taken after 10 
days' stay at Frederic Junction. Thence he 
was sent to Philadelphia, where he received his 



final discharge. He had expected to recover 
and remain with his command but the sur- 
geons were peremptory, and he returned to 
Little Falls, where he remained two years, un- 
able to perform any labor, and has been an 
invalid all his life. He removed to Wi-sconsin 
in 1871) and was on the last train that cro.s.sed 
Asiitaliula River i)ri()r to the accident there. 
He located near Jetfer.son where he resided 
until his removal to Ft. Atkinson. 

.July 23, 184.J, he was married to Mary S. 
Bennett, a representative of ancestry who 
fought in the Revolution. They have had 
seven children, three of whom survive. Their 
names are Alva B., Mary J. and Stephen. Two 
brothers of Mr. Wolverton were in the confed- 
erate service. One of them was the owner of 
40 slaves who joined the command of Sherman 
on the way to the sea; himself was a physician 
and was compelled to serve in that capacity ; 
he was his father's namesake. Thomas, the 
elder, was a colonel in the Mexican war. 



AMES .JEIIIAL CRKJER, Whitewater, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, 
was born Nov. 20, 1838, in the State of 
New York, and is the son of William and Mary 
A. (Dixon) Criger. His father was of German 
parentage and was born in the Empire State 
and his mother was a native of Virginia. 
Their union took i)lace in New York. Tlie 
father was a manufacturer and died when his 
son was 14 years old. Until he was 21, Mr. 
Criger was engaged in agriculture and then 
learned the Inisiness of a coojier. He entered 
tiie army under the first call of the President 
for 75,000 troops, enrolling April 22, 1861, and 
was the seventh man to enlist from White- 
water. He enrolled under the name which is 
given above and went into rendezvous as a 



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member of Company A, 4th Wisconsin In- 
fantry at Camp Utley, Racine, and left the 
State July 15th. Colonel H. E. Payne mani- 
fested the material of which he was made by 
settling a difficulty on the railroad which re- 
fused to transport his men, by taking posses- 
sion of a locomotive and calHng for an engi- 
neer from his ranks, who took it to Elmira. 
Thence the command went to Harrisburg, 
where intelligence of the disaster at Bull Run 
was received and the colonel borrowed equip- 
ments for his men, who proceeded to Baltimore, 
and marched through the streets of that city 
by moonlight, their guns loaded with ball and 
buckshot, bayonets fixed, bands playing, colors 
flying and tlie men in high spirits. From 
camp there they went to the Relay House, 
where Mr. Criger was taken with typhoid fever, 
and went to the general hospital at Baltimore, 
where he suffered five relapses and when he 
recovered his regiment was at Baton Rouge, 
La. The command was actively engaged in 
military operations and thence he went to 
Vicksburg, where he worked on the canal. He 
was again seized with illness and went to a 
hospital boat on the river, thence to hospital 
at Baton Rouge, where he remained until 
recovery and rejoined his regiment. He was 
in tlie action at Bonne Carre Point, went to the 
reconnoisance at Bayou Plaquemine, went later 
to Port Hudson and back to Baton Rouge and 
was in the military operations which were fol- 
lowed by the battle at Camp Bisland. He was 
with the regiment when it supplied itself with 
cavalry mount and operated as such in the 
chase after the Texas cavalry and captured 
Dick Taylor's stragglers. He was afterwards 
in tiie fight at Port Hudson where the rebels 
had placed obstacles which they believed in- 
surmountable. He was also in a cavalry expe- 
dition under Grierson and after the surrender 
of Port Hudson, the regiment was converted 



into cavalry, and Mr. Criger was in all the 
service afterward performed by the command 
until he was discharged for disability. He 
performed hard service on guard, camp, skir- 
mish, picket and forage duty, I'e-enlisted under 
the name of James J. Criger and veteranized 
at Baton Rouge where he remained. After 
the fight at Baton Rouge he had been made 
Corporal and after veteranizing he was 
promoted to Sergeant Major. Before his time 
expired he was taken sick again and was sent 
to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, and thence to 
Madison where he was honorably discharged 
under the General Order, relieving such sol- 
diers as were permanently disabled. He re- 
turned to Whitewater and, after recovery, re- 
sumed his business. Li 1866 he established 
his enterpri.se as a marble cutter in which he 
has since operated with success. During his 
veterans' furlough, April 27, 1864, he was mar- 
ried to Sarah M. Edmunds of Whitewater and 
their children are named Fred H. and H. 
Frank. Mr. Criger is an Odd Fellow and (1889) 
is Adjutant of Post No. 34. In political prin- 
ciples he is a Prohibitionist. 

UNCAN McGregor, Professor and 
President of the State Normal School 
of Wisconsin at Platteville, Wis., was 
born Aug. 12, 18.36, in Perthshire, Scotland. 
His clan was one of the most prominent in 
"Auld Scotia," and his parents were both born 
in Perthshire. Malcolm McGregor, his father, 
married Catherine Kennedy, and they were the 
parents of eight children, seven of whom are 
still living and named in order, Donald, 
Duncan, John, Alexander, Katie, Charles and 
Malcolm. The family removed to America in 
1857, when Duncan was 21 years old. The 
mother died in 1852, five years prior to the 




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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



emigration of the family to the United States. 
Tlie father is still living on a ftxrm in Hancock, 
Wisconsin. In his native land he was a 
shepherd and farmer and reared his sons to 
that calling, giving his children as good educa- 
tion as was possible while in Scotland. Duncan 
attended the common scliools in earliest youth 
and later a private school of excellent charac- 
ter, alternating winter school with summer 
labor on the hills of his native country, assist- 
ing with the herds and on the farm until he 
was 15 years of age. He was then sent to the 
Perth Academy three years and afterwards 
entered the University at Aberdeen, Scotland, 
where he studied three years and came to 
America with his father. They settled in the 
woods of Waupaca Co., Wisconsin, where he 
learned all the experiences of the pioneer, aided 
his father one year and engaged in the calling 
common to the country — lumbering and raft- 
ing. He was then occupied tliree years in 
teaching winters and farmed summers. He 
afterwards, in ISfil, entered Lawrence Univer- 
sity at Appleton and took his degree in 1862, 
being at the time engaged as Principal of the 
High School at Waupaca, and filled the position 
until he became interested in recruiting for 
the war. In August, 1864, he enlisted a com- 
pany and was mustered as Captain of Company 
A, 42d Wisconsin Infantry. The command 
left the State September 20th to report at C'airo, 
111., where Corapanj' A performed post and gar- 
rison duty throughout the rest of the war. The 
remaining companies were sent to the secession 
districts of Illinois, and when the war closed and 
troops were mustered out the 42d Wisconsin 
returned to the State for final release from mili- 
tary obligations. During his service Captain Mc- 
Gregor with his company acted as escort and 
on provost duty on the Mississippi River, going 
as far south as New Orleans. He was mustered 
out Aug. 3, 1865. 



He acted one year after his return home as 
Principal of the High School at Waupaca, and, 
in August, 1807, was elected Professor of Matii- 
ematics of the State Normal School at Platte- 
ville. Later he succeeded to another position in 
the chair of Theory and Practice of Teaching, 
and since 1880 has been President of the insti- 
tution. 

It goes without saying that he has grown in 
favor and popularity as an instructor, and as a 
gentleman of culture and abilities he is univer- 
sally admired and esteemed. One of his com- 
mand says in a private letter regarding Cai> 
tain McGregor (of whom this sketch is very 
meager, owing to his native modesty and reti- 
cence, in both of which traits he is to the manor 
born, being a typical Scotchman of the 
iiighest type) : " Our dear Ca]>tain McGregor is 
an honor to our Nation and one of God's noble 
and honored men." 

He belongs to the Order of Masonry, has 
been Master of his Lodge, Iligii Priest of Chap- 
ter No. 2 and Grand High 'Priest of the Royal 
Arch Chapter; he also belongs to the Order of 
Knight Templars and is serving a fourth term 
as Foreign Correspondence Committee of the 
Grand Lodge. He is a member of the Congre- 
gational Church. He w^as married at Wau- 
paca. Wis., Dec. 2G, 1866, to Annie, daughter of 
Richard H. Bowman. She was born in London 
of pure English extraction in the paternal line 
and Welsii in the descent of her mother. Alice 
K., Grace, Libljie, Jes.sie and Richard are the 
names of the children of Professor and Mrs. 
McCiresfor. The latter is a communicant of the 
Episcopal Church; the former is a staunch 
Republican. 



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UGUSTUS GORDON WEISSERT, a 
h representative soldier of the volun- 
teer forces and a prominent member 
of the Milwaukee Bar, was born Aug. 7, 1844, 
at Canton, Stark Co., Ohio. When he was six 
years old his parents removed to Racine, Wis., 
wiiere he obtained a good elementary education 
and was graduated from the high sciiool. Later, 
he pursued a general course of study at the 
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and after- 
wards entered the Law Department whence he 
was graduated with the degree of LL. B. He 
resided at Racine until he went to New York 
to continue his studies, the year previous to 
entering the army, and was but little more than 
a lad when he became a soldier. At 17 he 
enlisted in Company K, 8th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, enrolling Sept. 10, 1861, having been 
several times theretofore rejected on account of 
his age and stature. The "Eagle" regiment, 
organized September 4th at the rendezvous at 
Camp Randall, Madison, was mustered into 
U. S. service on the 13th and left the State 
October 12th, being the first Wisconsin regi- 
ment to receive orders for the West. After a 
few days passed at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, 
orders were received to move to Pilot Knob 
and, on the 20th, the "8th" was assigned to 
the command of Colonel Carlin and on the 
next day young Weissert had the satisfaction of 
particijiating in a victory at Fredericktown, Mo. 
He performed military duty at Pilot Knob, and 
went later on an expedition up the St. Francis 
River. The next removal to Sulphur Springs 
took place Oct. 25th, and in January orders 
were received to join Gen. Grant's forces at 
Cairo for the Fort Donelson campaign. Until 
March the time was passed there, the regiment 
being in gray uniform and in practical retire- 
ment in consequence. When equipped in 
regulation blue, the command made connection 
with the forces of General Pope and occupied 



the rifle pits near Point Plea.sant, Mo., and 
afterwards took part in the siege of New Madrid, 
going, April 7th, in pursuit of the rebels after 
the action at and siege of Island No. 10 and 
afterwards, to the rear of C'orintii via Hamburg 
Landing, with Poi)e's army. The regiment 
moved on the 1st of May, 1862, to a position 
near Farmington where they were in the brunt 
of the action on the 9th and won the warmest 
commendations from the superior officers for 
perfect discipline and marked bravery. Pope's 
command was assumed by Halleck and. May 
28th, 1862, the regiment followed his leader- 
ship to the siege of Corinth and had, on that 
date, a skirmish at Booneville. From Septem- 
ber 13th to the 20th it was in the reserve but 
was under fire at luka, and fought at Corinth 
October 3d and 4th, where the regiment lost 
heavily. The 2d of November found the com- 
mand en route to Grand Junction and left that 
place in December to co-operate with Grant, 
performing varied duty through the winter 
and early spring. (Dec. 18th the regiment was 
assigned to the 2d Brigade, 2d Division, 15tli 
Corps, Army of the Tennessee.) March and 
April were passed in marching and severe duty 
in preparing for the events ])lanned and con- 
summated by Grant for the capture of Vicks- 
burg. May 14th, young Weissert fought under 
Sherman at Jack.son and participated in the 
assault upon and subsequent movements in the 
.siege of Mcksburg until July. On his roster 
are also Mechanicsburg, May 25th, the action 
of May 22, Richmond, La., June 15th, Canton, 
October 13th, Sherman's Meridian expedition 
January 27, 1864, and all possible varieties of 
military duty incident to the most memorable 
campaign of the war. After veteranizing in 
the spring the regiment made connection with 
the command of Banks as "Sherman's con- 
tingent" in the Red River expedition and 
Weissert was with his regiment in the charge 



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at Fort Scurry, March 16th. Two days later, 
he fought at Fort de Russj', at Hendersou's 
Hills, March 21st, Natchitoches, March 31st, 
Pleasant Hill, April iHli, Bayou Rapids, May 
4th, Marksville, May 14th and 16th, Bayou De 
(ilaize, May 17lli to 19th, and returned again 
to Mcksburg later in the month. He was in 
the expedition to Greenville, Miss., and fought 
at Chicot, June 3d and 6th. He went after- 
wards to St. Charles, Duvall's Bluff and to 
Brownsville, arriving there September 2d. On 
the 17tli he was in the pursuit of Price through 
Arkansas and Missouri, making a march of 816 
miles, and fought at Nashville, Dec. 15th and 
16th. Mr. Weissert was made Sergeant Major 
of the 8th and was made Captain by brevet to 
rank from June 6, 1864, his commission having 
been granted " for conspicuous Itravery during 
the Red River expedition and for gallantry at 
Lake Chicot, June 6th, 1864, and at Nashville, 
Dec. Kith, 18G4." In the latter action he was 
severely wounded by a sharpshooter, receiving 
a ball in his left leg. The circumstances under 
which it was received are prima facie evidence 
of the fact that the volunteer soldiers had quite 
as much to do with the success of tlie Union 
arms as the commanders. When the army 
was in the line of battle at Nashville, Sergeant 
Major Weissert traversed the lines to ascertain 
whether his regiment was properly supplied 
with ammunition, and when the duty was com- 
pleted, he received orders from Colonel Britton, 
the comiiiandcr of the 8th, to remain with 
headquarters at the rear to make up the regi- 
mental returns, then 15 days behind, on account 
of the constant campaigning of the regiment. 
About the same moment tho order to advance 
was given and wlien the Colonel chanced some- 
time later, to go along the line, he found 
Sergeant Major Weissert in his position with 
the regiment. He reminded him of his Order 
and received the folldwing reply from the 



Sergeant Major : " I deemed this my place 
and thought I would go with the regiment, and 
finish the reports after the battle." Soon after 
he was with the advance of the line wliich 
opened the battle of Nashville, on the extreme 
right Dec. 15th, 1864. About two in the after- 
noon, the " 8th " was witli Hubbard's brigade 
in a charge on a fort, the command capturing 
more prisoners than the brigade numbered. 
Soon after, Sergeant Major \Vei.ssert was 
wounded as stated, while his regiment was pre- 
paring to charge the second Hne of rebels, and 
was carried to the rear and sent from the field 
hospital to New Albany, Ind. When able, 
lie was removed to Wisconsin under special 
requisition from the Governor of Wisconsin for 
his return to the jurisdiction of that common- 
wealth. 

After the battle of Nashville and the subse- 
quent campaign and pursuit of Hood's Army, 
the 8th with a large number of the troops be- 
longing to Thomas' army, were ordered to 
Mobile and took an active part in the siege and 
capture of that rebel stronghold. They then 
went to Montgomerj', the capital of Alabama, 
then to Selma, and were finally nuistered out 
at Demopolis, Ala., Sept. 17, 1805. 

Commander WeLssert was appointed to a 
cadetship at the U. S. Military Academy at 
West Point, but having been unable to accept 
the aj)pointment on account of wounds received 
in the battle, declined the .same. He has suf- 
fered niueii from the wound, which has never 
healed, the bullet still remaining in the leg. 

Commander Weissert is the son of Michael 
and Magdalene (Bernard) Weissert. His father 
belonged to the commercial class and marrietl 
a daughter of France who came to this country 
in childhood. Her family supjilied several 
soldiers to the service of Napoleon who became 
distinguished in the bloody history which that 
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Commander Weissert was married Nov. 24, 
1869, to Mary E. Travitwin and their daughter, 
Florence E., is their only child. George C, a 
promising son, was drowned when 15 years old. 

Commander Weissert belongs to the foremost 
ranks of the legal fraternity of Wisconsin. He 
read for his profession under the guidance of 
Hon. W. P. Lyon, (see sketch), for many years 
one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of 
Wisconsin and was admitted to practice in the 
Circuit Courts of the State in 1869. In the fol- 
lowing year he was admitted to practice in the 
higher court of the State and in the Federal 
and Supreme Courts of the United States. He 
held by appointment from the Government 
several civil positions, and he was a number of 
years an influential and jirominent member of 
the Milwaukee School Board. He was, for a long 
time, Chairman of the High School Committee 
and the splendid building which adds its share 
to the fine appearance of the Cream City is 
largely due to the persistent and untiring ef- 
forts of Commander Weissert. He refused a 
third appointment in view of professional duty 
and a contemplated visit to Europe. 

He became a member of the Order of the 
Grand Army in 1866, and has been several 
times elected to represent his Post (E. B. Wol- 
cott) in the Department Encampments. He 
was one of the representatives of the Depart- 
ment of Wisconsin at St. Louis in 1887 at the 
National Encampment, and was actively prom- 
inent at Columbus in securing the Encamp- 
ment of 1889 for Milwaukee. He has been for 
years a Trustee of Wolcott Post. Feb. 17, 1888, 
he was elected Commander of the Wisconsin 
Department for one year. 

In February, 1SS9, he was unanimously 
elected to succeed himself as Department Com- 
mander. He was selected by the Citizen's 
Committee having in charge the preparations 
and arrangements for the 2;jd National En- 



campment at Milwaukee as President of the 
Executive Council, and presided at all the 
meetings of that body, wiiich made the en- 
campment such a success. During its session 
he was unanimously elected Senior Vice Com- 
mander-in-Cliief of tlie G. A. R., and, since his 
promotion he has visited many of the other 
Departments and done excellent work in the 
interest of the Order. 

At this writing, 1889, Commander Weissert 
is at the acme of life. In the prime of man- 
hood, successful in Inisiness, popular among 
his feliow-men, trusted by his former comrades 
in arms, he evidences the representative Amer- 
ican citizen. He is descended from ancestral 
stock synonymous with liberty in a struggle 
for freedom which forms one of the most glori- 
ous pages in the history of the world and, in 
his career and private life alike, he sustains the 
prestige of his descent, his nationality and his 
heritage of patriotism. 



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n^SAACMcCANN, Mayor of Richland Cen- 
/r| ter, Wis., in 1889 and member of G. A. 
^ R. Post No. 33, was born July 4, 1847, in 
the township of Columbia, Meigs Co., Ohio. 
His father, Patrick McCann, and his mother, 
(Deliah Teeter before married,) were both natives 
of Barljer Co., Virginia, whence they removed 
to Ohio about 1830. Three children survive 
them named Joseph, Ellen and Isaac. The 
sister resides with her brother at Richland 
Center and the brother Joseph lives in Wash- 
ington Territory. Mr. McCann was reai'ed on 
the farm of his father and he received little 
technical education. Like the best type of 
self-made men in the West, he Ijas gathered 
from observation and association with the best 
quality of manhood a training which has been 
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cation could have conferred. He was em- 
ployed by the iron companies in the vicinity 
of liis native place until the outbreak of the 
war, when he was among the first to enroll as 
a three months soldier in April, 1861, in Com- 
pany H, 87th Ohio Infantry, enlisting at Co- 
lumbus. The command was sent to Baltimore, 
arriving in that city soon after the catastrophe 
to the Massachusetts 6th and remaining 20 
days through the period of threatening and 
discontent on the part of the inhabitants. Tlie 
regiment went thence to Harper's Ferry and 
up the Valley of the Shenandoah, receiving 
rebel compliments in the way of bullets at 
Sandy Hook, Bolivar Heights and Maryland 
Heights and returned to Harper's Ferry to 
be taken by the rebels. As his time had ex- 
pired he was permitted to go North and, as 
soon as possible after his return home, he 
again enlisted in Company — ,37th Ohio In- ■ 
fantry, at Chillicothe, Ohio, went to camp at 
Cleveland and about 10 days later went to Pa- 
ducah, Ky., en route to join Siierman and was 
in the movements prior to tlie siege of Atlanta, 
being injured in the vicinity of Buzzard's 
Roost in course of transportation. He was on 
a train which struck torjjedoes placed on the 
track by the rebels and many soldiers were 
wounded, himself among the number. He was 
sent to Camp Denison at Cleveland and there 
discliarged for disability, and his injuries j)re- 
vented his re-eidisting, although he made sev- 
eral attempts afterwards. 

He removed West as soon as the war was 
over, locating in Richland Center in 1865. He 
first engaged in buying stock and afterwards 
in buying ties and timber for a railroad cor- 
poration and finally becoming interested in 
real estate in which he has done a large busi- 
ness ever since. He is serving his second term 
as Mayor of Richland Center and had previ- 
ously officiated as Chairman of the Town 



Board two terms. Mayor McCann has been 
one of the most efficient and laborious officials 
in the service of the city, having secured the 
water works in a manner which proved a 
great saving and has been equally wise in his 
administration of matters generally. He has 
been a candidate for the legislature and was 
defeated by but a small majority. His gener- 
osity to the poor is a matter of common knowl- 
edge and his efforts to ameliorate the condition 
of the needy class form one of his best com- 
mendations. He is a Knight of Labor and 
decidedly the friend of the working man. 

He was married in 1866 to Jennie Carpen- 
ter, the daughter of Solomon and Rebecca 
Carpenter, who was born in \'irginia. Three 
children born to them are deceased and they 
have adopted two children to rear in place of 
those they have lost. 



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^RANK A. ROSS, Columbus, Wis., Sec- 



retary of the Columbus Mill Co., and 
member of Frank A. Haskel Post No. 
146, (i. A. R., Department of Wisconsni, w.as 
born May 4, 1843, at Great Falls, New Hamp- 
shire. His paternal ancestry is of Scotch 
origin, the clan having been prominent in the 
histt)ry of that country in the days when Scot- 
land thought freedom worth struggling for, and 
in the maternal line Mr. Ross is of English ex- 
traction. His fatlier, Huntress Ross, married 
Susan W. Chadburn about 1842 and their chil- 
dren luimbered si.K. Frank is the oldest; Hat- 
tie is liie wife of G. R. Gotl'; Clias. H. is cashier 
of a bank in New L-lm, Minn.; AVm. E. C. is 
cashier of a bank in Blue Earth City, Minn.; 
two sons named Asa and Ossian are deceased. 
In 1850 the senior Ross went to Wisconsin with 
his family, whither he journeyed in pioneer 
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iugs. He located at first in Columbus and 
afterward went to Wausliara county and 
founded the village of Ross' Corners. He was 
a man of stii'ring nature and quick to see an 
opportunity, and he established a mercantile 
business, the town name being afterward 
changed to Coloma. In 1886 he went with his 
younger children and wife to Appleton, and 
there the motlier died. The father retired 
from active business and passed his time alter- 
nately in Florida and the Northern States. 

Mr. Ross was a studious boy, and after the 
family removed to \\'aushara county he re- 
turned to Columbus and was a student there 
until the war. He was still under parental 
authority and his appeals to be permitted to en- 
list were denied, but when he became of age he 
took matters in his own bands and enrolled in 
the 8th Wisconsin Battery in February, 1864. 
His choice was decided by the fact that several 
acquaintances were members of that organiza- 
tion and he joined the command at Nashville 
in winter quarters, the battery having gone 
thither at"ter the fight at Lookout Mountain and 
Mission Ridge. Wiien the recruits and veterans 
joined them in April, they went to Murfrees- 
boro and held position in Fort Ro.secrans until 
the close of the war. Hood was worrying the 
Union forces and planning for the taking of 
Nashville, and, during the siege there, Forrest, 
with a considerable force, attacked Murfreesboro, 
Dec. 5, 1864. The force at Murfreesboro in- 
cluded Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and other 
troops, beside the 8th Wisconsin Battery, and 
the siege proper lasted until the 8th, oO Union 
soldiers being killed and 175 wounded. The 
rebels were finally witlidrawn, prol)ably con- 
cluding that the siege did not accomplish the 
purpose of calling oft" the troops of Thomas 
from Nashville. In August, 1865, the battery 
returned to AVisconsin and Mr. Ross was mus- 
tered out at Milwaukee. 



He entered the Commercial College at Mil- 
wavikee and completed a course there and after- 
wards oljtained a position in a bank in Roches- 
ter, Minn. He went thence to Appleton, where 
he was employed in the express office about a 
year. Later he went to Milwaukee and acted 
as railroad messenger for an express company 
and afterwards as clerk on one of the boats of 
the Goodrich Transportation Company on the 
lakes. In the spring of 1870 he went to Colo- 
rado and spent seven years in trading in 
cattle. Selling out his interest in that enter- 
prise he engaged in the mercantile business, in 
which he passed about three years. In 1879 
he returned to Wisconsin and again entered 
the employ of the Goodrich Transportation 
Company, with whom he operated about three 
years. In the winter of 1885-6 he returned to 
Columbus, where he entered upon the duties of 
his present position. 

He was married in 1873 at Bailey's Harbor, 
Door Co., Wis., to Laura A., daughter of Wil- 
liam R. and Cynthia (Case) Higgins. She died 
at Columbus, April 7, 1888, leaving two chil- 
dren. Harry H. is the older and Chas. F. is 
three years of age. Mr. Ross is a member of the 
Business Men's Association of Columbus. He 
is a man of excellent business capacity and 
esteemed and respected for integrity. 

y^^ LLIOTT R. STILLMAN, Milwaukee, 
^^^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, 

^»i=i^ E. B. Wolcott, was born in Rochester, 
New York, March 6th, 1844, and he is the son 
of Edwin A. and Jane (Cochrane) Stillman ; bis 
father was a native of Middletown, Conn., born 
in 1813 of English lineage, the son of a 
purser in the navy in the war of 1812, who 
lost his life by Indian massacre. The senior 
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and is li\'ing in Ontario county, New York. 
The wife and mother was horn in 1818 in the 
North of Ireland and is the daughter of the 
Rev. James Cochrane, a Presbyterian minister 
who removed to the United States with his fam- 
ily in 1827, locating temporarily in Rochester 
and afterwards in Detroit, becoming President 
of Dearborn College. Her grandfather, Hon. 
James Craig, was an M. P. ; she is still living. 
Mr. Stillman is the oldest of their children, 
his brothers and sisters being named in order 
of birth James A., Alice B., Florence G., John 
C, Edwin S., Jennie (deceased) and Mabel. 

When he was 17 years old Mr. Stillman en- 
listed at Canadice, Ontario Co., New York, Aug. 
16, 1861, and was mustered into United States 
service 10 days after in Company B, 85th New 
York Infantrj'. From rendezvous atElmira he 
went to Washington December 1st, camj)ed on 
Meridian Hill and in the spring went on the 
campaign of the Peninsula, in the 3d Brigade, 
2d Division and 4th Corps. He had iiis first 
smell of rebel powder on the road to Yorktown 
and fought at Williamsburg, moving after- 
W"ards to the swamps of the Chickahorainy, the 
brigade being assigned to duty on the Wil- 
liamsburg road and marching to take part in 
the battle of Seven Pines, repulsing the 
rebels, who left their colors on the tield. After 
holding the position without support three 
hours, orders came for every man to look out 
for himself. The loss of the regiment was 
about 80 and the flag was in rags. The regi- 
ment was next stationed at While Oak Swamp 
to protect the Charles City roail and was in 
line of battle at Malvern Hill and, in the re- 
treat to Harrison's Landing, protected the rear. 
From the T/anding the command went lo New- 
port News and in October, 1862, was ordered 
to Suffolk, engaging in raiding until the latter 
part of November, when a movement to New- 
hern, N. C, was efifected and the regiment was 



in the expedition under Foster to Kingston 
and Goldsboro in December, returning to win- 
ter quarters at Newbern. In the spring the 
brigade was ordered on garrison duty at Pl}'- 
mouth, making frequent excursions into the 
interior. Mr. Stillman veteranized at Ply- 
mouth Jan. 1, 1864, and was in the fight from 
April 17th until the 2Uth in which the gun- 
boats and fleet were in action, co-operating 
with the land forces. On the 20th the brigade 
was captured, with the exception of Company 
A of the 85th, which was on detached duty. 
They were taken at once to the stockade prison 
at Andersonville, where Mr. Stillman's hard 
experience commenced, although he did not 
succumb, but resolved to outwit or outlive the 
Southern confederacy (with a little c). He es- 
caped much through his constant contact with 
clean, sweet earth, as he gave his attention to 
the work of tunneling and believes that his 
life was thus saved, although he did not escape, 
the only chance he had being frustrated by a 
betrayal by a L'nion soldier. The class who did 
such things, who stole the miserable jiroperty of 
their fellow prisoners and tried to benefit them- 
selves through others sufferings, deserve ever- 
lasting odium. Some of them were tried, con- 
demned, their sentence being submitted to and 
approved by General Sherman, the rebels send- 
ing the communications and erecting the gal- 
lows on which six were hung. Of the regi- 
ment, 446 were taken to Andersonville and 
only 153 lived to see "God's country" again, 
more than half of the number dying within a 
year. Mi-. Stillman saw 32,UUU soldiers at An- 
dersonville at one time, 13,000 of whom died, 
more than half the number in seven months. 
September 5, 1864, they were sent to Charles- 
town, and a month later to Florence, where 
they were paroled March 1, 1865. When Mr. 
Stillman started for Annapolis he was in any- 
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have suspected that his attire, under any other 
circumstances, would have been dignified by 
the name of clothes. Aljout the middle of 
March he received a 30-day furlough and while 
he was at home, the rebellion collapsed. June 
7, 1865, his connection witii military life ceased 
at Elmim, where he was discharged as Sergeant 
Major. (While in service he was recommended 
for West Point, but his capture and imprison- 
ment prevented his going.) 

He passed a year in Ontario county and in 
1866 started West. He made his first stop at 
Burr Oak, Mich., and engaged in lumbering. 
About 1875 he went to the north of the .State 
and engaged in making staves and headings. 
In 1878 he removed to Milwaukee and prose- 
cuted the same enterprise and at this writing, 
(1890) employs about 100 men. 

He was married July 4, 1868, at Quincy, 
Mich., to Mary L., daughter of .James Dickey, 
and their only child is named Minnie. The 
wife and mother died April 14, 1872, and, 
March 4, 1874, he was again married to Lillian 
E., daughter of William and Oatherine (Yates) 
Stevens. Their children are named Gertude, 
Clara and E. B. Wolcott. Mr. Stillman is a 
Mason and in 1889 Commander of his Post, in 
which he has held the various offices. He is a 
Republican. 

IGNATZ KOSER, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post 0. D. Pease, was born 
in Baden, Germany, May 15, 1825. In 
July, 1852, he came to America, and, after a 
residence of two years in the city of New York, 
he removed to Fort Atkinson. Aug. 15, 1862, 
he enlisted in Company D, 29th Wisconsin In- 
fantry. The following autumn he went from 
Camp Randall, INIadison, to Helena, Ark., 
where his command passed the winter, the 
regiment losing several men by sickness. He 



was in the movements of his regiment prior to 
the spring, engaging in the heavy labor to 
which it was assigned and performing guard 
duty. In April he marched to make connec- 
tion with the army of Grant and was first in 
battle at Port Gibson, where he fought May 1st. 
He was in the fight on the 16th at Champion 
Hills and went thence to the siege of Mcks- 
burg. The surrender occurred about nine in 
the forenoon and an hour later the "29th" was 
under orders to proceed to Jackson, a distance 
of 40 miles east. He was acting as Sergeant in 
command of a picket line near a fort in the 
vicinity occupied by rebels, when a bullet 
struck his left cheek, passing out of his ear, 
entirely destroying the hearing. The same 
bullet struck a man near him in the throat, but 
without much damage. Mr. Koser remained 
with his squad, stationing them in an orchard; 
after two volleys by the rebels, firing ceased for 
the night and his line was drawn in. Three 
days later the rebels withdrew and the regi- 
ment returned to Vicksburg. In August, the 
regiment was transferred to the Gulf Depart- 
ment and Mr. Koser was in the Teche expedi- 
tion, after which he was a participant in the 
movements including the heavy marching and 
journeying to Texas. He fought at Sabine 
Cross Roads and in the skirmishing afterwards 
during the retreat to Alexandria; assisted in 
the building of the celebrated dam under 
Bailey and took part in the closing operations 
at Spanish Fort. He went to Mobile and re- 
turned to Shreveport, La., where he was mus- 
tered out June 22, 1865, after serving his entire 
perioil of enlistment. 

He was married in New York in 1852 to 
Bertha Heister, and they have had ten chil- 
dren, one being deceased. He is a farmer 
with a good property near Fort Atkinson. 

Mrs. Koser represents the large class of 
women of tlie North to whom the war brought 



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privation and exertion to which the hardships 
of war were trifles. Left with six small chil- 
dren and without means she carried a harden 
of which no adequate notice has heen taken. 
Food, fuel and clothing, beside the sheltering 
roof, must be provided through the mother's 
efforts. Slie had her firewood to prepare for 
use, and the first winter all her fingers were 
frozen. During her enforced idleness in con- 
sequence, her oldest daughter, a child of ten, 
performed all household duties, including the 
cutting of the wood, all chores and the family 
washing. The child was ill with typhoid fever 
the next summer and nobody but her motlier 
could do anything for her in her delirium, 
strangers frightening her and making her 
wild. The next winter came and the family 
was without stores uf food, wood or supj)lies of 
any kind, and little prospects of being able to 
earn any. Flour was five dollars a hundred, 
fiictory cloth 70 cents a yard and only starva- 
tion seemed pos-sible. Neighbors did what 
they could, but it was very little, and when the 
daughter returned daily from the postottice 
with no letter from her father she traversed 
her journey to her home in bitter tears. 

Mr. Koser was in the military .service of his 
own country six years, belonging to the guard 
of Charles Frederick during the Revolution of 
1848. His knowledge of war matters proved 
valuable, and he was made a Corporal soon 
after his enlistment, and afterward Sergeant. 



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ENRY D. BALDWIN, Shullsburg, 
^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. ! 
96, was born at New Diggings, Lafa- 
yette Co., Wis., May 7, 1842, and is the son of 
William and Nancy (Cooper) Baldwin. His 
father was born in Maryland and the mother 
in Virginia; they became residents of Wiscon- 



sin in 1832, settling where the son was born 
and there, in the days of the very first 
things in Wisconsin, his life beginning six 
years before the Territory became a State and 
where his parents resided under Territorial 
regime IG years, he grew to manhood. He 
received a good common school education and 
was engaged in mining up to the period of the 
war. He was among the first to enlist from 
Sliullsburg (the place being a nest of secession 
did not send soldiers very fast), enrolling in 
April, 1861, as soon as he had an opportunity. 
His company was not able to get into the two 
first regiments and he belonged to Company T, 
3d Wisconsin Infantry, enrolling for three 
years. He was mustered at Fond du Lac, June 
29th, and left the State, .luly 12tii for Mary- 
land. Mr. Baldwin was with his regiment in 
the work of taking the bogus Legislature of 
Maryland, was with the detail to Harper's 
Ferry and went next to Charlestown, where 
.lohn Brown was hung. (While at Maryland 
Heights, Mr. Baldwin saw the detachment of 
rebels under Johnston move to the support of 
the confederates at Bull Run. While at Fred- 
erick, Maryland, the captain who took Brown 
at the arsenal was made a i)risoner with a 
number of others and Mr. Baldwin was one of 
his guards). He was in the pursuit of Jackson 
up the Shenandoah, fought at Buckton Station, 
entered Winchester with Banks' command and 
was in battle at Cedar Moiuitain, Antielam and 
Chancellorsville, and was there wounded May 
3, 1803, by a bullet in the left thigh. He was 
sent to hosj^ital at Washington and was fur- 
loughed for 30 days, returning to Wisconsin. 
During his stay there the enrollment for the 
draft was made and Mr. Baldwin, whose parole 
was extended for the purpose, accomjili.shed the 
work alone, although such was the sentiment 
prevailing, and so deep was the bitter feeling 
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thither to protect the officers, but Mr. Baldwin 
had finished tlie business before tlieir arrival. 
He was afterwards assigned to the 2d Battalion, 
Invalid Corps, and did not again join the 3d 
Wisconsin. He received honorable discharge 
on the expiration of his term of enlistment in 
1864. He immediately enrolled in the U. S. 
Navj' on the gunboat Choctaw and served as a 
sailor until tliu close of the war. He was dis- 
charged in March, 1865, at Memphis, Tenn., 
and returned to his former business of mining 
in Lafayette county. I 

He is the owner of one-third of an interest i 
in a mine which is in a prosperous condition. 
Mr. Baldwin has be^n married and is the 
father of the following children — Arthur, 
JLirry, William, Thomas and Cora. Mr. Bald- 
win is one of the substantial citizens of Shulls- 
burg and is a Republican in political senti- 
ment. 

^^^DWARD H. COLEMAN, Chippewa 
=* Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 68, was born Dec. 26, 1841, in 
Rochester, New York. His father, Henry 
Coleman, was born .June 6, 1814, at Ghent, on 
the Hudson River, and married Persis Mar- 
shall, who was born June 11, 1816, and who is 
still living at Chippewa Falls. The senior 
Coleman was a native of Nantucket, Mass., of 
American ancestry who belonged to the Friends 
or Quakers. In tlie maternal line, Mr. Cole- 
man's family dated to New Hampshire stock. 
Eight children were included in the family, 
named in order Elizabeth M., Henry (deceased). 
Marietta (deceased), Edward H., Marietta (2d), 
Henry (2d), Erne.st and Charlotte, the latter 
being also deceased. In 1856, the family re- 
moved to the West, locating at Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., where the father engaged for some yeai's 



in the business of a miller. In 1866, he was 
elected Municipal .Judge and held the position 
until 1873. 

When he reached his majority, Mr. Coleman 
of this sketch determined to enter the army, 
enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, at Chippewa Falls, and 
was mustered into Company K, 30th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, Sejttember 15th, following. From 
Camp Randall the regiment went to St. Louis 
in May, 1863, and thence up the Missouri in 
boats, stopping first at Fort Randall. Mr. Cole- 
man was seized with smallpox and placed in 
an old Government sawmill, where heremanied 
10 weeks with little care or medical attention. 
He rejoined his company and went up the 
river to where Fort Pierre now is and remained 
there about two weeks. Orders were received 
for the return of the company to Wisconsin, 
and at Milwaukee and La Crosse it was occu- 
])ied in looking after drafted men, escorting 
them to their regiments and giving them other 
wholesome attention. The company was occu- 
pied in this duty until the spring of 1864. 
Orders were received to proceed to St. Paul 
and they marched to the James River in Da- 
kota and began the construction of a fort called 
"Wadsworth." After six weeks orders were 
received to join Sherman and a start was made, 
but the company was switched oft' at Paducah, 
Ky., and went thence to Hickman, Ky., 
and there the command voted for Lincoln. 
They also skirmished and captured about 300 
guerrillas and were ordered thence to Nash- 
ville, but stopped at Bowling Green to guard 
railroad bridges, in w'hich duty they were oc- 
cupied until February, 1865, and went thence 
to Louisville, which was headquarters from 
that time. Their principal service was in 
guarding the military prison and running rebel 
prisoners from Nashville and Columbus to In- 
dianapolis and Cincinnati. Afterwards they 
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and among those they captured was the no- 
torious Sue Monday, wlio was tried by court 
martial and hung. Later, the company per- 
formed patrol duty at Louisville and remained 
there until mustered out Sept. 20, 18G5. Du- 
ring their service, Col. Daniel J. Dill endeav- 
ored to have the company assigned to his per- 
sonal commaml, which consisted of only three 
companies, the others being distributed at 
various points on detached duty. 

Mr. Coleman returned toChipjiewa Falls, ob- 
tained a position in the post ofHce for a year 
and engaged afterwards in rafting for five 
years. In 1874, he went to California and en- 
gaged in the quicksilver mines at Oeeanica, re- 
maining there about two and a half years, and 
returning thence to Chippewa Falls. In 1877, 
lie was appointed Clerk of the Municipal Court 
and officiated in that capacity four years. In 
the sj)ring of 1879, he was elected City Clerk 
on the Republican ticket and in 1880 was re- 
elected. After his release from public life he 
engaged in the sale of furniture in which he 
was occujned until the fall of 1888. During 
that season he was elected Clerk of the Circuit 
Court and is still holding that incumbency. 
He was married .June 20, 1879, at Chippewa 
Falls, to Mary R., daughter of Jeremiah and 
Ann (McGuire) Bowe, and their children are 
Mary P., Elizabeth and Henry J. Mr. CoUiiiaii 
is a staunch Republican and a member of the 
Knights of Pythias and A. 0. U. W. 



Green county. The parents are both still liv- 
ing. (1890). The son grew to manhood in 
Green county and received a common school 
education, and the first imjiortiint event of his 
live was his becoming a soldier of the civil war. 
He jsnlisted Aug. 19, 1864, at Madison, Wis., 
for one year or during the war in Company F, 
42d Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment was 
variously assigned. Company F being retained 
on duty at Cairo, and Mr. Staley performed 
garrison duty wholly until the close of the w'ar, 
when he returned to Madison .June 20, 1865 ; 
he was in hospital about a month. A brother 
was a soldier in a Miiniesota regiment. He 
was married Nov. 29, 1860, to Leonia, daughter 
of Francis and Julia M. Larotjue, her jiarents 
being natives of France. The children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Staley are named George, Frank, 
Jo)ias, Delia and Eugene. Mr. Staley is one of 
the substantial farmers of Green county, own- 
ing a fine place which is a credit to the quality 
of his agricultural principles, being well im- 
proved and stocked, with buildings of modern 
style. lie is a man of unassuming and modest 
character, thoroughly reliable, thrifty, and is 
esteemed as a good citizen. 



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JMk. 



ERFMIAH STALEY, a farmer of Day- 
ton, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
121, was born Sept. 19, 1843, in New 
Jersey. His father, Jonas Staley, married Han- 
nah Cronn and both were natives of New Jer- 
sey. The household removed to Wisconsin in 
1854, locating in Dane, and thence removed to 



[^LIGMAS S. HELLER, of Menomonie, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
58, was born Sept. 23, 1840, iii Salona, 
Clinton Co., Pa., and his parents, David and 
Sarah (Wilson) Heller were natives of that 
State, the paternal line being of (German ex- 
traction ; the mother was of English descent. 
The family included Wm. F., Martin W., 
Thomas S., James E., .lohn A. and Mary, the 
last named dying young. Thos. and John A. 
still survive. In 1858 they removed to Dunn 
Co., Wis., and improved a farm, the father 
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ing dentistry. In 1860 he was elected and 
served as Count}' Treasurer. He and his wife 
are deceased. 

In 1857 the son went to Burlington, Iowa, 
and graduated at tlie Commercial College, sub- 
sequently operating as bookkeeper at Reed's 
Landing, Minn. A year later he went to Al- 
legheny College at Meadville, Pa., and returned 
to Dunnville in 18(30 where he became pro- 
prietor of the Tainter House, acting also as 
Deputy County Treasurer with his father. He 
went to Washington to the inauguration of Lin- 
coln and returned full of the enthusiasm of 
the war which he felt was irajjending. He 
went to Burlington, Iowa, and enlisted June 13, 
1861, in Company G, 1st Iowa Cavalry, and 
was mustered July 31st following. The regi- 
ment received orders to report immediately to 
St. Louis, furnished their own horses and re- I 
ceived other equipments at Benton Barracks. J 
The first service of Mr. Heller was in the 
march to Springfield under Fremont. He was 
taken sick with fever aiid was sent to hospital 
to an old church where men were dying at a 
fearful rate. He left there as soon as possible j 
and went to Sedalia, suffering a long illness. ■ 
He joined his company in tlie fall and was en- 
gaged in cavalry service, fighting Price and 
his bushwhackers under Marmaduke. The 
regiment fought at Prairie Grove (see sketch I 
of Henry Starr), followed to Van Buren, drove 
the rebel cavalry and assisted in cajHuring a 
large amount of rebel supplies and four steam- 
boats. The regiment remained in that vicin- 
ity until General Schofield came to take charge 
of the expedition, which was reported to 
be against his orders. On the return into 
Missouri they met the rebels after defeat 
at Cape Girardeau, fought briefiy, followed 
the enemy the next day down the St. Francis 
River where Mr. Heller was detailed with a 
comrade to reconnoiter through a swamp, re- 



turning safely, after which the command went 
to the Iron Mountain country. During this 
campaign Mr. Heller was called to St. Louis 
by Col. A. G. Bracket of the regular service, 
who had conceived a strong liking for the 
young soldier and was placed on detached duty 
as Clerk in his department. He acted with 
Asst. Com. of Musters at Headquarters, Dept. of 
Missouri, from June 3, 1863, to the date of his 
transfer to the office of tlie Provost Marshal 
General under Col. J. P. Sanderson and served 
in that connection until he was mustered (Jut 
Jul)' 22, 1864, on account of expiration of term. 
He returned to Menomonie and managed 
the Menomonie House about a year, when he 
sold out and went to Chicago and elsewhere, 
returning to Menomonie in 1868. He obtained 
a position in an office and in 1870 served as 
Assessor. He was elected Town Clerk for sev- 
eral terms. About 1873 he became interested 
in the business of insurance which has since 
engaged his time and abilities and of which 
he has made a success. In 1887 he was made 
Mayor of the city and served his term with 
ability and credit. He is a Republican in poli- 
tics. He was married May 4, 1864, at Terra 
Haute, Ind., to Mary Helen, daughter of Jas. 
R. and Frances A. Tillotson, who is now de- 
ceased. Following is the record of the births 
of their children: — Walter (deceased), Grace, 
now Mrs. Walter A. Clark ; .James T., Rose, 
Helen E. (deceased), Ida May, Margaret Ange- 
line and Thomas W. 



J)RA M. HOWARD, Edgerton, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 137, was born in 
A.shtabulaCo., Ohio, July 31, 1836. ha 
G. Howard, his father, was born in New York 
State, July 3, 1806, and was the son of George 
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America in his young maniiood and married 
Martini Ilowenslielt, a native of Pennsylvania, 
of Holland Dutch parentage. The mother of 
Mr. Howard, Mary Maria Mills prior to mar- 
riage, was born in Tompkins Co., New York, 
Nov. 3, 1817. Her parents were born and 
reared in Gla.sgow, Scotland, and emigrated 
to America .soon after they were united in 
inairiage. They went to Wisconsin in 1840, 
located at first in Jefferson county, remaining 
18 months and going thence to Beloit. After 
nine years, the}' moved to Muscoda, Grant 
county, afterwards to Sauk county, and from 
there to Beloit, where father and son worked 
two years on the farm of a man named Brooks. 
In 1850 they went to Fort Atkinson, where 
both were similarly engaged, the son working 
for Amos Pritchard nearly two years. His 
})arents removed to Okie, and in the spring of 
IXOl he went to AValwortli county, and in the 
fail to New vi lie, Rock county, where he re- 
mained until he entered the army. He en- 
li.sted Aug. 14, 18G'2, in Coui])any E, ood Wis- 
consin Infantry, went into rendezvous at 
Racine, and thence to the South, leaving the 
vState November 12th, for Memphis, via Cairo. 
The command moved to Yocono Creek, Miss., 
thence to Moscow, Tenn., and, after two 
raontlis, to Mempiiis, performing a march of 
40 miles, and from tiicre to Coldwater, Miss., 
where Mr. Howard was in his first fight, his 
lieutenant being killed. (The Post at Edger- 
ton, Henry S. Smith, is named in his lionor.) 
The regiment returned to Memphis, and, May 
Gth, Mr. Howard obtained a oO-day furlough 
on account of the dangerous illness of his 
father, with whom lie remained until he was 
out of danger, when the son rejoined his regi- 
ment in the ritle pits at Vicksburg to take 
varied and almost constant part in the activi- 
ties there until the sui'render, July 4th. On 
the 5th he marched to Jackson, Miss. July 



lith he was in the tight with .h)e Johnston, 
and when it was found on the following day 
that the rebels iuvd fled, the command re- 
turned to Vicksburg and remained until Sep- 
tember, when it moved to Natchez, returned 
to Mcksburg after two months and stayed 
there and at Redbone Church until February, 
when the regiment again moved to Meridian, 
Miss. A retrograde movement took them to 
Black River Bridge, where they fell into line 
with Banks for the Red River expedition. Col- 
onel J. B. Morse, in command of a portion of 
the lirigade composed of" non-vets" of the 3d 
Iowa, 41st Illinois and the complement of the 
33d Wisconsin, went on the transport, Rob 
Roy. On this trip the rebels were more active 
tlian entertaining, attacking them from the 
banks, Imt the gun-boats sent their compli- 
ments in such sliape as to drive them away in 
all instances. He was in all the actions on the 
route and Vwick again, there being l)ut few 
days on which there was not a fight of more 
or less importance. He fought at Fort de 
Russy, Grand Ecore, M'ent to Natchitoches, 
thence to Cloutiersville and was in the fight at 
Cane River. He went later to Bayou Clotile 
and to Alexandria. He returned with his 
regiment to Vicksburg, went thence to Mem- 
])his, to Pontotoc, and to Tujielo, where he 
was in another sharp action, thence to Oldtown 
Creek and La Grange, and next up the White 
River ,to St. Ciiarles. Later he went to 
DuvaU's Bluff, thence to Brownsville, Ark., 
and from there across the country to Cape 
Girardeau. Tiie next move was to St. Louis 
on transports, and from there to an expedition 
up the Mis.souri River. The object of this was 
to take a hand in the movements of Price in 
Missouri and the foix-e returned to St. Louis 
in charge of rebel prisoners. (About 700.) 
They went next to help whip Hood at Nash- 
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nessee they went to Eastport, Miss. In the 
spring they li3.d a little fight at Corintli, went 
to New Orleans and the defenses of Mobile, 
wliipped the rebels at Cedar Point, marched to 
Spanish Fort ; from and after the cessation of 
activities there they went to Montgomery, 
Ala., and thence to Tuskegee, and to Mont- 
gomery again, returning to Vicksbiirg to be 
mustered out, receiving that official act August 
8th, and returning to Wisconsin for final ar- 
rangements. Mr. Howard was married May 
9, 1866, at Janesville, Wis., to Mrs. Margaret 
McGiffin of Rock county. Their only child 
died at the age of 14 months. Mr. Howard 
worked as a farmer until he engaged in his 
present business at Edgerton. 

AVID H. JOHNSON, Evansville, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
41, was born in Greene, Chenango Co., 
New York, July 14, 1821, and is the son of 
Nathaniel Johnson, whom he supposes to have 
been born in Ireland, and who married Rhoda 
Noi-ton, a native of this country ; she was 
the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier. She 
was a mother of that period and brought up 
her children with a knowledge of what the 
settlers of the country had undergone. She 
related that she had heard the story of her 
father's comrade who, failing to extinguish his 
light at "taps", when called to account by his 
superior officer, answered that he was writing 
to his wife. "Is there more space?" was the 
inquiry. "Add to your letter that you will be 
shot at sunrise for disobedience in camp." The 
addition was made and the soldier suffered 
death at sunrise. 

In about 1825, the senior .Johnson removed 
with his family to Sparta, Erie Co., Pa., where 
he cleared two farms 10 miles apart from a 




state of nature in conjunction with his sons. 
He died on one of them in 1849, his wife hav- 
ing died the previous year. About 1835 tlie 
son went to Cattaraugus county in his native 
State, where he engaged with the corporation 
building the New York & Erie railroad, then 
in its incipiency. The company failed and he 
lost his six-months' earnings. In 1840 he con- 
tracted for 40 acres of land on which he worked 
as a farmer and in 1855 he removed his in- 
terests to Rutland, Dane Co., Wisconsin, where 
he again engaged in agriculture and operated 
there until he entered the army. When the 
famous " oth " Wisconsin Infantry was in pro- 
cess of reorganization he enlisted, his enroll- 
ment dating in 1864, and he joined the 700 men 
under Col. T. S. Allen in front of Petersburg. 
The recruits remained two weeks at Soldiers' 
Home, Washington, for equipments, and when 
they arrived at the long bridge, which is a 
mile long, their officer halted them and spoke 
to this effect: "Boys, when you are across this 
bridge, you will be on the sacred soil of Vir- 
ginia, and if you go hungry it will be your 
own fault if you can find anything to eat." 
The command was under orders for the Valley 
of the Shenandoah where the "Battalion," the 
independent organization formed from the re- 
enlisted men of the former command, awaited 
them at Winche.ster and whither the "700" 
under Colonel Allen marched from Washing- 
ton and Alexandria. They went via Martins- 
burg to Cedar Creek, where Jubal Early was 
expected to attack. Before he had been in 
camp long enough to make coffee, Mr. Johnson 
was ordered on picket and after his weary 
marches he went to take his place, passing 
through a swamp on his hands and knees over 
an old mill-dam to the position where he was 
placed as outpost guard. His blistered feet, 
sore and lame condition, prevented his stand- 
ing, but between sitting and lying down he 



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managed to discliarge liis duty. The attack of 
Early occurred the next day to meet witli re- 
pulse, and Sheridan drove the rebel force to 
within three miles of Lynchburg. The regi- 
ment returned to cjimp after three days' picket 
duty and early in December went to Petersburg 
via Washington. Mr. .Johnson was there sent 
to Judiciary Square hospital, ill with bowel 
disease, diabetes and jaundice. When recov- 
ered he rejoined his command at Petersburg 
about the last of February, 1S65. He jiassed 
the time in camp, forage and other duty, until 
the movement known as Fort Fisher, when one 
cold night, the rebels dispersed the pickets 
with firing, yells and other demonstrations. 
The pickets lost all their possessions and saw 
their blankets flying like banners of defiance 
in rebel hands. In the charge proper on tlie 
fort, the 5th Wisconsin charged through a 
black ash swamp, led by Colonel James ^L 
Bull. Colonel Allen discovered a flank move- 
ment intended to cut off his rear and halted 
them ; "About face ! Forward ! Double quick I" 
was his order and they were safe from 
capture, returning to camp the next morn- 
ing after passing the night in earth- 
holes they dug for beds. April 1st, the 6th 
Corps moved forward. The oth Wisconsin ad- 
vanced about two o'clock in the morning, drove 
in the rebel pickets, following them up as the}' 
fell back. 'I'hey foj-med within the fortifica- 
tions and orders to charge were issued. Mr. 
Johnson and a comrade named James Winters 
pusiied their way through an embrasure and 
came up to a rebel with hi.s hand on tlie lan- 
yard of a 12-pounder. Winters pressed his 
cocked rifle against his breast, saying "Shoot 
and I will blow your heart out." The brave 
man in a bad cause shut his eyes and pulled 
the rope, at the cost of his life. The Cor{)s took 
about 1,400 prisoners that morning. Among 
the killed was a comrade beside Mr. John.son, 



who was cut in two by a solid shot which struck 
him in the region of the hips. In a charge at 
Fort Henry they were six times repulsed, but 
the seventh was a success, the 22d Massachu- 
setts assisting. Tliey moved to another line of 
works, where 650 were captured. Wiien the 
troops entered Petersburg, (Colonel Allen 
claims) the colors of the 5th Wisconsin were the 
first in position above the captured works. The 
chase began on the following morning, Lee 
having withdrawn in the darkness. About 14 
miles out the work of destruction began, when 
General Grant promised a furlough to the man 
who shot another man in the act of firing 
property. A skirmish took place at High 
Bridge and at Sailors' Creek; the soldiers 
charged across on pontoons and pressed forward 
to a battery, capturing six pieces. They went 
into camp next day on a plantation where an 
(lid man of SO years made his appearance 
itaring his breast and asking them to shoot 
him, as they had taken "his boys, his crops, 
his property of every description, and all the 
mischief they could do him further was to 
shoot him." But they took care that he was 
made comfortable. 

The da}' following the surrender of Lee the 
6th Corps proceeded to Burkesville Station, 
preparatory to starting two days later to Dan- 
ville, whence they expected to go to join the 
forces of Sherman and aid in the repression of 
the final struggles of tiie confederacy. Their 
first march was 112 miles long and theirsecond 
125 miles in extent. After news was received 
of the surrender of Johnston the Gth Corps took 
possession of the printing presses, flouring mills 
and other property necessary to the comfort 
and support of the soldiers, and papers were 
issued, flour made ajid matters placed in as 
good condition for the Union troops as possible. 
After the repairing of the railroad they went 
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in the foot race to Washington, and after arrival 
there in tlie (irand Review. The regiment was 
mustered out in -Jnly, I860, at Madison. Mr. 
•Johnson left the regiment at Stoughton to re- 
turn home, being ill, and on reporting at Mad- 
ison, was sent liome again and liis discharge 
]i;ipcrs and pay sent to him. Several j'ears 
elap.sed before he was in any degree recovered 
and he has never been in sound health since. 
He conducted a hotel at Cooksville two years 
prior to his removal to Evansville. 

He was married Dec. 10, 1843, to Mary .Jane 
Lacy of Cataraugus Co., N.Y., whence her parents 
removed from Genesee county in tlie same 
State. They had three sons. William L. and 
Willard, twins, were born Feb. 20, 1S4.5. Duane 
C. was born Sept. 30, 1848. Willard died Sept. 
28, 1846. Botli surviving sons are married. 
William resides on a farm not far from Evans- 
ville, and Duane is in the employ of the C. 
& N. W. railroad, residing at Elroy. The lat- 
ter enlisted in his fatlier's absence, but did 
not muster, as his mother refused her consent. 
The sons, aged respectively IG and 19, man- 
aged the farm while their father was in the 
war. The mother died Feb. 27, 1882. Mr. 
•Johnson is sexton of the Evansville cemetery 
and has secured a burial lot for the soldiers of 
that vicinity. 

LTVER PERRY CARPENTER, 
A\'hitewater, Wis., member of G. A. 
R. Post No. 34, was born Sept. 1, 1843, 
and is the son of Edward H. and Thankful 
(Wilcox) Carpenter. His birth took place in 
Norway, Herkimer Co., New York, and he was 
reared to the calling of his ancestors before 
him — that of farmer. In the jiaternal line he 
is of English descent and on his mother's side 
is of French lineage. The latter died when 
her son was seven years old and he remained 




in the care and control of his father, who re- 
moved with his family to Wisconsin in 1849, 
locating in Palmyra. In September, 1861, the 
son enlisted, enrolling in Company F, 1st Wis- 
consin Cavalry. He was in rendezvous at 
Ripon and Kenosha and went thence to St. 
Louis, after passing the winter in drill. 
From Benton Barracks he went to Cape Girar- 
deau and thence to Bloomfield to engage in 
scouting, skirmishing and other military dut}'^ 
in southeastern Missouri, where Mr. Carpenter 
became acquainted with all varieties of cavalry 
service, to which no human pen has ever done 
justice within the limits of a historical sketcli. 
He fought Quantrell's guerrillas, went on raids 
against Marmaduke and marched to L'Anguille 
Ferry, where he was with a train which was 
attacked by 600 Texans, Sunday, Aug. 3d, who 
annihilated the camp and the men were in 
straits to escape. Mr. Carpenter reached a 
canebrake and forcing his way through, suc- 
ceeded in getting into a corntield. A negro 
assisted him to make his escape and at last, 
after many narrow chances he crossed the river 
in a canoe, encountered a band of guerrillas 
and, after sometime in hiding in a wood, made 
connection with his regiment. The command 
went to Helena, where he was taken sick and 
he remained at Overton Hospital four weeks. 
He rejoined his command at Cape Girardeau, 
whence, under orders from Governor Harvey, 
he was sent home for 30 days, which time was 
extended to 90 days. In April, 1863, he was 
again at his post with his regiment and fouglit 
Marmaduke at Cape Girardeau. The rebel 
chief was forced to retreat towards Bloomfield 
Avhere a severe skirmish ensued, after which 
Marmaduke was permitted to take his leave. 
In the spring of 1863, the regiment was sent to 
join Rosecrans at Nashville, and Mr. Carpenter 
became connected with the Department of the 
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cattle to Murfreesboro where he was again 
taken sick and went to Wincliester Hospital, 
where he remained two months, and again 
made connection with his regiment at Bridge- 
port. He was again detailed to go to Nash- 
ville after horses and to escort recruits, the 
regiment going to Cleveland, Tenn., to winter 
quarters. He passed the winter in drilling the 
recruits and in the spring joined McCook's di- 
vision, being under the command of the great 
cavalry captain, Kilpatrick. The regiment 
moved with La Grange to the Atlanta cam- 
paign, and Mr. Carpenter fought at Resaca, 
Kenesaw, Rome, Burnt Hickory, Marietta, Lost 
Mountain, Franklin, and aided in the destruc- 
tion of 800 wagons at one time; and after 
reaching Atlanta received honorable discharge 
in October, 1864, and returned to Wisconsin. In 
January, 1865, he enlisted and was discharged at 
Madison the month following. After his tinal 
retirement from the army he entered the em- 
ploy of the C. M. & St. Paul R. R., remaining 
with them 10 years and engaging with the C. 
& N. W. corporation. Finall}', he located at 
Whitewater and lias since been engaged with 
the Esterly Manufacturing Companj'. He 
was married .June 13, 1865, to Miss Barbara 
Rae, and their children are named Addie E., 
Maggie E. and Tina L. Mr. Carpenter is 
warmly interested in Grand Army work, and 
believes it the duty of every ex-!;oldier to con- 
nect himself with tliat organization. 



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OSEPH A. MONROE, Waukesiia, Wi.s., 
a member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
born in New Berlin, Wis., in 184.3. He 
is the son of P. V. and Cordelia (Rathinirn) 
Monroe, and he was an inmate of his father's 
family until he entered tlie armj'. Aug. 15, 
1862, he enlisted in Company B, 28th Wiscon- 



sin Infantry. Until November, he passed the 
time at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, and went 
thence to Port Washington to quell the draft 
riot. December 20th following, he accom- 
panied the regiment to Columbus, Ky., and 
thence to Helena, Ark. He was a participant 
in the White River expedition and also in the 
Yazoo Pass campaign, returning to Helena, 
where the regiment was in the gallant action of 
.July 4th, in which 15,000 rebels were repulsed 
by one-fifth that number. In August, the regi- 
ment was assigned to the Army of Arkansas 
under General Steele ; marched to Little Rock ; 
remained there until November with little ac- 
tivity and went thence to Pine Bluff to winter 
quarters. While there a rebel spy obtained 
entree to their camp; platted the situation, 
stole a cavalry horse and was taken while at- 
tempting to decamp; he was tried by court 
martial and executed. Active military opera- 
tions commenced in tlie spring and in March 
the regiment, while holding a bridge at Mount 
Elba, was attacked by 1,500 rebels who were 
repulsed with a loss of 320 prisoners. The 
ensuing summer was passed in military dutj' 
of various kinds, and in February, 1865, orders 
were received for a movement down the Mis- 
sissippi River. Assignment to the command 
of General Canby was made and the "28th" 
started for Mobile Point, made a heavy march 
to Fish River and took position before Spanish 
Fort. During the passage of the Gulf, the 
steamer Belvidere, carrying the command, was 
exposed to a severe storm — an experience old 
sailors shrink from. The march over the 
almost impassable roads was no less memor- 
able, the first part being over deep sand under 
a hot sun. Those who fell out escaped the ex- 
perience of t\'ading through an alligator 
swanij), where the water for miles was more 
than knee deep. Rest at night was obtained 
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hardtack and cold water and they waded on to 
encounter a dense forest. Tliat night they had 
coffee for the first time in 36 hours. But the 
phicky regiment endured 14 days of siege and 
afterwards marched to assist at Blakely. At 
Spanish Fort many were injured by torpedoes, 
which the rebels had planted about the fortifi- 
cations. After a twelve-mile forced march in 
obedience to a call from General Steele, they 
were approaching Blakely when the)' met a 
darkey who announced, "needn't go any furder, 
gemmen, the fort's done took." After a rest of 
three days they went to Mobile, marching over a 
shell road to expected battle, but the rebels bad 
spiked their guns and 'gone. The last day of 
May they went to Texas, camping at Clarksville 
and vicinity until August, when they went to 
Brownsville to be mustered out on the "23d of 
that month. Two days later they started to 
return to Wisconsin. 

Mr. Monroe resumed his occupation as a 
farmer. He is an honorable and just man 
and sustains his soldier's record in his private 
career. His marriage to Lydia A. Killip took 
place Nov. 2G, 18G5, and their children are 
named Publius Virgil and Floda. Mr. Mon- 
roe is prominent in the Order of Good Temp- 
lars and in temperance work generally. 



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ERMAN LEROY ALLING, Fort 
Atkinson, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
;^ost No. 159, was born March 29, 
1843. In his father's line he is of Yankee ex- 
traction and descended from ancestors born in 
the State of New York on the side of his 
mother. He is the son of Charles Edward and 
Mary B. (Cushman) Ailing and was born in 
Vernon, Oneida Co., New York. He is one of 
four children and his parents were farmers, to 
which calling their son was reared. In 1848 



they removed to Jefferson county, Wisconsin, 
where they located on a farm. On this the son 
completed the years of his minority. He had, 
meanwhile determined to enlist, and as soon as 
he was his own man, took steps to that end. 
Sept. 2, 1864, he enlisted as a soldier and made 
connection with Company E, 1st Wisconsin 
Heavy Artillery, joining his command at Camp 
Randall, ]\hulison. The battery went to Fort 
Lyon at Washington, whence he received honor- 
able discharge July 13, 1865. During his 
period of service he was engaged in garrisoning 
the several forts to which he was assigned, in 
practice with the heavy siege guns at Fort 
Lyon, and in acquiring a knowledge of in- 
fantry, heavy and light artillery tactics. On 
his return to Wisconsin he went to work on his 
farm, where he operated three years. Then 
he sold his place and removed to Fort Atkinson, 
where he has been variously occupied since. 
He was married Nov. 6, 1867, to Eliza Jane. 
Smith, and their children are named Mary 
Olive, Ormun Edward and Alma Matilda. Mr. 
Ailing is a member of the A. 0. U. W. and 
Society of Modern Woodmen. At this writing 
he is Officer of the Day in his Post. He is a 
staunch Republican. 




y,^^\x AL^^ERT SPENSLEY, attorney at 
Mineral Point, Wis., member of G. A. 
R. Post No. 125, was born at Stockton, 
England, Jan. 2, 1846. He is the son of Harker 
and Ruth Spensley, who emigrated to the New 
World and located at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1848, 
and the home there was maintained a year. 
They removed thence to Shullsburg, Wis., in 
1849, and remained there until they removed to 
Mineral Point in 1857; both parents died there, 
the demise of the father occurring in 1876, 
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mother in 1877, at the age of 60 years. Only 1 
two of their children (out of seven boys) arrived 
at maturity; Mr. Spensley had one brother sur- 
viving named John, wlio lived until 1884 and 
died at San Antonio, Texas. The fatlier, 
Marker Spensley, was a miner and farmer and 
was the first station agent at Darlington, Y'ork- 
shire, England, on tlie first railroad in that 
country. Mr. Spensley attended the schools at 
Sliullsburg and he also attended a seminary at 
Mineral Point, and tlie Western Union College 
at Fulton, 111., for two years, but enlisted 
before completing the collegiate course. He 
was one of a company that was raised from the 
students of that college, which became Company 
D, 140th Illinois Infantry. He enrolled as a 
private. May 5, 18()4, and was made Sergeant 
on organization, and was mustered at Spring- 
field, 111. The regiment was first in rendez- 
vous at Dixon, and from Springfield went to 
Memphis, going to Lafayette, Tenn., remaining 
on guard duty most of the summer and scout- 
ing, watching the operations of Forrest so far 
as possible. Not a night pas.sed without the 
firing on the pickets by guerrillas, and the regi- 
ment remained there and in Mississippi until 
Price made his attempt to resume sway in Mis- 
souri. Attached to tiie command of A. J. 
Smith, tlie regiment went on the chase, skir- 
mishing, and afterwards, the rebels having 
been driven out of the State, they returned to 
St. Louis and thence to Cliicago for muster out 
Nov. 10, 1804. Mr. Spensley returned to 
Mineral Point and about the first of the next 
year went to Poughkeepsie and entered East- 
man's Commercial College, completing his 
course in July, 1865, and returning to Mineral 
Point. He clerked in a dry goods store for 
several months and, Jan. 1, 1867, began read- 
ing law under tlie direction of Hon. M. M. 
Cothren of that place. In the fall he went to 
Columbia Law Scliool in New York, whence he 



was graduated in 1869 after completing the two 
years course of lectures. On his return to 
Mineral Point, the law firm of Lanyon & Spens- 
ley was established, continuing one year. Mr. 
Spensley connected himself witii the Mineral 
Point railroad and was auditor thereof five 
years, and its attorney six years, until the 
railroad was sold to the Chicago, Mil- 
waukee & St. Paul railway company in 
1880. The former firm of Lanyon & Spens- 
ley was then re-established and dis.solved in 
1886, when Mr. Spensley entered into a law 
partnership with Charles Mcllhon, under the 
firm name of Spensley et Mcllhon, whicii still 
exists. He has served two years as Mayor of 
Mineral Point, has been Chairman of the 
Board of Supervisors of Iowa county, and in 
1884 was elected delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention at Chicago, 111., from the 
Third Congressional Di.strict of Wisconsin. He 
is a member of the Masonic Order, belonging 
to the Blue Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. 
He has been Master, High Priest and Com- 
mander in the various Bodies. He is a mem- 
Ijer of the Wisconsin Commi.ssion of Fisheries. 
To his adopted country Mr. Spensley has been 
a true son, serving as he could in her war, and 
in liis citizenship fitting himself for rank in its 
best grade, wliicli he has continued to hold 
from his youth. His family occupies a prom- 
inent social standing, and he is regarded with 
the highest esteem in tlie community. Mrs. 
Spensley is a member of the W. K. C. Her 
marriage to Mr. Spensley took place Oct. 13, 
1869. Slie was Miss Clara J. Cobb, daugiiterof 
George \V. Cobb, manager of the Mineral Point 
railroad from its construction until its sale. 
Three children, named Harker George, Calvert 
Frederic and Ruth Antoinette, liave been horn 
to Mr. and .Mrs. Spensley. 



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AMUEL YATES BRANDE, Kenosha, 



Wis., was born Oct. ], 181S, in Castle 
Donington, Leicestershire, England. 
His father, William Brande, was a clergyman 
of the Baptist Church and gave him an excel- 
lent education. His oldest son, William, con- 
ducted a school at Northampton, England, in 
which Mr. Brande of this sketch was educated. 
The family included 11 children, of whom 
Thomas, Harriet, Mary and Samuel are living. 
The deceased are Maria, Mary Ann, Jane, 
Sarah, Frederic, Silas John and Mary. In 
1832 the father removed his family to the 
United States, coming hither on the ship 
Columbia. They first located on a farm in 
Susquehanna Co., Pa., where the father 
preached and attended to his farm duties. He 
removed in 1841 to Salem, New York, where 
the father took charge of a school, and thence 
he went to Wisconsin, and after 1843, resided 
near Kenosha on a farm, where he died in 
1850. His widow, whose name before marriage 
was Sarah Yates, survived him 10 years. 

Mr. Brande was the sixth in order of birth 
of his parents' children, and on his arrival in 
this country secured a position as teacher of a 
school in Auburn, Pa., at the earl}' age of 16, 
which he conducted three years, and went next 
to Montrose, where he became an apprentice to 
learn the business of a cabinet maker. After 
three years he established his business in 
Waterford, New York, where he conducted it 
about a year, when his shops l.)urned down. 
Finding himself wholly crippled by the event 
he started for the West to begin the world 
again and traveled on the Erie canal and the 
lakes, landing at Kenosha (Southport), Wis., in 
November, 1842. He engaged there in the same 
business which he had before conducted until 
1849, when he became a candidate on the Free- 
Soil ticket for Register of Deeds and served two 
years. Ho was defeated for a second term by 



11 votes on the ground that he was foreign 
born. His experience while in that office 
taught him the importance of a system which 
had a show of clear titles to land ; and he pur- 
chased an interest in a defective set of abstract 
books of lands in Kenosha count}' and opened 
an office in Kenosha, combining that interest 
with real estate, and he has since conducted the 
same with success. Upon the inauguration of 
the internal revenue system, he was appointed 
U. S. Assessor, which position he occupied 
eight years, when he resigned. He was made 
Secretary of the City Debt Association, and, 
during his coimection therewith, the debt of 
$1,500,000 was reduced to $200,000. Mr. 
Brande held the office 14 years and had pre- 
viously served as Alderman three years. He 
had become known as a thorough patriot and 
a decided Republican, and, when Sumter was 

' attacked, was made Secretary of a meeting of 
citizens who issued the following circular: " To 
the Lovers of the tlnion and Constitutional 
Government in Kenosha County : The at- 
tempt of traitors to overthrow the Government 

' of the United States has culniinate<l in an at- 
tack upon the Government troops and in levy- 
ing actual war upon us. In response to the 

I call of the President of the United States, and 

' fired by devotion to their country, the patriotic 
citizens of Kenosha, at a meeting held Friday 
evening, the 19th instant, resolved to raise men 
and money to assist in thwarting the purposes 
of the conspirators; and with cheers and un- 
conquerable devotion to the cause, subscribed 
the sum of $3,500 toward a fund for the bene- 
fit of the volunteers and appointing a commit- 
tee to take the matter in charge. The Com- 
mittee of the meeting and the Committee of the 
Common Council held a meeting on Saturday 
afternoon, the 20th instant, and organized by 
nominating H. B. Towsley, President, and S. 
Y. Brande, Secretary; then it was resolved that 



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the joint Committee, consisting of H. B. Tows- 
ley, ?. H. Wood, F. Robinson, 0. C. Slides, and 
S. Y. Brande, and the Committee of the Com- 
mon Council, consisting of Messrs. M. H. 
Pettit, Levi Grant, Sylvester Baldwin, and P. J. 
A\'olfe, to individually secure further subscrip- 
tions to the fund and that Messrs. Grant, 
Wolfe and Wood be especially charged witli 
that duty. Resolved also, tliat Messrs. Bald- 
win, Pettit and Wolfe be appointed a visiting 
committee and that the Secretary be instructed 
to prepai'e a circular embodying the proceed- 
ings of the meeting and requesting the people 
of tlie county to co-operate by subscription and 
that a call of 10 per cent, of the amount sub- 
scribed be made forthwith and tiie Secretary 
directed to collect the same. The Committee 
confidently appeal to the people of this county 
to co-operate with them by the apjwintment 
of sub-Committees, or in such other way as 
may seem best. In the mean time subscrip- 
tions to the fund mav be made to any of the 
Committee or at the office of the Secretary in 
the city of Kenosha. Cash subscriptions are 
preferred, but let none who have flour, butter, 
wood or any other articles that can be applied 
to the supj)ort of the families of our brave 
volunteers, neglect to lay the offering on the 
altar of liis country. " Breathes there a man 
with soul so dead. Who never to himself has 
said, Tliis is my own, my native land?" De- 
posits of these articles can be made at the 
office of the Secretary and the receipt of the 
same will be duly acknowledged, as also the 
ap])lications made. On behalf of the Joint 
Committee, S. Y. Brande, Secretivry." (Pub- 
lished in the Kenosha Tribune and Telegraph 
Ai)ril 22, 1861, a few days after the firing on 
Sumter.) LIpon the publication of the circular, 
a call for a meeting of the women of Kenosha 
county was published in tlie newspapers of 
Kenosha to form a Soldiers' Aid Society. At 



that meeting, which was held at the house of 
the Secretary of the Committee, just seven 
ladies responded, viz: Elizabeth M. Brande, 
Caroline D. Pettit, Maria Simmons, Emma E. 
Simmons, Jane Briggs, Charlotte Schoff and 
Martha D. Selleck. The}' proceeded to form 
a society for the purpose of .sending aid to the 
soldiers going to, and while in the field, and 
to their wives and families left behind during 
tluur absence. At that meeting, Caroline D. 
Pettit (widow of Lieutenant-(iovernor Pettit, of 
Wisconsin) was elected President. Elizabeth 
M. Brande was elected Vice-President, Char- 
lotte Schoff, Secretary; Jane Briggs, Treasurer 
and Maria Simmons and Emma E. Simmons, 
Directors. This organization was kept up and 
furnished tents, provisions, medicines, clotliiug, 
hosi)ital delicacies and supplies to the boys 
in tlie field, having an oversight of the fami- 
lies of soldiers absent in the field or sutt'ering 
from any cause, and did noble and generous 
work without any other pay than that of pa- 
triotic satisfaction. It will be seen, as Mrs. 
Brande puts it, that the women followed the 
example of tlie men, as after the election of the 
officers there was but one private left. This did 
not la.st long, however, as it soon became popu- 
lar. A large amount of money was raised, of 
which Mr. Brande was made custodian until 
the State took charge of such funds. He iis- 
sisted in the organization of Comi^any C, 1st 
Wisconsin Infantry, and was active in recruit- 
ing the 17th, 36th Wisconsin Volunteers and 
1st Wisconsin Cavalry. He humorously refers 
to two days spent in cutting cabbage for 
pickles for soldiers. Mr. Brande is more than 
three score and ten at this writing. (1889.) 
Ho is a .sami)le of the spirit brought to these 
shores by those who really and truly adopted 
the country as their own and to which the per- 
niaiKMicy of our institutions are wholly due. 
He was married Nov. 15, 1844, to Elizabeth N., 




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daughter of Samuel and Roxana (Sprague) 
Holmes, former residents of Cortland Co., New 
York. She is of American birtli and English 
descent. The surviving children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Brande are named Flora and Ilattie E. 
The former is the wife of G. W. Hoyt, a mer- 
chant in Ciiicago. The grandfather of Mrs. 
Brande was a soldier in the Revolution and 
her father was a Captain of New York Volun- 
teers in 1812. The activity of Mrs. Brande 
in the relief of soldiers and their families is a 
just evidence of her love of country and char- 
acter in all her family and social relations. 



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LBERT HENRY HOLLISTER, Mad- 
^ ison. Wis., a prominent business 
man and member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 11, was born Sept. 23, 1843, in Pendleton, 
New York ; he is the son of Perez S. and An- 
gelina Theresa (Clarke) Hollister, to whom six 
children were born, viz.: Perez S., Lauren N., 
Eliza P., Francis M., Albert H. and MarietteL., 
the latter now Mrs. Isham. The oldest daugh- 
ter is Mrs. Harden and Lauren is deceased ; he 
died at Tonawanda, N. Y., in early manhood. 
The senior Hollister's grandfather was a soldier 
of the Revolution and the maternal grandfa- 
tiier, Pendleton S. Clarke, fought in the war of 
1812. (The latter was once the owner of the 
beautiful Grand Island in Niagara River and 
was very popular with the people, being named 
Governor and bearing the title until hisdeatli ; 
Heni-y Gorton, who married the daughter of 
Lauren N. Hollister, owns about 800 acres on 
the island in 1889.) In the paternal line he is 
descended from Lieutenant John Mollister, a 
native of England, who settled in Glastonbury, 
Conn., in 1G42, and his mother l:)elonged to the 
descendants of the celebrated Adam Clarke. 
She died when he was three years old and his 



father becoming partially tjlind about the same 
time, the lad found himself not only with the 
problem of his own support on his hands but 
also witli tlie I'esjionsibility of adding what he 
could to tliat of those who were more helpless 
than himself. He obtained a situation in a 
grocery for three years, attended school a year 
and, at the age of 12 years, became an assist- 
ant of Dr. ^'an Buren of Pendleton, from 
which association he dates his taste for his 
chosen business — that of a pharmacist. When 
he was 14 he went to Milwaukee whei"e he was 
employed a short time by his brother, and, 
later, he became a pupil at Allen's Grove 
Academy, an adjunct of Beloit College, where 
he studied two terms, under Professor Mon- 
tague. 

Under the pressure which sent a large pro- 
portion of the youth of Wisconsin into the 
ai"my, he decided to enlist and enrolled Aug. 
14, 1862, in Company F, 22d Wisconsin Infan- 
try at Waterford, Racine county, and joined 
the regiment in rendezvous at Camp Utley, 
Racine. September 15th, in anticipation of 
the threatening movements of Kirby Smith, 
the regiment proceeded to Cincinnati. On the 
22d, they crossed tiie river and camped near 
Covington, Ky., until they moved October 7th 
to assist in the battle of Perryville, arriving 
there after the battle was done. The regiment 
pursued a restless course of procedure, moving 
to Camp Gilmore, Eagle Creek, Georgetown, 
Lexington and Nicholasville, where they per- 
formed provost duty about a month. Jan. 
26th, 1863, they started for Louisville and went 
on transports to Nashville. They went thence 
to Brentwood Station and in March, Mr. Hollis- 
ter took part in a reconnoissance towards 
Spring Hill. Through somebody's blunder 
the movement proved disastrous, a large pro- 
portion of the regiment — more than 200 — were 
captured with Colonel Utley and 11 other com- 



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missioned officers. The remainder of the regi- 
ment, induding Mr. Ilollister, went on the 8th 
of the same month to Brentwood Station and 
on the 25th were attacked hy Forrest and com- 
pelled to surrender to superior numbers. With 
23 others, Mr. Ilollister was conducted to Co- 
lumbus, Tenn., over mountains and fording 
streams to quarters in an old church used for 
a hospital. His comrade died by his side and 
the conditions were such as to convince him 
that a like fate would soon be his, and he 
bribed an attendant with a five dollar green- 
back to obtain leave for him to go witii tbe 
next squad sent to Richmond. The jilan worked 
and he went there to meet the officers of his 
command. After 42 days at Libby, he was ex- 
changed and sent in broken health to An- 
napolis to recruit. He remained there until the 
spring of 1804 when he appeared before Gen- 
eral Casey's Board of Exauiiuers and passed 
the required regulations for assignment, and 
was commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 30th 
U. S. Colored Infantry. He was placed on de- 
tached service at Camp Birney where he passed 
sometime in recruiting and organizing troops 
for service. He joined his regiment at An- 
napolis in Burnside's Corps, and was with his 
command under Grant through the campaign 
and battles of the Wilderness — Spottsylvania 
and Cold Harbor — and went thence to the 
trenches in front of Petersburg, where he suc- 
cumbed to tlie effects of rheumatic fever con- 
tracted at Camj) Birney, ])ut wliicli be struggled 
with in order to gratify his desire to press on 
to Richmond with the great Infantry Captain. 
From Petersburg he was sent to Annapolis and 
thence to Camp Cadwallader. While there. 
General Cummings proffered him, through 
the infiuence of Simon Cameron, a commis- 
sion in the regular army, which be declined 
because he did not desire to follow a 
military life. (Simon Cameron died on 



the day on which this sketch was 
prepared in 1889.) Mr. Hollister remained 
there until the war was over and resigned his 
commission June 12, 1865. He arrived in Wis- 
consin just in time to meet his regiment — tbe 
22d Wisconsin Infantry — and saw it mustered 
out of service. He engaged in the sale of 
drugs at Clinton, Wisconsin, where he con- 
ducted a successful business till his removal to 
Madison in 1875. He established a prosperous 
business at the capital in the same line and 
and has been prominent in the advancement 
of pharmacy to a degree which evidences liis 
entbusiasm in his chosen calling. He has 
been instrumental in lifting the vocation to its 
present advanced position in "Wisconsin, and to 
his efforts is mainly traceable the organization 
of tbe Wisconsin Pharmaceutical Association. 
He was named its first President but declined 
in favor of the successful candidate, Mr. Dadd. 
He rendered efficient service in securing the 
enactment of tbe State Pharmacy Law, and he 
has been identified with tiie administration of 
the same in his capacity of member of the 
Board of Pharmacy, on which he is still serv- 
ing. (1889.) Associated with others, lie se- 
cured the establishment of a Department of 
Pliarmacy in the State University at Madison, 
and, in addition to his efi'urts in Wisconsin, he 
has taken an active interest in the affairs of 
National Pharmacy. In 1885 he was elected 
Vice-President of the American Pharmaceuti- 
cal Association and in 1886 President uf the 
National Retail Druggists' Association. In 
point of interest and eifort in the advancement 
of the dignity of his business, Mr. Ilollister is 
second to none. Therein he disjilays his 
energy and ability and his efforts have been 
supplemented by the success his perseverance 
deserves. In all respects he is a man who is a 
credit and honor to the citizenshij) of Wis- 
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He is prominent in Grand Army matters 
and sustains an unflagging interest in its well- 
being. He was made Commander of C. C. 
Washburn Post when it numbered about 40 
members, with about $14 in its treasury. Its 
meetings were in a room in the basement of 
the Cn])itol and when he handed his posi- 
tion to iiis successor, it had 100 members, $300 
and a hall of its own. The first camp-fire dur- 
ing his administration was a marked success. 

He belongs to all the bodies of Masonry, to 
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, and is 
master in the A. O. U. W. He is Treasurer of 
the Modern Workmen. He is connected with 
financial matters at Madison, was one of the 
organizers of the Capital City Bank and is 
still one of its directors. He has extended his 
business interests beyond the place of his resi- 
dence and is interested in a drug and jewelry 
business in the famed city of Hurley and has 
also mining relations in the north part of the 
State. He is also a director in the North 
Western Building and Loan Association at 
Madison. Dr. Hollister was the first to suggest 
the feasibility of the Monona Lake Assembly 
and took the initiatory in establishing the or- 
ganization at Madison. He was at the head of 
its management until it became a recognized 
and permanent success. He has been many 
years prominently connected with Sunday 
School work. His portrait is given on page 
2G4. 

He was married in 1864 to Jenny, a daugh- 
ter of Cyrus and Mary (McDuffie) Farnsworth, 
now living in Darien, aged respectively 86 and 
77 years. Mrs. Hollister is a native of Darien, 
Wis., and All)ert Sherman, only cliild, died 
June 3, 1873, aged seven years; the demLse of the 
mother occured in April, 1875. In the fall of 
1876 Mr. Hollister was married to Kittie E. 
Van Hoesen. Mrs. Hollister is serving (1890) 
a second term as President of the Woman's 



Relief Corps. She is a descendant of the Hol- 
landers who settled on the Hudson River in 
New York in its earliest period. 

OHN PEIFER, Racine, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born in 
Leisenich, Germany, Feb. 2, 1844. Ger- 
many was the birth-place of his parents, John 
P. and Mary Peifer, and they had three chil- 
dren named Anton, Margaret and John. The 
family emigrated to the United States in 1855, 
and the mother died the same year. They 
located at Milwaukee, where the father lost the 
use of his eyes and the two sons were placed 
in the family of Michael Miller, where they 
remained until tlie recovery of the father, 
when they were taken to their home and sent 
to school until John was 14 years old, when he 
engaged as a farm assistant and remained in 
that business until he entered the army. 
Aug. 11, 1862, he enlisted in Company E, 22d 
Wisconsin Infantry, at .Janesville, Wis. From 
the rendezvous at that place he went to Cin- 
cinnati, (threatened and alarmed by the move- 
ments of Kirby Smith), crossed the Ohio to 
Covington, went into Camp Bloodgood, to 
Camp Smith, Camp Gilmore, Eagle Creek and 
to Lexington, and after the 31st of October 
was assigned to the 1st Brigade under Coburn, 
and to the 1st Division of Granger's Army of 
the Kentucky. They went successively to 
Nicholasville and Danville, to Louisville and to 
Nashville, going after two weeks to Brentwood 
Station, marched to Franklin, and on the 3d 
of March moved in the direction of Spring 
Hill to find out what the rebels were trying to 
do. All the previous movements through 
Northern Kentucky were for the purpose of 
ascertaining the probable plans of Bragg and 
Morgan, and after the terrific action and ter- 



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rible loss of 1,100 men from the command at 
Thomjjson's Station, on tlie 25th of March, they 
were surprised at Brentwood Station by 
Forrest at daylight and the force of several 
hundred were all taken jirisoners. Tiiey were 
taken to Columbia, thence to Tullahoma and 
loaded like cattle on box cars, arriving at 
Libby Prison to remain a day. They went to 
Fortress Monroe and to Annapolis, where they 
received clean clothes and started for St. Louis 
to await exchange. Mr. Peifer went liome on 
a furlough and joined his regiment aiter ex- 
change at St. Louis about June 1, 1803. They 
went to Franklin and thence to Murfreesboro 
where they performed garrison duty about 
nine months. At Resaca, in the forward 
movement to Atlanta, Mr. Peifer was wounded, 
a Ijullet bitting him in the leg and it is still 
there. One of his comrades, the " file cover," 
immediately behind him was killed and 
15 wounded. He went to hospital on the 
field, thence to Nashville, Louisville and St. 
Louis, and to Madison, Wis., and wiien re- 
covered joined tiie regiment again at Atlanta 
as it was about to move in the march to the sea. 
He accompanied, acting as train escort and 
forage scout and was in the siege of Savannah, 
going after the surrender of the city to the 
several points of notoriety in the Carolinas, 
being at Averysboro, Goldsboro, Raleigh, and 
going, after Johnston's surrender to Riclimond 
and to camp at Alexandria, wiience he went 
to the Review and was mustered out June 12, 
18G5. After his return to Racine, Mr. Peifer 
was a clerk in a grocery uliout two years and 
then entered the woolen mill of Blake & Com- 
pany, and is now in the finishing department. 
His industry, efficiency and relial)ility liave 
made iiim a valuable adjunct to tlie firm, wiio 
accord to him the highest degree of confi- 
dence. He was married July 17, 1865, at 
Milwaukee, to Catherine E., daughter of 



Nicholas and Wallnirga (Mertz) Ladrach. Her 
fatiier was born in Berne, Switzerland, and 
came to America in 1845, locating at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, whence he moved to Waukesha, 
Wis., and died there. The mother also died 
there. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Ladracli 
were named John, Mary, Catherine and Wil- 
liam. Mary and William are deceased. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Peifer were named 
Mary E., Catherine, John J., William P., Dora 
and George H. William and George are liv- 
ing and an adopted daughter in the family is 
named Veronica. 



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Cx EWIS ROLLOW, Genoa Junction, 
'^^ ^\'is., nieml)er of G. A. R. Post No. 27, 
y^ a merchant and a prominent citizen 
of the locality where he resides, was born in 
Monroe, Mich., Nov. 27, 1S37. His parents, 
Lewis and Adeline Sopina (Theresa) Rollow, 
were both l)orn in (Janada, and the father 
represented a line of ancestors who had been 
for more than 200 years residents of Montreal. 
The grandfather, Lewis Rollow, was a tanner 
nnd passed his entire life in that city. The 
father, Lewis Rollow, was a shoemaker, and, 
when about 21 years of age, located in the city 
of Rochester, N. Y., where he worked at his 
trade and bought land, repeating that business 
in Monroe, Mich., where he located a consider- 
able quantity of land. He was married in 
Rochester in 1834, and two years after went to 
Monroe, and after that lived alternately in 
Monroe and Rochester, attending to his pro- 
jirietary interests. He was born in Montreal in 
1812, and died in Rochester in 1857. The 
mother was the daughter of Peter and So])hia 
Theresa, who were farmers of St. Johns, near 
Montreal. She is still living at Genoa Junc- 
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and her three sons are still living. Frank and 
Charles Hollow are farmers in Hiawatha, 
Brown Co., Kansas. Peter Theresa, uncle of 
Ml'. Rollow, came in early life to the United 
States and enlisted in the Seminole war. 

When he was 14 years old, Mr. Rollow had 
become a practical boot and shoemaker. At 
that age he went to Erie, Pa., and worked three 
years ; went thence to Buffalo, and after four 
years commenced the life of a journeyman 
mechanic and went successively to Albany, 
Syracuse and New York city, returning again 
to Rochester. He came to Genoa Junction in 
1862. Soon after, he went to Lake Geneva, 
where he enlisted Aug. 11, 18G2, in Company 
C, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Utley. He 
went from rendezvous at Racine to the Ohio 
River, and immediately after reaching Cincin- 
nati, crossed to the Kentucky side and passed 
the time from September 18th to December 
12th in looking after the whereabouts and 
maneuvers of Morgan and other guerrilla chiefs 
until the date last named, when the regiment 
went to Danville. There they received orders 
to proceed to Nashville, and went thence via 
Louisville, Fort Donelson and Franklin, Tenn., 
and while reconnoitering for Van Dorn, they 
came up with him at Spring Hill, March 3d. 
During the next two days the activities were 
lively, and on the Hftli, two-thirds of tlie com- 
mand were captured, including 11 commis- 
sioned officers. A part of the 22d, under the 
Lieutenant Colonel — IMoodgood — escaped, and 
while trying to make their waj' to Franklin, 
encountered a colored camp, where instructions 
were obtained. Arriving there they were re- 
organized by Bloodgood and proceeded to guard 
the station at Brentwood, where they received a 
morning call from Forrest, March 25th, and 
were nearly all captured before breakfast. They 
went to Columbia, where they were paroled, 
taken to TuUahoma, where they were deprived 



of all equipments and clothing ; sent thence to 
Richmond, and after a short detention at 
Libby, went to Fortress Monroe, were placed on 
a truce boat and taken to Annapolis. Thence, 
after receiving the supplies their necessities de- 
manded, they went to St. Louis. While 
awaiting exchange, Mr. Rollow took a fur- 
lough, and, after being at home three 
weeks, was summoned to his command 
which went, after re-organization, to Franklin 
and Nashville, going afterwards to Murfrees- 
boro, passing about seven months in military 
duty of diversified character. At Murfrees- 
boro the regiment was assigned to the 2d 
Brigade, 3d Division and 20th Army Corps. 
Mr. Rollow, with the command, started on the 
campaign on the Chattanooga River. He 
was in the fight at Resaca and in the activities 
and skirmishes of daily occurrence at Dallas 
and Kenesaw until .Tune 16th, when, at Lost 
Mountain, near Golgotha Church, he was 
wounded, a minie ball taking off the thumb 
and little finger of the right hand. He was 
sent to hospital at Chattanooga, three days 
later went to Nashville and later to George- 
town and thence to I^ouisville where he re- 
mained in hospital until discharged as perma- 
nently disal)led Nov. 19, 1864. He returned 
to Genoa .Junction where he worked at his 
trade and in 1868 went to Salem, Kenosha 
county. Ten years after he returned to Genoa 
Junction, where he embarked in his present 
commercial enterprise, dealing in boots and 
shoes and gentlemen's furnishing goods. 

He was married in Wheatland, Kenosha 
Co., Wis., I^ec. 24, 1864, to Hattie, daughter of 
Pbilo and Elizabeth (Harrington) Darling. 
She was born in Dutchess Co., New York, 
of old New York stock. Her father was a 
farmer and located in Wisconsin in Kenosha 
county in 1849. In 1850 he removed to Mound 
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February, 1888. The mother died previously. 
The only brother of Mrs. Rollow, was a soldier 
in the 8th Iowa Iiifaiitrj'. Two cliildren born 
to Mr. and Mrs. Rollow died in infancy, leav- 
ing tliem childless. Mrs. Rollow is prominent 
in the Woman's Relief Corps, and, with her 
liusband, is active in all matters pertaining to 
tiie interests of the soldiers. Both are welcome 
members of the society in which they move 
and are esteemed for their interest in moral 
and social affairs. 



11. BURDICK, City Editor of the 
Lake Geneva News, Wis., member 
• of U. A. 11. Post No. 27, was born at 
Edmunson, Otsego Co., New York, July 24, 
1839. His parents, Solomon C. and Martha M. 
(Crandall) Burdick, were born respectively in 
Rhode Island and New York. The family 
originated in England. The grandfather, 
Joseph Burdick, was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion. The grandsire Crandall was a miller 
by vocation and the senior Burdick was a 
cabinet maker. The latter removed his family 
to Linn, Walworth county, in Wisconsin, in 
June, 1843, and engaged in his calling of cabinet 
maker, in which he has since been occupied, 
and himself and wife are among the most 
liighly regarded members of society at Lake 
Geneva. Tiiej' are in a green old age, and 
their good and useful lives have won for them 
the enduring regard of the community to which 
they have so long belonged. They are aged 
respectively 77 and 7G years. (1889.) Six 
of their cliildren survive, and the sketch of 
another son, who was a soldier in the same 
command with Mr. C. IL Burdick, appears on 
another page. 

When he was seven years old the parents of 
Mr. Burdick removed to Wisconsin ami ho 



worked as a farm assistant on his father's place 
and attended school winters until he was 16 
years old, when he became a student at the 
academy at Genoa, after which he studied at 
the academy at Walworth. He left his studies 
in 18G0, and, June 2, 1861, he was married to 
Almina M., daughter of Kiah and Emily 
(Ward) Bailey, a native of Vermont. The 
newly married people located on a farm m 
Linn, Walworth county, and the husband was 
an agriculturist until he determined to enter 
the military service of the United States. He 
enlisted Nov. 23, 1863, in Company F,'4th Wis- 
consin Regiment, which was then at Baton 
Rouge and had received equestrian equipments 
and become a cavalry command. Baton Rouge 
was headquarters for the command during the 
succeeding months, and Mr. Burdick engaged 
in almost const^ant scouting, skirmishing and 
raiding, and in other dutj' incident to cavalry 
service until June 27, 1864, when orders were 
received to move to Morganzia, and from that 
point the same service was performed, operat- 
ing against the forces of Taylor as a cavalry 
command. The activities were incessant and 
Mr. Burdick remained with his company until 
August, when be was sent to hospital at Baton 
Rouge on account of injuries and consequent 
illness. He was ordered thence to Madison, 
where he was under treatment until he was dis- 
charged under the General Order which re- 
lieved all men permanently disabled, and he 
was discharged June 9, 1865. He went back 
to Walworth and, as soon as able, entered the 
service of a Chicago house in the capacity of 
traveling salesman, in which he was occupied 
until 1872, when he became a salesman in the 
furniture establishment of his fatiier at Lake 
Geneva. He sustained his relations with his 
father two years, when he became associated 
with the management of the News as stated. 
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city, which has been recognized in his poetical 
efforts, some of wliich liave become well and 
widely known and have elicited favorable 
commendation. lie is the society correspond- 
ent of the Inter-Ocean of Chicago and has con- 
tributed many articles to the publications of 
Frank Leslie. He has also been an accepted 
contributor to the Voung Follcs and to t]ie Ourrent 
at Chicago. Mr. Burdick contemplates issuing 
a collected volume of hi.s poems for the benefit 
of his friends. 

To him and his wife seven children have 
been born, three daughters and four sons. A 
daughter died in infancy and a son at tlie age 
of 14 yei\rs. Hugh A. Burdick is associated 
in the practice of law with J. B. Simmons of 
Lake Geneva; Emma is a teacher ; Martha A., 
Ralph H. and Paul C. complete the list of sur- 
viving children. 

Mr. Burdick is an active Grand Army man 
and has been a member of the Order of Odd 
Fellows since 1S02 ; he also belongs to the 
Modern Woodmen of America. In all these 
organizations he has held positions of responsi- 
bility and trust; in civil life he has officiated as 
City Clerk. It is wholly unnecessary for a 
biographer to add an elaborate qualification of 
the character of Mr. Burdick. He is a man of 
whom a simple account of his career suffices as 
a testimonial of the highest character. 

IRAM A. HOWARD, White Creek, 
\^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
19, was born Feb. 19, 1844, at Me- 
nomonee, Waukesha Co., Wis. Isaac and 
Lucy (Holiday) Howard, his parents, were 
born respectively in the States of New York 
and Vermont, and both grandsires were sol- 
diers of the war of 1812, and descended from 
fathers who fought in the Revolution. They 




were also connected with the York State 
militia. The senior Howard removed his 
interests to Wisconsin in 1841, and himself and 
wife died in Menomonee. Mr. Howard is the 
eldest of their 10 children. Louisa, Abram S., 
Irena, Edwin S., (deceased), Lavina, Euphan, 
James, Jane E. and Charles H. are the names 
of the other children. The father was a 
farmer and a ^uarryman and the son was 
reared to both callings. His father became 
Ijlind and his mother fell into ill healtii, and 
their responsibilities devolved on him as old- 
est son, and in his early youth he acquired 
the self reliance and energy which have 
formed his character. When he was 18 years 
old he enlisted at Menomonee Aug. 19, 1862, 
in Company A, 28th Wisconsin Infantry. He 
was mustered at Milwaukee, his regiment go- 
ing thence to Columbus, Ky., exjiecting imme- 
diate service for whicli they were forwarded 
without delay to Union City but returned with- 
out seeing Forrest, who was never found where 
he was expected. Their next principal move- 
ment was to Helena, Ark., thence to the White 
River, Duvall's Bluff, Helena, Yazoo Pass and 
Helena, where Mr. Howard was in an ex- 
traordiiiary conflict. The repulse at Helena 
was a victory over which commanders 
wrangled, but the volunteer soldiers of the 
Union proved of what stuff they were made 
by whipping decisively a force at least three 
times as great and forcing the enemy to leave 
their dead and wounded on the field; the Union 
soldiers burying the former and giving the 
latter all jwssible attention. Mr. Howard was 
witii his regiment at Little Rock, went to 
Duvall's Blufi', chased Marmaduke to the 
Washita River, and joined Colonel Clayton's 
command at Pine Bluff and went into winter 
quarters. He went under the Lieutenant- 
Colonel to the Saline River expedition which 
sustained an attack from 1,500 rebels at Mount 



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Elba. He was in a second expedition to the 
same point and returned to Pine Bluff to re- 
main until the last day of November, 1864, 
when he went witli the regiment to Little ! 
Rock. He went again to Mount Elba, returned 
to Little Rock and went to New Orleans to 
connect with the movements against the de- I 
fences of Mobile. He was in the terrible 
march to Fish River and went to duty in the 
trenches at S})anish Fort, being constantly ex- 
posed to rebel shot and shell until the surren- 
der on the night of April Sth, after wbieh the 
command moved on the double quick to 
Blakely to find it already occupied by the 
Federal troops. Thence, the 28th went up 
into Alabama where Dick Taylor with his 
gunboats was building breastworks, and after 
the surrender, the regiment went with the gun- 
boats, back to Mobile. On the last day of May 
they went to join the troops in Texas, landed 
at Brazos Santiago, went to Clarksville and 
Brownsville on the Rio Grande and were mus- 
tered out Aug. "23, 1865. Mr. Howard was 
sometimes quite sick but he never lost a day of 
service nor went to hospital. He was de- 
tached and placed on the Pioneer Corps, per- 
forming excessively hard dut}- in prei)aring 
the way for the march to and in front of the 
intrenchments at Spanish Fort, which were of 
peculiarly aggravating character, trees having 
been felleil and interwoven, forming an almost 
impassable barrier. 

After leaving tlie army Mr. Howard re- 
turned to Menomonee, where he engaged in 
farming until about 1870, when he went to 
Clay Center, Clay Co., Kansas, and engaged in 
farming there until about 1873. He went 
thence to Milwaukee and o]>erated in the in- 
terests of Sanger, Rockwell it Co. some years. 
He returned to Menomonee where he resumed 
operations as a quarryman in which enterprise 
he found abundant success and which he con- 



ducted until April, 1889, when he removed to 
Waukesha. 

In the spring of 1890 he located at White 
Creek, where lie is occupied as a merchant and 
hotel keeper. He has one of the best of 
records as a soldier and citizen. 

He was married at Menomonee, March 1, 
1866, to Eliza, daughter of George and Nancy 
(Pickle) Church, a native of Huron, Wayne 
Co., New York. Her mother was born in the 
the Mohawk valley and lier father in Vermont. 
Both belonged to old families of Eastern stock, 
the one being of Scotch-Irish descent and the 
other of Holland Dutch extraction. The 
record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Howard 
is as follows: Rachel E. died in infancy ; 
Emma married George Nefl"; Alfred and 
Stephen H. are students ; Esther is the 
youngest flower of the household. Mr. 
Howard is Adjutant of his Post. (1890). He 
is an active worker in his society relations, 
which include a membership of 25 years in the 
Order of Good Templars. He has acted six 
times as Delegate to the Grand Lodge, has been 
several times Di.strict Delegate and also Na- 
tional Delegate. He and his wife belong to 
the M. E. Church at Waukesha. 

'^^"AMES FORNCROOK, Watertown, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
born in Herkimer Co., New York, Aug. 
11, 1839. His father, William L. Forncrook, 
was a mechanic and his sou inherited his tastes 
in that respect. The senior Forncrook married 
Sallie Waterman and resided in the Empire 
State until 1856, when he removed to Wiscon- 
sin and changed his calling to that of a farmer. 
Mr. Forncrook of this sketch became a compe- 
tent machinist and carpenter, in which two- 
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In 1863, he was drafted and, dreading to take 
a part in the struggle under compulsion, he 
paid the commutation, fee of three hundred 
dollars. Not finding the contemplation of his 
seeming sliirking of duty to his country agree- 
able, he determined to enlist, although he had 
furnished a better man in his place. .Jan. 4, 
1SG4, with a brother and three brothers-in-law, 
he enrolled as a soldier in Company D, 35th 
Wisconsin Infantry, as a recruit. They joined 
their regiment at Milwaukee and went to St. 
Louis and thence to New Orleans by transport, 
and went into camp at Fort Hudson. After 
six weeks they went to Morganzia Bend, where 
they awaited orders. The regiment was suf- 
fering greatly from disease induced by the con- 
dition of the country through wliich they had 
passed and their hardships. They went thence 
on the White River e.xpedition and performed 
military duty at St. Charles, returning to Mor- 
ganzia Bend. Later, they went up the river to 
Duvall's Bluff, remaining there in winter quar- 
ters. During this time, Mr. Fornerook went 
on an expedition to Brownsville, near Little 
Rock, where he performed duty a month, 
returning to Duvall's Bluff. Their next move 
was to take part in the attack on the defenses 
of Mobile and participated in the work of 
building a road to make their way there possi- 
ble. He was on duty in the trenches 13 days 
through tiie siege and capture of Spanish Fort 
and marched on the run to aid at Blakely, which 
capitulated about the time of their arrival. 
They went thence again to Spanish Fort and 
soon after to Mobile, and thence to Whistler's 
Station to assist in dispersing the rebels. A 
week later they went up the Tombigby River 
to Mannahubba Bluff, where they learned of 
the capture of the chief of the confederacy. 
Their next move was to Mcintosh's Bluff' where 
they proceeded to build a fort, and when Dick 
Taylor surrendered and the fleet of guuboats 



came into the possession of the Union soldiers, 
they returned on them to Mobile where they 
spent some time. In June, 1865, they went to 
Te.xas, landing at Brazos de Santiago. Tliey 
went next to Clarksville at the moutii of the 
Rio Grande, and celebrated the National holi- 
day on the extreme southern limit of the 
United States. They went thence to Browns- 
ville, there passed the fall and winter, and Mr. 
Fornerook was in a detail on duty on a trans- 
port. March 15, 1866, he was mustered out 
and returned to Madison for final discharge. 
His brother, William H. Fornerook, served in 
the same command. 

After his return he resumed his business and 
is senior member of the firm of Fornerook & 
Co., a house which is engaged in manufactur- 
ing. His marriage to Frank M. Baker of 
Pipersville, Wis., took place Nov. 4, 1860. Mr. 
Fornerook has been an out-and-out Republican 
since the day he cast his first vote for Lincoln. 
He contracted a species of scurvy in the army 
which still troubles him and also disease of the 
kidneys. 

/f^^ FORGE BUB, Watertown, Wis., mem- 
1 / j|V ber of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was born 

^<^>^ in Alsace, France, April 14, 1840. 
His parents, Jacob and Madeline, (Folger) Bub, 
were both French in descent and emigrated to 
America in 1854, when their son was 14 years 
old. They settled iu Watertown soon after 
reaching this country, where they lived, and 
their son was there brought up a farmer, in 
which calling he was occupied until he entered 
the army. He enlisted Jan. 2, 1862, in Com- 
pany K, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry, and, after drill- 
ing and performing preliminary military duty 
at Janesville, in rendezvous, he accompanied 
the regiment to St. Louis, March 26th, and 
thence to Leavenworth, where cavalry equip- 



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ments were received and the cumiiaiiies dis- 
tributed ill three battalions, Company K being 
assigned to the Third. Witli otliers it remained 
at Leavenworth, wlierc some nioiiths were 
passed in scouting and fighting tlie guerrillas 
of Quantrell. In Sei)teiiiber he went to Fort 
Scott to connect with the Army of the Frontier. 
He was tliere occupied in the same service and 
*was in the fight at Cane Hill or Prairie Grove. 
In .September and October, lS6o, he was in the 
activities whicli took place, with \'an Buren, 
Ark., as headquarters, and which included two 
raids on Waldron, Mr. Bub assisting in driving ; 
and disj)ersing the rebel Indians, and they ( 
fought Colonel Brook and Colonel Alexander, 
capturing the latter, and in trying to capture 
some Indians, in fuil charge, the horse of Mr. 
Bub fell, and he received the injury which 
caused anchylosis of the ankle joint. The com- 
pany passed the winter at \'aii Buren, and in 
January Mr. Bub and the rest of the coinpany * 
re-enlisted. He had been promoted to Corporal, 
and after taking a 30-day fuilough, he rejoined 
liis regiment at St. Louis, where he was taken 
sick July Gth. The injuries to his left limb 
asserted themselves, and he was oliliged to 
take a rest from military duty of nearly a 
month at St. Louis, and he was left there 
by the regiment. He was not mustered 
under his re-enlistment and returned to Wis- 
consin. On his way he began to consider that 
he was a well man, save the injury to hi^ limb, 
which only troubled him at intervals, and on 
arrival at Chicago he determined to enter a 
service where he woulil be free from hardsiiips 
of march and field, and he enlisted in the naval 
service, enrolling on the boat Peri, a patrol on 
the Mississippi River between Natchez and the 
Red River. In this he remained until the 
end of the war, engaged in almost constant 
activity defending the boat from ambushed 
foes on the river bank and fighting guerrilla 



squads, who frequently api)eared and attacked 
them. He was discharged in June, 1865, at 
Mouud City, 111. 

After his return to Wisconsin, he engaged in 
the numufacture of wooden shoes, in which he 
continued 17 years, and since has been var- 
iously occupied. He was married in October, 
1865, to Rosalie Klinkcr, and they have nine 
children, named Eugene, George, Flora, Ed- 
mund, Richard, Alfonce, Alexander, Cornelia 
and Otto. Mr. Bub is a member of St. Henry's 
Benevolent Society. 






/^^ DWARD HUGHS JONES, Watertown, 
=^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 0. D. 



^■^ — -* Pease, was born Dec. '25, 1820, in 
Marcy, Oneida Co., New York. His father, 
Ebenezer Jones, was born in ^\'ak's and came 
to America prior to marriage with Martha 
Hughs. He was a farmer and reared his 
family on the farm. The mother was of mixed 
Welsii and English stock and descended from 
ancestors who were prominent in the Revolu- 
tionary war. Mr. Jones was inarrieil to Mary 
Bryant in Utica, New York, Dec, 2-1, 1842, and, 
six years later, they began life in the Badger 
State on a farm in the town of Bennett, in 
Dodge county. Mrs. Jones is a relative of the 
poet Bryant, and is lineally descended from 
Miles Standish. 

Oct. 10, 1864, Mr. Jones enlisted in Battery 
(J, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artilleiy, ami was imis- 
tere<i into service November 1st following. On 
the 12lh he left the State for duty at Fort Lyon, 
one of the defenses of Washington, and, after a 
few weeks, was transferred to Fort Ellsworth. 
He drilled as a liglit and heavy artilleiyman 
and also became familiar with light infantry 
tactics, adding to the tiiree-fold labors the duty 
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a restless spirit prevailed which led to adven- 
tures. Oil one occasion a foraging party dis- 
covered a wareliouse on the Potomac and they 
crawled under it from the river side. With an 
auger they investigated the floor and finally 
struck an object and continued to bore. Sud- 
denly a stream of molasses poured down, with 
which they filled their canteens and went away, 
leaving (lie molasses flowing. It was discovered^ 
and also in the empty barrel was found the ' 
body of a young negro girl, fearfully mutilated 
and gashed. Conjecture invented a theory of 
the deed being done where the molasses was 
made, but a sure result was that many appetites 
were spoiled permanently for molasses, among 
them being that of Mr. Jones. He saw tiie 
funeral of the girl, which was conducted l)y the 
colored people. 

Mr. Jones was on duty on the night of the ' 
assassination of the President and watched the 
signal lights on the hills on the Maryland side 
and on Arlington Heights, as well as the rock- 
ets that were fired from the Cajiital. The next 
daj', a merchant from Alexandria asked several 
members of a Pennsylvania regiment if they 
were not glad the President was killed. As 
answer they scattered his merchandise, dragged 
him from beneath a bed, where he sought 
secrecy, and delivered him to the j)roper 
authorities. A little before the fall of Rich- 
mond, the rebel pickets approached so near the 
pickets near the Blue Ri<lge mountains that 
the}' could talk, and some of the former came 
across and traded tobacco, sugar and coffee with 
the man who was stationed within one of Mr. 
Jones. Not long after, a rumor of the approach 
of Mosby became general and the command of 
Mr. Jones was ordered back to tiie fort. In the 
haste he fell, the sleety rain having rendered 
secure foothold impossible, and injured his 
right knee. He took his position at his gun, 
but could not carry amunition and was trans- 



ferred to serve the lanyard, which he did, while 
several rounds were fired in the direction of the 
supposed enemy. But the alarm was a false 
one, Mosb}' being nowhere in that vicinity. 
After the assassination of Lincoln, the injured 
knee of Mr. .lones became worse and he was 
ordered to the hospital. He went next to the 
general liospital at Alexandria and thence to 
Washington, where he was discharged in 1865. 
He was on crutches for many months and has 
a permanent lameness. Sept. 1, 1883, he quit 
farming and rented the place, not being capable 
of active labor from his injury. Since the in- 
auguration of President Harrison he has ap- 
plied for a pension. 

Mr. and Mrs. Jones have had seven children, 
four of whom are deceased. Their two sons 
and a daughter are married and settled in the 
West, leaving the parents alone. 



yry^J/TiLLXAM W. CRANDALL, Chip- 
pewa Falls, Wis., member of G. 
^3tL A. R. Post No. 68, was born in 
Marion, Wayne Co., New York, March 30, 1825. 
His father, John Plancock Crandall, was born 
May 20, 1781, in Berkshire Co., Mass., and liis 
wife, Elizabeth Calhoun before marriage, was 
born at New Salem, Mass., Sept. 3, 1794, of 
Scotch lineage. They died at Homer, Mich., 
respectively in 1853 and 1865. John Crandall, 
grandfather of William, was a soldier of the 
Revolution, and fougiit through the entire 
course of that war, being a j)ortion of the time 
attaclied to the personal service of General 
Washington ; he was born in Massachusetts of 
Welsh descent; William Crandall is one of 10 
children born to his parents as follows: — Oscar 
F., Hannah (deceased), Horace (deceased), 
Maria, Delora, William, Joseph, Mary, John S. 
and Amanda F. 



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The family removed to Homer, Mich., in 
1836, and the son remained nnder parental 
authority until he reached his majority and 
attended common school until he was about "20 
years old. He was then sent to the Academy 
at Albion and in 1847 went to Chicago, engag- 
ing as a bookkeeper for five years. Ho went 
thence to a situation as a salesman in McIIenry, 
111., and, five years later, he went thence to 
Chi])pewa Falls, locating on a farm and was 
occupied with agriculture until he entered the 
army. Dec. 22, 1863, he enlisted, was mus- 
tered Jan. 7, 1864, into Company A, 7th Wis- 
consin Infantry, and went from Camp Rtmdal! 
in February to join the regiment at Culpeper, 
making connection therewith on the 27th, 
becoming a member of the 1st Brigade, 4th 
Division and 5th Army Corps. May 3d, the 
command moved from Culpeper, crossed the 
Rapidan and, on the morning of May 5th, Mr. 
Crandall faced actual war for the first time at 
the Battle of the Wildernes.s, and witnessed 
and shared the horrors of a terrible conflict, in 
which his immediate command suffered fear- 
fully. He was in the continuous fight of the 
successive days, in which the ofticers obtained 
no chance to remove their swords or clothing 
(see sketch of Colonel W. W. Robinson), fought 
at Laurel Hill and at Spottsylvania on the 
12th, in the "Bloody Angle," and returned to 
Laurel Hill. May 13th, the command swung 
to the left and crossed the North Anna River, 
recrossed the second night afterwards, swing- 
ing about to the left to the Pamunky, fought 
at Cold Harbor June 3d, cros.sed after a few 
days and moved to the Chickahominy and 
camped for a time and crossed the James at 
Wilcox' Landing. Thej' took position in the 
trenches before Petersburg, June ISlb, and en- 
countered the terrific experiences of the siege 
until March 28, 1865, one of the most unap- 
proachable experiences in the whole history of 



the Nations of the earth. (See sketch of C. K. 
Pier.) Mr. Crandall went to the Weldon rail- 
road and was in the action at Yellow Tavern 
and fought three days, aiding in taking the 
rebel works. He wss in the subsequent move- 
ments on the Weldon railroail and in action at 
Hatcher's Run in February, 1S65. March 
■28th, the movement for the aggressive began 
and on the 31st the battle of Gravelly Run 
was fought. April 1st, Mr. Crandall was in 
the action at Five Forks, which was the last 
general engagement of his Corps. He was on 
detached duty at the time, but obtained a 
Spencer rifle and went into the hottest of the 
fight ; he with others rescued Albert Connor 
of Company A. (See sketch.) Pursuit of Lee 
followed, occasional skirmishing occurring un- 
til A]>pomattox was reached on the morning of 
April ittli and Lee surrendered about four 
o'clock in the afternoon. Afterwards the 
lirigade marched liack to Black and White's 
Station, camped, and guarded and repaired the 
Petersburg & Lynchburg railroad two weeks, 
went to Mechanicsville opposite Richmond, 
crossed the James River on pontoons, passed 
through the citj' and marched to Arlington 
Heights, camping there until June 15th. Mr. 
Crandall marched in the Grand Review and 
left on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad with the 
" Provisional Division" of General Morrow for 
Texas, but only went as far as Louisville, going 
into camp at Cold Springs near Jeilersonville, 
Ind. He was mustered out July 2d, and 
started for Wisconsin, taking final leave of 
military life when paid at Madison on the 13th. 
He was unable to labor until 1867 when he 
engaged in farming. In 1S71, ho was elected 
Register of Deeds for Chipj)ewa county and 
served two terms. In 1875, he entered the 
County Clerk's office as Deputy, and otticiated 
in that capacity seven years, when ho was ap- 
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caused by the death of the Cbunty Clerk and 
served a year. In January, 1883, he was a]> 
pointed Postmaster at Chippewa Falls by Presi- 
dent Arthur and he held the position four 
years and two months. In January, 1SS9, lie 
received the appointment of Deputy County 
Treasurer. 

April 26, 1852, he was married at Crystal 
Lake, 111., to Amy, daughter of John and 
Elizabeth Phillips, and their children are John 
C, Mary, Lillie, James \V., William Pitt, and 
Eugene Y. Mary and Pitt are deceased. 
Lillie is the wife of William Fowler. Mr. 
Crandall is a member of the Order of Odd 
Fellows, and is a Rejmblican. 



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/^^ EOPtGE J. TIIUM, Menomonie, Wis., 
w /,,^ j' ^ member of C4. A. R. Post No. 58. 
^>«s=^^ was born July 15, 1837, in Nickers- 
hausen, Germany, the son of George and 
Mary (Haffner) Tiium. Annie, Louisa and 
George were all the children, the latter being 
the oldest, and he remained in his native land 
until 16, subjected to the requirements of law 
which controls the training of every male 
child. In 1853 he came to the United States 
on a sailing vessel aud landed at the port of 
New York in March. He proceeded thence to 
Buffalo and, six months later, went to Dane 
Co., Wis., and engaged in farming. He went 
uext toCreston, Minn., and a year later to Jack- 
son Co., Wis., and there enlisted in the first 
year of the war. He enrolled as a soldier of 
the United Sttites Sept. 17, 18(;l, and was mus- 
tered in, October 14th following, in Company 
G, 10th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment 
left the State November 9th, and was assigned 
to the 1st Brigade, 3d Division and Corps of 
Thomas. The company of Mr. Thum was 
early in one of the most important services 



which the regiment accomplished — that of cut- 
ting railroad communications, preventing Beau- 
regard's receiving reinforcements. Mr. Thum 
was in all the miscellaneous service performed 
by his command previous to the battle of 
Perry ville, including the capture of Huntsville, 
the marching and other movements including 
guerrilla skirmi.shes, and, October 8th, he 
fought at Chaplin Hills, where his company 
lost 25 in killed and wounded. He was next 
in action at Stone River on the first day and 
afterwards went to Murfreesboro. He was in 
the subsequent movements until the battle of 
Chickamauga, September 19th and 20th, and, 
, after the opening of the fight, his company was 
detailed to guard provision trains. Tliis was 
all that saved him from the fate that overtook 
most of the regiment, which was captured on 
the 20th. The decimated command remained 
at Chattanooga, aud in the fight at Mission 
Ridge, supported Loomis' Battery, and in the 
^•eorganization in the spring went to Dalton, 
Ga., and, after performing railroad duty, went 
to fight at Resaca, Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain 
and in the battle of Peach Tree Creek in the 
Atlanta campaign. Mr. Thum was in the 
charge at Atlanta, July 22d, and was in the 
trenches until the surrender. The command 
went into the captured citj' and Mr. Thum re- 
mained there until mustered out Nov. 3, 1864. 
He had acted as Color Corporal about 18 
months in Georgia, and in front of Atlanta his 
company had only seven men fit for duty out 
of 104, which was the first enlistment, and re- 
cruits were received three times. He was not 
reported sick or wounded while in service. 

Mr. Thum returned to Melrose, Jackson 
county, and engaged three years in farming 
and lumbering, and in 1868 went to Lucas, 
Dunn county, to engage in farming on his own 
property. In 1883 he removed to Menomonie, 
having been elected Sheriff in the fall of 1882 



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on tlie Republican ticket. He served two 
j'ears and as Under Sheriff two subsequent 
years. In 1S8S he was again nominated by 
the Republicans and elected Sheriff, which po- 
sition he still holds. (1890.) He was married 
Sei)t. 14, 18G1, at Melro.se, Wis., to Marietta, 
daughter of Zelotes and Louisa Bliss. Edwin, 
Mary, William, Henry and George are the 
names of the children born to them. The 
daughter is the wife of Ole Wicken. The mother 
died May oO, 18S3, and Mr. Tiium was again 
married in 1884 to Clara, daughter of Samuel 
O. and Sarah (Chauncey) Hughes. Their only 
child is named Carl. Mr. Tlium is a member 
of the A. O. U. W. 

OHN T. TINKER, Eau Claire, Wis., 
member of Eagle Post No. 52, was born 
Sept. 12, 1833, at St. Stephen.s, N. H.,and 
is tlie son of Ferdinand and Hannah (Pineo) 
Tinker. His father was l)orn Feb. 28, 1801, 
in Ellsworth, Hancock Co., Maine, and his 
wife was a native of Machias, \\'asliington 
Co., Maine, born Nov. 7, LSOd The father 
was a lumberman by profession and lioth 
parents died in Calais, Maine. Their mar- 
riage occurred at Calais and they had 13 chil- 
children. Mr. Tinker of this sketch, passed 
his youth at home attending school and he 
learned the business of a millwright. In 1858 
he went West and made a permanent location 
at Eau Claire, where he engaged in lumbering 
the first year, afterwards following his trade 
and also operated in moving Iniildings. In 
18G1 he received the appointment of Postr 
master from President Lincoln and held the 
position until lie enlisted. He nitere.sted him- 
self in raising a company, and on organization 
was made 1st Lieutenant. He was sworn in 
Jan. 19, 1864, at Madison, in Company H, 



16th Wisconsin Infantry, and went with the 
recruits for the regiment to Camp Randall. 
Feb. 26, 18G4, he started for the front at 
Vicksburg and arrived there March 5th, and 
on the 22d was ordered to Black River in an- 
ticipation of a raid. May 4, 1864, the regi- 
ment started for Clifton, Tenn., and went 
thence to Huntsville, Decatur, Rome and Ack- 
worth, Oa., and on going to Kenesaw en- 
countered the rebels, where the tiring com- 
menced ; the command formed line of battle 
and a few days were spent in fortifying, dig- 
ging rifle pits, etc., and Mr. Tinker j)artici- 
pated in all the actions known under that 
name. He was taken sick and sent to hos- 
pital, joining the regiment two weeks later, 
August 11th, at the front and was with the 
command until some weeks later, unable to 
do duty on account of a sore leg. After the 
surrender of Atlanta he entered the city with 
his regiment September 2d, and soon after 
received a furlough to go home on account of 
the sickness of his wife. On the expiration of 
his 30-days' leave he reported at Madison for 
duty November 1st, and was assigned to ser- 
vice at Camp Randall. He was then put in 
charge of drafted men and substitutes to take 
them to the front to Sherman's command at 
Atlanta by way of Nashville and Chattanooga, 
joining the regiment at Mariett^i, Ga. Nov. 
17, 1864, the 17th Corps started for the .sea and 
Lieutenant Tinker obtained arms for his re- 
cruits. On the march he was detailed to com- 
mand the division of foragers and was in 
charge of that body on the entire march to 
Savannah. December 21st the command 
entered that city, Lieutenant Tinker having 
been detailed while on the siege to assist in the 
construction of a fort to command the city, and 
they mounted a 64-pounder, which performed 
effective service on the rebel batteries. Janu- 
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S. C, by boat, crossed tbe I'iver Coosa and bad , 
an engagement near Poeotaligo. After leaving 
tbat place skirmisliing followed in tbe swamps 
nearly all the time, and they threw up works 
near Columbia, S. C. Feb. 16, 1865, they ar- 
rived at Columbia and when they left that 
vicinity the town was burning. The march ! 
was continued tlirough ^\'insboro and near i 
thei'e a soldier from the oOth Illinois was found \ 
with his brains knocked out and on a paper 
pinned on his hand were the words, "death to 
all foragers." This was made known to Sher- 
man who ordered out some rebel prisoners, 
made them draw lots and decided in that way 
who should be shot. He then issued an order 
that for every forager killed 10 rebels should 
be shot. The 16th reached Bentonville after | 
the fight there, went thence to Fayetteville and t 
took possession of the town after a hard skir- 
mish. Tbe town with the arsenal was destroyed, 
and tbe march was resumed to Mill Creek. 
Thence the command went to Goldsboro where 
a review was had and the march Northward 
was resumed, the column going to Raleigh, 
arriving April l-lth. There the command 
was reviewed by Grant and Sherman after the 
surrender of Johnston, and, April 2ijlh, tbe 
17th Corps moved towards Richmond, racing 
with the two others. May lOtli Richmond 
was reached and thence another march to 
Washington was made. May 20th the regiment 
went into camp at Alexandria, where Lieuten- 
ant Tniker was detailed Judge Advocate of a 
Court Martial. He witnessed the Grand Re- 
view of tbe several corjis and afterwards was 
on Court Ahirtial duty until June ITtb, when 
the tribunal was dissolved by order of General 
Leggett. Mr. Tinker went home on leave of 
absence, arriving June 22d. He went thence 
to Madison and was on duty there at Camp 
Randall until mustered out Aug. 1, 1865. 

After the M'ar he engaged in operations as a 



millwright and bridge builder and in moving 
buildings, in which several avenues he has niet 
with success. He was mari'ied June 3, 1855, 
at Calais, Maine, to Sarah D., daughter of John 
Y. and Myra (^^ose) Jones, and following are 
the names of their children: Mary R., Lizzie 
T., Fannie and Freddie, (twins), William and 
Arthur. Mary is married to W. C. Merrill, 
of Albert Lea, Minn., and Elizabeth is the only 
other survivor. Mr. Tinker is a Republican 
in politics. 

^^ HARLES H. WULLENSAK, Water- 
town, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 94, was born Oct. 13, 1836, in Al- 
bany, New York. His ])arents, Charles and 
Frances (Schneider) Wollensak, were of un- 
mixed German ancestry and in 1848 removed 
from the State of New York to Wisconsui, 
locating on a farm near Watertown where their 
son assisted his father on the farm as long as 
bis legal obligations continued, after which he 
engaged in farming until be entered tbe army. 
March 23, 1865, he enlisted in Company F, 
51st Wisconsin Infantry, going into rendezvous 
at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, and was there 
engaged in drilling and performing military 
duty until he was taken sick. He was in tbe 
hospital under the surgeon's care when his 
company received orders to proceed to St. Louis 
to join the several comi^anies of the regiment 
which iiad already been sent forward and be 
remained in tbe bospital until somewiiat recov- 
ered, when be started for the front with Com- 
pany G. On reaching Chicago the surgeon in 
charge ordered him to return to Milwaukee 
where he was finally discharged May 12th. 
Andrew J. Wollensak, his brother, enlisted 
Aug. 12, 1862, in Company B, 2'.ltb Wisconsin 
Infantry, and was connected with the history 
of that regiment until he was sent to hospital 



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at Natchez, Miss., wliere he died of disease, 
Aug. 13, 1863, a year and a day after enlist- 
ment. 

On his return to Watertown, Mr. Wollensak 
again engaged in farming near tiiat phice, tliree 
miles distant from town on tiie acres on which 
lie had been a pioneer in his boyhood. He was 
married Jan. 1, l.S()3, to Louisa Mary Bushell 
and their children are named ^h^ry Frances, 
Ida Louisa, Laura Josephine, Stephen Charles, 
Andrew Jolin, Clara Theresa and Edward Wil- 
liam. Mr. Wollensak has been Junior Com- 
mander of his Post and is a member of the 
Order of St. Henry " Liebes-Freunds, " a benev- 
olent society. 

%/X^Y^ 1 LLI AM EHRMANN, Milwaukee, 
■^ ' Wis., member of Robert Miller 
Post, was born Nov. 12, 1841, in 
Muehlberg, Grand Duchy of Baden, CJermany, 
and is the son of Martin and Johannah (Puet) 
Elirniann, who removed with their faniilj' to 
America and landed in Milwaukee Aug. 20, 
1852. Wiien the .son was 14 he was aj)])ren- 
ticed to learn the business of a tailor, in which 
he was employed until he became a .soldier. 
During the early days of the struggle he deter- 
mined to enter the army and enlisted on the 
lOtli ainiiversary of his arrival in America — 
Aug. 20, 1862— in Company H, 26th Wisconsin 
Infantry. He was mustered as a private and 
was promoted through the grades to First Ser- 
geant for bravery. He went from rendez- 
vous with his regiment, and, after reaching 
Washington, went thence to Gainesville, and 
was at Falmouth on the Rappahannock when 
Burnside retreated from his attempt to take 
Fredericksburg. He was in his first battle at 
Ciiancellorsville and fought in the following 
activities, occurring while the Army of the 



Potomac was keeping pace with Lee during the 
hitter's invasion of the North. He fought at 
Gettysburg and was wounded in the leg in the 
first day's fight. He passed 24 days in the field 
lu)sj)ital and went thence to Llarristjurg, his 
quarters being in a school building a])]iroj)ri- 
ated to hospitiil j)urposes. He remained there 
eight months and joined his command at Chair 
tanooga, after it had been sent to the Depart- 
ment of the West. He was in the fight at Re- 
saca. May 14th, and afterwards fought at Burnt 
Hickory, Dalton, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta, 
Savannah, Averysboro and Bentonville. He 
made the Grand March with Sherman, encoun- 
tered all the hardships of the movement which 
severed the confederacy, and took ])art in the 
foot race which closed the activities en route to 
the Grand Review at Washington. He was 
mustered out with his regiment at Camp Wash- 
burn in Milwaukee, June 13, 1865. 

His marriage to Julia LoefHer occurred Nov. 
18, 1866, and their surviving children are 
named William, .John, Nhirtin, (Justave, Henry, 
Alfred and Mina. Three are deceased. He 
still suffers from his wound, which has pre- 
vented him following his business for some 
years. He is a member of the Order of Druids, 
also of the Sons of Hermann. 



^c:jryV^ ALTER Y. WENTWORTH, Ft. 

Atkinson, Wis., member of G. 

A. R. Post No. 159, was born 
March [), lS31, in Lebanon, New York. He is 
a representative of some of the oldest stock in 
the country, which traces its origin to 1006, 
and to the founding of the family in America 
in 163!», when Elder William Wentworth, one 
of the signers of the combination in Exeter, 
England, came to this country with his colony 
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opinion could be enjoyed. His descendants 
furnished statesmen and governors to several 
of the New England States and, when the 
genealogy of the family was prejmred in 1870, 
it sliowed more than 18,000 names of descend- 
ants from the founder. The parents, .John and 
Catherine (Ten Eyke) Wentworth were married 
in Canajoharie, New York, and afterwards 
settled on a farm in Lebanon, Madison county, 
where their son was born and where he was 
reared to the calling of his father until he was 
16 years old. June 1, 1S47, the family started 
for AVisconsin, traveling in jiioneer fashion and 
arriving in the vicinity of Ft. Atkinson on the 
10th day of the month. The father located on 
a farm in Koshkonong on which he passed the 
remainder of his life. The son operated as-a 
farmer until he entered the army, and he en- 
listed Sept. 15, 1864, in Company H, 1st Wis- 
consin Heavy Artillery. He received honor- 
able discharge July 13, 1865, under General 
Order No. 94. He went from the rendezvous 
at Madison to the defenses of Washington 
where he arrived October 6th. He was in 
different forts until the battery was stationed 
permanently in Fort Lyon where it remained 
throughout the war. Mr. Wentworth was 
made acquainted with several varieties of drill, 
including infantry with those of light and 
heavy artillery, to say nothing of the labor in- 
volved in the building of forts and practice 
with the heavy ordnance belonging to the bat- 
tery. The admirable condition of the battery 
was made matter of public comment. The 
colonel was in the habit of saying that he in- 
tended to compliment them on account of 
cleanliness and perfection of drill, and he did, 
by taking back the best regiment from the 
State. 

After his retui-n to Ft. Atkinson, Mr. Went- 
worth was variously engaged until he became 
conductor of a club house on Lake Kosh- 



konong, which is the property of a syndicate 
of owners. It is known as the Black Hawk 
Club and its membership includes wealthy 
business men from different States. Mr. Went- 
worth has occupied many jwsitions of trust, 
among which are Town Treasurer, Constable, 
City Marshal and, as he remarks, " he is six 
feet anil a half inch in height and a straight 
Republican from the ground up." He was 
married Oct. 31, 1857, to Mary Josephine Rock- 
well, and they have had five sons, three of 
whom are living — Frank A., Clarence W. and 
Albert Bening. 

Mr. Wentworth was appointed State Game 
Warden by Governor Rusk and reappointed by 
Governor Hoard. He belongs to the Masons 
and also to the A. 0. U. W. 



f^^ERNANDO C. KIZER, Whitewater, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
34, was born at Stroudsburg, Monroe 
Co., Pennsylvania, April 27, 1832, and is the 
son of Charles and Sarah Jane (Dress) Kizer. 
His parents were married in the Keystone 
State of which they were natives, in 1826, and 
the father was descended from stock that was 
represented by several members in the war of 
the Revolution. The paternal grandfather was 
about then 12 years old and Mr. Kizer remembers 
his accounts of hearing the cannon at German- 
town. The father was a carpenter and when 
the son was five years old removed to Wilkes- 
barre. The latter was sent to the common 
school and afterwards to Wyoming seminary, 
preparatory to a collegiate course which plan 
was brought to nought by the death of his 
mother. From his 17tli to his 20th year he 
was variously occupied and in 1852 he came 
West, remaining about 18 months, after which 
he returned to his native State and resumed 



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his studies: lie was afterwards engaged several 
terms in tuacliing in his native district, and in 
1855 he determined to Hx liis residence per- 
manently in the West and located at White- 
water, where he has since been prominently 
idenlitied with tlie best interest of the i)lace. 
He was a member of the Committee which 
formulated the charter under which the vil- 
lage was incorporated. On the breaking out 
of the war he signified to the governor his 
desire to aid as he best could in the suppres- 
sion of the rebellion and that official sent him 
a Lieutenant's commission and authority to 
act as a recruiting officer, which he did with 
such good effect that a company was soon 
raised and in readiness for orders. It was sent 
to Janesville to report to Col. Barstow and 
was assigned to the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry as 
Company D, Mr. Kizer going with it as First 
Lieutenant. Orders were received for St. Louis 
and on the way to Chicago tlie train was 
derailed, and 11 men of the command killed 
and 10 wounded. Mr. Kizer relates the diffi- 
culty experienced in freeing the injured from 
the wreck. From St. Louis they went to Fort 
Leavenworth where equipments were received 
and the companies assigned to their respective 
battalions, Company D being connected with 
the 3d under Captain Shaw and stationed at 
Atchison. Meanwhile, Mr. Kizer was detailed 
on a military commission on which he served 
until August and then rejoined his company. 
He was soon after ])laced in command of an 
ordnance train to Fort Leavenworth. He 
joined his battalion at Fort Scott and jtroceeded 
South with General IJlunt in the Army of the 
Frontier. He was again sent on a scouting ex- 
pedition to Arkansas, and in command of 100 
men had a sharp skirmish near Cane Hill, 
Nov. 26th. He was in tlie action at that place 
and fought the forces of Marmaduke. The bat- 
talion was at Prairie Grove, where Mr. Kizer 



commanded Company Eand a two-gun battery 
connecteil therewith. -Jan. "2, 1863, \'an Buren, 
Ark., was reached, prior to which the baV 
tallion was engaged in contesting territory with 
guerrillas and bushwhackers. A return was 
maile to Rheas' Mills, and in February an- 
other raid was made towards Huntsville. 
Arriving at a point 30 miles from Springfield, 
Mo., they received a remount and new e(juip- 
ments. Mr. Kizer received an appointment on 
the staff of the brigade commander and acted 
as such during the raiding and scouting which 
followed. From this time until they camped 
at Forsythe, Mo., they were continually en- 
gaged in scouting and raiding and made two 
midnight expeditions after guerrillas, capturing 
a considerable numljer, and Lieutenant Kizer 
was sent in charge of 150 rebels to Forsythe. His 
regiment went next to Springfield and Salem, 
Mo., and after three weeks he went to Rolla 
where he received a 20-day furlough. He 
rejoined his regiment at Fort Scott and was 
placed in charge of the Adjutant's office, 
remaining there four weeks and going thence 
in charge of a detail of 50 men to Humboldt, 
Kas. He was engaged in scouting until No- 
vember, when he was sent to take command of 
Company D, at Lumbard's Crossing, where 
they built a stockade fort and remained during 
the winter of IS63-4. He was there relieved of 
his command and detailed to take charge of 
a court martial which convened at Fort Scott 
and, on its dissolution, he rejoined his com- 
mand and was again engaged in scouting and 
raiding in the border counties of Missouri and 
occasionally escorting trains to Fort Gibson 
until September, 1864. August 31st he was 
commissioned Captain. At the date previously 
mentioned the force was ordered to join Gen- 
eral Curtiss, who was engaged in repulsing Price 
in his last attempt to regain Missouri and the 
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taiice of 400 miles. Al)out 58 of the com- ': 
pany's horses were lost in the struggle. They 
returned to Lumbard's Crossing on the Dry 
Wood, remaining there until Feb. 6, 1865, 
when Mr. Kizer received detached orders to 
proceed to Wisconsin with the non-veterans, j 
While absent on this duty the cessation of hos- 
tilities precluded the necessity of his return 
and lie was mustered out in the spring of 1865. 
He was married March 5, 1862, to Miss A. R. 
Caswell of Oswego county, New York, and 
their children are named Leora L., Fitz Henry 
and Fernando C. One child is deceased. . 

The character of Mr. Kizer can receive no 
embellishment from the hand of a historian. 
Recognizing his duty as a man under all cir- 
cumstances, he has striven to do it. He has 
secured the confidence of his generation, whom 
he has served faithfully in all matters entrusted 
to his care. He has .served in most of the 
municipal positions of Whitewater and in 1888 
his district gave him a majority far in advance 
of his ticket as Assemblyman. He is earnestly 
interested in the order of the Grand Army, 
has been Commander of his Post three terms, 
delegate to the State Encampment and was a 
member of the Militar}^ Court of the Legisla- 
ture to decide tlie appropriation for the Sol- 
diers' Home at Waupaca, which he considers 
one of the most honorable positions lie has 
held. He belongs to the Knights of Honor. 



H.*^^^*H<- 

IJSHA RICE REED, Madison, Wis., 
irr77r~>" member of G. A. R. Post No. 41, at 
Evansville, Wis., was born Dec. 5, 
18o5, in Geauga Co., Ohio. William Reade, 
his first ancestor in America, was born in 
Gravesend, Kent Co., England, in 1(;05, remov- 
ing to the New World and settling in Wey- 
mouth, Mas.s., in 1G35. He was a member of 



the "General Court" of the Bay State and his 
son and namesake changed the family name 
to Reed. The latter was also a member of the 
General Court twice and was a speculator in 
lands, marrying Esther Thompson, whose an- 
cestors came over in the Mayflower. The early 
stock was thoroughly Puritan. William (2d) 
was born Oct. 16, 1639, and died 1706 ; his son 
.John was born .July 10, 1687, and located in 
Abingdon, Mass., about 1708; and his son, 
Ezekiel, born in that place Nov. 14, 1721, was 
a soldier in the French and English war, 
fought at Quebec in 1759 and died in 1763 
after the close of the war while on shipboard, 
and was buried at sea on his way home. His 
son, Samuel, Ijorn Dec. 25, 1756, was bound to 
Deacon Whitmar.sh, a shoemaker; he was sent 
by the deacon as a substitute in the Revolu- 
tion and he served three years; he removed to 
Chesterfield, Mass., about 1778, where his son 
.Joseph was born, May 26, 1793 ; the latter was 
a fifer and drummer and was in the war of 
1812 ; in 1813 he married Wealthy Williams, 
born in A''ermont in 1795, settling in Orleans 
Co., New York ; about 1833 he moved to 
Geauga Co., Ohio, where his son, Mr. Reed of 
this sketch, was born. In 1845, he settled in 
Magnolia, Rock Co., Wisconsin. He was edu- 
cated at Evansville Seminary and enlisted 
April 21, 18G1, in the 2d Wisconsin Infantry, 
Company H. The regiment became a part of 
the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Reed was 
wounded in the first battle of Bull Run in the 
left shoulder and forced to leave the field. He 
reached Centerville where the ball, which had 
broken the point of the shoulder blade, was 
extracted. The next day, with Edwin L. Reed 
of the same company (no i-elation), he went to 
Fairfax C. H., where, exhausted, they went 
into a building with other wounded and were 
taken prisoners. They were taken to Rich- 
mond and placed in a large building erected 



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by the Catholics as an almshouse. Mr. Reed 
was soon well ami was detailed as nurse, being 
occupied in that capacity until sent to Libby 
prison, which was managed l)y Winder and 
Wirz, the latter of Andersonville notoriety. 
Nov. 25, 1801, 500 prisoners were sent to Tus- 
caloosa, Ala., the " Dutch Sergeant" Wirz, with 
150 men guarding the train. March 1, 18()2, 
they were jiaroled and started Northward. At 
Weldon, N. C, the guard was suddenly doubled 
and the cars were switched to Salisbury, where 
they were held three montlis longer, lOJ 
months altogether. A])out 1500 men were at 
Salisbury and about the last of May, 1862, all, 
except officers and sailors, were agfiin paroled, 
delivered to General Burnside at Newbern, 
N. C, and sent by sea to New York. Mr. Reed 
relates that these were the first victims of the 
war, and that there was comparatively little 
suffering, as they were well treated and com- 
fortably sheltered. He reached hi.s home in 
Wisconsin, .June 26th, to find that his friends 
believed him a dead man. His comrade, E. L. 
Reed, died in Richmond and was reported liy 
the rebel Secretary of War; the name was trans- 
mitted to Washington, and sent to Wisconsin. 
The change in an initial led the family to be- 
lieve that Elisha Reed was dead and they con- 
templated a funeral, when his father received a 
letter from liim and the funeral was indefin- 
itely postponed. But the news of his being 
alive did not spread as the news of his death, 
and he was received by many as one from the 
grave. 

After exchange he rejoined his regiment and 
in the first day's figlit at Gettysburg was hit 
five times. Two of the bullets entered cither 
thigh and he was assigned to tlie ^■eteran Re- 
serve Corps and placed on <luty in Washington, 
D. C. He was discharged at the expiration of 
liis three-years' enlistment and returned to 
Wisconsin to find his family removed to Ray 



Co., Missouri, whither he followed and resided 
at home until he returned to Washington to 
marry Isabella O., only daughter of E. F. 
Brown, U. S. Commissioner, Commissioner of 
the Court of Claims, etc., which event took 
place in 1866. They went to Kansas, return- 
ing to Washington in 1868 and in 1870 lociited 
at Madison, Wis. Three children of Mr. and 
Mrs. Reed are living — two sons and a daugh- 
ter; their oldest and youngest born children 
are deceased. 

The Reed blood seems to have had good 
fighting material in it; the father, grandfather 
and great grandftither were soldiers, and many 
of the family were in the civil war. Samuel A. 
Reed, a cousin in Company E, 5th Iowa Infan- 
try, was wounded in the head at Champion's 
Hill and thrown into a trench for burial, but 
the party detailed to cover the bodies with 
earth discovered signs of life, fished him out, 
returned him to be healed and to fight from 
the ranks to a captain's commission ; he after- 
ward practiced law until he became insane 
from the improper treatment of the wound in 
his head. 






^IIOMAS B. COCHRANE, of Eau 
Claire, Wis., member of Eagle Post 
No. 52, was born May 2, 1845, in tiie 
city of New York, and is the son of .lames and 
Prudence (.Jones) Cochrane. Mis father was 
born in 1810 in Glasgow, Scotland, and died 
Dec. 23, 1879, at New York. The mother was 
liorn at Tarrytown, N. Y., in 1815, and was a 
descendant of .Jolm Paul .Jones; she died in 
New York in 1850. The senior Cochrane came 
to America in 1812 and became a sailor, being 
a de.scendant of the celebrated Admiral Dun- 
donald of the British navy, and later lie was in 
the Mexican war in the naval service, acting as 
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souri and Minnesota. He was captured during 
tlie war with Mexico and held some time. His 
son has liis testimonials from Commodores 
Perry, Sands and N'anderbilt and others. Mary, 
James, Agnes, Thomas and Jones are tlie names 
of the famil}' of children, and all are living. 

Mr. Cochrane passed his youth in school and 
was engaged in securing his education when 
the war came on. He enlisted from his books 
April 19, 18GI, in Company F, 9th New York 
Infantry, Colonel Hawkins' Zouaves, and was 
mustered May 4th. The command went to 
Newport News, and, after three months, joined 
the other companies of the regiment which had 
preceded them to Cape Hatteras, N. C. They 
remained there until the Burnside expedition, 
which they joined, and Mr. Cochrane was in his 
first fight at Roanoke, Feb. 7-8, 1802. The 
fighting of the rebels in defense of their works 
was of a character which commanded the ad- 
miration even of Union foes and the battle was 
a hard one, the fortifications being taken at the 
bayonet's point. (While at Newport News, the 
command was in the action at Big Bethel, June 
10, 1861.) While at Roanoke, the regiment 
was in several expeditious and saw some severe 
service, among which was the fight at Camden, 
where the loss was heavy. At Winston they 
destroyed the town and also saw hard fighting 
at Plymouth. On being ordered to Washing- 
ton to join the Army of the Potomac, the com- 
mand was assigned to the !)th Corps and went 
to the activities in Maryland, fighting at South 
Mountain and Antietam in the 1st Brigade, 3d 
Division of Burnside's Corps, being in the 
charge on the stone bridge known to history as 
Burnside's Bridge. The lo.ss in the regiment 
was heavy at the bridge, but after crossing and 
charging up the hill toward Sharpsburg, it was 
fearful. Tlie next engagement was at Fred- 
ericksburg and the command passed the winter 
near the Rappahannock performing mixed mili- 



tary duty. In the spring the regiment fought 
in tlie ))attle of Suffolk and started for home 
immediately afterwards, their time having pre- 
viously expired. The well known epi.sode of 
losing their arms because they demurred at 
serving beyond their enlisted period, was 
shared by Mr. Cociirane, but tlie action which 
sent them to New York apparently in disgrace 
was properly understood and appreciated by 
citizens and soldiers and di-splayed the martinet 
spirit which was making itself felt in the army 
in its true light. When they steamed to the 
wharf the 16th New York Infantry had stacked 
their arms for them and a triumphal proces- 
sion followed through the streets of the city 
with drums beating, banners flying and loud 
cheering over the brave command. Mr. 
Cochrane reached liome May 8, 1863, and in 
December he re-enlisted at New York in Com- 
pany C, 25tli New York Cavalry, and went to 
rendezvous at Saratoga Springs. About the 
middle of January, 1864, the regiment went to 
Washington, and a montli later moved to 
White House Landing and performed patrol 
duty, being yet unmounted. The regiment 
was placed in command of the medical supplies 
when the change of base was made. June 20th 
Wade Hampton's cavalry began a series of 
attacks near White House Landing, lasted four 
days, and on two of these the command was in 
action, being relieved by the arrival of Sheridan. 
(See Statistical History, page 105.) After Sheri- 
dan's arrival tlie regiment went with him on 
foot to fight at Charles City C. H., on the 24th 
and was ordered thence to Fort Stevens to fight 
Early July 9th, after the Washington raid. 
When relieved by the 6th Corps they returned 
to their camp, received tligir mount and joined 
Sheridan in the capacity of equipped cavalry. 
They went to Harper's Ferry and were 
assigned to Custer's Brigade, participating in 
the fight at Halltown, Va., August 26th, at 



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Smithfield (Sumiiiit Point) on the 29th and 
went to the Slienandoah to fight at Win- 
chester, September iritii, at Ash by 's Gap on 
tlie 22d, in tlie Luray Valley on the 24th (with 
Mosby's guerrillas), at Port Republic on the 
27th, at Waynesboro on the 28th and at Wood- 
stock, October 9th. December 12th tlie regiment 
was in a scrimmage at Newton and went to 
winter (juarters at Cedar Creek, skirmishing 
much of the time while there. About the 
last of F'ebruary Sheridan commenced the 
work against Early and after putting an end 
to Early's depredations in the Shenandoah 
valley, the regiment started to join the com- 
mand of Grant. Arriving at Newmarket 
the command was detailed to guard a lot of 
prisoners and escorted tlie band back to turn 
them over to the " regulars." . They went 
thence to Newton and were discharged .lune 
4, 1865, and mustered out at Hart's Island in 
New York Harbor. During the campaign of 
1865 Mr. Cochrane was made Quartermaster's 
Sergeant and was acting Quartermaster. 

After the war lie went West and located at 
Eau Claire, purchasing a farm and engaging 
in farming. In 1873 he'returned to his native 
State and engaged for 12 years in plumbing 
and gas fitting business, returning to Eau 
Claire in 18S5. lie commenced operations in 
fanning and also in mercantile transactions, 
relinquishing the latter in 1889. He is en- 
gaged in farming and in the imjirovement of 
stock, rearing .lersey and Ilolstein cattle. He 
was marrieil March 27tb, 1867, to Susan, 
daughter of Martin and Catherine (Hunt) 
Turner. Their children are Benton, Sarah H., 
Addie, Susan and Almeron. The father of Mrs. 
Cochrane was born iij Delaware Co., New York, 
June 19, 1818, and is now living ; the mother 
died Dec. 9, 1851, in New York. Grace A., 
Thomas P., Sarah L. and Prudence are the 
names of the children of Mr. and Mrs. 



' Cochrane. Mr. Cochrane is a member of the 
Masonic Order and a Rcjniblican in politics. 
He served as Commander of Post D. H. Kim- 
ball, No. 100, at New York City and has an 
elegant gold medal presented to him by the 
Post. It is inscribed on one side with the 9tli 
Corps Badge and on the reverse with the list of 
battles in which the Corps took part. A dia- 
mond pendant is attached to the badge. In 
1SS4 he was elected Presi<lont of the Hawkins' 
Zouaves Association and was at the head of 
that body at the funeral of General Grant, 
in .\ugust, 1885. 



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ETER PERRATLT, Menomonie, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was 
born April 22, 1840, in Becancour, 
Canada, and is the son of Moses and Alice 
(Derville) Perrault. His parents were born in 
the Dominion, where the father was in the 
lumber business, and he is still living in the 
same place, where his wife died before the son 
left home. This occurred when the latter was 
16 years old, and, in 1857, he went to. Menomo- 
nie and obtained employ as a lumberman. In 
1858 he went to Chippewa Falls, returning to 
Menomonie a year later and maintaineil his 
residence there until he entered the army. 
.July 14, 1862, heenli.sted and was mustered at 
Madison, August 14th, in Comjtany A, 5th 
A\'isconsin Infantry', leaving Madison soon after 
for the front and joining the regiment just 
after the battle of Antietam, in Marjdand. He 
was in the subsequent march to Fredericks- 
burg, skirmishing thither and accompanying 
the od Brigade, 1st Division and 6th Corps. 
He was in the skirmish line in the action 
there, and also supported a battery. The 
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days, went to winter quarters, went out in 
.Juimiiry to "stick in the mud" with Burnside, 
returned to camp at Stafford C. H., and went 
into the " Light Division " designed for sudden 
operations without " impedimenta." Mr. Per- 
ruult was in tlie cliarge at Marye's Heiglits, in 
which his regiment lost 185 men, and was 
wounded in the right arm and side hy a 
minie ball. He went to Ilarwood hospital at 
Washington and joined his regiment after the 
battle of Gettysburg, reaching his command in 
time to take part in the chase of July 5th. He 
went into camp at Warrenton and went next 
to New York to aid in enforcing the draft at 
several points in that State and was ordered 
back in time to take part in another Rappa- 
hannock campaign. November 2(3th he was 
in the tight at Mine Run and in the spring 
fought all through the Wilderness campaign, 
including Spottsylvania — two battles — Laurel 
Hill, Cold Harbor and North Anna River, 
during which time the fighting took place on 
each of seven successive days. After Cold 
Harbor the regiment went to the trenches at 
Petersburg and passed tlie time there chietiy 
until ordered to the Shenandoah valley, in 
Sheridan's command. The brigade was sta- 
tioned to protect the operations of the advance 
up the valley, and, Sept. 19, I8l)4, Mr. Perrault 
was in the fight at Winchester, where Sheri- 
dan "licked them out of their boots." The 
regiment re-joined the forces in the hell of the 
trenches in front of Petersljurg, went out in 
February to reconnoiter at Hatcher's Run, 
fought in the charge at Petersburg, April 2d, 
also at South Side railroad and at Little 
Sailor's Creek, April 7tli. This was another 
complete victory and was followed up by the 
chase to Appomattox. Soon after reaching* 
Sheridan's connnand, Mr. Perrault was as- 
signed to the Pioneer Corps in which he 
served until there was no longer need of such 



services. After Lee surrendered he went with 
his regiment to North Carolina to aid Sherman 
but on reaching Danville news of Johnston's 
surrender was received and a return to A\'ash- 

! ington was made, where the command took 
[lart in the Review, and returned to Madison 
to be discharged and to take final leave of mili- 

I tary service June 21, 18G5. 

I Returning to Menomonie, Mr. Perrault en- 
gaged with Knapp, Stout & Co., in charge of 
the filing department and was occupied in his 
vocation there until 1871, when he became by 
purchase the proprietor of the City Hotel, 
which be has conducted since that date, with 
the addition of an extensive livery business. 
He was married Dec. 25, 1867, to Agnes, 
daughter of Levi and Leora (Leich) Vance and 

j their children have been named Leora, Lena, 
Emma, Thomas, Helen, Jessie, Levi and Peter, 
and of these Leora, Lena and Emma are living. 

! Mr. Perrault is a member of the A. O. U. W. 
and is a Republican in politics. 



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EROME B. GALLAHER, Chippewa Falls, 
g]| Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, 
was born Aug. 23, 1833, in Litchfield, 
Connecticut. His father, John M. Gallaher, 
was born on the Island of Jamaica, where his 
father was a planter until the liberation of the 
blacks. The mother of Mr. (iallalier, Maria 
Keyes before marriage, was a native of Litch- 
field, Conn. She died in LitchfieM autl her 
husband afterwards removed his family to 
Litchfield, Ohio, where he engaged in the 
manufacture of cloth, and he went to Warsaw, 
Lid., where his demise occurred. Li the pa- 
ternal line, Mr. Gallaher is of mixed French 
and Scotch lineage. He is one of eight chil- 
dren, all of whom are living. They are named 



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Harriet, Eliza, Maria, John, La Franque, 
Jerome -and Mary and Martha — twins. When 
he was 19 years old Mr. (Jallalier undertook 
the solution of the problem of life for himself 
and went to Warsaw, Ind., and engaged in 
running an engine about three years. He 
went to Fort Wa^'ue in the same State, and 
there eonimenced to learn the business of a 
photographer, engaging in his apprentices! lip 
March 4, 1S57. After two years he moved to 
Auburn, Ind., and established the business in 
his own interests and managed a growing and 
prolital)le enterprise until he felt enlistment to 
be a duty he couM no longer defer and he en- 
rolled as a soldier at Warsaw in December, 
1803, went to rendezvous at Michigan City and 
in February was mustered into Company G, 
l'29th Indiana Infantry. When ordered to 
the front he jiassed a few days in camp at 
Louisville, Ky., and went thence to Chatta- 
nooga, to lind himself a member of the 2d Bri- 
gade, 2d Division and 2od Corps. Passing 
through Bridgeport, the regiment went to the 
field of Uesaca and tiiere Mr. Gallaher was 
made Corporal. (Here the color bearer was 
shot througli tlie chest, went home and in a 
year was back to his former position.) After 
Resaca the regiment followed after Johnston 
and was in the engagements at Kenesaw 
Mountain, fighting daily at .some new puint, 
was at Burnt Hickory, Buzzard's Roost, Big 
Shanty, and, July -Ith, was at Smyrna, or 
Nickajack Creek. He fought at Peach Tree 
Creek July 20tli and was in the figlit at At- 
lanta, after which he received a commission 
frum Governor Morton of Indiana, as 2d 
Lieutenant. (The opposing forces were under 
Hardee.) After the fall of Atlanta Mr. 
Gallalier was in the action at Lovejoy's, went 
back to Atlanta, and from there to Duck River, 
passing live days in skirmishing before the 
fight came on. He was next in action at 



Franklin fighting Hood, and went thence to 
Nashville, the weather being severely cold and 
the troops suflering greatly. Hooil was trying 
to cut ofi' communications and they received 
orders to cam]) at.Johnsonville and went thence 
soon after to Allatoona Pass but reached there 
too late for the battle. Going back to Frank- 
lin they went to Clifton and Fort Anderson 
where the rebels had placed torpedoes and 
after the skirmish there they went to Morehead 
City and thence to Kingston, where they had 
a tight with Johnston's troojys and would have 
been annihilated by a greatly superior force 
if Siierman had not arrived with relief. This 
was the last regular fight in the service of the 
regiment and they moved in all the activities 
of their column until they reached Goldsboro, 
Mr. Gallaher having been promoted to Ser- 
geant, and on arrival at Raleigh, N. C, he was 
made Regimental Quartermaster and was mus- 
tered out as such Aug. 25, ISOo, at Indian- 
apolis. 

He returned to Warsaw and went thence to 
Black River Falls, Wis., and ojjerated there 
nearly eight years as a photographer. He 
afterwards passed two years in the same busi- 
ness at Neillsville, and, in 1872, went to Chip- 
jiewa Falls, where he establi.slied himself per- 
manently in a prosperous and popular business. 
He was married Aug. 15, 1858, in De Kalb 
Co., Ind., to Margaret J., daughter of James L. 
and Eliza (Collins) Ferguson. They had two 
children — Mary M., (Mrs. Ickstead) ami Helen 
J., (Mrs. Gregg). Mr. Gallaher is a member of 
the Masonic Order and of the Odd Fellows, in 
which he luus taken all the degrees; he also 
belongs to the A. O. U. W. He is an inde- 
pendent Republican in politics, and receives a 
pension. 





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/^^ LIJAH SWIFT, Eau Claire, Wis., a 
^ prominent business man and a soldier 
in the volunteer service of the civil 
war, was born Nov. 19, 1831, at Falmouth, 
Mass. He is the representative of stock which 
is traceable in both lines to the earliest history 
of New England and whose generations have 
supplied to the country some of its best stock 
for the founding of a nation and for securing 
its perpetuity. 

William Swift, the founder of the family, 
was a native of Booking, Essex Co., England, 
and came to Massachusetts with the Boston 
Company, settling in Sandwich in 1631. He 
died in 1643, leaving several children, the old- 
est being William (2d) who was the father of a 
son named William (3d) born Aug. 28, 1654. 
His son William (4th) was born .January 24, 
1679, and his son William (5th) was born in 
1719. His son, William (6th) was born at Fal- 
mouth Feb. 17, 1747. He was great grand- 
father of Mr. Swift of this sketch and his son 
Elijah was born Aug. 16, 1774; the father, 
Oliver C. Swift, was born May 4, 1797, at Fal- 
mouth. Oliver C. Swift married Eliza (Robin- 
son) Jenkins, a descendant from John llobin- 
son, pastor of the church at Leyden, Holland, 
whose members reached America as " The Pil- 
grims " on the Maytiower, Dec. 20, 1620. Their 
surviving children are recorded as follows : 
Elizabeth, born in February, 1829, was married 
to George Marston, Attorney General of Massa- 
chusetts ; Adeline C, born in May, 1830, mar- 
ried C. E. Whitin (a cotton manufacturer) of 
Whitinsville, Mass. ; Mr. Swift is next in order 
of birth ; Oliver F. was born in April, 1840. 
The father was principally engaged in the 
business of a shipping merchant. He died 
Jan. 20, 1874 ; the mother died Oct. 18, 1880, 
at Falmouth, Mass. Mr. Swift was nurtured 
in a New England home of noble tyjie and he 
received the education and training common 



to people of the best class. After obtaining 
a thorough preliminary education, he matric- 
ulated at Harvard College and was graduated 
thence in 1852, after pursuing a full course of 
four years. He remained a resident graduate 
about a year and went thence to Boston for 
business training in a practical manner in a 
commission house, where he was occupied one 
year. According to the custom of those days 
he was sent abroad to complete his training by 
a voyage and visiting foreign countries; and 
on his return encountered shipwreck, arriving 
home after a drifting passage of 142 days, 
meanwhile supplied with the barest necessaries 
of life. He engaged soon after his return in 
the business of obtaining live-oak ship timber 
from South Carolina and Florida. In this he 
passed about four years, when the war swept 
away his accumulations and business. He was 
of true New England blood and the war bore 
to him an indisputable message. He listened 
to the voice from which no New England son 
of a New England sire ever flinched and en- 
listed at Falmouth, Mas.s., and, Aug. 13, 1862, 
was mustered at New Bedford, Mass., in Com- 
pany H, 38th Massachusetts Infantry. On 
organization he was made Sergeant and, after- 
wards, was created Quartermaster to rank as 
First Lieutenant. He went with his regiment 
in that capacity to Baltimore in the early part 
of September, the regiment being stationed 
near the city as guard for a bridge. With 
General Ingraham's brigade, the regiment went 
to Ship Island with the command of Banks, 
starting Oct. 27th, 1862. He acted as Quarter- 
master of the brigade and, on landing at Ship 
Island, was made (Quartermaster of the troops 
in process of transportation. After a few weeks 
he was constituted Quartermaster of the 3d 
Brigade, under General Emory, Division Com- 
mander. In February, 1863, he was made 
Quartermaster of the Plaquemine expedition, 



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and on the 1st of March after, was appointed 
Quartermaster of the 3d Division, llHli Ami}' 
Corps, to fill a vacancy, pending the arrival 
from Washington of the regular aj)- 
pointce. April 23, 1863, he \v;is appoint- 
ed on sj)ecial service under tlie Chief 
Engineer of the Department of the Gulf and 
engaged in opening a passage through the 
obstructions at Bayou Sorel, to form direct 
communication between the Mississijipi and 
Atchafalaya Rivers. This duty occupied about 
two montlis. He was then detailed to go from 
Spriugtield Landing to tlie rear of Purl Ikul- 
son to direct the construction of sand batteries, 
in aid of tiie operations of General Banks in 
the siege of tliat place. Here he was wounded 
and taken prisoner. He was conveyed to 
Liberty, Miss., and a month after was released 
or re-captured by a raiding party, wiio con- 
ducted him to Natchez. He was sent to hos- 
pital to recover and was assigned to duty, as 
soon as able, as Assistant Quartermaster under 
Chief Quartermaster, Colonel Chandler, of the 
troops in tlie Held of the Gulf Dej)artinent. 
Tliis appointment was dated (,)ct. 11, 18G3. 
He passed the winter in the field in Western 
Louisiana and on the 11th of April, 1864, was 
instructed to collect from Prophet's Island and 
organize a body of negroes into a colony and 
establish them at Cat Island, Mississippi Sound, 
and there to build a saw-mill and set tilings 
in ojieration for the manufacture of lumijer for 
the proposed use of General Banks in Texas. 

After his work was linislied in August, he 
found his Corps was reniuvcd to \'irginia and 
he sent numerous j)etitions lo be relieved and 
allowed to join his regiment. His request 
having been at last granted, he sailed for the 
North and reported to his Colonel at Berryville, 
Va., Sept. 7th, 1864. On the next day, he was 
detailed as Stafl' Quartermaster at head- 
quarters of the 19th Army Corps. In that 



capacity he passed through the Shenandoah 
campaign with Sheridan and in the spring of 
1865 he was assigned to duty, after the reor- 
ganization of tlie corps, at the headquarters of 
Brevet Major-General Birge, 1st Division, ISth 
Army Corps, at CJoldsboro, N. C, and was there 
placed in charge of property abandoned by 
Sherman's troops as they passed through that 
State. Soon after he accompanied (ieneral 
Birge to Savannab, and. May 8th, was 
placed by General Grover in ciiarge of 
the Civil Fund of the "District of the 
Savannah." Afterward he was occupied as 
Recorder of a Military Commission to take the 
complaints of citizens. After the war he re- 
turned to Boston and was mustered out June 
30, 1865. He passed a year in assisting bis 
father to close his business and subsequently 
went to Wisconsin, locating at Oshkosh, where 
he commenced operations in j)ine lands, logs 
and lumljer. In 1870 he went to Eau Claire 
and has since been engaged in similar occupa- 
tions making himself known as a business 
factor of that section of the Badger State. 

He was married Sept. 28tli, J86'J, to Myi-a J. 
Bliss (nee Evans) of Willouglihy, Ohio, and 
who died at Palatka, Florida, in February, 
ISSl. To them three children were born : 
Eliza Robinson, July 10, 1870; Oliver F., Nov. 
21, 1874, (died in May, 1882); Elijah Kent, 
Dec. 10, 1878. 

September 11, ISSO, Mr. Swift was married 
to Fannie A., daughter of Francis and Cor- 
nelia M. (Graves) Wetherbee, of New England 
lineage. Mr. Swift is a Republican in political 
affiliation. 

His portrait on j)age 2'JO is that of a stauncli 
patriot, an honored citizen and a man who has 
been identified with the development of Wis- 
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/^^ EORGE H. CHASE, Milwaukee, Wis., 
p member of the business firm of E. 
Chase & Sons, a prominent citizen of 
tlie C'ream City and a member of G. A. R. Post 
E. B. Wolcott, was born July 27, 18,38, in the 
town of Lake, Milwaukee Co., Wis., and has 
been most of liis life a resident of the Badger 
State iuul a true son of the comraonwealtli. He 
traces his forbears to the earliest history of the 
country, his ancestor, Aquilla Chase, reaching 
America from Cornwall, England, about the 
year 1680 and settling on the " Hampshire 
Grants," and from him and two brothers, who 
accompanied him, the dynasty of the Chase 
family, in all its diffusion, is descended. Its 
generations comprise representatives of many 
vocations and individuals who have made the 
name distinguished through learning, political 
position and religious connection. The noted 
bishop, Philander Chase, belongs to the strain 
from wiiich Mr. Chase of this sketch comes in 
direct lineage, and also Salmon P. Chase of 
Ohio, Governor of that State, and afterwards 
Chief .Justice of tiie United States. 

Mr. Cliase is tlie son of Dr. Enoch Chase and 
Nancy M. (Bromley) Chase. The former is a 
native of Derb}% Vermont, and the latter of 
Platt.sburg, New York. Slie is still living and 
is the daughter of a Major in the war of 1812 
and a granddaughter of an officer in the Revo- 
lution. Her family was prominent in the set- 
tlement of tiie country, and in the several gen- 
erations since has supplied many men prom- 
inent in intellectual and professional circles. 
Dr. Chase received a New England education 
and completed his medical studies at Dart- 
mouth College, whence he was graduated in 
•June, 1831, and he afterwards attended med- 
ical lectures at Bowdoin College in Maine. His 
finances were at low ebb, as was the case with 
most farmers' sons of New England, and he 
eked out expenses by teaching and practicing 



the most rigid economy, all of which had the 
usual results — to mould his character firmly 
and make of him the very best material for 
citizenship in tlie Republic. He is a pioneer 
in two States — Michigan and Wisconsin. After 
graduating, he started for Chicago, but his 
money proved insufficient and he stopped in 
Coldwater, Mich., (which was then about a year 
old) and he practiced medicine there in the 
pioneer community until 183.5. Soon after 
reaching Coldwater he was commissioned 
"Adgutant of Militia" by Michigan's boy Gov- 
ernor, Stephen T. Mason, then 20 years of age. 
Dr. Chase started for Milwaukee in 183.5 by 
team and traversed a portion of the country 
covered with primeval forests, being obliged to 
cut a road for the passage of his team, which 
was the first to reach the Kinnikinnic River, 
and slept on the ground the night after his ar- 
rival, passing the second night in a store build- 
ing. He built a shanty and returned to Cold- 
water for his wife, who died Jan. 5, 1837, leav- 
ing a daughter, who now lives in Vermont — 
Mrs. Julia Brown. Dr. Chase was married Sept. 
24, 1837, to Nanc}' M. Bromley, and they be- 
came the parents of 10 children, five of whom 
are living. Mr. Chase of this sketch is the oldest 
son; Lucien enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Com- 
panj' B, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, and lost his 
life by disease incurred in the service ; Hannah 
married Samuel Burrell of St. Louis ; Anna is 
the wife of George O. Sweet of Chicago ; Clarence 
and Clifford are members of tiie firm of E. 
Chase & Sons. 

Mr. Chase of this sketch was his father's as- 
sistant on the farm, which was obtained from 
the Government and which is still in possession 
of the family and is the homestead. In 1860 
he caught the gold fever and went to Colorado 
and was located at Central City engaged in 
mining until the excitement in 1861, attendant 
upon the movement ot Colonel H. H. Sibley, 



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renegade West Pointer, who headed 2,300 
Texas Rangers in the invasion of New Mexico. 
The military organization wliich afterwards be- 
came tlie 1st Colorado Cavahy deserves a 
special account as matter of liistory, as it was 
one of the bravest, most efficient and disin- 
terested commands in the United States service. 
Mr. Chase enlisted Sept. 4, 18G1, in Company 
II, of that command, and went immediately 
into .service, although the regiment was not 
mustered into the L'nited States service. 
The command proceeded to the seat of war 
in New Mexico, and Mr. Chase was in 
the several actions which terminated the inva- 
sion \vhicli had for its ultimatum the transfer 
of United States autiiority to tlie confederate 
power and the invasion of Colorado. (See 
sketch of ,J. Mc. Bell.) Mr. Chase was in the 
several skirmishes and fought March 2Sth at 
Apache Canon ; he w;is in the skirmish at Fort 
Craig May 24th, fought at Glorietta, Sante Fc 
and Los Lunas — Kit Carson's old home — and 
at Canon Los Alamos. The regiment remained 
there, performing distinguished service and 
aiding so conspicuously in quelling the inva- 
sion of Sibley that the command obtained 
recognition and was mustered into the United 
States service as regular cavalry. Mr. Chase 
was commissioned Lieutenant after the return 
of the command to Colorado, and the first serv- 
ice performed by Mr. Chase under his commis- 
sion was to accompany seven Ute chiefs as far 
as St. Joe on their way to Washington for con- 
ference with the U. S. authorities, among wlion) 
was Ouray, the friend of the Government and 
the especial friend of Mr. Chase. During his 
service in Colorado, he was twice instrumental 
in saving the chief's life and always received 
from liim demonstrations of gratitude. Mr. 
Chase was on duty at St. Joe, Mo., during the 
three-months stay of the Indians in Washing- 
ton and served in guerrilla warfare in Missouri, 



returning from St. Joe in escort of his charges 
back to Colorado. About that time the Indians 
of tlie Plains became troublesome and the 1st 
Colorado Cavalrj' was actively engaged in 
quelling their frequent outbreaks. He was 
occupied in this specie of border warfare until 
the close of the war, and has the satisfaction of 
knowing that his command made many good 
(dead) Indians. He was mustered out Nov. 3, 
1865, as Second Lieutenant of Company H. 

Soon after he returned to Milwaukee, going 
a little later to Minnesota where he engaged in 
farming from 1807 until 1870. He went 
next to Colorado and was interested in min- 
ing at Georgetown until 1873. In that year he 
again returned to Milwaukee and was occujned 
three years in laying asphaltum pavements. 
In 1876 the present firm of E. Chase & Sous 
was formed, the business being founded by Mr. 
Chase and his father, the other brothers being 
admitted as they attained their majority. The 
office of the firm is located on Lincoln Avenue, 
just outside the city limits in the town of Lake, 
a suburb of Milwaukee. They are engaged in 
an extensive business. 

Mr. Chase was married in 1867 to Helen A. 
Smith, a native of Fond du Lac, Wis., and who 
died at Money Creek, Minn., Jan. 7, 1869, leav- 
ing a son named Lucicn D., born Nov. 1, 1808; 
he is an emploj'e of the corporation known as 
the "^hllleal)le Iron Works" of Milwaukee. 
In 1872, Mr. Chase was again married in Money 
Creek to Anna Rebecca, daughter of Hiram 
and Salome (Burkstresser) Keeler; they have 
four children named Enoch, Mary, Horace and 
Helen. 

Mr. Chase is a popular man in his genera- 
tion ; his lively temjierament and jirominent 
characteristics as a gentleman of liirth and 
breeding make him a valued friend and com- 
panion. He is a Democrat and lias been some- 
wliat prominent in politics. In 1886 he was 



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elected to the Assembly of Wisconsin and 
served one term. In 1888 lie was a nearly 
successful candidate for the senate of Wiscon- 
sin. He is a member of the Masonic Order 
and belongs to the Blue I^odge, Chapter and 
Council. He is an active working member of 
the Order of the Grand Army and is Aide 
(1890) on the staff of General Alger, National 
Commander. He is a member of the Loyal 
Legion and is Past Commamler of Post E. B. 
Wolcott. He belongs to Juneau C^lub and 
other political and social organizations in Mil- 
waukee. 

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A. RICKEMANN, Racine, Wis., 
^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
born in Baden, Germany, Aug. 17, 
1840, and is the son of George A. and Cathe- 
rine (Renner) Rickemann. He is one of nine 
children of whom Eleanor, Henry, Nicholas 
and Margaret came to America. The father 
was a farmer and was drowned in the river 
Rhine while his son was in early youtli. The 
latter was a pupil in the public schools of his 
native country and emigrated to America in 
1853. He located in .Jefferson county, Wis., 
where the motlier died in 1877. The son went 
to school in .Jefferson count}' until 1854, when 
he went to Racine to learn the trade of cabinet 
making. He served his full time and went to 
Pike's Peak in 1859. He remained in the 
mines a short time and returned to Monroe, 
Wis., where he engaged in cabinet making un- 
til the date of the war, when he went to Shulls- 
Ijurgh and enrolled, being one of the first to 
rush to arms when the flag went down at 
Sumter. He enlisted April 19, 1861, in Com- 
pany I, 3d Wisconsin Infantry and was in ren- 
dez.vous at Camp Hamilton, Fond du Lac, until 
July I'Jtii, when he started for the scenes of 
activity at the front. At the date of the first 



Bull Run, the regiment had not been equipped 
and they went to Maryland, receiving their 
" sinews of war " at Harper's Ferry, after which 
they went to settle legislative difficulties at 
Frederick City and helped Maryland to remain 
in the Union, much to her disgust. In the re- 
pulse of the rebels, who attacked a foraging 
party from the regiment, many of the com- 
pany wei-e injured. In the spring, the com- 
mand went up the Shenandoah valley and took 
part in the retreat after Winchester. The regi- 
ment suffered some lo.ss and after the removal 
to Williamsport, Little Washington and Cul- 
peper C. H., Mr. Rickemann fought in the hot 
action at Cedar Mountain. The regiment was 
cut off the main army during the Manassas 
movement of McClellan and joined it during 
the second fight at Bull Run. At Antietam, 
September 17th, Mr. Rickemann sustained in- 
jury from a bullet wound in his thigh and he 
I was at the hospital at Chester, Pa., two months 
\ and recovered in time to fight at the disastrous 
battle of Chancellorsville. He was in the hot 
fight at Beverly Ford where the rebels met dis- 
aster of serious kind. He was in the move- 
ments of the regiment until Gettysburg was 
reached and helped obtain possession of Gulp's 
Hill. When the command was ordered to 
assist at Little Round Top, the rebels took pos- 
session of the position where they were found 
when the 3d Wisconsin returned at nightfall. 
Tlie regiment formed in front of a swale called 
Wolf's Hill, where ibey remained all niglit 
and were in the charge which restored Gulp's 
Hill to the Union troops. After the fighting 
of the third day, Mr. Rickemann was in the 
chase after the retreating rebels for nearly a 
week and afterwards went to hospital at Anna- 
polis, where he remained while the regiment 
was absent at New York to aid in quelling the 
draft riots. He rejoined his company at ^\'^ar- 
trace, Tenn., on Christmas day, 1863, after it 



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had been assigned to the Army of the Cumber- 
land and was ahnost immediately in the fight 
at Kesaca. lie fought in everj' engagement in 
which his reginiont participated until within 
18 miles of Atlanta. Among them were Cass- 
ville, Buzzard's Roost, and the several actions 
at Konesaw Mountain. At New Hope Church 
he was hit in the arm bj' a spent l)all. On 
starting out he was made a member of the 
color guard in which he served as long as he 
continued in the service. He was discharged 
at Mariettn, Ga., .July 1, 1804, his term having 
expired. 

He returned to Rome, Jefferson county, Wis., 
where he worked at his trade al)Out a year and 
removed to Racine and engaged in the busi- 
ness of a grocer in w^hich he has continued. 
He was elected Alderman for four years in 
1879, and then was candidate for Mayor. In 
the fall of 1888 he was elected County Treas- 
urer and is serving a two-years' term. He is a 
member of the Masons, Kniglits Templar and 
Royal Arcanum, lie was married May 4, 
1808, to Catherine, daughter of Philip Hick 
and their children are named Geo. W., Fred- 
erick, Amanda, Catherine, Minnie and Hugo. 



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EWIS CARPENTER, Whitewater, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, 
< was born .Inly 7, 1842, in Rice Co., 
Ind. His parents, . lames and Lueretia (Humes) 
Carpenter, were natives of tliat State as were 
their jiai'cnts and belonged to tiie agricultural 
class. They disposed of their jirojierty in the 
Iloosier State when their son was in childhood, 
and removed to a farm near W'hitewiiter, on 
which he remained uutd lie entered the service 
of his country as a soldier. He enlisted when 
he was 19 years old in Company D, 28th Wis- 
consin Infantry, enrolling Aug. 21, 1802. He 



accompanied the regiment from Camp Wash- 
l)urn to the suppression of the draft riots in 
Wisconsin, and in December moved to the scene 
of activity at Columbus, Ky., going thence 
soon after, to Union City in anticipation of a 
fight but returned disappointed to Columbus. 
There he worked on the fortifications and per- 
formed military duty, going thence to Helena, 
Ark., whence, after a short ]ieriod, he was en- 
gaged in the White River expedition. Later 
he went on the Yazoo Pass expedition. In the 
latter he saw much dangerous service and was 
in the struggle with the rebel batteries when 
the regiment was sent to the suj)port of an In- 
diana regiment. Wiien the expedition was 
finally aliandoned, every man in the command 
had contracted enough malaria to make him a 
pension subject all his natural life. They were 
in poor condition to sustain the action with the 
rebels on the 4th of July, when 15,000 confed- 
erates attacked their force, numbering about 
one-third as many. But the victory at Helena 
that day was one of the greatest of the war. 
After it was over Mr. Carjienter was sent to the 
hospital where he passed three weeks under 
the care of Dr. Smith and then joined the 
regiment to take part in the movements and 
marching and heavj' labors, and in the fall 
passed another month sick in hospital. He 
was in the expedition to Mount Elba and had 
the pleasure of returning to Pine Bluff with a 
large number of cnplured rebels. He remained 
there until December, going in January again 
to Mount Elba and returning to Eittle Rock. 
He was again in an expeilition to White River, 
and his next important service was with the 
command under orders to proceed to the attack 
on the defenses of Mobile. He was in the ter- 
rible march of 45 miles over an indescribable 
road and arrived at Sj>anish Fort to go imme- 
diately into the trenches where lie passed 
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render, to Blakely to find it in the hands of 
the Union soldiers. He was in the subsequent 
movements of the regiment in Alabama on the 
Tombigby River and, when Dick Taylor sur- 
rendered the rebel fleet, went thereon to Mobile 
wiience, after camping some weeks, he went to 
Brazos Santi;igo, Texas, tlience afterwards to 
Clarksville and Brownsville, where he was 
mustered out Aug. 23, 1865. Notwithstanding 
his several attacks of illness, Mr. Carpenter 
took part in all the battles of his regiment and 
in nearly all the skirmishes. He returned to 
Whitewater, located on a farm and followed 
that occupation nearly fifteen j'ears, after 
which he went to the village of Whitewater 
which has since been his place of abode. He 
married Anna Pierce and their children are 
named Frances Lucretia, Edward and William. 

/^^ HARLES K. BROWN, Ciiippewa Falls, 
%W^/ ^^^^■' member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, 

^'•ii-^ was born Feb. I'd, 1831, in Carlisle, 
Schoharie Co., New York. He comes of New 
England stock, his grandfatlier, George Brown, 
having been a native of Rhode Island and a 
patriot of the Revolution. Charles Brown, 
senioi', son of George, was born May 3, 1790, in 
Schoharie county, married Nancy Van Dresser, 
removed to Walworth Co., Wis., in July, 1841, 
and died there; he was of English lineage and 
his wife was of Holland descent, born July 4, 
1805. She died in 1889. Their children were 
George W., Henry P., Charles K., Lucy, Helen 
M., Joseph I., and all are living but Henry. 

In his youth Mr. Brown possessed a ram- 
bling disposition and enlisted Dec. 23, 1863, at 
Lafayette, Chippewa county. He went to Camp 
Randall and was mustei'ed into United States 
service in January, 1864, in Company A, 7th 
Wisconsin Infantry, going to the front soon 



after. He found the regiment and went 
into winter ([uarters at Culpeper. May 4th, 
camp was broken for movement to the battle of 
the Wildei'ness, the regiment liaving been with 
the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 1st Corps. In 
the reorganization tlie regiment was assigned 
to the 5th Corps. Mr. Brown was a partici- 
pant in all the actions included in the success- 
ive days' fighting and including Spottsylvania 
and Laurel Hill. May 8th, about 10 o'clock in 
the morning, he -was wounded by a musket 
ball, and, while making his way to the rear, 
another ball struck him in his side, passing 
through the eighth rilj and cutting oil a piece 
of his backbone in its passage through his 
body. Pie went to field hospital and received 
examination by five surgeons, who pronounced 
him hopelessly injured. Two soldiers watched 
him who had instructions to bury him as soon 
as dead. The following morning an old sur- 
geon visited him and gave him an examina- 
tion, dressed his wounds and had him placed 
on a stretcher to be taken to an ambulance, but 
not finding one he was put in a mule wagon 
and carried all day to a field hospital and laid 
on the ground preparatory to an operation. lie 
was asked if he would take chloroform or ether 
and he replied that he would take neither, as 
he came into the war to find out whether he was 
a coward and he knew he was not. He was 
offered whiskey and after drinking twice, his leg 
was amputated. The next morning he was 
taken to Fredericksburg and carried to a house 
which was formerly occupied by the mother of 
General Washington. He was there fed on 
hardtack until he protested, when he received 
some soft bread thi'ough the interference of Dr. 
Wolcott of Wisconsin. He lay there without 
dressing on his back until the wound was filled 
with maggots, when he comj)lained to a chap- 
lain and told him in plain terms that it was a 
shame to take a man South, shoot him all to 



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pieces and then wait for maggots to carry him 
out of tlieir sight through tiie ke3'iiole. He 
was properly attended to and from this liospital 
was conveyed to Harvard hospital at Wasliing- 
ton, where he nearly lost his life. The leg 
fracture extended nearly to the formation of 
the knee joint and a part of the hall, through 
lack of skill of the surgeon, was still in the j)or- 
tion that was not amputated, hut it was finally 
removed. July 15, 18G4, he was discharged 
and started for home. In New York he dis- 
covered that gangrene had set in, the discovery 
heing made in the rooms of the New England 
Aid Society, wlu-re lie had gone for a luucli 
and where he had his wound dressed. He was 
placed on the cars and proceeded to Cleveland 
Oiiio, where he was taken in charge hy the kSani- 
tary Commission and treated eight weeks, he- 
ing at death's door six days of that time. As 
soon as possihle he started for home in Wal- 
worth county where gangrene had again to he 
liuriied out and, after three weeks, he went to 
Chippewa Falls and after treatment from Octo- 
her, I8t)4, to Fehruary, ISfio, he underwent a 
second amputation. Meanwhile he had the 
wound opened six times ami fragments of bone 
removed. Prior to the operation he was told 
that he had one chance in a tliousand to sur- 
vive and he told them hi: would take it, as he 
could not live as he was. The main artery 
gave way seven times during the amputation, 
but the eighth time it held — his only chance, 
as the bleeding had been so profuse that 
aiiDtlur would liave co.st his life. Six weeks 
after he was out of danger. But his hack has 
continued to give him great trouble, sometimes 
di.'<a])ling him for three months. He has sin(;e 
lived at Chippewa Falls and has been variously 
engaged when able to attend to any kind of 
business. 

He was married in September, 1856, in Wal- 
worth county, to Nancy M., daughter of Peter 




and Ann Wessell, from Schoharie county, and 
they had tliree children, named Mary E., Carrie 
U. and Maud, all of whom are married. 
Mr. IJrown is a member of the Odd Fellows and 
is a Ke])ublican in his political affiliations and 
receives a pension. 



UCUSTUS E. NEEDHAM, Watertown, 
^ Wis., a former soldier of the civil war, 
was born in ^h^s.sachusetts, Dec. 29, 
1833, and is the son of Joseph and Eliza (Howe) 
Needham, and claims Yankee ancestry of un- 
mixed j)urity. He remained in his native 
State until the year after his majority, engaged 
in varied employment as long as he remained 
under his father's authority, and afterwards 
obtained a complete understanding of the trade 
of a carpenter. In 1855 he went to Wisconsin, 
where be pursued his business as a contractor 
and builder until the second year of the war, 
when, becoming convinced that the struggle 
was of gi'eater moment than at first antici- 
j>ated, he determined to enlist. He enrolled as 
a soldier at Watertown Aug. 14, 1862, as a pri- 
vate in Company B, 29th Wisconsin Infantry, 
and" went into rendezvous at Camj) Randall. 
The regiment was mustered Se])tember 27tli 
and left the Sttite for Cairo November 2d. He 
went from Cairo to Helena where the perma- 
nent camp was made across the river and 
whence be participated in the several expedi- 
tions to the White Iliver, the Yazoo River and 
the St. Francis River, in which he saw much 
service of a varied character without being 
engaged in actual battle. Mr. Needham was a 
participant in all the varied experiences of his 
brigade which were of heroic character from 
the fact that it was composed of veteran regi- 
ments, the 29th being the only one of recent 
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tliey made a run past the rebel batteries in 
April and soon after fought at Port Gibson. 
At Champion Hills lie saw tlie capture of the 
rebel batteiy wliich has been the subject of 
disfjute. After the tight, his brigade was left 
to bury the dead and he remembers seeing 31 
dead artillerymen and two officers, l)ehiud 
whose bodies lay 10 dead horses. During this 
action he acted in the cajiacity of Corporal to 
whicli he had been promoted and he was after- 
ward made Sergeant. He was not in the fight 
at Jackson, being in the convalescent hospital, 
having previously been ill and in iiospital. 
When the regiment returned to Vicksburg he 
joined it there and obtained a furlough on 
which he went home and remained several 
months. During his absence the regiment 
had been transferred to the Department of the 
Gulf and he found it in camp near Franklin, 
La. He passed about two months in the 
varied service in which the regiment was en- 
gaged, marching and skirmisliing until the 
command went into camp at Algiers, opposite 
New Orleans. They remained there until Jan. 
5, 1864, going next to Decrow's Point and 
returning within a month to Algiers. The 
regiment was next detailed to accompany the 
Red River expedition and Mr. Needham was 
in the battle of Sabine Cross Roads, where his j 
company suffered severely ; going into action 
with 35 men and returning with 16 able to 
answer at roll-call. He was in tlie difficult and 
dangerous return to Grand Ecore, going to 
Alexandria, to Cloutiersville, and to many points 
of less moment. In May he was with tlie force 
that aided in the construction of Bailey's dam 
across the Red River in which service tiie regi- 
ment won the special commendatioji of the , 
authorities. He was in the subsequent move- 
ments until the regiment was ordered to take 
part in the attack on the defenses of Mobile. 
He made the heavy march to take position 



before Spanish Fort, whence they went to rein- 
force A. J. Smith at Blakely, returning to 
Spanish Fort about the time of its surrender 
and marched jjack to witness the events that 
followed the capitulation of Blakely. They 
went next to Mobile and Mr. Needham states 
that the explosion there was distinctly heard. 
At Mobile he was again taken ill and went to 
hospital where he received a furlough and re- 
turned to Wisconsin May 19, 1865. July 20th 
he received honorable discharge with his regi- 
ment at Madison. 

After the war he resumed his business as a 
builder whicli he pursued until 1884 when he 
became a dealer in lumber. He is a substan- 
tial and respected citizen and has justified in 
his private life his character as defender of the 
United States flag. 

He was married in 1859 to Alzina Queen. 
Their children are named Jennie, Nellie and 
Fred. Three brothers of Mrs. Needham were 
in the Union service and ail survived. Mr. 
Needham is a Republican. 



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OHN S. GEORGE, General Agent of the 
(;^[| C. & N. W. R. R., resident at Milwaukee, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, (E. 
B. Wolcott) was born May 4, 1845, in Theresa, 
Jefferson Co., New York, and is the son of Silas 
L. and Caroline (Flower) George. His father 
belonged by birth and descent to stock promi- 
nent in the history of the Empire State in its 
earliest period. Mr. George's paternal grand- 
father, (whose name he bears,) was a soldier in 
the Revolution and prior to that period the 
family dates their location back to Castle 
Bungay, England. Tlie mother was a sister 
of Hon. R6swell P. Flower, Congressman, and 
who was a Presidential candidate for the sup- 
port of the Democratic Convention of 1884. 



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Mr. George was still a boy in school when the 
war came on and he resolved among the first 
to go to the Hghting if there should l)e such a 
thing, endeavoring to enroll in the three 
months service, to be rejected on account of his 
youth. Hut his second attempt was successful, 
for he enrolled Sept. 13, 1861, in Company 
B, 2d New York Cavalry. The regiment was 
ready for muster and lie went immediately after 
organization to Arlington Heights, performing 
vidette duty in guarding Washington the fol- 
lowing winter. In tlie spring the regiment 
joined the Army of Virginia in time for the 
battle of Falmouth where the regiment lost 
heavily. From that on Mr. Geoige was in all 
the service of Ins regiment until he received 
his discharge, wliicli includes tiie heaviest 
portion of the work accomplished by the Army 
of the Potomac at that period, the cavalry be- 
ino; always in condition for action, and receiv- 
ing orders accordingly. Mr. George was in the 
actions of Cedar Mountain, Brandy Station, ■2d 
Bull Run, South Mountain, Autietam, Fred- 
ericksburg, Chancellorsville and all includetl 
sicirmishing, of which no account is in exi.s- 
tence. (It is a well known fact that cavalry 
service had not been made a feature of the war 
up to tlie time of Scott's retirement and re- 
j)orts of their service after they became a part 
of the army forces suffered accordingly.) Mr. 
George accompanied his regiment undei* Kil- 
patrick on the raid towards Richmond and 
was discharged on the recommentl of the 
Corps Commander to take a position under a 
commission as 'M Liiutenant, issued by Gov- 
ernor Seymour to date in May, 1SG3. His 
health was such that he did not return to ser- 
vice. (When he enlisted he was a stalwart 
youth, weighing 182 pounds and when he was 
discharg(;d he weighed 02 j>ounds.) 'On pass- 
ing the required surgical inspection he was 
declared unfit for duty and afterwards Gov- 



ernor Seymour sent him a commission in the 
9th New York Cavalry, dated Feb. 24, 1804, 
but he did not muster under it. 

He was but 18 years old when his work as a 
warrior was finished. He was, after his leav- 
ing active service, discontented to have no part 
in what seemed to him the most important 
matter with which a man could be connected, 
and he became a clerk for Captain George 
H. Smith, in the Department of the 
Commissary General with headquarters at 
Harrisburg, entering upon the duties of the 
position al)out the date of the Ijattie of tiettys- 
burg and he remained in tiiat employ until 
about the first of .January, 18G5. He returned 
to Watertown. He had received more than a 
good education in the common schools, had 
studied in the Wcsleyan University at Gouv- 
erneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York, and when 
he enlisted was on the cars on his way to 
\\'atertown College, .sending home his trunk 
anl marching within a few days to war. In 
1866 he obtained a position in the Custuni 
House at Cajie ^'incent, ojx-rating there a year, 
when he went to Avon, New York, and en- 
gaged in the publication of a newspaper, of 
which he was editor and proprietor — the Avon 
Journal — and conducted the paper two years. 
In the fall of 1869— Sej)!. 12th— he went to 
Chicago to enter the office of the East Chicago 
Freight Station of the C. & N. W. R. R. cor- 
]K)ration. In 1870 lie wivs transferred to the 
city ticket office, which was burned in tlie 
great fire of 1871. After business was, in 
a measure, resumed, he sold tickets at the Wells 
street depot, and, June 1, 1872, was made agent 
of the company at Watertown, .Jeilersun Co., 
Wisconsin, which position he held until April 
1, 1873. At that date he was again promoted 
to agent at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and, Ajuil 1, 
1874, he was made ticket and jiassenger agent 
of the corjwration at Milwaukee. In 1876 he 



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was appointed General Agent of all the busi- 
ness of the corporation in Milwaukee and still 
holds the position. 

He was married April 7, 18G8, to Margaret, 
daughter of John and Margaret A. Morton. 
Her parents were natives of Aberdeen, Scot- 
land, and her father belonged to a line of mer- 
cliants; after coming to America he built and 
managed a tlouring-mill at Avon, N. Y., whei'e 
Mrs. George was born. 

Four children have been born to Mr. and 
Mrs. George, of whom but one survives — 
Charles Henr3^ An infant died unnamed ; 
Roswell Flower died when Hve years old and 
I'hillip Raney when 10 months old. 

(leorge W. Flower, uncle of Mr. George, was 
a Captain in the 35th New York Infentry, was 
wounded at Antietam and mustered out on 
account of his injuries; he was made Colonel 
of Heavy Artillery, but a shattered knee pre- 
vented his completing his service with his 
commantl ; he was afterwards a Colonel in the 
National Guards of his State. John S. George 
fan uncle) was a Captain in the regiment in 
which his nephew made his tirst attempt to 
enlist. James Morton, brother of Mrs. George, 
was a soldier in the civil war; he was a student 
at the Racine College, pi-eparing for the Epis- 
copal ministry and went iiome to enlist. 

Mr. George has been as prominent in the 
duties of his citizenship as of his office. He 
has been Alderman of the 7th Ward, and in 
1880, he was on the Democratic ticket for Sen- 
ator but, being in a triangular fight against the 
Repul)lican and Trades-Labor candidate.s, was 
defeated. He has lieen a Trustee of the Public 
Librarj' of Milwaukee and holds at jiresent the 
same position in the management of the Emer- 
gency Hospital ; he is a very prominent 
member of the Order of Masonry, having held 
the office of Generalli.ssimo of the Command- 
ery of Knights Templar and also belongs to 



all the different bodies in Milwaukee. His 
business affairs have prevented his becoming 
an office-holder. Among his personal interests 
he is a stockholder of coal mines in Iowa and 
Wyoming and iron mines in Wisconsin. He 
owns interests in the lake navigation and in 
dock privileges in the city. 

Socially, Mr. George is second to none ; his 
genial, straightforward temperament makes 
him popular among his friends and in his 
business the record of his varied relations with 
the railway corporation of which he has been 
for more than 20 years a trusted attache 
presents the true estimates of his merits. 



j,,;^- AMUEL L. ALEXANDER, member of 
>^^^^ G. A. R. Post No. 58, at Menomonie 
where he resides, was born Feb. 24, 
1847, in Mifflin Co., Pa., which was also the 
birthplace of his father, James Alexander, in 
1808, whose wife, Lavinia Frasic before mar- 
riage, was born in 1812 in Juniata county in 
the same State. The parents lived and died 
on the homestead. The great grandfather and 
great grandmother Alexander moved into 
Mifflin county with a cow which served as a 
beast of burthen for all their earthly posses- 
sions. They were from Scotland and on the 
place where they located their descendants 
lived for generations. The Frasic blood was of 
Holland Dutch origin. The senior Alexander 
was one of six children named Catherine, 
Rosanna, Hattie, Pattie, Mary and .James, and 
all are dead but Mary of tiiat generation. 
James Alexander was the father of nine chil- 
dren named Eliphas, Mary, William, Maggie, 
Samuel, Ann, Sarah, .Jane and James, all liv- 
ing but .lames, who died in 18S9. Samuel re- 
mained under parental authority until he 
assumed allegiance to the military regime of 



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the Government in war. He enlisted in July, 
1864, when 17 years old at Milroy, MitHin 
County, and was mustered at Harrisburg Aug. 
25tli following, into Company K, 205th Penn- 
sylvania Infantry. He was in camj) at Harris- 
burg but a short time when ordered to Wash- 
ington, going into camp at Arlington Heights 
for two weeks, moving thence to Prince George 
C. H. near City Point, the regiment being con- 
signed to the ■2d Brigade, 3d Division, and 9tb 
Army Corps. Two months were passed in the 
construction of fortifications under the direc- 
tion of the Provisional Brigade and the regi- 
ment went next to Petersburg, establishing 
themselves in winter quarters in November, 
18()4. In March the regiment took part in 
frustrating the operations of the rebels wdien 
they took Fort Steadman and was in the action 
at "Fort Damnation" (Fort Mahone) which broke 
the strength of the rebellion. The compan)' lost 
11 men in the awful storm of every conceiva- 
ble missile devised by desperate rebel ingenu- 
ity. In the winter Mr. Alexander was in the 
reconnoissance at Hatcher's Run and after the 
surrender of Petersburg his regiment guarded 
the Union trains, following up the pursuit of 
Lee. (In the taking of Fort Mahone, the 
relu'ls advanced to meet the lines, tiling out of 
Fort Sedgwick, believing victory to be easy, but 
when the " grays " had come within a stone- 
throw the Union .soldiers rose to their feet, 
hurled them.selves upon them, drove them into 
the fort and fought for pos.session until they 
drove out the rebels whom they kept out with 
their own guns.) The command went to Appo- 
mattox, where Mr. Alexander witnessed the 
surrender of Lee. They went thence to Burkes- 
ville and City Point, where they took trans- 
ports to Washington and to camp at Alexan- 
dria. They were a part of the Review May 
23-4, 1865, and Mr. Alexander was detailed to 
Cliestnut Hill, as Ward Master of Mower hos- 



pital, where he was mustered out Aug. 5th fol- 
lowing. During tiie whole of liis service he 
was not injured or reported sick. 

On returning home he engaged in farming 
for three years, went thence to Ashtabula Co., 
Ohio, and engaged in the manufacture of brick 
until 1881, when he went to Minneapolis, 
Minn., in the same vocation. In 1884 he went 
to Menomonie and in 1885 organized the Wis- 
consin Red Pressed Brick Company, of which 
he was made Superintendent, and still holds 
the position. The concern is in a flourishing 
condition, and in 1889 the output was 8,0U0,UU0 
brick, sold chiefly in St. Paul, Minneapolis and 
Duluth. 

Mr. Alexander was married Oct. 30, 1872, at 
Jefterson, Ashtabula Co., Oiiio, to Clara .J., 
daughter of Edward and Sibyl Miner. Two 
children have been born to them — Fred and 
Dale. Mr. Alexander belongs to the A. O. U. 
W. and is a Republican in politics. 







LLOUIS AMMAN, Whitewater, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, 
was born in Bavaria, Germany, May 
13, 1843, and is the son of Joseph A. and Mary 
Amman. His father was a farmer, to wliicli 
trade he had been apprenticed according to the 
law of his country and he afterward engaged 
in agriculture, removing to America in about 
1840 and soon after came to Wisconsin, locating 
on a farm three miles from Jefferson, in the 
county of that name. At the age of 10 years 
the son assumed tiie ciiarge of his own affiiirs 
and worked on a farm and at shoemaking, 
which was his business until he entered tlie 
army of his adopted countrj-. He enlisted in 
the 24th Wisconsin Infantry, but his mother 
refused to sign tiie necessar}' pajiers and he w:is 
compelled to defer his plan until be enrolled 



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as a soldier Dec. 19, 1863, in Company H, 27th 
Wisconsin Infantry, and joined the regiment 
as a recruit at Little Rock, Ark., where he took 
iiis initiation into the details of military life. 
He went thence with the regiment towards 
Shreveport to make connection with the army 
of Banks preparatory to taking part in the Red 
River expedition. Tlie march there was one 
of his severest experiences, the roads being 
almost impa.ssable anil tlie weather extremely 
hot, a fact which told on the men, as they were 
in many instances unaccustomed to such a high 
temperature. Many of them accomplished the 
journe}' on bare feet, among whom was Mr. 
Amman. Shortness of rations made it all the 
more unendurable. During the march he was 
engaged in heavy skirmish duty, and after ar- 
rival at Camden he operated in several actions 
of the same kind, the guerrillas under Price, 
Kirby Smith, Marmaduke and other leaders 
being more lively than agreeable. The Red 
River expedition having come to nought, the 
regiment started to retrace its steps to Little 
Rock, and when near tlie Saline River, at Jen- 
kins' Ferry, was attacked b}' rebels in the rear. 
The action was severe, particularly from the 
fact of a turbulent river confronting them 
while their rear was under lire. But the rebels 
were repulsed and the march resumed. During 
its progress rations were short and Mr. Amman 
relates that he saw Colonel Krez dismount 
from his horse to pick up a nubbin of corn, 
wipe the mud from it on the skirts of his coat 
and eat it with relish, and probably more won- 
der that it had escaped the sharp eyes of the 
men. Mr. Amman was barefooted and his feet 
became raw and sore, which his captain ob- 
serving he gave him the use of a pony, on con- 
dition that he would feed him and share his 
back with others. This he did and arrived at 
Little Rock, where he was deprived of the ani- 
mal. His feet were still swollen and he ob- 



tained a pair of No. 12 shoes which he tried to 
put on. An old darkey saw his dilemma and 
remarked, "Massa, I has a clean pair of socks I 
can give yer," and Mr. Amman tried to draw 
the shoes over them but was obliged to cut 
them down until only a strip of leather re- 
mained and he bound the sandals, so to speak, 
on with strings and proceeded in comparative 
comfort. Mr. Amman states that from the 
morning of the fight at Jenkins' Ferry, no ra- 
tions were issued for three days, and he wishes 
to pay tribute to the virtues of army hardtack, 
which he thinks he never appreciated until he 
received a supply at Little Rock, where rations 
were issued. Owing to his exposure and hard- 
ship he was seized with fever and was under 
the surgeon's care six weeks, being absent from 
duty two months from May, 1SG4. When he 
became convalescent he was seized with rheu- 
matism but went with the regiment to Pine 
Bluff. He was here occupied in the discharge 
of military duty and contracted malarial fever, 
which caused his relief from duty, but he did 
not go to hospital. He accompanied the com- 
mand to Little Rock and was detailed as guard 
along the line of railroad, the companies being 
distributed for the purjiose. When the regi- 
ment was again consolidated it went to New 
Orleans to Camp Algiers, and thence to Fort 
Morgan on the Mobile expedition. Here he 
suffered every other daj' with ague. He was 
afterwards in the assault on Spanish Fort, and 
went on the double quick to Blakely, reaching 
there a few minutes too late, the rebel flag 
going down just before arrival. From Spanish 
Fort they went to Mobile, marched to Whistler's 
and thence up the Tombigby, where they re- 
mained on the forts until Dick Taylor sur- 
rendered a large number of vessels for which 
the soldiers prepared wood and after the news 
of Lee's surrender, proceeded on their prizes to 
Mobile. They went next to Texas and cele- 



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brated the National holiday on the southern 
extremity of the United States. They thence 
went to Brownsville, where they performed 
guard duty until mustered out August 19, 1S()5. 
Mr. Amman returned to Whitewater and re- 
sumed his business as a shoemaker in which 
he lias since been engaged. He was married 
.Ian. 1, ]8()9, to Mary Strange of Whitewater, 
and their ciiildren are named Nettie, Cari-ie M. 
and Howard. 



/^^ EORGE HENZE, Watertown, Wis., 
\^,^ -il member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
^i^^^ liorn .Ian. 9, 1841, in the province of 
Hanover, Prussia. His parents, George and 
Dorothy (Roettger) Henze, emigrated to Amer- 
ica in 1854, and came direct from their port of 
landing to Wiscon.siii, buying a farm in Dodge 1 
county, in the town of Siiield.s. When the son 
was 18 years old lie came to Watertown, where 
he remained until he was 21. A few months 
later, Aug. 12, 1802, he enlLsted in Company E, 
20th Wi-sconsin Infantry. He entered the 
army as a private, was promoted through all 
tlu! gnides and was made Second Lieutenant, 
Sept. 12, 1864. His first promotion was to Cor- 
poral ; he was made Sergeant, Nov. 15, 1802; 
First Sergeant, June 23, 1803, and was mus- 
tered out under his commission July 14, 1805, 
at (Jalveston, Texas. 

The regimental rendezvous was at Madi.son 
and the muster into service took jilace Aug. IS, 
18(')2, the regiment leaving tlie State a week 
later. To St. Louis and Rolla, Mo., they jour- 
neyed to make connection with the Army of the 
Frontier, under (leneral Herron,and Mr. Henze 
participated in the Missouri cam])aign, includ- 
ing the laborious nuirching, in wiiicii the regi- 
ment* and division engaged until a long and 
heavy one of 1 12 miles was made into Arkansas. 
This was preparatory to the battle of Prairie 



Grove, wliich was the first action in wliich Mr. 
llenze took part. He was afterwards in the 
siege of Van Buren ami in the attack on that 
place and went thence on a long march to 
Rolla, where orders were received to j)roceed to 
the position at X'icksburg, in which they re- 
mained, taking part in the varied service there 
until July 4th. The position of the 20tli was 
on the left, and after the capitulation of the 
city he went with his command to the Yazoo 
expedition, and was engaged in ail the varied 
.service of that campaign. From there he went 
to Port Hud.son, where the command arrived 
just after the surrender. The next orders were 
for New Orleans and they went thence to Mor- 
ganzia Bend. He was in the affair at Atcha- 
falaya Bayou, going soon after to New Orleans 
to embark for Brownsville, Texiis, where he 
aided in the building of Fort Brown, and in 
the fall of the same year, 18C3, he was .sent to 
Wisconsin on recruiting service. He remained 
in this duty three months, rejoining his regi- 
ment at Brownsville. After much service of 
desultory character, Mr. llenze accompanied 
his regiment again to New Orleans, going 
thence to the vicinity of Mobile, where he was 
again in activities of excitingstamp. He partici- 
pated in the capture of Fort Morgan and in the 
sub.sequent taking of large quantities of stores 
of lumber and cotton. This was one of the 
most impoi-taut occurrences of the war in that 
locality. Mr. Henze went into camp in the 
vicinity of I'^ast Pascagoula, which was evacu- 
ated December 31st, and afterwards performed 
heavy duty until he went to the trenches of 
Spanish Fort, where he was under incessant 
fire until April 9th, when he was among those 
wlio took possession of the abandoned fort. 
Soon after he went to Blakeley ami thence to 
Mobile. The regiment went next to Galveston 
and did military duty until mustered out. 
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since the war and is now (1889) operating as an 
accountant witli one of tlie prominent business 
firms in tlie city. He has served liis townsmen 
as City Marshal two years and as Treasurer the 
same lengtli of time. 

He was married in Octoljer, 1805, to Amelia 
Nicolai and they have six children, named 
George, William, Augusta, Amelia, August and 
Lizette. Mr. Henze is Adjutant of his Post, is 
an Odd Fellow and Turner and belongs to the 
Mutual Benefit Association. 




^,^^^^^+H<. 

EN.JAMIN ZOELLE, Watertown, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 



born in Baden, Germany, March 27, 
1840, and his parents, Jolm Martin and Mag- 
dalena (Stahl) Zoelle, were also natives of the 
same country. Thej' emigrated to America in 
1853 and came directly to \\'isconsin, locating 
in Milford, Jefferson county. They were far- 
mers and the son was reared to the age of 15 
on the homestead. At that age he commenced 
learning the business of a butchei', going after 
a time to Illinois where he resided as a citizen 
until the war. He was awakened to the emer- 
gency in the dajs when the Nation was 
startled to its foundation by the action of the 
Soutli in firing on the flag. Within tlie first 
month of April he enlisted in Company — , 13th 
IlHnois Infantry, Colonel Wyman command- 
ing. May 24th, lie was mustered into service 
for three years or during the wai'. He went 
from rendezvous to St. Louis and thence to 
Rolla, Mo., where he was occupied in general 
military duty, his company making frequent 
excursions into the sunounding country. At 
the time General Fremont was organizing tlie 
Army of Missouri, he went to ypringfield and 
returned again to Rolla. He went again to 
Springfield, thence to Cross Hollows near Pea 



Ridge, lieing assigned to the command of Gen- 
eral Curtiss. But he jiarticipated in the pur- 
suit of Price and was afterward in camp at 
Batesvilie, Ark. While here, three fiatboats 
were built to transport the command down the 
river, his company being detailed for the ser- 
vice. They were loaded with supjilies. All 
went smoothly until July 4th, when they were 
assailed by rebels and the National holiday 
was celebrated by the men in arms. The cap- 
tain was wounded liy a ball in the back of the 
head and a messenger was sent for aid who ap- 
peared with howitzers and shelled the cane- 
brakes. A series of exciting incidents followed 
and they were compelled to sink the boats to 
prevent their being taken. Mr. Zoelle was de- 
tailed to accompany the captain and a wounded 
comrade^ to Arkansas, iiimself having been 
attacked by intlammation in the eyes. After 
a tedious march he was relieved of his ciiarges 
and joined his company on the Osage River. 
They soon after crossed the river on wagons 
and alter a day of marching crossed another 
stream and he was detailed to return witli the 
wagon for a fisli seine. He was accompanied 
by four butternut-clothed individuals and they 
traveled by night, encountering often deserted 
campfires, which they decided were remains 
of guerrilla watchfires. They came to a small 
village which was the residence of his com- 
panions and finding it occupied by troops, they 
were obliged to assume a confidence they 
were far from feeling, when they were re- 
lieved by ascertaining that the soldiers be- 
longed to a Union cavalry regiment, scouting 
there. They liad captured a number of pris- 
oners and a lieutenant and himself occupied 
the wagon the next morning, a start lieing 
made for lieadquarters. He carried his mus- 
ket and the officer a revolver, the prisoners 
inarching before them. They overtook the 
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were cut off and supplies were short for several 
days. An expedition was planned to the White 
River, but being abandoned a return was made 
to Helena. After some time tliey joined Sher- 
man up to Yazoo River and Mr. Zoelle was in 
the fight at Cliickasaw Bayou, December 27-8-9, 
1862. (After tiie tight at Cliickasaw Bayou 
tlie rebels refused to recognize the flag of truce 
and the wounded lay all night on the field; in 
the morning many of them were found stripped 
of their most valuable clothing.) Here the 
regiment lost its colonel and in the confusion 
caused by companies becoming intermingled, 
they lost also their colors and another mistake 
prevented their re-taking them. At Arkansas 
Post, the regiment fought bitterly, remember- 
ing their experiences previous. Thence the 
regiment went to Young's Point opposite Yicks- 
burg, where a lively skirmish took place. Mr. 
Zoelle passed the winter there incanij), making 
an expedition meanwhile up the river to 
Greenville, and was occupied in canal building 
and other duties pertaining to tiiat service, the 
regiment suffering greatly from small-pox. 
The marching on the expedition referred to 
was very severe and the hardshijis burdensome. 
It was about tlie date of the practical oj>era- 
tions of the Emancipation Proclamation and 
the collection of darkies from the neighboring 
plantiUions grew larger than the numbers of 
the expedition. Finally they took the able 
bodied into their service, enlisting them as sol- 
diers. The regiment afterwards went from 
Young's Point to Milliken's Bend pre])aratory 
to starting for Grand Gulf, and being assigned 
to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 15th Army 
Cori)S. May 14, 1863, Mr. Zoelle fought at 
.Jackson and marched thence to the siege of 
Yicksburg, where he was taken sitk, lint was 
in the activities there until the capture, July 
4tli. Meanwhile he went to Duvall's ]51ufi to 
look after Johnston, many of the command 



suffering sunstroke on the way. The regiment 
was in camp near Black River after the capitu- 
lation, where he was very ill and narrowly 
escaped the hospital. In the fall the command 
went to Memphis and Tuscumbia, where he 
was in a fight, Oct. 27, 1803. During the 
entire movement the men sk'j)t on their arms 
everv night and were commonlv called out in 
the night and formed in line of battle. Mr. 
Zoelle was sent to Nashville to Cumberland 
hospitid and in May rejoined his regiment at 
Madison Station, Ala. Here, while waiting for 
transportation, they were attacked and sur- 
rounded by Forrest anil his men, but succeeded 
in ridding themselves of the raider. Twenty- 
four were cai^tured, together with everything 
except their discharge papers, their equip- 
ments being amongst the spoils. Mr. Zoelle 
received final disciiarge June 21, 18i)4, at 
Springfield, 111. Since the war he has been a 
resident of Watertown and vicinity and vari- 
ously engaged. 

He was married in 1871 to Mary Ford of 
Watertown and the}' have seven children — 
Frank, Benjamin, Edward, Mary, Laura, Ray 
and Ilinry. Pius Zoelle, a brother of the sub- 
ject of this sketch, fought through the war in 
the 3d Wisconsin Cavalry. He is now de- 
ceased . 

EV. SABIN IIALSEY, one of the 
most prominent members of the 
Wisconsin Conference and member 
of G. A. R. Post E. B. Wolcott, No. 1, was born 
in Irwin, New York, Dec. 22, 1843. His father 
and mother, William B. and Roxana (Wright) 
Ilalsey, were of American birth but of English 
and I'rench descent. He became a resident of 
Wisconsin in 1855 and dates the beginning of 
his history with his conversion in 186(j. He 
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that purpose in view, he took a course of study 
at Evanston, 111., where he recieved a thorough 
training in theological branches. He pursued 
more advanced studies at Garrett Biblical In- 
stitute and received the degree of D. B. in 1870. 
In 1888, the same institution conferred on him 
the degree of D. D. In 1869 he united with 
the Wi.scon.sin Conference and has since been 
actively engaged in his calling. He has main- 
tained an unbroken connection with the inter- 
ests of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wis- 
consin and his name is inseparably connected 
with the progress that denomination has made. 
He has tilled some of tlie most important pas- 
torates within the borders of the State, and 
has, in most instances, tilled a full term of 
three years. He has officiated two terms as 
Presiding Elder and at this writing (1889) is 
occupying that position in the Milwaukee 
District. Also within the present year he has 
served as Wisconsin delegate to the General 
Conference in his native State. During a 
period of five years Mr. Halsey acted as As- 
sistant Secretary of the Wisconsin Conference, 
and has been for many consecutive years the 
efficient and popular Secretary of that 
Body. In 1884 he was elected to the General 
Conference, in which he had the distinction 
of serving as Assistant Secretary under Dr. 
Monroe. In all his relations with tlie Church 
of which he is one of the most conspicuous 
figures of the period, Mr. Halsey has sustained 
his high character. During his connection 
with the Wisconsin conference the affairs of 
the Church have been such as to demand of 
her prominent leaders the wisest judgment and 
must unbiased relations. In the history of the 
Church in Wisconsin, the name of Mr. Halsey 
will appear in a style consonant with the high- 
est type of manhood and Christianity. He is 
a man of broadgauge ideas and principles in 
his relations with his fellow men and his coi-- 



rect judgment in emergencies, his unswerving 
allegiance to his professional connections and 
\ his adherence to the line of action in life have 
made him one of the most prominent per- 
sonages in society and the Church. He is a 
man of whom Milwaukee is proud, both for 
personal character and executive abilities. 

When the call for 100-day troops was 
made he enrolled, May 27, 1864, in Company 
F, 41st Wisconsin Infantry. He left the State 
June 15th, having been promoted June 8th to 
Principal Musician and served in that capacity 
through his term, as well as in the duties of a 
soldier in guard and garri.son .service at Mem- 
phis, where he had the experience of the mid- 
night raid of Forrest. He returned to Mil- 
waukee with his regiment on the expiration of 
his term and was mustered out Sept. 23, 1864. 

OHN SCANLAN, Menomonie, Wis., char- 
ter member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was 
born June 28, ISoS, in Detroit, Mich., 
and his parents, Michael and Bridget (Dono- 
ban) Scanlan, were natives of County Clare, 
Ireland. After innnigration to America they 
lived successively in Canada and Detroit, where 
the father died in 1839 and the mother in 1844. 
Their six children were named Mary, James, 
Ann, Michael, Elizabeth and John. Mr. Scan- 
lan resided for a time, after the death of his 
mother, with his grandfather in Canada and at 
15 went to Detroitand began an apprenticeship 
to the ship carpenter's trade. After a year he 
engaged in teaming, and in 1855 went to Buf- 
falo, thence to Chicago and Grand Haven, en- 
gaging in the pineries through the winter. In 
the spring he became a sailor before the mast, 
spending the next winter in Canada. The next 
spring he went to the Lake Superior country, 
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nL->.s prospects of that couulrv, lif wtiil lu .St. 
Croix l'\ills, wlicre he passed a season. In tlie 
winter he was engaged on Snake River in .Min- 
nesota, went again to the pineries and came 
down-^vith the drive in the spring to Stillwater, 
and when he came to Wisconsin he obtained 
employment in harvesting in Pierce county. 
He hunted and trapped on the Eau Galle and 
pa.«sed a winter in the employ of Knajip, Stout 
<fc Co., and in the spring engaged in logging 
with C. C. Washburn and remained in Menom- 
onie until he entered the army. He enlisted 
Aug. 24, 1862, in Company K, 5th Wisconsin 
Infantry, and went to Washington and thence 
to Bakersville to join the regiment tlie last of 
Septendjer. Tlie regiment was assigned to 
Hancock's LSrigade and 1st Division, Mr. Scan- 
Ian being in Company H, the regiment having 
been reorganized. Briefly stated the following 
are the movements of Mr. Scaulan, the experi- 
ences covering as much history of the supjires- 
sion of the rebellion as those of any other 
man connected with the regiment in a sub- 
ordinate capacity. He performed picket duty 
at New Baltimore, moved to White Plains, 
thence to light at Fredericksburg, from there to 
winter quarters at Aquia Creek and to stick in 
the mud in midwinter with Burnside, to the 
second Rajjpaliannock camj)aign in the sjiring, 
going into Fredericksburg and the charge at 
^hu•ye's Heights, to Salem Church and to camp 
seven miles below Fredericksburg, where Cap- 
tain Bissell took command of the company, 
Captain Turner having been killed. Gettys- 
burg comes next on his roll of honor and he 
was with the 6th Corps on Round Top, through 
tlie two last days of the action, went thence on 
the pursuit of the 5th, going to camp at War- 
renton, Mr. Scanlan having been made Cor- 
poral on the march to the most famous battle 
field of the war. Thence he went to New York 
to assist in enforcing the draft and his company 



went to Troy after being stationed in the liar- 
bor in New York and to Albany, (at Castle Gar- 
den Mr. Scanlan was promoted to Sergeant) and 
at Troy guarded a number of substitutes who 
gave the command some trouble. In New 
York the rioters were feared and the company' 
was under orders to go on the double quick 
from City Park to City Hall at the first tap of 
the bell. Another campaign being imminent 
on the Itappahannock, the regiment returneil 
just in time to get into a fight at Rappahannock 
Station, going without knapsacks and into the 
charge on the forts, which they took with guns 
and 800 prisoners, principally " Lee's Tigers." 
The regiment camped across the river on the 
farm of .John Minor Botts and went to figiit at 
Mine Run, November 2(ith. In May, 18()4, Mr. 
Scanlan went to the Wilderness campaign, 
fought there successively frum the 5th to the 
12th of the month and on the last day at Spott- 
sylvania he was wounded, a musket ball strik- 
ing his right annas he fired. The ball entered 
the lower portion of the arm, shattering llie 
bone, following to injui'e the cullar bone and 
breast bone and inflicting three distinct and 
severe injuries. He was taken to field hospital, 
where the fractured bone was removed and he 
went successively to hospitals at Fredericksburg 
and Alexandria and received a furlough in 
October for 30 days and after that another, 
when he returned to Wisconsin. He went after- 
wards to Madi.son and from there to Camp 
Distribution at Baltimore in Fort McHenry. 
He went thence to Alexandria, whence con- 
valescents w'ere being sent to the front. He 
took oft' his bandages and succeeded in passing, 
but on the boat his condition was discovereil 
and he was sent to Carver hospital at \\'ashing- 
tou and was discharged June 25, 18(35. He re- 
turned to Dunn county, where he had located 
a claim which he imjtroved and where he 
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(His farm is in tlie town of Dunn.) While 
there he served a term as Assessor, and he has 
also held otlier municipal offices. He was mar- 
ried Oct. 1, 1SG5, to Winnifred, daughter of 
.James and Winnifred (Newcomb) Monahan. 
.Their children are named Minnie F., born Oct. 
1, 1S(jG; William Albert, born Oct. 18,1867; 
Emma E., born Oct. 5, 1870; James A., born 
Aug. 21, 1872 William married Thekla 
Miller, May 14, 1887. Emma died May 17, 
1884. Mr. Scanlan is a Republican and a 
member of the A. O. U. W. 



EV. .JAMES HALL, Whitewater, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. .34, was 
^'^iV' l)orn in Jjiverpool, England. He 
early became an orphan and, through a dis- 
astrous fire all records of his ancestry were 
lost. He was placed at school and graduated 
at an institution called the New Connection \ 
College, which was under the au.spices of the 
Congregational Church. He came to America 
when about eighteen years of age, in 1846. 
He located in Massachusetts, and while at 
Stoughton Corners was invited to supjdy a va- 
cancy at North Easton, Mass., and labored 
there five years in succession. In 1853 he 
came to Wisconsin and operated as an agent of i 
the Massachusetts Sabbath School Society. ' 
After a service of two years lie assumed charge 
of a society in West Troy, Walworth county, 
and soon after went to the same duty at Oak 
Creek. He was next pastor of a church at 
Brooktield, Waukeslia county, where he was 
located for four years. On the advent of the i 
war lie saw a new Held of duty and decided to 
enlist. He enlisted May 17, 1864, in Company 
B, 39th Wisconsin Infantry, and went into 
rendezvous at Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, 
where he was mustered into service. He went 



thence to Cairo, 111., and to Memphis, where he 
was made Sergeant, and when the regiment 
reached its destination it was at once placed 
on all varieties of military duty pertaining to 
camp life in a district infe.sted with guerrillas 
and bushwhackers. Picket guard was a post 
of extreme danger from the conditions in a 
country where the enemy knew that undrilled 
and undisciplined troops had been sent to re- 
place veterans and they were constantly prowl- 
ing in the outskirts of Memphis, trying to 
find some point of weakness. Mr. Plall found 
plenty of opportunity to assist in the duties of 
the chaplain as well as to perform all duty to 
which he was assigned. He acted as nurse 
when he could do so and when Forrest made 
his attack Aug. 21, 1864, was in the ranks 
throughout the assault and repulse. As soon 
as it was over he found his services as a man 
were in immediate requisition, as several had 
been severely injured, and he also assisted at 
the burial services of the killed. He devoted 
himself entirely and without thought for him- 
self to the wounded and sustained injury from 
hernia from vvhicli cau.se he was soon himself 
under medical treatment and from which, as 
from other injuries, he has continued to suffer 
since his discharge. At the date of his enlist- 
ment he was 37 years of age and as he has ad- 
vanced in life his injury has made such prog- 
ress as is common in such cases. At the date 
of his enlistment he was in unbroken health, 
but his age prevented his recuperating wholly 
and as he has advanced in life his infirmities 
have also increased. It should have been 
stated that he received his discharge Sept. 22, 
1864. He entered again at once on the duties 
of his former calling and officiated at Center, 
Rock county, at Leon, LaCrosse county, in 
Syracuse, Nebraska, in vSeattle, Washington 
Territory, and at Farwell, Mich. June 15, 
1885, he located at Whitewater, where he has 



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since held himself in readiness to attend to 
ministerial obligations. 

Mr. Hall is a lineal descendent from the Rev. 
Rohert Hall of England. He has been thrice 
married. His children In' his former consorts 
are named Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary Ann and 
Roxana. His present wife was tlie widow of 
Thomas Van Zandt, a soldier in the civil war 
and a member of the 1st Wisconsin Heavj- 
Artiller)', who died June 13, 1876, and his 
widow became the wife of Mr. Hall December 
15, 1888, at Palmyra, the Rev. William 
Bennett officiating. 

ACOB H. NEAR, Puicine, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, wa.^ born Dec. 
10, 1827, in Oneida county, New York, 
near L'tica. His father and mother, Bernard 
and Eleanor (Tarpenning) Near, were respect- 
ively of German and Dutch parentage, but of 
American birth. Jacob H., George W., Julia 
A. and Nancy C. were the names of their chil- 
dren. The sons received their education in 
the district school in the winter and worked on 
the farm in the summer seasons. Tiie family 
moved to the West in 1845 and located on a 
farm in the township of Mount Pleasant, Wis., 
where the mother died in 184!t and the father 
in February, 1858. Tiic son remained on the 
farm five years and went to Racine to learn the 
trade of a carpenter in 1850. He worked at 
that business until he determined to enter the 
army. Aug. 11, 1862, he enrolled as a soldier 
in Company A, 2'2d Wisconsin Infantry. He 
remained in rendezvous with the connuand at 
Camp Utiey until September I6lh, went .south- 
ward under orders for Cincinnati and thence to 
Covington and, during the fall and winter, 
skirmished and looked after the movements of 
the rebel leader.'!, Morgan and Bragg, in the 



vicinity of Nicholasville and in other portions 
of Kentucky, afterwards going to Danville. 
While at Nicholasville, Companj* A was de- 
tailed to guard l)ridges acros.? the Kentucky 
River, the regiment belonging to the 2d Bri- 
gade, 3d Division, 20th Army Corps. The 19th 
Michigan, S5th and 33d Indiana and 22d Wis- 
consin composed the brigaile. Jan. 26, 1863, the 
regiment left Danville for Louisville and in 
February was ordered to march to Brentwood 
Station to guard the railroads. March 3d, Mr. 
Near was in the reconnoissance to Spring Hill 
and was in the action at Thompson's Station 
where the colonel and 11 other commissioned 
officers were captured with 243 men of the 
regiment and a large proi)ortion of the entire 
brigade. Mr. Near was under Lieutenant Colo- 
nel Bloodgood and went with him to the de- 
fense of the trestle work at Brentwood ; and on 
the morning of the 25th they were assaulted 
b}' Forrest, the entire command being cap- 
tured. They were taken to Columbia where 
they signed the parole and went thence to Tul- 
lahoma, where they were stripped of every- 
thing like decent garments. They proceeded 
to Richmond, remained a day at Libby and 
went to City Point where they were "swapped " 
for a boatload of greasy rebels and went lo 
Annapolis where they received new clothes 
and food. Mr. Near took actual measurement 
of the rations he received and they consisted 
of a -piece of corn bread and bacon, the two 
together being the width and thickness of two 
fingers. From Annapolis they went to St. 
Louis to await exciiange (June 1st) and from 
there went to camp at Nashville, where they 
remained until July and procceiled thence to 
Franklin and Murfreesboro to perform garrison 
duty. Feb. 24, 1864, they started for Nash- 
ville, remained until April 19th and started for 
Lookout Valley. Mr. Near was thereafter with 
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Resaca, Dallas Woods, Golgotha Church, the 
several actions at Keuesaw Mountain, Powder 
Springs Road, Peach Tree Creek and (July 
20th) in the latter action, Hood's first sally, tl)e 
regiment was dejiloyed as skirmishers. The 
loss was light in Comi>any A and they re- 
mained in front of Atlanta until July 28th 
when they were ordered to the right to re-in- 
force Howard. No action took place and they 
returned to their old position, going later to 
the Chattahoochie where they had a skirmish 
with rehel artillery. After the fight at Jone.s- 
Ijoro they returned to Atlanta and the regiment 
was among the first troops to enter the city. 
They remained there until November lOtii 
when the march to the sea was begun. Mr. 
Near belonged to the foraging detail until he 
reached Savannah where he was in a detail 
to run a ricemill. He also assisted in the cap- 
ture of a gunboat loaded with supplies for the 
rebels in Savanna!) and in January' went on 
the Northward march through the Carolinas. 
After leaving Savannah, Mr. Near was detailed 
as escort for the ambulance trains in wliich he 
continued until he had marched tiirougli \'ir- 
ginia to Richmond and Washington for the 
Grand Review and was mustered out June 12, 
18(35. In January, 1S63, he was promoted to 
Corporal and in March, 180o, he was made 
Sergeant. After his return to Wisconsin he 
again located at Racine where he worked for 
the railroad one year, engaged six years in his 
own business and from 1869 to 1880 he worked 
in tlie separator department of the J. I. C. 
Threshing Ahichine Co. He then engaged as 
a contractor and builder and in 1882 again 
engaged in the carpenter department of the 
same branch of the factories of J. I. Case &Co. 
lie was married March 21, 1850, to Rachel, 
daughter of James and Rachel Langlois, and 
their children were named Rosalind E., Charles 
E., Francis L., Carrie, Ida M., James E., Clif- 



ford H., John, Ada and Arthur L. Clifford, 
John and Ada are the only survivors. Mr. 
Near is a member of the Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. It should have been mentioned that the 
father of his mother was a soldier in 1812 and 
received a fatal wound at Sacketts Harbor. 



v>\\ ANIEL BOWEN DAVIS, Milwaukee, 
5y\'l and a member of G. A. R. Post No. 
1, E. B. AA^jlcott, was born Nov. 20, 
1835, in Cardiganshire, Wales, and is the son 
of Thomas B. and Frances (Owen) Davis, with 
whom he came to America in 1852. They 
located in Waukesha county in the Badger 
State and, six years after, the son removed lo 
Milwaukee. Under the call for additional 
troops in the summer of 1SG2 he enlisted, 
enrolling in Company I, 24th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, August 21st. He served with his regi- 
ment until the muster out, after the war was 
closed. He fought at Perryville, Stone River, 
Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, and went to the 
relief of Burnside at Knoxville, assisted in 
raising the siege of Longttreet, afterwards 
fighting at Da nd ridge and going thence to 
Loudon. In May, 1864, he, with his regiuient, 
joined the army of Sherman, preparatory to 
the Atlanta campaign and was in the several 
actions in Georgia known as Rocky Face Ridge, 
Resaca, Pleasant Hill, Dallas, and in the battle 
of Kenesaw Mountain. He was in action again 
at Peach Tree Creek and went thence to the 
trenches before Atlanta. He was in the move- 
ments which had for their object the destruc- 
tion of the only means l)y which supplies 
could reach the rebels — the destruction of the 
Macon railroad — and went next into active war- 
fare at Jonesboro He accompanied the " 24th " 
in subsequent operations, performed military 
duty at Chattanooga and went thence to aid in 



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checking the progress of Hood. He was in 
numerous skirmishes and fought at Franklin. 
He was in the two days' fighting before Nash- 
ville and joined in the cliase after rebels. The 
remainder of tlie time of his enlistment was 
passed in winter quarters and the movements 
of the following spring, the regiment being at 
Blue Sjirings when intelligence of the end of 
the Groat Struggle reached the conmiand. Mr. 
Davis returned to Milwaukee. 

He was married June 30, 1860, to Winnifred 
CJrittith. Their children numlier seven — de- 
ceased and living. Jo.seph, Thomas, Esther, 
Pearl ami Owen are dead ; only two — Daniel 
AV. and Humphrey — are left to brighten the 
home of the parents. Mr. Davis is a sj)lendid 
specimen of his race in jjhysical development, 
and traces his Welsh descent with justifiable 
pride. He belongs to the Order, Knights of 
iionor, No. 300, at Milwaukee. 



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/^^ DWIN M. DEPUY, Waukeslia, Wis., 



iTTTy-— V member of (i. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
^ born April 5, 1825, in Avon, Living- 
ston Co., New York. The family in this coun- 
try springs from one of three brothers, who 
came to America with La Fayette to fight in 
the Revolution, two returning with him to 
France, and the grandfather of Mr. Depuy 
settling here. His onl}' sou, Moses AL, was the 
father of Edwin ; the father was born near 
Kingston, New York, and was a soldier of 1812, 
losing all his property in (hat war. He died 
at Lima, Ind., in ]S(>2, aged 73 years. He 
married Elizabeth Hedges and they reared 13 
children to maturity. The sons were born in 
the following order: William H., Sylvanus, 
Edwin ^L, Leander ; the latter was a soldier in 
the Mexican war and afterwards in the 18th 
Wisconsin Infantry in the rebellion, receiving 



a wound at Shiloh. Maria, Harriet, Mary Ann, 
Amanda and Elizabeth are deceased ; Hannah, 
Nancy and Rsther make up the list of daugh- 
ters : Gardner, a son, died in infancy. The 
mother of Mr. Depuy was of English extrac- 
tion and one of the heirs to the contested es- 
tates of the Hedges family in England ; .she 
was the daughter of Christopher Hedges and 
went with her husband to what is now Mar- 
shall, Calhoun Co., Mich., in 1835, from New- 
York, and there the parents made their home 
<luring their remaining years; both are biu'ied 
at Lima, Ind. 

When 18 years old Edwin went to Wisconsin 
and gave his- attention to acquiring laud, be- 
coming the proprietor of several farms liefore 
he was 21 3-ears old. During the winter of 
1843-4 he attended school at South Prairieville, 
and located on a farm in Mukwonago, on 
which he lived until 1852, when he assumed 
the management of the hotel " Mukwonago," 
and traded the property the next year for a 
large farm in Walworth count)' and still owns 
a part of it. He resided at East Troy from 
1853 to 1883, meanwhile becoming a soldier. 
Aug. 20, 1802, he enlisted from East Troy in 
Company K, 28th Infantry, was mustered at 
Milwaukee and went with the regiment to 
Columbus, Ky., encamping there a short time 
and going thence to Helena, Ark. (The night 
of arrival at Columbus the regiment was or- 
dered out to guard the railroad in expectation 
of an attack from Forrest.) At Helena, Mr. 
Depuy was first in action, an attiick being made 
by 18,000 rebels attacking 3,800 Union troops 
on the morning of July 4, 1863; the loss of 
the rebels was nearly that of the entire L^nion 
force — about 3,500, and at least 500 were killed 
and buried on the field, 1,500 being sent North 
to jirison. The total loss of the Northern 
troops was al)Out 200. The army supj>lies were 
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"planting" at the battle, which was material 
aid for Grant at Vicksburg. The Union sol- 
diers buried the rebel dead and cared for their 
wounded. In August, 18G3, the regiment went 
to Little Rock, took tlie place and went tlience 
to Pine Bluff to reinforce General Clayton. 
The command performed garrison duty until 
the fall of 1864, and was in constant service j 
against rebel guerrillas. They raided in all I 
directions, captured a great number of rebels 
and property, and in the fall of 1864, formed a 
jiart of the expedition to Mobile, joining the 
forces at Algiers, La. The 28th was in the 
siege of Spanish Fort and went thence after the 
capitulation to E'ort Blakely, wliicli had just 
succumbed to the LTniou arms. Returning to 
Mobile Bay, the command was present when ; 
the explosion of the magazine took place there, 
went thence to Whistler's Station and remained 
in Alal)ama until sent to Brazos de Santiago at 
the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas, going 
a week later to Clarksville and afterwards to 
Brownsville, and was mustered out Aug. 23, 
1865. Mr. Depuy returned to his home in 
Walworth county and in 1883 removed to 
Waukesha. He is a commercial traveler and 
has been on the road a number of years. 

He was married at Mukwonago, Wis., Jan. 
28, 1849, to Catherine, daughter of David and 
Elizabeth (Snyder) Lyke. Her family is de- 
scended from Holland stock, her grandfather, 
James Lyke, being a soldier in 1812. Her two 
brotiiers, Julius G. and Hiram F., were soldiers 
in the war of the rebellion. They were in the 
28th Wisconsin Infantry and the former died 
on the Yazoo expedition ; the latter is a busi- 
ness man of Oconomowoc, AVis. ; he was a 
lieutenant in the service. Two uncles of Mrs. 
Depuy were also in the rebellion going out in 
New York regiments ; they were Thomas and 
William Lyke and the former was a colonel. 
Following is the record of the children of Mr. 



and Mrs. Depuy : Emma married H. Cleveland ; 
Ella married N. J. Randolph; Frank and 
Charles are in the mines of New Mexico ; 
Willie was in the employ of a railroad cor- 
poration and is deceased ; Carrie and Hattie 
are the youngest. ^ Mrs. Depuy is an active 
member of the Woman's Relief Corps. 



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ACOB DITSCHLER, Watertown, Wis., 
gll charter member of G. A. R. Post No 94, 
was born in Darmstadt, Germany, June 
21, 1845. His parents emigrated to America 
in June, 1847, his father, being a tradesman, 
and becoming involved in the affairs which 
preceded the revolution of 1848, found it ex- 
pedient to find a new home. Tlieir names 
wei'e Louis and Maria (Dampmaiin) Ditschler 
and the family landed at the j)ort of New Or- 
leans where they remained two years and went 
thence to Cincinnati, where the father died. 
The mother removed afterwards to Hamilton 
and Cincinnati going thence to Peoria, III., and 
from there to Milwaukee. There the son 
learned the trade of a printer and was engaged 
in the manufacture of cigars when the war 
came on. He had heard war talked ever since 
his memory commenced and he desired to 
know it experimentally. During the absence 
of the three-months men lie determined to 
enter the army and, on the 8th of October, 
1861, he enrolled in the ranks of Company B, 
1st Wisconsin Infantry. From Camp Scott, 
Milwaukee, he went with the command as a 
drummer boy, being but 16 years old, going to 
Jetfersonville, Ind., and was in all the march- 
ing and changes between that time and the 
battle of Perryville, in which he was a partici- 
pant, traversing a large portion of Kentucky 
and doing all sorts of duty. His company 
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White's Pike, and were the first soldiers killed 
in Tennessee. July 4, 1862, he was in camp at 
Battle Creek, meanwhile skirmishing with 
Morgan's men, who had captured their sutlers. 
At Mt. Pleasant he disi)0sed of his drum and 
made his ajijiearance, equipj)ed for the business 
of a soldier. July 31st the}' received new 
equipments and, Oct. 8, 1862, Mr. Ditschler was 
in his first regular battle. After the disaster 
to tiie 21st Wisconsin, the 1st took the lead and 
Mr. Ditschler was in the dash in which a fiag 
was taken from the 1st Tennessee and in the sav- 
ing of the Union guns. For this seivicetlie 1st 
Wisconsin received proper acknowledgment in 
the shape of a new stand of colors willi 
guidons. He was in tlie fight at Htoiie River 
where he had a novel experience. He was on 
a skirmish line which look advantage of a 
cover in the .shaj)e of an oak opening. 
TlirdUgh tlie iiiglit of the first day he and liis 
comi-ades exchanged salutations, until, towards 
morning, he received no resjmnses, and when 
daylight came on he discovered that he was 
alone with about 40 dead rebels. He gave the 
order to fall Iwck which he proceeded to obey. 
He was in the service afterward in the vicinity 
of Murfreesboro, and in the chase after Bragg, 
fought at Hoover's Gap, Tullaboma and 
pressed across tiie mountains, and was in the 
special duty performed by the command at 
Dug Gap. He was in the battle at Cliicka- 
mauga, where he is proud to record he fought 
under " Pap Thomas." Ivirly in the morning 
of tiie lUlh, he received a bullet in the calf of 
his right leg hut be did not leave his post. He 
went to Chattanooga to suffer from tiie priva- 
tion of scanty supplies when army hard tack 
because more precious than gold. He was in 
the charge at Mission Ridge with the 14th 
Corps and afterwards prepared for the Atlanta 
campaign with Sherman (May 7th). He was 
in the several actions called under the general 



name of Dallas, at Pumpkin Vine Creek, Ack- 
wortb. Big .Slianty and at Kenesaw. He was 
in the figlit at I'each Tree Creek and in the 
trenches until the caj)itulation of Atlanta. 
During the siege he went in his cai>acity of 
Corporal, to wliich he had been j)romuted, witii 
a squad to relieve a picket guard, when he and 
his men found they had lost their way, but 
they succeeded in detaching themselves from 
the rebel lines into which they had wandered 
without losing a man. He was in the move- 
ment to destroy the Macon railroad and fought 
at Jonesboro, returning to iVtlanta. He was 
mustered out at Mdwaukee on account of ex- 
piration of term of enlistment, Oct. 14, 1864. 
.\fter his return to Wisconsin he engaged in 
tiie manufacture of cigars, which he continued 
until 187'J, when he removed to Watertown 
and commenced the sale of liquors in which 
he has since operated. He was married Maj' 
25, 1870, to Augusta Smith of Watertown, and 
four of their five children are living. They 
are named Antone, Clara, Eddie and Elsie. 
[ Ferdinand died when seven years old. Mr. 
Ditschler is a member of the Turnverein, of 
the Sons of Honor and of the Harugari Society. 










^^^ EORtiE J. COLLINS, Chippewa Falls, 
"^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
68, was born April 21, 18:J3, in (now) 
Ritchie Co., West Virginia, where his j)arents 
were born respectively in 1808 and 1810. His 
fatlier and mother, Jacob and Sarah Collins, 
never left their native State, where they reared 
11 children, all of whom are still living and 
named in order Keniier B., George, Mary Ann, 
Loreiia, Frances, John, Benjamin, Evelina, 
Eliza, Floyd and Anna. Jacob Collins de- 
scended from Irish ancestry and his wife from 
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When 20 years old, in 1853, George left 
home to begin his life struggle with the world 
and went to Burlington, Iowa, engaging in 
farming for six months and going thence 
to Ciiippewa Falls within the same year. His 
first occupation there was in the pineries 
and he was employed in lumbering until he 
entered the army. Sept. 27, 1864, he was 
mustered into Company D, 18th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, which he joined as a recruit after 
camping at Madison. He expected to find the 
regiment at Knoxville, Tenn., but on arrival 
there found tlie command was in the columns 
of Sherman and on the way through Georgia 
to Savannah. With other recruits he went to 
Nashville and embarked on a steamer for 
Louisville ; re-embarked there for further 
transportation on their way, but at Madison, 
Indiana, were frozen in and took the cars 
for Cincinnati, going on to Baltimore and An- 
napolis, where they took a steamer for More- 
head, N. C, and went thence by cars to New- 
bern. They marched to Kingston, and fought 
with the rebels there in a small action and 
were reinforced by Sherman. The regiment 
was in the 15th Army Corps in the 1st Brig- 
ade, 3d Division, and went to Goldsboro 
and Raleigh, arriving at tlie latter place April 
14th, and, when the troops were ordered out 
to fight Johnston, who was dodging the 
inevitable surrender, Mr. Collins went with the 
command which was halted a few miles 
out, the intelligence that Sherman and the 
rebel chief were making terms of peace having 
been sent to the troops. Orders to be ready 
were received at four o'clock in the morning for 
active service and it looked like war, as it was 
perfectly well known what was the desperation 
of the rebels, who felt that their last hope 
was in the balance. After the news was 
received the command went back to camp 
and two weeks after started on the homeward 



route, reaching Alexandria May 22d, after 
going to Petersburg and Richmond, and on the 
24th Mr. Collins was in the Grand Review 
at Washington. Afterwards they went into 
camp in order to await the formalities of 
closing their regimental books and after two 
weeks were mustered out and sent to Wisconsin 
to be discharged and paid July 3, 1865. 

Mr. Collins returned to Chippewa Falls 
which has since been his place of residence. 
For two years he operated in his own interests 
as a lumberman and then engaged in the 
livery business. In 1873 he sold out and 
has since pressed his interests in the sale of 
flour and feed. 

Mr. Collins is a Republican in political 
faith. His father was a soldier of the civil 
war and died in 1882; the mother of. Mr. 
Collins is still living in Virginia, and receives 
a pension from the United States. 



TVjJjTENRY DEW 
MivT^r water. Wis., 



DEWEY PATTEE, White- 
member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 34, was born Dec. 16, 
1844, in Underhill, Chittenden Co., Vermont, 
and is the son of Richard and Sophronia (Har- 
mon) Pattee. He is of genuine Yankee origin 
and is a representative of ancestry who settled 
in New England in its earliest days. His 
father was a phy.sician and practiced his pro- 
fession in the town and county where the son 
was born and where they remained until the 
latter was three years old, when the removal to 
the West was effected. A location was made at 
Palmyra, Jefferson county, Wisconsin, where 
the father engaged in his former business and 
where he continued to practice until his death, 
which occurred about 1875. When the sou 
was 11 years old he took the management of 
his affairs upon his own hands and was vari- 



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ously employed until he came naturally into 
the business of a liveryman from his love for 
horses, in which he was occupied when he de- 
cided to become a soldier. In December, 1861, 
he enlisted in the 11th Wisconsin Infantry us 
a musician and joined the regiment in ren- 
dezvous at Madison, whence he accompanied 
the command by way of Chicago to St. Louis 
and thence to Sulphur Springs, Mo., where he 
passed the winter. He remained connected 
with the band until the general order abolish- 
ing such organizations was promulgated and 
then he entered the ranks. He went succes- 
sively to Pilot Knob and Batesville, where the 
regiment connected with the force of General 
Curtiss. He endured all the exposure and want 
of that campaign, which was one of the most 
prominent in that respect in the history of Wis- 
consin regiments. He was in the fight at Ckjt- 
ton Plant or Peach Grove, where the regiment 
won distinguished lienor for bravery and cool- 
ness in facing overpowering numbers. He 
afterwards marched 65 miles to Helena, suffer- 
ing much en route. Later he went to Oldtowu, 
where he contracted malarial disease and was 
sent home. His recovery was slow and during 
his convalescence he engaged in varied busi- 
ness until he decided to re-enlist and lie en- 
rolled in Company F, lOtii IlHnois Cavalry, 
joining his regiment as a recruit, after serving 
on detached duty as guard over drafted men 
and substitutes in the interest of the State at 
Springfield. His first experiences in tiie army 
had given him a distaste for Missouri and 
Arkansas and on enlisting he had made a re- 
quest to be assigned to some command wiiich 
would take him to some other field, but to his 
great disgust he found himself connected with 
a regiment stationed at Brownsville, Ark. He 
remained in camp during the following winter 
and in the spring went to Duvall's liluO" and 
thence down the Mississippi River to New 



Orleans. He performed guard and other mili- 
tary duty at Algiers until he received his final 
discharge under an order relieving men of his 
class in the army, receiving his release from 
military obligations to his country in 1865. 
He returned to Palmyra, Wis., and removed 
thence to .Jefferson and located later at White- 
water. This has since been his residence with 
the exception of a j'ear passed at Stuugbton, 
and he has operated as a tinsmith. 

He was married in 1866 to Ella Phebe Hub- 
bard of Rockford, 111. Their children are 
named Nora, Adele, Mina, Wheeler, Nellie, 
George Henry and Arthur. Mr. Pattee is a de- 
cided Republican and is a member of the A. 0. 
U. \V. and of the Masonic Order. 



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"P^TANS E. LUND, M( 
^ \r^!^t member of G. A. I 
-^" "^ was born near the ci 



Menomonie, Wis., 
R. Post No. 58, 
;\\y of Christiana, 
Norway, Jan. 5, 1831, and is the son of 
Andrew and Carolina Lund. His father 
had been an officer in the Norwegian army 27 
years when he resigned and became a farmer. 
The children were named Martin, Inga, Hans, 
Bertha and Carrie. All are living in Wiscon- 
sin. The son received tlie education common 
in his country and learned the business of 
a carpenter, coming to America in the fall 
of 1856 and going from New York to Lafayette 
Co., Wis., where he attended school. In the 
spring of 1857 he went to Menomonie and 
worked at his trade. In tiie wintur he returned 
to Lafayette county and again went to school. 
In the spring of 1858 he fixed bis permanent 
residence at Menomonie. His parents came 
to the United States about 1868 and located in 
Lafiiyette county, in Argyle, and died there 
a few years later. In April, 1861, Mr. Lund 
: enlisted in Company K, 5th Wisconsin lufan- 



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try, went to Washington, to Meridian Hill to 
King's Wisconsin Brigade, thence across the 
Chain Bridge and engaged in building fortifi- 
cations until transferred to Hancock's Bx'i- 
gade and Smith's Division, going into winter 
quarters at Camp Griffin. Mr. Lund was 
4th Corporal of his company when the com- 
mand moved in the spring to Fairfax C. H., 
whence they went to Alexandria, and he 
was in the skirmishes at Young's Mills and 
Lee's Mills and went forward to figiit at 
Williamsburg, after the siege of \orktown. 
They followed the rebels and went next to the 
campaign of the Chickahominy and he was in 
action at Golden's Farm .June 28th. In the 
subsequent action at Seven Pines, the Captain, 
Wm. Evans, was killed. The regiment was in 
the rear in the retreat when tlie change of base 
period arrived and was under fire at Savage 
Station, White Oak Swamp and at Malvern 
Hill, covering the feints to Harrison's Landing, 
where tliej^ arrived about night. Fi'om that 
point the regiment went to P'ortress Monroe, 
Mr. Lund being sick but keeping up with his 
regiment. From Fortress Monroe they went 
to Alexandria, and started thence to Pope's 
assistance at Bull Run. On the march be- 
tween that field and Centerville they met 
Pope's army on the retreat and returned next 
day to Alexandria. The regiment was next 
in the movement to check the progress of Lee 
into Maryland and was in skirmishing nearly 
every day prior to the fight at South Mountain, 
and Mr. Lund fought there and at Antietam, 
the regiment being under fire without return- 
ing it. His next engagement was at Fred- 
ericksburg and he was afterwards in camp 
at Belle Plain until the next engagement on 
the Rappahannock, April 28th, while the battle 
of Chancellorsville was hanging in the balance, 
but did not take part in the action, as he was 
sick in hospital with fever. When the regi- 



ment was preparing for the campaign through 
Pennsylvania to Gettysburg the surgeon told 
him he would not be able to go there as he 
had not been fit for duty for some time and 
that he must either go to hospital or be dis- 
charged, and he strongly advised the latter. 
He received honorable discharge in .June, 186.3, 
and returned to Wisconsin, where he passed 
some time with his sister in Lafayette county 
and returned afterwards to Menomonie. He 
recruited his health and was able to work 
for some time. He belongs to the Order of 
Masonry. He was married March 4, 1867, 
to Louisa, daughter of Arnold and Irene 
Barbour, at Durand, Pepin Co., Wis., and they 
have had five children, of whom two are 
living — Bertha and James. Mr. Lund is a 
Republican in politics and receives a pension. 



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AMES D. BLACK, Racine, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born Feb. 
18, 1844, in Winchester, Va. His father, 
Geo. W. Black, was a blacksmith by trade and 
the son of a soldier of the war of 1812. He 
was of mixed Scotch descent. He married 
Elizabeth Stipe and their family included three 
sons and three daughters, all of whom are liv- 
ing. They are named Martha F., William, 
Mary, .James, Albert and Anna. In June, 1844, 
the family removed to Marseilles, Illinois, and 
in 1845 located in Ogle county in that State. 
The father worked there about 30 years at his 
trade and died in 1887. The mother died in 
the same place. She was the daughter of a 
soldier of 1812 and was born in Winchester, 
Va. Mr. Black received his education in the 
district schools and went to serve an appren- 
ticeship to the carpenter's trade when 16, but 
changed that occupation for farming, in which 
he was engaged when the war disturbed his 



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plans. When 17 years old, Aug. 16, 1861, he 
enli.sted at Mt. Morris, Ogle county, in Com- 
pany n, 34th Illinois Infantry. He was mus- 
tered in at Carap Butler in September follow- 
ing, under Col. E. N. Kirk. The regiment 
went from camp to Cinciiuiati, which was 
threatened liy Kirhy Smith, and thence to 
Louisville and through the northern part of 
Kentucky and to the Soutli, watching rebel 
movements and skirmishing. At the Green 
River it was assigned to the 5th Brigade under 
General Wood and the 2d Division under Alexan- 
der McCook. They went to Nashville in prep- 
aration for the fight at Pittsburg Landing, 
which they reached on the 6th of April to 
fight on the 7th at Sliiloh. The loss in the 
first action was heav}'. Company H losing five 
by one shell, the Captain and First Lieutenant 
being wounded and the Second Lieutenant 
killed. The position was on the right near the 
church. They went to the siege of Corinth 
under Ilalleck and skirmished on the way, 
fighting at Farmington. Mr. Black was in the 
fight with Beauregard on the 28th of May 
where his regiment lost 20 men, Company H 
losing four. That night Ct)rinth was evacu- 
ated and the Union troops took possession next 
morning for a two-weeks stay. They went 
thence under Buell up the Tennessee, marched 
to Battle Creek the last of June and two 
months later moved in the Kentucky cam- 
paign. They went to Louisville to head off 
Bragg who went to Beardstown and they 
}>ushed on to Louisville, where they remained 
until they went to Frankfort, having been as- 
signed to the 20th Corps under McCook. They 
fought Morgan's men at Clayville and went 
from Frankfort to Perryville, where they ar- 
rived the day after the fight. Bragg fell back 
through Cumberland Gap and the regiment 
went to Crab Orchard and thence to Nashville. 
They were there skirmishing and in various 



service till the holidays, when they started for 
Murfreesboro to fight from December 31st to 
Januarj' 3d, on the night of which day the 
rebels retreated. Company H lost its captain 
and four other men, also losing seven taken 
prisoners. After a stay of six months they 
went on the Tullahoma campaign. They ar- 
rived there July 4th and went next on the 
Chickamauga campaign, and Mr. Black was in 
the fight September lUth and 20th. His regi- 
ment fell back to Chattanooga, going thence to 
the Sequatchie valley to guard the Union lines. 
Two weeks later they went into camp at Moc- 
casin Point and saw the battle on Lookout 
Mountain Nov. 24, 1863. They crossed above 
Chattanooga, joined Sherman and fought at 
Mission Ridge on the 25th. After the victory 
the command followed the rebels to Ringgold, 
Ga., and went thence under Jeff. C. Davis to 
Knoxville to the relief of Burnside. They 

' marched back to Chattanooga, ISO miles, and 
went into quarters at Kossville, Ga., where they 

j re-enlisted for three years. In May they started 

I on the Atlanta campaign, and Mr. Black was 
in the action at Tunnel Hill, Buzzard Roost, 
Resaca, Dallas, Georgia, New Hojje Church and 
Kenesaw Mountain, the regiment losing heav- 
ily in tlie several engagements there. He 
received there two flesh wounds and still car- 
ries a ball in his leg. He returned to Chatta- 

1 hoochie and went thence to the actions near 
Atlanta, fighting July 20t]i at Peach Tree 
Creek and two days later at Atlanta. He also 
fought at Jonesboro, his command losing many 
men. They returned to Atlantti and soon after 
started after Hood whom they chased to Gray- 
ville. They returned to Atlanta and went with 
Sherman to the sea, encountering all the vicis- 
situdes of that movement. From Savannah 
tliey went northward to the Carolinas, and Mr. 
Black was in the action at Bentonville, March 
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boro, Richmond and Washington and to the 
Grand Review. He went to Louisville and 
Chicago where he was discharged as Sergeant 
to which he had been promoted in 1862 for 
bravery in action. He returned to Ogle county 
but felt lost without excitement and went to 
the service of the frontier, gtiing to Leaven- 
worth and Fort Laramie, where he fought the 
Indians. He returned to Ogle county in 1866. 
He was variously engaged for some time, 
going in 1868 to Marshalltown, Iowa, and a 
year later returned to Shannon, Carroll Co., 
III. Two years later he went to the employ of 
tlie St. Paul Railroad and has been with the 
corporation since, operating at various points, 
at one time being superintendent of their 
water-works. In 1876 he removed to Racine 
and engaged in their car department. He was 
married .July 9, 1874, to Sophronia, daughter 
of Robert Chitty, at Shannon, 111., and they 
have had three children named Oscar H. and 
Arthur E., (twins) and Mildred. Mr. Black is 
a member of the Masonic Order. 



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EN.JAMIN F. CRAM, Madison, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 11, was 
l)orn Dec. 27, 1830, in Plainfield, Sul- 
livan Co., New Hampshire. He is of English 
lineage, his ancestral stock having originated 
in that countrj' and the founder of the family 
in America came hither in the early days of 
New England history. In the maternal line 
he represents a soldier of the Revolution, his 
grandfather Cnmmings, having fouglit in that 
struggle in boyhood. His father, .lonathan 
Cram, was born June 2, 1773, at Salisbury, N. 
H., and was the son of .Jonathan Cram, a min- 
ister of the Baptist denomination. Pie married 
Betsey Cumniings and their children were 
Lucy A., Jonathan E., Benjamin F., William 



B., Hannah E. and an infant. The father 
lived on one farm in Plainfield for more than 
a half century and removed to Wisconsin in 
the spring of 1842, locating in Prairieville, 
now Waukesha, Waukesha county, where he 
purchased an improved farm and he died 
thereon June 10, 1861, the demise of his widow 
occurring in December, 1862. 

The son attended the common school and 
was his father's assistant until he reached his 

; majority, after which he was a student three 
seasons at Prairieville Academy, subsequently 
entering Carroll College at Waukesha and 
reached the third term of the junior year. He 
taught school in Illinois and Wisconsin and 

1 began the study of law with Hon. Isaac P. 
Walker, of Waukesha. April 20, 1861, he left 
his studies to enlist in Company F, Waukesha 
Guards, for three months, but before the com- 
pany was accepted the quota was full, and on 
the second call for three years' men, with his 
company of which he was 2d Sergeant, he en- 
listed and was mustered May 10, 1861, as Com- 
pany F, 5th Wisconsin Infantry. About the 
20th of June, 1861, the company occupied Camp 
Randall at Madison and was mustered as U. S. 
soldiers July 13th. Five days after Bull Run 

1 the command was en route to Washington by 
way of Harrisburg and Baltimore and went 
into camp at Kalorama Pleights. (Prior to 
leaving the State, Company F was ordered to 
Milwaukee to assist in quelling the bank riot- 
ers). At Camp Kalorama the regiment was 
placed in King's Brigade with the 2d Wiscon- 
sin and 19th Indiana regiments with also a 
Massachusetts regiment, and Mr. Cram states 
that the separation of the 5tli Wisconsin from 
what was designed by King as the Wisconsin 
Brigade, was due to a feud between Colonel 
Cobb and Major Larrabee, the latter leading 

I the regiment and purposely guiding it across 

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not observing as the march was made in the 
night and tlio regiment being on the marcli, 
left in front. After building Fort Marcy the 
regiment went into Hancock's Brigade and to 
Camp Griftin to winter quarters. December 
Gth, Mr. Cram was detailed on recruiting ser- 
vice and returned to Grant Co., Wis., rejoined 
his regiment at Yorktown and marched to 
the field of Williajnsburg, the regiment taking 
a position in advance and fighting directly 
against the 5tii North Carolina Infantry, which 
had from 1,000 strong only about 100 men left 
after the battle was over. McClellan himself 
complimented the regiment for gallantry on 
the field, and witii Franklin's Corps tiie ath 
went to the Chickahominy swamps. June 2Sth, 
it was in the fight at Golden 's Farm, and in the 
seven days' retreat the 5th was under fire at 
Savage Station, White Oak Swamp and Malvern 
Hill, Mr. Cram acting as Orderly Sergeant. 
The regiment was in the 1st Division, Sd Bri- 
gade and Oth Corps, and remained at Harri- 
son's Landing, the hottest place in the history 
of the soldier, until August 8th, when the 
comman<l marched to Fortress Monroe, whence 
they embarked on the transjiorts for Alexan- 
dria and moved thence to assist Pope at 
Manassas but too late, onl}' to check the re- 
treat of the Union troops and the advance of 
the rebels. Septenii)er 1st, McDowell's Corps 
was attacked by the rebels at Cliantilly and 
General Kearney was killed ; the gallant Irish- 
man rode in front of the 0th Corps 
receiving tiie cheers of the brigade and 
passed on to his death. The 5tli was 
in its next engagement at Antietam as 
reinforcements and after the action Mr. Cram 
was one of a detail to go to Wasliington to 
escort convalescents, rejoining his regiment to 
go to Hagerstown, Md. The command went 
into winter quarters at Belle Plain and in mid- 
winter enjoyed all the delights of the "mud 



march." In Februry, 1863, the regiment was 
placed in the "Light Division" for obvious ser- 
vice, and Mr. Cram was made Orderly Sergeant; 
March 1st he was promoted to Second Lieuten- 
ant, and on the '28tli of April the regiment 
started for the campaign of Chancellorsville, 
crossed the Rsippahannock on pontoons and took 
position for the charge on Marye's Heights. 
Lieutenant Cram was in command of his com- 
pany and was in the storming party with 
Colonel Allen. After taking the works the 
"Division" marched toward Salem Church, en- 
gaging in frequent skirmishing, laying on arms 
through the night and fought at Salem Ciiurch, 
holding the field while the regiments withdrew 
and forming the rear in the movement across 
the river. There a new brigade, consisting of 
the 5th Wisconsin, the Oth Maine, 49th and 
119th Pennsylvania, was formed, with General 
Russell in command. The Gth Corps reached 
Gettysburg July 2d after a march of 40 miles, 
taking position at right angles with the line on 
the left, lay all night on their arms and moved 
in the morning after being exposed to artillery 
fire til rough the 3d of July. They took posi- 
tion at the foot of Hound Toj), climbed the hill 
and remained through the day. The Corps 
followed Lee to Warrenton, skirmishing with 
the rebel rear guard. From Warrenton the 
5th went to New York to aid in (pielling the 
draft riots, Company F going to Governor's 
Island, Albany and Goshen. They returned in 
time for the charge at Rappahannock Station 
Novendjer 8th and were called from quarters 
to fight at Locust Grove (Mine Run), November 
24th. Grant reviewed the command in the 
spring, and May 4th the regiment started for 
the Wilderness to take part in the actions there, 
and in these Lieutenant Cram participated un- 
til June 1st, when he was wounded in his foot 
by a rifle ball, the missile pa.ssing througii it 
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pieces of bone were removed. He was taken to 
the new Hallowell hospital at Alexandria and 
after three months was sent to Madison and 
was mustered out Aug. 18, 1864, as First Lieu- 
tenant, his commission as such having been 
issued Jan'y 24, 1864. 

He returned to Waukesha and passed 18 
months in caring for his wound. In 1865, at 
the request of Gen. Allen, he was appointed to 
a position in the Land Office at Madison, which 
he occupied about 10 years. Jan. 1, 1872, 
he was ajipointed by Governor Washburn 
Quartermaster General with the rank of 
Brigadier on the gubernatorial staff. Jan. 1, 
1882, he returned to the Land Office under ap- 
pointment by the Commissioners of the Public 
Lands at the beginning of Governor Rusk's ad- 
ministration, and has since continued to dis- 
charge the duties of the place. 

He was married Oct. 27, 1868, at Madison to 
Mrs. Rachel Tappan, daughter of Captain 
Henry B. and Janet (Mclndoe) Staines. Mrs. 
Cram is a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and was 
educated at Toronto, Dominion of Canada. 
She is an accomplished musician and excels as 
a vocalist, having filled a position in Grace 
Church as soprano for 23 years. She and her 
husband are comnmnicants in the Episcopal 
Church. 



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LT^^L^ALLACE W. BURNETT, Eau 

^ '^?W ^"'"''^' ^^'^^•' member of G. A. 
'^ R. Post No. 52, (Eagle) was born 
July 9, 1850, at Cleveland, New York, and 
is the son of John H. and Martha Jane (Martin) 
Burnett. His father was born Nov. 8, 1820, 
at Olisco Center, Canandaigua Co., New York, 
and the mother was born in Cleveland, in Sep- 
tember, 1823, dying in September, 1859. They 
were both of New England stock and English 
ancestry, and, in early life the senior Burnett 



was a merchant; later he became a minister 
of the M. E. Cliurch for which hehadcai'efully 
studied and was in the ministry until 1864, 
when he enlisted and was made Ciiaplain 
of the 186th New York Infantry. He enrolled 
at Sacketts' Harbor and was with the regiment 
until the action at Hatcher's Run in February, 
1865, where he contracted a cold from which 
he never recovered. He was discharged on 
account of disability and in October, 1865, 
went West to Jackson Co., Wis., and went 
later to Oshkosh, where he engaged in preach- 
ing but was finally obliged to stop on ac- 
count of his health. He moved to a farm 
in Monroe county and moved thence to Eau 
Claire where he still lives. Floretta S., Sarah 
E., Wallace W. and Martha A. were the names 
of the children of the family. 

The son was 14 years old when he enlisted, 
Aug. 22, 1864, at Sacketts' Harbor, N. Y., in 
Company I, 186th New York Infantry, and 
was mustered at the same time. He went 
with the recruits immediately to the front 
by way of New York and, after 10 days left 
that city for City Point, Va., and three weeks 
later went to the action at Hatcher's Run and 
participated in the action there Oct. 27, 1864. 
His regiment was in the 2d Brigade, 2d Divis- 
ion and 9tli Army Corps. From this action 
the regiment went to the trenches at Petersburg. 
(Wiiile at Hatcher's Run he was taken sick, 
sent to hospital and was at City Point when the 
regiment went to Petersburg, but he stole 
out of his bed and followed the command.) 
The regiment performed picket and other duty 
and whatever the soldiers did they never 
escaped the hell of rebel fire which was inces- 
sant. (See sketch of C. K. Pier). April 2d, 
1865, Mr. Burnett was in the action which 
ended in the surrender of the city, his 
command being in front of the line of rebel 
works, three tiers deep. One half the com- 



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pany were killed or wounded. He followed 
the flying foe and was engaged in almost con- 
stant skirmishing while the rebels were grad- 
ually yielding and they gave up the re- 
bellion at A])poniattox. Mr. Burnett was near 
headquarters and had a good sight of tlie rebel 
chieftain and the men wlio laid down their 
arms and stained and ragged battle Hags with 
tears. After the surrender and while on the 
march back he fell out, as his feet were dis- 
abled an<l tliere were no ambulances. It took 
him three weeks to get to his regiment at City 
Point and he went thence to Fortress Monroe. 
W'lien the body of Booth was brought there he 
had a look at the murderer of the President. 
He was in the Grand Review and returned 
to Portress Monroe and was mustered out. He 
went to Sacketts' Harbor for pay and final 
discharge. 

After tiie war he joined his father in Jackson 
count}' on a farm and went to school nearly all 
the time for three years. Seven years later he 
located at F^au Claire and engaged in the sale 
of musical instruments and music dealers' 
goods generally, and in his enterj)rise has met 
with (lie success he deserves. He has built up 
his trade until he carries a fine assortment 
of the best pianos, organs and all musical 
instruments to meet the demands of his 
patrons. He was married March 10, 1882, to 
Jennie, daughter of Cj'rus and Mary 
Young, of Minneaj)olis. Maud L., Wallace W. 
Roy O. and (Juy Young are their children. In 
the spring of 1888 Mr. Burnett was elected 
Alderman on tlie Republican ticket and has 
pushed the interests of the city with active 
energy. He is a member of tlie Odd Fellows 
Order and has held the several official posi- 
tions. He has also become a member of the 
Patriarchal Circle. 

The enlistment and services of Mr. Burnett 
deserve special mention. He was a mere 




child and only his father being in the same 
service secured such a privilege for the lad. 
But he comes of patriotic stock, his grand- 
father Martin having been a Colonel iu 1812 
and receiving a severe wound. The pa- 
triotism of the soldier of 1812 was transmitted 
to the sire and son. 

Francis m. Moguire, Chippewa 

Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. G8, was born at East St. Giles 
Parish, East Canada, Oct. 5, 1833. His father 
and mother, James and Hannah (Cleary) Mc- 
Guire, were born in Ballyshannon, County 
Donegal, Ireland, and came from the Green Isle 
to Canada in 1830. Their children were named 
James, Patrick, Louis, Giles, Francis, Michael, 
John, Mary Ann, Margaret and Antiiony. 
About 1856, Mr. McGuire left the Dominion 
and prospected for a time in the West, going 
successively to St. Paul, Stillwater, Prescott and 
Eau Claire, living 21 years at the latter place 
engaged in lumbering and logging. When the 
war came on he interested himself in the work 
of recruiting a company, which was called the 
Eau Claire Eagles, and, July 7, 1861, was mus- 
tered into service on organization at Madison 
as Second Lieutenant of Company C, Captain 
J. E. Perkins and First Lieutenant Victor Wolf. 
From this company the regiment was after- 
wards known as the "Eagle Regiment," which 
carried the American bird througii its service 
and brought him home to be exhibited for 
benevolent purposes and he earned at the fairs 
at Chicago and Milwaukee about $20,000. The 
bird was brought from the woods and sold to 
Dan McCann, living at Juneau Falls, on the 
Chippewa River, for a bushel of corn. He 
brought the eaglet to Eau Claire and offered it 
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McGuire for $3.50 and presented to the com- 
pany. Money was raised afterwards ostensibly 
for payment for the eagle, but it was not ap- 
propriated to that purpose. Mr. McGuire re- 
mained with the regiment at Madison until 
marching orders were received, when, on ac- 
count of a ditticulty with the First Lieutenant, 
he resigned his commission. He and his Cap- 
tain, John E. Perkins, who was killed at Farni- 
ington, were on the best of terras, but the 
trouble between him and tiie Lieutenant was 
one that would grow more irreconcilable in time 
and he had no other alternative but to resign. 

He returned to Eau Claire and resumed his 
lumbering engagements, remaining there un- 
til 1S79, when he became a resident of Chip- 
pewa Falls. He established a livery business 
and has since continued its management. He 
is also United States Mail Messenger and has a 
'bus and transfer line, and is doing a good 
business. 

He was married in Eau Claire in April, 1863, 
to Edith, daughter of E. U. and Maria (Freray) 
Daniels. They have had four cliildren, named 
in order of liirth Lewis, Daniel O., Francis and 
Arthur. Francis died in infancy. Mr. Mc- 
Guire has always voted the Democratic ticket 
until Harrison's campaign, when he cast a 
Republican vote. 



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^RANK FISHER, Milwaukee, Wis.. 



member of G. A. R. Post No. 18, at 
Manitowoc, Wis., foreman of Geo. C. 
Cribb Manufacturing Company at Milwaukee, 
was born in Budin, Austria, June 2, 1840. The 
father and mother, Joseph and Anna Fisher, 
removed their family to America in 1847, 
theirs being the first Bohemian familj' to settle 
in Wisconsin. Mr. Fisher, senior, built a house 
at Milwaukee, where he worked at his trade as 



wagon maker until 1851. In that year he 
purchased a farm in Manitowoc county on 
which they lived until 1855 when the farm was 
sold and they moved successively to Manitowoc 
Rapids and Manitowoc City. The mother died 
in the town of Franklin in that county in 1863 
while her .son was in the army ; the ftither 
died at Manitowoc in 1880. Four children of 
the family reached mature life ; Gabriella mar- 
ried Charles Bresler of Manitowoc; Joseph is 
in the employ of George Dyer of Milwaukee ; 
Caroline is deceased. 

According to the custom of his countrymen, 
Mr. Fisher received his education in English, 
Bohemian and German, living at home until 
he was married in 1880 in Manitowoc to Car- 
olina Mendlik, a native of Austria and daughter 
of John and Veronika (Janaushek) Mendlik, 
her family removing to America in 1853. 
About a year afterwards, Mr. Fisher removed 
to Manitowoc and enlisted Aug. 20, 1862, in 
Company F, 26th Wisconsin Infantry, going to 
Milwaukee for muster at Camp Sigel. He left 
the State Sept. 17, 1802, with a regiment wliich 
consisted almost whollj' of Germans and he 
was in his first fight at Chancellorsville, having 
previously camped at Alexandria and Fairfax 
C. H., drilled and performed other military 
duty, marching to Gainesville and Falmouth, 
passing the winter at Stafford C. H., and going 
to the famous "Mud Party" in .January, mov- 
ing with the regiment across the Rappahannock 
and Rapidan and reaching the field of Chan- 
cellorsville tired out in common with a regi- 
ment that was placed in an exposed position 
without protection, and under the deadly attack 
which followed when the rebels saw their ad- 
vantage. Mr. Fisher escaped after running 
extreme risks and was afterwards with his 
regiment at Gettysburg and, when the regi- 
ment with the 11th Corps under Hooker, was 
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companied the command and was in the fight 
October 26, 1863, at W'aiiliatchie, went tlience 
to the relief of Grant's army at Cliattanooga 
and was in tlic fight above the clouds at Mission 
Ridge November 24th and 25th. He fought 
at Resaca May l^jlh, 14tli and 15th, and at 
Dallas on the 25th and in the several actions 
at Kenesaw Mountain in June, including the 
action of the 22<l where the regiment suffered 
severely, lie was in the siege of Atlanta and 
fought at Peach Tree Creek and afterwards 
was under constant fire in the trenches, lie 
moved to the sea willi Sherman and was in the 
siege of Savannah December 21st, starting 
Northward in January, being at the burning 
of Columbia Feln-uary 17th and fighting at 
Averysboro, March 16tli, and Bentonville, 
March IDth, going to Goldsburo and Riileigh, 
thence to Richmond and Washington and the 
(h'and Review and was mustered out at Wash- 
ington June 13, 1865, as Corporal of his com- 
pany, having been promoted by Colonel, after- 
wards General Winkler. (See sketch.) Mr. 
F'isher was only absent from his command after 
he was wounded and his career in the army was 
remarkable for narrow escapes. At Mission 
Ridge a Ijall passed through his hat and at 
Atlanta another shot cut through the boot on 
his left foot. Before leaving Milwaukee he pur- 
chased a small portfolio which he carried in- 
stead of a knapsack and which he had with 
him at Kenesaw Mountain, filled with papers 
and an oil blanket and some clothing and in 
the action a minie ball struck this wilii a 
force which carried it through the package, 
shattei'ing a wooden pipe into 30 pieces and 
burying itself in. Mr. Fisher's side. lie was 
carried in an ambulance to field liospital and 
before he became conscious, the ball, as flat as a 
25-cent jnece, had been cut out, a remarkable 
fact and showing the force of the missile, as a 
minie ball is large and heavy. Mr. Fisher was 



taken next to hospital at ChatUinooga where 
he remained seven weeks, joining his regiment 
at Atlanta. He has still the jiortfolio with its 
contents. 

After being discharged at Milwaukee he 
went back to Manitowoc, that city being his 
home until 1888, and he engaged in ])uying 
grain and produce and in the sale of agricul- 
tural imi)lements. In the year named he re- 
moved to Milwaukee and entered his present 
employ, wdiere he operates as foreman of tlie 
salesroom of a large agricultural in)i)lement 
house. Mr. Fisher is a mendjer of the Masonic 
Order, Blue Lodge and Chapter and Council at 
Manitowoc. 

The family of Mrs. Fisher brought six of 
their seven children to America, the oldest son, 
Charles, remaining in Austria. The family 
first settled in Milwaukee, removing afterwards 
to farms near Racine and Manitowoc where the 
father died ; the mother is also deceased. The 
six ciiildren are recorded as follows : Theresa 
married Wenzel Pettran of Milwaukee; John 
lives in Manitowoc ; Rudoljih served in the 5th 
Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded at the 2d 
battle of Bull Run and died near there in 
hospital of wounds ; Mrs. Fisher is next in 
order of Ijirth ; Henry was a soldier in tlie 2Gth 
Wisconsin Infantry ; Louis is in Oklahonui. 
Charles Fisher, only son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Fisher, is a book-keeper in the eni])loy of 
" Morawetz," a hatter of Milwaukee; an only 
daughter is named Emma. Siie is an accom- 
plished young lady and the family are social, 
intelligent and noted for hospitality. 



OYES T. KELLY, Racine, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
born June 7, 1837, at Farinersviile, 
Seneca Co., New York. His father, John 
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of Jolin Kelly, a soldier of the Revolution. 
He fought in 1812 and was at Buffalo soon 
after that place was burned by the British. In 
1841 he removed to Caledonia, Racine Co., 
Wis., where he died .June 25, 1865. He was 
for a long time the proprietor of the old Farm- 
ersville tavern. His father was horn Dec. 26, 
1743, and died Sept. 19, 1826. Four children 
were included in the family and the son grew 
up on the farm and attended the i)ublic schools 
of Racine county at a time when that portion 
was a dense wilderness, not a house being in 
sight of that of his father, whiph is still stand- 
ing near Franksville. (1889.) 

Mr. Kelly was engaged in farming until he 
became a soldier and he enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, 
in Company H, 22d Wisconsin Infantry. From 
the rendezvous at Camp Utley he went to Cin- 
cinnati and crossed the Ohio to Covington. 
(As they were leaving Dr. Parks met them j 
and gave each man a testament.) They 
made many movements through northern 
Kentucky, engaged in endeavoring to keep 
track of several rebel leaders witliout much 
success and when the command reached Nich- 
olasville, Mr. Kelly was taken sick witli typhoid 
j)neumonia. After he was convalescent he 
went to hospital No. 3, at Lexington, .Jan. 5, 
1863, remained there until March od when he 
joined his regiment; March 8-9 he went with 
the command of Lieutenant Colonel Bloodgood 
to Brentwood Station, being in Granger's Re- 
serve, 2d Division and Brigade, Army of Ken- 
tucky. There Forrest and Van Dorn surprised 
them about seven in tlie morning of March 
25tli and tliey were all cajitured. Their captors 
swung around Franklin with them to avoid the 
Union troops and on their route the prisoners 
were compelled to wade Duck River which was 
cold and deep ; Mr. Kelly, on account of recent 
illness, was permitted to ride on a horse belong- 
ing to a Texan ranger. From Columbus they 



went to Shelbyville and at Tullahoma they 
were stripped of nearly all their clothes. April 
4th they arrived at Bristol and went to Lynch- 
burg whence they went to Richmond and re- 
mained one day at Libby Prison. They were 
paroled, sent to City Point and transferred to 
the Union lines and went to Annapolis, where 
they were re-clothed. From Annapolis they 
went to Baltimore May 1st and thence to Pitts- 
burg, Pa., where the citizens received them 
substantially, giving them an excellent supper, 
which they needed. They went to Cincinnati 
and to St. Louis where they arrived at Benton 
Barracks May 5th. About June 1st they were 
exchanged and Mr. Kelly went to Camp .Jack- 
son and thence to Nashville. From there he went 
to Murfreesboro and did garrison and other artil- 
lery duty until the regiment joined the com- 
mand of Sherman with the 20th Army Corps. 
He was in the action at Resaca where his lieu- 
tenant was wounded. After the battle he was 
detailed to accompany the wounded from tlie 
field hospital to Bridgeport, Ala., and remained 
there until August 26th when General Thomas 
sent him to look after the telegraph lines in 
Tennessee. Falling ill, Mr. Kelly left that 
.service and went to Camp Detachment at Chat- 
tanooga. In November, 1864, he was detailed 
as clerk at headquartei's at Chattanooga ; went 
thence to Nashville ; was there during the bat- 
tle ; returned to Chattanooga in December, 
remaining there in the capacity of headquar- 
ters' clerk until he was ordered to Milwaukee 
to be discharged June 15th, 1865, under sur- 
geon's certificate of disability. 

The inflexible abolition principles of Colonel 
Utley were the cause of much excitement while 
he was in command of his regiment. There 
was almo.st incessant disturbance at headquar- 
ters on account of the colored people. One 
day a black man came in and appealed to Colo- 
nel Utley for protection. Soon after, a portly 



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man in an elegant carriage drove up and de- 
manded his "nigger." Colonel Utley pointed 
the man out and told his claimant that if he 
wished to go he could take him. Tlie darkey 
stated emphatically that he did not wish to go 
and Colonel Utley told the slave owner that he 
would have to take the man iiimself. He 
looked unutterahle disgust and went away 
without interfering with the black man. He 
was the chief justice of Kentucky. 

After his discharge, Mr. Kelly remained a 
short time in Racine and went to Auamosa, 
Iowa, where lie operated as a photographer 
and portrait and landscape painter, having 
obtained a high degree of skill in that line of 
artistic work before he entered the army. He 
went subsequently to Sparta and La Crosse 
and in 1883 located at Racine. He makes a 
specialty in enlarging portraits and lias a wide 
reputation in liis avenue of business. At the 
American Photographers' Convention at Min- 
ne'apolis in July, 1888, he took first prize for 
black and white portraits executed with tlie air 
brush. He was married in Caledonia, Wis., 
in 1800, to Hannali A., daugliter of .lohn and 
Mary Howard, and their children were named 
Byron .J. and May E. Tlie wife died Jan. 22, 
1867, and July 25, 1868, Mr. Kelly was again 
married to Mary T., daughter of Robert Davis, 
at Cieneva. Tiieir children were named Myra 
A., Eva, Willie M., Irvin M., (dec), Ernest G., 
(dec), Harvey R., Lillian !>., Minnie M. and 
Edna R. 

EVI J. ADAMS, Brodhead, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Tost No. 90, was l)orn 
f in the town of Magnolia, Rock Co., 
Wis., May 10, 1845. He is fourtli in line of 
descent from iiis first paternal ancestor in this 
country, wiio came from Germany and set- 
tle<l in Pennsylvania, and whose second 




son, G. W., was the grandfather of Mr. Adams 
of this sketch. He was a cooper and married 
Catherine Baker, rearing 13 children. The 
survivors are Mrs. Catherine Rogers, Mrs. 
Caroline Miller, Jerry, John and Jacob. The 
senior Adams is living in retirement at Brod- 
head after a useful and busy life as a farmer 
and mechanic. In the early portion of the 
19th century the grandparents removed from 
Pennsylvania, (Harrisl)urg), to Indiana, and 
10 years later went to Ohio. In 1839 they 
went to Magnolia, settling on a farm. In 1842 
they went to Green county and in 18G6 to 
Kansas, where the grandfather soon died 
and the family returned to Wisconsin. The 
grandmother died in Green Co., Wisconsin, 
aged 84 years. During the stay in Ohio, 
the senior Adams married Sarah Squires, a 
native of Steuben Co., New York. They 
had ten children, of whom eight are living, 
whose record is as follows: Mrs. Catherine 
Reily was formerly the wife of David E. Cas- 
tator, who died from injuries received while 
serving in the 13th Wisconsin Infantry. Mrs. 
Mary E. Creglow lives in California : Mrs. 
Hester A. Crall lives in Wisconsin ; Augu.stus 
W. died at Stevenson, Ala., of disease con- 
tracted while serving in the 13th Wisconsin 
Infantry; Sarali J. Kirkpatrick lives in Wis- 
consin ; Levi J. is next in order of birth ; 
Mrs. Rachel K. Allen and Mrs. Addie P. 
Cleveland live in Wisconsin; Ruth P. died in 
infancy ; John J. lives in Iowa. The mother 
died in Spring Valley, Sept. 21, 1858, aged 73 
years; the father is still living in Brodhead. 
Mr. Adams was reared on the farm and 
attended school until he entered the army. 
Although but 17 years old he connected him- 
self with a command that saw veteran service 
throughout its experiences. He enlisted Feb. 
27, 1864, in Company D, 36th Wisconsin 
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at Cainp Randall, Madison, and set out for 
Washington and the scenes of activity at 
the front. May 10, 18G4. The command 
j)roceeded immediately up the James River, 
and thence to Belle Plain Landing. • The follow- 
ing morning they ]iushed on to join the troops 
at .Spotts^'lvania and were in the reserve on 
the ISlli of May. Mr. Adams was in the 
heavy labor of tlirowing up fortifications 
and was in an action on the 23d on the North 
Anna River. He was in the fight at Tolopot- 
omy Creek on the .jOtli and went with his 
command to the fight at Cold Harbor, going 
after the action to the trenches at Petersburg 
and after fighting on the ISth until the third 
charge, he was wounded in the right arm, and 
was named in the dispatches as injured. He was 
at City Point a week, went thence to New York 
and was furloughed July 30th, and returned 
to the regiment about the middle of Septem- 
ber. He went to David's Island in New York 
Harbor and thence to Bedloe's and a week 
later went to City Point and joined his regi- 
ment in the rear of Petersburg. He again 
fought in the trenches until the 24th of the 
month, when he was in the fight at Hatcher's 
Run. Februarj^ 5th he was again in an action 
at Hatcher's Run and after the fall of Peters- 
burg joined in the chase after the rebels 
and was present when Lee surrendered, his 
command dividing tlieir last rations with the 
famished rebels and going 36 hours without 
food. He went next to Washington where he 
was in the Grand Review and afterwards 
passed several weeks at Jetf'ersonville, Ind., and 
was discharged July 12, 1805. 

He returned to Brodhead and engaged in I 
fanning until 1881, when he left the farm and 
his calling as an agriculturist, having become 
quite blind. In 1886 his sight was wholly 
gone, the result of his wound, his eyesight be- 
ginning to fail immediately after his injury. 



Pie was married in Albany, Wis., Dec. 24, 1865, 
to Martha, daughter of William and Esther 
M. (Graves) Griffin, who were born respectively 
at Hoosac, Rensselaer Co., New York, and 
Greenfield, Mass., the latter being descended 
from English parents — William and Martha 
(Clifford) Graves. The daughter was Iwrn .Ian. 
26, 1844, in Hoosac, and came West with lier 
parents in 1854, the family locating on a farm 
near Albany in Green county, where the 
parents are still resident. Mrs. Adams is the 
eldest of their nine children, eight of whom 
are living. Julia F. married Edwin Atkinson, 
a member of the 2d Wisconsin Infantry, and is 
deceased ; the brothers and sisters are named 
in order of birth: Mrs. Emily A. Peeljles ; 
Mrs. Mary E. Stock; William A.; Abhie ; 
Mrs. Stella Dunn; George L.; Eugene. The 
record of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Adams 
is as follows : Alicia May, born Feb. 23, 1867, 
died when seven years old ; Willie W., born 
Dec. 30, 1870 ; Jessie G., .Ian. 27, 1873 ; Edith 
M., March 28, 1876; Sarah E., July 29,1880; 
Ida Belle, Aug. 23, 1882. Mr. Adams is a 
charter member of his Post; and with his wife 
belongs to the Wisconsin Grange. 







ILLIAM EDWARD DERVIN, 
Watertown, Wis., member of G. 
A. R. Post No. 94, and one of the 
prominent Grand Army men in Wisconsin, was 
born March 19, 1840, in Herkimer Co., New 
York, and is the son of John and Margaret 
(O'Donnell) Dervin, who were natives of Ireland, 
were there married, and thence the father came 
to America in 1829, the mother following after 
nine years with three children. After the ar- 
rival of his family, the father removed to Penn- 
sylvania, and afterwards, in 1848, removed to 
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and, in 1848, began to realize the experiences 
of a pioneer in a new country and he engaged 
in farming until April, 1857, when lie com- 
menced to learn the business of a machinist, 
but finding the occupation distasteful he re- 
sumed his connection with agriculture, in which 
he was occupied until he entered the arm}'. 
Nov. 2, 1861, he enlisted in Oimpany F, 1st 
Battalion, IGth U. S. Infantry, and went into 
rendezvous at Camp Thomas, three miles north 
of C!olumbus, Ohio. About the 1st of Feb- 
ruary, 1862, he went to the front, going to 
Northern Kentucky by way of Cincinnati, and 
passed his first night on rebel territory on the 
farm of the confederate General, Ruckner, 
where Company F lost its first man, Henry 
Benty, by accident. The command marched 
to West Point, Ky., passing Fort Donelson soon 
after its surrender and perfoi'med guard duty 
at Nashville, where Mr. Dervin was on guard 
in the Capitol, Feb. 28, 1862, and also guarded 
the residence and tomb of James K. Polk, his 
widow treating him personallj' with the great- 
est kindness and bringing him a glass of wine 
with her own hands. He was also detailed as 
guard at General Buell's headquarters and act^ 
ed in this capacity in the different places where 
headquarters were stiitioned. At Pittsburg 
Landing he was detailed on transportation by 
team and had a miserable experience, the roads 
being rendered almost impassable by heavy 
rains, and he passed a whole night in cold rain 
and mud, without food or drink from noon on 
Sunday until Monday morning. After the vic- 
tory he helped bury the dead and care for the 
wounded. As a result of tiie expo.«ure he was 
attacked with catarrh and dyspepsia, from 
which he is still suffering. Abont the 1st of 
July he reached Huntsville, Ala., nn<l was made 
Orderly to Captain C. C. Gilbert, Insjiector Gen- 
eral of the Army of the Cumberland, and re- 
turned with him to Nashville; they went 



thence to Jonesville by boat and at Harpeth 
Shoals the}' were notified of danger of capture 
and went back to Nashville, riding across the 
country and arriving the next morning. Mr. 
Dervin went next to Gainesville and afterwards 
to Louisville, remaining there until August 
25th, when he went to Richmond, Ky., with the 
horses of the Captain and himself. While he 
was there the fight at Rodgersville near Rich- 
mond, Aug. 30, 1862, took place, where General 
Nelson was wounded, and after Mr. Dervin's 
return to Louisville, he witnessed the shooting 
of Nelson in the Gault House by Jeff C. Davis. 
Nelson lived about 20 minutes. While acting 
as Orderly to Captain Gilbert, Mr. Dervin was 
sent with di.spatches to General Boyle and was 
stopped by a patrol guard of 13 men and or- 
dered to barracks; he refused to comply, a 
fight followed and Mr. Dervin passed the guard, 
running towards Boyle's headquarters to find 
liimself in another scrimmage with another 
guard of 11 men, raw recruits, who did not 
know that an Orderly with dispatches must not 
be hindered, and Mr. Dervin drew his revolver, 
after being roughly handled, but was prevented 
from firing by Lieutenant Harrington of the 
22d Kentucky, wlio caught his arm; he hopes 
this account will meet the attention of that 
officer and wishes him to receive his sincere 
thanks for preventing murder. But Mr. Der- 
vin was locked up in tiie barracks prison witli 
disreputable characters and he rebelled, bring- 
ing on another skirmish with authorities in 
which several officers joined. (On taking 
inventory, Mr. Dervin found that in 
the street encounter he had lost §41 in 
greenbacks, a silver-mounted revolver and 
his vest.) He had no alternative but to sur- 
render, the officer in charge refusing to send 
to headquarters to ascertain who he was, but 
lie found opportunity to send a letter to Gen- 
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a dollar and iu a few minutes orders for his | 
release came from his superior officer. He de- j 
manded liis property, but his money and vest 
had not been turned over by the officer of the 
guard. On the order of the General the money 
was made good by the commandant of the 
barracks and, three weeks after, he recovered 
his revolver from the lieutenant who had taken 
it from him. He acted as Orderly with Gilbert 
at Perryville, liis chief being in command of a 
corps. Mr. Dervin went on to Nashville and, 
under special order for all detached men to 
return to their regiments, he took leave of 
General Gilbert Nov. 27, 1802. He reported 
to Captain Barry of Company F, and was soon 
after made Corporal. He was in the skirmish- 
ing prior to and at the battle of Murfreesboro, 
and was carried from the field by the 1st and 
2d Sergeants of his company, having received 
three minie balls and two Mi.ssissippi rifle 
bails; the latter breaking the fibula of his 
right leg, also cutting the cord in the buck of 
the leg and making a fracture on the side of 
tlie tibia. He lay on the open field until Sat- 
urday night and on Sunday morning, .Jan. 4, 
1863, awoke in pain and hungry. He ate a 
small quantity of food and gave all the money 
he had — two dollars — to be taken to Nashville, 
a distance of 26 miles, over corduroy roads in 
swamps, and after lying all night on the side- 
walk in the rain without food, he was finally 
admitted to hospital No. 20, where Dr. Fish 
gave him the kindest attention. He was sent 
to Louisville for examination for furlougii and 
condemned as permanently disabled. He re- 
ceived final discharge and returned to his 
home. He has suffered ever since from his 
injuries and also from the disea.ses mentioned, 
being disabled about eight-tenths of his ca- 
pacity to labor. As soon as able to attend to 
business he engaged in the sale of groceries, 
associated with his brother, until March, 1864, 



when he went to Missouri. He was occupied 
there in a sawmill until he met with an acci- 
dent; he stumbled on his injured leg, which 
flew back and threw him on a circular saw 
which nearly took his arm off. He was laid up 
more than a year and found himself obliged 
to learn a trade, and he has since o{)erated as a 
painter, paper-hanger and whitener. He has 
served three times as Delegate to Department 
Encampments ; he has also served under Com- 
mander Weissert as Assistant Inspector of the 
Department of Wisconsin. Mr. Dervin claims 
blood connection with the new prime minister 
of Germany through their mothers, both being 
named O'Donnell and there being but one 
stock of that name in Iieiand. It is not a 
matter of pride, as he states that he " would 
rather be a Corporal in tlie LT. S. service than 
prime minister of an Empire." 

Mr. Dervin was married Feb. 10, 18G7, to 
Mary B. Dillon of St. Louis, Mo., and their 
children are named Alice, William T., Marga- 
ret Eugenia and Arthur. The oldest son is 
assistant postmaster at Watertown and the 
oldest daughter is a teacher in the city. .James 
Dillon, deceased, father of Mrs. Dervin, was a 
soldier in the 59th Illinois Infantry ; he emi- 
grated to America w'hen his daughter was 
about two years old. Mr. Dervin is an excel- 
lent citizen and sustains in private life the 
quality of his career as a soldier, i-ecording 
" that he left -the service of his country with 
the greatest reluctance." 

ULIUS N. BARTLETT, Watertown, Wis., 
Senior Vice-Comniander of G. A. R. Post 
No. 94, (1889) was born May 30, 1833, in 
Riga, Genesee Co., New York. He is of English 
descent in the paternal line and suj)j)oses tliat 
his great grandfather, Josiah Bartlett, one of 



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the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, 
was born in England. His father, Crowell 
Bartlett, was Ijuru Oct. "20, 1810, and died 
Maivh 14, 18SU. His mother, Marietta E. 
Miner, before marriage, was born in Lenox, 
Mass., April 23, 1812, and was of a Scotch 
family. The niariiage of tiie parents took 
place Nov. 9, 1831. Jacob, father of Crowell, 
was a native of New Hampshire. 

Julius was reared on a farm and accompanied 
liis parents to Wiscon.sin in the fall of 1847. 
They located on a farm in the uncleared forest 
in Milford, Jefferson county, where he did pio- 
neer work on lUO acres of heavy timber. When 
he was 21 years old he went to tlie west village 
of Waupun to paint in a plow and fanning mill 
factory, going home in tlie fall and in 1855 
went to Hlack River Falls where he spent two 
years and, returning to liis fatlier's place, 
worked on the farm until he determined to 
l>ecome a soldier. Aug. 11, 1802, he enlisted 
in Company B, 29th Wisconsin Infantry, and 
went into rendezvous at Camp Uamlall, wliere 
he remained until he left the State for Helena, 
Ark. At Watertown, while on duty, lie took 
cold and was sent to the hos2)ital with tonsilitis, 
where Dr. Addison removed the tonsils. On 
his recovery, about January, 18(33, he rejoined 
ills regiment in time to take part in the White 
River exjiedition where the entire regiment 
was on guard duty through a \\lK)le night and 
until 11 o'clock the next day. Bloody flux, 
sore throat and other difficulties, resulting 
from exjjosurc in a snowstorm, .sent him again 
to hospital at Helena and lie was discharged 
Feb. 11, 1803. He was sent to Memphis where 
Mrs. Harvey met him with her carriage and 
carried him in her arms to the Beal street hos- 
pital where he received the best possible treat- 
ment under her personal supervision. When 
he started for Wisconsin he was unable to walk 
alone and on the boat was discovered in u help- 



less condition by a man on board named Jones, 
from Toledo, Ohio, who took him in his arms, 
carrieil him to his berth, took care of him all 
night and until arrival at Cairo, going with 
him to Chicago. There he was taken in charge 
by another man who carried liim to a restiiu- 
rant which he conducted, given some milk and 
placed in a bed to rest until it became neces.sary 
for him to set out for his destination. Pie was 
taken to the depot and found that his host 
would accept no compensation. On arrival at 
Milford his brotlier-iu-law took him to his 
home where his careful sister placed him on a 
feather bed, but he was so unaccustomed to 
such luxuries that he was ol)liged to ask for 
blankets on the floor. His recovery was very 
slow and months elapsed before he could per- 
form any labor. In 1803 he apj)lied for a pen- 
sion to be rejected. (The application was re- 
newed in 1866 to meet the same fate but, under 
the administration of Corporal Tanner, it was 
allowed within 30 day.s, his papers bearing 
date of April 27, 1889). In the fall he accompa- 
nied a Deputy Provost Marshal to serve papers 
on drafted men where trouble had been threat- 
ened, the cojiperhead fraternity predominating 
there. But, although they were " hard citizens " 
no trouble was had. He was married Feb. 22, 
1800, to Sarah J. Fitch of Watertown. Her 
father was born in England and her mother in 
Pennsylvania. Three children were born of 
their union of whom one survives — William — 
who takes care of his parents. 

WhBERT S. HEARN, jn-oprictor and 
editor of the Dodgeville, Wis., 
Vhmnkk, Postmaster at tliat place 
and member of G. A. R. Post No. 109, was 
born near Cadiz, Ohio, Oct. 8, 1846. His 
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land and went, in boyhood, to Oliio. The ma- 
ternal grandparents went from Virginia to 
Cadiz in 1802 and in the latter jilace the 
rnotiier, (Barbara Urquhart, before marriage) 
was born. To her and her husband 11 chil- 
dren were born. Five sons were in the ser- 
vice: John G. enlisted in the 28th Kentucky 
Infantry and served three years; he was a 
slaveholder in Tennessee at the commencement 
of the war and a i-ailroad contractor ; came to 
Louisville, Kentucky, in May, 1861, and en- 
listed in the Union army ; was captured by 
John Morgan at Gallatin, Tenn., Aug. 11, 1862, 
with 300 of his regiment, and sent to Camp 
Chase, Columbus, Ohio, as a paroled prisoner; 
was afterwards exchanged and served with his 
regiment, participating in the Atlanta cam- 
paign and in the battles of Franklin and 
Nashville under General Thomas. Edward H. 
was a Lieutenant in Company E, 16th Ohio 
Infantry ; he was a newspaper man until 1860, 
and jjracticed law ; he died in the service at 
Nashville ; James F. was in Missouri when the 
war broke out, came home and enlisted in 
Company B, 30th Ohio in 1861, and served 
three years ; he is deceased. William, third in 
order of birth, died in 1859. W. B. Hearn is 
proprietor of the Cadiz Republican and a mem- 
ber of the Ohio Legislature. Melville H. i.s 
deceased ; he enlisted in Company 1, 13th Ohio, 
April 19, 1861, was a Sergeant and was mor- 
tally wounded Sept. 10, 1861, at Carnifex Ferry, 
W. Va., died seven days later at field hospital 
and was buried in the vicinity. Ezra died at 
the age of 19 years. Eliza is deceased ; Aman- 
da is Mrs. S. B. Patterson ; Mary is unmarried. 
Mr. Hearn entered a i^rinting office when 
14J years old and was there employed when 
lie enlisted in the three months service. He 
enrolled at Cadiz, June 10, 1862, in Company 
E, 88th Battalion, (short regiment) and was 
mustered at Columbus where he performed 



duty at Camp Chase during the greater part of 
liis period of enlistment, guarding rebel pris- 
oners. He was on one excursion across into 
Kentucky, (being one of three who made con- 
nection with Company A to capture Morgan), 
reporting at Lexington. He was chiefly on 
detached duty, and was anxious to see actual 
service, but had occasion later to change his 
mind. He was mustered out at Columbus 
about Sept. 26, 1862, his term having expired. 
(While guarding prisoners at Camp Chase, his 
brother John was brought in.) Aug. 29, 1864, 
he re-enlisted in Company B, 180th Ohio In- 
fantry and was mustered in the same camp as 
formerly. He went with his regiment to Elk 
River and Dechard, Tenn., remaining until 
January, 1865, when the command was at- 
tached tothe 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 23d Corps, 
sent to New Berne and Wilmington, N. C, 
opening the way for Sherman's army. He was 
in a fight at Wise's Fork, N. C, where he first 
saw actual warfare, his earlier service inclu- 
ding only scouting and skirmishing with bush- 
whackers. The regiment joined Sherman at 
Goldsboro and went with the marching hosts 
to Raleigh where .lohnston surrendered. The 
regiment went thence to Charlotte, N. C, and 
performed provost duty until July 13, 1865, 
when they started for Columbus to be mustered 
out on the 25th. 

On his return home, Mr. Hearn engaged as 
foreman of the Steubenville (0.) Gazelle, and 
was there occupied a year. He then accepted 
position as foreman of the Bepublican office at 
Cadiz. In April, 1869, the Republican was pur- 
chased by himself and brother, the present 
proprietor, Mr. Hearn continuing with it until 
February, 1874. At that date he went to 
Dodgeville, Wis., where he bought the Dodge- 
ville Chronicle, (established in 1858), taking 
possession on March 2, 1874. Sept. 28, 1889, 
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and entered upon his duties in October of the 
same year. 

He was married at Cadiz, Oliio, to Anna E., 
daughter of William N. and Margaret (Tiernan) 
Carson. Mrs. Hearn is a native of Jefferson 
Co., Ohio; they have had three children named 
Alice (born Sept. 17, 1873), AVillie (born at 
Dodgeville, Feb. 4, 1878, died Sept. 12th fol- 
lowing), and Clara B. (born Dec. 13, 1871'). 
Mrs. Hearn is an active member of the W. U. 
C. at Dodgeville. 

T. PRIDEArX, lumber merchant at 
Mineral Point, Wis., and member of 
• G. A. R. Post No. 125, was born at 
Dodgeville, Wis., Sept. 4, 1842. His parents, 
Henry and Ann (Treloar) Prideaux, were both 
natives of England and in the paternal line 
tradition states that the descent is French. 
They were married in England, and after the 
birth of one child, ^\'illiam, they came in 1837 
to America. Elizabeth A. is the second in 
order of birth; (her husband, .John .J. Leece, 
was a soldier in Company C, 31st Wisconsin 
Infantry;) Richard, .]ane, B. T., Sarah, Francis 
J. (deceased), and Mary H. are named in their 
order of birth. The parents located at Dodge- 
ville, Wis., and afterwards removed to Linden, 
Iowa county, subsequently returning to Dodge- 
ville, which has been the place of abode since. 
The father died in July, 1883, aged 70 years 
and the mother is still living. The senior 
Prideaux was a miner, W()rking in the mines 
in this country and in 1850 went to California, 
remaining several years in the Golden State, 
returning to Wisconsin in 1863 and going back 
to California to remain two years. The son 
obtained his education in the schools of Dodge- 
ville and there learned the business of a tinner. 
In 1870 he established himself at Mineral 



Point, combining the business of a tinner and 
hardware merchant until 1883, when he sold 
out and went to Lake Mills to engage in the 
hardware business, which he sold at the end of 
two years, returning to Mineral Point and liuy- 
ing his present interest with J. I). Martin, 
which firm is still doing a prosperous business 
under the style of J. D. Martin & Co., and in 
addition to all commodities of the lumber busi- 
ness, traffic in other builders materials. 

Aug. 14, 1802, Mr. Prideaux enlisted from 
Dodgeville in Company C, 31st Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and went into camp at Prairie du 
Chien, where he was mustered. A portion of the 
regiment went to Madison and the remainder 
to Racine, being stationed at those places to 
make up the complement. LIpon going to the 
front the regiment went to Columbus, Ky., 
drilled and performed other duty, and there 
Mr. Prideaux was taken sick, j)laced in the regi- 
mental hospital and after four weeks was sent 
home on a furlough, rejoining his command at 
Murfreesboro. The regiment went thence to 
Nasliville and did provost dut\' and, July 20, 
1864, received orders to join the command of 
Sherman, whom they met at Peach Tree Creek, 
and on the day of that battle were attached to 
the 20th Corps and fought through the cam- 
paign under the grim old commander, who 
to-day, (1889) is the sole representative of the 
old war hor.ses remaining. The 31st went on 
the march to the sea. Mr. Prideaux was in all 
the activities of his regiment througliout the 
siege of Atlanta, and participated in all the ex- 
periences which overtook his column in the 
footrace to Savannah ; he fought at Averysboro 
and Benton ville, and ou tiie marcli through the 
Carolinas was continually under lire. After 
reaching the North, after tramjjing through 
^'irginia, Mr. Prideaux was in the Granil Re- 
view and was mustered out at Louisville, Ky., 
receiving discharge and jiay at Madison, July 



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7, 1865. At Columbus Mr. Prideaux was de- 
tached from his company and performed pro- 
vost duty, and aftiT his return after his illness 
he did not lose a day of service until hnally dis- 



charged. 



He was married at Mineral Point in 1872 to 
Louisa, daughter of James and Mary Martin. 
She was born in Mineral Point and her parents 
were from Cornwall, England. Mr. and Mrs. 
Prideaux have four surviving chidren; Iva 
Bernice was born in October, 1880; Nettie in 
March, 1882; Jessie in July, 1885; Benjamin 
Harrison in December, 1887. Henry E. and 
Guy S. are deceased. Mr. Prideaux has been 
Adjutant of his Post three years ; he is a Chap- 
ter Ma.son and has taken the Council degrees; 
he is present Master of the Blue Lodge, having 
held the position two years. 



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r,^ HARLES C. CUNNINGHAM, Monroe, 
Wis. Soon after the close ot the Rev- 
olutionary war, John Duidap Cun- 
ningham, the grandfather of Mr. Cunning- 
ham, wiiose name leads this account, came to 
America from London. He was a representa- 
tive of the ancient, noble and honored house 
of Glen Cairn, which carried on its heraldic 
in.signia the motto " Over ; Fork Over. " He 
was the betrothed of a lady of noble connec- 
tion who severed the alliance on learning that 
he intended making the New World his home, 
and she sent the engagement ring to his sister 
at Paisley, Scotland. He ai)i)lied his fortune 
to the development of business opjjorlunities 
in New York, making several trips to the Old 
World, his sister Eliza accompanying him to 
America. He had an intimate friend named 
James Scott to whom he loaned a considerable 
sum of money. One day, at Newburgh on the 
Hudson, he met Angelia, daughter of Colonel 



Huyck, a friend of Washington, fell in love 
with and in 1798, married the celebrated 
beauty, whose ancestors came from Holland. 
Their children, James Scott and Catalina, were 
born respectively in June, 1799, and February, 
1801, the mother dying soon after the birth of 
the daughter, Catalina. The sister referred 
to above, married Judge Yates of Albany 
and in their family the two motherless children 
were reared. Not long after, their father went to 
Charleston to attend to his business with James 
Scott and died just before the vessel reached 
port. His body was taken in charge by Scott, 
buried and then his friend, possessing himself 
of his money, papers and a miniature of his 
wife painted on ivory and cased in gold, de- 
parted from the country and was never after- 
wards heard from. The associations of the 
orphaned children in the family of Judge 
Yates were of the highest type socially and 
James Scott Cunningham studied law with his 
uncle. But he disliked the profession and de- 
voted himself to the manufacture of fine cabi- 
net work as soon as he was master of his own 
time. He located his business in New York, 
where he assisted in the manufacture of the 
first organ of Trinity Church, which was 
burned in the great fire ni that city. In 1822 
he married Cynthia, only daughter of Peter 
Wyckoff, one of three brothers who cajne from 
Holland long before the war of the Revolution 
and settled in New Jersey, near New Bruns- 
wick. His ancestors were French who fled to 
Holland during the Reign of Terror in France. 
Of the marriage, eight children were born, 
named in order, Matilda Gertrude, Catalina, 
James Alexis, Eliza Yates, Fanny, Herman 
Leonard, John Dunlap and fJharles C. The 
latter was born in the City of New York Dec. 
10, 1841. 

His parents removed in 1857 to near Monti- 
cello, Wis., where Mr. Cunningham utilized his 



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fine education in teaching, as favorable oppor- 
tunities occurred. (He lias since met many, 
l)roniinent in the broad West to whom he had 
taught the rudiments of education and who 
remembered hitn with the most gratifying 
interest.) He remained under parental author- 
ity until he enlisted at Monroe, Sept. 19, 18G1, 
in the 5th Wisconsin Battery. The following 
roster of the engagements in which Mr. f'un- 
ningham participated forms a fine outline of 
the military service performed by the com- 
mand to which he belonged. It includes New 
Madrid, Mo., Farmington, Miss., Perryville 
and Lancaster, Ky., Nolensville, Stone River, 
Liberty Gap and Tullahoma, Tenn., Chicka- 
mauga, Ga., Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Buz- 
zard'sRoost, Tenn., Resaca, Rome, Dallas Woods, 
Big Shanty, Pine Mountain, Kenesaw Mountain, 
Smyrna Camp Ground, Vining's Station, Peacii 
Tree Creek, Ga., the ^L^rch to the Sea and the 
fight at Bentonville, N. C. This involved the 
movements in a route which might be called a 
circle. Mr. Cunningham traver.sed Illinois, 
Missouri, Mississij)pi, Kentucky, Tennessee, 
Georgia, South and North Carolina, Virginia 
and the States on the return to Wisconsin, a 
distance and journey which would look appal- 
ling to a man setting out upon it for a 
trip of observation. But when it is considered 
that it was a necessity and under military 
stringencies with all the risks and dangers of 
operations in the country of an eneni}-, its pro- 
portions may be comprehended. Mr. Cunning- 
ham drilled in light and heavy artillery prac- 
tice and in infantry tactics, aided in building 
fortifications (sometimes under rebel lire); at 
Stone River he was cajitured to l)e retaken by 
Union cavalry after a few hours, and, soon after, 
while separated from his command, was chased 
by a Te.xan ranger on horseback, and was 
entirely without side arms; his pursuer shot a 
soldier near liim, but on observing his youth- 



ful appearance remarked " tliat he would spare 
his young life." Dec. 27, 1S03, he veteranized 
and took his furlough of 30 days, which he spent 
in Wisconsin. At Atlanta he was ill and was 
granted bj' General Thomas a 30-day furlough. 
On his return he found communications had 
been cut off and, soon after, orders were issued 
for all absent men on their way to tlieir respec- 
tive commands to remain at Nashville, but he 
made his way on toji of a freight car to Atlanta, 
where he cast his maiden vote for Lincoln. 
En route he made the acquaintiince of relatives 
of (iovernor ^'ance of North Carolina, who 
assured him of assistance if he should be taken 
prisoner. But he refused unless his comrades 
could have the same aid, especially Clark 
Baker. He was in the final parade at Wash- 
ington and received honorable discharge .June 
14, 1865. 

After resuming connection with civil life, ho 
engaged in farming in Sylvester Townshij), 
selling out in .June, 1875, wlien he removed to 
Vineland, N. J., and engaged in fruit farming. 
He went later to Tarrylown on the Hutlson and 
to Keyport, N. J., but returned to Vineland in 
a vain hope of restoring the health of his wife; 
she died in August, 1882, and Mr. Cunning- 
ham traveled a j'ear through the South. He 
has the habits, tastes and culture of a gentle- 
man and since the death of Mrs. Cunningham 
has indulged his inclinations to pursue, so far 
as possible, the life of an artist. 

In all his journeyings he takes sketches 
of scenery and on reaching his home in 
Monroe he finishes them in oil, his collection 
containing scenes endeared to him through 
personal association. 

He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, 
Order of United Workmen and Odd Fellows. 
His character is one that renders him a reliable 
friend; his culture and inherited and acquired 
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and his genialiW and general good comrade- 
ship secure for liim the contidence and esteem 
of tliose wlio, with himself, made common 
cause of their country's need. 

He was married at Orangeville, 111., Nov. 1, 
1SG8, to Keziah, daughter of George and 
Lucinda (Forsyth) Eley. She was born in Ohio 
and died in Vineland, N. J., Aug. "24, 1882. 
She was the mother of five children, three 
surviving her. Herman Leonard was born 
April 24, 1870; George Eley was born .Jan. 25, 
1872; Gertrude Leslie was Ixirn .July 2u, 1874; 
(lenevieve and Harry died in infancy. 



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ILAS S. HAYFORD, Whitewater, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 34, was 
born at Parma, Monroe Co., New York, 
March 8, 1842, and is the .son of Solomon and 
Sabrina (Hyde) Hayford. His parents were 
Yankees and were farmers, the son being 
brought up as a farmer's son until lie became 
a soldier, which he did at the nge of 19 years. 
Dec. 18, 18G1, he enlisted in Company I, 10th 
New York Infantry, which was one of the first 
commands to reach the scene of activities on 
tiie breaking out of the war and which lie 
joined as a recruit, at Fort Corcoran, Va. In 
the spring of 18G2 the command moved under 
McCiellan to the campaign of the Peninsula 
and Mr. Hayford was in the action there April 
4th. On that day of the siege he was taken 
sick and sent to hospital at New York City, 
where he remained four weeks, when he re- 
ceiveil a furiougii to return home and remained 
there until July 7th. When he left Fort Cor- 
coran for Yorktown, the march was made 
through a heavy rainstorm and the tramp of 
40 miles so injured him as to cause his illness. 
He rejoined his regiment at Harrison's Land- 
ing, Va., the command being there to take part 



in the actions that followed the peninsular 
campaign. After the expiration of eight days 
he was again taken sick and sent to West Phila- 
delphia hospital where he remained seven 
months. His regiment was then with Burn- 
side at Falmouth, whither he returned and 
where he remained until the expiration of his 
term ; lie was mustered out at Rochester, 
(where he enlisted,) May 11, I860. He re- 
sumed farming, conducting his operations as 
best he could in his disabled condition until 
1872, when lie removed to Wisconsin, locating 
in Whitewater. He was married Sept. 25, 
1860, to Martha A. Muuger of Parma, New 
York, and they have five surviving children. 
The eldest is married and is now Mrs. Ellen 
Fuller. The others are named Cecil S., Edwin 
R., Frederick A. and Florence N. Mr. Hay- 
ford is an enthusiastic supporter of Grand 
Army work and was a charter member of the 
Post at ^\'ilitewater. 



ILLIAM C. LAMORE, Belleville, 
^ll Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 




^^IL No. 121, was born in Richmond, 
Chittenden Co., \'ermont, March 24, 1824. His 
father, Lewis Lamore, was of French descent 
and the mother, Lucy Lamore, was born of 
Connecticut lineage. The son was 12 years 
old when he bade farewell to the Green Moun- 
tain State and he resided in Wellington, Darien 
Co., Ohio, whither he went with his parents 
and when 21 years old, went to Wisconsin and 
located in Rock county, removing from Janes- 
ville to Belleville in 1886. 

He enlisted at Cooktown, Rock count}', in 
December, 1863, in Company K, 2d Wisconsin 
Cavalry, and joined the battalion about the 
first of .January at Rolla, Mo., and was engaged 
in e.scorting mail and supply trains and in ser- 



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vice against bushwliackers, skirmishing and 
scouting in numberless instances, wliich have 
never been otHcially recognized as service, as 
must always be the case in cavalry command. 
But the regiment had tiie satisfaction of burn- 
ing two rebel bridges on the Black River and 
of destroying large quantities of rebel supplies. 
Tliey felt that their work was a success and Mr. 
Lamore is specially gratified to record that he 
was with the rcconnoitering force under Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel Dale, who was wounded after a 
severe fight near Yazoo City. This was in 
December, 1864, and Mr. Lamore was with the 
regiment at New Grenada, La., to pai'ole pris- 
oners. In July the command was sent to 
Louisiana and Texas to aid in the reconstruct- 
ing of afl'airs, and it was engaged in that i)usi- 
ness under (Jeneral Custer until tlie last of Oc- 
tober when they started for home and Mr. La- 
more was mustered out at Madison in Decem- 
ber, 1865. 

He was married July 1, 1847, to Charlotte, 
daughter of John W. and SojJironia Fisher, 
and their children are named Wallace B. and 
Ida. Mrs. Fi.sher was born in the State of New 
York. Since the war Mr. Lamore has been 
variously engaged in business, has operated in 
agriculture and selling shoes, and is now the 
proprietor of the only livery and sale and feed 
stables in Belleville. 



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y^f^L^ILLIAM H. EVANS, attorney at 
^^W Prairie du Chien, Wis., mendjer 

J#aL of ( ;. A. n. Post No. 37, was born 
at Petersburg, \'a., Nov. 3, 1842, and is the son 
of Joseph and Mary (Hall) Evans. His ear- 
liest ancestor in the father's line went from 
Wales to Ireland, whither the father came to 
America in 1836, locating in tlie city of 



New York, where he was married. He was a 
gunsmith and followed his business in several 
of the large cities of this country and linally 
located at Clayton, Crawford Co., Wis., in 1850, 
where he settled on a farm on which he 
worked as a i)ioneer and followed his trade. 
He was prominent in the settlement of the mu- 
nicipal affairs in the town and county which he 
assisted to organize, officiated as School Super- 
intendent, served as Justice more than 20 
years and lived until Nov. 22, 1889, about a 
week before the compilation of this sketch. He 
was 82 years of age. The mother is living in 
Ohio. Three of' their children lived to ma- 
turity: Phebe A., wife of D. M. Twining, Maria 
now deceased, and Mr. Evans of this account. 
The son was raised to manhood under the 
circumstances mentioned in his father's career, 
received such education as the schools of that 
period afforded, and attended school in Cincin- 
nati, Galena, Natchez, St. Louis and other 
places where his father was in business prior 
to coming to Wisconsin. Pie engaged in farm- 
ing after removal to Wisconsin until lie en- 
listed. Aug. 15, 1862, he enrolled in Company 
1), 31st Wisconsin Infantry, being mustered at 
Prairie du Chien, going thence to rendezvous 
at Racine, Nov. 14, 1862, where the winter was 
passed. March 1, J863, the regiment started 
for the front, and j>assed the summer in mili- 
tary duty at Fort Halleck, Columbus. The 
service included encounters with guerrillas, 
scouting and skirmishing, expeditions of varied 
character and camp duty until orders were 
received to proceed to Nashville, after which 
the regiment was broken up for detached ser- 
vice, the organization being retained at Mur- 
freesboro. The company to which Mr. Evans 
belonged was stationed at Fostervillc, re- 
mained there until April 22, 18G4, went to 
Wartrace, went thence after guarding a bridge 
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active warfare in front of Atlanta, July 16th, 
arriving at Peach Tree Creek July 20t]i, and, 
taking position in the trenches hefore the city, 
remained under fire until the close of the 
campaign, Sept. 4, 1S64. (July 30th he was 
wounded slightly in the head by a bullet 
which knocked him over, and of which a fur- 
row is traceable in the skull. He was incapac- 
itated from duty but a short time.) Mr. Evans 
was attacked with chronic bowel complaint 
on the march to Peach Tree Greek, and 
although he was in the movements around 
Atlanta he grew constantly worse until lie was 
removed from active service by an order of 
General Sherman, which relieved all men suf- 
fering fi'om any ailment, preparatory to the 
movement through the rebel country to the 
sea. Mr. Evans was sent to Nashville, and a 
month later, put on detached duty as Mounted 
Orderly in the personal service of the Pro- 
vost Marshal at Nashville. June 9, 1865, he 
started to connect with his regiment, but on 
arrival at Louisville found the regiment had 
gone home and he proceeded to Madison to be 
discharged July 7, 1865. 

Tie returned to the occupations of civil life, 
working his farm and manufacturing lime 
and lumber, meanwhile preparing for admis- 
sion to the Bar, which ceremonial was per- 
formed in 1873. In the same year he was 
elected to the Legislature and served a term. 
In 1875 he was a candidate for District Attor- 
ney and the following year was elected to office. 
In 1877 he located his home and law business 
at Prairie du Chien and has officiated as Dis- 
trict Attorney eight years — four terms — and in 
1887 was made City Attorney. Mr. Evans 
represents an excellent tyjte of citizenship. 
He has inherited the sturdy integrity of his 
Welsh forbears and the candid, free and 
hearty temperament of the race of Scotch- 
Irish to which his mother Ijelonged. (Her 



father, James Edwards, was born in Ireland, 
was a rebel in 1798 and was killed by the 
officers of the king. His wife was Mary 
Edwards before marriage.) 

Mr. Evans was married at Rising Sun, 
Crawford Co., Wis., to Mary J., daughter of 
Michael and Catherine (^IcGuii'e) Flanagan, a 
native of County Galway, Ireland. Mr. and 
Mrs. Evans have eiglit living cliildren as 
follows : Joseph P., born March 4, 1868 ; 
William M., Sept. 6, 1870 ; Frederick J., .Jan. 
3, 1872; Mary Ellen, Oct. 16, 1873; Francis, 
May 17, 1877; Catherine E., March 15, 1879; 
Cliarles P., Jan. 18, 1882 ; Norah C, Feb. 17, 
1884. Frances Mary and Eugene died in 
infancy. 

^^ W. ROGERS, Proprietor of the Fenni- 
^^^^ more House at Fennimore, Wis., a 
''^'is^^* member of G. A. R. Post No. 173, 
was born in Yates County, New York. His 
parents, Joseph G. and Minerva (Noble) Rogers, 
were born in Vermont, were married there and 
removed successively to Pennsylvania, New 
York, White Pigeon, Michigan, and, in October, 
1842, to Milwaukee county, Wisconsin, and, 
after 14 years to Lancaster in Grant county. 
Both died there, having been the parents ot 
nine children. L. N. Rogers, a resident of 
Grant county, is the oldest ; Lucinda Brown 
died in 1843 ; Livona married Wiliard C. Roff 
of Newark, New Jersey; Geo. P. died in 1842; 
Francis E., Mrs. Mariette McCreary, L. C. 
Rogers, S. W. and Emma M., wife of E. S. 
Morse, are the others. David Noble, maternal 
grandfather of Mr. Rogers, was very wealthy 
and his deep interest and understanding of the 
financial resources of tlie Government induced 
him to equip and pay a regiment through two 



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years of tlie Revolution, but lie was never 
reimbursed. Tlie father of Mr. Rogers served 
through the war of 1812 and one of his daugh- 
ters, Mrs. E M. Morse, is the occupant of land 
for wbith he received a warrant from the 
United Stiites. He was a cooper and died in 
18S7 at 80 years of age; his wife died April 
15, 1879, aged 81 years. 

Mr. Rogers was reared on a farm and obtained 
a common school education, and he was engaged 
in his iju.siness as an agriculturist when the war 
came on. He eidisted Aug. 14, lt>62, in Com- 
pany A, "iOth Wisconsin Infantry. He was 
mustered at Madison and went thence to bar- 
bracks at St. Louis, where he drilled and per- 
formed other military duty until he sutt'ered 
sunstroke, was taken to the hospital and re- 
mained unconscious nine days. When able to 
travel, he went to St. Louis where he enjoyed 
the privilege of sleeping in a slave-peu. He 
went on toS|)ringfield, was taken sick and pros- 
trated 14 days. The attack was made at Spring- 
Held by Marmaduke and Ilindman while 
Mr. Rogers was convalescent, and he assisted 
in the defense. He rejoined his regiment at 
Forsythe, Ark., and, soon after found himself 
in pursuit of bushwhackers and guerrillas in 
Missouri and Arkan.sas; this service continued 
until June 3d, when the regiment moved to 
take position in the trenches near Vicksburg, 
anil Mr. Rogers served there, chiefly in labor 
under rebel tire, until the fall of Vicksburg. 
On the night of his arrival there he was on 
picket and could see tlie shells dropping into 
the city. He was afterwards in the expedition 
to Yazoo City and went to Port Hudson and 
Morganzia. The regiment was ordered to 
Spanish Fort, but tlic illness of Mr Rogers 
prevented his going and he was sent home on 
sick furlough; after his arrival in Wisconsin 
he was desperately ill for three months and 
finally reported to the Provost Marehal of Wis- 



consin and was ordered to Harvey hospital, 
whence he was assigned to the 14tjth Company, 
2d Batteiy, \'eteran Resei've Corps, and after- 
wards performed duty in hospital. Later he 
went to hospital at Prairie du Chien, where he 
was nuistered out Aug. 18, 1865. 

On returning to his home he resumed farming 
for two years, when he set up the lousiness of a 
tinner in Fennimore, selling out at the end of 
two years. He traveled sometime for his health, 
meanwhile selling his farm and he afterwards 
entered into jiartnershij) with Mr. Loney in 
trade. This relation was dissolved after two 
years, and he conducted his interests singly 
until 1877, Mhen he went out of the busines.s. 
He spent some time in the employ of the rail- 
road corporation wliieh was running a new 
road through Fennimore and in 1879 went to 
Dakota, took uj) a homestead and tree claim 
and remained there six years. He then re- 
turned to Fennimore and invested his capital 
in the hotel of which he is present proprietor. 
He has probably traveled by team as much as 
any man to be found. He made lii'^ first 
journey from Rushville, New York, to White 
Pigeon in a wagon and in 1842 traveled with 
an o.\-team thence to Brookfield Junction, Wis- 
consin, and to Fennimore in 1857 with two 
yoke of cattle. His journey to Dakota and 
back was made with a team. He belongs to 
the fraternity of Masons and with his wife, is 
a member of the M^ E. Church. He was mar- 
ried at North Lancaster, in Marcli, 1857, to 
Mary F., daughter of George and Eleanor Luce, 
and a native of \'enango Co., Penn-sylvania. 
Artilla, only child of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers, is 
the wife of Dr. A. B. Bailey, a physician at 
Fennimore. 





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ILLIAM CHESTER SWAIN, Mil- 
^W waukee, Wis., member of E. B. 
Wolcott Post No. 1, was born : 
April 22, 1832, at Halifax, Vermont. That 
place was also the birthplace of his father, 
Cliipman Swain, the father of the latter being 
Joseph Swain, a native of Wenham, Mass., 
born in 1754, who married Millicent, daughter 
of James Barrett, Jr., the son of Colonel James 
Barrett, who was a militia commander in the 
battle of Concord in 1775, June 17th. Rev. 
Joseph Swain, the father of Joseph, wa.>i born at 
Reading, Mass., in 1723, was a clergyman of 
the Congregational church and preached about 
40 years at A\'enham, Mass. His father, John 
Swain, was born in Reading in 1(J98, and was 
the son of Benjamin Swain, born in the same 
})lace in 1668, his father, Major Jeremiah Swain, 
having been born at Charlestown, Mass., in 
1641. He was famous in the King Philip war 
and at one time was in command of the whole 
body of Colonial troops. His father, Jeremiah 
S., came from England to Charlestown ni 1638, 
and was one of the founders of Reading about 
1644. Elizabeth Chipman, wife of Rev. Joseph 
Swain, was the daughter of Rev. John Chip- 
man, who preached 60 years in Beverly, Mass., 
and was the grandson of John Chipman, who 
came from England and married Hope, daugh- 
ter of John Howland and Elizabeth Tillie, i)as- 
sengers on theMayMowerand who were married 
in America. Deucy Gilbert Swain, mother of 
Mr. Swain, was seventh in descent from William 
Gilbert, who was " made a freeman " in Wind- 
sor, Conn., in 1640 ; her motlier, Hannah Fox 
before marriage, was, according to a family 
tradition, descended from the author of " Fox' 
Book of Martyrs." Chipman Swain was a 
farmer until he became Superintendent of the 
Vermont State prison at Windsor, serving 
from 1842 to 1845; he was also Sheriff of 
Windham county for 14 years, and a pension 



agent for the soldiers of the Revolution. Four 
of his ten children died in infancy. Jerusha 
E., George G., Lucy A., William C, James P. 
and Samuel ii. reached mature life. Jerusha 
became a missionary among the Cherokee 
Indians, laboring as such ten years. George 
went to Wisconsin and was Assemblyman 
from Sauk county for three years ; he is 
now Fuel Agent of the C. & N. W. R. R. for 
Iowa ; James P. was a Lieutenant in the 8th 
New York Cavalry and died after parole from 
a rebel prison in 1864 ; Samuel G. served in 
the 12th Wisconsin Infantry and was 2d Lieu- 
tenant of a colored regiment ; he is a postal 
clerk between Chicago and VV^inona, Minn.; the 
three brothers enlisted in three different regi- 
ments from different States about the same 
time, neither knowing of the others' purpose. 
Mr. Swain was reared at home and, when 15, 
began to learn the printing business in Wind- 
sor, serving a regular apprenticeship, according 
to custom. From 1858 to 1860, he was fore- 
man of the office of the Albany Statesman and, 
ni the year last named, went to Pittsfleld, Mass., 
and assumed charge of the printing depart- 
ment of the Berkshire Counttj Eagle. In 1861, 
in company with Elijah Ilobart of Albany, he 
began his first work in the war and they re- 
cruited a company for Berdan's Sharpshooters, 
of which his comrade was made Captain and 
himself, 2d Lieutenant. The organization was 
consolidated with the 03d New York as Com- 
pany B, rendezvoused at Albany and in March, 
1862, was sent to Washington and assigned to 
Casey's Division, Palmer's Brigade, and Keyes' 
(4tli) Corps. The command went to Fortress 
Moiu-oe, Newjiort News and the Peninsular 
campaign, fighting at Williamsburg first after 
skirmishing on the way thither, and the regi- 
ment was afterwards on duty at White House 
and Harrison's Landing after the retreat. Mr. 
Swain was in the actions at Antietam, Fred- 



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ericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. 
At Warreiiton he was dutached and sent to 
draft rendezvous in New York harbor, where he 
remained altout a year and a half. For several 
niontlis he was engaged in transporting drafted 
men to tlieir respective comniands and was 
afterwards made chief engineer on Hart's 
Island, wliere his term of enlistment exj)ired, 
in November, 1864. He was discharged and 
hastened to the side of his dying brother in 
hospital at Annapolis, and, after accompanying 
his body to Wisconsin, he returned to New 
York and was commissioned Captain of the 
24th U. S. Colored Regiment, in April, 1865. 
He went with his command to I'oint Lookout 
as guard for rebels and after they were paroled, 
remained in cliarge of the Point until he was 
mustered out, Oct. 1, 1SG5. 

He went to Wisconsin and bought a farm in 
Sauk county on which he raised hops until 
1868, a disastrous year for his business, which 
he alfandoned and engaged as foreman of the 
printing ollice of the Daily News, at Milwaukee. 
In 1878 he opened an office in his own belialt, 
the tirm being Symes, Swain & Co.; their rela- 
tions continued until 1885, when it became 
Swain & Tate, as at present. (1890.) They 
transact a general book and job printing busi- 
ness. He is a member of the Masonic Frater- 
nity and bus served as Deputy Crand Master 
of the Grand Lodge of Wisconsin, as Grand 
High Priest of the Grand Chapter and as 
Eminent Commander of the Commandery ; -for 
eight j^ears he has presided over one of the 
Scottish Rite Bodies of Milwaukee, and for 
seven years has acted in tiie capacity of Re- 
porter of Correspondence for the Grand Cliapter 
and the fJrand Commandery. 

He was married June 14, 1877, at Lake Mills, 
Wis., to Olive E., daughter of Edwin S. and 
Olive S. (Egerton) Brayton, who is a represent- 
ative of old Puritan stock. Three children 



were born of this union, the youngest of whom, 
Cieorge C, died in infancy; Catherine E. and 
Mary B. survive. The wife and mother died 
.June 6, 1886. The portrait of Mr. Swain ap- 
pears on page 340. It is an honor to the mili- 
tary records of the soldiers of the Union. 
Descended from Puritan ancestors, reared un- 
der New England iniluences, fighting to pre- 
serve his heritage of liberty, bringing his 
manhood's strength and ambitions to the de- 
velopment of the West, Mr. Swain represents 
American citizenship of the iiighest type. 



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ACOB WARNER, Monticello, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 113, was born 
in Madison Co., New Y''ork, May 4, 1837, 
and is of Holland Dutch extraction in both 
lines of descent. His father and mother, Jacob 
and Maria (Collyer) Warner, were both born in 
the State of New York. The former was a 
tanner and currier and removed to Wisconsin 
ill 1845 ; he located on a farm in Sylvester, 
Green county, effecting a later removal in 1854 
to a farm near New Gliirus where the father 
died .Jan. "26, 1861 ; the mother died Feb. 15, 
1882, at the home of her son in Muiitircllo, 
aged 84 years. 

Mr. Warner ])assed his early life as a farmer 
boy until he enlisted Jinie 7, 1861, in Coiiij)any 
C, 3d Wisconsin Infantry and was a member 
of one of the first companies that left the 
county, enlisting for three years. He was 
mustered at Fond du Lac, and left the State 
July Pith for Hagerstown, Md., and Harper's 
Ferry, performing picket duty on the Potomac 
and engaging in one little scrimmage at the 
Ferry. In the fall the regiment went to Fred- 
erick City, Md., where their presence prevented 
the convening of the legislature which intended 
to vote the State out of the Union. In March, 



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1862, they crossed into Virginia, going to 
C!liarleston and Winchester, where Banks was 
in a fight. The 3d followed the enemy, re- 
turning to StraslKirg wliere they had a smart 
skirmish with rebel cavalry, moving back to 
Winchester and Mr. Warner was in the succes- 
sive activities until Martinsburg was reached. 
Theii- next action was at Cedar Mountain and 
they afterwards marched to Manassas, where 
they witnessed the second Bull Run fight. 
They were sent forward to the defense of 
Washington, received orders to follow the rebels 
to Antietam, and Mr. Warner took part in that 
splendid . battle. Ke afterwards performed 
picket duty on the Potomac until January, 

1863, when they went into camp at ytaiford C. 
ir., and in the spring went to the campaign on 
the Rappahannock. He was in the activities 
along the river prior to tlie final disaster at 
Ghancellorsville, where he was wounded May 
4th, a l)all striking him in the left ankle. The 
Union troops withdrew, leaving their wounded 
and dead and 13 days after his comrades came 
under flag of truce and removed him. The 
wounded were all prisoners of war and as soon 
as possible were paroled by rebel officers. Mr. 
Warner was taken to the field hospital where 
his foot was amputated and he was sent to hos- 
pital at Washington where he remained until 
his leg had healed, when he received honora- 
ble discharge, miinis a good foot, Aug. 25,1863. 
He had four Ijrothers in the civil war and, let 
the biographer arrest the pen a moment to call 
attention to the quality of Ijlood and patriotism 
which sent five sons from one familj' to defend 
the flag, -lohn I. Warner enlisted in 1862 in 
the 3d Wisconfsin Cavalry; Andrew enlisted at 
the outbreak of the war, enrolling for three 
months and re enlisting for three years in the 
same company and regiment ; he was wounded 
in the left leg ; William H. enlisted in 1862 in 
Company K, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, wa 



taken sick at Nashville and died in the hospi- 
tal. James L. enlisted in the 2d Wisconsin 
Cavalry, was discharged with heart disease 
May 13, 1863, and on recovery re-enlisted in 
Company A, 27th Wisconsin Infantry, and was 
with his command until killed in front of 
Petersburg, June 19, 1864. Mr. Warner was a 
good soldier and is an enthusiastic Grand Army 
man. He wishes to record that, when Jackson 
attacked his command at Winchester, several of 
his comrades were captured, named Philip 
Morris, Robert McFarland and John Waldo. 

Mr. Warner was married March 14, 1865, to 
Cynthia, daughter of Noah and Marion Eliza- 
beth Chapman and who died July 13, 1870, 
without children. Mr. Warner was again mar- 
ried Aug. 21, 18—, to Charlotte E. (Martin) 
Date. She has three children by a former 
marriage who form an interesting family. The 
mother was born May 9, 1850. Her parents 
were l)orn in England and came to America in 
1849. 

AVID GOODRICH JAMES, Richland 
Center, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 33, was born in Deerfield, 
Rockingham Co., N. H., Aug. 3, 1843, and re- 
moved to Richland county, Wis., in 1855, with 
his )iarents, George H. and Louise E. (Hurd) 
•James. After he had passed his boyhood, he 
assisted on his father's farm until he became a 
soldier. He enlisted Oct. 13, 1861, in Company 
F, 16th Wisconsin Infantry, and left the State 
March 12, 1862, for St. Louis, where the regi- 
metit was assigned to the command of Grant, 
who was conducting the campaign prior to the 
battle of Pittsburg Landing, which was the first 
initiation of Mr. James into regular warfare. 
The 16tli Wisconsin was in the extreme front 
of the Division of General Prentiss and was 
among the first of the Linion forces under arms 




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to repel the rebel atUxck. The gallantry of the 
16th Wisconsin is matter of public record and 
every man in the command distinguished liim- 
self for bravery. Mr. .James was next in the 
siege of Corinth, went to luka and going after- 
wards to fight October 3d and 4th in the battle 
of Corinth. In November the regiment had 
become so decimated by sickness and the 
severities of war that it was consolidated into 
five companies, Mr. James, who had been pro- 
moted to Corporal, being assigned, Nov. 3, 1862, 
to Comi)any C. (In the spring of 1S64 the 
complement of the regiment was filled by the 
addition of five companies.) November 28th 
the regiment removed South and com- 
menced the camjiaign which iiad Vicks- 
burg for its ultimatum, whicli was rendered 
futile by the surrender of the stores at Holly 
Springs, the loss of which arrested the advance 
and the IGth went to Moscow, and thence in 
.buHiary to Memphis and A'ieksburg and in 
February to Lake Providence. Mr. James en- j 
gaged with his command in labor on the canal, 
also took part in several skirmishes and per- 
formed other military duty until August, when i 
the regiment went again to Vicksburg and 
about the last of Septemlicr went to Redbone 
Church, and performed guard duty on tlie Big ! 
Black River through the winter of 1863-4. In 
the spring Mr. James passed his veteran fur- ! 
lough in Wisconsin and in Ajiril went to ren- 
dezvous at Camp Randall, Madison, the regi- 
ment assembling at Cairo on the 22d of that 
month and was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 3d 
Division and ITth Corps, going to Clifton, Tenn.; 
the Division marched thence to join Sherman at 
Ackworth, Ga., marching 320 miles to join the ' 
great commander, June 8, 1864, having in the 
train 1,100 cattle for army use. AVhile on the 
route they encountered Forrest, but no action 
occurred. June 10th the advance was begun 
and five days after the series of actions known 



to historj' as Kenesaw Mountain began. Mr. 
James was in the trenches throughout June 
and moved July 10th to Sweetwater Creek, 
taking position on the 20th in line of battle. 
He was in the fight at Bald Hill under Leggett, 
(for whom the hill has been named) the 12th 
and Kith Wisconsin and 20th Illinois making 
the charge and driving Pat Cleyburn's Division, 
who had never before suffered defeat, the Wis- 
consin regiments performing distinguisliing 
service. July 22d Mr. James was on the skir- 
mish line with his company and was captured 
by the rebels and taken to Andersonville, July 
28th, remaining there until September 12th, 
when he made his escape and wandered about 
for two weeks, when he was rec^ij)tured. Dur- 
ing his absence his company was exchanged 
and he lost liis chance, being taken next to 
Florence. He made his escape again and after 
two weeks of wandering was chased down by 
bloodhounds and taken back to Florence, sen- 
tenced to receive 50 lashes an<l only escaped 
this additional punishment by an accidental 
change of the guard. Fel>. 17, 1865, the cere- 
mony of parole was gone through and the 
Union prisoners were taken to Wilmington, 
tiience to Ringgold and Goldsboro and thence 
to the North Branch of the Cape Fear 
River, the advancing columns of Sher- 
man having spread terror through the 
rebel camps in Georgia and North Caro- 
lina and at the place last named the rebels 
abandoned them to whatever fate might over- 
take them, although not a man was able to 
stand upright or walk. Mr. James was crawl- 
ing on his hands and knees, bare-footed and 
bare-headed and covered with rags ; and when 
the Union prisoners from Florence were dis- 
covered by a Union cavalry command, it is 
safe to .say their eyes never before encountered 
such a wretched mass of humanity. Mr. 
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died the first night after receiving rehef. Mr. 
James went to Aiinapohs, passing two weeks 
in a storm on the Atlantic, was sent to i)arole 
camp at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, where 
lie was fnrloughed to go home and he pas.sed 
througli Madison on the day of Lincoln's fu- 
neral. When he was captured he weighed KiS 
pounds ; when he reached home he weighed 
G9 pounds. The record of Mr. James in his 
connection with the war of the rebellion is 
one to which this meager account is wliolly 
inadequate. When he was mustered out Sept. 
19, 1865, it was with the rank of Captain 
by Brevet, dating Oct. 3, 1862, and his papers 
state " for conspicuous bravery manifested by 
him at the battles of Corinth, Miss , and Bald 
Hill before Atlanta, Ga., at the latter of which 
he was taken prisoner while endeavoring to 
hold a rifle pit long enough to enable a 
wounded comrade to go to the rear." 

He returned to Richland Center, learned 
the tinner's trade and in 1806 became a mem- 
ber of the firm of G. H. & N. L. James which 
was changed to G. H. & N. L. .James & Co. 
In 1881 he became sole proprietor and has 
since conducted the leading hardware business 
at Richland Center. He also deals in farm 
machinery, wagons and other articles incident 
to his line of business in his locality. He 
has been prominent in local municipal poli- 
tics and has served as a delegate to National 
and State Republican Conventions. He was 
one of the chief contractors in building the 
railroad to Richland Center and has been 
prominently connected with all public en- 
terprises for the benefit of his locality. Li 
May, 1881, he was made Post Master and 
served until 1885. He has been Commander 
of his Post and was elected Junior Vice Com- 
mander of the Department of Wisconsin in 
1889. He was promoted to Senior Vice Com- 
mander in September, 1889, and now occupies 



the position. He is advanced in the Order of 
Masonry to the Royal Arch degree. 

His first wife, Ada (Briggs) James, to whom 
he was married in 1868, died in November, 
1869, leaving a son named Oscar B. In- 
1872 Mr. James married Laura, a sister of his 
former wife, who is the mother of tliree daugh- 
ters named Ada, Beulah and Veda. 






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f^^ DWARD N. MARSH, Baraboo, Wis., 



t77^^— v> member of G. A. R. Post No. 9, and 
a prominent real estate dealer, was 
born June 16, 1833, in Onondaga Co., New 
York. In the paternal line he is of English 
lineage, and on the mother's side the blood is 
Scotch, her birth having occurred in the High- 
lands, and she accomj)anied her parents to Nova 
Scotia, where she was married. Joshua Marsh, 
grandfather of Mr. Marsh, was born at Brain- 
tree, Mass., March 15, 1745, and was married 
March 24, 1770, at Londonderry, Nova Scotia, 
to Margaret Corbet, a native of Plymouth, 
Mass., born Jan. 28, 1752. Joshua Marsh, 
father of Mr. Marsh of this sketch, was born 
at Conway, N. S., Aug. 5, 1779, and was mar- 
ried Nov. 1, 1807, at Cornwallis, N. S., to 
Elizabeth Pal meter, a native of that place, born 
.Jan. 3, 1788, and they had 11 children. Fol- 
lowing are their births: John Palmeter, Nov. 
3, 1808; Peleg, Nov. 23, 1810; Alexander, 
April 23, 1813; Margaret, (deceased), Nov. 3, 
1815; Susan, March 23, 1818; Mary, Aug. 
23, 1820 ; Lavinia, (deceased), Feb. 12, 1823 ; 
Joshua, Jr., July 20, 1825 ; Ann, (deceased), 
May 11, 1827; Abigail, May 4, 1830 ; Edward 
Nelson, June 16, 1833. Mar}' married Nathan 
Paddock, now of Colorado ; Susan is the wife 
of Mr. Kendall ; Abigail married Henry Wil- 
lard of Baraboo ; John is in Oregon ; Peleg 
resides at Baraboo, as does Ale.Kander, and 



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Joshua lives in California. Mr. Marsh is the 
youngest. The family removed to Lake Co., 
111., in May, 1843, and in 1849 their son went 
to Barahoo, whither the other memhers of the 
family removed in 1862, the parents residing 
tiiere until their respective demises. In 1849 
Mr. Marsh entered the employ of his Vjrother- 
in-law, Mr. Paddock, in the lumhcr business, 
and returned to Illinois in the spring of 1S51, 
engaging there in fiirming, which he con- 
tinued until 1854, when he visited Ononadaga 
county, New York, where he met an old 
acquaintance who was employed l)y parties 
who were running boats on the lakes in cen- 
tral New York, and he engaged in tliat business, 
returning to Wisconsin in 1855. He was oc- 
cupied in lumbering at Barahoo iuul vicinity, 
and also as a photographer until impaired 
health comjielled Jiim to obtain employ as 
a hotel clerk, which was his occupation until 
the fii'st call of the President for troops when 
he was among the first to enrol. He enlisted 
April 16, 1861, the day following the requisi- 
tion on Wisconsin, entering his name at 
Baraboo, in Company E, 1st Wisconsin Infan- 
try, and left for Madison Ajiril 17th. l)cing the 
only married man in his company. It was 
Sunday and his minister, Mr. Thompson, dis- 
missed the congregation to fnrnish music for 
the occasion. Until -lune the time was passed 
in camp <lnty at Milwaukee and the regiment 
left the State on the 9th for Harrisburg 
and went from Altoona direct to join Patter- 
son, who was preparing for the encounter with 
the rebels, the first in which Wisconsin troops 
were in action and where George Drake was 
killed. (See sketch.) Jackson was driven 
towards Martinsbnrg ami the regiment re- 
mained after Falling Waters near that place; 
Mr. Marsh was again in line of battle July 15th, 
marching afterwards to aid in the attempt 
to check Johnston which was abandoned 



by Patterson. He was afterwards in the 
marcii to Charleston and Harper's Ferry and 
to the Monocacy River to guard ferries and 
received orders with his regiment to proceed to 
Wisconsin for muster out, his term having ex- 
pired more than a month l)efore. Mr. Marsh 
was taken ill at Hagerstown and had not 
recovered when he reached Wi.sconsin, but 
bis interest in the progress of the wai' had not 
diminished and he devoted mucli attention 
to raising a company and was placed on 
recruiting service. Meanwhile, he enli.sted in 
the 23d Wisconsin Infantry but was thrown 
out by the medical examiners. He continued 
to enlist men designed for service in the 5th 
Wisconsin Cavalry, an organization that never 
existed in fact and the enlisted men were 
distributed among other regiments. Mr. 
Marsh was offered commissions in l)oth 
the 23d and 6th Wisconsin Infantry but could 
accept neither on account of physical disability. 
But he accomjianicd about 800 unassigned 
recruits to Leavenwortii, Kansas, where about 
300 wore mounted and commanded by Lieu- 
tenant Ehle, the remainder being under Mr. 
Marsh, who was also mounted. All went to 
Fort Scott where Mr. Marsh was attacked with 
hemorrhage, and was cared for by an Indian, 
who had a little knowledge of medicine, tliere 
being no physician available. Soon after ar- 
rival the troops were sent to ((uell the Indian 
disturbances on the plains, bvit Mr. Marsh was 
detailed for service in the Commissary Depart- 
ment, where he continued until impaired health 
imperatively demanded his discharge in 1864. 
He returned to Baraboo and m 1865 started 
an enterprise at Devil's Lake, Sank Co., Wis., 
where he transacted business until 1868, wiien 
he sold his resort which had become popular 
beyond his hopes or expectations. He bought 
hotel property in Baraboo which he managed 
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Mauston, Wis., and conducted the interests of 
a iiotel a year. He went next to Elkhart, 
Sliehoygan Co., Wis., and initiated anotlier 
enterprise in tlie way of a summer re-sort. He 
erected a large hotel which he managed until 
1874. In that year he engaged in the same 
husiness at Milwaukee, struggling through the 
period of financial stringency, his affairs finally 
going hy the board and he was glad to obtain 
a position on the ]iolice force in which he 
operated from 1876 to 1877; he went next to 
Colorado and managed a hotel at Fairplay in 
South Park, which he conducted successfully 
two years and returned to Baraboo. He gave 
ills attention to securing a considerable acreage 
in Dakota on which he lived four years and he 
has since lived in the city of 13araboo. -Jan. 1, 
1890, Mr. Marsh became associated with B. N. 
Robinson in real estate business under the 
style of Marsh & Robinson, and they at once 
engaged as real estate and collection agents in 
which interests they have initiated their busi- 
ness under the most auspicious circumstances. 
Mr. Marsh has been an Odd Fellow since 1876 
and he has been prominent in the affairs of his 
Post, holding several offices and recently served 
as Junior Vice-Commander. 

He was married at Baraboo, Sept. 1, 1855, by 
Rev. Warren Cochrane, to Mary A., daughter 
of Philip and Mary (May) Blake, a native of 
Devonshire, England, whence she accompanied 
her parents to America in childhood. The 
two daughters of the Marsh household are 
named Effie May. and Mabel A. 

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AVID D. DAVIES, druggist at Spring 
Green, Wis., a soldier of the civil 
war, was born at Blanpant, Cardigan- 
shire, Wales, Nov. 30, 1840. His father, whose 
name he bears, died when he was three years 




of age, leaving five children, his son of this 
sketch being the youngest. Daniel and Thomas, 
the two oldest, came to America about 1851 
and settled at Sugar Creek, Armstrong Co., Pa., 
where they were joined m 1853 by John, Da- 
vid and a sister named Maggie, now the wife of 
Elias Lewis of Girard, Ohio. The mother, 
(Eleanor Jones before marriage) took a second 
husband, with whom she came to America in 
1860 and died at Spring Green Oct. 14, 1881. 

In the fall of 1854, the family removed to 
Johnstown, Cambria Co., Pa., where they re- 
sided until their immigration to Spring Green. 
They started on their journey in July, 1856, 
and reached their destination, Sunday, Aug. 3, 
1856. (The railroad was not yet completed 
and that section of the Badger State was in its 
primeval condition ; the town, which is the 
abode of Mr. Davies and his unbroken trio of 
brothers, not having readied the dignity of 
municipality.) 

Despite the necessity of exertion for self- 
maintenance, Mr. Davies recognized that of ob- 
taining such education as he could, and he 
alternated school attendance with farm labor 
until 1863, when he became a clerk with S. N. 
Vedder, postmaster and merchant, and oper- 
ated as such until he entered the army, Feb. 1, 
1865; he enlisted at Madison, Wis., in Com- 
pany E, 4yth "Wisconsin Infantry ; was mus- 
tered at Madison, March 6, 1865, and left the 
State two days later in the ca[)acity of 2d Ser- 
geant of his conii)any for St. Louis. There 
the command was ordered to Rolla, Mo., where 
it performed provost duty, Company E being 
detailed for special service at that place. In 
July the company was recalled to the regiment 
and detailed with Company D as permanent 
guard in the city of St. Louis, where Mr. Da- 
vies performed all varieties of military" duty 
save actual warfare, until discharged. His ap- 
pointment as 2d Sergeant was dated March 6, 



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1865; April 6tli lie was promoted to Orderly 
Sergeant at Rolla, Mo., and, July 2-ttli, lie was 
coiiinussioiied 2d Lieutenant and was dis- 
charged as such, Nov. 8, 1805, at Benton Bar- 
racks, St. Louis. 

He returned to civil life, clierishing a hope 
of pursuing a course of commercial study in 
Chicago, hut a good opening for business pre- 
senting itself, he changed theoretical aspira- 
tions for practical and, Dec. 23, 1865, associated 
with a brother, purchased the interests and 
relations of a general merchandise enterprise 
of Col. W. H. Hamilton, successor of S. N. 
\'edder. The partnershij) lasted four years, 
when Mr. Davies became sole proprietor by 
purcha.se, being appointeil postmaster at the 
same time, and ba.s since conducted his atl'airs 
singly. His native energy, sterling character 
and business capacity have resulted in the 
erection of a substantial business, in which the 
transactions include traffic in drugs, groceries 
and merchandise. 

He has found time for the duties of office 
and citizenship; from the date of his business 
investment, Dec. 23, 1865, he served as jiost- 
master to Dec. 25, 1885, a period of 20 years, 
when he resigned voluntarily. He was re- 
tained in active connection with the office until 
Keb. 10, 1886. Sim-e 1877, he has been Notary 
Public; on the organization of the G. A. R. 
Tost No. o'J at Spring Green, he was made 
Commander and served two terms. He has 
served as N'illage Treasurer nine years and he 
had discharged the duties of his official posi- 
tions in a manner whit'li urged his nomination 
as cantiidate for Assemblyman on the Kepub- 
lican ticket for the 1st District of Sauk county. 
It took the combined efforts of Democrats, 
Pnibibitionists and Anti-Pruhibitionists to de- 
feat him ; he lost the election by only 60 votes, 
making a gallant fight and with the consola- 
tion of knowing that the best social element 



regretted the defeat. His career is one which 
shows the possibilities open to honesty, indus- 
try and well-directed energies in America. 
When little more than 20 years old, he had 
served his adopted country as a soldier and had 
settled himself to his life work as a civilian 
and factor of the business community and has 
risen unaided save by his own exertions. 

He was married Dec. 31, 1867, to Mattie E., 
daughter of George and Dotha (Footc) Green, 
a native of New York. Their children were 
born as follows: Charles G., Jan. 18, 1876; 
Stella, Jan. 7, 1878; Pearl, Ajiril 4, 1880; two 
children died in infancy. Mr. Davies is a 
charter member of Centenary Lodge, No. 100, 
A. 0. U. W., at Spring Green, and has served 
as Recorder and Master Workman, and is hold- 
ing the position of Past Master Workman. He 
has been Treasurer of Sj)ring Green Auxiliary 
American Bible Society 23 years since its or- 
ganization in 1867. He has been Delegate to 
County and State Conventions and is present 
Secretary of the Soldiers' Relief Committee for 
Sauk county, serving a second term. 



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OHN A. THOMAS, Clerk of Grant Co., 
Wis., resident at Lancaster, a former sol- 
dier of the civil war and once a member 
of the G. A. R., was born at Smithfield, Fay- 
ette Co., Pa., Nov. 23, 1844. His father, Daniel 
Thomas, was a native of one of the Eastern 
border Stiites; he was a merchant in the Key- 
stone Slate, where he married Elizabeth Ochil- 
tree and be died there in 1847. Following is 
a brief record of his children: — William O., 
deceased, was the oldest; Orlando was a soldier 
in Company F, 8d Wisconsin Infantry; Fran- 
cis was a soldier in Company H, 5th Wisconsin 
Infantry and became disabled in the service ; 
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1866 ; James M., a soldier in Company H, 7tli 
Wisconsin Infantry, returned iiome and died 
in 1870; Mr. Tliomas of tliis sketch is the fifth 
son; Sarah is Mrs. O. P. Wells and Louisa 
married J. P. Chandler. The mother died in 
Wisconsin in 1880. 

Mr. Thomas was the charge of his mother, 
who remained unmarried, until he was 11 
years old when he found a home with a neigh- 
bor and friend of his father, J. M. Thompson, 
going to school a year. His first employ was 
in a drug store in Uniontown, Pa., where he 
operated until I860, and in September of that 
year he joined his mother in Grant county, 
Wisconsin, whither they had gone several 
years before. One of his brothers was a mer- 
chant at Montfort and he found occupation in 
his service and remained with him until he 
entered the office of his uncle, Major Ochiltree, 
as Deputy Register of Deeds of luwa county, 
with head(juarters at Dodgeville, and he con- 
tinued in that connection until he decided to 
enter the army. He enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, 
in Company C, 31st Wisconsin Infantry, fol- 
lowing the example of all his brothers who 
had enrolled early in the course of the war. 
The regiment was mustered at Prairie du 
Chien and sent to Racine, where he was as- 
signed to his regiment (then unfilled.) He 
performed most varieties of military duty, save 
that of actual warfare, prior to going to the 
front at Columbus, Ky. L'util the siege of 
Atlanta the command was engaged in miscel- 
laneous duty, picketing, guarding the river 
tlnough the hot summer which disabled most 
of the reginjent, scouting, marching to Nash- 
ville, thence to La Vergne, Tenn., and to Mur- 
freesboro, making that place headquarters for 
a long line of patrol guard on the Nashville 
& Chattanooga R. R., which scouted 30 miles 
and performed other duty meanwhile. The 
regiment was united at Murfreesboro, prepara- 



tory to a return to Nashville. July 5, 1864, 
tiie regiment was ordered to make connection 
with tiie troops on the Atlanta campaign, in 
which Mr. Thomas was a i^ailicipant througli- 
out ; the 31st worked on the fortifications and 
was constantly under fire until the return of the 
command to the Chattahoochie River. The 
regiment entered the city of Atlanta after the 
evacuation and, after passing the intervening 
time in escort duty for foraging trains and in 
other military relations, the command marched 
out of l)Uining Atlanta to accompany Sherman 
across Georgia. At Montietli's Swamp a hidden 
battery was discovered which was taken by the 
regiment with the camp and all the stores 
while under heavy fire. After moving North- 
ward in January (the command having been 
detained by heavy floods), it was in the fight at 
Averysboro and Bentonville ; his company 
being the color bearing company, was in the 
hardest part of the work, the contest at Ben- 
tonville being particularly severe. While at 
Atlanta, Mr. Thomas was detailed at the head- 
quarters of the Division Adjutant-General's 
office, where he kept books and performed 
other clerical duty until end of service. He 
marched to Goldsboro and Raleigh, thence to 
Richmond and Washington and was in the 
Grand Review. The regiment went afterwards 
to Louisville, Ky., and he was discharged June 
20, 1865. 

He returned to Wisconsin and located at 
Lancaster in 1866, passing the years until 1873 
in clerking and as Deputy Register of Deeds. 
In that year he went to Montfort and engaged 
in settling the mercantile estate of his hrother, 
and in 1874 commenced the sale of drugs. He 
was made Postmaster and officiated 12 years, 
also acthig as Town Clerk. In 1886 he was 
elected to his present incumbency and was re- 
elected in 1888. Mr. Thoniiis belongs to that 
class of useful and active members of the com- 



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munity styled "self-made men." He lias 
pushed liis own way with little assistance and 
occupies a foremost rank in citizenship. He 
was a member of the Post which once existed 
at Lancaster. He was married at Montfort, 
\Vis.,Sei)t. 30, 1S75, to Lucille F., daugliter of 
Gottfried and IjUcinda (Schnee) Hess. Her 
father was born in Prussia and her mother was 
of German descent. Frank, Fern, Florence 
and Etta are the names of the children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Thomas. 



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ILLIAM A. WY8E, attorney and 
^hiyor of Reedsburg, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 13, is one 
of the most j)roniiuent (i. A. R. men in Wis- 
consin ; he has held the various official posi- 
tions in his Post, lias served as Assistant Quar- 
termaster General with Commander Weissert of 
the Department of Wisconsin, and is at present 
(1890) one of the Aides on the .staff of General 
R. A. Alger, National Commander. Mr. Wyse 
was boin at Claremont, New Hampshire, July 
7, 1844, his parents, David A. and Mary A. 
(Watson) Wyse, both having been natives of 
the Old Granite State. He is of Scotch descent 
in the paternal line, his grandfather Wyse hav- 
ing come to America from the Highlands of 
Scotland. David A. Wyse died when his son 
was two weeks old, and in 1844 'the latter ac- 
companied his mother to Sauk Co., Wis., and 
she is still living and a member of his family. 
Mr. Wyse passed his early days on a farm, ob- 
taining such advantages of eilucation as he 
could in a newly .settled country and began 
teaching school when he was 14 years old, act- 
ing as instructor of the first school established 
in Honey Creek in Sauk county. Mr. Wyse 
was determined to obtain a liberal degree of edu- 
cation and he entered uj)on a coui"se of study 



in the University at Madison. All the educa- 
tional institutions in the country lost a large 
percentage of their students at the very begin- 
ning of the war, which fact attests the degree 
and quality of the patriotism inculciited bj' the 
systems of instruction then in vogue. Mr. 
Wyse enlisted in a company which became 
Comiiany K, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, April 17, 
1861, two days after the call for troops from 
Wisconsin reached the Governor of the State. 
Mr. Wyse was mustered at Milwaukee and left 
the State June 9th, going to Washington and 
thence to Maryland, where the regiment joined 
the command of General Patterson, who was 
arranging his plans for a speedy meeting with 
the rebels, which occurred July 2, 1801, and 
Mr. Wyse was an eye witness of the death of 
George W. Drake, the first Wisconsin soldier 
killed ill the war and whose sketch is on 
another page. Mr. Wyse was in the marching 
afterwards and was once in line of battle, ex- 
jiecting immediate action, but the rebels failed 
to materialize, and, after marching back to 
Maryland and to Monocacy Creek, he was dis- 
charged Aug. 21, 1861, after having served 
more than a month beyond his period of enlist- 
ment. He resumed his studies at the Univer- 
sity, but the news from the battle fields and the 
calls for more troops again stirred in him the 
spirit of enthusiasm as a son of the Republic ; 
and he again enlisted Oct. 9, 1861, at Milton, 
in Company K, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, for 
tiiree years. After camping at Janesville, the 
regiment went to Kansas, leaving the SUite 
Jan. 18, 1862, under orders to proceed to take 
part in two expeditions that were abandoned 
and which movements involved hundreds of 
miles of fruitless marching to Fort Scott, with 
the purpose of joining Lane's expedition, thence 
to Fort Riley with the exi>ectation to go to New 
Mexico, but counter orders again sent the com- 
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Columbus, orders were again changed and the 
regiment was placed on duty on the route of 
railroad to Corinth and afterwards went to Forts 
Henry and Donelson on the Tennessee River. 
In September Mr. Wyse was in liis first action 
which was, simply, a big skirmish at Rickett's 
Hill, in wliich the Union arms were victorious. 
He was in the scouting and searches after guer- 
rillas afterwards until the scrimmage at Gar- 
rettsville when chasing Morgan in November, 
and again performed a large amount of march- 
ing for which the regiment 1)ecame dis- 
. . . i 

tinguished. In December he was in the raid ! 

after Forrest and in February he made a run- 
ning march to get to Fort Donelson, but the 
rebels were already repulsed. He passed tlie 
summer there and went thence in August to j 
Stevenson, Ala., having another experience in j 
marching nearly 300 miles. The position at 
Stevenson was one of great danger to the Union 
troops until re-inforcements arrived from the 
East under Hooker. The emergency of this 
situation was one that takes very little promi- 
nence in history, as the Nation generally 
did not understand that all that had been 
accomplished and all that had been sacrificed 
would have been lost if the troops that held 
the Tennessee River had been of less cour- 
ageous spirit, for the whole Western army 
was, practically, at the mercy of the rebels, 
only it is to be supposed the latter did not know 
their advantage. Mr. Wyse veteranized Jan. 
19, 1864, and returned to Wisconsin on 
veteran furlough ; and, after his return was in 
the same sort of service as formerly, the 13th 
becoming the leading regiment from Wiscon- 
sin in foot racing over long distances, through 
rough ciiuntry and in dangerous situations, 
defending important points, re-inforcing, erect- 
ing defenses, patrolling railroads, building 
roads and bridges and trying to keep tally 
of the slip})ery rebel, Forrest, who never 



did anything for which preparations had been 
made, but who was always on the evasive. 
Mr. Wyse was in the action at Decatur, went 
to Huntsville and to Stevenson, going thence 
after Hood's repulse at Nashville to Hunts- 
ville and was in the fight at Paint Rock 
Bridge. After February, 1865, the marching 
was resumed in Tennessee, and in June the 
command went to New Orleans and thence 
to Texas. At Green Lake much suffering was 
experienced, owing to bad water, and when 
the march to San Antonio was ordered the 
endurance of the men was taxed to the last 
extreme. They camped near San Antonio and 
Mr. Wyse was there mustered out Nov. 24, 
1865, and returned to Wisconsin. In both 
services he was promoted to Sergeant. 

He was a schoolboy of 16 when he entered 
the service, in which lie remained continuously 
with the exception of two months in the year 
1861, and is one of those whose time was 
the longest on record in this work. With the 
e.xception of a .short time passed in .service as a 
mounted scout he was with his regiment con- 
tinuously. 

On resuming connection with the life of a 
citizen he engaged in the studj' of law with J. 
S. Tripp, with whom he read two years and 
afterwards went to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he 
entered the Law Department of the University, 
took the prescribed course, and was admitted 
to the Bar of Wisconsin in 1867. He formed 
an association with Hon. G. Stevens at Reeds- 
burg, Wis., and their relations were in ex- 
istence two years. In 1869 Mr. Wyse went to 
Spring Green in Sauk county and practiced his 
profession three years. At the end of that time 
he went again to Reedsburg and resumed his 
business which be has prosecuted since without 
intermission. He was married at Reedsburg, 
Sei)t. 25, 1S67, to Mary E., daughter of Dr. N. 
I A\\ and Sarah A. (Stewart) Sallade, and they 



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have had a family of eiglit children, three of 
wliom died in infancy. Lena L. is a clerk in 
the postoffice at Reedsljurg; the others are named 
in order of birth, Belle, William H., Mary E. 
and James N. Mrs. Wyse and her oldest 
daughter are prominent and active members 
of the Woman's Relief Corps. 

Mr. Wyse is one of tlie foremost men in 
Keedsburg in public spirit, disinterestedness 
in pul)lic service and in tlie interests of the 
city. He formerly held the offices of Village 
and City Clerk and was City Attorney several 
years. He has been Chairman of the County 
Board of Supervisors since 1885, tiie towns 
represented being 11 in number, and he 
has been a member of the Board nine years. 
He lias been a meml)er of the Soldiers' Relief 
Committee since its organization. He was a 
charter member of liis Post and has filled most 
of tlie chairs. He is a Mason of the 32d 
Degree and lias served in all otficial relations 
of the Order. He also belongs to the A. O. LT. 
W. He is a leader in his profession and from 
his war record and interest in Grand Army 
matters is deservedly popular among his 
comrades. 

Wj^ LMON A. CURTIS, Menomonie, Wis., 
'/>t\^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, was 
J(s^^>i\^ born Sept. 14, 1827, at Farmington, 
Trumbull Co., Oliio, where his parents settled 
after marriage on a farm. He is the son of 
Ethan and Aurelia Ann (Strong) Curtis and the 
former was of old American stock, the latter 
being of Scotch descent. Both died on the 
homestead. Their children were named Aure- 
lia A., Celestia, Ethan, Joel S., Almina, Olive, 
Almon and Lucy E. The fatlier dieil whin 
the son was about seven years old and the lat- 
ter remained at home until he was nearly 19 
years old, attending school as he could and in 



winter seasons. He started in 1846 for the 
West and made his first location in La Salle 
Co., 111., returning after the winter was over to 
Ohio and entered an apprenticeship as a car- 
penter and joiner, with lii.s brother-in-law. He 
went, after serving his indentures, to N'aii Wiit 
count)' and look a contract to get out i)ridge 
timber and railroad , ties and also in laying 
track. After the road was done he assumed 
charge of a division and, after two years, re- 
moved to Dunn county. Wis., in 1856. He 
took a claim in the town of S]iring Brook, 
which he improved and on whicb lie lived un- 
til 1871. In February, 1864, he enlisted and 
was mustered into the U. S. service at Madison, 
l)eiiig assigned to Company K, 36th Wisconsin 
Infantry, Feb. 26,1864. He started from camp 
for the front June 10th, and joined tlie Army 
of the Potomac after the Battle of the Wilder- 
ness, and became a member of the 2d Brigade, 
1st Division and 2d Corps. At Washington 
the recruits went aboard a steamer and went 
to Belle Plain, where Mr. Curtis was taken sick 
and was .sent to Washington to iiosj)ital, re- 
maining about a month, when he went to Balti- 
more and thence to Annapolis; his disease 
having been typhoid pneumonia, his recovery 
was slow and he started for his regiment, going 
to Camp Distribution and was placed in a bat- 
talion made up of convalescents from the hos- 
])itals. ^\'llile there Early made his attack 
July 9th at Monocacy, which lasted several 
days, the hospital corps holding the rebel in 
check until the arrival of tlie 6tli Corps, when 
Early retreated. Mr. Curtis was wounded on 
the second day of the action, receiving a shot 
through the wrist, went to Camp Distribution 
and thence to lios]>ital at Alexandria, where his 
arm was amputated above the elbow, after all 
eftbrts for 20 days to save it had failed. He 
remained in lios]>it{i! until discliarged Oct. 6, 
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he lived until 1871. In tliat year he removed 
to Kansas and engaged in fanning two years, 
when he returned to his old farm and remained 
thereon until 1876, wiien he fixed his abode at 
Menomonie. He is engaged in selling 
machinery and in veterinary practice, in whicli 
he is successful. He has had charge of the 
stock of Captain Tainter for two years, the herd 
consisting of thoroughbreds. He is the owner 
of a fine Percheron, known as Dan Greel3^ 

Mr. Curtis was married in Vienna, Ohio, 
Nov. 22, 1850, to Lucy A., daughter of Moses 
and Cornelia(French) Hatch, and tliey liave had 
seven children, named Alfred, Albert L., Emer- 
son A., .Juliet C, (Mrs. .J. B. Lutz), Murilla, 
(Mrs. F. L. Wilcox), Hattie D., (Mrs. James 
Rol)bins), and Annie B., (Mrs. Edward Bates). 
The last two daughters are twins. Alfred and 
Emerson are married and the former is in 
charge of a large furniture factory at Eau 
Claire ; Albert is a l^aggage agent on the rail- ' 
road and Emerson is a successful builder. 
They are all industrious, respected citizens. 
Mr. Curtis is a Republican in politics; he re- 
ceives a pension. 



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W MAND .J. GRITZNER, resident at 
'/^x\^ Watertown, Wis., was born .July 
-Jif^"^^ 25, 1836, in tlie province of Upper 
Silesia, Prussia. In 18.54 lie accompanied his 
parents to America, landing at Hamilton, Can- 
ada, and going thence to Buffalo and Chicago, 
reaching the latter in 1855. In 1856 he went 
to Watertown and learned the business of a 
druggist. In 1858 lie went to Chicago and 
entered upon the business of a barber in which 
he was occupied until liis onli.stment as a sol- 
dier. Sept. 3, 1860, he enrolled for five years 
as a musician in the 3d U. S. Infantry Band, 
proceeding to Newport Barracks, Ky., and was 



transferred tiience to Government Island, N. Y. 
Harbor. The command was sent thence on 
the "Star of the South" to Indianola, Texas, 
and was stationed at Fort Clark, marching to 
that point 300 miles under the guidance of an 
Indian. Five tribes of hostile Indians infested 
that region and the musicians were assigned to 
infantry companies and drilled, in order to be 
qualified to assist when attacked by the red- 
skins. No one was permitted to go more than 
a mile from camp, where five companies of the 
3d U. S. Infantry were stationed. Two com- 
panies of U. S. dragoons were stationed at Fort 
Inge about 50 miles distant. (Known now as 
" Old Fort Inge.") About the first of 1861 a 
massacre of settlers occurred with the lo.ss of 
their cattle. February 18th, General Twiggs 
surrendered the U. S. property in Texas to the 
rebels and soon after the Te.x;as Rangers raised 
the confederate Hag above Fort Clark. The 
troops were marched to Indianola, shipped on 
the " Star of the West," went to Havana, Cuba, 
and thence to be incorporated with the army 
of the North in defense of the flag. The roster 
of battles of Mr. Grilzner includes the deathless 
names of Bull Run, Siege of Yorktown, Gaines' 
Mills, Malvern Hill, 2d Bull Run, Anlietam, 
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the Siege 
of Petersburg from February, to the close of 
the war April 9th, 18G5. This list will tell to 
all generations the character of the service in 
which he was a participant, and he needs no 
other meed of honor. At the first Bull Run, 
where he fought under General Sykes, his can- 
teen and clothing were riddled with balls and 
he narrowly escaped capture by the " Black 
Horse Cavalry." He rau the same chances at 
Chancellorsville, Mine Run and Aquia Creek. 
He endured all the vicissitudes of war on every 
field and skirmished countless times from Bull 
Run to Appomattox, veteranizing in 1864 after 
four years of service, enlisting m the regular 



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service for three years more. He was assigned 
to frontier and post duty, after tlie close of the 
war, and received final discharge at Fort 
Leavenworth, Kansas, June 3d, 1SG7. During 
his period of service on the Potomac and the 
Peninsula, he was detailed commonly to the 
" Stretcher Corps " and performed the duty of 
bearing the wounded, dead and dying from the 
battle fields, exposed to all the dangers of 
active warfare, without the satisfaction of return- 
ing coinj)liments in lead. He wasaLso detailed 
to dress wounds and became so expert that he 
was ill frequent demand as assistant at the 
amputating tables. He suffered severe sickness 
from typhoid fever at Fort Hamilton in 1864 
and nearly lost bis life. 

After leaving the army he went to Water- 
town and opened bis business as a barber in 
which he has since continued, assisted by his 
only son, Max William. He was married Feb. 
20, 1868, to Mrs. Bernardina (Bauricliter) See- 
burg, widow of Peter Seeburg. He is a mem- 
ber of O. D. Pease Post No. 94, at Watertowii. 



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OHN W. SMFLKER, Platteville, Wis., 
a .soldier of the Civil War, was born 
.Sept. 7, 1817, at Belfont, Center Co., 
Pennsylvania. In the paternal line of descent 
he is of II()lland Dutch extraction and his 
mother's ancestors were Irish. Peter and Jane 
Smelker, his parents, were natives of Pennsyl- 
vania. He was reared to the business of a 
cabinet maker and when 17 years old decided 
to devote his business life to carpenter work, in 
which he has been occupied until his retire- 
ment about 1880. About the 1st of ^hiy, 1845, 
he fixed his permanent residence at Platteville, 
Wis. In 1852 he went to California- where he 
remained four years. He was married at 
Johnstown, Pa., Dec. 29, 1839, to Catherine, 



daughter of Dr. Jacob and Susanna (Fox) Hor- 
ner, all of Pennsylvania birth. 

Sept. 9, 1802, he enlisted in a company which 
he, with John G. Scott, raised for service and 
which became Company E, 25th Wisconsin In- 
fantry. His colleague, J. G. Scott, was made 
Captain and he was commissioned 1st Lieuten- 
ant. After muster at La Crosse, the regiment 
went to Minnesota on frontier service, (the In- 
dians being troublesome) after which they went 
to Madison. They went to the front in the 
Civil War in February, 1803, and, at Coluni- 
Ijus, Ky., the regiment was assigned to the lOth 
Army Corps. They went to Cape Girardeau, 
returned to Columbus and went next on the 
Yazoo expedition. Mr. Smelker performed 
duty on the rivers, the climate being so un- 
wholesome as to leave less than 100 men fit for 
duty, and thej' went next to Helena where they 
performed provost duty until they joined the 
expedition to Meridian. They were in the 
siege of Vicksburg, went thence to Alabama 
and to Tennessee, joining the command of 
McPher.son. In A])ril, Lieutenant Smelker was 
sent to Cairo, 111., with about 80 men in charge, 
en route fiom Mound City hospital, Captain 
Scott, who died soon after reaeliing his destina- 
tion, being of the number. Mr. Smelker was 
disabled, remained at Cairo alnnit five weeks 
when he resigned and was honorably' dis- 
charged about the first of .lune, 1804. (After 
Captain Scott became disabled while at Helena, 
Lieutenant Smelker discharged the duties of 
the position of his superior officer while with 
the command.) His sons, Theodore W., Erwiii 
C. and J. P. Smelker were soldiers in the Civil 
War. During liis active life, Mr. Smelker 
served in many nnniicipal offices. 



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'ILLIAM F. HEMPLE, Racine, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 17, was born at a place near 
Berlin, Germany, Oct. 19, 1842, and is the son 
of John and Caroline (Kurth) Hemple, wiio 
were natives of Germany and their cliildren, 
Minnie, William F., Charles, Amelia and 
•John are all living but the eldest daughter. 
In 1853 the family emigrated to the United 
States and landed at New York, whence thej' 
journeyed by the lakes to Racine, where the 
father engaged for a time in farming, sub- 
sequently removing to Stearns Co., Minnesota, 
where he purchased a farm and was occu- 
pied in the duty of its care until his death, 
Sept. 1, 1888. The mother is still living 
on the homestead with her daughter Amelia, 
(Mrs. Cruger.) 

Mr. Hemple was reared on the farm until 
he arrived at suitable age when he entered the 
siiops of Mitchell .fe Co. at Racine, to learn the 
trade of blacksmith, where he operated until 
he became a soldier. He enlisted Aug. 14, 
1862, in Company H, 22d Wisconsin Infantry, 
and went to rendezvous at Camp Utle}', where 
he remained until September 16th, when he 
accompanied the command to Cincimiati and 
across the river to Covington, Ky. The regi- 
ment made numerous marches and transferred 
itself to many points iu tiie endeavor to keep 
trace of Morgan and Bragg, who, with Kirby 
Smith, kept the people of that locality in a 
state of terrorism. The soldiers performed 
guard, picket and other duty and finally went 
to Louisville after a series of military ex- 
periences in northern Kentucky. Orders were 
received to move to Nashville and on the 
route the command .stopped at Donelson to 
reinforce the garrison there, (who had been at- 
tacked by Price), if their services were required. 
But the repulse had taken place the pre- 
vious night and the troops pressed on to Nash- 



ville. The regiment had been assigned to the 
2nd Brigade, od Division of the 20th Corps and 
was first in severe action at Thompson's 
Station, after performing an immense amount 
of marching, guard, picket and patrol duty and 
all other varieties of military service con- 
tingent on such conditions. In the action 
at Thompson's Station March 5, 1863, Mr. 

j Hemple was captured with the greater portion 
of his company and a lai-ge portion of the 
brigade, including Colonel Utley. He was 
paroled at Columbia, robbed of everything 
valuable at TuUahoma and went thence to 
Libby for a few days, when he was sent to 

j be "swapped" for a rebel, together with hun- 
dreds of the command. At Annapolis he 
received much needed clothing, went thence to 
St. Louis and awaited exchange, rejoining 
his regiment at Murfreesboro and went thence 
to the actions in the Atlanta campaign. In 
the fight at Resaca, April l.jtb, Mr. Ilemjile 
was slightly wounded but, dreading tiie hospi- 
tal, remained in camp and went into action on 
the 21st. May 25th he was in the action 
at Dallas, and .lune 16th fought at Gol- 
gotha Church. He was in the several fights 
at Kenesaw Mountain including Gulp's Hill, 
June 22d, and was next in heavy fighting July 
20tli at Peach Tree Creek, where he was in 
the hand-to-hand fight with a Mississippi regi- 
ment, pressing up the hill which lay between 

' the two, and he remembers with gratitude the 
large blackberries of which he obtained a few 
when he greatly needed them. September 2d, 
the city of Atlanta was surrendered by the 
authorities and the 22d continued there in 
camp until November, when they moved 
as escort to the trains of Sherman in the march 
to tlie sea. They were in the vicinity of 
Savannah in charge of the ricemills and also 
assisted in the capture of a gun-boat loaded 

; with supplies for the rebels. The city sur- 



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rendered December 21t:t, and in January tliey 
started on their Northward route tlirough tlie 
Carolinas. Mr. Pleniple fought at Averysboro, 
March IGth, and at Bentonville on the liHli, 
going thence toGoidsboro, to Raleigli, to Rich- 
mond, to W'asliington and to the Grand Re- 
view, and to be disciiarged June 12, 1865. 

After the Una! arrangements at Milwaukee, 
Mr. Jlempie returned to his old employ and 
retains his situation there. He was married 
June 1, 1871, at Racine, to Amelia, daughter 
of Charles and l'ii(.'l>e Krenske. Their chil- 
dren were named William, Emma, Mary and 
Martha (twins), and Minnie. The two latter 
are deceased. The mother died Nov. 27, 1881, 
an<l tlie father was again married March 3, 
1886. The children of this union are Reuben, 
Jessie and Natalie. Mr. Ilemple is a mend)er 
of tiie Lutheran Ohureh and is justly proud 
of his family of children. 



^ENJAMIN F. PARKER, member of 
^ G. A. R. I'ost No. 1, at .Milwaukee, 
Wis., and also a nK'ml)er of the Loyal 
Legion, Wisconsin Commander}', was born July 
27, 1839, at Conneautville, Pennsylvania. His 
father and mother, Ledyard P. and Hannaii 
(Thompson) Parker, had four children of wiiom 
he is Hrst in order of birth, the, others being 
David, Mary and Jane. The father died in 
.Meadvilie, Pa., about tlie close of the war ami 
the mother is a resident of Mauslon, Wis. 
In the i)aternal line, Mr. I'arker traces himself 
to early stock in the history of the country ; 
his mother was of Frencli-American birth, her 
father belonging to the latter and her mother 
to the former nationality. The son attended 
tlie schools of Meadvilie until he was 11, when 
be entered the Meadvilie academy. In 1853 
he went to Waukesha Co., Wis., to live with an 




uncle who initiated him into a knowledge of 
the business of a carpenter and builder. His 
uncle removed to Waushara c-ounty where he 
lived until he enlisted in .\pril, 18(11, at Mil- 
waukee and was mustered into the " Wisconsin 
Rifles," which was assigned to the 2il In- 
fantry as Company K. The regiment went 
from rendezvous at Camp Raiulali in the latter 
part of June to Washington and was assigned 
to Tyler's Division in iSlierman's Brigaile. Mr. 
Parker was in the action at Bull Run and was 
a participant in the exj)erienees of the 2d 
which entailed all the credit of bravery on the 
rank and tile and left the otiicers where the 
ollieers left the command in action. After 



return to Arlington 



Heights, 



Com J 



lanv 



drilled for artillery service, there being a scarc- 
ity of that branch and the comj)auy became 
Battery A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. It 
was assigned to d uty at Fort Cass, there passed 
I the winter of 1861-2 and in the following sum- 
mer Mr. Parker, in his capacity of Corporal, 
was selected to drill new recruits, arriving in 
response to the call for additional 300,000 troops. 
He was afterwards with the battery at Fort 
Ellsworth ill gaiiison duty in the defense of 
Washington. He was i)romoted to Sergeant 
and, with two others of the same rank, received 
orders to proceed to Wisconsin on recruiting 
service for three batteries for the battalion of 
which the 1st was to be the nucleus. Mr. Par- 
ker was sUitioned at La Crosse and he enlisted 
what was afterwards assigned as Battery C, be- 
ing made Second Lieutenant of the command. 
The battery was mustered at Milwaukee in 
October and ordered in November to report to 
General Thomas at Ciiattanooga, Tenn. He 
was in command of the battery through the 
lighting at Chattanooga, Mission Ridge, Look- 
out Mountain and all the service through 
which the troops there passed, his proficiency 
in military uiatttis placing him at the head in 






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emergencies. He passed the winter of 1863-4 
in garrison duty, and performed the same there 
until the spring of 1.S05, holding and guard- 
ing the position, it being the base of supplies 
and consequently the object of rebel craft and 
malice and the situation was, until the arrival j 
of Hooker from the East tilled with danger, ! 
from the river being low and the troo[)s msuf- 
ficient to guard it. At the date mentioned 
the battery was sent to Athens, Tenn., and 
later to Strawberry Plains. During the sum- 
mer he was detailed for duty on the General 
Court Martial at Greenville, Tenn., and in the 
fall, in September, 1865, reported at Nashville 
for muster out. He was promotetl at Chatta- 
nooga to .Junior 1st Lieutenant in 1864, and in 
the spring of 1865 to Senior 1st Lieutenant. 
While at Chattanooga he was a Member of the 
Council of .\dministration. 

On his return to Wisconsin he settled at 
Mauston and engaged in the sale of furniture 
with O. F. Temple, their relations being .sev- ' 
ered in 1873. While residing at Mauston he 
joined the Oi'der of Good Templars and in 
1873 was made Grand Secretary of Wisconsin, 
to which he has been successively elected since. 
At the meeting of the Grand Lodge at Toronto 
in May, 1885, he was made Right Worthy 
Grand Secretary of the World and has been 
re-elected since that date. In 1881 he was 
elected Secretary of the Good Templars' Mu- 
tual Benefit Association and still holds the \ 
incumbency. He is managing editor of the 
Western Good Teitqjlar, a journal devoted to the 
interests of the society in the Northwest, and 
which is published at Milwaukee. 

Mr. Parker has held a commission in the 
Wisconsin National Guards since 1869 ; he 
formed a company at Mauston, in which he 
held the various ranks and was commissioned 
Major of the 3d Battery of tlie W. N. G. in 
JS81, In 1S83 be was ccn-miffciontd Liiuttn- 



ant-Colonel and is now the ranking officer of 
that grade in Wisconsin (1890.) He has taken 
all the degrees in the Masonic Order including 
the 32d. He belongs to Northern Light Lodge 
at Mauston, No. 81, to Mauston Chapter No 33, 
to Fort Winnebago Commandery No. 4 at Por- 
tage, and to the Wisconsin Consistory, 32d 
Degree at Milwaukee and to the Mystic Shrine. 
He is a member of the A. O. U. W. and served 
two years as Grand Master. He has attended 
every meeting of the Grand Lodge since its 
organization. In political affiliation he was 
always a Republican until recently he has 
acted with the Prohibitionists. 

His marriage to Lucille W., daughter of H. G. 
and Lydia A. (Combs) Penniman occurred at 
Mauston Feb. 3, 1868. Their only child is 
named Addie M. 

■)¥ OSEPH ADDISON CHAMBERLAIN, 
Whitewater, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 34, was born in Cuba, Allegany 
Co., New York, June 2, 1843. His father, 
William H. Chamberlain, was of German origin 
and married Amelia Pinkerton, who was of 
Scotch lineage. Mr. Chamberlain regards him- 
self as an American, pure and simple. The 
senior Chamberlain was a farmer and died 
when his son was a child of eight years. The 
mother married again, and in October, 1851, 
tlie boy accompanied her to Wisconsin, the 
stepfather locating on a farm three miles south 
of Whitewater. Mr. Chamberlain was a 
thoughtful, reflective boy, and grevv up with 
a knowledge of the progress of events and in 
his early manhood became imbued with a 
sense of duty to his country. When the first 
call for ti oops was made, he speedily resolved 
to enlist and, on the 21st of April, 1861, enrolled 
as a soldier in C(.mj&ny A, 4lh Wisconsin In- 



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lantry. lie went to rendezvous lit Racine and 
was mustered into tlie United States service 
July 15tli. The progress of the regiment to 
the front was one of excitement ; at Corning 
the colonel seized a locomotive to transport iiis 
soldiers to Elniira and when the news from 
Bull Run was received at Harrisburg the 
enthusiasm of the men rose to fever heat. 
Their colonel borrowed smooth-bore muskets 
for them and on reaching Baltimore, the tide 
of memories associated with that city aroused 
their highest patriotism and they marched 
through, fully equipped for action. They 
went into camp south of the city and later, 
went to Patterson Park, where they built bar- 
racks and went into winter quarters. In the 
spring of 18U2 they went to the Relay House, 
thence to a raid to \'irginia East Shore and 
afterwards to Newport News to join the com- 
mand of Butler. Mr. Chamberlain endured all 
the horrors of the passage on the transport to 
Ship Island, the sufferings after arrival there on 
the strip of sand, exposed to the hot sun and at- 
tendant horrors. When Farragut's designs on 
New Orleans were approaching a climax, the 
regiment was transported there, started thither 
on the Great Republic and was conveyed to the 
rear of Fort St. Phillip in a small boat and 
Mr. Chamberlain states that this was one of the 
most dreadful experiences which he encoun- 
tered. They were on a swamp in darkness 
that rivalled Cimmerian blackness, surrounded 
b}' alligatoi's, who made their j>roxiniity pain- 
fully apparent b}' their varied noises. Day- 
break brought them release and after the sur- 
render of Fort St. Phillip, the command went to 
take possession of New Orleans, Company A, 
4th Wisconsin, being the first to enter the cap- 
tured city. Mr. Chaml)erlain was at the taking 
of Baton Rouge, went thence to Vicksburg, 
back to Baton Rouge, again to N'ickburg, assist- 
ing in the firing of Grand Gulf en route, and 



he worked on the cimal until his return to 
Baton Rouge, went tlience to Carrollton and 
was afterward in a guerrilla tight at Bonne 
Carre Point, returning to Baton Rouge. He 
was next in the Teche expedition, fought in 
the battle of Bisland and became a cavalryman 
for practical puiposes at Opelousas, where the 
•regiment foraged for equipments; and he con- 
tinued in that service until another assault on 
Port Hudson was ordered. The action was 
severe and Mr. Chamberlain went next on the 
ill-fated Grierson's raid. They were defeated, 
pursued and a part of their men captured. 
•June 14th, at four o'clock in the morning, the 
regiment took position for another assault on 
Port Hudson. Mr. Chamberlain was in the 
advance skirmish line which, under cover of 
smoke, reached a point two rods from the rebel 
line. Discovering the situation they fell back, 
his comrade i-eceiving four buckshot. Mr. 
Chamberlain hid behind a stump, but was 
driven thence by a storm of shot and canister 
from a rebel four-pounder and, as his bayonet 
responded to an invitation from a bullet, lie 
took what he calls " leg-bail " according to the 
best of his ability. As he reached his command 
a rebel officer motmted a parapet and was fired 
on. The 4th Wisconsin droj)ped at once to 
hands and knees, Ijut too late to escape the 
broadside returned and Mr. Chamberlain re- 
ceived a bullet in his left thigh. He was 
dragged through the sand by a comrade named 
Ennis, who left him to obtain a stretcher. He 
was on the edge of a road 30 feet wide which 
he tumbled across and fell into a ditch for 
safety. He was jworly cared for and his wound 
received no proper treatment until he was 
sent to St. James hospital at New Arline, where 
he was well attended. He received honorable 
discharge Sept. 23, 1863, but was unable to 
ti'avel until October, when he returned to 
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iuid then walked with a cane, being variously 
employed until 1881, when he became a book- 
keeper in tiie business house of G. W. Coburn. 
He was married Sept. 23, 1864, to Mary C. 
Carpenter; their children are named Harry, 
Stella, Fannie, Lottie, Carrie and Freddie. He 
is a Republican in political principle. 

'OHN S. MONAT, Cliippewa Falls, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, was 
born Aug. 24, 1840, in the village of 
Grosgcsliaidt, Bavaria. That country was also 
the native land of his parents, .John George 
and Catherine Monat. His mother died when 
he was about 18 months old and in 1853 his 
father removed to the United States, locating in 
Erie Co., New York. In 1801 he removed to the 
West and died on a farm in 1883, in Chippewa 
Co., Wis. Mr. Monat took care of himself 
after he was 16 years old and enlisted in Octo- 
ber, 1861, at Chippewa Falls; he was mustered 
into U. S. service Nov. 15th following, into 
Company I, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry, at Milwau- 
kee, C. C. Washburn, Colonel. In March, 1862, 
the regiment went to St. Louis, received arms 
and horses at Benton Barracks and from there 
moved to -Jefferson Cit}', the cavalrymen seeing 
first service with guerrillas on the way. The 
same experiences transpired on the way to 
Springfield ; and on the way to Ozark Moun- 
tains tliey met Crabtree's cavalry and defeated 
them, following them about 20 miles. They 
went next to the Arkansas border escorting a 
train for Curtiss at Helena and met his troops 
at Jacksonport. They crossed the White River 
into Arkansas, marched to Augusta and Cotton 
Plant, where the infantry of the command of 
Curtiss had an engagement, and afterwards the 
2d Cavalry followed Curtiss in his search for 
Price to Helena where the rebels left one side 



of the city as the Union troops entered it on 
the other. From there the 2d scouted and per- 
formed guard duty and, in April, 1803, went to 
Memphis on transports. With that as head- 
quarters thej' operated as scouts and there Mr. 
Monat received a furlough. He rejoined his 
regiment at ^'icksburg in June and was chiefly 
engaged in scouting and looking after John- 
ston's forces stationed on the left flank towards 
Jackson, skirmishing nearly every day, and 
also went to Canton, destroying railroads, driv- 
ing out the rebels and burning the public 
buildings. Tliey went back to Jackson and 
thence to Vicksburg for the summer, going to 
winter quarters at Redbone Church, where they 
held open the Big Black River among other 
military duties. In the spring of 1864 Mem- 
phis Ijecame headquarters and they made a 
raid on the Mobile & Charleston railroad, driv- 
ing the rebels from the Big Black and destroy- 
ing a bridge and followed up the railroad to 
destroy rolling stock and everything they could 
find. Finally the rebels rallied a force which 
greatly outnumbered them and they retreated 
to Yazoo City. The rebels attacked their out- 
posts and Colonel Osborn sent word to the 
enemy that if the firing was continued the gun- 
boats in the river would shell the town. (The 
cavalry had instructions to fall back to the pro- 
tection of the gunboats if need be.) A force of 
200 was detailed to reconnoiter and, meeting 
the rebel pickets, they drove them in, also 
drove in a larger force, crossed the creek and 
met the skirmish line, receiving an order to 
move upon them immediately. They found 
them strong, dismounted and fought on foot, 
driving them into an open field ; they fought 
an hour and found they were surrounded by 
rebels and the cavalry cut their way out. Com- 
pany E was captured in this, the Yazoo City 
fight, the rebels numbering about 1,400. The 
same night the cavalry cros.sed the Yazoo, went 



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to tlie Little Sunflower, crossed the Yazoo again, 
and marched to Vicksburg, and in tlie hitter 
part of 18G4 went to Memphis. In February 
the command was engaged in the raids under 
Grierson on the Mobile & Charleston R. R. to- 
wards Meridian, and went to Egypt, cajUured a 
stockade after a hot fight, taking about 1,"2U0 
prisoners, who were conducted to Vicksburg. 
On this trip Mr. Monat had his feet frozen and 
passed a month in hosjiital, joining his regi- 
ment at Memphis. The regiment went to 
Grenada to receive Forrest with hi.s paroled 
command, having been taken by Colonel Funk. 
Returning to Mem]>his, tlie regiment went to 
Alexandria, La., to join Custer en route to 
Texas, made camp at Hempstead, went thence 
to Austin and were mustered out there Nov. 15, 
18G5. 

Mr. Monat returned to Wisconsin by Galves- 
ton, New Orleans and the Mississippi River. 
Returning home he formed a partnership in 
the tanning business at Cadott witli his brother, 
and when they lost their establishment by a 
washout, he engaged- in lural)ering four years. 
After passing some time in tlic pineries he was 
employed in the building of the Court House, 
and, on its comj)letion, was made janitor, which 
position lie still fills. He was married Jujie 14, 
1866, at Eau Claire, to Wilhelmine Pribbaw- 
now, and their children were named Evander 
J., Loviisa K., Walter J., Augusta, Laura, Hec- 
tor, William S. and Edward H. Laura and 
Hector died young. Mr. Monat belongs to the 
Legion of Honor. In politics he is a Republican. 

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ERTON HERRTCK, Hudson, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. lol, 
was born Nov. 19, 1834, in Or- 
leans Co., New York, and is a descendant of 
English ancestry of long standing in the Em- 




itiX^'i 



jiire State. Luther H. Herrick, his grand- 
father, was a native of that State as was his 
father, Norman Herrick, who was born Jan. 
16, 1806, in Madison cou'nty and there married 
Catherine Russell; both himself and wife died 
on the homestead. The son attended the jiri- 
mary scliools and al.so the Genesee Wesleyan 
Seminary and College at Lima, N. Y. He af- 
terwards engaged in teaching in Genesee and 
Orleans counties. In April, 1850, he went 
West and settled in Hammond, St. Croix Co., 
Wis., and engaged in farming, in which he was 
occupied until he decided on the call of dutj' 
to the ranks of the Union army. Aug. 11, 
1862, he enlisted at Hammond and went to 
rendezvous at Camp Randall where he was 
mustered in October into Company A, 30th 
Wisconsin Intantry. He remained about a 
year with his regiment in camp at Madison 
and Milwaukee, and in the spring of 1804, his 
regiment was ordered to St. Louis and em- 
barked on the 2oth of April on transports to 
go up the Missouri River, passing over a goodly 
number of tlie difficulties which almost render 
the river unnavigable. They located and built 
Fort Rice and, during the staj' there went to 
the Bad Lands of Dakota to relieve Fisk's 
party which had been attacked and corralled 
by Indians. The march included about 250 
miles. In October orders were received for the 
command to move to Louisville to connect with 
the forces of Sherman, preparatory to the 
inarch to the sea. Owing to low water, they 
were delayed, as it became necessary to con- 
struct flat boats, and when Louisville was 
reached Sherman had started. The winter was 
passed in Louisville and at Bowling Green. 
; On March 4, 1865, Mr. Herrick having attained 
the rank of 1st Sergeant, was commissioned 
2d Lieutenant of Company K, 48tii Wisconsin 
Infantry, and was discharged from Company 
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and joined liis company at Milwaukee. The 
regiment was at St. Louis where Company K 
joined tlie others and performed guard, garri- 
son and escort duty, until ordered to Fort Scott, 
where Jjieutenant Herrick was put in command 
of tiie stragglers' camp. In September the 
regiment was ordered to Leavenworth for mus- 
ter out, but the order was countermanded while 
the regiment was on the way, and thej' were 
sent to forts on tlie stage route to Santa Fe, N. 
M., to relieve the soldiers whose terms of 
service had expired. Company K was stationed 
at Fort Lyon, Col., and, while there, Lieutenant 
Herrick was made Quartermaster and Commis- 
sary of the post. Li February the company 
was relieved and sent to Leavenworth for mus- 
ter out and thence to Madison to be discharged, 
paid off and disbanded. November 9th, at 
Fort Lyon, he was commissioned 1st Lieuten- 
ant and mustered out as sucli March 24, 1865. 
He returned to Hammond and engaged in 
farming. Li the fall of 1866 he was nomin- 
ated for County Treasurer on the Republican 
ticket and elected to that position in St. Croix 
county; he was subsequently re-elected twice, 
serving six consecutive years. He then en- 
gaged in lumbering and in the manufacture 
and sale of lumber, his sawmill being located 
at Hudson. In the fall of 1880 he was elected 
to the Assembly from his district and served 
through the 34th session. He has also served 
several terms as member of the County Board 
and has twice been made Chairman. The Post 
to which he belongs was organized in March, 
1884, and he was made first Commander. In 
1889, he was Asst. Inspector-General of the 
Department of Wisconsin, and in 1890 was 
Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Commander-in- 
Chief Alger. In 1889, he was Delegate to the 
National Encampment, G. A. R., at Milwaukee. 
He is also a member of the Commandery of 
Wisconsin, Military Order of the Loyal Legion. 



He belongs to St. Croix Lodge No. 56, to St. 
Croix Commandery No. 14, and to the Wiscon- 
sin Consistory, Masonic Order. 

He was married at Caryville, New York, 
March 23, 1859, to Lois E., daughter of .John 
Willard. Their children are named .John W., 
Charles L., Frank N., Mary E. and Roljert A. 
The two oldest sons are engaged in business, 
the one at St. Paul, Minn., and the other at 
Spokane Falls, Wash. 

Mr. Herrick is one of the men who have 
aided in the development of Wi.sconsin in 
every sense. He is a public-spirited, first-class 
citizen, honorable, a strict adherent to prin- 
ciple and altogether worthy of the two States 
to which he has belonged in citizenship — New 
York and Wisconsin. 









ESSE P. SMELIvER, attorney at Dodge- 
ville. Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
109, was born at John.stown, Pa., Aug. 
4, 1844, and is the son of .John W. and 
Catherine (Horner) Smelker. (In the sketch of 
•John W. Smelker on another page ma}' be 
found an account of the ancestors of Mr. Smel- 
ker of this sketch.) 

He was educated at Platteville Academy and 
was still a student when he determined to en- 
ter the army. May 5, 1864, he enrolled in 
Company A, 41st Wisconsin Infantry, was mu.s- 
tered at Milwaukee and sent to Mem])bis 
Tenn., to replace veterans who had gone to 
more active scenes and left their former i)laces 
to be guarded bj' less experienced troops. The 
regiment remained there during the summer, 
performing garrison and guard duty every day 
while in Memphis. Mr. Smelker received dis- 
charge Sept. 23, 1864. The only actual fight- 
ing of the quality to wliich the rebel chiefs, 
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section of the Soutli, treated the 100-days men 
and in whicli Mr. Smelker was a participant, 
was in tlie midnight attack of Forrest. 

Mr. Smelker returned to Platteville and at- 
tended school until he again enlisted, Jan. 18, 
180.5, in Company K, 47th Wisconsin Infantry. 
After muster at Madison the regiment went to 
Nashville and after a week there, went to Tulla- 
homa, Tenn., where the command was detailed 
"for garrison and other dut}'. Drill and other 
military operations occupied the time and, 
meanwhile, the hushwhiickers gave them atten- 
tions which made it necessary to watch their 
movements and several times they were under 
arms to repel threatened invasion. Expedi- 
tions went out against their foes. Disease was 
rife in the command and many died willi in- 
fectious sickness, such as measles and small- 
pox, and also other diseases. The camp duties 
were so monotonous that the men longed for 
actual warfare as relief Mr. Smelker enlisted 
as a private, was made Orderly Sergeant on 
organization and on several records he is re- 
ported as a Lieutenant, hut it is a mistake and 
probably grew from the statements several 
times promulgated that he was to receive pro- 
motion. He was discharged Sept. 4, 1885. 

On his second retui-n from the war to Platte- 
ville, he began the study of law witli Paine & 
Carter, reading under their guidance nearly 
four years, and, in 18fi9, was admitted to the 
Bar and has since been engaged in the active 
prosecution of his legal business. He opened 
his office at Platteville and practiced there until 
the spring of 1870, when he went to Montfort 
and was there in business a year. In July, 
1871, he removed to Highland, Iowa C^., Wis., 
remaining there practicing law until 1881, 
when he located at Dodgevillc and established 
bis law practice. In 1885 he was elected Dis- 
trict Attorney of Iowa County, serving two 
years. He was President of the village of 



Highland several years and was also a member 
of the County Board from Highland. He is 
member of the Board of Iowa County at this 
writing, (1889), and also a member of the Com- 
mon Council of the city of Dodgeville. He also 
served some time as President of the old village 
of Dodgeville; he is an Odd Fellow, and is 
President of the County Agricultural Associa- 
tion. 

He was married at Montfort, Oct. 3, 1873, to 
Mary E., daughter of Sylvester B. and Ann E. 
(Chandler) Green. Her parents were nativesof 
Missouri, coming to Wisconsin when the State 
was a territory. Mr. and Mrs. Smelker have 
three children, nauied Roy C, born March 7, 
1875; Nathalie, Jan. 3, 1879; Van Archibald, 
Sept. 11, 1882. 



<^^AVID W. CARLEY, M. D., member 
:^^) of G. A. R. Post No. 101 at Boscobel, 
Wis., was born April 30, 1823, in 
Montgomery Co., New York. His i)aternal 
grandfather was born in Ti-eland and ciime 
thence to America, bearing the name of Mc- 
Carly, which was afterwards changed to Carly 
and again to Carley. He settled in New York 
and his son Brookins, father of Dr. Carley, be- 
came a farmer on the Mohawk River and a 
tavern keeper of the old regime. He married 
Rachel Bennett and they reared seven children 
of whom the three oldest survive. Eliza is the 
widow of Dr. Lanphear and lives atGalesburg, 
III. ; James is a farmer near the latter men- 
tioned place. Dr. Carley is the tiiird in order 
of birth ; he received an academic education 
in his native State and studied medicine there 
about two years. He became ])rominent as an 
educator, teaching in the Empire State seven 
years and three years in Wisconsin, whither he 
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Kenoslia where he engaged in teaching and 
went afterwards to Whitewater and Beloit where 
he was similarly occupied. He acquired a rep- 
utation as a model disciplinarian and is known 
as heing among the originators of the pre.sent 
school system of Wisconsin. In the spring of 
1852 he established the sale of drugs at Shulls- 
burg, liaving continued to read medicine dur- 
ing his experience as a teacher and afterwards 
attended the prescribed course of lectures at 
Rush Medical College in Chicago, whence lie 
was graduated iu 185G. He immediately estab- 
lished his business as a pliysician at Platteville, 
Wis., and in the spring of 1857 located perma- 
nently at Boscobel. Oct. 15, 1862, he was ap- 
pointed Assistant Surgeon of the o3d Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, his commission being the result 
of petitions signed by the members of the reg- 
iment, two companies of which had been raised 
at Boscobel and Fennimore. He was in ren- 
dezvous with the command and sent fi'om 
Camp Utley, Racine, to Memphis in charge of 
the sick men of the regiment. He accompa- 
uied the command in the southward move- 
ment, went to Yocono Creek, back to Holly 
Springs and to winter quarters at Mo.scow, 
Tenn., where a considerable number of the 
regiment died. He discharged the duties of 
his position tlirough the summer of 1863, car- j 
ing for his charges who were injured in the 
skirmishing prior to the battle of Coldwater 
and, after that engagement, went to Young's j 
Point, Snyder's Bluff and to the siege of Vicks- ! 
burg, the exposure of the command to constant 
rebel lire of musketry, artillery and sharp- 
shooters giving him plenty of work which so 
affected his health that he obtained leave of ' 
absence in the fall of 1863 and returned to 
Wisconsin. He rejoined the regiment at \'icks- 
burg to find the surgeons of higher rank ab- 
sent on leave and he was placed in charge of 
the regiment as chief medical authority. His 



health failed utterly under his labors and he 
was compelled to resign ; he was relieved in 
February, 1864, but remained a week to assist 
and advise his successor. He arrived home in 
a helpless condition and as soon as able left his 
bed to resume the active practice of his profes- 
sion in which he has since continued, although 
his health has remained impaired. He makes 
no attempt to do country practice, being 
obliged to confine himself to the city and to 
office work. He has a justly earned reputation 
as one of the best medical practitioners in his 
section and has remained popular with mem- 
bers of liis former army connections. He is 
an Ancient Odd Fellow and is Past Grand in 
the Order. He has been prominent in jiolitics, 
having been originally a Whig, then an Aboli- 
tionist and a decided Republican since the 
organization of the party. 

He has been three times married. His first 
wife, Lucinda M. Green before marriage, died 
at MifHin, Wis., in the fall of 1856, leaving a 
child who is deceased. In the fall of 1857 Dr. 
Carley married Marcia Kellogg and she died 
in 1871, leaving three children, two of whom 
are living. A daughter named Mertie D. is a 
teacher at Whitewater, Wis., and a son named 
Edward Payson is employed as a printer in 
Milwaukee. Dr. Carley married Mary E., 
daughter of George W., and Maria (Lopez) Par- 
tridge, May 8, 1872. Mrs. Carley was a widow 
with two sons. Her father was a native of 
Massachusetts and her mother was of Spanish 
birth, born on the island of Cuba and she died 
while her daughter was in childhood. 



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<<^ OLONEL ROBERT SCHOFIELD, 
Kilbourn City, Wis., Commander of 
G. A. R. Post, No. 50, was born Dec. 22 
1837, in the township of Carlton, Orleans Co., 
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(Curtis) Schofield, were descended from New 
England stock of longstanding, and reared five 
children. Tlie niotlicr died in Carlton and the 
father aftei' that event reinovetl to J^slie, Ing- 
ham Co., Michigan, where he died in 1874. 
Thechildren were named Francis, Maria, Robert, 
Betsey and Mary. All are living and married. 
Colonel Schofield was reared to the calling of 
his forefathers — that of a farmer — and received 
a common school education. On attaining hi.s 
majority he went to Adams Co., Wisconsin, re- 
maining at Davis' Corners for a time, went 
thence to Kilbourn City and afterwards to Mis- 
souri, where lie was variously occupied, going 
successively to Chillicothe and Trenton and 
afterwards to Kansas. He returned to his for- 
mer home in New York and went, after some 
time, to Brattlehoro, Vermont. He was there 
when the war became a fact that demanded 
recognition and he enlisted at Brattlehoro in 
July, 1801, in the 1st Vermont Cavalry, and 
was mustered as a private at Burlington, where 
the command received equipments. Soon after 
he was made Orderly Sergeant, and, before 
leaving the State, was promoted to First Lieu- 
tenant. In the fall of 18G1 the regiment went 
forward, and, after arrival at Washington, re- 
ceived orders to join the troops in the Shenan- 
doah N'alley. He was in an engagement March 
n, 1862, at Winchester, and again on the 23d, 
lighting at Strasburgon the 27th. In April he 
was in the advance of Banks to Mount .Jackson 
to the Covered Bridge and went with his chief 
on the most masterly retreat of the war, during 
which time they were engaged in continuous 
fighting, until Banks had saved his trains, the 
loss of which would have been irreparable di.s- 
aster. He was in the engagement at U|)per- 
ville, where his regiment held back Stonewall 
Jackson's infantiy till Banks saved his trains, 
and where Colonel Schofield lost his horse — 
shot from under him. 



In July, Pope assumed command of the 
Army of the \'irginia, and the 1st Vermont 
Cavalry participated in all the operations on 
the liappahannock ant! Uapidan and fought 
near Cedar Mountain in August, at Kelley's 
Ford in the same month, and in other positions 
on the Riippahannock ; going to the second Bull 
Run to fight on the oOth, and after the relief 
of Pope joined the movements after Lee in 
Maryland. The names of his engagements 
there include all the skirmishes never named, 
as had been the case in every other situation, 
and also included South Mountain, Antietam, 
the hostilities through the winter and sjiring, 
and also Gettysburg, the command follownig 
to the engagements in Maryland again, where 
Colonel Schofield was wounded July 12, I860, 
at Hagerstown. At Gettysburg he was ranking 
Captain and led the charge the cavalry made 
on the left, and for which he was promoted to 
Major. (His commission as Captain was re- 
ceived while near Washington.) The action in 
which he won his honors at Gettysburg is well 
known, being an attack u])on a Texas regiment 
sheltered behind a .stone wall ; his loss of men 
was fearful, but the charge was a success and 
gained an important point. In the pursuit he 
was in the action at Fuuktown the day before 
he was injured, having been driven from 
Hagerstown on the 10th. Returning to Hagers- 
town on the Pith he was determined to dislodge 
the rebels, who were protected by earthworks, 
and had the brim of his hat shot olf in the 
charge; his horse was killeil under him and he 
was taken jjrisoner. In the action he had lost 
his left eye and was severely wounded in the 
left leg by a bayonet thrust. His injuries were 
so severe that the rebels Ciirried him in an am- 
bulance, as they knew they had a fighter of no 
small caliber and understood the value of hold- 
ing him. Thus he was continually under the 
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ing the lines of rebels. His injuries 
were not dressed for three days and 
he traveled three weeks with the rebel army, 
finally l)eing cared for at General Gordon's 
headquarters by rebel surgeons. He went 
thence lo Libby prison, where he received the 
usual honors and a little more, being one of 
the live Union officers selected to draw lots for 
execution in the place of two rebels who were I 
to be executed, and in retaliation for which, ' 
Captains Sawyer and Flinn were to suifer 
death. Colonel Schofield underwent the hor- 
rors of Libby nine months, suffered the abuse i 
of Turner and Ross and experienced all the ! 
{irivations inflicted there. (It may be men- 
tioned that one cookstove only was furnished 
to provide for the necessities of 500 officers.) 
Finally, he, with others, was taken from the 
darkness and sent to Macon, Ga., (the sudden 
exposure to light causing many to become 
lilind) and he suffered greatly from his injured 
eye. After a few months he was transferred to 
Charleston on another humane plan of the 
rebels, in which nearly 3,000 Union soldiers 
were placed in a position to receive the fire 
fronr the batteries on the islands in the harbor. 
They were stationed in the old jail yard, which 
was soon alive with greater numbers of grey- 
backs, but of less mean caliber than their proto- 
types. From Charleston they went to Columbia 
and were placed in the pen there. (The cloth- 
ing worn by Colonel Schofield was taken from 
him by the rel)el who captured him and that 
given him in exchnnge almost lost the sem- 
blance of garments during his bondage. His 
feet were frozen by exposure.) From Columbia, 
after Sherman had been reported as on the way 
to bring redemption to the prisoners, they 
were sent to Raleigh and Wilmington for ex- 
change, after 19 months of captivity. After 15 
days rest, Colonel Schofield joined his regiment, 
and found he had been promoted to Lieutenant 



Colonel. The command was in the trenches of 
Petersbui'g, where he was comissioned Colonel. 
His regiment was with the army of the Potomac 
in the vicinity of Petersburg until after the sur- 
render, took part in the Grand Review and 
went to Burlington, where Colonel Schofield 
was mustered out. He went soon after- the war 
to Killjourn City and engaged two years in 
farming. He went thence to Chicago and be- 
came interested in a wholesale and retail grocery 
business, also engaging afterwards as a partner 
in a commission iiouse on South Water .street. 
His sight failing, he closed his business rela- 
tions and returned to Kilbourn City, where he 
now resides. From the war as relics. Colonel 
Schofield brought home his last ration, and 
his tin cup and fork, which he considers worth 
their weight in gold. Contemporary opinion of 
Colonel Schofield says of him " he is one of tlie 
best men that ever lived." His war record is 
one of the best, as he earned his promotions 
and did not receive them by graded advance- 
ment through disaster to superior officers. 
Two horses were killed under him, and he 
sustained a severe bayonet wound in his leg as 
well as the loss of an eye. He is present Com- 
mander of .John Gillespie Post and has been 
an active worker in its interests. He was mar- 
ried Nov. 25, 1S67, at Kilbourn City to 
Josephine, daughter of Alanson and Lucretia 
E. (Wakefield) Holly. Her father was a noted 
journalist in the State of New York and a 
pioneer of the press in Wisconsin, whither he 
came in 1856 and opened an office in Kilbourn 
City. His residence was the first building 
erected there, and his newspaper office the 
second. He served his generation as member 
of the State Assembly from his district and was 
an associate of Col. .J. A. Watrous and Horace 
Rublee. He is identified with the history of 
growth and progress in his section of Wiscon- 
sin. Mrs. Schofield was born Feb. 16, 1841, at 



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Warsaw, Wyoming Co., New York, and her 
children were born as follows: — Grace Jose- 
phine, April 22, 18G9; Marguerite Aurelia, 
Jan. 12, 1871 : Miriam Hallie, Sept. 3, 1873; 
Paul Wells, June 10, 1875; (died Dec. 13, 1879); 
Robert Sciioheld, born March 31, 1881. All 
but the first and last children were born at 
Chicago ; Grace and Robert were born at Kil- 
bourn City. 

Jf^^ EORGE R. JONES, proprietor of the 
1 /,^ j|' ^ Spring City Hotel at Waukesha, 
\^^ Wis., was born Feb. 8, 1845, at Del- 
phi, Indiana. He is of Welsh descent of early 
date in this country, his father, grandfather 
and great grandfather having been born in the 
State of New York. They were of sound stock, 
two of the generation of his father being .sol- 
diers iu the war with Mexico, one being killed ; 
two of the same generation served in the war 
of the rebellion from 1861 to the close, in the 
1st and 4th Wisconsin Infantr}'. Sterling 
Jones, his father, was born July 10, 1812, and 
married Elizabeth Sines, a native of Ohio, and 
she is still living at Hudson Wis., aged 7(5 
years, born in 1814. Her father, John Sines, 
was a soldier in 1812. She became the mother 
of 12 children and the following are living: — 
Jerome, George, Henry B., Harvey, P^unice, 
Sarah, the latter being the wife of N. H. Clapp, 
a distinguished attorney of Stillwater, Minn., 
and formerly a partner of Senator John 
Spooner. Albert served in tlio 1st Wisconsin 
Infantry and died at Louisville, Ky. Edwin 
R., William, Wilber, Mattie and Ella are de- 
ceased. George R. Jones was reared on his 
father's farm and remained under parental 
care until he entered the army. He had re- 
ceived a good education in the common schools 
and at Hinckley Academy at Hudson, Wis., 
and was just of legal age when the war became 



a fixed fact that called for recognition. At the 
age of 18 he enlisted at La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 
16, 1863, in Company A, 6th Wisconsin In- 
fantry' and joined the regiment in the Iron Bri- 
gade in front of Petersl)urg, preparing to go 
into winter (juarters. His first fighting was 
done on the Weldon railroad and he went next 
to fight at Hatcher's Run in October, after 
which be went with Warren to a raid on the 
Weldon railroad returning to Petersburg and 
was next in action at Hatcher's Run, February 
6th. He received a gunshot wound through 
his foot and while a comrade was assisting him 
to the rear a bomb shell exploded and struck 
liis side mutilating it in a terrible manner. 
The cap was torn ott' his left liip and he was 
thrown about 20 feet in the air and across a 
creek. A comrade came and examined him 
and repoi'ted him dead. But he was only un- 
conscious and on coming to, the shots were fly- 
ing so thickly around him that he rolled him- 
self into the water for protection. His com- 
rades saw him, fished him out and j)laced 1iim 
on a rubber blanket to carry him to the rear. 
A shot ploughed under him, cutting his back 
and making a slit in his blanket through 
which he slij)i)ed to the ground. His comrades 
took two muskets and improvised a stretcher 
on which he was carried to the rear. While 
crossing Hatcher's Run, one of his bearers 
slipped in a hole and he was thrown into the 
ice cold water. When he was taken out the 
cold was so intense that his clothes froze on his 
body. He was carried to field hosjiital, jilaced 
on some straw and lay until one o'clock at night 
before,he received attention. All the time he 
was being conveyed from the field the rebels 
were in hot pursuit and the comrades with him 
were on a run, while the pursuit and yells 
were kept up. After his wounds were dressed 
he was sent to City Point on a freight train, 
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sent on a hospital boat down the James River 
to Jarvis hospital at Baltimore. On arrival it 
was found that gangrene had set in in both 
wounds in foot and side and when the surgeon I 
saw his condition he declared that he could not | 
live 4S hours. However, he disappointed them 
in that respect and remained there until June, 
when he was transferred on a stretcher from 1 
Baltimore to Milwaukee and was placed in the 
old Bethlehem House hospital, where he con- 
tracted small pox, which he lived through in 
the pest house. As soon as he had sufficiently 
recovered for safety he received discharge, 
having been ill with wounds and disease six 
months and reaching home in August by aid 
of crutch and cane. 

When he was able to attend to business 
he engaged in farming and also dealt in 
horses and as.sisted his brother, who was 
Treasurer and Sheriff of St. Croix county, 
with headquarters at Hudson. He was vari- 
ously engaged until 1870, when his health 
became impaired from the effects of his suffer- 
ings in the service and he took a trip South, 
where he received medical treatment bj^ emi- 
nent physicians who pronounced his case 
hopeless his ailments including Bright's 
disease and calculus of the kidneys, dropsy, 
palpitation and dyspepsia. Having heard of 
Waukesha, he determined to test the efficacy 
of the springs there. He was accustomed 
to hear his case spoken of in the most hopeless 
manner, people remarking that his days were 
numbered, but he had been at Waukesha but 
a few days when the beneficial results were ap- 
parent. In 1872 he removed his family there 
for the sake of convenience and engaged in 
life insurance business as he soou became able 
to transact business. He also kept a boarding 
house four years and was elected City Marshal 
and Tax Collector, serving acceptaljly. In 1876 
he went to Soutiiern Kansas and eniraged in 



real e.state business and breeding improved 
stock. While there he became Secretary of 
the South Kansas Cane Growers' Association, 
and of the Horticultural Society and School 
Director. In 1880 he received the nomination 
for Clerk of the Circuit Court, but over taxed 
by his campaign labors, resulting in hem- 
orrhage of the kidneys he withdrew his 
name from the ticket. After all medical aid 
had failed he was brought by his wife back to 
Waukesha and in 48 hours after beginning 
to di-ink the waters, the hemorrhage stopped 
and he resolved to make the place his perma- 
nent home. He purchased the interest of L. 
N. Mowray and became proprietor of the 
Mansion House which he managed two j^ears. 
In 1882 he went to the West Indies and until 
1887 he wintered in Florida. From the time 
he first went to Kansas he acted as corres- 
pondent of some of the leading journals of the 
West, among which may be named the St. Paul 
Globe and Minneapolis Tribune. In 1887 
he resigned his position on those papers and 
purchased the old Mansion House at Wau- 
kesha. Within 80 days he had the elegant 
new Spring City Hotel in readiness to receive 
guests and it speedily became one of the most 
prominent hostelries at Waukesha. Its 
patrons are from the liest families of Wisconsin 
and the Soutli. In every particular the house 
is fitted for the comfort and convenience of 
the guests, with baths and electric lights 
and supplied with the life-giving waters of the 
springs. For two years Mr. Jones has been 
Treasurer of the Republican Club of Wau- 
kesha ; he has served as Chancellor Com- 
mander of the Knights of Pythias and is 
holding the position of P. C. Commander 
of that Order. He is a director of his Post 
and a member of the Town Republican Com- 
mittee. 

He was married in 1867 to Ellen E. Savage, 



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a schoolmate of his young days. She is a 
native of Maine and daughter of D. A. and 
Mary A. (Streator) Savage. Ira and Orrin are 
their surviving cliildren, George Wesley hav- 
ing died when an infant. 



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'OHN CORY, a resident of Madison, Wis., 
and a member of C. C. Washburn Post 
No. 11, is a business citizen of energy 
and integrity. He was born May 18, 1838, in 
Essex Co., Vermont, and is the son of James 
and Deborah (Morrill) Cory. His father was 
born in New Hamjwhire and his mother in 
Canada. His grandfather. Job Cory, was tlie 
son of Timothy Cory, a native of England. 
Several ancestors in the paternal line fought in 
the Revolution. Mr. Cory removed with his 
father's family in 1852, to Sun Prairie, Dane 
Co., Wis., where he remained on his father's 
farm until he was 17, when he went to tiie 
northern part of Wisconsin, engaging in farm- 
ing and lumbering, also attending school until 
the breaking out of the war. lie then enlisted 
in Company G, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, when 
it reorganized for three years, the regiment 
being assigned to the Department of Tennessee 
where he remained on duty with the regiment 
until the battle of Perryville was fought, Oct. 
8, 1862, in which he was severely wounded in 
his right elbow and left wrist. Being dis- 
charged from the service on account of his 
wounds, he returned to Sun Prairie about the 
1st of February, 18G3, and attended sciiool the 
remainder of the winter. During the years 
1863-4, while in Sun Prairie, he, with others, 
organized a company of State militia, entering 
it as 2d Sergeant, but, soon after, (upon the 
resignation of Cajitain P.urwell) was apjwinted 
Captain by the unanimous vote of the com- 
pany. In the following spring, he wont to 



Watertown, Jeflerson Co., Wis., where bis 
fiither hail moved, and attended the Academy 
one term. In the fall he entered the Waterloo 
Institute, continuing his studies until the spring 
of 1S6-1, then worked at the carpenter trade 
until September of the same year, when he, 
with others, organized a company of heavy ar- 
tillefy for one year, going into the service as 
1st Sergeant and being promoted, after five 
months to 2d Lieutenant of Company H, 1st 
Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. The company 
was stationed at Fort Lyon, Va., and was mus- 
tered out in July, 1865. He was married to 
Miss Anna L. Lyon of Medina, (formerly of 
Utica, New York), July 26, 1865. They have 
three children living — Mary E., Edwin L. and 
Grace. Their first child, Willie M., died in 
infancy. In 1870, Mr. Cory with his family, 
removed to Madison, where he engaged in the 
business of a contractor and builder, which he 
still follows successfully. Two of his V)rot,hers 
joined the army, one of whom, belonging to 
the 74th Illinois, died in the service. The 
other .served under (irant. The family are 
members of the First Baptist Church. Mr. 
Cory has held the office of Worthy Chief in 
the Good Templars Order, Lodge No. 1, and 
also as Chief in the Temple of Honor, in which 
position he is officiating in 1890; he is also 
Chief of Council in the latter, Madison Lodge, 
No. 114. 

/^^^ DWARD CRONON, La Crosse, Wis., 
I v,,,^ I CommandeT of G. A. R. Post No. 38, 
^^=:i^ in 18!iO, was born Oct. 17, 1836, in 
Sell agliti coke, New York, whither liis parents, 
James and Honora (O'Connor) Cronon, emi- 
grated from the shire of Limerick, Ireland, in 
1830. The occupation of the fiither was that 
of a weaver and merchant until his removal to 
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Edward, James and David ; David and Mary 
are not living. In May, 1856, Mr. Cronon re- 
moved to La Crosse, where lie died on his farm 
two years later ; his wife died in October, 1874. 
The son was reared on land which Ins father 
bought from the Government until he went to 
serve an apprenticeship as a tinsmith ; in the 
next year he engaged in lumbering and, in 
1857, operated on the Mississippi River. In 
1859, he went to Napoleon, Ark., and returned 
in the spring of 1800, again operating on the 
river and going back to Arkansas. In the 
spring of 1861 he made his escape from Heces- 
sia through the friendliness of a rebel lieuten- 
ant who protected him until he was past the 
lines. He reached La Crosse as soon as possi- 
ble and, Sept. 19, 1861, enlisted in Company I, 
8th Wisconsin Infantry, (Eagle regiment.) 
From rendezvous at Camp Randall, the regi- 
ment went to St. Louis ahout October 1st, and 
was ordered to dut}' on the Iron Mountain 
road, where the rebels under Jeff Thompson 
were destroying road stock. Thence to Pilot 
Knob and Fredericktown to fight for the first 
time was the outline of Mr. Cronon's experience 
and there, the command being in gray uni- 
form, it was sent to the rear to prevent acci- 
dents. After passing the winter in duty as 
guard, they went to Cairo, preliminary to join- 
ing Pope with Fort Donelson as objective point. 
Mr. Cronon was in the several movements of 
the command prior to the pursuit of rebels 
after the abandonment of Island No. U), and 
went to New Madrid. Embarking for Mem- 
phis, orders were countermanded and Mr. Cro- 
non was next facing rebel bullets and powder 
at Farmington and went thence to the siege of 
Corinth. After the evacuation he was in the 
pursuit to Booneville, went thence to Camp 
Clear Creek and performed military duty there 
until Aug. 18, 1862, when a move was made to 
Tuscumbia and thence to luka, followed by 



Price to whom Colonel Murphy abandoned the 
position ; he was arrested but afterwards re- 
stored to his command which had been placed 
under Colonel Mower. The Union force was 
strengthened by the arrival of Rosecrans with 
troops and the battle of luka was fought Sep- 
tember 19th, the 8th Wisconsin being in the 
reserve. Mr. Cronon was in the pursuit and 
was next in action October 3d, at Corinth, the 
rebels being commanded hy Van Dorn and 
Price. Mr. Cronin was hit in the left arm by 
a sharpshooter and was mentioned in the dis- 
patches as wounded. He was conveyed to the 
hospital where his arm was amputated, and he 
received final discharge November 24th follow- 
ing. He returned to La Crosse and engaged 
in teaching which was his occupation about 16 
years. July 1, 1889, he was appointed Deputy 
Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2d Dis- 
trict under E. M. Rogers, and is still perform- 
ing the duties of the position. 

He was married Jan. 11, 1877, to Anna A., 
daughter of James and Mary (Bradberry) 
Mellor, a native of Derby.shire, England. Her 
father was in Company I, Sth Wisconsin In- 
fantry and passed through all the experiences 
of the regiment prior to the action at Nash- 
ville, Dec. 15, 1864, in which he was killed. 
Alice H., Daisy, James and Anna are the 
names of the children born to Mr. and 
Mrs. Cronon. Mr. Cronon belongs to the A. 
O. U. W. and to the Knights.of Pythias. 

His brother David enlisted on the same day 
with himself and passed safely through all 
the service until June 6th, 1864, when he was 
wounded. He had re-enlisted and was going 
home on veteran furlough when he received 
a gunshot wound, the gunboat being fired into 
by guerrillas. He afterwards returned to his 
regiment and served until the close of the war, 
when he was mustered out in Alabama and re- 
turned to Wisconsin. He died of paralysis 



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July 7, 1868, at La CVosse, leaving a wife ; their 
only child was born after his deatli. 

Among the treasured papers of Mr. Cronon 
is the following copy: To wlunn it may 
concern — I hereby certify on honor that, dur- 
ing the rebellion I was successively Orderly 
Sergeant, 2d Lieutenant, 1st Lieutenant and 
Captain of Company I, 8th Regiment Wiscon- 
sin \'olunteer Infantry, and subsequently 
Major of said regiment; that in these posi- 
tions I liad good opjiortunity to know and did 
well know Edward Cronon, who was a soldier 
in said company and regiment, and I know that 
the said Edward Cronon was, at all times and 
in all places a good soldier, always ready to do 
his full duty in a prompt and cheerful manner. 
I also state that, of my own knowledge, he was 
offered promotion and refused it in said Com- 
pany I, and that as both man and soldier 
he was bighly respected by all who were in 
contact with him. Also that he was in the 
strict discharge of his duty when he re- 
ceived the wound which caused the loss of his 
arm and his dhscharge from the service. D. 
A. Kennedy, Marshal, I^yon Co., Minn. 

APTAIN GEORGE JEUCK, merchant 
at Mineral Point, Wis., member of G. 
A. R. Post No. 125, a prominent and 
popular business man of the county, was born at 
Hinterneilingen, Germany, Sept. 13, 1840. His 
parents were Joseph and Clara (Miller) Jeuck, 
and died in the " Vaterland." The former 
was a farmer. The son came to America in 
1856 when 16 years old, going direct to his 
uncle's at Mineral Point. He had attended 
school in Germany from six to fourteen years of 
age and obtained a thorough knowledge of com- 
mon brandies of education, and his first employ 
in this country was in the trade of shoemaker 




and he was occupied in this until he entered 
the army, enlisting from Mineral Point. About 
the first of April he joined the organization 
making ready for the struggle that seemed 
imminent, known as the "Miner's Guard " 
whicli offered its services to Governor Randall 
as soon as the requisition was made. The 
regiments were full and tlie "Guards" were 
assigned to the 2d Wisconsin as Company I, 
and went to Madison as three-months men. 
May 7tli a telegram was received from the \\'ar 
Department, saying that no more three-months 
men were wanted and most of the 2d Wiscon- 
sin immediately re-enli.sted for three years. 
He went to Washington, prepared for service in 
drill and other duty and fought in the first 
Bull Run, the opening battle of the war. In 
the re-organization, the regiment was made 
one of the most effective in the service, the 
character of its men in the disaster showing 
that tliey deserved leaders second to none in 
the service and they received them. Colonel, now 
General, Fairchild and Colonel Allen covering 
their names with distinction. For a full record 
of the service seen by Captain Jeuck reference 
is made to multitudes of " Iron Brigade " men 
in this volume, whose sketches have been com- 
piled with a view of presenting as a whole a 
complete history of tlie organization, .so far as 
has been possible. Captain Jeuck was in tlie 
activities which preceded Gainesville, fought at 
Bull Run (2d), at South Mountain, Antietam, 
Fredericksburg, (1862), Fitzhugh's Crossing, 
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg (ISOo) and went to 
take position between Washington and the 
enemy, moving with the command to the 
skirmishing in the later fail, after wliicli lie 
was in the Wilderness and fought at Mine Run. 
Besides these he was in the minor actions at 
Blackburn's Ford, I^winsville, Orange C. IL, 
the fights on the Rapidan and at Kelley's 
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Sergeant at Gettysburg for conspicuous gal- 
lantry, capturing alone eight armed i-ebels, the 
promotion being conferred on him above sev- 
eral others in direct line. (He run upon the 
rebels and, getting a bead on them, ordered 
them to surrender, declaring he would shoot 
the first wlio raised his gun, and he marched 
tiiera to camp.) .July 1, 1863, he was brevetted 
Captain. On his commission is the following : 
"George Jeuck, late a Sergeant in Company I, 
2d Wisconsin Infantry, is hereby promoted to 
the rank of Captain by brevet, to rank as sucli 
from .July 1, 1863, in recognition of conspicuous 
gallantry displayed by him at the battle of Get- 
tysburg and in tlie Battle of the Wilderness, at 
the latter of which, having charge of the pro- 
vost guard, numbering 33 men, he drove back 
into the line of battle the forces of a retreating 
brigade, forcing them to hold the line given 
them." Signed by Governor Lucius Fairchild, 
Secretary of State, T. S. Allen (before referred 
to) and the As.st. Adj. Gen., -James K. Proudfit. 
Captain Jeuck was never absent a day from 
his command while in the service and, although 
constantly under exposure in his various 
actions was never injured. He received final 
muster out at Madison, June 30, 1864. 

After his return to civil life he was occupied 
with liis trade until 1S6S, managing his own 
interests most of the time. In the year men- 
tioned he instituted a mercantile business in 
connection with Mr. Harttert, who sold his 
moiety to Mr. Mullen in 1872 and, after some 
years the firm became .Jeuck Bros., Mr. Mullen 
being bought out by William Jeuck. This is 
the present style and the house is engaged in 
the transaction of a most flourishing and popu- 
lar business. In 1868 Captain Jeuck visited 
his native land and brought back to America 
with him liis brother and sister, Margaret, wife 
of Frank Hilgar of Dubuque, Iowa. Clara, 
widow of George Krekel of Germany, is also a 



sister and they are the sole survivors of 
the family. Captain Jeuck was married at 
Mineral Point June 10, 1866, to Eliza, daugh- 
ter of Richard and Dorcas Halligan, a native 
of Cornwall, England, and who accompanied 
her parents to America in early childhood. 
Four children are included in the family of 
Captain Jeuck — Clara, Willie, George and 
Frank. The oldest son is a Lieutenant in the 
Sons of Veterans Order. The Cajitain has 
been Quartermaster of his Post since it was 
organized ; he has served nine years as Alder- 
man and as member of the School Board three 
years ; he was one of the Trustees for the 
Iowa County asylum at Dodgeville and has 
served five years as Commissioner. He is a 
leading citizen at Mineral Point and is a type 
of the best citizenship of this Nationality, bring- 
ing to this country his thrift, energy and 
honorable character to add to the strength of 
the Republic and to adopt her griefs as her 
privileges ; he was a brave soldier and he is a 
conscientious, straight-forward citizen ; he has 
been prominently named in political circles. 



T|r DOLPH WEBER, Racine, Wis., mem- 

^/vyV ^^^' '^^ ^' ^' ^' Post No. 17, was born 
-J^?^^ Nov. 27, 1843, in Sinzig, Prussia, and 
is the son of Phillip and Agnes (Fleischer) 
Weber. His father was a shoe manufacturer 
and both parents died while their children 
were in early childhood. When the two 
brothers, Adolpb and Anthony, were respect- 
ively 13 and 12 years of age they came to 
America and went to Racine. Adolpb at- 
tended the public schools and became an 
apprentice to learn the cabinet trade. During 
the first months of the war himself and 
brother became interested and determined to 
enlist, although both were very young. They 



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enrolled Oct. 15, 1861, in Company I, 9th Wis- 
consin Infantry, and were in rendezvous at 
Camp Sigel, Milwaukee. The regiment left 
the State January 22d for Furl Leavenworth 
and went thence to Carap Scott on a long 
march to join in the " Jim Lane " expedition 
which did not materialize; and the}' went 
tlirough the Cherokee Nation to Indian Terri- 
tory to the vicinity of Baxter's Si)rings, engag- 
ing in a numher of squahbies with the Indians 
who were under rebel influence, niarcliing 
again to take part in another expedition which 
came to nought. They were engaged mean- 
while in fighting busliwliackers and straggling 
rebels under Quantrell, Marmaduke and Price. 
After joining the Army of the Frontier they 
were in the fight at Newtonia, where they lost 
heavily in prisoners. This was their first regu- 
lar battle and was fought September 20th. He 
was in the battle at Prairie Grove, went to \'an 
Buren and afterward engaged in foraging, 
scouting and exj)editions of varieil character 
near Rolla, going in September to St. Louis. 
There Mr. Weber was promoted to Corjioral 
and detailed to escort stragglers, deserters and 
other unfortunates to their resj)ective regiments. 
He left the undistributed men at \"icksbur!i 
and rcgoined his regiment. On the i-eturn they 
met coming down the river the " Huth " with 
tlie paymasters for the army at Mcksburg 
escorted by the Captain of Company ],9tli Wis- 
consin, and 30 men. She was destroyed off 
Columbus; five men of the company were lost 
with several paymasters and all the money. 
In the fall of 18Go the command went to 
Helena and after a month to Duvall's Bluff 
and were constantly tired into by bushwhack- 
ers, until Colonel Jacolii found means to in- 
form them that if they did not stop he would 
destroy every habitation on his route. They 
went next to Little Rock and performed mili- 
tary duty until Jan. 1, 1804, when about 300 



of the regiment re-enlisted and were formed 
into Companies A, B, C and D. In March 
they started with the expeditioi>under Steele to 
assist Banks and were deterred from joining 
him by the operations of the rebels, details 
from Price's army constantly involving them 
in skirmi.shes of heavy character. The return 
was commenced when the news of Banks' de- 
feat was received and the massed rebels soon 
took their supply trains and cut off their 
communications and they only had corn 
rations. April 29th they reached the Sa- 
line River and found every indication 
of a heavy engagement with Kirby Smith's 
troops, 20,000 strong. It was necessary 
to light in order to save themselves from 
entire destruction ; and action was commenced 
early in the morning on the 30th, while the 
trains, more than two miles long, were crossing 
the river on pontoons. The rebels pressed them 
hard, and finally orders were given to charge 
upon them, which was done with so much 
vigor that three guns were taken and some 
prisoners. The retreat was finished, leaving 
tlie wounded on the field. Anthony Weber and 
Adolph were among them, and the former, 
wounded in the leg, underwent ampuUition on 
the field, where he died three days later and 
was buried there. Mr. Weber was wounded in 
the left log and injured in the other by the 
same liall, and was taken to Princeton, Ark., 
where six colored prisonere were crowded into 
a small cabin. The white prisoners saw a rebel 
make his way there and after he went away 
everyone was found shot to death. The food 
was hard corn and after a few days they liad a 
little meat and hardtack. At Princeton they 
were confined in churches and other public 
buildings. Three weeks after they were taken 
to Tyler, Texas, where they remained 10 
months in a stockade prison. In February, 
1805, they were marched 110 miles to Shreve- 



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port, thence to the mouth of the Red River and 
paroled. When they met the despatcli boats 
there, a Union prisoner who had concealed him- 
self on the transport came out, jumped over- 
hoard and was taken to the despatch boat, 
which fired a salute. From the Red River 
they were taken to New Orleans and three days 
later were on the way to their regiment. The 
command were out in full dress uniform to re- 
ceive them, the band playing " Home, Sweet 
Home." Mr. Weber spent a furlough at home 
and in June he joined his regiment and i-e- 
mained at Camden, Ark., until fall, going to 
Little Rock and j)erformed military duty until 
Jan. 31, 1866, when he was mustered out, hav- 
ing the rank of Sergeant, to which lie was pro- 
moted soon after exchanged. 

On his return to civil life he operated as a 
carpenter, and in 18 — commenced the sale of 
groceries and dry goods; continued in that busi- 
ness ten years, and in 1881 engaged in the manu- 
facture of sash, doore and blinds, with partners, 
the firm style becoming Steelier, Weber & 
Ileuttner Manufacturing Company. He was 
married Oct. 1, 1867, to Barbara, daugliter of 
\'alentine and Catherine Garrecht of Racine. 
Their children were named Catherine, Elizabeth 
Mary, Adolph, Barbara and Joseph. All are 
deceased and their mother died March 18, 1879. 
Mr. Weber contracted a second marriage with 
Theresa, daughter of August and Agatha 
Ziesel, and their children are Anthony, Wil- 
liam, Joseph, Julia and Gertrude. In 1871, Mr. 
Weber became interested in politics and was 
elected Alderman of the 6th ward, to which 
position he was re-elected three times. In 1885 
he was candidate for Mayor of Racine on the 
Democratic ticket. He was again nominated 
in 1889 and was defeated by only 75 votes. In 
1890 he was elected Mayor by over 700 ma- 
jority. 






ENRY OILMAN ROGERS, a promi- 
mt business man of Milwaukee, 
Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, was born April 28, 
1841, in Milwaukee. He completed his educa- 
tion at Beloit College, and, a few months after 
attaining his majority, entered the military 
service of his country. The progress of the 
war during its first year of existence had 
brought to reflective, prescient men the con- 
viction that the movement of the South, at 
first regarded as something like impetuosity, 
which would cool in a few months, had method 
in its madness and that a question as important 
as the founding of the Republic was at the 
fore for settlement and must be met. Probably 
the history of enlistment in the summer of 
1862 would make the most remarkable show- 
ing of the real character of American citizen- 
ship and its responsibilities that could be 
brought forward. Every interest in the coun- 
try was in peril ; all that had been accom- 
plished and all the promise of the future hung 
in the balance when the 24th Wisconsin en- 
rolled, organized and hastened to the front. 
Mr. Rogers enlisted Aug. 13, 1862, and on the 
organization of Company B, 24th Wisconsin, 
was made a Corporal. Bragg was marauding 
Northern Kentucky and the regiment moved 
southward to participate, in a little more than 
a month after leaving the State, in the battle 
of Perryville. They chased the fleeing rebels 
and returned afterwards to Nashville to pre- 
pare for further activities which they en- 
countered at Stone River. Corporal Rogers 
distinguished himself on the field and was 
made Sergeant during the action. In May, 
1863, he was promoted to Orderly Sergeant 
and passed the successive months on the march 
to and in the vicinity of Chattanooga and the 
Chickamauga until the battle of September 
19th, in which he received five wounds. Two 



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bullets struck his right arm and almost imme- 
diately afterwards an explosive shot cut away 
the second and third fingers of his left hand ; 
a buckshot hit the same hand and severed the 
cords of the little finger, holding its position 
in tlie hand for two months and finally work- 
ing itself out. A miuie ball took off the first > 
joint of the first finger of the same hand. He 
was hit ten different times during his term 
of service but paid no attention to the near 
approach of the deadly missiles. One bullet ' 
ploughed through the top of his head gear, j 
cutting off the hair from his head along its 
track and a shot struck his right cheek on the , 
facial bone; one shot hit his gun, glanced and j 
struck his lip with little injury and, although 
several other missiles came in his way to re- , 
mind him of rebel civilities, he received such 
slight results that he did not heed them. I 
After the battle of Cliickamauga he went to i 
field hospital of the 21st Army Corps, having 
been wounded on the 20th, the second day of 
the fight. He was injured on Sunday and | 
first received medical attention Wednesday I 
afternoon, not reaching the field hospital 
of his own corps, the 20th, until the atternoou 
of Friday. He remained in hospital until 
Oct. 8, 1863, when he rode 60 miles over the 
mountains to Stevenson, Ala., to return to 1 
Wisconsin on a 60-day furlough, his arm rest- 
ing on a i>illow during the ride. The scarcity 
of supplies was felt by the wounded and 
suffering in the hospitals as well as among l 
the troops awaiting help at Chattanooga, and 
his strong desire to reach some point where he 
could receive proper care and food caused him 
to take the risks of his journey, the aggrava- 
tion resulting from its severities making neces- 
sary an extension of his furlough to 90 days, 
during which he was under treatment. He 
had been offered the position of Lieutenant- j 
Colonel of the 35th Wisconsin by Governor 



Lewis, but his wounded condition prevented 
his acceptance. He was uuable to rejoin* his 
regiment and was mustered out Jan. 27, 1864, 
at Madison, having been commissioned Lieuten- 
ant of Company B, 24tli Wi.sconsin,to date from 
Nov. 23, 1863. In addition to the actions 
named, Mr. Rogers was in the scrimmages at 
Guy's and Hoover's Gaps. 

After his return to Milwaukee, he engaged 
as soon as sufficiently recovered, in the real 
estate business which he has since prosecuted. 
He has always maintained his interest in the 
military affairs of Wisconsin and was made 
Lieutenant Colonel of the 1st Regiment, Na- 
tional Guards during the administration, of 
Governor Ludington ; he was also made 
Major of the 4th Battalion (4th Milwaukee, N. 
G.) As soon as the Order of the Grand Army 
was organized in Wisconsin, he connected him- 
self with Post Phil. H. Sheridan, No. 9, Oct. 10, 
1866, of which he was Commander and also 
served in other positions. The Post surren- 
dered its charter and in 1880 he became a 
cliarter member of E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1. 
He is one of the oldest members in the State 
and country and has always been actively con- 
nected with the affairs of the Order. In 1874 
lie was Assistant Quartermaster General of the 
Wisconsin Department, Junior Vice Com- 
mander in 1875, Senior Vice Commander in 
1876 and was made Department Commander 
in 1877, thus holding the positions in regular 
sequence and his is the only instance in the State 
of regular advancement. His wife, one of the 
most prominent women in the Order of the 
Woman's Relief Corps in Wisconsin, was made 
Department President in 1886 and re-elected in 
1887. Through her administration new life 
was infused into the auxiliary of the Grand 
Army by her energetic activity and unflag- 
ging efforts to advance the material interests 
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added to the general Body and she organized 
and systematized the workings of tlie Depart- 
ment in a manner which has been felt far be- 
yond her personal administration. She is a ' 
woman who never does anything with which 
she is connected in a half-way manner or with 
half-iieartedness and, consequently, her influ- 
ence is always felt. It is impossible in a 
sketch like this to do fnll justice to the value 
of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers to the Department of 
Wisconsin. Mrs. Eogers is a member of the I 
National Pension Committee of the Woman's 
Relief Corps and was in 1889 its Secretary. 
Her activities in the charitable avenues of the 
Order have never ceased, and at successive con- 
ventions she receives recognition in her work 
by appointment to sucli positions as best give 
opportunity for benefit to the needy in the 
Grand Army. 

James H. Rogers, father of Mr. Rogers, who 
traced his ancestry back to the settlers on the 
Atlantic seaboard in an early period, went from 
Keysville, New York, to Milwaukee ; he bought 
Government lands which he held and which 
have greatlj' increased in value in the rise of 
property in the city. He married Sophia 
Emily Fletcher, who belonged to the family of 
the wife of Daniel Webster, and was born at 
Alstead, N. H. In her father's line she was of 
Quaker extraction and her forbears on her 
mother's side were soldiers in the Revolution 
and in 1812. Charles D. Rogers, brother of 
Mr. Rogers, enlisted in the 15th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and was Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 
regiment until his discharge for disability; he 
was afterward made 2d Lieutenant of Company 
B, 24th Wisconsin, promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
and mustered out as Captain of his company. 
Alexander H. and Jacob Rogers, cousins, were 
non-commissioned ofiicers in Company D, 24th 
Wisconsin. Oscar Gregory, another cousin of 
Mr. Rogers, enlisted in the 29th Indiana, and 



led his regiment home as Colonel, having 
reached that position from the ranks. Frank 
H. Fletcher, another cousin, was a Major and 
Paymaster in the war. 

The marriage of Mr. Rogers and Laura Ger- 
trude Butler, took place Oct. 11, 1864, and they 
have two children, named Laura Butler and 
William Henry. Rose died in infancy and 
Charles Edward died when less than two yeai's 
old. William and Lydia Ann (Squires) Butler, 
the parents of Mrs. Rogers, were born respectively 
in New York and Vermont. One of the great 
uncles of Mrs. Rogers in the maternal line was 
of the disguised ^jarty who made tea in Boston 
Harbor and several others of the same genera- 
tion fought in the Revolution and in 1812. 



P)J OUKRITZ GATZ, member of G. A. R. 
Post, No. 138, at Palmyra, Wis., where 
he is a resident, was born May 8, 1838, 
in Germany. His father, John Gatz, came to 
this country with his family in 1844, and, as 
the mother died soon after, the son lost nearly 
all remembrance of her. She died in Milwau- 
kee where he resided, having taken charge of his 
own affairs after he was 14 years of age. The 
father died about 1872. Mr. Gatz became a 
shoemaker, and after learning his trade he 
went to Washington county and worked at 
Portage and New Lisbon, returning to the 
southern part of the State and working at 
Little Prairie, until lie enlisted Oct. 11, 1861, 
in Company I, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, going 
into rendezvous at Janesville, where he was 
mustered, and left the State, Jan. 18, 1862, for 
Leavenworth, Kansas, expecting to join the 
Lane expedition and marched to Fort Scott. 
This plan was abandoned and the regiment 
went to Lawrence and thence to Fort Riley to 
connect with another expedition which also 




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proved a failure, and they returiitd to Colum- 
bus and performed railroad guard duty until 
their removal to Fort Henry and Fort Donel- 
son, and Mr. Gatz fought in the action at 
Clarksville. Later, he was in the chase of 
Morgan, and fought Woodward at Gurrettsville 
on his return, and went to Forts Donelson and 
Henry again, after a long march of nearly 200 
miles. In December he was again engaged in 
trying to find Morgan and after some months 
of lively scouting he went with the regiment 
on the double quick to Fort Donelson, (which 
had been assaulted by Forrest) arriving just 
after the repulse. Donelson was headquarters 
for the regiment through the summer, the com- 
mand performing garrison duty and scouting, 
besides trying to keep watch of the guerrillas 
and bushwhackers. In August they went to 
Columbia and thence to Stevenson, preparatory 
to taking position on the Chattanooga to guard 
the scanty stores of the Union army and to 
prevent rebel interference, the river being so 
low that crossing was possible at any point. 
They were relieved, after a dangerous experi- 
ence, by the arrival of Hooker with two corps 
from the army of Virginia. After veteranizing 
and furlough the reunited regiment assembled 
at Nasliviili; and were next engaged in garrison 
and guard duty until the plans to operate 
against Atlanta were matured, when the ex- 
pectations of the loth to join therein were 
balHed and they were again stationed to patrol 
and guard the Tennessee River. -lune 4th 
they went to Claysville, Ala., and were occupied 
in the same duty and in thwarting tlie rebel 
plans to intei'mjit Sherman's communications, 
and ail that fall they were engaged in looking 
after the depredations of Forrest and in protect- 
ing the railroad from guerrillas. In Novem- 
ber they went to the rear of Nashville wliieli 
was in a state of siege from Hood and tliey 
watched his motions and performed other duty 



until his defeat, wlien lliey were stationed on 
the railroad in guard and patrol duty until 
March, when the command was ordered to j)ro- 
ceed to connect with the army in ^'irginia, and 
they were on their route thither at Jonesboro 
when Lee surrendered. As soon as this intel- 
ligence reached them, orders were issued for a 
return and they went to Nashville, where they 
were ordered to New Orleans. In June they 
started for Texas, landing at Indianola, and 
went thence to Green Lake, where the men were 
seriously poisoned by the water. Tiiey next 
made a long and painful marcii to San An- 
tonio, where they were mustered out Nov. 24th 
and returned to Madison for final disciiarge. 

Mr. Gatz returned to Little Prairie and in 
1874 removed to Palmyra, wliere he has since 
been a resident. In 1860 he was married to 
Mary, daughter of .John Chuckenberg, a native 
of (Jermany and a resident of East Troy. Her 
parents are farmers and nrv living at Eagle. 
Mr. and Mrs. Gatz are the parents of seven 
children, named Emma, Frank, Bertha, Mary, 
John, Louisa and Edward. 

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OHN T. DAVISON, Platteville, Wis., 
gll Deputy Siierifr of Grant county, member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 66, was born at La 
Fayette, Tippecanoe Co., Ind., June 3, 1830. 
His i'ather, Jacob Davison, was born in York- 
shire, England, and came to America in youth. 
He settled in Chillicotlie, Ohio, where he mar- 
ried Susan Oldes, a native of Germany, wiio 
came to America in childhood willi her 
parents. The senior Davison lived some years 
in the Buckeye State, removed to Indiana and 
himself and wife died at La Fayette. Only 
two of 13 children reared by them are living, 
the sister of Mr. Davison being Mrs. Lucinda 
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captain in the llSth Illinois Infantry and re- 
turned on sick leave to his home, dying 24 
hours after arrival. Mr. Davison was in boy- 
hood when his parents died, he heing next to 
the youngest child in order of birth. As was 
the custom in those days, he was bound to a 
Mr. Cleaver and was, soon after, placed with a 
Mr. I'erkins, with whom he remained several 
years. He was then bound to a man named 
Matthews, with whom he lived four years, after 
which he went to work as a nrason and cooper, 
alternating these employments in winter and 
summer. Feb. 24, 1849, he first made acquaint- 
ance with Platteville, where he operated at his 
trades. He is also a miner and prospector, 
having employed laborers in mining for 35 
years. 

In August, 1864, he enlisted in company B, 
43d Wisconsin Infantry, being made Sergeant 
of his company and was mustered at Milwau- 
kee. The regiment was sent South and as- 
signed to the 4th Army Corps, expecting to 
make the march to the sea with Sherman, but 
the plan was frustrated by Hood, Johnsonville, 
Tenn., the base of supplies for Union troops, be- 
ing menaced by the rebel chief. The regiment 
was detailed for the defense, and was subjected 
to continuous shelling by the rebels for 48 
hours. Hood withdrew (after his troops had 
destroyed the Union gunboats and stores at 
Johnsonville) to Nashville, whitlier the 43d 
Wisconsin followed about the last of Novem- 
ber, 18G4. The march was an exceptionally 
hard one, being through almost unbroken wil- 
derness. About the first of .lanuary, the regi- 
ment went to Dechard, Tenn., and several com- 
panies, including Company B, engaged in 
guarding railroads, in patrol duty, protecting 
citizens and fighting guerrillas. In .June they 
returned to Nashville to be discharged and Mr. 
Davison received his release from military obli- 
gations at Milwaukee in July, 1865. He re- 



turned to Platteville, in enfeebled health, 
chronic diarrhea having set in about the time 
of his discharge. (He was the only man of his 
regiment who was able to do duty every day of 
his period of service.) He has never wholly 
recovered from the disease, and, in 1887, had 
the misfortune to lo.se his left eye while at work 
on the city hall in Platteville, and at the same 
time he broke his left arm. He has acted as 
Constable 17 years and is serving the fifth year 
as Deputy Sheriff. He is still engaged in min- 
ing for lead, which he has found a profitable 
investment. 

He was married at Platteville, June 29, 1851, 
to Emeline, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
(McFall) Angestine. Her parents were natives 
of Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Davison have had 12 
children, two of wlioni died in infancy. The 
survivors are named Susan, David, Jacob, Wil- 
liam, Edith, .Joiin, Cassie, Fannie, Vye and 
Stella. Mr. Davison is a member of the A. O. 
U. W., and is one of the highly respected citi- 
zens of Platteville; he is still active and in full 
vigor of life, showing no signs of encroaching 
age. 

HARLES W. GULLIFORD, grocer at 
Reedsburg, Wis., a member of G. A. 
R. Post No. 13, was born June 22, 
1842, in Girard, Erie Co., Pennsylvania, whence 
his parents, Daniel and Melissa (Johnson) Gul- 
liford, removed to Sauk Co., Wis., locating on 
Sauk Prairie, seven miles south of Baraboo, in 
1846, two years before Wisconsin was a State 
and at a time when the reign of first things 
prevailed. Eight years later the family re- 
moved to Westfield in the same county, where 
the father still lives on a farm, aged more than 
78 years; the mother died there Feb. 28, 1877, 
aged a few days more than 61 j'ears. Of their 
nine children five are deceased ; the survivors. 




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named in order of birth are Catlierine, Mrs. « 
Gattenwinkel of Riverside, CaL; Harriet, wife 
of S. P. Sutton of Monroe, Wis.: Horace W. of 
Rock Falls, Neb. Charles \V. was the next 
and the only soldier in the family. His sister 
Rosanna is deceased ; Sarah A. and Lorin died 
while he was in tiie service; Vol etta died in 
mature life and Ursula in infancy. 

Mr. Gulliford was reared on his father's farm 
until he entered the army, which he did within 
the first months of the war, before he reached 
his majority. Sept. 7, 1861, he enlisted in 
Company I>, IJtli Wisconsin Infantry, enroll- 
ing from Logansville, Sauk county; he was 
mustered at Madison under Captain Giles Ste- 
vens, of Reedsburg, October 30th, at Camp 
Randall, starting .Jan. 11, 18(i2, for Fort Scott, 
and experiencing at the outset some of the 
severest of his experiences in traversing the 
country as a soldier. A long march was made 
to Kansas and from Fort Scott (after the aban- 
donment of the project on which the regiment 
was sent there) to Fort Riley in anticipation of 
another expedition which proved futile, and 
thence the command started for Columbus to 
go to Corinth. Mr. Gulliford had been taken 
ill at Fort Scott and as soon as recovered, re- 
joined his regiment between Columbus and 
Corinth, where he acted as guard on the rail- 
road for a time and went thence to Mississippi, 
expecting to tight in October and, after remain- 
ing sometime engaged in guerrilla service was 
in the movements which preceded and wliich 
were closed by the capture of Holly Springs by 
the rebels. He was in the battle at Cold water 
and in the march to take position in the siege 
of Vicksburg, afterwards being in tiie Kgiit at 
Jackson, returning to Vicksburg. Soon after 
he went on the Meridian expedition and had 
the satisfaction of engaging in tlie work of de- 
struction of rebel property and getting his lill 
of the soi-t of service known as skirmishing 



with guerrillas. Returning to Vicksburg he 
went soon after to Natchez where he was ill in 
hosj)ital with bowel complaint and other difh- 
culties. While there he veteranized with about 
600 men and received a furlough of 30 days 
which he spent at home. He rejoined his 
regiment and entered upon the Atlanta cam- 
paign under Sherman, taking part in the sev- 
eral actions known on historical pages as Kene- 
saw Mountain, at Nickajack Creek, Bald Hill, 
siege of .July 22d, and was in the action at 
•Jonesboro, designed to cut off the communica- 
tions of Hood through the destruction of the 
railroads, and at Macon assisted in blowing up 
80 car loads of ammunition. At Bald Hill the 
regiment performed distinguished service, driv- 
ing Texas troops who had never before known 
reverses. His regiment went to Savannah in 
one of Sherman's columns and Mr. Gullifonl 
was in all the varied service of that campaign 
which terminated at Savannah, to be resumed 
in January. He went from Savannah to Beau- 
fort, S. C, thence to fight on the Pocotaligo 
River and witnessed the burning of Columbia, 
where Sherman did not order the destruction, 
but moved his headquarters when the confla- 
gration threatened his comfort. At Goldsboro 
the regiment took a rest which was mucli 
needed, having been in active warfare of some 
variety 5(> days. At Raleigh news of Lee's 
surrender and Lincoln's assassination was re- 
ceived, after which the foot race to Washing- 
ton, through Richmond and Petersburg was 
made, and, after camping at Arlington Heights, 
the regiment marched in the Grand Review. 
After camping at (Jeorgetown Heights the 12lli 
went to Louisville to be mustered out, July 
16th, and thence to Madison for discharge 
from the State service. 

On his return to Sauk county he purchased 
a farm on which he pursued agriculture 12 
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North Freedom, where he embarked in a mer- 
cantile enterprise, managing his relations there 
two and a half years. In 1882, he located at 
Reedsburg, where he began his commercial re- 
lations, which he has since maintained and 
conducts a business which includes traffic in 
the commodities common to the grocery and 
restaurant trade. He has served as Chaplain 
of his Post and was a magistrate one year in 
Tuckertown, Sauk county. 

He was married in the township of Wash- 
ington, Sauk county. May 30, 186G, to Mrs. 
Olive Tinker, a native of the State of New 
York. There are no children from this union, 
but Mrs. GuUiford has two daughters Ijy her 
former marriage. Sarah A. is the wife of -John 
Kozak, of Iowa, and Frances married Herman 
Hackett, of North Freedom. Mr. Gulliford 
and his wife are members of the M. E. Church 
and she is a member of the W. R. C. of Reeds- 
burg. 






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OHN NEAVILL, Treasurer of Grant 
County, Wis., (1889) resident at Lan- 
caster, was born at Council Hill, Jo 
Daviess Co., 111., Jan 31, 1844; his father, John 
D. Neavill, was born in Tennessee and his 
mother, Maria L. Meredith before marriage, 
was a native of Ohio. The families of which 
both were members had become residents of 
Illinois prior to the marriage of the parents, 
who died when the son was still in boyhood. 
Only one other child grew to maturity — James 
H. Both were reared by an uncle and aunt in 
Potosi, Grant Co., Wis. 

John Neavill remained with his uncle, pass- 
ing his early life in obtaining an education and 
HI assisting his uncle in mining. Pie was just 
17 when the affairs of the South became prom- 
inent in what that section of the country 
threatened and he had become interested in 



passing events when Sumter was fired upon. 
He early determined to enlist and in Septem- 
ber, 1861, he enrolled in Company F, 10th 
Wisconsin Infantr}', at Potosi, but was not 
mustered, as he was absent when that cere- 
monial was performed and his name was not 
answered. But he was in readiness when his 
comn)and went to the front and he left the 
State Nov. 9, 1861, for Louisville and was in 
all the movements of the regiment, marching 
through Northern Kentucky, performing mili- 
tary duty at Elizabethtown, Bacon Creek, 
Bowling Green and elsewhere, but as he had 
not been mustered he was not paid and he 
resolved to return home and his lieutenant 
obtained transportalion for him to Wisconsin. 
He engaged about a year in clerking and then 
attended Tafton academy in Bloomington, 
whence he was graduated in 1863. He ob- 
tained a position as clerk in Lancaster and 
went to Crawford county where he again 
enlisted after clerking for a short time. He 
enrolled Dec. 18, 1864, in Company F, 49lh 
Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered at 
Madison. After passing a few days at St. 
Louis the command went to Rolla, Mo., wliere 
Mr. Neavill was occupied in camp, guard, 
patrol and escort duty, having occasionally a 
scrimmage with bushwhackers. In August 
following, the regiment returned to St. Louis 
and did police duty at various points in the 
city until discharged. While on duty escorting 
a train to Springfield, Mr Neavill was taken 
with typhoid fever, placed in the Post hospital 
at Rolla and remained there twelve weeks, 
being removed as soon as convalescent to 
Marine hospital at Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. 
Five weeks later his discharge was ordered by 
the surgeons, which he received Sept. 27, 1865. 
This siege of sickness left him a pliysical wreck 
with spinal disease and he was in an almost 
hopeless state when sent home. His recovery 



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was soon assured and as soon as able to exert 
liiinself, he engaged in teaching terms of win- 
ter school and managing a kiniber yard during 
other portions of the year. Until 1886 teach- 
ing has been his principal occupation. In that 
year he entered the employ of the Cirant County 
Herald as outside agent and j)ursued that 
occupation until November, 1888, when lie was 
elected to the position of which he is still the 
incumbent, on the liepublican ticket. 

He was married Sept. 14, 1875, at Potosi, to 
Myra, daughter of David and Susan (Wright) 
Goodrich, and they have four children, named 
Anna V., James G., .Libbie M. and J. Rae. 

Mr. Neavill is one of the solid men of his 
county in character and enjoys the esteem of 
his generation and the confidence of his political 
associates to an extraordinary degree. In the 
winter of 1875 he served under the Sergeant- 
at-Arms of the Assembly of Wisconsin and in 
1878 was Assistant Postmaster of the Senate. 
He is a resident i)roj)ei- of Potosi of which he 
is Village Clerk. He is a member of Belknap 
Fuqua Post at Potosi in which he has been 
prominent officially. 



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Sj/^^^x HARLES COLEMAN, Clerk of the 
court of Sauk Co., Wis., resident at 
Baraboo, Adjutant of G. A. K. Post 
No. 9 (1890), was born Dec. 3, 1844, at Spring 
Prairie, Walworth Co., Wis. His parents, 
Horace and .Juliet (Merrick) Coleman, were 
natives of the State of New York and came to 
Wisconsin in 1836, 12 years before the Com- 
monwealth took on the dignity of Statehood 
and in 1848 they removed to Delaware Co., 
New York, whence they returned to Wisconsin 
in 1854 and located in Sauk county. 

Mr. Coleman received a good education and 
was still a resident under his father's roof when 



he decided to enter the army, although he was 
not quite 18 years old. He enlisted Sept. 20, 
1861, in Companj' E, 12th Wisconsin Infantry, 
his regiment being organized at Camp Randall, 
Madison, and leaving the State Jan. 11, 1862, 
under orders to rejiort at Weston, Mo., whither 
the command went under circumstances which 
convinced them that the way of the volunteer 
soldier was anything but pleasant. They went 
tlience to Leavenworth Citj' and e.\j)eeted to 
join an expedition under General Lane, going to 
Fort Scott, for that purpose, marching the 
whole distance and when the project was aban- 
doned marched to Lawrence and thence to 
Fort Riley, expecting to go to New Mexico. 
All the marching proved vain as the expedi- 
tion was abandont^d and they marched back to 
Leavenworth and received orders to go to Ten- 
nes.see to take part in the activities near 
Corinth, but when they landed at Columbus, 
Ky., affairs had changed and the 12th W^iscon- 
sin engaged in repairs on the route thither, in 
scouting and other military duty until ordered 
to go to Humboldt, Tenn., where four months 
were passed in guarding the location while 
Grant was forming his plans for the capture of 
Yicksburg and in November they started to- 
wards Holly Springs, expecting to tight, but 
Van Duni retreated and Mr. Coleman was in 
the various movements with the command 
during the late fall and until Van Dorn suc- 
ceeded in scaring Colonel Murphy out of Holly 
Springs. He was afterwards in railroad duty 
and in January was in a long march in Missis- 
sippi and Tennessee and in February was 
engaged in guarding the Memphis & Charles- 
ton railroad. He wsis in the fight at Coldwater, 
went back to Memphis and thence in May the 
regiment went to \'icksburg and was on duty 
in the siege under constant fire until the sur- 
render of the city. Mr. Coleman was in the 
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and Vicksburg wliere lie re-enlisted and after 
veteran furlough the regiment re-organized at 
Cairo and joined the army of the Tennessee 
preparatory to the siege of Atlanta and Mr. 
Coleman was in the fight at Kenesaw Mountain, 
Nickajack Creek and other movements at 
Kenesaw, was in tlie command of General 
McPherson, and encountered the risks of war 
(luring an entire month. Mr. Coleman was in 
the action at Bald Hill, in the fight of .July 22d 
and in the charge six days later, being con- 
stantly under fire until the movement of Sher- 
man in the destruction of the railroads, when 
he was in the action at Jonesboro, and again 
at Lovejoy's. He was in the marching after- 
wards and in one of Sherman's columns, went 
to Savannah, being actively engaged everyday 
in the operations of that campaign which broke 
in two the back bone of the confederacy. He 
was in all the service performed by his regi- 
ment on the Pocotaligo River, on the Salke- 
hatchie and at Orangeburg, Cheraw and Fay- 
etteville, witnessing the battle of Bentonville 
and afterwards marching to Goldsboro, Raleigh, 
Richmond and AVashington and, after the 
Grand Review, went to Louisville, Ky., to be 
mustered out July 16, 1865. During the last 
year of his military service he acted as an 
Orderly at the headquarters of General 0. O. 
Howard. 

After returning to Wisconsin he engaged in 
farming and in 1878 obtained from the Govern- 
ment a commission as Pension Examiner in 
which office he has since served. He acted 10 
years as Town Clerk of Excelsior and has 
served the same length of time as Justice of the 
Peace. In 1888 he was elected Clerk of the 
Court, his efficient and faithful work in many 
official positions recommending him to the 
place. He is a genial and popular citizen and 
one who has won a permanent place in the 
confidence of the community. He was mar- 



ried in Excelsior, Wis., in 1870 to Martha 
Eaton, a native of the State of New York, and 
their children are named Gracia and Lillie. 
Mr. Coleman is a member of the Order of Odd 
Fellows — subordinate Lodge and Encampment, 
and he belongs to the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. 

/(^^^ A. DOVE, Richland Center, Wis., 
f^^ Commander of G. A. R. Post No. 33, 
^:=^-* • (1890) was born at Potsdam, New 
York, April 15, 1840. His father, Charles 
Dove, was born in London, England, and, when 
18 years old, enlisted in the English army, 
coming to America to fight in the war of 1812, 
and in 1814 deserted and crossed from Canada 
into the States and settled at Potsdam where 
he resided until death. He married Mary 
Steeple, also A native of England, their union 
occurring at Potsdam, where she also died. Mr. 
Dove is the youngest of 10 children and one of 
three brothers who enlisted. His brother 
Henry was a soldier in the 16th New York In- 
fantry, enlisting in April, 1861 ; he was dis- 
charged for disability and re-enlisted in the 
13th New York Cavalry, and served in the 
same command until the close of the war. 
William belonged to Scott's "900" Cavalry regi- 
ment three years. Mr. Dove was reared on his 
father's farm, receiving a good education. 
When he was 19 years old he left home to en- 
gage as a farm assistant in which he was occu- 
pied until he enlisted at Potsdam, Sept. 6, 1864, 
in Company H, 13th New York Cavalry. He 
was mustered at Malone, New York, and sent 
to Washington, where the regiment was on 
duty in the defenses surrounding the city and 
having repeated skirmishes with Mosby's guer- 
rillas and in one engagement in which a small 
body of Union troops encountered a squad 
under Mosby himself, the guerrilla chief was 



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wounded. The principal service of the 13th j 
was in skirmisliing, guarding the defenses of 
Washington and carrying dispatches. Mr. 
Dove received liis final discharge, after being 
in all the exciting events attending the murder 
of the President, the j)aradc in Washington 
and other events at the Capital, July 4, 1SG5. 

After his return to Potsdam he engaged in 
carpenter work in that vicinity until 1877, the 
date of his removal to Streator, 111., and he 
was there engaged in similar occui)ations until 
1879, when he went to Richland Center, Wis., 
and established his permanent residence. 
About 1880, he began the sale of furniture, in 
which he has built up a considerable business. 

He was married at Hopkintown, New York, 
in 1871. His second marriage to Saraii J., 
daughter of .John and Alta (Sheldon) Hender- 
son, occurred in 1879 at llolyoke, Mass. ; Mrs. 
Dove is a native of St. Lawrence county. New 
York. Mr. Dove joined the G. A. R. Post in 
Richland Center in 1885, and has served two 
years as Adjutant. He has always been a Re- 
publican of decided stamp, but never an ofHce- 
seeker. His business is in prosperous con- 
dition, bis i)rivate character of the best quality 
and he is considered a valuable meniber of tlie 
business fraternity of Ricliland Center. 



ONATHAN G. PELTON, M. I)., Spring 
Green, Sauk Co., Wis., charter member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 39, was born in 
Genesee Co., New York, July 15, 1825. His 
parents, Ansel and Rebecca (Gates) Pelton, re- 
moved with their family to Wisconsin in 1850 
and located on a farm near Madison and botli 
died on that homestead. Dr. Pelton is their 
only son and cliild and he was educated in the 
common schools and academy at Lima, New 
York. He commenced his medical course by 



reading in Rochester, N. Y., and completed his 
studies by the prescribed regime at Geneva 
Medical College, whence he was graduated just 
before he was 21 years old. As soon as his pro- 
fession was finished he entered upon the duties 
of the hos])ital at Puffalo as resident j)bysician. 
The establishment was instituted under tlie ef- 
forts of Dr. Frank Hamilton, one of the leading 
physicians of Western New York, and others, 
and Dr. Pelton was j>laceil in charge. After a 
year of service he went to Wales in Erie county 
and a few months later to Cartersville, near 
Rochester, practicing tliere four years and re- 
moving to jNIadison, Wis., where he conducted 
the business of his profession until 1803. Dur- 
ing the first year of tlie war he was interested 
in recruiting lor tlie service and, until he en- 
tered the army liimself, he was active in that 
work. He was commissioned Surgeon of the 
19th Wisconsin Infantry, but about the time 
that command left the Slate, his mother was 
seized with fatal illness and he was detained at 
home until too late to go to the front with that 
command. He removed to Spring Green in 
1863, and practiced medicine until Dec. 18, 
1804, when he accepted a commission in the 
47th Wisconsin Infantry. He left Madison 
Feb. 27, 1865, for Louisville, Nashville, Tulla- 
homa and that vicinity, where the regiment 
was engaged in guard duty on the railroad and 
in other military ojierations, and lie had a busy 
time in looking jifter the health and sanitary 
conditions of his cliarge. Contagious diseases 
were rife at that point, which caused an un- 
usual degree of sickness and disability. He 
was mustered out with his command Sept. 4, 
1865, and returned to his home at Spring 
Green, where he re-estal)lished a prosperous 
business as a physician. He has also been en- 
gaged to some extent, as opportunity served, in 
the practice of law. He has never taken active 
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the duties of citizenship in the most consistent 
iiiaiuier known to hiui. 

He was married in Wyoming Co., New York, 
Aj)ril 23, 1S46, to Fannie E., daughter of Harry 
E. and Olive S. (Coon) Randall. She was born 
in the State of New York. Two children born 
to Dr. and Mrs. PeUon died in infancy. Five 
cliildren are living; Byron is the manager of 
the farm ; Mary Helen is the wife of Cliarles 
M. Bixby of Chicago ; Ann Elizabeth married 
(ieorge A. Sweet of Minneapolis, ]Minn. ; Olive 
married Edward Guyer of Spring Green ; Ella 
Rebecca is the youngest; George Edward and 
John L. are deceased. 

Dr. Pelton is a leading citizen of his section 
and, although advanced in years, is still 
actively engaged in the affairs of this life. He 
is well known for his charity in his profession 
and is a member of the Board of Pension 
Examiners; he also officiates as surgeon of the 
C, M. & St. P. R. R. corporation. He has been 
Pension Examiner for 15 years and also Med- 
ical Director of the Department of Wisconsin 
in the Order of the G. A. R. 

'^»'OHN II. TROGNER, Monticello, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 113 was 
born in Eewis Co., New York, Dec. J3, 
1843. His father, Joseph Trogner, was born 
in Austria in 1805 and married Elizabeth Beck, 
also of German birtii. They came to America 
while still young and about 1830 located in 
Lewis county on a farm on which they resided 
18 years and went to Wisconsin in 1S4S, where 
they settled on a farm in New Glarus and on 
which their respective deaths occurred. The 
death of the father occurred Marcli 19,- 1887, 
tiie demise of the mother having been in March, 
1872. One of their six children is deceased; 
Joseph D. was an enlisted man in Company K, 



16th Wisconsin Infantry, and died in hospital 
at Cairo, 111., 1SG4. Mr. Trogner of this sketch 
is fourth in order of birth and his brothers and 
sisters are Mrs. Sarah Schlimsten, Mrs. Mary 
Rolfe, George W., (who enlisted in Company 
D, 38th Wisconsin Infantry,) and Mrs. Lizzie 
Bruner. 

Mr. Trogner was live years old when he 
came to Wisconsin and he remained on the' 
farm until his twentieth birthday, Dec. 13, 
1803, when he enlisted in Company K, 16th 
Wisconsin Infantry. He was mustered at 
Madison and joined his regiment March 4, 
1864, within the fortifications at Vicksburg, 
going successively to Black River, Vicksburg, 
Cairo, Paducah and Clifton, Tenn., whence the 
regiment went to Rome, Ga., to connect with 
Sherman, effecting that purpose at Kenesaw 
Mountain, where Mr. Trogner was in his first 
fighting May 15th and for days thereafter was 
in constant activity, moving during the month 
of June in reconnoissance and skirmishing and 
went early in July to position for the fight at 
Bald Hill, (Leggett's Hill) where he received a 
gunshot wound on the 21st of July, the ball 
setting up a permanent residence in his hip 
from which it has never been dislodged. From 
the field hospital lie was taken to the hospital 
at Rome, Ga., and after two months received a 
30-day furlougli. When it expired he reported 
at Madison, but was detained there as unable 
I to rejoin his regiment and he was discharged 
May 29, 1SG5. As soon as able after returning 
to his liome he resumed farming, which he 
pursued at intervals as his wound permitted 
until 1877, when he commenced the manufac- 
ture of flour at Monticello, which business he 
conducted in person nearly 12 years. His 
health becoming impaired, he withdrew from 
actual contact with his business and passed 
about a year in bed. As soon as a little better 
he undertook light labor in flouring mills, 



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which he continued until April 28, 1889, when 
tlie furniture liouse of Gerber & Troguer was 
formed by the purchase b}^ Mr. Trogner of a 
half interest in the enterprise, which is the 
only 'establishment of the kind at Monticello. 
He was married in 1871 at Dayton, Wis., to 
Esther, daughter of Benjamin and Hannah 
Robey, who was a native of Oliio and died 
without children in 1873. Mr. Trogner was 
again married Nov. 1, 1875, to Hattie A., 
daughter of Theo. Z. and Lucia (Harper) Buck, 
and of their four children, Zala Verne, tlie 
second in order of birtli, died in infancy, the 
survivors being Ora, Eveline and AValter. Mr. 
Troguer is Adjutant of his Post (1889) and has 
held the position three years. He has also 
served two years as Junior Vice-Commander. 
He is prominent in temperance work, and has 
been for years connected with the Temple of 
Honor and Good Templars. He also belongs 
to the Order of United Workmen. He bears 
an excellent reputation as a business man and 
upright citizen. 




'ILLIAM HARRISON BEACH, 

Suj>erintendent of Schools at 
Madison, Wis., (1889) member of 
G. A. R. Post No. 11, was born in Seneca Co., 
New York, Oct. 8, 1835, and is tlie son of Elam 
and Hannah (Edwards) Beach. His father was 
born at Stratford, Conn., and the mother in 
Albany in the Empire State. The Edwards 
family traces its origin to a prominent adher- 
ent of Cromwell who fled from England ou tlie 
restoration of Charles II. in 1658 and located 
in Connecticut. The ancestors of the Beach 
family came from England and settled near 
New Haven in 1G50. The grandfather of Pro- 
fessor Beach, Isiat'l Beach, was a soldier at 
Bunker Hill ; his father became a resideut of 



Seneca County, New York, in 1818. The pa- 
rents had six children of whom the subject of 
this sketch was fifth in order of birth. In 
1857, he entered Hamilton College, whence he 
was graduated with honors in 1860. He re- 
ceived prizes in mathematics and chemistry 
and also as an essayist. His graduating effort 
was the Philosophical Oration of his class. 

The antagonism between the Nortli and 
] South came to a culmination in less than a 
year after he finished his educational course ; 
and he was among the first to recognize his re- 
sponsibility and duty and made haste to give 
tangible expression to the spirit which he had 
received by natural inheritance and from his 
relations to the work of the world of which he 
had become cognizant in the yeai's of his pre- 
paration for active participation therein. The 
first regiment of cavalry authorized to be raised 
was known as the Lincoln Cavalry, afterwards 
assigned to the State of New York. (The op- 
position of General Scott to cavalry had recog- 
nized weight with the Administration, and Mr. 
Lincoln authorized the organization of the 1st 
New York Cavalry, which was also known 
under the designations "Independent" and 
"Lincoln.") 

Mr. Beach joined the regiment in May, 1861, 
enlisting in Company B, and rendezvoused witli 
tho command at New York. In the summer, its 
quartei's were transferred to the vicinity of the 
Army of Virginia, and it remained at Wash- 
ington, Alexandria and Fairfax Seminary until 
the spring of 1862, engaged in all the variety 
of duty incident to cavalry drill and service. 
After passing through all the disasters and 
heavy service of the Peninsula camj)aign, the 
1st New York Cavalry went to Fredericksburg, 
remaining a few weeks under Burnside. After 
the repulse of Pope, the regiment returned to 
Alexandiia and wont thence to Maryland for 
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being almost constantly in the saddle. Septem- | 
ber 12tli the regiment was one of the first to 
enter the city in the advance of the troops of 
McClellan. As the cavahy rode through the ' 
streets through which Stonewall Jackson's had 
so lately marched under the " Flag of Free- ] 
dom," waved above their heads from its historic 
"broken staff" by Barbara Fritchie, the Stars 
and Stripes flew from multitudes of windows. 
The cavalry brigade to which the regiment 
belonged was sent to Gettysburg to watch 
developments. Returning b}' forced marches 
it arrived on the field of Antietam just before 
the battle was over. In a spirited action at 
Williamsport a few days later they gave a part- 
ing salute to the rel^els as they retii'ed aci'oss 
the Potomac. The regiment then reported to 
General Kelly at Cumberland and were 
assigned to duty on the Baltimore & Ohio R. 
R., where their experiences were of the sever- 
est character, hardly a night passing without 
their picket posts being attacked, and, alto- 
gether, some of the most thrilling adventures 
of the command occurred while in this connec- 
tion and service. Schemes for ascertaining con- 
ditions and surroundings were constantly in 
progress, and scouts and spies were constantly 
in service for the benefit of the Union com- 
manders. In one instance a detachment from 
the 1st New York Cavalry made a dasli on Im- 
boden at Cacapon Bridge, capturing the camp 
of the rebel chief and more than 30 of liis com- 
mand. They were occupied in this service un- 
til orders came for a movement to the Shenau- 
doali Valley. Arriving at North Mountain, 
two Lieutenants with 27 men were sent on a 
scout towards Winchester, the affair resulting 
in an attack on a post of 40 rebels, of whom 15 
were captured after a spirited chase of five 
miles. The command was in camp at Win- 
clu'ster and Berryville engaged almost daily in 



When Ewell advanced in the movement of Lee 
on his Gettysburg campaign, the Lincoln 
Cavalry was the first of the Federal troops to be 
intercepted and the onset was so unexpected 
that the tents and all equipage were abandoned. 
At Opequan Creek, a hand-to-hand encounter 
took place, in which the fpiality of the fighting 
was equal to much that has been made bright- 
est on the pages of history. In no warfare the 
world has ever known has descriptive justice 
been accorded to the service performed by 
cavalry and only in personal relations can any 
adequate idea of its character be obtained. The 
command of Milroy fought two days at Win- 
chester and were overpowered as they attempted 
to withdraw by a midnight retreat. But Ewell 
had anticipated this attempt and a strong force 
barred their path. After some desperate fight- 
ing and heavy loss a portion of the brigade 
escaped, crossed the Potomac at Hancock, going 
thence to Bedford, Bloody Run and McConnells- 
burg. At the latter place. Captain Abram 
Jones of Company A, commanding a detail 
from the regiment had a street fight and cap- 
tured 30 rebels. Skirmishing constantly oc- 
curred until after the battle of Gettysburg, and 
as Lee was falling back, Captain Jones, with 
120 men, made a dash on the rebel trains, cap- 
turing 137 wagons, two guns and 700 prisoners, 
most of whom were too weary to make an ef- 
fort to escape. The quarters of the i-egiment 
afterwards were at Martinsburg and Charles- 
town, and in January, 1804, veteranizing took 
l>lace, most of the command re-enlisting. 

When the campaign of 1864 opened, the 
regiment was assigned to the command of 
Sigel and with "Boyd's" Cavalry, with which 
it was brigaded, became famous. The special 
service performed by the Lincoln Cavalry in 
the scout u\) the Luray Valley would have 
made it jTi-ominent in history, if no other con- 



scouting ant! in contest with Mosby's gufrrillas. nection in tills rutxnd had <lone so. Tluonj, 



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its operalioiis at Newmarket, the condition of 
affairs was exposed, wliicli led to the substitu- 
tion of Hunter in place of Sigel. But it cost 
140 out of oUO men who ran into a trap set by 
Imboden and Mosby, with 2,000 troops, includ- 
ing cavalry, infantry a ntl artillery. Mr. Beach 
was in all the activities of the operations tliat 
followed. He fought at Port Republic, Pied- 
mont, Staunton, Lynchburg and Salem, re- 
treated tlinnigh West ^"irginia to the Ohio 
River experiencing in this retreat all tliej)riva- 
tions known to army men, starvation being 
most prominent among the trials. From Park- 
ersburg, they returned by rail to the Shenan- 
doah, fought under Crook at Winchester, fell 
back to Martinsburg and, after McCausland 
burned Chambersburg, the command was as- 
signed to the force of Averill, who received 
orders to follow the devastator. Forced 
marches, night and day, culminated in an 
overtaking at Moorefield, before daybreak, 
August Ttli, and the enemy's videttes, with the 
entire j)icket force, was captured witiiout alarm. 
One of McCausJand's camps was completely 
routed, artillery, wagons and 450 prisoners be- 
ing taken. The rear brigade of Averill's Divi- 
sion was ordered to the front and to cross the 
South Brancii of the Potomac River, which 
was deep and rapid, its bottom being covered 
with round stones; 130 men of the 1st New 
York Cavalry under Ca])tain Jones were in the 
advance, and the command under Major Gib- 
son of the 14th Pennsylvania pressed across. 
The cavalry followed a narrow, muddy road a 
mile and a half, passing a corn Held to the left 
in which the high corn hindered their seeing 
what was beyond it. A party of rebels in the 
road in front was driven back, and the 1st New 
York Cavalry deployed in an open meadow, on 
the further side of whicli about 1,000 rebels 
were in line of battle, skirinisiiers in front and 
Hankers on their right. Not a man of the little 



band but knew tlie results of flinching at that 
moment and when their captain ordered "For- 
ward ; yell, men, yell," they charged straight 
into the center of the rebel line, which broke 
and fled. The Union Cavalry pursued several 
miles, capturing many prisoners, whose saddle 
bags were filled with the plunder from Ciiam- 
bersburg. When Sheridan took command of 
the aft'aics in the valley, the 1st New 
York Cavalry was assigned to the force of the 
" Great Captain " and Mr. Beacii was with the 
troops that sent Early " whirling up the valley " 
on the 19th of October, followed and fought 
at Fisher's Hill, and the routed rebels were 
pursued to Mt. Jackson. The devastation of 
the valley by the Union troops after the victory 
at Fisher's Hill is well known. Tiie 1st New 
York accompanied Sheridan throughout the 
closing scenes that preceded the end of tlie war. 
In 18G4 Professor Beach was made 2d Lieu- 
tenant, later was promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
and afterwards to Adjutant of tiie regiment. 
He was mustered out as such July 7, ISfio, in 
New York. 

He returned to his home and was occupied 
on the farm until 1807, when lie assumed 
charge of the High School at Dubuque, Iowa, 
as Principal, which he conducted until 1875, 
the date of liis appointment as principal of a 
school of a higher grade at Boloit, \\'is. In 
July, 1884, he received a call to his present 
position in which he is faithfully discharging 
his obligations. He is a man of rare scholarly 
attainments, an educator of experience and suc- 
sess and a gentleman whose position in his 
relations to Madison is of a type which reilects 
creditably on his claims to recognition as a 
man, soldier and patriot. 

He was married Dec. 20, 1867, to Sarah M. 
Peterson, of Canaga, New York ; she is a native 
of the Empire State and is allied to a branch of 
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Professor Beach is an active Grand Army 
man, a member of the Wisconsin Commandery 
of the Loyal Legion and belongs to tlie State 
Historical Society ; he is an elder in the Pres- 
byterian Church. The quality of the blood to 
which he belongs is manifested by the brother- 
hood of which he is one. Thompson Beach 
served in the 50th New York Engineers and 
Myron IL was a soldier in a three-months regi- 
ment from Iowa. Pierson B. Peterson, a 
brother-in-law, Adjutant of the 78th New York 
Infantry, was mortally wounded at Antietam ; 
Charles R. Peterson, a member of the same 
company, in the fall of 18G2 in a skirmish at 
Pohick Church had a rebel bullet flattened on 
the clasp of his sabre belt ; was wounded and 
his horse was shot at Hancock, and he was 
taken prisoner at New Market ; Dr. Wilson 
Peterson was in the war as a surgeon. 



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y<^ DWARD L. DOOLITTLE, Menomonie, 



Wis., 



was born Dec. 17, 1826, in Canandai- 
gua. New York. His father, Edward L. Doo- 
little, was born in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 22, 
1799, and was the son of a settler of that 
State, of English descent. His wife, Sarah 
Williams before marriage, was born May 30, 
1798, in New York of Scotch parentage, and 
she and her husband both died in Canandaigua, 
the former, Nov. 20, 1876, and the latter. May 
21, 1861. Their children were Myron 0., 
Amanda M., Edward L., Amos D., Stillman R., 
Lyman W., John Adams, James Madison and 
Mary A., all born in Canandaigua, and all liv- 
ing but Lyman and Amanda. The son was 
reared on a farm until he was 21 years old, and 
in 1847 started to look at the promised land of 
which he had heard so much — the West. He 
iiad no intention of remaining, but he has 
never returned to his native State. After pros- 



pecting a while he located at Madison and 
worked as a shoemaker until 1859, when he 
went to Dunnville, Dunn county, and engaged 
in farming near there. He was engaged in 
agriculture when he entered the army, enlist- 
ing in April, 1864, to be assigned to Company 
G, 37th Wisconsin Infantry, March 20, 1864. 
He proceeded immediately to the front and 
found his regiment in "hell" in the trenches of 
Petersburg. (See sketch of C. K. Pier.) The 
first night he lay in the rifle pits and listened 
to the .shrieking of shot and shell and made a 
failure of sleeping. He fought days and 
dodged .shot, and worked nights and dodged 
shells with the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 
9th Corps, commencing duty on the day after 
arrival as a Sergeant, in which capacity he had 
been mustered. He was in the vai-ied activi- 
ties until the explosion of the mine, July 30th, 
and was in the assault on the crater, receiving 
a wound from a bullet in the upper part of his 
leg and from a shell in the lower leg. He re- 
mained on duty until four o'clock in the after- 
noon, when orders were issued for the men to 
look out for themselves, which he found a difli- 
cult matter as he could not run. He was taken 
prisoner, reported mi.ssing and his friends sup- 
posed he was dead. He was sent to Danville, 
where he was given the privilege of taking 
care of his wounds himself and was paroled 
and sent to Annapolis, where he exjiected to 
lose his leg as such was the decision of the 
rebel surgeons. He remained in hospital at 
Annapolis about two months, was furloughed 
and went home; he went to Madison in De- 
cember, rejoining his regiment in February, 
where he left it — in the trenches before Peters- 
burg. April 2d, he was in line in Fort Sedg- 
wick ready for the assault on Fort Mahone, or 
"Fort Damnation," where one of the boldest 
charges of the war was made. But they drove 
the rebels out and kept them out with their 



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own guns. He acted as Orderly Sergeant in 
this action which was the virtual surrender of 
the whole confederacy. With the exception of 
six days passed in* Washington, Mr. Doolittle 
was in the siege of Petershurg throughout after 
rejoining his regiment and in unremitting ac- 
tion. After a night at Petersburg he went in 
the pursuit and followed the rebels to the 
Southside railroad, going thence to Washing- 
ton to the Grand Review in May after the sur- 
render of the rebel chiefs. He was mustered 
out at Delaney House, July 27, 1865, and re- 
turned to Madison, where he was discharged. 
June 13, 1865, he was commissioned 2d Lieu- 
tenant, and, July 24th following, was made 1st 
Lieutenant. 

He returned home to Menomonie and en- 
gaged about two years with the Knapp <fe 
Stout Co. Company, and in 1868 was appointed 
Under Sheriff. In 1872 he was elected Sheriff 
on the Republican ticket and served two years. 
He served two subsequent terms as Under 
Slieriff and has acted in the capacities of City 
Marshal and Deputy U. S. Marshal, also as 
Deputy Sheriff. He was married July 4, 1849, 
at Madison, to Naomi, daughter of R. M. and 
Lavinia (Shrigley) Taffelmire. She was born 
in Canada, her mother being a native of the 
Dominion and her father of Michigan ; both 
are deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Doolittle are named Myron F., Edgar S., Lida 
E., Milton 0. and Sarah A. Tlie latter mar- 
ried Franklin Taylor and is deceased. The 
sons are all married. Mrs. Doolittle is a mem- 
ber of tlio Woman's Relief Corps. 



■ ILL! AM CAMP SETTLE, Mon- 
roe, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 112, was born a slave in 
Rockingham Co., North Carolina, and, like 
many of his peoi)le, has no knowledge of 




paternity, ancestry or kin. When he was seven 
years old, or thereabouts, he was bought by 
Benjamin Settle, a planter near Moscow, Tenn. 
His experience as tlie property of another man 
was that of those whose stories have so often, 
in the generations now gone, stirred to indig- 
nation the best citizenship of tiie North ; he 
has passed through " staking out, " " stripping 
naked " and whippings that left deep furrows 
in his flesh, and which were afterwards washed 
with water mixed with salt and pepper for rea- 
sons which every brutal villain who ever in- 
flicted such outrages on the form of humanity, 
understands better than any other. Tlie mas- 
ter, Mr. Settle, was a rebel recruiting officer when 
the civil war came on and when the Union 
troops came near Moscow his estate on legs, 
called William, some time in September, 1862, 
appropriated a horse on which he rode to the 
Union lines in the neighborhood and he en- 
tirely forgot to go back. He found shelter and 
protection with the 10th Iowa In fan trj' and fol- 
lowed the fortunes of that command about a 
year. He waited on officers and cooked and 
also went into action at Ciiampion's Hill. In 
a skirraisli with guerrillas he received several 
wounds and still carries the bullets in his body. 
He left the regiment and found employ among 
the officers of General Quimby's staff", and after 
the fall of Vicksburg went to Toledo, Tama 
Co., Iowa. In August, 1864, he enlisted in 
Company C, 60tii regiment, C. T., and went to 
Davenport, Iowa, and thence to Helena, Ark., 
to connect with the command. He went next 
to Frazer's Point, on the Mississippi, where he 
was in a skirmish and fought at Cotton Plant, 
the troops being surrounded by Kirby Smitli, 
but were relieved by a cavalry command. He 
was taken sick at Little Rock, Ark., and was in 
hospital two months. Witli this excejition he 
served tliroughout with the regiment and was 
honorably discharged at Jacksonport, Ark., 




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Sept. 12, 1865. He went again to Toledo, 
Iowa, and engaged on a farm, working by the 
month until 1877, when he engaged in the 
business of a barber at Vinton, Iowa. After 
three years lie went to Independence, in the 
same State, and operated as a barber until he 
went to Delhi, Delaware Co., Iowa, thence to 
Grant Co., Wis., where he remained a year. In 
1882 he went to Monroe, where he is engaged 
in a good business as a barber, and enjoys the 
confidence and esteem of the community. He 
is the first representative of his race who has 
been admitted on these pages ; he is a worthy 
man, whose little history shows all the features 
of the war from its cause to its termination. 






/^^ ENERAL JOHN BENTON CALLIS, 
1' ^,^ j| ^ resident at Lancaster, Wis., a charter 
^<^>^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 132, 
was born at Fayetteville, North Carolina, .Jan. 
3, 1828. His paternal ancestry was of Hugue- 
not origin and French nativity ; his mother, 
Christina Benton before marriage, was of Scotch 
extraction. His father, Henry Callis, was a 
farmer and removed from North Carolina to 
Tennessee in 1834 and thence to Grant county, 
Wisconsin, in 1840. The parents were pioneer 
settlers in Lancaster and there passed the re- 
mainder of their lives. The General and two 
sisters — Mrs. James Barnett and Mrs. Jeremiah 
Garner of Lancaster — were their only children 
and all are living. 

The son obtained such education as was pos- 
sible for the son of a pioneer, subjected to all 
the hardships and privations which are the 
earliest resources of an unsettled locality, but 
they only served to stimulate his intellect, 
inspire his ambition and impress his under- 
standing with the responsibilities of a boy who 
shall, in time, take his position as a laborer in 



the world's work ; of which such boys proba- 
bly have the best possible opportunity to know 
what the world demands of them. Wiscon- 
sin ranks many such on her roll of honor. 
Young Callis cherished a hope of a profession 
and studied medicine with Dr. J. H. Higgins 
of Lancaster, but he was of too active a tem- 
perament to be .satisfied with the routine of a 
course of study in an office and, lacking the 
i financial requisites for broad gauge prepara- 
\ tion, he prefewed work and went to St. Paul, 
Minn., in 1848, where he obtained a contract, 
associated with John R. Irvin to build Fort 
Gaines (now Fort Ripley) at the confluence of 
the Crow Wing river with the Mississippi, 300 
miles north of St. Paul. (In this he was asso- 
ciated also with Captain Todd, a brother of Mrs. 
Lincoln.) In 1851, he crossed the plains to 
California, where he engaged in varied opera- 
tions, mining at various points and selling 
goods. In 1853 he went to Central America, 
sailing from Grey town for New York, whence 
he returned to Lancaster in the autumn of the 
same year. He was occupied in mercantile 
pursuits until the outbreak of Southern hostil- 
ities, when his impetuous nature instigated him 
to lay aside all personal considerations and he 
was instrumental in raising a company which 
was assigned to the 7th Wisconsin as Company 
F, of which he was made Captain. It will 
suffice to state that until after Gettysburg 
the history of the 7th Wisconsin, in all its 
brilliant and effective bravery, is that of Gen- 
eral Callis, as he was identified with every suc- 
cessive movement. The entire brigade, known 
to history and to appreciative generations since, 
as the " Iron Brigade, " was occupied in every 
specie of military duty common to the opening 
of one of the greatest conflicts ever known in the 
history of the world, and the marvel of that 
period is that more serious blunders tiian 
occurred did not happen to defer and prolong 



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the ultimatum, which proved the latent 
strength of a class of people wlio had never 
considered the possibility of being called to 
fight for their inlieritance of Union and Lib- 
erty. In the fight at Gainesville, (claimed by 
some as the field where the " Iron Brigade " 
was christened in blood) all the field officers and 
captains ranking Captain Callis were killed or 
disabled and the command of the regiment 
devolved on liini. (Aug. 28, 18G2.) He re- 
tained that rehition in the succeeding move- 
ments, conducting the operations of tlie 7th at 
South Mountain and Antietam and on the 
Rappahannock, figliting at Fredericksburg. 
Early in 1S63 he was promoted to the rank of 
Major, and accompanied the 7th in the expedi- 
tions into Virginia. Before the month of i 
March he was jiromoted Lieutenant-Colonel 
and took j)art in the disasters of the spring 
campaign, culminating in the battle of Chan- 
cellorsville. At Gettysburg he received his 
crowning lionors as a soldier who had risen 
from the ranks, so to speak ; while at the 
head of his command on the 1st day 
of July, ISGo, he Mas slightly wounded, 
about nine o'clock in tlie morning, but 
did not abandon his post; and he con- 
tinued to fight in the charge on the 
ridge, which resulted in the capture of the en- 
tire brigade of (ieneral Archer and in wliich 
Colonel Fairchild was injured. In the after- 
noon General Callis received a bullet in his 
chest which injured the liver and passed into the 
lung, where it still remains. lie lay on the 
field 43 hours, the rebels, in their succeeding 
movements, passing over him, and General ! 
Early provided a guard for him as prisoner of 
war, Init he was finally taken to tiie house of a 
Mr. Buehler, in Gettysburg, wliere, three weeks 
after, he was joined by Mrs. Callis, and the care- 
ful nursing he received resulted in such im- 
provement that he was able at the end of three 



months to be placed on a rubber bed on a 
stretcher and brought to Wisconsin. He re- 
ceived mnster out Dec. 24, 1863, being wholly 
incapacitated for the service on the field during 
the remainder of the war. As soon as suffi- 
ciently recovered to i-esume his interest in civil 
life, he purchased a flouring mill at Annaton, 
and managed its relations through an agent a 
few months. His fierj- temperament was illy 
satisfied with his inactivity, while there were 
good fighting opportunities in the service he 
found agreeable to his disposition, and, in 1804, 
he connected himself with the Veteran Corps, 
and wa.s appointed by President Lincoln Mili- 
tary Superintendent of the War Department at 
Washington, with the rank of Major. During 
the raid of Early he was carried in an ambu- 
lance to Fort Sumner, where he was in the 
fighting made effective by timely aid from the 
Gth Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Soon 
after the close of hostilities, when the Depart- 
ment was conferring its testimonials of appre- 
ciation of special gallantry. General Callis was 
made Lieutentant-Colonel and Colonel, and, 
later, Brigadier-General, for meritorious con- 
dnct (luring the war and especially at Gaines- 
ville, South Mountain and Antietam and Gettys- 
burg. He was made a Captain in the regular 
army, assigned to the 45th U. S. Infantry, and 
stationed at Huntsville, Ala., where he assisted 
in the reconstruction of affiiirs in his military 
district, for which service he received the com- 
mendation of the authorities at Washington. 
During his connection with the Freedmen's 
Bureau, he interfered with the punishment of 
a colored girl at the whipping post by her 
Legree, self-styled master, the brute having 
never recognized the Emancipation Act, and 
conducting his relations with his former slaves 
precisely as if nothing had taken place. Gen- 
eral Callis, by virtue of his authority as an of- 
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and on his refusing he thrust him tlirough on 
tiie spot with his saber. The chivalry of 
Huntsville appreciated the daring exliibited 
by "tlie d — d Yankee " and presented him a 
gokl watch, the scenes of the whipping and 
"sword feat" being engraved on tlie back and 
front of tlie tine hunting case. In the course 
of the day on which the presentation by a 
colored man took place, a drunken fire-eater 
took it into his head he had been insulted by 
General Callis and called on him with his 
friends for an apology or to challenge to a duel. 
General Callis tried expostulation until his tem- 
per gave way, when, as the challenged party, 
with a right to choice of conditions, he ordered 
assistants to bring bowie knives and some 
'■ horses " formerly used in repairs and a plank 
on which himself and his Southern friend, 
after having donned cavalry breeches with 
buckskin seats were to be nailed face to face ; 
and " then, " said Callis, between his teeth, " I 
will cut your heart out, sir." This not suiting 
tlie high-toned ideas of followers of the code, 
they demurred and were ordered from the 
office with more force than elegance. The dis- 
comfited Southerner afterwards apologized for 
his conduct and became the staunch supporter 
of his former foe. 

Feb. 4, 1868, General Callis resigned his 
commission and devoted his attention to civil 
pursuits. Soon after, he was elected to the 
40th Congress from the 5th District of Ala- 
bama, receiving a majority which demon- 
strated his poj)ularity witii former ene- 
mies, arising from their admiration of his 
dauntless courage and fearlessness of danger 
in the defense of his country and his principles 
of patriotism. His seat was contested by Gen- 
eral Burke, but his claim was sustaineil and he 
transacted business as a legislator in the best 
interests of his Southern constituency and in a 
manner perfectly in keeping with his character. 



July 21, 1868, he was made member of Com- 
mittee on Enrolled Bills, and be was the father 
of the original " Ku-Klux Bill," which passed 
the House to be killed in the Senate of the 40th 
Congress, but which was passed by the 42d 
Congress. He introduced three bills providing 
for the establishment of mail routes in Ala- 
bama and five bills for the removal of political 
disabilities from Southern citizens; he also in- 
troduced a bill granting a loan of $5,000,000 
of the 5 per cent, bonds of the United States 
to the New Orleans & Selnia R. R. and Immi- 
grant Association, and a bill granting lands in 
the State of Alabama to the Tennessee & 
Coosa R. R. Co. At the termination of the 
40tli Congress, he resigned his seat and re- 
turned to Lancaster. 

He established a real-estate and insurance 
business which he conducted until 1874, when 
lie was elected to the Legislature of Wisconsin 
as a reformer in politics. (In bis earliest polit- 
ical connection, General Callis was an old-line 
Whig ; he was then a member of the Republi- 
can party and since 1872 has ranked as a 
"Reformer." Among his treasured possessions 
are a complete file of " Annals of Congress " 
since 1790, and there is no bettor posted man 
in the legislative histoiy of this country.) As 
a member of the Assembly of this State he 
served as Chairman of Committee on Incorpo- 
rations and on State Laiuls, and was a member 
of .loint Committee to settle the Excise Law — a 
formulated bill passing both Houses. 

From the foregoing the character of General 
Callis may be inferred. His temperament is 
impetuous, but his discretion is of a type to 
preclude hasty and ill-advised action, although 
in emergencies he is not a man to pause to 
counsel with tardy caution. He is still a suf- 
ferer from his wounds, the bullet in bis lungs 
causing great pain and danger to life. But he 
has, nevertheless, continued to take unabated 



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interest in tlie affairs of active existence and 
especially in matters relating to soldiers. He was 
a member of the 2d Provisional Post of Nash- 
ville, Teun., and afterwards a charter member 
of the Post at Lancaster. Since coming of age 
he has been a Mason and belongs to the Chap- 
ter. He was for many 3'cars actively interested 
in matters pertaining to the Order of Odd 
Fellows, but of late years has not been identi- 
fied with that fraternity. 

He was married in 1855 to Mattie Barnett of 
Lancaster. She was born near Pittsburg, Pa., 
and is the daughter of Andrew and Elizabeth 
Barnett. Five children are recorded as follows : 
Frank B., John B., Mrs. .Jeannette E. Meyer, 
Mi's. Jessie B. McCoy and Mrs. Bessie E. McCoy. 

The portrait of General Callis is presented 
on page 390 with those of three comrades of 
the Iron Brigade. 

>^*^^5^+,K 

"ILLIAM W. RYAN, Baraboo, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 9, was born July 4, 1827, on 
his father's farm on which the family had 
lived for generations in Kilcummin Parish, 
County Kerry, Ireland, within full view of the 
beautiful Killarney Lakes. His first schooling 
was obtained in a common " hedge " school 
until he was old enough to work. The fireside 
tales and legends of war aroused in him a 
longing to know the use of firearms and the 
only way to gratify the folly was by experi- 
mental knowledge and at 18 he set out for 
London to enlist in the British service. He 
found the opportunity he sought, with little 
trouble, and went to Portsmouth where he 
enrolled for 10 years in the Royal Sajij^ers and 
Miners. Headquarters were at Woolwich, 10 
miles from London, and Ixfure several years 




had passed Mr. Ryan realized that he bad 
exchanged 10 years of his young life for small 
remuneration. Wearying of the monotony 
and desiring to enter the ranks of life with men 
of activity he determined in the fall of 1848 
that he had fired at a mark long enough for 
all practical purposes and invested £35 sterling 
in obtaining his liberty and records it a large 
price for useless experience. In July, 1849, he 
went to London and was married to Ellen 
Sheehan on the 16th by Rev. Father Colter at St. 
George's Cathedral. Aug. 22, 1849, found him 
on a sailing vessel bound for the city of New 
York and there he " took his first breath of 
unadulterated freedom since he was born." 
His faithful wife joined him in 1851 and about 
1856 they settled in Wisconsin in Dekorra, 
Columbia county. 

Mr. Ryan became at once an enthusiastic son 
of the Republic, adopted all the issues of the 
Nation and when rebellion threatened, felt in 
duty bound to use all his influence to assist 
enlisting. He was instrumental in raising a 
company of volunteers in the township and 
some progress was made in drill and military 
knowledge, but the spring was not the season 
to be away from the farm and, when Mr. Ryan 
decided in June, 1861, to enlist he could only 
rally six out of 40 men who had chosen him 
as Captain. But, later, they all enlisted and 
served honorably for their country. He enrolled 
June 12th and was mustered Aug. 16, 1861, in 
Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, Captain 
George Bill enrolling him and CapUviu Mc- 
Intyre mustering him as Orderly Sergeant. 
His experiences are told with the records of 
the soldiers of the 7th on many pages of this 
work and, April 10, 1862, he was promoted 2d 
Lieutenant of his company, to rank from Feb- 
ruary 18th. July 10th, 1862, he was promoted 
to 1st Lieutenant to rank from July 3d, and 
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of Gainesville, August 28tli and in the suc- 
cessive actions on the 29th and 30th. He was 
in tlie subsequent movements in Maryland 
and was in command of Company B at South 
Mountain. The company had been fearfully 
depleted in its late experiences, in which it 
had lost the services of its ofticers, but Captain 
Ryan records that a better disciplined or braver 
lot of men never pulled a trigger ; it was hard 
work at South Mountain to restrain them from 
firing the last of their " 40 rounds " besides a 
great number of others taken from the cartridge 
boxes of the brave dead on the field. Cajitain 
Ryan was much worn, but remained witli his 
company until he reached the field of Antietam, 
September 17th, when the regimental surgeon, 
Dr. Cooper Ayres, sent him to the rear to re- 
cuperate. 

Cajitain Ryan led his company April 29th at 
Fitz Hugh's Crossing when the 7th Wisconsin 
was in line on the banks of the Rappahannock, 
his command occupying a position on the ex- 
treme left ; he saw two row boats crossing some 
distance below and he " left faced " his company 
thither, but records " there was no trouble in 
stowing what was left of my brave boys in the 
two small boats; I am not capable of doing 
them Justice and it is the pride of my life to 
have had the honor of commanding such men 
on many a battle field." He was standing in 
one of the boats issuing orders, when he was 
shot through both lungs and was taken im- 
mediately ashore, " the gallant and generous 
Captain Hollon Richardson," coming to his 
assistance. (See sketch.) That officer sup- 
ported Lieutenant Ryan's head on his foot 
while eagerly scanning the space for assistance 
and while standing thus a shot took away the 
boot heel of Richardson, who took not the 
slightest notice of his danger but assisted the 
wounded man to a stretcher, detailing a soldier 
to nurse him at Fitzhugh hospital. Nine 



days elapsed before Lieutenant Ryan realized 
his injury, but when he recovered consciousness 
he was lying on a feather bed brought to him 
by Sergeant O'Connor, with pillows and bed 
clothing such as he had known at home, and 
Lieutenant Ryan believes they saved his life. 
(See sketch of A. O'Connor.) Captain Ryan 
writes : — " That God-send feather bed accom- 
panied me to Washington where I presented it 
to a poor old lady who was begging for alms, 
and it was a God-send to her as well as to me." 
He was sent afterwards to hospital St. Aloysius 
and cared for by the Sisters and skilled sur- 
geons until he obtained sick leave and went 
home. He rejoined his regiment in October, 
1863, at Beverly Ford, Va., and being unable 
to perform military duty he was discharged by 
Special Order No. 497, Nov. 9th, 1863. 

Prior to the war, in 1858, Mr. Ryan purchased a 
farm in the town of Dekorra, Wis., and was pro- 
gressing in agricultural methods when he left it 
to enlist, a crop of wheat lying cut and partly 
bound when he marched to war. He lost the 
place and after the war bought another in Lodi 
township in Columbia county, hoping to recover 
from his disability sufficiently to follow farm- 
ing, which suited his tates. But he was com- 
pelled to relinquish the hope and in 1870 
commenced operations as foreman of a railroad 
construction gang, then as contractor and in 
I other capacities, always earning good pay but 
never enjoying good health and, practically 
gave up the business in 1880. In the same 
year he sold his farm and removed to Baraboo. 
To him and his wife three sons and two 
daughters were born — four before the war and 
one after and the father says with pride " all 
were born under the glorious stars and stripes." 
In presenting the picture of Lieutenant Ryan 
in the group of four officers of the Irou Brigade 
on page 390, the publishers desire to add a 
personal tribute to the typical and generous 



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Irishman, who never forgot his comrades and 
pays to each and all his meed of honor and 
esteem. 

RED L. WARNER, a soldier of the 
Iron Brigade, resident at Randolph, 
Wis., and a member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 100, Geo. H. Stevens, Fox Lake, Wis., and 
belonging to the Lo3'al Legion, Wisconsin Com- 
mandery, was born Aug. 24, 1839, at Cabot, 
Caledonia Co., A'erinont, and he comes of good 
old loyal New England stock which served in 
the war of Independence, his grandfather 
Warner having been a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion and a relative of Seth Warner of " Greeu 
Mountain Boys" fame, one of the men who 
stormed Ticonderoga with Ethan Alien. Oli- 
ver A. and Relief (Osgood) Warner, the par- 
ents, went with their family to Manchester, 
New IIani])shire, when the sou was five years 
old and thence later to Franklin in the Old 
Granite State. When he was 17 they located 
in the West, settling at Plover, Portage Co., 
Wis. Their residence there continued until 
their life journeys terminated, the early settlers 
there remembering " Uncle Oliver " as a man 
of sterling integrity and loyalty to his God, his 
family and country and who sent two of three 
.sons to light for the country his ancestors had 
established. His son, Horace A., enlisted in 
the 10th MassacluLsetts Infantry and psissed 
through the Great Struggle with safety to his 
life. 

Captain Warner received the benefits of the 
common school in Franklin until he was 12 
years of age, when he obtained a situation as 
clerk in a store in Nashua, New Hampshire 
and went successively to Clinton and Holyoke 
where he was employed in the popular avoca- 
tion of factory hand until his j)arents removed 
to Wisconsiji. He was then old enough to 



begin in earnest his contest witli the world and 
engaged for two or three years as a farm 
assistant. He found it unsuited to his tastes 
and engaged with John H. Morgan of Plover 
as a clerk, where he was occupied when the 
blood of his Revolutionary sires grew hot in 
his veins when the news that " men were 
wanted at the front " came to his senses as a 
refrain to the story of disaster to the Union at 
Bull Ivun. He was under an engagement to 
serve a year, but with a throng of eager youth 
and men, he went to Grand Rai)ids, A\'is., 
where a company was organizing, to enlist, and 
enrolled in the Grand Rapids Union Guards 
under Caj)tain Samuel Stevens, in the State 
service. At Camp Randall, Madison, whither 
they were sent on the complement of the com- 
pany being filled, they were mustered into U. S. 
service and attached as Company G to the 7tli 
Wisconsin Infantry. Tlie organization was 
sent to Washington soon after, marched to 
Chain Bridge and was brigaded with the 
2d and Gth Wisconsin and 19th Indiana in 
Rufus King's Brigade. After the battle of An- 
tietam, Oct. 10, 1S<32, the 24th Michigan was 
added to the organization, which was named 
the Iron Brigade after the battle of South 
Mountain by General McClellan. The suc- 
cessive commanders of the brigade were CJen- 
erals Gibbon, Cutler, Sol. Meredith, Robinson, 
Bragg and Kellogg. Of all the history of the 
gallant Ttli, Captain Warner was a part until 
he was mustered out on the exj>iration of his 
term, Sept. Iti, ].S()4, and his roster includes 
Gainesville, 2d Bull Run, South Mountain, 
Antietam, Frederickslmrg, Mine Run, Gettys- 
burg, through the Wilderness with Grant in 
1864, Petersburg and Weldon Railroad, the list 
being immeasurably swelled by the hardships, 
privations, marches, labors and skirmishes of 
three years of incessant service, with no inter- 
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ary, 1864. He was not wounded, was not ill 
nor in an ambulance or liospital and was not 
a prisoner during the whole period, but saw 
all the splendid service of his regiment and 
brigade. In the summer of 18G4 he was de- 
tailed as Judge Advocate of the General Court 
Martial at 5th Corps head([uarters but did not 
serve. 

The Wisconsin 7th left the State Sept. 21, 
1861, and after a winter at Fort Tillinghast 
went on the Manassas campaign, returned and 
engaged in the campaign of the Rappahan- 
nock, going thence to attempt to reinforce 
Banks in the Valley of the Shenandoah, but 
failed to do so, and in Jul)', after an expedition 
to ascertain the whereabouts of the rebels, 
started again on a campaign to the Rappahan- 
nock, the whole movement terminating in the 
fight at Gainesville, where the regimental loss 
was heavy. The second Manassas campaign 
was a disaster and thence the command went 
to Maryland. In October they were again on 
the Ra})pahannock, and tried to overcome the 
apparent bad fortune of Burnside by wading in 
the mud in addition to other perplexities of ' 
tliat General's plans in midwinter. In the 
spring, in the cliarge of Fitz Hugh's Crossing, 
the 7th again added to its laurels, marched 
back after Chancellorsville and in June fought 
at Brandy Station in a reconnoissance. Through 
Pennsylvania after Lee was the next brilliant 
movement of the 7th and its list of casualties 
after Gettysburg is a fearful showing. Next 
was the attempt to acquire a foothold in the 
Wilderness, which was unsuccessful, and in the 
following winter veteranizing commenced. In 
the spring the .campaign of the Wilderness was 
entered upon, but only added to the list of ef- 
fort, while the regiments of the brigade grew 
in honor and fame. In the trenches before 
Petersburg the 7th encountered all the horrors 
of dctcnninod conflict coming to an issue be- 



tween desperation and valor ; and valor won, 
although at an awful price. Tiie sketch of 
C'olonel Pier on another page tells the story in 
all its naked horror. Captain Warner's pro- 
motions were severally dated as follows : Or- 
derly Sergeant, Aug. 28, 1861 ; Second Lieuten- 
ant, Feb. 8, 1862; First Lieutenant, July 30, 
1862 ; Captain, Feb. 27, 1863, and in no other 
regiment was the advancement of promotions 
better deserved or more worthily won than in 
the AVisconsin 7tli, whose storj' is one whose 
luster can never be dimmed. 

Captain Warner is engaged in the prosecu- 
tion of a successful mercantile enterprise at 
Randolph, Wis., which he has conducted since 
1876. He was married -Jan. 21, 1864, while 
home on a furlough, to Mary L., daughter of 
Harmon and "Slary A. Mitchell of Plover, Wis. 
Of their four children, two are buried in Rock- 
ford, Iowa, and Hattie and Debbaare still mem- 
bers of the household. 

The portrait of Captain F. L. Warner ap- 
pears on page 390. It is that of a brave and 
modest soldier and officer of the 7th Wisconsin 
and of the Iron Brigade. 



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cj,,^^ APTAIN LEVI E. POND, U. S. Pen- 
sion Agent at Milwaukee, Wis., whose 
home is in Westfield, Marquette Co., 
Wisconsin, is a descendant of one of the earliest 
families of New England. The original pro- 
genitor of the American branch, Samuel Pond, 
came to this country in the early part of the 
seventeenth century. It is recorded that he 
was married in Windsor, Conn., Nov. 11, 1642, 
and died March 14, 1654. The grandfother of 
Captain Pond, Phineas Pond, was born in May, 
1758, and married Rhoda Wood, who was born 
in 1764. He served his country during the 
Revolutionary War, and died near Mainsburg, 



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Tioga Co., Pennsylvania, in Ajn-il, 184G, at the 
age of eighty-eight years. 

The father of Captain Pond, William W. 
Pond, the fourth son of Pliineas Pond, was 
born in Vermont, Nov. 30, 1795. On the 24th 
of October, 1822, he married Elvira D. Forbes, 
and they became the parents of six children, all 
of whom were born in the State of New York. 
They were Lydia, William, Simeon, Levi E., 
Esther M. and Similde. William W. Pond 
died in 1863, aged sixty-seven years; Elvira 
D. died Jan. 1, 1884, at the advanced age of 
eighty-seven years ; and Esther M. died March 
19, 1864, at the age of twenty-eight years. The 
other members of the family are still living — 
June, 1890. 

Captain Pond was born in Addison, Steuben 
Co., New York, March 8, 1833. His education 
consisted of such as the common schools af- 
forded, in a new country, in those days, and a 
partial academic course of instruction at Union 
Academy, in Tioga Co., Pa. The latter he se- 
cured by hard work on a farm summers and 
teaching school winters. In 1857, Captain 
Pond, with liis parents and sisters, Esther M. 
and Similde, came to Wisconsin, and settled on 
a farm in Marquette county, in which county 
ho has continued to reside the greater part of 
the time since leaving the place of his nativity. 
lie was reared to the occupation of farming 
and followed that vocation in Wisconsin sum- 
mers, and taught school winters, until the war 
cloud of rebellion enveloped the Nation. 

The guns from Ft. Sumter were to him a call 
to duty, and on May 22, 1861, he enlisted in 
Company E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry, the regi- 
ment becoming a part of the famous Iron Bri- 
gade, which was composed of the 2d, 6th and 
7th Wisconsin regiments, the 19th Indiana and 
the 24th Michigan. He was elected First Ser- 
geant of Company E, on it,s organization, and 
on March 10, 1862, was commissioned Second 



Lieutenant, with rank from the 20tli of Janu- 
ary previous. He participated in nearly all 
the engagements in which the famous brigade 
took part, including Gainesville, second Battle 
of Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam.Clian- 
cellorsville, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Peters- 
burg and others. He was always ready to 
share with the men under his command the 
hardships and dangers incident to war. When 
entering the engagement at Antietam, he took 
the gun of a confederate sharpshooter, who had 
been wounded, and used it at the right front of 
his company in the hottest of the battle. His 
enthusiasm and untiring devotion to the cause 
of his countrj', and his gallantry on the field 
of battle, won the admiration of his superior 
officers, and the affectionate regard of all his 
comrades. On Feb. 27, 1863, he was commis- 
sioned Captain, with rank from Dec. 22, 1862. 
At Gettysburg, Captain Pond identified his 
name with a contest which is numbered among 
the great and decisive battles of the world, and 
his company distinguished itself throughout 
that terrible conflict. As he was leading his 
men in a charge, he received a bullet in his 
right breast, and when he fell dismay became 
apparent in the ranks of his company, but his 
rallying cry, " Press on, boys ; never mind me," 
inspired them with renewed courage and they 
continued the charge with exasperated fury to 
avenge the supposed death of their gallant and 
beloved leader. Though severely wounded 
and shattered in health, his desire to continue 
in the service until the close of the war was so 
great that in less than two months he was 
again at the head of his command. He would 
not take the advice of his friends and resign, 
as long as he could march. In the campaign 
from the Wilderness to Petersburg, when he 
was unaV)le to keep up with his command on 
foot, he was voluntarily assisted on the march 
by Colonels Finnicum and Richardson of his 



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regiment with their private horses. On the 
18th of June, 1864, while leading two com- 
panies in the charge in front of Petersburg, he 
received two gun-shot Avonnds wliich resulted 
in ending his active service in tlie War of the 
Rebellion. 

Captain Pond was taken to the hospital at 
Annapolis, Md., where he remained until the 
latter part of August, when, with the assistance 
of his wife and two comrades he was removed 
to his home, weak and exhausted from wounds 
and disease. During his confinement in the 
hospital at Annapolis, his faithful wife was by 
his side ministering to his wants, laboring with 
a woman's love and devotion to bring him back 
from what seemed the verge of the grave. 
For many months after his return little hope of 
his recovery was entertained, but his rugged 
constitution and the kind care of loving hands 
prevailed, and he was enabled again to engage 
in active business, but he has never been able 
to resume the duties of farm life. 

In 1867 Captain Pond engaged in mercantile 
business in Oshkosh, but in 1870 was the 
victim of a disastrous fire by which be suffered 
the loss of nearly all his stock. He represented 
several business firms as traveling salesman 
for a number of years with eminent success, 
but his health not being equal to the labor 
required he abandoned that business. In 1876 
he moved to his old home in Marquette county, 
and engaged in real estate and insurance busi- 
ness and in aiding his comrades to secure their 
just dues from the Government. He takes an 
active interest in the prosperity of the com- 
munity in which he lives and is a zealous and 
efficient worker in tlie G. A. R., and in all 
matters pertaining to the welfare of the veterans 
who went forth to do battle for the preservation 
of the Government. 

In 1886 Captain Pond was elected State 
Senator for the 27th District, comprising the 



counties of Adams, Columbia and Marquette, 
receiving a majority over his opponent of 
1,344 votes, more than double that received by 
his predecessor. His own county, always 
strongly Democratic, gave him 366 majority, 
which clearly indicated his personal popularity. 
During the .session of the Legislature of 1887 
he was a member of three important Commit- 
tees — on " Military affairs," " Claims " and 
"Fish and Game." He introduced Senate Bill 
No. 24, Chapter 48, Laws of 1887, which pro- 
vided for the erection of monuments in honor 
of Wisconsin soldiers who fought and fell on 
the battlefield of Gettysburg. On Feb. 17, 
1887, Senator Pond made an effective speech in 
the interests of the Bill, in which he paid a 
high and well merited tribute to the bravery of 
Wisconsin soldiers and portrayed the justice 
and propriety of such memorials to their 
courage and sacrifices on that renowned field. 
The Bill passed by an almost unanimous vote 
and the project was consummated by 21 Com- 
missioners appointed bj' Governor Rusk under 
the provisions of the measure. Captain Pond 
acting as Chairman. When the monuments 
were dedicated at Gettysburg, .June 30, 1888, 
Captain Pond made a report of the labors of 
the Commission and consigned the monuments 
to the Governor of Wisconsin. 

During the same session of the Legi-slature 
he introduced a measure for the publication 
and free distribution, to the soldiers of Wiscon- 
sin, of a revised edition of the " Roster of Wis- 
consin Volunteer Soldiers," and it became a law. 

In the session of the Legislature of 1SS9, he 
was a member of the Committee on "Public 
Lands," and Chairman of the Committee on 
"Charitable and Penal Institutions." He in- 
troduced many meritorious measures during 
that session, several of which were enacted into 
laws. Among those presented by him was " A 
Bill to provide for Statistical Reports from 



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Commercial, Parochial and other Private 
Schools and for the Publication of Summaries 
of such Reports by the State Superintendent." 
Another was known as Senate Bill No. 120: 
"To provide for a Soldiers' Memorial Hall, and 
making a contingent appropriation therefor." 
When the latter came up for consideration, 
Senators Pond, H. A. Cooper, W. S. Maine and 
William Kennedy supported it by able and 
eloquent speeches, and it passed the Senate by 
a vote of 19 to 7, but it was killed in the As- 
sembly in the rush and confusion of the closing 
hours of the session. All measures tending to 
promote the best interests of the veterans of the 
War of the Rebellion received his cordial sup- 
port, and the soldiers of Wisconsin owe him a 
debt of gratitude for his constant and untiring 
labors in their behalf. While a member of the 
Senate he attended strictly to the interests of 
his constituents, ably and consistently favoring 
all measures for the good of tlie people, and as 
ably and consistently opposing all schemes for 
private profit at public expense. 

Captain Pond was married Feb. 29, 1864, to 
Miss Czarina O. Richards, who was born in Ti- 
oga County, Pa., Sept. 9, 1833. Their union 
was blessed with three children: Esther, who 
was born Dec. 12, ISOf), died on the 3d of Jan- 
uary following ; Flora INhiria, born May 30, 
1867, died Aj.ril 20, 18()8 ; Levi Earl, their 
only surviving child, was born Aug. 29, 1871. 
Mrs. Pond and son accompanied the Captain 
to Gettysburg in June, 1888, to view the fam- 
ous battle field and witness the dedication of 
the monument to the soldiers of Wisconsin. 
The son, on that occasion, took a jdiotograpb 
of the building where his father was tirst 
placed after being wounded, also of the house 
where Gen. Lucius Fairchild was taken when 
liis arm was am])Utated, and of the residence 
of the " Citizen Hero of Gettysburg, " John 
Burns, who joined the ranks of the 7th Wis- 



consin and fought bravely fot his home and 
country until he fell, severely wounded. 

On the 1st of March, 1890, Captain Pond 
resigned the ofhce of State Senator to accept 
the U. S. Pension Agency at Milwaukee, to 
which he was appointed by President Harrison 
Feb. 28, 1890. The importance and responsi- 
bility of that position will be seen from the 
fact that the Agency distributes the Nation's 
grateful remembrances, in pensions, to about 
28,000 disabled veterans, widows and depend- 
ent heirs of deceased soldiers, at the rate of 
nearly §6,000,000 per annum. Wisconsin, 
Minnesota, North and South Dakota are in- 
cluded in his district. 

The record given here is a brief and imper- 
fect one of an esteemed and honored son of 
Wisconsin, who, as a veteran soldier, a citizen, 
and a legislator, has the confidence and esteem 
of all who know him. General Richardson, 
whose biography is given in this book, says of 
him," I have witnessed with pride and satisfac- 
tion his conduct in camp, on the march, and 
before the enemy ; I give it as my judgment 
that no braver man ever graced the honored 
rolls of the Seventh Regiment ; ever foremost 
in the thickest of the tight, among the bravest 
of the brave, I am proud to say he is one. " A 
portrait of Caj)tain Pond will be found on page 
390 with three other representatives of the vol- 
unteer service of Wisconsin in the 7th Regi- 
ment. 

BANIEL A\'ERSTER, attorney at Prai- 
rie du Chien, Wis., and one of the 
prominent Grand Army men of tlie 
Badger State, a member of G. A. R. Post No. 
37, was born Sept. 4, 1844, in McGrawville, 
Cortland Co., New York. His parents, Man- 
sel and Lucinda Webster, are deceased and the 
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while the latter was of English and Holland 
Dutch lineage. When the son was six j'ears old 
they went to Galena, Illinois, and after several 
years located at Waukon, Iowa, settling later at 
Harper's Ferr}', Iowa. Mr. Webster received the 
education of a farmer's son and in the method 
common to that class, attending winter terms 
and working on the farm in summer. Later 
he attended a private school of the best quality, 
at Prairie du Chien, Wis., the tutor being a 
college student secured for the purpose of 
training a few sons of well-to-do families, 
remote from schools of advanced character. 
He had imbibed with his educational course 
the sentiment which predominated in the 
North, after the civil war came on especially, 
and from the age of 17 he kept pace with the 
progress of events, determining to enlist as 
soon as possible. He found his ojtportunity 
under tiie call for 100-day troops and enrolled 
in May, 18G4, in Company C, 144th Illinois 
Infantry. The regiment was assigned to gar- 
rison duty and after the expiration of his 
allotted term of enlistment, Mr. Webster was 
discharged Oct. 25, 1864. He was then 20 
years old. He passed four subsequent years in 
teaching, and in 1868 he was admitted to prac- 
tice as an attorney and located at Kasson, 
Dodge Co., Minnesota, where he engaged in the 
practice of his profession, and during his leisure 
time acted as cashier of his cousin's bank. 
After some time in Kasson he went to Harper's 
Ferry, Iowa, and there engaged in the drug 
and grocery business, but at the same time 
embracing and utilizing every possible oppor- 
tunity to complete a comprehensive acquaint- 
ance with the elements of the common and 
statutory law. His next removal was to a 
locution near Conway Station, Arkansas, where 
he resided from Nov. 1, 1873, to Dec. 1, 1874, 
rented a farm or plantation and raised a 
crop of cotton, netting him $900. In 1874 he 



fixed his business and residence at Prairie du 
Chien, Wisconsin. In the winter he returned 
to Harper's Ferry, Iowa, and taught a term of 
school, again returning to Prairie du Chien in 
the spring of 1876 to engage in the practice of 
law in partnership with his brotlier, M. M. 
Webster. Their joint relations were continued 
until 1881 when they were terminated by the 
death of his brother and he has since con- 
ducted his business singly except from 1885 to 
1889, during which time he was in partnership 
with G. L. Miller, then District Attorney, under 
the firm name of AVebster & Miller. He is a 
popular and prominent advocate and jurist 
and has built up a large and prosperous prac- 
tice. He has taken the higher degrees of 
Masonry and belongs to the Blue Lodge, Coun- 
cil and Chapter. He is prominent in the 
Order of Odd Fellows and holds the position 
of Grand Patriarch of Encampment No. 28, 
and is Past Grand of Crawford Lodge No. 98. 
He is a member of the Knights of Pythias, 
Lodge No. 74, and belongs to Starr Lodge No. 
15, A. 0. U. W., and is also a member of the 
the Order of Modern Woodmen. 

In the Grand Army of the Republic he has 
taken an active interest since its permanent 
organization. He was a charter member of Post 
No. 37, and was elected the first Officer of the 
Day; was also second Commander. He was 
elected delegate to and attended the 20th 
National Encampment at San Francisco and 
served as Aid on the staffs of Commanders-in- 
Chief Fairchild of Wisconsin and Warner of 
Kansas. He also officiated on the staffs of 
Wisconsin Department Commanders Fairchild 
and Weissert. He is now (1890) serving as 
Department Inspector on the stafi' of Depart- 
ment Commander Bryant. (See sketch.) 

Mr. Webster held the office of Police Magis- 
trate of the city of Prairie du Chien for several 
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elected Mayor, since whicli time he has held 
the office of City Attorney. 

Mr. Webster was married in Prairie du 
Chien, Wis., in 1871 to Margaret Angeline, 
daughter of William Dunlap, and their surviv- 
ing children are named Gertrude C, Maggie 
Maud and Daniel, Jr. Edith is deceased. 




W. MILLARD, (known on his 
enlistment as pajiers W. R. Mil- 
lard), resident at Elroy, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 47, was born Aug. 
4, 1843, in Earlville, La Salle Co., 111. His 
parents, Philo B. and Alice (Wilson) Millard, 
were natives of St. Lawrence Co., New York, 
and went to Illinois about 1840, where they 
"took up" land. About 1850 they went to 
Racine, Wis., and there the mother died in 
1859. In 1863 the father removed to Door Co., 
Wis., and there passed his remaining years. 
They had six children : Homer lives at Fort 
Howard, Wis. ; Mary is the widow of William 
Fuller, a soldier of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry; 
Mr. Millard is the third in order of birth ; next 
to him was a daughter who died in infancy 
and a son named Herman also died ; Wilburn, 
the youngest, lives in Sycamore, 111. 

Mr. Millard passed his early life after the 
fashion common to the sons of settlers in a new 
country and, during the second year of the 
war, in February, 1862, he went to the city of 
New York with the intention of enlisting to go 
with the Burnsido expedition, then preparing 
for the vSouth, but not tinding matters as lie 
had anticipated, he started homeward. He 
reached Rome, New York, and enhsted under 
Lieut. .John W. French for the 8th U. S. In- 
fantry and was retained on recruiting service, 
accompanying Lieut. French to Watertown 
where they were engaged about two months 



and went thence to Milwaukee to join Lieuten- 
; ant Cooper. Not long after, Mr. Millard went 
to La Crosse to open a branch office and a 
month after returned to Milwaukee where he 
was relieved from recruiting service and went 
; to Governor's Island where he was assigned to 
Company D. About a month afterwards he 
went to Washington and thence to Maryland, 
joining the regiment at Pleasant Valley in the 
command of General McClellan just before 
General Burnside superseded that officer. 

The 8th Regiment performed provost duty at 
General Patrick's army headquarters in the 
field during the last campaign of McClellan 
and conducted prisoners to the rear on occa- 
sion, fighting for tiie first time at Fredericks- 
bui'g. Mr. Millard was in the campaign of 
the spring of 1863, fighting at Chancellors- 
ville and Gettysburg and going after that 
action to New York to assist in quelling the 
draft riots. Prior to leaving the Army of the 
Potomac the Sth was in the 5th Corps and aftei'- 
wards had a skirmish with the rebels after chas- 
ing them to Fairfax C. H., at a place called Cof- 
fee Hill where they were suri:)rised but repulsed 
their assailants. The command remained some 
time in New York and went thence to Wil- 
mington, Del., to perform service among the 
guerrillas and bushwhackers and also engaged 
in provost and other guard duty until tlie de- 
tail left Wilmington and joined the regiment 
at Baltimore, preparatory to going to Buffalo 
in November, 1864, where trouble was antici- 
pated during the election period. (Prior to 
this the command was assigned to the Uth 
Corps and were selected by Burnside as head- 
quarters provost guard and went with him to 
the Wilderness campaign, through which they 
passed and were afterwards in front of Peters- 
burg until they went to Buffalo as stated.) 
They returned to Baltimore, where Colonel 
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hitherto been ranking officer and Mr. Millard 
iuid never seen a higher officer in command. 
Reaching Baltimore and resuming connection 
with activities, Mr. Millard was on detached 
duty as Mounted Orderly at the city of Balti- 
more, where he was discharged in December, 
1865. 

He went home to Racine and remained witli 
his brother and sister until the spring of 1866, 
when he joined his father in Door county and 
was variously engaged until 18G7. He went 
back to Racine and worked on the old farm, 
going thence with his brother to Fort Howard 
and engaged in lumbering with his uncle, 
staying a year in Green Bay. In 1868 he went 
to Reedsburg and worked on a farm, going 
again to Racine and Green Bay and back to 
Reedsburg. He engaged in farming two years 
and went to Washington, Sauk County, and 
managed a farm six years. In 1877 he went 
to Elroy and operated as a carpenter, in 1883 
building a large skating rink which he run 
one winter and tiien commenced his jjresent 
business as a furniture dealer and undertaker. 
His business is the first in its line in the city. 
Mr. Millard is a charter member of his Post 
and was its first Adjutant, serving two years. 
He has been Commander two terms, is present 
Junior Vice Commander and has served as de- 
partment delegate, is one of the active members 
of his Post and belongs to the Order of Odd 
Fellows. 

Mr. Millard was married at Reedsburg, 
to Orcelia, daughter of Hiram and Fannie 
(Allen) Parker, a native of the State of New 
York ; they are the parents of two children ; 
Claude C. was born Nov. 20, 1871 ; Lester L. 
was born .June 16, 1876. 



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v,^^\^ HARLES A. CHATFIELD, La Crosse, 
Wis., charter member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 38, was born Sept. 24, 1838, at 
Albany, New York. His father, Stephen T. 
Chatfield, was born in England, which was 
also the birthplace of the mother, Naomi 
(Wilson) Chatfield. Both came to America in 
youth, were married in this country and had 
six children named Stephen, William, Melissa, 
Charles, Jane and Caroline ; the two oldest are 
deceased. The father died in Albany and the 
mother resides in La Crosse. In 1849 the son 
accompanied his parents to Brookfield, Wiscon- 
sin, journeying thither on the lakes and re- 
moving thence after two years to Michigan, sub- 
sequently returning to Wisconsin. In 1856 
the son went to Michigan and after operating 
three years as a lumbei'man he went to Illinois 
and was variously engaged until he entered 
the army. He enlisted Sept. 25, 1861, and 
was mustered at St. Charles, 111., on the same 
day in Company F, 8th Illinois Cavalry. In 
November the regiment went to ^\^lshington 
and was stationed at Camp California, near 
Alexandria, where Mr. Chatfield was taken 
sick with typhoid fever, remaining in hospital 
at Alexandria until discharged March 8, 1862, 
the disease having involved the lungs and 
caused hemorrhage. He returned to Cook Co., 
111., and, Aug. 11, 1862, enlisted in Company 
E, 113th Illinois Infantry, known in war history 
as the Chicago od Board of Trade Regiment. 
He remained in rendezvous at Camp Hancock 
and, in November went to Memphis and thence 
on the Tallahatchie raid, returning to Memphis. 
In December he was on the Yazoo Pass expedi- 
tion and fought at Chickasaw Bayou, with the 
command of A. J. Smith. Mr. Chatfield was 
in the movement to Napoleon and fought in 
tlie hot battle at Arkansas Post; his next 
movements were to Young's Point and thence 
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Point to remain until May 7tli, when liis regi- 
ment started on the Vicksburg campaign. 
Tlie regnnent went to Carthage and Hard 
Times Landing, thence to Grand Gulf and 
fought at Raymond. Mr. Chatfield was in the 
fight with Pemberton on the Black River, after 
whicli his command moved to the rear of 
\'icksburg and joined the line of investment. 
The assault was opened on that day and skir- 
mishing continued until the fight on tlie 22d, 
after whicli the command occupied the trenches 
until the surrender, having been under con- 
slant fire 47 days. About the last of August 
they went to Memphis and thence to Corinth 
where the duty of Mr. Chatfield included pro- 
vost guard and picket until spring, when he 
went to Memphis and thence to the Guntown 
raid under General Sturgis. Mr. Chatfield was 
here cut off from his regiment, passing five 
days and nights in a swamp and living on 
mulberries. He returned to Memphis and was 
there when Forrest made his midnight raid, 
after which he went to Eastport with his com- 
mand on transports and had a figlit, the com- 
mand being driven back and returning to 
Memphis. He was in the relief of the 8th 
Iowa Infantry, doing camji, guard and jn-ison 
duty until mustered out June 20, 1SG5. 

He returned to La Crosse which has since 
been his place of abode. He engaged some- 
time in carpenter work and, later in the manu- 
facture of soda water, ginger ale, IJutt'alo mead, 
champagne cider, seltzer water, orange cider 
and all kinds of carbonated drinks in which 
he has eslablislied a wide reputation and in 
which lie is still operating. He was married 
in 1867 to Susie E., daughter of Abner and 
Harriet Conkini and they liave five children 
living, named Melissa E., Earl L., Charles A., 
Edna E. and Lotta. Newton is deceased. Mr. 
Chatfield passed through the war witliout suf- 
fering injury except once, wlien a spent ball 



struck him in the chest. At Camp Hancock 
he was j)romoted to Corporal and afterwards to 
5th Sergeant. Jan. 27, ISOo, he was made 2d 
Lieutenant of his company and was afterwards 
promoted to 1st Lieutenant to date from June 
14, 1865. During the latter part of his service 
he was actual commander of Company E. 







ILLIAM J. REED, Hudson, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 
151, was born Feb. 26, 1841. His 
parents, Samuel and Jane (Boone) Reed, were 
born respectively in counties Tyrone and Lon- 
donderry, Ireland. The father was a tanner 
by occupation and emigrated to America in 
1833, locating at Prattsville, New York. In 
1840 the family eft'ected a removal to Wiscon- 
sin, locating first in ^\"aukeslla county and 
afterwards removing to Algona, Iowa, in 1866, 
where both parents still reside. Their children, 
eight in immber, were named as follows : John, 
Charles, Agnes, William, Mary, Samuel, Eliza- 
beth and an infant that died unnamed. John 
and Charles are also deceased. 

Until the war Mr. Reed was busy attending 
school and on his father's farm. He enlisted 
at Ripon, Wis., Aug. 15, 1861, where he rendez- 
voused to be mustered into Company A, 1st 
Wisconsin Cavalry. In December, the com- 
mand was transferred to camp at Kenoslia and 
remained throughout the winter, leaving the 
State March 17, 1862, for St. Louis. At Ben- 
ton Barracks equipments were received and 
tliey removed to Cape Girardeau, April 28th. 
Considerable skirmishing occupied their atten- 
tion, one action taking place at Bloomfield, 
May nth, wiiicli resulted in the cai)ture of 
Phelan and 100 bushwhackers. Afterwards 
the regiment went to Chalk Bluffs, where they 
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tenant Phillips, private McClaughrey and sev- 
eral wounded. They skirmished again on the 
St. Francis River, acting as infantry. Their 
next exploit was on Little River at Horners- 
ville, where a steamer lay, loaded with supplies, 
which was captured with some prisoners. They 
went into camp at West Prairie, which they 
left July 9th for Helena and during this march 
a fight took place at Scatterville on the 10th. 
Tliey were successively in action at Jonesboro, 
Wittsburg and L'Anguille. The regiment, 
which was in \'^andever's brigade, remained at 
Helena until September 29th, when a move to 
Cape Girardeau was made. The next removal 
was to Greenville, Mo., and the regiment went 
later to Patterson. The winter was passed in 
scouting and skirmishing between Batesville, 
Ark., and Greenville, and in the spring the 
command moved successively to Pilot Knob 
and St. Genevieve. In April, Mr. Reed was in 
the action at Cape Girardeau, where Marma- 
duke attacked with a large force. May 1st he 
was placed on detached duty at headquarters 
as Orderly for General McNeill and was in his 
personal service until he was wounded. Two 
months later he was with liis regiment and went 
to Nashville and Triune, joining the Army of the 
Cumberland, and the regiment accompanied 
the cavalry column to Shelbyville, where the 
rear of Bragg's army were captured. After 
about three weeks tlie command moved on to 
Winchester. There Mr. Reed was taken sick 
and sent to field hospital at Winchester and 
thence to hospital No. 15, at Nashville, where 
he remained two months and was discharged 
Oct. 17, 1863, for disability. He returned to 
his home in Waukesha county, where he re- 
mained, engaged in recruiting his health about 
a year. He determined to again enter the ser- 
vice and went to New York with the intention 
of going into the navy, but failed in his plans. 
He enlisted, Sept. 27, 1SG4, in the 20th New 



York Light Artillery, joining his command on 
Hart's Island ; he was assigned to detached 
duty and remained in that service until the 
close of the war, receiving his discharge May 
6, 1865. He again returned to Waukesha and 
in the fall went to Algona and there followed the 
occupation of a printer about seven years, also 
engaging a part of the time in farming. In 
1877 he went to Hot Springs, Ark., and em- 
barked in the sale of drugs, which he continued 
eight months, going thence to Palarm, Ark., 
where he remained about three years, engaged 
in the sale of general merchandise. When he 
sold out in 1881 he removed to Hudson, Wis- 
consin, where he engaged in lumbering. He 
is Adjutant of his Post (1890) and a member of 
the Masonic Order. Mr. Reed is a man of 
quiet tastes and domestic habits, preferring the 
reserve of a comparatively retired life to the 
excitement of a public career. In politics he 
is a Republican. 

He was married Dec. 9, 1876, at Appleton, 
Wis., to Emma, daughter of Jonathan and 
Mary (Johnson) Lewis. Her parents were 
natives of New Jersey, and died at Appleton, 
where they were many years resident. Her 
brother, Horatio S. Lewis, was a soldier in the 
28th Wisconsin Infantry, served through the 
war and died in hospital at Little Rock, Ark., 
March 31, 1865, from disease contracted in the 
army. Mrs. Reed is a member of the W. R. 
C. at Hudson, Wis. 



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NDREW S. DOUGLAS, a prominent 
!^ attorney of Monroe, Wis., member of 
G. A. R. Post No. 102, was born at 
Heuvelton, St. Lawrence Co., New York, June 
19, 1840. His paternal grandfather, Andrew 
Douglas, was born in Roxboroshire, Scotland, 
and came to America in 1833, locating near 



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Prescott, Canada. His son, Adam B., father of 
Mr. Douglas of tliis sketch, was a captain in 
the Hunter's Lodge, a secret organization of 
of the Patriot War, (known also as Mackenzie's 
War) in 1837, was arrested after the disaster, 
made his escape and after a short residence in 
St. Lawrence county, went to Chautauqua 
county in. the same State, removing to Portage 
City, Wisconsin, in 1852. In 1858 he went to 
Milwaukee and a year later to Janesville, 
thence to Green county and in 1879 fixed his 
permanent residence at Monroe, Wis., where he 
has since prosecuted his lifelong business as a 
trainer of fast horses. Andrew Douglas be- 
longed to the clan made famous in Scott's 
" Lady of the Lake," and married Jane Cock- 
burn, their family including three sons, only 
one of whom married and who is the only sur- 
vivor. The parents removed to New York 
State from Canada after tlieir son's removal from 
the Dominion, where the grandfather died, the 
grandmother coming afterwards to Portage, 
Wisconsin, where she died. Adam Douglas 
was born in Scotland, Oct. 0, 1815, came to 
America with his parents, and married Mary 
A. Starring in St. Lawrence Co., New York. 
She died in Forrestville, Chautauqua county, 
Feb. 8, 1850, having given birth to four chil- 
dren, of whom her son of this sketch is the 
oldest. Margaret is deceased ; Adeline mar- 
ried Lorenzo Hobbs ; Mary A. married Willis 
Farmer. 

Mr. Douglas became a proficient scholar in 
the schools he attended and was graduated 
, from the high school at .Janesville, .July 3, 1863, 
to which he journeyed three miles to attend , 
the daily sessions. He taught school through 
the following winter and decided to enlist. 
May 7, 1864, he enrolled in Company A, 40th 
Wisconsin Infantry, and passed through the 
experiences common to the men assigned to 
duty as preservers of what bad been achieved j 



by their predecessors. From barracks and 
camp at home he went to Memphis, Tenn., 
wdiere he was assigned to detached service at 
Helena, Holly Springs and La Grange, consist- 
mg chiefly of guard, patrol and camp duty, 
and also guarding trains. He was in the ac- 
tion at Memphis when Forrest att;\cked the city 
in the night and was mustered out September 
16, 1864, at Madison. 

He had previously decided to prepare for the 
practice of law, and, May 7, 1865, entered the 
office of Hon. H. A. Patterson of Janesville, 
his preceptor being then in the enjoyment of a 
popular practice there. Mr. Douglas remained 
under his instructions until Feb. 15, 1866, 
when he was admitted to the Bar of Wiscon- 
sin. In June following he became the asso- 
ciate of Judge Patterson and their joint relations 
continued until October, 1867, when Mr. Doug- 
las removed to Brodhead, Green county, opened 
an office and conducted a prosperous business 
as an attorney until his removal to Monroe in 
April, 1869. In the previous year he had been 
elected District Attorney, receiving the heaviest 
majority of any candidate before the people in 
that election. His discharge of duty was such 
that he received four successive elections as iiis 
own successor and, after an interval of four 
terms was again elected, and has served as 
District Attorney of Green county ten years. 
He has also served many years as City Clerk 
of Monroe, and has been one of the most 
prominent members of the Republican party 
in the county and State, actively engaging in 
every successive canvass and exercising all his 
influence and energies to substantiate his party. 
He belongs to the fraternity of Masons, is a 
Knight Templar and a Knight of Pythias. He 
is prominent and popular in his profession, 
possesses a genial and winning temperament, 
which secures the confidence of those who con- 
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him in tlie front rank in social standing. He 
was married at Janesville, Nov. 11, 1868, to 
Laura E., daughter of Jolm B. and Mary 
(Davis) Welch. She was horn in Maine on a 
farm which was a portion of a grant of Charles 
I. of England, to her ancestors, who inliab- 
ited it 200 years prior to her birth. Her 
mother was born in Massachusetts and removed 
with her husband to Georgia, going thence to 
Janesville in 1855. Her father and mother 
had five sons and three daughters, and died re- 
spectively in New Jersey and Chicago. Mrs. 
Douglas died in 1881 with diphtheria, leaving 
three children. Arthur was born Oct. 16, 1870, 
and is the manager of the telegraph office in 
Hurley, Wis. ; Malcolm C. was born May 5, 
1872, and is in his freshman's year at Madison 
University ; Helen was born Sept. 8, 1876. 
Jan. 10, 1883, Mr. Douglas was again married 
at Monroe to Abbie E., daugliter of Michael 
and Frances (Malia) Dowling, and they have 
two children — Andrew, born Dec. 26, 1886, and 
Margaret Frances, born March 7, 1889. Mrs. 
Douglas is a member of the Woman's Relief 
Corps connected with the Post at Monroe. 

WlEXANDER IVEY, a leading mer- 
>/-.^_\a chant at Lancaster, Wis., and one of 
.Aif^X^ the prominent citizens of his county, 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 132, was born in 
the shire of Cornwall, England, March 10, 
1837. His parents, Joseph and Miriam (Eudey) 
Ivey, were natives of England and came to 
America in the year of their son's birth. His 
father was a miner in his own country and 
located near York, Pennsylvania, whei'e he en- 
gaged as a collier and lost his life in the coal 
mines. The mother married again, went to 
Virginia and North Carolina and, finally, to 
Grant county, Wisconsin, in 1846, and died the 



same year. Mr. Ivey was her only child and 
was cared for after her death by his uncle, re- 
ceiving a common school education and he also 
studied a year at Platteville Academy, his 
educational training lieing the result of his own 
efforts. He has conducted his relations with 
the world since the age of 10 years and has dis- 
charged bis trust witii credit. In the fall of 
1857 lie engaged in mining, alternating that 
employ with clerking and was so occupied until 
1859, when he went to North Carolina, where 
he was interested until secession became para- 
mount. He found the situation distasteful and 
hastened to Wisconsin and enlisted from British 
Hollow ; he was sworn by General John B. 
Callis, of whom a sketch is to be found on an- 
other page. He expected to join the company 
which General Callis was recruiting, but it was 
already full. He enlisted Sept. 9, 1861, and in- 
instead of entering upon liis expected enroll- 
ment, went into Company D, 7tii Wiscon.sin In- 
fantrj', and became a member of the command 
that has come to be one of tlie most distin- 
guished in history, — the Iron Brigade. After 
muster at Madison, Mr. Ivey went with the 
regiment. He drilled after arrival in Virginia, 
was in the operations on the Rappahannock, 
and was first in set battle at Gainesville, after 
starting for the Peninsula and Richmond only 
to be recalled. He had been in numberless 
skirmishes and in many varieties of military 
duty ])rior to this, and after it fought at the 
second Bull Run. He participated in the 
movements which preceded the fight at South 
Mountain and after service there fought at 
Antietam. He returned to Fredericksburg and 
was under fire four days in December and 
fought at Chancellorsville, being under con- 
stant fire at the fords of the Rappahannock 
River and on the disastrous field mentioned for 
eight days. He was engaged in the retreat at 
Rappahannock Station and was again in action 



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at White Sulphur Springs. He was next in 
battle at Gettysburg, receiving on the first day 
a bullet in his left leg which shattered the 
bone. He was senior Sergeant in his com- 
mand, and, in the absence of his Lieutenant, 
who was wounded, acted in that position. He 
was taken from the field in a blanket by his 
comrades and placed behind a house, where he 
remained until lie was taken to hospital in an 
ambulance and underwent amputation. He 
was there six weeks and, as soon as possible, 
was sent to Philadelphia, remaining in that 
city until May 14, 1864, when he was dis- 
charged on surgeon's certificate of disability. 

He returned to British Hollow and engaged 
as clerk in a store. He was married at British 
Hollow to Annie Eustice, a native of the place, 
and moved soon after to Potosi, where he was 
elected Town Clerk and also officiated as assist- 
ant in a store. In the year following he was 
elected Justice, and in May, 18(>5, he established 
a mercantile relation with .John Wilson and, 
soon after, became sole proprietor by purchase, 
running the business alone until 1870, when 
he formed a partnershij) with his present 
business associate, Mr. Webb. In 1867 he was 
made Postmaster at Potosi and held the posi- 
tion until 1874, (the date of his election as 
Treasurer of Grant county) which duties he 
discharged four years, his personal business in- 
terests being comlucted by Mr. Webb. In Feb- 
ruary, 1879, Mr. Ivey started his business at 
Lancaster, leaving his j)artner to close the l)usi- 
ness at Potosi, after which their joint relations 
were resumed at Lanc4ister. The firm is doing 
an extensive business in general merchandise. 

Mrs. Ivey is the daughter of George and 
Philippa Eustice. The children born to her- 
self and husband number seven, namely : 
Miriam, Joseph E., Earl, Alexander, Leroy, Mil- 
dred and Ned. 

Mr. Ivey is prominent in his Post relations 



and has served three terms as Commander. 
He is present Quartermaster. (1889.) He was 
Alderman of Lancaster in ISSO and Ijelongs to 
the Odd Fellows and has served in all the 
chairs of the Order; he is an Encamjiment 
member. In character and standing he is 
above reproach and is justly esteemed in all his 
relations to the community of which he is a 
member. 

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II. VIVIAN, M. D., Mineral Point Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 125, was 
• born at Camborne, Cornwall, England, 
Jul}^ 27, 182."), and is the son of Henry Andrew 
and Mary (Lean) \'ivian. The name is of 
Roman origin so far as known and is mentioned 
by Tacitus. The tradition holds that its earli- 
est owner came from Normandy to England 
and the familv is prominent in the history of 
tin and cojiper mining in Cornwall, Andrew 
Vivian, the grandfather of the doctor, being 
the person who opened one of the most famous 
mines in that locality, being a leading specula- 
tor in those interests there. The fatlier was a 
manager of mining interests and the family 
was in good position and circumstances. Only 
three of the five children of H. A. Vivian sur- 
vive ; Richard, the oldest brother, was drowned 
while bathing ; Henry A. resides in Chili, S. 
A. ; he is a railroad superintendent ; Julia lives 
in Cornwall, England ; Ellen is deceased. The 
mother died about 1S31 and the father married 
again. The second wife died without children 
andofatliird marriage Hugh P., Fannie Mary 
and Caroline were born ; they live in Cornwall, 
and the son is the proj)rietor of the homestead. 
Tlie father died in 1861. 

Dr. Vivian is the third child of his parents; 

he was educated in a grammar .school of his 

native country, whence he was graduated and 

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completing his course and obtaining a position 
on a vessel as ship's surgeon to come to Amer- 
ica, wliich he did in IS'IS. He expected to 
come direct to Mineral Point via Quebec, 
but remained in the Canadian quarantine sta- 
tion at Grosse Isle to assist in caring for the 
sick, ship fever having become epidemic on the 
voyage. He was in charge of a puljlic hospi- 
tal for ship fever inmates and he remained 
until taken with the fever himself; he went to 
a private hospital and there experimented on 
the treatment of the disease, taking nothing 
but cold water. When sufficiently recovered 
to travel he started for Wisconsin, arriving at 
Mineral Point about Sept. 14, 1847. He en- 
tered immediately upon the practice of medi- 
cine there and has continued that business 
uninterruptedly, with the exception of his 
army service and ten years on the Board of 
Charities. In 1863 he was appointed member 
of the Board of Enrollment and with Col. J. 
G. Clark [see sketch] he organized the 3d Con- 
gressional District. In the winter of 1864-5 
he was commissioned Surgeon of the 50th Wis- 
consin Infantry, commanded by Colonel Clark. 
His relations to the preparation for the draft 
were not completed, but as soon as that busi- 
ness was accomplished he joined the regiment. 
Pie left the State in April and went to Missouri, 
where the different portions of the regiment 
that had been sent forward as fast as mustered 
bad been distributed. His headquarters were 
at Miami, and he soon after went to Boone- 
ville. The command was consolidated at Jef- 
fenson City and ordered to Fort Leavenworth 
to perform provost duty and went thence to 
Fort Rice, Dak., arriving in October, 1865, to 
be relieved in June, 1866, by regular army .sol- 
diers and returned to Madison for discharge 
.June '2ot\\ of that year. They were kept in 
service six months longer than the term of en- 
listment. The mutiny of the discontented 



regiments was quelled by the 50th and the 
great injustice of the relief of the mutinous 
regiments and retention of the 50th was keenly 
felt, as the commands referred to had not com- 
pleted their terms. The history of the connec- 
tion of Dr. Vivian with the 50th shows hiscare 
and skill, as the stories of preceding regiments 
were not repeated under his watchfulness, few 
of his regiment dying, while the mortality in 
otliers had been great. He exercised every 
possible sanitary precaution and was rewarded 
for his trouble bj' the healthy condition of his 
charge. He had a severe contest with scurvy 
but conquered it. 

He resumed his practice at Mineral Point, 
where he had a drug store, which he has made 
one of the leading establishments in that sec- 
tion of Wisconsin. In 1879 he was appointed 
on the State Board of Charities, and in 1862-3 he 
served in the State Assembly. His positions 
always came to him unsought and have alwaj's 
proved anything but sinecures. He has been 
member of the County Board, was several 
years Chairman and he was connected there- 
with during the formative period of the county. 

He was married at Grand Rapids, Mich., in 
the spring of 1849 to Elizabeth, daughter of 
.John and Jane Stansmore, residents of Corn- 
wall, England. Amy was their only child. 
Mrs. Vivian died in May, 1857, at Mineral 

; Point and Dr. Vivian nuirried Amelia, sister of 

I 

his tirst wife, in August, 1858. They have 
four children named Stansmore, Frederick, 
Alfred and Ella. The oldest son is an M. D., 
and is his father's associate, the firm style be- 
ing Drs. Vivian & Son. Two children died 
while Dr. Vivian was in the service. Dr. 
Vivian has been Surgeon of his Post since it 
was organized, with the exception of a term as 
Senior-Vice Commander until elected Com- 
mander, which office he now holds. He is one 
of the oldest Odd Fellows in the State and has 



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served as Grand Patriarch of Wisconsin ; he 
has acted as Chairman of the Court of Appeals 
many years ; (the first organization of Odd 
Fellows in the Northwest Territory was estab- 
lished in Mineral Point about 1836.) Mrs. 
Vivian and two daughters are members of the 
W. R. C. Alfred Vivian organized the Sons of 
Veterans' Corps at Mineral Point and has Ijeen 
Captain since its establishment ; the corps was 
in the naval battle at the National Encamp- 
ment at Milwaukee in 1889 and won imieh fa- 
vorable commendation. Fred N'ivian is the 1st 
Lieutenant in the Corps. Dr. \'ivian has been 
an uncommonly active adherent of the Repub- 
lican party ; he lias served nearly every year 
as State Delegate ; he is physician in the asy- 
lum at Mineral Point whose location there he 
secured and assisted in the preparation of 
plans for the building. 



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AMUEL BABB, Chippewa Falls, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, was 
born .June 3, 1840, in Penobscot Co., 
Maine, of jiarents who were of American Ijirth 
and remote Englisli ancestry. His fatiier and 
mother were Nathaniel and Abby (Brown) Babb 
and his maternal grandfiither was a soldier in 
1812; his father was a lumberman by occuj)a- 
tion, dying in Maine in 18S2. The motlier is 
living in Maine. William, .John II., Samuel, 
Abby, Mary, Abner, Mary (2d), JNhvrtha, .James, 
Martha (2d), and George Albert were their 
children. The first Mary and first ^hvrtha 
died young. In Sej)tember, 1801, Samuel 
enlisted and was mustered November 12th in 
Company E, 11th Maine Infantry, at Augusta. 
He started next day for Washington, passed 
the winter in camp, the regiment being as- 
signed to Casey's Division, until March 28, 
1802, went then to Alexandria and Newport 



News and, April 17th, was ordered with his 
conmiand to Yorktown, having a skirmish on 
the 29th, Company E losing a man. May .")tli 
he was in the fight at Williamsburg, crossed 
tlie Chickahominy at Bottom's Bridge May 23d, 
and, May 31st, fought in the battle of Seven 
Pines. The regiment was in the 3d Brigade, 
1st Division, and fought from morning until 
night, occupying the rilie pits until .June llh, 
when a move was made to the Chinniies and 
White Oak Swamp to fight June 30th, the 
company losing heavily. The next move was 
to Harrison's Landing, arriving August 16th 
and the regiment went thence to Yorktown to 
remain milil December 26th, doing garrison 
duty and recruiting. On that date, in com- 
pany with Negley's Brigade, the regiment 
started for North Carolina, landing at More- 
head City .Jan. 1, 1863, on account of ship 
fever. January 20th they re-embarked for 
Port Royal, arriving Feb. 10th and remaining 
until April 4th, when another embarkation 
took place for Charleston, where the regiment 
was present at the naval engagement. The 
next orders were for Fernandina, Fla., to re- 
lieve the 9tli Maine Cavalry and they remained 
there doing g;urison duty and practicing heavy 
artillery and cavalry drill until October 6th 
and embarking for Morris Island in Charleston 
harboi', going to the front entrance and per- 
forming duty at Fort Wagner, which was taken 
from the rebels. The command spent six 
months erecting Forts Sumter, Gregg and Sul- 
livan on James Island and there Mr. ISabb re- 
enlisted, took his furlougii and iijoincd his 
regiment at Camp Distribution, Washington. 
Prior to leaving Morris Island the regiment 
had been assigned to the od Brigade, 1st Divi- 
sion and loth Corps, joining Butler's command 
at Gloucester Tdint May oth and landing at 
Bermuda Hundred, particiixiting in an action 
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Chester Station May 10th. Mr. Babb was in 
tlie several actions near Richmond and fought 
at Fort Darling and Bermuda Hundred where 
the regiment lost 41 killed and wounded. Mr. 
Babb was wounded in this action, a musket 
ball entering his left arm near the shoulder, 
passing down tiirough the lungs and out at the 
right side of the back. He lay on tiie field 
24 hours without attention and seeing his 
wounded comrades carried off while lie was 
wholly neglected, his life being so near gone as 
not to be thought of as worth consideration. 
Tlie regimental surgeon finally came along 
and gave him an examination, sending him to 
Hampton hosjiital. Mr. Babb had gone into 
this action from choice as he was on detached 
duty. He remained at Hampton about three 
months, was transferred to David's Island in 
New York harbor and remained until February, 
when he joined his regiment on .James River, 
at .Jones' Neck. He remained there a day and 
was furloughed home as unfit for duty, and be 
rejoined his regiment at Clover Hill near 
Ilichmond. Not being able to fight he was 
detailed wagon master and served in tiiat capac- 
ity until mustered out, being with Grant's army 
until Lee's surrender. After that he went with 
100 wagons to Lynchburg with supplies from 
the reliel canal boats and took them back to 
feed botii armies, returning soon after to Rich- 
mond, remaining there until Nov. 26, 1865. 
He went next to Warrenton, remaining there 
until .Jan. 26, 1866, went then to City Point and 
was mustered out Feb. 2, 1866. 

Going to Augusta, Maine, Mr. Babb engaged 
in iunibering until October, 1868, when he 
removed West. He located at Chippewa Falls 
and engaged again in lumbering, in which he 
lias since been occupied. He was married at 
Alton, Maine, in January, 1866, to Malvina 
Patterson, daughter of Samuel and Almira 
Patterson, and she died May 11, 1868. Dec. 



25, 1870, Mr. Babb was again married to Frances 
E., daughter of Jeremiah G. and Betsey C. 
(McCowan) Patten. Her parents were born in 
Hamlin, Maine, and her grandfather, .James, 
in Merrimack, N. H., the son of an early settler 
in New England. Her maternal grandfather, 
George McCowan, was born in Maine of Scotch 
descent. Ider grandfather Patten was a militia- 
man of New York and fought in 1812, com- 
manding a company at the battle of Hampden 
and dying Dec. 11, 1859. Her grandmother, 
Elizabetii (Guptil) Patten, died May 2, 1851. 
The issue of Mr. Babb's second marriage in- 
cludes three ciiildren as follows: — George 
.Albert, born Oct. 10, 1877 ; Samuel, Jr., born 
Dec. 26, 1880 ; Edward Alexander, born March 
12, 1886. 

'>^«f^^l»?.'^<^ 

ILLIAM R. PECKHAM, Treas- 
urer of Richland Co., Wis., resi- 
dent at Richland Center, member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 3.3, was born in 1841, in 
Jefferson Co., Ohio, and removed thence to 
Wisconsin in 1855, settling with his parents in 
the town of Bloom. His father, William Peck- 
ham, was born in 1804, in Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
and died on the homestead which he purchased 
from the Government in 1855, his demise oc- 
curring in 1881. His wife was a native of the 
same county in Oiiio, was born in 1809, and 
survived her husband two years, her life ter- 
minating on the homestead on which she lived 
nearly 30 years. 

Mr. Peckham was reared as the son of a 
pioneer and remained at home until he reached 
his majority, when he decided to enter the 
army. He enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, in Company 
B, 25th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment 
went to St. Paul, Minn., whence five companies 
were sent in one direction to quell Indian dis- 
turbances and the remainder in another direc- 




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tion, Company B being stationed at Alexan- 
dria, Minn., wliere they performed military 
duty until December, wben tbey started to 
march to La Crosse in tlie winter and under- 
went severer bardships than in any subsequent 
marcb tbey made wliile in tlie service, over bad 
roads and witb i^canty rations. Tbey readied 
t'amp Randall, December 18tb, and in Febru- 
ary started for tlie front and, reaching Colum- 
bus, Ky., reiuaiiicd there about two inoutbs, 
and in April went with the Hjtb Army Corps 
to tight the rebel.>< under Marinaduke. They 
were too late and returned to Columbus whence 
they started for the siege of Vicksburg and 
took position in the trenches, remaining until 
June 25th, wben tbey started on an expedition 
up the river to disj)er.se the guerrillas who were 
giving trouble to the Union river cralt. In 
July tbey went to Helena, where Mr. Peckbam 
performed provost duty until February, 1864, 
going to Vick.sburg to rejoin the 10th Corps 
•and to accompany Shi'mian to the Meridian 
expedition under Acting Colonel Jeriy Rusk. 
Mr. reekham was in the work of destruction 
accomjilislu'd during the march and on tiie 
return ui' the regiment started from \Mcksburg 
on the long route which terminated at Decatur, 
Ala., whence tbey went in May to Iluntsville 
and Chattanooga and joined the Army of the 
Tennessee under McPberson ; they moved by 
Snake Creek Gap to fight at Resaca and after- 
wards at Dalln.'! Wooils, at l>ig Shanty, Peach 
Orchard, Lost Mountain, Nickajack Creek, De- 
catur, and Mr. Peckbam was in all the miscel- 
laneous military duty performed by bis regi- 
ment, and a.^sistiiig in the distniction of the 
railroatls after the fall of Atlanta, having been 
a month in the siege of that city and under 
constant lire. He was with the columns of 
yiierman in the i>ursuit of Hood and in the 
long marches prior to leaving Atlanta on the 
march to the sea, and was actively engaged in 



the various duties incident to the campaign 
until Jan. 3, 1805, when they passed through 
Savannah and embarked for Beaufort, S. C. 
January 13th, the march northward coni- 
nienced and Mr. Peckbam was in several ac- 
tions, including a skirmish ontbeSalkabatcbie 
River. He was in the light at River's Bridge, 
again at South Edisto, and was engaged in 
marching and skirmi.sbing and in guard duty 
until April, wben tbey started for Raleigh, N. 
C, going thence to Richmond and Washington 
via Petersburg and jiarticijiating in the Grand 
Review, going thence to Crystal Sjirings to be 
mustered out .lune 7th, and to return to \\'is- 
consin. 

He became a farmer of the best type and 
be also engaged in buying stock, and was 
operating in these avenues when be was 
elected County Treasurer in 1884, and he has 
been twice re-elected to the same position. He 
is a man whose entire record is one which se- 
cures the trust and cunlidence of bi.s genera- 
tion, his abilities being of marked character 
and equaled by his integrit}'. His army ser- 
vice was one of constant duty and he has the 
satisfaction to have been a nunilicr of one of 
the Wisconsin organizations, which jierformed 
as much continuous service as any other. He 
belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows, Lodge 
No. 118, and has lield minor municipal ofKces. 
He was married Oct. 26, 1865, to Catherine 
Albaugh, a native of Carroll Co., Ohio, who 
came to Bloom in Richland county in 1861 
with her parents. Their children are named 
John A. Logan, Milo E., Marian S. and Bertha 
M. Mr. Peckbam is a Republican and, witb 
his wife, belongs to the M. E. Church. The 
family is in the best social standing and justly 
regarded as an addition to the community to 
which tbey belong in the best sense. 



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ALSEY KNIGHT, a farmer at Monti- 
cello, Wis., a former soldier of the 
civil war, was born in tiie town of 
Eagle, Allegany Co., New York, Oct. 12, 1815. 
His grandfather, Richard Knight, took his 
name from the title of knight conferred on 
liini in Ireland, wiiere lie was born and whither 
lie came to America as paymaster in the British 
service in the Revolution. After the war he 
settled near Cayuga Lake in the State of New 
York, where he married and became the parent 
of two sons — David and Richard. The latter 
went to Canada after the war of 1812 and little 
is known of him beyond the fact that he mar- 
ried an<l had a lai'ge family. David, father of 
Mr. Knight of this sketch was a soldier of 1812, 
serving through it and fighting at the date of 
the burning of J5ulfalo, where he was hit by 
a liullet which cut across his face, leaving an 
ugly mark. He married Katie Robinson and 
of their nine children, Mr. Knight believes 
himself to be the only survivor. The father 
died when 84 years old about 1877. The 
mother died while the children were young 
and the father married again. After her deatli 
Mr. Knight went to learn the business of a 
wheelwright and blacksmith, after which he 
operated again as a farmer and, finally learned 
the trade of wagon-making. He removed to 
Wisconsin and located at Monticello in 1856, 
arriving on the first day of November. He 
made the first wagon constructed in the place 
and followed his trade until 1860, when lie 
went to Tennessee and engaged there in the 
same business, and managed the shop where lie 
worked near Murfreesboro. On the fall of 
Fort Sumter and the coiLsequent movements 
towards secession which prevailed in the South, 
he took his family back to Monticello, making 
the journey with a team. He again settled on 
his farm which he managed while working at 
his business, until he entered the army. He 



enlisted Aug. 31, 1864, in Company D, 35th 
Wisconsin Infantry, was mustered at Madison 
and joined the regiment at Brownsville, Ark., 
which was, for sometime, headquiirters of the 
command and where the regiment guarded the 
railroad communications and endeavored to 
watch the movements of Price. In December 
the command wenttoDuvall's Bluff and passed 
the winter until February, went thence to the 
White River and down the Mississippi to New- 
Orleans, proceeding thence to the defenses of 
Mobile. Arriving at Spanish Fort Marcli 27th, 
Mr. Knight was in the trenches there until its 
evacuation, when he went with the command 
to Blakely. He was next in the movement 
which drove the rebel squadron up the Tom- 
bigby river, and assisted in taking the rebel 
gunboats on which the regiment went to Mobile 
Bay, where he witnessed the surrender of the 
water forces of the rebels. At Spanish Fort, 
while lying on the ground to keep out of range 
of the bullets, Mr. Knight came in contact with 
some poisonous vegetable growth which made 
him very ill and his discharge was ordered 
but instead, through some misunderstanding, 
he was sent to Texas and at Jonesville he re- 
ceived his discharge, dated July 10, 1865. He 
is and has been a great sufferer from the effects 
of the poison from which he has never had 
relief. His eyes have been so much affected 
that he sees with difficulty and the sores on his 
limbs have made him a cripple. After his 
return home he tried to work at his trade until 
1868, when he removed to his farm in Exeter, 
where he remained until 1870. He then sold 
the property and removed to his present home. 
He was married -June 9, 1854, to Emma A. 
Wood, a native of Rensselaer Co., New York, 
and daughter of Samuel H. and Paulina 
(Upham) Wood, both of whom died in the 
State of New York. Mrs. Knight is the third 
in order of birth of seven children named 



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Sarah, Jolin A., Artemas A., Alida, Ida and 
Martin G., wlio was a soldier in llie war, fight- 
ing from its beginning to its end and being a 
prisoner at Libby. The sons of Mr. and Mrs. 
Knigiit are named Adelbert R. and George E. 
The former is a druggist and jeweler at Dull 
Rapids, Dak., and the latter is in the same lines 
of business at Worthington, Minn. The father 
has been and still is a much respected citizen; 
he has performed his share of municipal duty 
and is still a Justice although nearly SO years 
old ; he is considered one of the reliable and 
staunch men of the county, always proving 
trustworthy and fh-nily balanced in principle. 
(He was first married to Caroline Murdock in 
1837 and she died without children in lcS52.) 



EG A. RITTMANN, Racine, Wis., 
member of Governor Ilarvev Post 



~-^ No. 17, G. A. R., was born in Ham- 



burg, Germany, Nov. 5, 1844, and his i)arents, l 
William C. and IVhiria (Vahn) Rittniann, were 
natives of Germany and descendants of Ger- 
man ancestors. The fatiicr was a furniture 
dealer and served under the conscription in the 
German army. The children were named 
William C., Bertha, (now Mrs. Fixen of Ra- , 
cine) Leo A., John Z., Agnes and Amanda O. 
All are living. The parents came to the United \ 
States and located at Racine in 1854, where 
the father engaged in the furniture business, 
in which he was occupied until his death. He 
was born Nov. 2, 1808, and died Dec. 13, 1863. 
The mother was born in Hesse Cassel, Ger- 
many, Nov. 25, 1810, and is still living at Ra- 
cine. Mr. Rittmann received his education in 
the public schools and performed his first labor \ 
with tlie Mitchell Wagon Mauuraduring Com- 
pany. In the year 1801 when Camj) Utley 
was established lie accepted a position in the J 



Commissary Department going witli the 4th 
Wisconsin Infantry to Baltimore as sutler's 
clerk. He accompanied the regiment to the 
Relay House and to Annapolis and came home 
in October, 1861. He then engaged in the 
sale of groceries and dry goods with Roggen- 
bau & Fixen and endeavored to enlist in the 
22d Wisconsin Infantry but failed. He finally 
eni'olled in August, 1863, in Batter}' C, 1st 
Wisconsin Heavy Artillery. The battery was 
organized under Captain John R. Davis and 
left Camp Washburn, Milwaukee, October 30, 
1863, on the march to the front to rejmrt at 
headquarters. Army of tlie C'unilu'rland, Chat- 
tanooga. They received equijmients at that 
point but were somewhat detained in reaching 
Camj) Creighlon and went to Camp Wood 
where they drilled in light ami heavy artillery 
tactics. The army under General Grant, liav- 
ing been reinforced by the Army of the Ten- 
nessee under Sherman and the 11th and r2th 
Corps undiT Hooker, had lu'ld itself in 
readiness for "business," Battery C being as- 
signed to the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 4th 
Corps, and on the night of November 24th 
they were roused for a forward movement and 
were called to jirepare for immediate action ; 
Battery C took position to aid in the assault on 
Mission Ridge. Mr. Rittnuinn was in that 
glorious action, helped drive the rebels from 
their position and also to capture 35 out of 44 
guns held there by the rebels and to turn their 
batteries on them. Battery C gave the signal 
for the advance of General Thomas' army and 
shelled Braggs' headquarters. The second gun, 
operated by J. E. Brown, dislodged a rebel bat- 
tery, droi>ping a shot into the magazine and 
killing all the men and officers. After holding 
the Ridge and burning loyal fires all night, 
the battery went to winter quarters in Camj) 
Wood. In the spring they went to Fort Sher- 
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Hood threatened Nashville. A section of the 
huttery, under Lieut. B. F. Parker, was detailed 
with a brigade of troops to intercept General 
Hood in case he came in the direction of Chat- 
tanooga, but he went to Franklin. Mr. Ritt- 
niann was then detailed as clerk in the Quar- 
termaster's Department, where he remained 
until the spring of 1865. He was then ordered 
to report with his battery at Mouse Creek, Tenn., 
which acted there as infantry to guard the 
railroad. He was then detailed as a clerk in 
the Brownlow U. S. general hospital at Knox- 
ville, Tenn., and remained from June, 1865, 
until October, 1865, when he was mustered out 
at Nashville. He returned to Racine in No- 
vember and was sick through the ensuing win- 
ter from injuries in the service. In the spring 
he went to Leavenworth, Kas., and returned to 
Racine in tlie fall to engage as clerk in the 
store of H. G. Winslow. In 1868 he was ap- 
})ointed Revenue Collector with an ofHce at 
Milwaukee and in the following year entered 
the office of the New England Life Insurance 
Co., of Boston, of which he took charge. 
He then went into the employ of Goldsmith 
& Co., carpet dealers in Milwaukee. A year 
later he returned to Racine, and assumed 
the management of the bookstore of Mrs. 
A. .J. Peavy in which he remained until 
the fall of 1872, when he established a 
general news stand and soon after con- 
nected therewith the sale of books and station- 
ery. He associated a partner with himself at 
the end of two years and their connection 
lasted until 1878 when it was dissolved and he 
went to Kenosha where he engaged in the 
same business. In 1881 he went back to Ra- 
cine, traveled two years and went to Dakota to 
look after a quarter section of land he had 
taken up. An accident prevented his arrival 
there in season to take his second pajjcrs and 
he lost his claim. In June, 1884, he engaged 



in the establishment of Fixen & Co. as a carpet 
salesman and has charge of that and of the 
upholstering department. 

He was married June 25, 1867, to Ellen M., 
daughter of John and Rachel (Langlois) Gal- 
lien. Their children are named Louis Ells- 
woth, Gertrude M. and Ida M. Mr. Rittmann 
has held various offices in Gov. Harvey Post 
and is a member of the First Baptist Church 
of Racine and the Order Royal Adelphi. 



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y^^SAU B. BARNES, Platteville, Wis., 
Ii,, ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 66, was 
^^^i^ born in St. Clair Co., 111., Oct. 13, 
1843. His father, William Barnes, was born in 
Kentucky, and his parents removed to the 
Sucker State when he was in boyhood ; and 
there he grew to manhood, marrying Jane 
"Wright about 1841. After the birth of their 
son they went to Lafayette county, and after 
five years more settled in Dane county, near 
Mazo Manie, residing on a farm there about 15 
years, until the fall of 1864, when they re- 
turned to Illinois, locating for two years near 
Decatur. Sept. 18, 1866, the mother died and 
the father returned to Lafayette county, where 
he was again married and went to Iowa, where 
he still resides. Mr. Barnes is the eldest of 
eight children. Mary, Delia, Henry, Jesse, 
George (deceased, was an engineer and was 
killed on his engine in the discharge of duty), 
Joseph (died in infancy), and Anna, were their 
names and such is the brief record of the other 
children. Aug. 30, 1862, Mr. Barnes enlisted 
in Company E, 23d Wisconsin Infantry. He 
was mustered at Madison and left the State 
September 15th for Cincinnati, preparatory to 
service in Northern Kentucky, almost two 
months being consumed in drill and other 
military duty, including heavy marching 



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and a journey on the Ohio and Mississippi 
Rivers to join Sherman's command. Mr. 
Barnes was engaged in the work of destruction 
near Dallas on the railroad and his next activ- 
ity, after more traveling, was at Chickasaw 
Bayou. He was in the fight at Arkansas Post, 
(participating in a victory) and, in January, 
went to Young's Point, La., where the winter 
was passed in the greatest discomfort, most of 
the regiment benig sick. In the spring, Mr. 
Barnes went with the command to Grand Gulf 
where preparations for an attack were made 
which were not carried out, and the command 
proceeded to Port Gibson and after that battle 
took possession of the place, afterwards follow- 
ing the rebels to Raymond. Mr. Barnes was 
next in action at Champion's Hill in which en- 
gagement his company and two others were in 
the skirmish line. On the morning of May 
16, 1SG3, while on tlie skirmish line, he re- 
ceived a gunshot wound in his right thigh; a 
knife in his pocket was cut into several pieces, 
and the ball, which passed through his coat and 
leg, carried with it a piece of knife-blade an 
inch long which was imbedded in the flesh and 
"held the fort" eight years, during which 
time the wound was a running sore. The piece 
of steel finally worked its way to the surface, 
and Mr. Barnes removed it hiuKself. After 
he was wounded, Mr. Barnes went to the field 
hospital, thence to a farm house near the battle 
ground and, two weeks later, proceeded to 
Mempliis, where he was furlouglied and, after 
spending 30 days at home went to the hospital 
at Madison, where he was retained about aj'ear 
without benefit. In tlie summer of 1864 he 
was sent to Milwaukee, where he performed 
provost duty until the war was over and was 
discharged, June 25, 1865. 

He went to Decatur, III., returned to La 
Fayette county and engaged in farming until 
1884, when he located at Platteville. He has 



been prosperous in business and is considered 
one of the substantial and reliable citizens of 
the county and city. In all his course of life 
he has conducted his relations with mankind 
in accordance with unselfish and patriotic prin- 
ciples and his comrades state that he was deeply 
regretful that the decision of the authorities 
sent him to the hosjiital after he was wounded 
rather than to his regiment. 

He was married at Elk Grove, La Fayette 
Co., Wis., March 19, 1871, to Julia, daughter of 
Lorenzo and Roxy (McOmber) McNett. The 
only child of Mr. and Mrs. Barnes died in in- 
fancy. They are members of the M. E. Church 
and Mrs. Barnes belongs to the W. R. C. at 
Platteville. 

fj^^RANKLIN E. PEASE, Commander of 
G. A. R. Post No. 58, in 1887, resident 
at Menomonie, Wis., was born at Mad- 
ison, Lake Co., Ohio, May 8, 1841. Peter Pease, 
his father, was born April 12, 1795, at Stock- 
bridge, Ma.ss., the son of Phineas Pease, born in 
Connecticut Jan. 9, 1755. The latter was a 
drummer in the Revolution, was of English 
origin and his ancestry were among the early 
settlers on the Atlantic seaboard ; he died at 
Stockbridge, Mass., in 1836. Four brothers 
located in 1634 at Salem, and from John, of the 
quadruple fraternity, Mr. Pease is descended. 
His father married Ruth II. Crocker, July 12, 
1821, at Hrownhelm, Ohio; she was born in 
Oneida county in the Empire State and from 
their union 11 children were born, named in 
order Amanda, Flavins, Eliza, Samantha, Mar- 
garet, ^\'alter, P'rederick, Franklin, Herbert, 
Lucius and Phineas. Herbert, Lucius, Phineas 
and Margaret are not living. The father was 
a builder by occupation and died in (^berlin, 
Ohio, in 1801, his wife's demise having oc- 
curred in 1858. The son was brought up at 



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home and learned his father's trade ; also, at 
Oherlin taking the preparatory of a course of 
study at one of the best educational institutions 
ill the country — Oberlin College. He started 
life on his own account in ISGO and went West, 
locating at Menomonie and engaging in build- 
ing. When he was 21 years old he enlisted, 
enrolling in 1862 at Menomonie, being mus- 
tered xVugust Htli following into Company K, 
5th Wisconsin Infantry. He proceeded to 
Washington and joined the regiment at Hagers- 
town just after the battle of Antielam, where he 
was transferred to Company H, the command 
being in the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 6tli 
Corps. While on the march to the Rappa- 
hannock campaign, near Charleston, Va., Mc- 
Clellan was removed and Burnside assumed 
the command. The 5th did little but skir- 
mish in the fight at Fredericksburg, and in 
.January got "stuck in the mud " with all who 
participated in one of the most ill-advised 
operations of that fruitless and disastrous cam- 
paign. In the spring the regiment was as- 
signed to the " Liglit Division" designed for 
active service where speed was a consideration 
and marched May 2, 1863, crossed the Rappa- 
hannock, went to the south side and skir- 
mished, driving in tlie rebels that night and 
marched next morning through the city, tak- 
ing position in front of Marye's Heights, where 
Company H was on the skirmish line and 
opened the engagement by a charge on the 
stone wall, routing the rebels and capturing the 
famous Washington Battery with many prison- 
ers. (See sketches of oilier members of the 5th 
Wisconsin.) The Heights were taken and the 
force went on to fight at Salem Heights, six 
miles l)eyoiul, w'here Lee was stationed in force 
aiul where a .severe action took place. The 
Union command lay there all night, completely 
surrounded by rebels. Hooker being on' the 
other side of the river. Sunday night the 6th 



Corps cut its way out with small loss, recrossing 
the river before daylight and joined Hooker's 
army. They marched seven miles down below 
Fredericksburg, where camp was established 
and about the last of June orders were received 
to move after Lee into Pennsylvania and the 
5th Wisconsin reached the field of Gettysburg 
on the night of July 2d, taking position on the 
extreme left of Big Round Top, two companies 
being on the left of Company H. In the morn- 
ing, line of battle was formed on Little Round 
Top, with the Devil's Den directly in front be- 
low. This position was held during the re- 
maining days of the battle, it being expected 
that Lee would charge the hill after driving 
Sickles to its foot. But he did not, and, after 
the war, explained his reasons, saying he ascer- 
tained that the 6th Corps was there. The 5tli 
Wisconsin was in the advance in the pursuit to 
Warrenton and afterwards went to New York 
to quell the draft riots. Company H was on 
Governor's Island, in the city of New York, in 
Albany and on provost duty in Tro}', where 
Mr. Pease was taken sick with typhoid fever ; 
he obtained quarters in a private house 
and lay there six weeks, receiving the 
best of care. Meanwhile his regiment had 
been ordered back to another Rappahannock 
campaign and he found his company at Cul- 
peper, the fighting being over at Rappahan- 
nock Station. May 4th, 1864, the command 
moved to the Wilderness and Mr. Pease was in 
that fight ; he was in the charge at Spottsylva- 
nia on May lOtb under Eustis, his company 
losing eight men and capturing a line of rebel 
works and it is his belief that proper support 
at the proper moment would have prevented 
the fight on the 12th. On that day the com- 
mand was in the " Bloody Angle " all day and 
the rebs fell back in the night. They marched 
to North Anna River to find the action nearly 
done, after which the corps took the advance 



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to Cold Harbor. The first night after support- 
ing the line of battle all day, they passed into 
the trenches and on the morning of June 6th 
Mr. Pease received a ball in liis right temple. 
He lay on the field until sundown when his 
comrades came to bury him, but found he was 
breathing and conveyed him to the field hos- 
pital, thence to White House Landing and 
there the ball was removed and the wound 
dressed. He was sent afterwards to David's 
Island hospital. New York iiarbor, and there 
received a furlougli. He rejoined his regiment 
after two months at Charlestown, W. Va., in 
September and soon after joined Sheridan to 
figiit at Winchester. Mr. Pease was assigned 
to detached duty in the Quartermaster's De- 
partment and went in December to Petersburg, 
wliere he was on tlie same duty as Ordnance 
Sergeant. He was still suffering from his 
wound and after returning to his command he 
was discharged Feb. 15, 1865. 

He went to Ann Arbor, Midi., to have an oper- 
ation performed on his head and remained in 
that city seven years. He returned to Menom- 
onie where he has since engaged in contracting 
and building. Pie has served as member of 
tlic Common Council (1887) and in the same 
year was one of the Committee of the Gettys- 
burg Memorial As-sociation, appointed by the 
Governor. He was married .luly 26, 1865, at 
Salem, Midi., to Mrs. Jeanette Ratiibun, 
daughter of Hiram and Christiana (Castleman) 
Wliittaker. Frederick, Lucius and Edmund 
are the names of their childrem He has a 
pension and is a member of .the Republican 
party. , 






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R. 11. M. ROGERS, Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., member of James Comerford 
Post No. 68, was born June 1, 1837, 
in Raymond, Racine Co., Wis, and is a direct 
descendant from John Rogers, first martvr 




under Bloody Mary. Following is the inscrii> 
tion in a Bible owned by Dr. Rogers in relation 
to his earliest known ancestor : " Mr. .John 
Rorgers, Minister of the gofpel in London , was 
the firl't Martyr in Queen Mary's reign, and 
was burnt at Smithfield, Feb. 14, 153-1. His 
wife with nine small children and one at the 
breast, following him to the ftake; with which 
forrowful fight lie was not in the leaft daunted, 
but with wonderful patience died courageously 
for the gofpel of Jesus Christ." This is given 
as in the original with the spelling and punc- 
tuation. Reuben Rogers, father of Dr. Rogers, 
was born May 27, 1811, in New York, and mar- 
ried Sally McNair, a lady of Scotch-Irish ex- 
traction. The senior Rogers was a farmer and 
w^as engaged in that business in Racine county 
for si.x years, after which he moved to Wal- 
worth county. Wis., where he lived two years 
and moved from tiiere to Kane county. 111., 
and engaged in the same calling, and in 1853 
went to .Mauston, Juneau county, Wis., where 
be died May 9, 1886. His wife died Nov. 4, 
1878 ; she was born in Pennsylvania, July 7, 
1809. Harvey N., Nancy A., David H., Mary 
E., James II., Almira A., .Joiiii. R., Sarah J., 
Martha M., were their children. Our subject 
was engaged throughout his youth in assisting 
his father on the farm until 18 years old, ob- 
taining a good education in the common 
schools, and early fixed on the medical profes- 
sion for a vocation. At 18 he commenced his 
studies at Wayland University at Beaver Dam, 
Wis., and went thence to the Eclectic Medical 
College of Pliiladelj)liia, wlience he was gradu- 
ated in 1864. In looking for a location to es- 
tablish his business he fixed on Muncie, Ind., 
and opened an office there which he operated 
until 1865, when he went to Cincinnati and en- 
listed in January in the 86th Ohio Infantry. 
He went to Columbus, Ohio, and after passing 
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where he was mustered out of tl>e ranks and 
was commissioned Asst. Surgeon of the 177th 
Infantry and performed duty there at the mili- 
tary prison until April, when he joined his reg- 
iment at Raleigh, N. C, in Sherman's army. 
A few days later he went to Greensboro, N. C, 
and remained there witli his command until 
Juno 27th, proceeding atthat date to Cleveland, 
Ohio, to be mustered out and paid July 7th. 

Dr. Rogers fixed his residence and business 
at Oronoco, Minn., and practiced there five 
years, when he removed to Lake City, Waba- 
sha Co., Minn., and remained a year. He went 
thence to Zumbro Falls, where he practiced his 
profession 15 years, removing thence to White- 
hall, Trempealeau Co., Wis., in 1886. Three 
years after, he removed to Chippewa Falls and 
located his home and interests in the spring of 
1889. 

He was married Sept. 17, 1860, at Mauston, 
Juneau Co., Wis., to Lucy, daughter of Orson 
and Sarah Wright, and they have had five 
children : — Ammie B. is Mrs. J. C. Boyce ; 
Elliottson died young ; Elliottson H., Lutella 0. 
and Mabel E. are unmarried. The wife died 
at Lake City July 21, 1871. Dr. Rogers was 
married a second time at Knight's Creek, Dunn 
Co., Wis., Feb. 18, 1872, to Mary E., daughter 
of Patrick and Margaret (Cotter) Conway. Dr. 
liogers is a member of the Order of Masons 
and is a decided Republican. David PL, his 
brother, was a soldier in the 8th Illinois Cav- 
alry and remained with the command until his 
death from pneumonia; he was highly re- 
garded in his command as a fearless and con- 
scientious soldier. James H. enlisted at Maus- 
ton May 10, 1861, in Company K, 6th Wisconsin 
Infantry of the Iron Brigade. He was with his 
regiment throughout its entire service and was 
mustered out July 14, 1865 ; he distinguished 
himself for bravery and devotion to duty. 




^ ENRY MAY, a citizen of Fort Atkin- 

'*'"— ^-'1** son. Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 159, was born Sept. 18, 
1829, in Walden, Germany. He is the son of 
Adam and Abelona May. and was brought up 
in his native land, subject to the regulations 
which the law provides for the rearing of male 
children. When he was 20 he was conscripted 
and served six years. He passed two years in 
the military school at Carlsruhe and enlisted 
in the Guards of the Grand Duke, in which he 
served until he came to America, arriving in 
this country in October, 1860. He was em- 
ployed in a foundry at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 
until his removal to Fort Atkinson in 1862. 
He was occupied variously until he entered the 
army and he enli.sted at Milwaukee Feb. 13, 
1864, in the 4th U. S. Inf;lntr}^ He was sent 
with other recruits to the command, stationed 
at Bedloe's Island, New York, and thence to 
AVashington and Alexandria, en route to the 
army, then about to engage in the actions of 
the Wilderness. May 4th he went into action 
and witnessed all the dangers with their results, 
which cost his command every man save forty- 
five. Seven officers were killed. He fought 
through the conflict and was next in action at 
Spottsylvania Court House, going next to the 
North Anna River. Activities were in progress 
when he arrived and he went immediately 
into battle, and skirmished through three da3'S. 
He was in the operations near the Pamunkey 
River and next fought in regular battle at 
Cold llarljor. In June, 1864, he was in the 
skirmish line at Cold Harbor, and next fought 
at Hanovertown, where the shot and shell 
came in a solid sheet, seemingly, and he 
sheltered himself behind a small tree. The 
limbs were cut off and fell so thickly about 
him that he moved aside to reload, when a 
ball struck him aljove his right eye and passed 
through his brow carrying away liis left eye. 



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That was his last view of the light of day. 
He was conveyed to a small tent on the field 
and remained there suffering indescribable 
torture eigliteen successive days, his right eye 
swelling to the size of an egg. He wenttlience 
to Washington and, eight daj'S later, to Balti- 
more, Md., where he remained until July 25, 
1864, when he received discharge from the 
army, lie returned to Fort Atkinson, where 
lie has since remained in darkness, awaiting 
patiently iiis restoration to eternal sight in a 
land were brothers find no cause to inflict such 
sull'erings as liis, on brothers. 

His children were born in llic t'ollowing 
order: — Henry, Dec. 19, 1859, in CJermany ; 
William C. was born .June 29, 18Go; Chas. C, 
March (J, 1866; .John, May 24, 1868; Caro- 
line, Nov. 19, 1869; Louise, March 2, 1871; 
Eddie, Feb. 18, 1872; Helen, .June 11, 1876. 
The two last named are mutes. Fxeepting the 
eldest child, all wei'e born in Fort Atkinson. 



J^^ DW.Ull) E. BERRY, M. D., I'lalte- 
IV'^rv- ^*' v'"*^' Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 

^"- — • No. 66, was born in the townsbij) of 
Ellerj', Cliautauqua Co., New York, May 28, 
1839. He is the son of Isaac and Hannah 
(Hinnian) Berry, who were descended from an 
old family in tlieState of New York. .Jonathan, 
father of Isaac, went to Onomlaga county from 
\\'asliington county as a Government surveyor 
and subdivided the territory, forming Cliau- 
tauqua county from the southern lialf. The 
motlier died while iier children were small 
and the son was reared by an uncle and aunt, 
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. and S. M.(lvneeland) Berry. 
He only knows of the existence of liis sister, 
Mrs. Mary A. yjjringer of Homer, New York : 
he had brothers, but after iiis father's death 
they became lost to his knowledge and he be- 



lieves they are not living. Mr. J. R. Berry, 

his uncle, was a merchant and (•liauge<l that 
vocation for that of hotelkeejier, which he 
terminated on the death of his wife in 1856. 
When he was 18 years of age. Dr. Berry left the 
home of his adopted parents to enter Rusli 
Medical College at Chicago, wiience he was 
graduated in the year of his majority. He 
had previously read medicine with Dr. W. D. 
Carver and he returned to his office, remaining 
until 1860, when he went to Shullsburg, Wis., 
and formed a partnersbip with Dr. G. W. Lee, 
nej)liew of the rebel chief, wlio was reared at 
Fairfax, Va. Aug. 21, 1862, he enlisted, enrol- 
ling in Company C, 33d Wisconsin Infantry, 
Captain John E. Gurley, Lieutenants Budlong 
and Weir and Colonel James B. Moore, with 
F. S. Ixivell, Lt.-Colonel and Major II. II. 
Virgin (afterwards Colonel by lirevet.) Dr. 
Berry enrolled in the capacity of a private sol- 
dier and served in the ranks until the siege of 
Vicksburg, where he was commissioned hospital 
stewanl and, soon after, the regimental sur- 
geons having become exhausted, he was ap- 
pointeil Hurgeon of the regiment. Briefly 
stated, iiis roster of battles in which he served 
as private and surgeon is as follows : — V^icks- 
burg, Jackson, Coldwater, Fort de Russy, 
Cloutierville, Marksville, Bayou Boeuf, Yellow 
Bayou, Greenville, Cliiddo Cliadde Chute, 
Alexandria, Bayou Roberts, Bayou La Maire, 
Fowl River, Natchitoches, Nashville, Guntown, 
Oldtown Creek and Tupelo, and afterwards 
taking part in the capture of the defenses of 
Mobile, Spanish Fort and Blakely. 'flie hi.s- 
torv of the regiment tells of arduous service 
which ranked the command as second to none 
of the Wisctinsin regiments and Dr. Berry 
drilled and niaicbed through all the territory 
compassed by the regiment in the first months 
of its service, traversing Tennessee preliminary 
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feint movement there and never failing to be 
at his post after being made Surgeon. He 
marclied to Natchez, went back to Vici^s- 
burg, thence to Hebron, from there to 
the Meridian expedition, and next on 
the Red River movement, whose lior- 
rors and disasters can never Ije fully de- 
scribed. He was in the action in which the 
water batter}- was captured which was the ter- 
ror of tlic river, was in the rear guard at Cane 
River and acted as surgeon after that action, 
and suggested to Bailey the maneuver to save 
the gunboats. At Alexandria he visited an 
engineer on the gunboat Avenger, where he 
made a chance remarlf about the inability of 
the fleet to return. Gen. A. J. Smith heard 
him, directed him to report at headquarters 
and his atlvice in the matter was followed. He 
chased Forrest, went to the White River, and 
from there to intercept Pi'ice before he should 
reach Pilot Knob in his return to Missouri, con- 
tinuing after the rebel chief until he was in 
the hands of the Union authorities. He went 
to Savannah and Eastport, took passage on the 
"Kate Kinney " for New Orleans, camped on 
Jackson's old field and Dauphin Island, made a 
feint on Mobile and went to Fish River, his 
regiment !>eing tlie first to enter Spanish Fort. 
He went tiience to Blakely, Montgomery, to 
Tuskegee, returned to Montgomery, sailed for 
Vicksburg and was mustered out Aug. 9, 1865. 
Dr. Berry resumed his practice at Shullslturg 
and, in 1867, went to Platteville, since his field 
of operation. He has always held the prestige 
of liis connection with the 33d Wisconsin In- 
fantry and has been of infinite benefit to the 
" boys " of his command, liis notes and diaries 
during liis service proving a "God-send" to 
more tiian one of them who shared with him 
tlie fate of war and de.served the advantages of 
the protection of the country in whose behalf 
they periled life and limb. His stock of remi- 




niscences of his army life would make a fair vol- 
ume if transcribed. 

He was married at Shulisburg, July 3, 1866, 
to Helen M., daughter of Dr. Geo. W. and Cor- 
delia (Bishop) Lee, the former his business 
partner before the war. Tliree children named 
Mary Lee, Helen Cordelia and Ernest Everett 
were born to them. Mrs. Berry died July 27 
1879. 

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J. HILLMAN, pliotographer at 
Richland Center, Wis., and mem- 
ijer of G. A. R. Post No. 33, was 
born at Newburg, Orange Co., New York, 
April 17, 1849, and is descended from early 
settlers of the Bay State. His father, Levi C. 
Hillman was of English lineage as was his 
wife, Mary M. Shelley before marriage. The 
father died in 1861 at Cannon River Falls, 
Minn., whither he removed with his family in 
1856 ; the mother is still living. Mr. Hillman 
is the oldest of four children, one of whom is 
deceased, named Charles J.; Mary I., married 
J. L. Schofield, who was a soldier in the Stli 
Minnesota Infantry ; Fred is a resident of 
Cannon River Falls, Minn. 

In 1851 the senior Hillman went to Califor- 
nia and joined his family at Northampton, 
Mass., whence they removed in 1856 to Cannon 
River Falls, Minnesota; his health was im- 
paired and he engaged in farming ; he died at 
Cannon River Falls in 1861 when 39 years of 
age. While at Northampton he was interested 
in the hardware business. 

Mr. Hillman received a common school edu- 
cation and became the chief reliance of his 
mother on the death of his father. He 
endeavored to enlist in the early days of the 
war but was rejected on account of extreme 
youth and only succeeded April 3, 1865, from 
St. Paul, Minn., in Company A, 2d Minnesota 



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Volunteer Infantry, although less than IG 
years old. He joined the regiment at Alexan- 
dria the command having reached that point 
after tiie Southern campaign and awaited or- 
ders. After being in camp two weeks, the 
locality was changed to a position near the 
Capitol and, during aljout three weeks, Mr. 
Hillman was occupied in camji and guard duty 
until ordered to Louisville, Ky., where he was 
taken sick with diseases incident to army life 
and went to hospital and, after three weeks, 
was di.scharged July 14, 18G5, while at Brown 
hospital, Louisville, Ky. While there " Mother 
Bickerdlke" visited the boys and secured for 
them improved food. She held a Major's com- 
mission and made lively work for the otticials, 
who, in their own interests, provided in the 
meanest manner for their sick charges. 

After his discharge, Mr. Hillman returned to 
his home in Minnesota and attended the high 
school at Cannon River Falls, and when about 
20 years old began the business in which he is 
now engaged at Northheld, Minn. Two years 
later he established his business at Cannon 
River Falls and in 1881 removed his interests to 
Richland Center. 

He was married at Cinnon River Falls, 
Minn., Sejjt. 24, 1871, to Caro W., daughter of 
Jeremiah R. and Caroline (Webster) Barnes. 
Her father was a Congregational minister and 
a brother of All)ert S. Barnes, the famous pub- 
lisher of New York, and her brother is a noted 
publisher of Cliicago. Of this marriage two 
children have been horn, named Mabel Web- 
ster and Charles Barnes. Both are students at 
Richland Center. Mr. Hillman has been a 
member of his Post since its organization and 
has served in the offices of Quartermaster two 
years. Commander two years, and has been an 
Aide on the start" of Commander Weissert two 
years. He is a leader in G. A. R. circles in 
Wisconsin ai,d has beeti active in building up 



the Post to wliicli he Ijelongs. He is jn'omi- 
nent in temperance work and interested in the 
municipal matters of his city, although not an 
office seeker in any sense. 

ygr DOLPH KUHLIG, deceased, Milwau- 

'/^yX^ ^^^' ^^'^^^•' * former member of 
-^^^"'^^^ Robert Chivas Post No. 2, was born 
May 25, 1838, in Saalfeldt, Saxony, Germany, 
and was the son of Gottfried Kuhlig. The lat- 
ter was a soldier in the war of Germany with 
Napoleon and he was a drummer boy in a bat- 
tery at Leipsic when only 13 years of age. 
The mother's name before marriage was 
Christina Guilden. Mr. Kulilig came to 
America in 1856, leaving Germany in June, 
and landing in America August 2d. He 
went West to Hartford, where he operated 
in his business as a merchant tailor until 
the advent of the civil war, when he de- 
termined to enter the army, which he did 
when the special call was made for Ger- 
man troops. He enlisted among the very 
first of those who responded to the call, enroll- 
ing Aug. 20, 1862, in Company A, 26th Wis- 
consin Infantry. September 17th he was 
mustered and left the Stiite for Washington 
Oct. 6tli. It is a well-known fact that this 
regiment was hardly allowed time to acquire 
military knowledge sufficient for necessary pur- 
poses, as it was hurried immediately into ser- 
vice. In the 11th Army Corps under Sigel 
and in the 2d Brigade and 3d Division, it 
went in November to Gainesville, and in De- 
cember started to the assistance of Burnside at 
Fredericksburg. After the failure of the move- 
ment Mr. Kuhlig wasin quarters until the Mud 
Campaign, after which he wasincamji through 
the winter until the same operations were tried 
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Marye's Heights, to Cliancellorsville and Get- 
tysburg, and fouglit tliree days at Wauliatchie, 
after the regiment went to the assistance of the 
Army of the Tennessee under Joe Hooker. He 
was at Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge, Re- 
saca, Cassville, Dallas, Kenesavv Mountain, 
Peucli Tree Creek, Atlanta, Savaiuiuh, Averys- 
boro and Bentonville. He was in all the 
skirmishes, during the interim of the battles 
named and was wounded at Gettysburg on 
the day on which the fighting began. Soon after 
he was taken prisoner and through strategy and 
the assistance of about 35 of his comrades 
succeeded in capturing the same number of his 
captors. At Kenesaw Mountain he received two 
shots from a sharpshooter almost at the same in- 
stant, one hitting him in the foot and the other 
inflicting a severe wound in tiie head, which 
left its traces. At Peach Tree Creek he was 
nearly prostrated by sunstroke, the wound in 
his head being still unhealed. On the follow- 
ing day he received promotion to Corporal for 
bravery on the field. On the marcli from 
Goldsboro to Raleigh he again suffered from 
the heat, was sent forward in an ambulance to 
a deserted rebel hospital at Raleigh, went 
thence to Newbern, N. C, and from there to 
Washington, where he was able to participate 
with his regiment in the Grand Review. On 
his return to Wisconsin, the train collided with 
a passenger train on the Baltimore &Ohio rail- 
road and nine were killed and about 30 
wounded, Mr. Kuhlig Ijeing among those 
slightly injured. Mr. Kuhlig took a just pride 
in having been a member of the Wisconsin 
26th and was one of 26 of its members who 
went in 1888 to see the dedication ceremonies 
at Gettysburg of the splendid monument 
erected by Wisconsin to the Gettysburg heroes 
from the Badger State. 

On his return to AMsconsin he went to Hart- 
ford and found he was compelled by his inju- 



ries to change his former occupation for that of 
a clerk. He went to southern Illinois, where 
he remained some years for the benefit of his 
health and became a resident of Milwaukee in 
1880, and from 1884 was employed in the 
Water Department of the city up to the time of 
his death, Oct. 19, 1889. He was married Oct. 
12, 1865, to Sophia Kordes and they have had 
13 children, three of whom — Waldo, Eda and 
Albert — are deceased. Those surviving are 
named Adolph, Laura, Frederick, Olga, Clare, 
Paul, Anna, Fannie, Elsie and Nora. 



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C. TAFT, Monticello, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 113, was born in 
• the township of Springville, Susque- 
hanna Co., Pa., Dec. 29, 1819, and is a descend- 
ant of Samuel Taft, a native of England who 
came to America with a brother, the latter 
mysteriously disappearing soon after, his 
friends never knowing his fate. Samuel Taft 
had four children who were born in Rhode 
Island : Sweting lived in his native State 
throughout his life ; Perry went West at ma- 
turity and was never heard from ; Guly mar- 
ried Wm. Tucker and died in Pennsylvania. 
Jonathan, father of S. C. Taft, was born in 
Smithfield, R. I., March 13, 1772, went to the 
Keystone State about 1812, where he married 
Nancy Fox, Dec. 17, 1817, and in 1824, went 
to New York and died on his farm in the town- 
ship of Virgil, Cortland county, June 11, 1851. 
The mother died at Monticello, at the home of 
her son, March 11, 1862 ; she was born in Con- 
cord, Vermont, Nov. 17, 1798, and was the 
mother of four children. The oldest died in 
infancy; Samuel is the second; John L., was 
l)orn June 25, 1822, and resides in Ft. Worth 
Te.xas ; Daniel B., born Sept. 28, 1826, died at 
Monticello, Wis., Feb, 10, 1862. The mother 



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was the daughter of Neliemiah Fox, whose 
origin and birthplace beyond the fact of his 
New England connection is problematical ; she 
is the oldest of four children: Pamelia, Fox and 
Neliemiah were the others. 

Mr. Taft passed his minority under the 
authority of his parents and learned the busi- 
ness of a carpenter and millwright when 21 
years old ; he married Elizabeth Grey, in the 
town of Virgil, Cortland Co., N. Y., Sept. 
28, 1843, who died June 28, 1846r she was the 
daughter of Ogden and Susan (Barnes) Grey. 
Mr. Taft was again married in Addison, in 
Steuben county, Oct. 25, 1849, to Electa M., 
daughter of Jos. and Gannie (Dickinson) 
Fluent. Her father was born in Maine and 
her mother at Pompey Hollow, Onondaga Co., 
New York; the wife was born Jan. 27, 1825. 
In 1853, Mr. Taft removed to Janesville, Wis., 
and March 19, 1854, went with his family to 
Monticello, where he has pursued his joint oc- 
cupations of farmer, carpenter and millwright, 
and, although 70 years old is still leading an 
active and useful life. 

Dec. 22, 1863, he enlisted at Monticello in 
the 5th Wisconsin Light Artillery. (Some un- 
accountable blunder registers his enlistment as 
Jan. 7, 1804.) He was mustered at Ahidison 
and went thence to Chattanooga with the re- 
turning veterans. Connected with the 14th 
Army Corps, they moved to Ringgold and 
went through Snake Creek Gap to position for 
the battle of Resaca, May 14th, where Mr. 
Taft was in sharp action until ammunition was 
exhausted. The next day he was serving his 
gun all day and went on the IGtli to Rome 
with the division, where he was again in ac- 
tion. May 26th he went on the double (juick 
to join the troops at Dallas, where the rebels 
retreated. His next fight was between Big 
Shanty and Kenesaw Mountain where Gen- 
eral Polk was killed, in which action his bat- 



tery did effective service, the rebels being un- 
able to contend with the Napoleon guns of the 
command. The battery was in the tight at the 
crossing of the Cliattahooehie River and fol- 
lowed in the battle at Peach Tree Creek, mov- 
ing to the siege of Atlanta on the 22d of July 
on which date McPherson was killed. The 
battery served its guns throughout the siege 
and went to Jonesboro to tight three hours. 
He returned to Atlanta and remained with his 
section until November, voting there for Presi- 
dent. Pie had an attack of typlioid fever fol- 
lowed by bowel comjjlaint, and refused to go 
to hospital as long as possible but November 
5th he was sent to hospital at Chattanooga, for 
disal)ility and after two weeks at convalescent 
camji went to Nashville, whence he was trans- 
ferred to Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis; the 
agent of Wisconsin transferred him to Prairie 
du Chien, whence he went to Madison, expect- 
ing to go to New York, but illness sent him 
successively to hospital there and Prairie du 
Chien in February, 1865, where he remained 
until his regiment returned to Wisconsin and 
he went to ^hulison to be discharged, June 7, 
1865. 

He returned to Monticello, where he has 
j)assed the years in industry. Of the six 
children born to himself and wife the two 
eldest are deceased, both dying in infancy ; 
Lucius E., born Sep. 21, 1850, died March 18, 
1854 ; Elizabetii A., born Aug. 12, 1852, died 
Ahirch 20, 1855; John 0. was born Nov. 20, 
1854; Appleton R. was born Sep. 12, 1857; 
Ogden G. was born Oct. 7, 1859; Franklin D. 
was born Oct. 20, 1861. 

Mr. Taft was the first Commander of his 
Post and has served in successive ofHcial posi- 
tions therein ever since its organization. He 
was made a Mason in December, 1848, at Ad- 
dison, N. Y., and is at present (1889) Worthy 
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has acted as an official 10 years. In politics, 
Mr. Taft is an " unmitigated Republican " ; his 
first Presidential vole was cast for .James K. 
Polk, after wliich he became a Free Soiler and 
followed tlie line into the Republican ranks. 
He has served in many important positions in 
town matters and is now a Justice of the Peace. 
He is a member of the Republican Club at 
Monticello and is justly respected and honored 
in the community of which he is a member. 



ILLIAM GILLETT, Madison, Wis., 
member of C. C. Washburn Post 
No. 11, was born March 24, 1839, 
in Derbyshire, England, and is the son of 
George and ^lartha (Henderson) Gillett, the 
former being still alive. The mother died 
when her son was about nine years old, after a 
residence of two years in America. The fam- 
ilv is of unmixed English origin ami the 
father of George Gillett was a soldier who dis- 
tinguisiied himself in the British armj^, his 
services being acknowledged by the govern- 
ment in the form of a medal of honor for 
bravery at Waterloo, which is still in tlie pos- 
session of his son. George Gillett came to 
America with his family in 1846 and located 
on a farm in Springfield, Dane Co., Wis., where 
the son was reared and remained until the 
]>eriod of the civil war. In the fall of 1861, 
William and Robert Gillett, brothers, enlisted 
in Company A, lltli Wisconsin Infantry, and 
went to rendezvous at Camp Randall, Madison, 
where the former was transferred to the band 
to play the "Eb" tuba. Tlie history of the 
regiment from the date of leaving the State, 
November 19th, consisted of a movement to St. 
Louis, next to Sulphur Springs, where rail- 
road guard duty was performed through the 
winter and other work necessary to the emer- 



gency ; thence to Pilot Knob, to Reeves Station, 
and southward to Jacksonport and Batesville. 
The changes were made disastrous to the regi- 
ment by the nature of the country, scarcity of 
supplies and heavy labor. Mr. Gillett was in 
the action at Bayou Cache and subsequently 
underwent all the vicissitudes, of suffering 
which made the military record of the 11th 
Wisconsin remarkable. While on the march 
through Arkansas, Mr. Gillett, with James 
Bardsley and Mike Quenan, while foraging 
four miles from camp, asked for dinner at a log 
house, were invited in and assured that they 
would be served as soon as potatoes could be 
dug and the meal prepared. Meanwhile the 
man of the house seated himself beside Bards- 
ley on a lounge. Quenan stood to the left of 
Bardsley and Gillett in front of the stranger. 
Bardsley's revolver was in his belt outside his 
coat, the weapons of Gillett and Quenan being 
concealed ; the stranger asked Bardsley for his 
repeater, who immediately gave it to him and 
the stranger remarked that it was the first he 
had ever seen but he handled it suspiciously 
and gave it close examination. He wore a 
broad brimmed hat and did not notice that 
Gillett had drawn his revolver, cocked and 
leveled it at the man's head, while he 
ordered Bardsley to take the revolver ; as he 
surrendered the weapon to Bardsley the 
stranger remarked, "There is no danger." 
" None now " said Mr. Gillett, " but you could 
have easily taken us prisoners or put our 
lives in peril. We are fully aware that we are 
in an enemy's country. " When dinner was 
ready the family refused to eat, which made 
Gillett suspicious and he asked if the food was 
poisoned, which was denied. During the meal 
the stranger started to leave the room, but 
(Jillett asked him to remain; and after they 
had finished and paid their bill they insisted 
on his accompanying them on their way, fear- 



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ing that lie would arouse the guerrillas in the 
neighborhood. They arrived safely at camp 
and afterwards learned that their host was a 
furloughed confederate of the most rabid kind 
and probably their wits had saved them from 
capture and death. 

Before leaving the State and while in Camp 
Randall, Mr. Gillett injured his throat by 
partially swallowing a piece of straw which 
lodged in a gland and caused constant irri- 
tation and coughing until his friends 
thought he was dying with quick con- 
sumption, and they advised him to remain 
at home, believing that he would die before 
reaching Chicago. He refused to remain be- 
hind, saying " that he would follow his regi- 
ment if he died before he arriv^ed in Chicago. " 
In September, 1862, he was discharged and re- 
turned to Wisconsin, whollv unfit for labor. 

• 

His system was permeated with malaria 
and he has never fully recovered his health. 
But he desired to remain in the army and 
in the spring of 1863 he joined the brigade 
band of General Blunt's command at Fort 
Leavenworth, where he remained until Sep- 
tember, 1865. On receiving his discharge he 
returned to Springfield, Wis., and has since 
been distinguished for his energetic endeavors 
to earn his way in the world. He began farm- 
ing on a small scale, but illness compelled his 
withdrawal, and in 1867, he went to Iowa, 
being the owner of §50. He built a cabin and 
tried carpenter work, meanwhile teaching sing- 
ing-school and -leading and instructing a brass 
band. Mr. Gillett has worked at sash and 
blind making, as a wheelwright, as a book 
agenl, and selling musical instruments. He 
has operated as a barber, and during every 
enforced change in his business, lias acted in 
some capacity as a musician. He has tuned 
pianos and organs, manufactured violins and 
invented a steam motor with a capacity of 700 



revolutions per minute. He has also invented 
several ditferent valves. He is a composer of 
music and poetry, and is bugler and organist 
of his Post. Incidentally he has acted as a 
dentist, photographer and writing-master. He 
is a member of the Masonic Order. 

In 1863 he married Jane Ford, of Ma/.o 
Manie, Wis., and tViey have seven children — 
Alvah, Willie, Eva, Eddie, Freddie, Belleua and 
Retta M. (J. B. Hiller and J. B. Ford, brothers- 
in-law, also belonged to Company A, 11th Wis- 
consin Infantry.) 

Mr. Gillett is a strong Republican. He is 
receiving a pension from the Government. 
His brother, Robert, served in the same com- 
pany and regiment and was witli the command 
in all its marches and engagements until 1864, 
when he was discharged for disability. He is 



now living in Dane Co., Wis. 



W LLEN M. SHORT, La Crosse, Wis., 
'/nA^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 170 
-^if^"^^ tit Dakota, Minn., was Iwrii April 28, 
1847, at Bluffville, Carroll Co., 111. His father, 
Ira Sliort, was born Oct. 3, 1803, in Tioga Co., 
New York, and was a pioneer's son ; he engaged 
during his business life there as a pilot on tiie 
Susquehanna River and also owned a saw mill 
in the heavj' lumber district of that portion of 
the State ; he married Eliza A. Higgins, who 
was born Sept. 2, 1814, in Trenton, New Jei-sey, 
and died at Davenport, Iowa. Their children 
were Abigail, Adeline, Jane, George L., Ira H. 
Allen M., .Jerome E., Charles M. and Anna A. 
All of them are living. Mr. Short received 
such educational advantages as the }(ul)lic 
.schools afforded and ardently desired to enlist 
as soon as the war came on, but it was an im- 
possibility, as he was only 14 years old. But 
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rolled at Morrison, 111., Feb. 2, 1865, in Com- 
pany B, 147tli Illinois Infantry, under Colonel 
Sickles. The regiment was organized at Camp 
Frye, Chicago, there drilled and fitted for intel- 
ligent military duty. During the month after 
enlistment, Mr. Short went with the regiment 
to join the army in Georgia and it was assigned 
to a brigade and division in the Corps of General 
McCook. Dalton was reached under orders to 
move directly there and the regiment did some 
lively skirmishing in that vicinity. They 
fought General Warford at Spring Place and 
were in several affairs of light caliber afterwards 
until the action at Pullen's Ferry, after which 
they returned to Dalton, skirmishing all the 
way back. After two weeTcs they were ordered 
to Resaca and thence to Marietta to receive the 
parole of their late foe, Warford. The regiment 
mai'ched thence across the State to Albany and 
after performing detached duty there two 
months, went to Hawkinsville in the same 
State. They went next to Savannah and per- 
formed provost duty and went to Pulaski to 
guard the interests of the planters. Mr. 
Short was mustered out at Savannah, Jan. 20, 
1866, and returned to Illinois to be released 
from State obligations at Springfield. 

He went back to Albany, Whiteside county, 
and engaged in rafting on the river until 1871. 
After that date he followed the occupation of 
a pilot on the Mississippi River in a district 
embracing the distance from St. Paul to St. 
Louis. In 1872 he was commissioned master 
and pilot and was captain first of the B. F. 
Weaver. Subsequently he operated on the 
Lumberman, Charles C. Chever, Dan Hine, Fly- 
ing Eagle, Alfred Toll, Mary Barnes, Bareulis 
Rex, David Bronson, .1. W. Mills, Natrona, .1. 
H. Wilson, Pearl, Grand Pacific and others. 
This is his employment in the season to date 
(1890.) 

He was married Dec. 19, 1872, at North La 



Crosse, Wis., to Nellie, daughter of George and 
Diana (Feloniz) Congdon. Her parents reside 
at Dakota, Minn. Clinton and Grace are the 
children of Mr. and Mrs Short. Mr. Short is a 
memlterof theOdd Fellows and of the Brother- 
hood of Upper Mississippi Pilots. He was 
prominently active in the Grand Army in Min- 
nesota and was offered the position of Depart- 
ment Commander of Minnesota, but declined 
on account of his business. 



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/f^^ EORGE L. .lONES, Chippewa Falls, 
\ ^, — ; l ' ^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 

^' — ^^ 68, was born .Ian. 26, 1834, in Cass- 
ville. Wis., and is the son of Geo. W. and Sarah 
(Thompson) Jones. His family is traceable to 
Wales and in this country to the days of the 
Revolution. The father was born in April, 
1804, in South Carolina, and in childhood went 
with his parents to Kentucky where he was 
reared and married a native of the Blue Grass 
State. In 1827 they went to AVisconsin, loca- 
ting in Lafayette county, where the father en- 
gaged in mining and farming. He was oc- 
cupied there until the outbreak of the Black 
Hawk war in 1832 when he enlisted and served 
as 1st Lieutenant of his company. He went 
afterwards to Clayton county, Iowa, and re- 
sided several years, returning to Lafayette 
county, Wisconsin. In 1845 he removed to 
Dunn county and engaged actively in lumber- 
ing and farming. In 1874 he went to Kansas 
for his health and died at Emporia in 1875. 
His widow died at Bloomer, Wisconsin, in 
1876, at the residence of her son George. 

Until the latter was 13 he engaged with his 
father in lead mining and in 1852 went to 
Menomonee to learn the trade of blacksmith. 
In 1858 he went to Texas, locating at Port La 
Vaca, engaging in stock raising, in which he 



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operated until 1861, when, on account of his 
principles, he became a refugee and came 
North by way of New York. He readied 
Bloomer, Wisconsin, and enlisted Aug. 9, 18G2, 
being mustered in September in Company K, 
30th Wisconsin Infantry. He was in camp at 
Madison and remained in tlie State until May, 
1863, engaged in provost duty. The command 
was then ordered to the frontier in Minnesota 
and Dakota and performed duty in quelling 
the Indians under General Sully. The com- 
mand had a liard time there and on the return 
and reached Milwaukee in the fall to perform 
provost duty until the spring of 1864, when 
tlie regiment went again to the Northwest 
frontier, operated again.st the Indians, built 
forts and performed military duty of a miscel- 
laneous character until ordered South to join 
Sherman on the march to the sea. They 
arrived too late in St. Louis for that service 
and went to Paducah, Ky., to protect it against 
Forrest, who was taking every advantage and 
maneuvering to obtain entrance into Missouri. 
Thence tlie regiment went to Louisville, Ky., 
and from there to Bowling Cireen on the way 
to Nashville, which was in a state of siege by 
Hood. There intelligence arrived that Hood 
was on the wing and they remained at Bowling 
Green to prevent possible disaster, Hood's de- 
moralized command and the guerrillas spread- 
ing themselves everywhere in their scattered 
fliglit, which ended in Hood's total extinction 
as an army olficer. Jan. 12, 1865, tlie regi- 
ment returned to Louisville and guarded a 
military prison and hung guerrillas until Oct. 
4tli, when they were mustered out and sent 
home. 

At the close of tlie war Mr. .loiies settled in 
Bloomer where he established himself as a 
blacksmith and carried on that business until 
1881. In 1880 he started the Bloomer Work- 
man, a weekly Greenback journal, and he pub- 



lished it until May, 1887, when he moved his 
journalistic enterprise to Chippewa Falls and 
continued to issue his paper singly until 
AuguiBt, 1889, when he associated with himself 
his oldest son, J. E. Jones. October 6, 1889, 
they started the publication of tlie Daily Work- 
man and are engaged in pressing its interests. 
The paper is Republican in sentiment and is 
rajtidly gaining ground in pojiular favor and 
circulation. It is an exponent of reforniatory 
measures and liberal thought. He sold the 
Weekly and Daily Workman April 6, 1890, and 
bought the Shell Lake, Wis., Waicliman, and in 
comjiany with his son, J. E.Jones, is now en- 
gaged in the publication of that paper. Mr. 
Jones is a member of the Odd Fellows. 

He was married in June, 1869, at Bloomer, 
to Mrs. S. J. Gage, and of this marriage eight 
children were the issue, five of them, with the 
mother, having gone from earth. Edgar J., 
Melissa S. and John E. survive. Mr. Jones 
was a second time married, Feb. 13, 1885, to 
Mrs. J. B. Taylor. 

^^RLANDO CULVER, Commander of 
G. A. R. Post No. 19, at Waukesha, 
{]889j is the son of Richard and 
Pauline (Harrison) Culver. His ancestry in 
the paternal line of descent was originally Ger- 
man, lint the nationality iias disappeared in the 
several generations following, until Mr. Culver 
regards himself a native Yankee. His pater- 
nal great grandfather fought in the war of the 
Revolution and his grandfather was an oflicer 
in 1812, reaching the rank of Major. His ma- 
ternal ancestors were also soldiers in both wars 
and he belongs, in his mother's line, to the 
family of the first President Harrison, her 
father being his cousin and bearing the same 
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the State of Virginia to New York. The 
parents of Mr. Culver were married in New 
York in 1838 and remained there about 10 
years, removing to Washington county, Wis- 
consin, when their son was 10 years old. With- 
in the first year, May 18, 1851, the father died 
from the consequences of an injury he had re- 
ceived from the kick of a vicious horse and, 
in 1854, the mother with her four childen, 
yielded to the solicitations of her son and located 
near Waukesha, where, through their com- 
bined efforts they succeeded in buying a small 
farm, in paying for it and in taking proper care 
of the younger children. The mother was a 
resident thereon until her death in 18 — , when 
she was on a visit to her daughter at Marine 
City, Mich. From the age of 12, when his 
father died, until he was 16 Mr. Culver devoted 
liimself exclusively to the care of the family 
and the younger children received a good edu- 
cation while he secured the benefit of experi- 
ence and laid the foundation of his business 
career. When he was 10 he engaged as a har- 
ness maker and carriage trimmer, in which he 
was engaged when the war came on. He was 
then just married and when he attended the 
meeting held at Waukesha in relation to the rais- 
ing of troops, was wholly undecided what to do. 
He went home, and wlien his mother asked 
him and his brother if either had enlisted, he 
told her he had not because he did not know 
what to do with his wife. The patriotic mother 
told him to bring her to her home, which he did 
May 6, 1801. He went to his day's work and 
after it was over, at 6 o'clock in the evening, he 
enrolled in Company F, 5th Wisconsin In- 
fantr}'. Wlien he told the family that lie was 
going to sign tlie papers of enlistment iiis 
mother asked his brother Artemus if he would 
allow his brother to go alone, and two of her 
boys went to bed that night declared defenders 
of the Hag. He was in rendezvous at Camp 



Randall, Madison, and was mustered witli the 
regiment, going to the front and performing 
military <luty until he was taken ill and was 
discliarged for permanent disability at Camp 
Grifiln, in March, 1862. He returned to Wau- 
kesha and purchased the business of his former 
employer, who had enlisted, and remained at 
home until May 15, 1864, when he enlisted in 
Company B, 39th Wisconsin Infantry for 100 
days. He was made First Sergeant on enroll- 
ment, was promoted to Second Lieutenant .Julj' 
27, 1864, and discharged Sept. 22, 1864, on the 
expiration of his term. He performed all the 
variety of duty common to that class of military 
service, fighting in the repulse of Forrest. On 
his return home he resumed business in his 
shop, which he had not disturbed on leaving it 
for service. Feb. 14, 1865, he again enlisted in 
Company B, 48th Wisconsin Infantry, and was 
made First Sergeant on the organization of his 
company. Feb. 19, 1866, he was mustered out 
and on the 23d was made Second Lieutenant 
of ills company. He went with his regiment 
to St. Louis, thence to Paoli, Kansas, whence 
the company went to Fort Scott. From there 
they moved to Fort Zarah, performing some of 
tlie longest and heaviest marching of the en- 
tire war, which was all the more irksome as 
they had expected to be niustered out when 
ordered to Lawrence. Company B was sent 60 
miles beyond Fort Lamed and thence operated 
as escort for mail and government trains. This 
involved encounters with the Indians on the 
plains, a service which deserves much more 
elaboration than is possible in a sketch like 
tliis. 

He resumed his business as a harness maker 
in Waukesha, which he has prosecuted since, 
and it is the only establishment of the kind in 
Waukesha. He was married June 24, 1860, to 
Annie Wells, daughter of the Rev. William 
Wells, now of Portage, Wis., and their three 



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children are named Alice E., Annette and 
Grace M. 

Mr. Culver is a member of tlie Masonic fra- 
ternity, of the Royal Arcanum, and Modern 
Woodmen, and in both the latter he has 
officiated 10 years as Treasurer. He has served 
as City Marshal three terms, one term as Presi- 
dent of the Village, three terms as Councilman, 
one year as Town Treasurer, two years as Vil- 
lage Supervisor, six years as Town Supervisor, 
two years as City Treasurer, and also as Super- 
intendent of the Poor. Mr. Culver is a man 
whose abilities as a custodian of public interests 
have recommended him for many positions of 
trust, l)Ut lie has always considered the life of a 
private business man in every way to be pre- 
ferred. 



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/HjIj^HOMAS J. CLEVELAND, II 

^ly Wis., member of G. A. R. Po 

^ 151, was born May 2, 1842, at I 



fi^HOMAS J. CLEVELAND, Hudson, 

^st No. 
1 Roscoe, 

Winnebago Co., Illinois, and in bis veins flows 
the mixed blood of English, Scutch and Welsh 
ancestors. liis grandfather, Thomas Cleve- 
land, was a native of New York ami his sou, 
Daniel F., was also born in that State and mar- 
ried Ann J. Nelson, of Welsh descent. He was 
a carpenter and went West sometime in the 
" forties," locating in the town of Roscoe, 111. 
The children of his family were Emer J., AVil- 
liam H., Sarah Iv, Hlooina J., Thomas J., 
David A., Geo. W., Charles N. and Daniel E. 
Emer .1. and Charles are not living. The 
mother died in Minnesota in 1881. Wiien the 
war came on the father enlisted in Comj)any 
H, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, and was captured 
by Morgan's guerrillas while returning to his 
regiment with recruits. He was paroled and 
went home. He went, after exchange, to La 
Crosse to re-eidist but was rejected because he 



had pa.ssed his prime, but, determined to re- 
enter the service, he went to Madison and, Jan. 
4, 1864, enlisted in Company D, 2oth Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, and served witii that command 
until his regiment was disbanded on account of 
expiration of term, when he was transferred to 
the 12th ^\'isconsin Infantry, Company D, 
June 2, 18(!5. He was wounded July 22, 
1864, at Decatur, in the change of Wheeler's 
dismounted cavalry, receiving a bullet in the 
upper j)art of his leg. His son William enlisted 
on the same day with his father in the 10th 
and served three years. He veteranized and 
went into Hancock's Veteran Reserve Corps, 
remaining one year. David A. enlisted Jan. 
12, 1865, in Company G, 44th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and was mustered out Aug. 28th, 1865. 
Geo. W. enlisted Feb. 15, 1865, in the 49th 
Wisconsin Infantry and was mustered out after 
the war closed. Mr. Cleveland of this sketch 
was an inmate of his father's household until 
his enlistment as a soldier. He attended school 
and also operated as a carpenter until he deter- 
mined to enter the army. He eidisted June 
25, 1861, at Mauston, Wis., going into rendez- 
vous there until the recruiting of the com- 
pany was completed, when he went to Madison 
to be mustered July 16, 1861, in Company K, 
6th Wisconsin Infantry. July 28, 1861, on 
receipt of news of the disaster at Bull Run, the 
regiment left the State, going to the front by 
way of Harrisburg, thence after a few days to 
Baltimore to Fort McHenry. While passing 
through the streets of that city, having no 
arms, they had Uiken the precaution to fill 
their pockets with roc;ks, in readiness for self 
defense. After two weeks there the regiment 
went to Camj) Lyon at Washington. They 
passed the winter at Arlington Heights and in 
the spring went into the campaign under Gen- 
eral Pope, fighting first at Ciainesville with 
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fight at Bull Run. Company K suffered se- 
verely in killed and wounded. The command 
went to Maryland and followed the movements 
of Lee until the battle of South Mountain, 
September 14, 1862, where the regiment again 
suffered heavily in action. (Mr. Cleveland adds 
bis testimony that here the brigade earned its 
distinguishing title of " Iron Brigade.") He 
fought again at Antietam, three days later, the 
regiment being in the right front in the action 
and in the deploy at the opening of the tight. 
His life was saved by his canteen, against 
wliich a bullet was flattened in the course of the 
action. Prior to this he was stunned by the 
explosion of a shell and was reported dead. 
The regiment moved to Harper's Ferry and 
thence across the river to Fredericksburg and 
fought there December 13th, where the brigade 
was the last to cross on the pontoons, retreating 
under heavy rebel fire. The winter was passed 
at Belle Plain and they went in January to a 
40-mile tramp in the mud to try to find out 
what Burnside wanted to do, l>ut in vain, as that 
commander never succeeded in making any- 
body understand him and attributed his disasters 
to that circumstance. Mr. Cleveland went also 
to a raid on the Chesapeake to break up a camp 
of smugglers. In April the brigade broke camp 
for the spring campaign and, on the 29th he was 
in the cliarge at Fitzhugh's Crossing, going on 
to fight at Chancellorsville. After the disaster 
the regiment crossed the Rappahannock and, 
afterwards moved into Maryland after Lee. 
The next action was Gettysbui-g. He went on 
the double quick under Reynolds to support 
Buford's cavalry on the Emmetsburg road, tlie 
commander being killed. Tiiey were driven 
back through Gettysburg and took a position 
on Little Round Top after capturing a whole 
rebel regiment and saving, in conjunction with 
another New York regiment, the 147th New 
York. Mr. Cleveland was taken prisoner on 



the first day and recaptured by Union troops 
on the 4th witli his rebel guard. He was in 
the pursuit of Lee into Virginia and passed 
the winter at Culpejier. There he veteranized 
and took a furlough home. In the spring, 
when the campaign opened, he was with his 
command in the battles of the Wilderness, 
Laurel Hill, Jericho Ford, Bethesda Church 
and went to Cold Harbor and the Chickahom- 
iny. In June he went to Petersburg and 
fought on the ISth and afterwards took part 
in the activities of the siege. He was in the 
movements to the Weldon railroad, fought at 
Hatcher's Run, went again on a raid on the 
Weldon road and, in February, 1865, fought 
again at Hatcher's Run. (At the date of the 
riots in New York, the regiment was ordered 
to proceed there but counter orders were re- 
ceived at City Point, when they returned im- 
mediately to Petersburg.) Mr. Cleveland was 
in the action at Gravelly Run, March 31st and 
was next in action after reporting to Sheridan 
at Five Forks, and the command moved on 
with the 5th Corps, following rebel movements 
until the surrender at Appomattox. The 6th 
returned to Petersburg, rested there a week and 
went later to Washington to participate in the 
Gran'd Review. Thence to Jeffersonville, Ind., 
was the next order and Mr. Cleveland was 
there mustered out July 16th. He returned to 
New Lisbon, Wis., and logged on the Wiscon- 
sin River, also acting as an engineer for about 
two years, when he engaged in that capacity on 
the C, M. & St. P. R. R., operating there about 
two years, when he engaged in the same capac- 
ity with the G, St. P., M. & 0. R. R. He is, in 
1890, in charge of the railroad draw-bridge 
across the St. Croix River, in which capacity 
he has served 18 years. He belongs to the 
Order of Odd Fellows and is a decided Repub- 
lican. 

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to Sarah M., daughter of Allen Ball, and their 
children are named Allen J., Avery F., Edwin 
N., Maud F., Harry L., Freddie E. and Sadie 
A. Maud is deceased. 



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EORGE ELIAS SMITH, Racine. Wis., 
^ member of Ci. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
born in Belville, Canada, April 22, 
1838. His father, Elias Smith, was of German 
and Scotch lineage and l)orn May 27, 1814, in 
the township of Fredericksburg, Canada. He 
became a confirmed asthmatic in boyhood, 
which caused him to make frequent change of 
locality in search of health. In 1850, he lo- 
cated at Appleton, Wis., went later to Berlin, 
Wis., and with his wife now resides in Oswego, 
Kansas, enjoying comparatively good health. 
Mr. Smith is their oldest child ; Sal>rina Jane 
married Lucius Shatton in 1861, and died at 
Racine, Wis., in 1S7G; Edgar enlisted Sept. 7, 
1861, in the 3d Wisconsin Light Battery, and 
died of fever in hospital at Columbia, Tenn., 
April 15, 1862 ; Josephine married C. U. Dor- 
man and resides at Tulsa, Indian Ter. ; Louise 
became the wife of Alex. Edgar and their home 
is in Olivier, La. ; Herbert (the youngest *and a 
mute) died of brain fever at Berlin, Wis. 

While at Appleton a scholarship was pur- 
chased of Lawrence University for George, who 
entered upon the prei)aratory for a collegiate 
course, but the plan was frustrated by sickness 
and tinancial considerations and, after working 
on a farm near Rijion, he went to Berlin, 
where he secured further schooling and became 
an apprentice in the foundry of Taylor Bros. 
He completed his training in the employ of the 
Eagle Cotton Gin Co., at Rridgewater, Mass., 
where he cast his first vote in 18G0 for Abra- 
ham Lincoln. Impending war brought him 
ba«k to Wisconsin in January, 1861, as he had 



resolved to cast his lot with that of the country 
in the war which he surely foresaw. He was 
the second volunteer from Green Lake county 

and the tenth of the 1049 Smiths who enlisted 
to fight for the Union from Wisconsin. He 
enrolled at Oshkosh April 19, 1861, in the com- 
pany of Captain Gabe Bouck, which was in- 
tended for three months service, but re-enlisted 
on reaching Madison and was mustered into 
the U. S. service June 11, 1861, as Company E, 2d 
Wisconsin Infantry. July 2d found the regi- 
ment in " Camp Pack," west of Fort Corcoran, 
Va., where it was assigned to Sherman's com- 
mand, including also the 13th, 69th and 7yth 
New York, and placed in the division of Tyler. 
When the advance to Bull Run was ordered, 
Mr. Smith was suffering from cholera morbus, 
but traveled to Vienna on the strength of 
"Spencer's whisky ami Bouck's brandy," and 
his ride in the arm}' wagon on a feather bed on 
a load of fixed ammunition cured him of dis- 
ease and of any desire to ride in an army 
wagon. On the 18th, after a double-quick of 
three miles, he wheeled into line of battle at 
Blackburn's Ford, where, amid shriek of shot 
and shell and groans of wounded and dying, 
he was initiated into the horrors of war. The 
unaccountable absence of field officers at the 
time of the charge on the east side of Sudley 
Road, at the first Bull Run, broke the regiment 
into company squads that held their own 
against odds and a cross fire until attacked in 
right and rear by the fresh troops of Johnston. 
In the rout Mr. Smith retired by the route he 
came, and as " he sailed over the brow of a 
friendly hill parting shots from the Johnnies 
' everlastingly ' knocked the dust out of iiis 
clothes." He stacked arms at Centerville with 
about 15U others and was preparing for rest 
when an officer came tearing down the road 
yelling : " Fall in ! Fail in ! and get to Wash- 
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" got right away and the " right of way," but 
only to be trampled on by artillery, driven by 
cavalry that pressed on them terrorized by 
stragglers in the rear who were struggling for 
first place. Mr. Smith was too tired to care 
much, and he says he hung himself in an 
apjile tree to let the cj'clone pass, when he took 
a bee line for P^ort Corcoran, where he found sev- 
eral hundred of the regiment in the State tents 
left in " Camp Pack." After dividing rations and 
cleaning guns, preparations were in progress for 
rest, when another onslauglit was made by offi- 
cers who were unfortunate enough to keep their 
mouths when they lost their heads, shouting 
" get into the rear of the fort or you will be 
captured." Derisive yells of "you go to hell! 
We've beat the rebs the last 16 miles and if we 
can't beat them the other two, let them take 
us!" did no good and the officers liad their 
way and the men lay in mud and rain without 
tents, suffering untold misery, until Col. Park 
Coon arrived, when permission was obtained to 
recover the State tents. It is a curious com- 
ment on this haste, tliat when, three days after, 
the picket line was carefully re-established, not 
a rebel was found within .seven miles. August 
27th the regiment marched to Meridian Hill 
and was assigned to Rufus King's Wisconsin 
Brigade, wliich became the celebrated "Iron 
Brigade." Mr. Smith kept up his warfare on 
the rations, trees and greybacks and aided in 
fort building until March 10, 1862, when the 
2d marched out with " Little Mac." 

'■ To find oud vere vent dose rebel sons of guns 
Vat blayed on Mai- such awful puns 
Mit dem stove pipe Quaker guns, 
Dot (ley voiked mit so much skill 
Upon der heights of Centerville." 

When McDowell acceded to the command of 
the Department of the Rappabannock, as a 
member of the 1st Corps, Mr. Smith marched 
and countermarched and dodged shot and 



shell, which seemed to increase with the return 
of each day, until a cyclone of lead swept 247 
men from the ranks of the 2d (85 killed and 
162 wounded) at Gainesville, Aug. 28, 1862. 
Mr. Smith has a distinct remembrance of his 
efforts to cover the least possible amount of 
territory and succeeded to such a degree that 
he could only take liquid nourishment for 
some daj'S after. His regiment was in the 
second line of battle in the 2d Bull Run battle 
and, although exposed to severe cross-fire, lost 
only six men. After the action the brigade 
went into camp at Upton's Hill, Sept. 2d. At 
nine o'clock of the evening of Sept. 6th, a 
forced march was begun, lasting through the 
awful heat of the next day, resulting in the 
deploying of the regiment in the fence corners 
along the route and, when a halt was called at 
night, only Lieut. Thomas, Corporal Ash and 
Mr. Smith were left of Company E, and the 
entire regiment, noted for little straggling, 
stacked only 50 guns. But 238 men were in 
line at Turner's Gap in the assault at South 
Mountain, Sept. 14th and with a decimation of 
nine killed and 17 wounded. The 2d led 
Hooker's advance at Antietam on the 17tli and 
held for an hour and a half one of the hottest 
positions on one of the bloodiest fields of the 
war. Of the 165 men from the 2d who entered 
the fight 29 were killed and 49 wounded. The 
regiment in retiring sustained its record nobly 
by snatching the wounded from the field, 
friend and foe alike being removed by tender 
hands. After the action Mr. Smith, footsore, 
covered with dirt and stains of powder, scarcely 
able to stir, obtained permission to go to hos- 
pital, but when he reached what he had hoped 
to find a haven of rest, the sights and sounds 
banished his ills so far that he never again 
remembered them as such. The bravest sol- 
diers on record in these and similar works 
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Union on the fields where valor struck for the 
Hag its triumphant blows, all stop to pay a 
tribute to the patience and unselfish heroism 
of the wounded of all degrees. Mr. Smith, it 
may be remarked in passing, is a man of 
marvelous tenderness of heart and though he 
can charm an audience with his wit and humor 
as he has done multitudes of times, his sym- 
pathy can reach a chord in every human 
heart whicli is brought in contact with the 
magnetism of his words on tliis subject. The 
Sunday Telegraph of 1885 published perhaps 
the most eloquent account from his pen that 
has appeared in any print, of what could have 
been witnessed in the Keedsville hospital after 
Antietam. 

Dec. 13, 1862, the Iron Brigade occupied a po- 
sition on Franklin's extreme left at Fitzhugh's 
Crossing, where the soldiers of the command 
were assailed by every conceivable missile from 
the rebel batteries for three days, only two be- 
ing killed in the regiment and nine wounded, 
so wild was the shooting. (Mr. Smitli pub- 
lished an article in 1886 in the Centurv Maga- 
zine, describing some of the hits in this target 
practice.) Mr. Smith excels as a dialect writer 
and in 1884, at a camp fire in Racine, gave an 
original poem descriptive of one of the raids of 
the command on the lower Potomac after the 
" Momentous Moment " of Burnside lost its 
momentum in the mud and sent him back to 
the command of a corps. 

Mr. Smith performed duty in several expe- 
ditions, and in that which went to the Hague 
he finished his connection with service in the 
ranks, l)eing appointed Clerk in the Regi- 
mental (Quartermaster's office March 29, 1863. 
March 9, 1864, he was detailed to Brigade 
Quartermaster's office and officiated in that 
position until muster out, in June, 1864. 
Throughout his service the traits of Mr. Smith 
were at the fore. Keen, observing, industri- 



ous, quick to take note of an incident worth 
storing either in memory or note book, he 
made a collection with diary and brain which 
has proved of infinite value to him and his 
comrades of the war as a fount of reminiscence 
and renewal of interest in what will be for 
ages the theme of historian and poet, the Civil 
War in America. His coi>ious notes, taken 
"in the nick of time" have settled many 
mooted questions and disputes in regard to 
important issues. 

On his return to civil life he assumed charge 
of the drug store of J. McNish at Berlin, while 
the proprietor served as 1st Lieutenant of Com- 
pany B, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, later went 
into the drug store of Dr. N. M. Dodson with 
the intention of studj'ing medicine, but finding 
a life of confinement inconsistent with his 
habits of rugged exerci.se and that his health, 
already inipaired by army service, would be 
shattered altogether by inactivity he returned 
to his trade, but was obliged to abandon it for 
the lighter employ of pattern making. 

There is no more prominent or popular man 
in the Grand Army than " Comrade Smith." 
Good fellowship, never failing good nature, 
and an inexhaustible fund of wit and humor 
with a reservoir of facts and information of ail 
varieties make of him the best of fellows and 
the most welcome guest at camp fire or en- 
campment. He is an enthusiast in belialf of 
the Iron Brigade and expects to see its claims 
placed on the roll of fame where he believes 
they belong. Every soldier who wore the 
blue is dear to him ; every meeting with such 
is hailed by him as an episode of the greatest 
value to himself and in Wiscon.sin no one will 
be more missed at the final "roll-call." He 
has held office in Harvey Post since its organi- 
zation in 1881 and was Commander in 1888; 
he has held several Department offices and in 
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mander-in-Chief Warner. He has no hopes in 
politics, being a man of opinions and not afraid 
to expre.ss them and would expect the poli- 
ticians "to have his hide on the fence in no 
time" if he invaded their ranks with an eye to 
their emoluments. He takes pride in being a 
laborer; he believes tliat the "great middle 
class " is the world's balance wheel and in his 
attacks on sham and hypocris}' is aggressive. 
" Duty " is his polar star, and when he leaves 
the world he hopes to be comforted by the 
thought that it is no worse for his having lived 
in it. 

He was married .Jan. 1, 1867, to Henrietta 
A., daughter of (3range Buell of Berlin, Wis., 
and their children are named Grace Buell and 
Ralph Elias. 

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LBERT M. GREEN, Treasurer of Mon- 
^ roe Co., Wisconsin, is a native pro- 
duct of the Badger State, having 
been born at York, Green county, April 23, 
1842. His great uncle, Nathaniel Green, was a 
soldier in 1812. His father, William C, was 
born in Rensselaer Co., New York, and died in 
1874, aged 70 years. His grandfather, Samuel 
Green, was born in the State of New York, 
where his descendants lived many years and 
where several children of his son William were 
born. The latter married Johanna Phillips 
who died in 1846, aged about 40 years. The 
father was a farmer and teacher and came 
alone to Wisconsin in the fall of 1838, removing 
his family hither in the year following. Seven 
of 12 children born to them are living. Two 
died in infancy. William H. was in the 37th 
Wisconsin Infantry, was w'ounded at Peters- 
burg and died in hospital in Washington. 
John M. was in the 3d Wisconsin Infantry, and 
died at Fayetteville, Tenn., after veteranizing. 




having been one of the first to enlist and hav- 
ing served three years. Amy married Thomas 
Biggs and is deceased. Rebecca married Clark 
Hickock ; Jane A. married Duncan McDonald ; 
Laura is Mrs. Decatur Stewart ; Martha mar- 
ried Ralph Burnham ; Mr. Green of this sketch 
is next in order of birth ; Charles was a soldier 
in Company C, 3d Wisconsin Infantry, and 
after his discharge re-enlisted in the 1st Wis- 
consin Cavalry, serving throughout the war; 
Isabel married Ed. Ruff. 

The early life of Mr. Green was passed in 
pioneer style on his father's farm, and he ob- 
tained a fair education in the common schools 
of tiie period. He was still in his minority 
when civil war made its advent to interrupt all 
plans of all classes, even those of schoolboys, 
and his first independent action was his resolu- 
tion to enlist, which he did Dec. 19, 1861, 
in Company B, 18th Wisconsin Infantry 
at York, then Pastville. He was in barracks at 
Milwaukee, was mustered and left the State 
with the regiment March 30, 1862. Within tlie 
week he made acquaintance with actual war on 
the terrible field of Shiloh, where his colonel 
was shot to death. *He was among the cap- 
tured and, after being stripped and deprived of 
everything necessary to comfort and health, 
was sent to Tuscaloosa, Ala. ; was paroled at 
the end of two months and returned to Nash- 
ville to await exchange. He was ill and was 
left in the hospital at Nashville, recovering to 
go to Parole Camp at St. Louis in September 
and went thence to Superior to aid in quelling 
the outbreaks of the Indians, a work 
which was accomplished by the paroled 
prisoners. Mr. Green rejoined his regiment at 
Vicksburg, after being exchanged. September 
11th he went with his command to reinforce 
General Steele. On his return to Corinth he 
was taken sick and went successively to hospitals 
there, also at Nashville, and at Louisville, 



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whence he was discharged Jan. 12, 1864 on 
surgeon's certificate. His brotlier took charge 
of liim and removed him to Ohio, many men 
in the ho.spitals becoming victims to small pox, 
which he escaped. As soon as able to travel 
he went to Wisconsin to the homestead, of which 
he became {proprietor and remained until the 
fall of 188t5, when he was elected County Trea.s- 
urer and was re-elected in 1889. Prior to the 
dat« mentioned he officiated as Township 
Treasurer and as Cliairman of the Town Board 
several terms. He is a man of modest claims 
and his abilities and reliable character are such 
as to win and hold the confidence of those who 
are responsible for the commitment of public 
trusts. In his private, as in his pul)lic career, 
he has deserved and received the confidence of 
the community in which lie is an iKHiored 
member. He belongs to Post No. 102 and to 
the Order of Odd Fellows ; he also belongs to 
the Knights of Pythias. 

He was married Dec. 6, 1864 to Ella C, 
daughter of Henry and Huldah (Prince) Brown. 
Her father died when a comparatively young 
man and the family was brought to Wiscon- 
sin by the widowed mother. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Green four children have been born who sur- 
vive, one cliild dying while an infant. Ralph 
P. was born Dec. 14, 1865; Grace was born 
March 7, 1873; Amy was born May 14, 1879; 
a babe was born Aug. 6, 1889. 

IMON C. F. COBBAN, Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, 
was born Dec. 23, 1839, at Inverness, 
Province of (Quebec, Canada, and is the son of 
Robert and Mary (Anderson) Cobban, natives 
of Aberdeen, Scotland. They emigrated to 
Canada some years after marriage anil the 
father died on his farm in Inverness in 186(), 
the death of his wife having taken place in 




1842. John, Robert, William, Mary Ann, 
Juliet, Jessie, Alexander, James, Joseph, Simon 
and .Rihannah were the names of their eleven 
children. When the son Simon was 16 years 
old he went to Vermont and enlisted in Janu- 
ary, 1862; he was mustered Feb. 22, 1862, into 
Company K, 3d Vermont Infantry. After be- 
ing in camp at Burlington the command wont 
to Yorktown, arriving just before the sur- 
render, and he was in the fight on the 5th of 
May at Williamsburg, whither the rebels had 
retreated from Yorktown. This was a terrific 
battle (see sketches of 5th Wisconsin soldiei-s) 
and afterwards the regiment went to the 
swamps of the Chickahominy in the 1st Brig- 
ade and 2d Division. Mr. Cobban was in the 
several actions, fighting at Savage Station and 
accompanying the retreat to the James. He 
was in the action at White Oak Swamp before 
reaching the James and went into camp at 
White House Landing. The next remove was 
to Alexandria and from there to the second 
Bull Run battle field, whence they marched 
out, crossed Bull Run, and met the rebels about 
dark, and fell back to Centerville, and the next 
day to Alexandria. September 17th he fought 
at Antietam, his command being stationed on 
the left of the pike and suftering from sharp- 
shooters. They followed up the rebels for 
awhile and then went into camp near Fal- 
mouth Landing, and he was next in action at 
Fredericksburg, Dec. 11th. The regiment fell 
back to White Oak Church where they lay till 
the second battle of Fredericksburg and there 
Mr. Cobban was taken sick and, with others, 
was ordered to the hospital, but instead of going 
they took up their quarters in an old church 
where they remained until the regiment re- 
turned from Fredericksburg, when he was dis- 
charged as disabled, Feb. 10, 1803. He re- 
turned to Vermont and recruited until Jan. 1, 
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into Company C, 8th Vermont Infantry. He 
was in camp at Brattleboro and subsequently 
joined tiie regiment at Franklin, La., in the 
2d Brigade, 1st Division and 19th Corps. The 
regiment moved thence to Algiers, La., and to 
Thibodeaux, where Mr. Cobban was on de- 
tached duty as provost guard and was detailed 
to escort rebels to New Orleans who were taken 
as suspected of violating their parole. At 
Algiers the command was joined liy the veter- 
ans on a furlough and went to Fort Adams on 
the Mississippi River, going thence to Mor- 
ganzia Bend. They returned to Algiers and 
started for the Gulf of Mexico under sealed 
orders. When orders were opened they found 
their destination to be Fortress Monroe. On 
arrival there they were immediately ordered 
to Washington, whence the regiment went to 
the Valley of the Shenandoah and operated 
with the 6th and 8th Corps during the sum- 
mer of 1864. They were in an imj^ortant en- 
gagement at Winchester, Sept. 19th, and dur- 
ing the action the 8th Vermont made a heavy 
charge on the rebels. In the action of 
October 19th Mr. Cobban was on picket 
duty when the fight opened and every 
man on that picket was instructed to look 
out for himself. A number of the regiment 
were taken ])risoners and the company was so 
much reduced that Mr. Cobban as Fifth Cor- 
poral was-in command. (This was the fight in 
which Sheridan rallied the troops to " lick 
them out of tlieir boots.") The next move was 
to Strasburg, where they camped and where 
Mr. Cobban was relieved from the connnand of 
the company and detailed as color guard. On 
the next day they marched to New Market in 
pursuit of the enemy and, during the remain- 
der of the war, the regiment performed guard 
duty in the valley. The Governor of Vermont 
tried to have the regiment sent home, as tiiey 
were drawing pay from the State, but, failing 



in this, he had them transferred to the 6th 
Corps, the 19th being ordered to Savannah. 
When the 6th Corps came up from North Caro- 
lina Mr. Cobban with tiie ^'ermont regiment 
joined it and was mustered out at Washington 
.lune 28, 1865. 

He went West and located at Chippewa Falls, 
obtaining employment as a lumberman and 
mechanic for about six months, and afterwards 
engaged about seven years in the manufacture 
of doors and sash. Later he engaged in the 
flour mill business, afterwards removing to a 
farm near the city. In 1880 he built a block 
of stores and an opei'a house, which burned 
after four years, involving a loss of about $40,- 
000, and he sold tlie ground and went to Mon- 
tana, establishing a lumber yard at Butte City. 
Six months afterward he returned to Chippewa 
Falls and engaged in real estate, loans and 
brokerage. He has also real estate interests in 
Butte City, where he and his brother George 
are erecting substantial brick blocks; he is also 
connected with an extensive logging enterprise 
near Tomahawk, Wis., where he is constructing 
a two-mile railroad track for logging purposes. 

He was married June 4, 1868, at Eau Claire 
to Jeanette Mann, and their children are 
named Edna M. and Eva. 



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J^ESLEY F. GRINDELL, a prom- 
inent citizen and business man 
of Platteville, Wis., member of G. 
.A. R. Post No. 66, was born at Platteville, Oct. 
18, 1847, and is the son of William and Lydia 
(Cook) Grindell. Mr. Grindell represents one 
of the best strains in the nationality of this 
country, his father having been born in the 
North of Ireliind and was descended from the 
sturdy, intelligent and upriglit Scotch-Irish, 
who preserved their ancestral blood in purity 
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intellect, its most reliable manliooil and 
descendants who retained the characteristic 
energy and integrity of their forbears. The 
family first located in Canada on removal to 
the New World and, in 1840, the senior Grin- 
dell settled at Platteville. He was married in 
Buffalo, N. Y., ills wife being the daughter of 
David and Maria Cook and of German descent. 
Mr. Grindell of tliis sketcli has had two broth- 
ers: — Will R., a conductor on a railroad in 
Nebraska, who was killed March 24, 1882, while 
discharging his duties at Harvard, Neb., and 
Samuel T., a business man at Omaha, Neb. 
The mother died in 1855 and the father again 
married in 1857 ; Margaret McMurray, a Ken- 
tuckian by birth, became his wife, and seven 
children were born to them, of whom six sur- 
vive, named Lydia, Frederick, Clara, Thomas, 
Mary and Edward; Emma is deceased. The 
senior Grindell was a cabinet maker by trade 
and established a prosperous business at Platte- 
ville, which he is still conducting. (1890.) 

Mr. Grindell obtained his education in the 
common schools and afterward attended Knox 
College at Galesburg, Til., but was obliged to 
surrender his chances for an extended educa- 
tional course by threatened ill-health. At the 
time the war came on he was on the farm of 
his uncle, and he enlisted three times only to 
be rejected. Finally he enrolled in a service in 
which he was accepted — the 100-daj'S men, — en- 
rolling in Company A, 41st Wisconsin Inf;\n- 
try, in the spring of 1864, his uncle, John Grin- 
dell, being made First Lieutenant of the com- 
])any of which Peter .1. Schloesser was made 
Captain. From Camp Kan<iall the command 
went to Memphis and camped prej)aratory to 
succeeding to the places of veterans who were 
in demand elsewhere and whose work in the 
past it became necessary to protect. Mr. Grin- 
dell learned the tactics of infantry practice and 
performed every specie of duty pertaining to 



the service, partaking of the excitement and 
actual business of war only at the time of For- 
rest's celebrated midnight raid on Memphis. 
He was in frequent excursions into tlie sur- 
rounding country and also on scouting duty. 
He was on picket tJie night of Forrest's raid, 
acting as Lieutenant and was as much sur- 
prised as any of the command. (Mr. Grindell 
relates the efforts of mere boys to enlist and 
their endeavors to deceive the enrolling officers 
as to age. The common question was, " Well, 
sonny, how old are you ? " the reply was almost 
invariably " past eighteen," but the rejoinder, 
containing an inquiry as to date of birth, pro- 
duced a muddle that commonly resulted in 
sending the would-be military hero home. Mr. 
Grindell went through it all, even trying to en- 
list as a musician, sitting uj) nights to learn the 
flute. He preserves and prizes his certilicate 
of acknowledgment from President Lincoln as 
evidence of his willingness to stop rebel bullets 
if such should be his tate.) 

On his return home he engaged in the fur- 
niture business, afterwards 0})erated as a baker 
three years and resumed his former occupation 
which has since engaged his energies. He is 
among the social leaders in Platteville, where 
he bears the repute of a high-toned and influ- 
ential citizen. He has advanced through the 
degrees of the Odd Fellows Order and belongs 
to the several local organizations at Platteville. 
He is a member of the Ma.sonic Chapter and is 
prominent in local politics and official relations 
to municipal affairs. 

His marriage to Mary Jane, daughter of 
William and Hannah (Clayton) Howdle, took 
place June 18,1868. Mrs. Grindell is descend- 
ed from English parents and is the mother of 
two children, named Charles Clayton and 
Lydia M. She is prominent in the Woman's 
Relief Corps at Platteville. 




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JOHN AUGUST LINS, Eagle, 
member of G. A. R. Post E. B. 
Wolcott at Milwaukee, a prominent 
citizen and a leading business man at Eagle, 
was born at Wachstadt, Saxony, Germany, Oct. 
3, 1840. Until he was 17 years old he resided 
with his parents, John and Mary (Ehrhardt) 
Lins, in his native place, engaged in the 
acquirement of a thorough German education. 
In 1857 the family emigrated to the New World 
and soon after landing at the port of New York, 
located on a farm in Franklin, near Milwaukee. 
Four of their children are still living. After 
his arrival in America, Mr. Lins was occupied 
a year on the farm and when 18 years old he 
obtained employ witli B. Stamm & Co., at Mil- 
waukee, with whom be was engaged until he 
went to St. Louis in 1859. There he was 
employed in a hotel and in 1860 went to New 
Orleans, and was engaged in business there 
until the difficulties between the North and 
South culminated in the assault on the emblem 
of United States authority in Cbarleston harbor. 
His principles were fixed and well-known and 
the atmo.sphere of the Crescent City became 
altogether unwholesome for an advocate of a 
united country and he managed to make his 
escape on the last boat that left for the Nortii 
before the blockade proclamation went into 
effect. He had hardly been tliree days in Mil- 
waukee, when, June 8, 1861, he enlisted in 
defense of the liberty of which he felt himself 
deprived by his enforced abandonment of his 
business in New Orleans. He enrolled in 
Company C, 5th Wisconsin Infantry and was 
mustered as Corporal. He left Camp Randall 
July 26th for the scenes of active war in the 
East and after arrival at ^\'asllington marched 
across the Chain Bridge and where the regi- 
ment was assigned successively to the brigades 
of King and Hancock. The regiment was in 
Smith's division and passed the winter in quar- 



ters at Camp Griffin, preparing for the "On to 
Richmond " movement. March 10th their 
march began and they went to Lewinsville, 
Vienna and Flint Hill, proceeding until intelli- 
gence was received of the evacuation, in the vi- 
cinity of Manassas, when they went into quarters 
near Alexandria. On the 24th they started for 
Fortress Monroe and on the 27tli they were in 
a reconnoissance on the banks of the James. 
Five companies were deployed as skirmishers, 
driving in the rebel pickets and after camping 
in the rebel lines they went to the Warwick 
River, where the military activities in which 
the command was involved through the event- 
ful summer of 1862 without practical or satis- 
factory results, commenced. April 16tli Mr. 
Lins was in line of battle at Lee's Mills and on 
the 5th of May was ni his first hot fight at 
Williamsburg and his record with that of his 
comrades was of such conspicuous character 
that McClellan signalized their action and him- 
self in the only address he ever made to his 
soldiers, although he was an admirer of Na- 
poleon in all his career in war. He said : 
" My lads, I have come to thank you for your 
gallant conduct the other day. You have won 
laurels of which you may well be proud. Not 
only you but the army, the country and the 
State to wbich you belong. Through you we 
won tlie day and Williamsburg shall be in- 
scribed on your banners. I cannot thank you 
too much, and I am sure the reputation your 
gallantry has already achieved will always be 
maintained." In regard to the military ser- 
vice performed by Mr. Lins nothing stronger 
can be affirmed than, first to state that he 
fousht with tlie 5th Wisconsin and second, to 
present in order his roster of battles with offi- 
cial dates. He was in the campaign of the 
Cliickahominy and fought June 28th at Gol- 
den's Farm, at Savage Station on the 29th, 
White Oak Swamp June 30th and Malvern 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



Hill July 1st. He was in action at Crampton's 
Gap September 14tli, at Antietam on the 17tli 
and at Fredericksburg December 12tb, 13tli, 
14tb and loth, lie was in the movement to the 
liai)jialuinock and was in the splendid charge 
at Marye's Heights and in the fights of the 
two next days (May 4th and 5tli); he went with 
tlie command to take note of Lee's operations 
towards Pennsylvania and fought July 1st, 2d 
and 3d at Gettysburg ; November 7th he was 
again at Rap])ahannock Station and, later in 
the month (24tli), was in action at Mine Run 
and Locust Grove. In May, 1864, he was 
again in the Wilderness and on the 8th fought 
at Spottsylvania C. H. On the 9th, 10th and 
11th he was in action and after returning to 
Cold Harbor went into the charge and was 
severely wounded. lie went to various hospi- 
tals and finally to Madison where he was under 
treatment wlien his regiment was mustered out 
August 3, 1864. 

He returned to Eagle and after recruiting his 
health he engaged in stock business with his 
brother on his father's farm until 18G7, when 
he embarked with S. E. Neustadtl in a com- 
mercial enterprise wliicli inc]u<led the sale of 
groceries and other merchandise. In 1869 the 
partnership was dissolved and since that date 
he has conducted his business relations singly. 
In 1869 he erected the building in wliich he 
operates and he has gradually widened liis 
relations until he is now (1889) the leading 
merchant at Eagle. His abilities and qualifi- 
cations, as well as his high-toned and reliable 
character have been recognized by his genera- 
tion and he has served two years as County 
Treasurer. He has acted as Chairman of the 
Board of Supervisors several terms and in 1881 
was elected Assemblyman from his District. 
In 1885 and again in 1887 he was chosen as 
State Senator, discharging his duties in a man- 
ner and with an ability consistent with the 
hopes and beliefs of his constituency. 



He was married in 1872 to Mary Witte, wlio 
was born in Waukesha county and is the 
daughter of Charles and Sophia Witte. They 
are childless. 

In character Mr. Lins is what is understood 
in its best sense as a representative citizen. 
Born in a foreign country, liable to compulsory 
military service, he recognized his duty to the 
land of his adoption in her hour of llireatened 
dismemberment and hastened to aid in sustain- 
ing her unity and dignity among nations. He 
never flinched from the demands of his obliga- 
tions as a soldier, and he has manfully sus- 
tained all his relations to the world in every 
connection which he has formed. He is a 
cultivated, genial, aflable gentleman, modest to 
a fault and possessing the best traits of his 
Teutonic ancestral stock, whose highest type he 
represents. His jiortrait appears on page 440. 

y^lTyjril^I-IAM HOGBIN, member of C 
"'^^i ^' Washburn Tost, No. 11, resi- 
■^3iL. dent at Madison, Wis., was born 
Sep. 24, 1834, in Dover, Kent Co., England. 
His father, Robeit Hogbin, was one of twent}'- 
one children born to his parents and traced his 
descent in direct line to the Anglo-Saxon set- 
tlers of his native land. He possessed the traits 
of his ancestral stock and was a soldier of 
Great Britain who fought in the IVninsuIar 
Campaign which terminated in the battle of 
Waterloo. Members of his family of his own 
generation fought in tiie Crimea, and previously 
in the war of the Revolution. The motlier 
of Mr. Hogbin of this sketch was named Eliza- 
betii and the family came to America in 1853, 
driven from their native country by the ex- 
igencies of Free Trade which left no iiope for 
the laboring classes. 

The father had been a resident of America 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 



443 



aged nearly 88 years; the demise of the mother 
occurred six years before. 

William Hogbin passed his youth in unre- 
niunerative labor and received but nine months 
schooling. When he was fourteen 3'ears old he 
was apprenticed to a tailor and served seven 
years in London. He came with his parents 
to America, worked a year at his trade in 
Utica, New York, and passed two succeeding 
years as a clerk in tlie city market. He had a 
natural genius for mechanical occupation and 
in 1850 he went to Port Louise, Iowa, and run 
a stationary engine in a grist-mill, removing 
at the end of a year to Muscatine, where he 
worked a year as a carpenter. Three succes- 
sive years he worked at harness making in 
Gardner, 111., where he was engaged when the 
war came on. In tiie first year, 1861, he be- 
longed to the Home Guards and in tlie fall of 
1862, enlisted in Company E, 88th Illinois In- 
fantry, which became distinguished in the his- 
tory of the Civil War as the Chicago 2d Board 
of Trade Regiment. The command was in 
rendezvous at Camp Fuller, Chicago, and soon 
after his enrollment, Mr. Hogbin went with the 
regiment to Louisville and Cincinnati, Kirby 
Smith's operations in Kentucky having be- 
come alarming. Tlie regiment was suljjected 
to much marcliing and miscellaneous military 
operations, including numerous skirmishes 
prior and preparatory to the battle of Perry ville, 
Oct. 8, 1862, in which Mr. Hogbin had his first 
experience in set battle. He was in the subse- 
quent movements in Northern Kentucky, and 
after camping at Bowling Green went to Nash- 
ville to enter upon the Stone River campaign 
under Rosecrans. He was in the preliminary 
skirmishing in which the Union troops har- 
assed the rear of the rebel army, in almost 
daily action, and finally figliting at Stone River. 
(The regiment lost 150 men in this engage- 
ment.) It remained in that vicinity, engaged 



in building fortifications and in ordinary mili- 
tary duty until April, 1863, when the com- 
mand, including several regiments, went on 
a foraging and reconnoitering expedition 
toward Columbia, Tenn. On the 19th day 
out Mr. Hogbin was seized with liver complaint, 
conveyed in an ambulance to camp and, soon 
after, was transferred to the hospital in a per- 
manently disabled condition. His regiment 
went to the Chickamauga campaign, in which 
several brigades were captured and transferred 
to Southern prisons, a fate from which Mr. Hog- 
bin was jireserved by his illness. He was sent 
from the field hospital at Murfreesboro, after two 
weeks, to Nashville and thence to Louisville 
and New Albany, Ind. He was there trans- 
ferred to the 5th Regiment Veteran's Reserve 
Corps, and stationed at Indianapolis. These 
regiments were organized on account of the 
discovery of the conspii'acies and treasonable 
organizations forming in Indiana among the 
class of Hoosiers who sympathized and afllli- 
ated with rebellion and whose military char- 
acter plainly manifested that thej^ meant 
business. Their most powerful combinations 
were strongly centered at Indianapolis. The 
experiences of the veterans among the rascally 
traitors form interesting reminiscences and Mr. 
Hogbin supplies details of a character which 
exposes the barbarity and inhumanity of the 
villains in a light fully paramount to that which 
illustrates the hellishness of Southern atrocity 
in rebel prisons. 

July 5th, 1865, he was mustered out of service 
and returned to Chicago. Soon after he went 
to Dubuque, Iowa, where he engaged at his 
trade and entered upon the duties of citizenship, 
becoming active in school interests and temjier- 
! ance work. He belonged to the Orders of Good 
Templars and Sons of Temperance, rising to 
the positions of Deputy Grand Worthy Chief 
of the former and Past Worthy Patriarch of the 



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latter. He was a member of the Light Guards 
until that body disbanded, when he joined the 
Dubuque Rifles and was cliief officer of tlie com- 
pany until his removal to Wisconsin in 1877. 

In that year he settled at Madison and estab- 
lished himself permanently in his former call- 
ing. In 1879 he raised and organized a 
company of State militia called the Lake City 
Guards and in June of the next year he was 
commissioned Captain. He is active in Grand 
Army circles and has served three successive 
terms as Chaplain of his Post. He now holds 
the position of Officer of the Day ; he is a 
Republican in politics and receives a pension. 

He was married May 29, 1856, to Mrs. Mary 
Catherine Knott, of Utica, N. Y.,an(l they have 
one surviving child named Elizabeth Jane. 

His wife's grandfather, Mr. Adle, was in the 
war of the Revolution and in 1812. Her son by 
first marriage, Walter S. Knott, was a sokiier 
in Co. D, 19th Illinois (kvalry. He was very 
young, having been born in 1848, but he served 
through the war and was mustered out in June 
18G6. He is now living in Dubuque and in a 
prosperous business. He was a charter member 
of the McHenry Post No. 7, of Dubuque, Iowa. 

The portrait of Mr. Hogbin appears on page 
440 with those of three comrades of the war. 

APTAIN THOMAS H. PRICE, a florist 
at LakeGcneva,Wis.,anda prominent 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, was 
born at West Felton, Shropshire (Salop) Eng- 
land, on the border of Wales, Oct. l.'x 1835, and 
is the son of David and Sai-ah Price, who were 
natives of that locality and of mixed Welsh 
and English blood, and they died on the old 
homestead in West Felton. Only two of tlieir 
seven children came to this country. William 
was for many years a farmer near Rockford, 




111., and now follows the same calling at 
Howard, Kansas. When he was 12 years old, 
Thomas was apprenticed to learn the business 
which he has made his life's vocation and 
served seven years, acquiring a complete knowl- 
edge of horticulture and floriculture ami mar- 
ket gardening in every detail and, when he 
was 19 years old, he came to America and in 
1857 came to the United States. He passed a 
year in liis business at Cleveland, Ohio, enter- 
ing the employ of General N. B. Buford, going 
thence to Rock Island, 111., and from there went 
to St. Joe, Mo., and there engaged in the man- 
ufacture of ale and beer. 

He remained there until rebellion and its 
sympathizers put an end to business and Mr. 
Price went to Omaha, Neb., and enlisted in 
Company H, 1st Nebraska Infantry, and was 
mustered into service at Omaha, July 4, 1861, 
Colonel John M. Thayer, Captain George 
F. Kenned J". The command went to St. Joe 
for equipments and thence to Independence and 
demanded the release of Union prisoners at 
the hazard of a fight; the surrender of the 
l>risoners was acceded. In August the regi- 
ment went to Pilot Knob, and thence to Syra- 
cuse to connect with Fremont on his march to 
Springfield. When that officer was relieved, 
with the rest of the grief stricken troops, the 
regiment started to go to Syracuse and Com- 
pany H and one company of Merrill's Horse 
were left at Warsaw on the O.sage River to }>ro- 
tect Government property. The insolent ag- 
gressiveness of the citizens necessitated some 
action and the troops secured as much property 
as possible and destroyed the rest with the 
town. (Mr. Price has, since the war, met and 
discussed the event with one of the citizens.) 
They were joined by the rest of the regiment 
and went to winter quarters at Georgetown, go- 
ing Dec. 28, 1861, to Warrensburg, Mo., on a 
forced march to capture Price's supply train 



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445 



and 1,700 rebels. (The men had a satisfactory 
time en route to the rebel headquarters with 
tlie " goodies" which Price designed for liiui- 
seif.) In the sjiring of 18()2 the regiment 
joined Grant on tlie expedition to Fort Henrj', 
where Mr. Price was in action February 6th, 
and also at Donelson on the 14th and 15th. 
On the second day he was severely wounded in 
tlie forehead, but dread of the hospital prevent- 
ed his absence from liis company and he went 
to the fight at Shiloh, April 6th and 7th. He 
was with his company at the siege of Corinth 
and, after the evacuation, went to Mempliis, 
and soon after to Helena, Ark., to connect with 
Curti.ss, going to Pilot Knob and Cape 
Girardeau, and in the fight of April 26, 1863, 
received a musket ball and two buckshot in his 
right leg. The shot were removed at the village 
and thence he went to hospital at St. Louis 
and remained at Hickory street until August, 
1863, when he asked for an examination before 
the Military Board at Cincinnati, Ohio, for a 
commission in a colored regiment. He passed 
.satisfactorily, was granted the commission of a 
First Lieutenant and assigned to Company G, 
4th U. S. C. T. He received creilentials dated 
Aug. 24, 1863, and went to Baltimore and was 
sent thence to Yorktown, Va., and assigned to 
Butler's forces. He went to Point Lookout 
with his regiment to guard rebel prisoners and 
in May joined the active troops of Butler, fight- 
ing in the terrific actions of .June 17tli and 
18th. He was detailed in charge of a colored 
detachment at Dutch Gap and, September 2Sth, 
returned to his regiment. He participated in 
the battle of Deep Bottom, receiving a gunshot 
wound in his left hand. In falling he broke 
his right arm, his sword being strapped to his 
wrist. He went to hospital at Fortress 
Monroe, where lie was granted leave of 
absence and returned to Rockiord, 111., going 
thence to his command in front of Richmond, 



and in December, 1864, to Fort Fisher, wdiere 
the General and one or two of his smart aids 
discovered that a long line of barracks looked 
like a long line of troops in battle array, and 
in January he went witii his men to one of the 
most terrific actions of that campaign under 
General Terry, the command taking the fort, 
which might have been taken by occupation 
simply, on the former occasion. Lieutenant 
Price was placed in command of the Pioneer 
Corps and went with a detail to carry shovels 
to General Curtiss, which he relates as one of 
the most aggravating experiences of his life, as 
orders not to fire in return for a constant 
stream of rebel shot, were peremptory. He 
was promoted for this service to the rank of 
Captain, his papers bearing date of Feb. 22, 
1865; he fought at Wilmington, N. C, and at 
Northeast Station, where a large number of 
starved and naked Union men from rebel 
prisons, turned loose to find their way to home 
and friends, joined their ranks. They went to 
Bentonville and fought at Cox Bridge (a part 
of the fight at the last named place), joining 
Sherman at Goldsboro and went to Raleigh 
where .Johnston surrendered April 26tii. On 
hearing of the assassination of President Lin- 
coln, the colored troops were almost unmanage- 
able, declaring that they would ask no quarter, 
give none nor take any prisoners alive, and 
what would have been done by them in an 
action at Raleigh is open to conjecture. Cap- 
tain Price was placed in command of a district 
as Assistant Provost Marshal, with headquar- 
ters at Mount Olive on the Wilmington road. 
In October, 1865, he was assigned to the com- 
mand of Fort Lincoln, at Washington, which 
his men dismantled in the spring of 1866, re- 
ceiving muster out May 4th. 

He immediately went to his home in the old 
country and was married June 25, 1867, to an 
old acquaintance. He remained in England 



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until May, 1873, and returned to Rockford, 111., 
going in the next year to St. Luke's hospital at 
Chicago where, after consultation which pointed 
first to amputation, the ball which had l)ecn 
in possession ten years was removed from his 
leg after he had been on crutches a twelve- 
month. After recovery he went to Lake Ge- 
neva and engaged in farm work until 1879, 
when he purchased a place within the city 
limits and established a fine business as a 
florist, in which he has operated ten years. 
His grounds and fixtures are of commendable 
character and in his profession he is unap- 
proached by competitors, his thorough training 
and experience giving his liusiness precedence. 
He was married to Jane Kvans in the old 
parish church at West Felton in which he was 
baptized and where his forbears were buried. 
The wife is the daughter of John and Nancy 
(Hughes) Evans, and she is the only one of 
her race who ever came to America. Captain 
Price is a member of the order of Royal Arch 
Masons and is Captain of hisChajiter. He has 
been W. M. of the Blue Lodge and was a 
charter member of his Grand Army Post of 
which he was first Commander. He has since 
held office therein successively. It should have 
been mentioned in the proper connection that 
he was breveted Lieutenant Colonel while in 
the service and altho.ugh not mustered, served 
in the official capacity of that rank. He is an 
enterprising citizen and prominent in ail mat- 
ters that pertain to the well being of the lo- 
cality. His portrait will be found on page 440. 

ONRAD DIPPLE, Watertown, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 94, was 
born in Germany (Dresden, Saxony) 
Nov. 2, 1831, and after being educated accord- 
ing to the laws of Germany, which included in 




his case eight years in the public schools and 
four years at the Polytechnic Institute at Dres- 
den, he came, in 1849, to America and resided 
in the State of New York until his removal to 
^\'at^'rtown, A\'is., in 1853. He wtxs occupied 
as a mason until he was drafted in November, 
1863. The stpuid included 29 men from the 
5th and 6th Ward of Watertown, and he was 
the only one who wont to the front. He re- 
ported at Madison and served for a time in the 
" Permanent Party," also as city patrol until 
April, 1864, when he was assigned to Company 
I, 37th Wisconsin Infantry, and went with the 
recruits for that command to Washington. 
June 3d he arrived at White House Landing 
where the most remarkable vision he had ever 
encountered, met his eyes. The Pamunkey 
River at that point was crowded with every 
possible variety of river craft incident to a posi- 
tion which was made the base of supplies for 
an enormous army. The racket was inde- 
scribable both on river and shore; mule drivers, 
trying to soothe their gentle charges with the 
well-known vocabularies; wagon trains of 
fabulous extent coming and going; colored 
laborers rolling barrels and combining their 
shouts with those of the owners of the toes they 
crushed ; stretchers, on which were borne the 
wounded l)eing transferred to the hospital 
boats waiting for them ; ambulance trailis, 
bringing in the dead and wounded from recent 
battle-fields ; a camp of contral)ands among 
whom preachers where shouting with fervor 
and recruiting officers were busy; a camp of 

I captured rebels brought in from the front; 

I orderlies riding in every direction ; every con- 
ceivable sound of the human voice commingled 
with the noise from the river — and the dust 
and smoke finished the scene. The deUiil for 
the 37th found a quiet spot and camped, and 
for a few days were occupied in guarding tlie 
line of the Richmond railroad, where the 



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sounds of battle at Cold Harbor reached their 
ears. During one rainy night Mr. Dipple 
walked his beat near 630 prisoners who slept 
coinfortabl}^ while long trains of ambulances 
bearing their ghastly freight, passed all night 
and the next day through the camp and gave 
the guard a foresight of what might be their 
chance within a few hours. But there was an- 
other lesson ; scores of men appeared who 
were slightly wounded, limping, bandaged in 
some part of their pei'sons, hair clotted with 
blood, gaping cv;ts on their faces and typifying 
every form of want and suffering, but without 
murmuring. Near the camp were the embalm- 
ing tents, where that guild drove a thriving 
business and prepared the dead for transmis- 
sion to graves among their kindred — when 
they received a goodly sura for the service. 
And the women of the Christian Commission 
were there ; no one flinched from the worst 
case ; heroine hands dealt comfort with touch 
and voice to forms which had been those of 
men; contested the citadel of life with mortifi- 
cation and maggots in countless instances ; 
performed the most revolting duty with cheer- 
fulness which imparted courage and renewed 
life to the suffering, and moistened lips growing 
pale in the light of the dawn of eternity. Such 
was the initiation of the recruits for the 37th 
Wisconsin at White House Landing. 

On the 10th of .June they were detailed to 
escort a supply train to the front at Cold Harbor 
and arrived there after a dismal march in the 
heat over a road which bore evidence of every 
kind as being the route of communication be- 
tween a huge army and its base of supply. 
Overturned army wagons, straying mules, and 
decrepit trains blockaded and separated the 
escort, a portion of wlioiu made connection 
with the advance on the double-quick. A 
vision of White House Landing and that trip 
to the front at Cold Harbor ought to have been 



indelibly and exclusively photographed on the 
retinas of both eyes of Jeff Davis and all his 
compeers of the confederacy (with a little c.) 
The regiment was assigned to the 9th (Burn- 
side's) Corps in the division of 0. B. Wilcox 
and at evening, .June 12th, they took position 
on the flank of the front line of works to listen 
to the shrieking of shot and shell and to inspect 
at leisure and speculate on the possibilities of a 
line of rebel fortifications. Just as the com- 
mand had settled to rest, orders came to make 
ready for marching at a moment's notice, with- 
out sound of voice or clatter of arms, with fixed 
bayonets and muskets at trail. And thus com- 
menced the stolen movement of the Union 
army on the flank march towards Petersburg. 
As they passed through the fields, the roads 
being monopolized by the artillery in the man- 
ner already described, they witnessed over 
again the sights which terminated at White 
House Landing. The troops turned South and 
crossed the Chickahominy on pontoons. Gen- 
eral Burnside held an inspection and gave or- 
ders to move toward Charles City C. H., the 
corps being delayed just before arrival there 
and obtaining 12 hours' rest. June 15th, after 
sunset, march was resumed and the James was 
crossed at midnight on pontoons 2,000 feet 
long, over a rapid current, 70 feet deep, and the 
37th found itself in the advance, marching 
along contentedly witli no thought of immediate 
warfare in the lovely country, shining silvery 
and beautiful under the summer starlight. A 
little before day a sharp rattle of musketry sa- 
luted their ears and they hastened forward to 
witness the jubilation of a detachment of 
colored soldiers over their capture of a new 
rebel brass howitzer. They had been in a sit- 
uation where they encountered a rebel battery 
and went for it in fine shape, also capturing a 
rebel colonel, and their joy knew no adequate 
form of expression. The column marched, 



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flanked the rebels and took U> pieces of artil- 
lery, with a battle flag. June IGth the regi- 
ment went into position in the trenches in 
front of Petersburg " in attention " with the 
Union batteries in the rear. They had marched 
four days and three nights and during the last 
24 hours without diinier or sup])er. About 6 
p. m. the attack commenced and, two hours 
later, the 37th formed a line to relieve the Ver- 
mont brigade of the 6th Corps; and swung on 
the doul)le quick with a right-wheel movement 
into the rear of the (5th Corjis, which marched 
to the right flank and left them confronting 
the situation and they received at once the sa- 
lutes of the rebels in the form of grape and 
minie balls. Until midnigiit the Johnnies 
poured forth their missiles in the most extrav- 
agant manner, the storm passing over the 
heads of the men lying prostrate and shrink- 
ing from the "swishing" as the bullets cut the 
air. The firing slackened slightly and the of- 
ficers set their watches to the same moment. 
At 3 o'clock in the morning a brigade on the 
left moved to attack, tlie 37tli standing " at- 
tention" and at tliree minutes past three, 450 
rebels were taken, with four guns and four 
flags. The rebs were consigned to tiie care of 
the colored troops, and fed, while the 37tli pro- 
ceeded to a meal which was a "break- fast" indeed. 
hi tlic afternoon of the 17th, Mr. Dipple was 
wounded by a minie ball in his right arm, 
while making a charge on rebel breastworks, 
and was mentioned in the ilispatciies as in- 
jured. The color sergeant, \V. H. (Jreen, was 
wounded and, with Mr. Dipple and others, 
crawled olV the field on hands and knees, drag- 
ging the colors in his teeth, under an incessant 
storm of rebel bullets. The arm of Mr. Dipple 
was amj)utated at the field hospital anil, tliree 
days later, he drove an ambulance to City 
Point, the train psissing through tlie camp of 
the 450 rebels previously mentioned as cap- 



tured. He went by steamer to Washington and 
was assigned to Mount Pleasant hospital, two 
miles north of the city. July 12th he was 
among those who left the hospital to aid in the 
defense of Washington against the threatened 
attack of General Early, who assaulted Fort 
Stevens, the position being held by the detail 
from the hospital until a division of the Gth 
Corps arrived and drove the rebels back. 
More than 100 died in the hospital from ex- 
citement and want of proper care during the 
absence of their nurses, JSergeant Green among 
the number. July 28th, Mr. Dipple was trans- 
ferred to the general hospital at Little York, 
Pa., where the citizens were a second time ter- 
rorized by the expected collection of a levy of 
$50,000 laid on them the year before, and half 
of which was to be paid in a year. They pre- 
pared their valuables for transportation to 
Philadelphia, and the inmates of the hospitals 
were det^iiled for duty. They patrolled the 
streets and scouted the roads, and the levy was 
made on Chambersburg and that city was 
burned. Mr. Dipj)le was transferred in No- 
vember to Harvey hospital at Madison, and re- 
ceived final discharge Dec. 8, 1864, returning 
to Watertown. He was occupied eight years in 
teaching in the public schools and afterwards 
became interested in agriculture. In 1881, he 
entered a homestead of 160 acres in Taylor Co., 
Wis., receiving letters patent from Chester A. 
Arthur, who instructed the Land Comniisssoner 
to credit him with three years' time for his mil- 
tary service. 

Li 1854 Mr. Dip{)le was married in New 
York State to Loui.sa Herger, and their child- 
ren, Louis and Lena, were born resjiectivelj' in 
1857 and 1859. The mother died in 1861 and 
the father was again married in 1862 to Mina 
Geska. Mr. Dipple is Chaplain of the 0. D. 
Pease Post, No. 94, G. A. K., Department of 
Wisconsin, (1890.) 



PERSONAL RECORDS. 



449 



His picture may b6 seen on page 440. No 
collection of portraits of soldiers of the Civil 
War appearing on several pages of this work 
presents the likenesses of a braver quartette nor 
do any personal records exceed in interest and 
value those which follow in successive order. 
That of Mr. Dipple, is specially graphic and 
vivid. 

>,^^^^^^ 

^^ ARTIN OSWALD, Register of Deeds 
6@ jl©* '^^ Grant County, Wisconsin, 
resident at Lancaster, member 
of Sam Monteith Post at Fen ni more. Wis., of 
which he was a charter member, was born in 
Ilanz, Switzerland, Feb. 7, 1847. His father, 
Jolni J. Oswald, came to America in 1856 with 
his family, his son being the youngest of his 
children. Three V)rothers and a sister had 
preceded him. His wife was Anna Buchlei be- 
fore her marriage and they reared five children 
to maturity. Wieland is deceased ; he was a 
soldier in the 3d Wisconsin Infantry ; (his death 
was mysterious, having the features of suicide 
or murder and it is probable that the latter was 
the cause) ; Michael resides in Topeka, Kan., 
where he is a harness maker of extensive 
relations ; he was a soldier in the war ; John J. 
is a hardware merchant at Lancaster ; he 
served in Company F, 3d Wisconsin Infantry ; 
Mr. Oswald was the fourth son and tliei'e was a 
daughter, Nina, who went South as a nurse and 
there met Lieutenant Jacob Seele, whom she 
married ; she went to Galveston, Texas, and died 
there of yellow fever. The senior Oswald was 
seriously crippled and came to America under 
medical advice and he died in 1SG4. The 
mother died April 6, 1887, aged 80 years, at the 
home of her youngest son, with whom she 
resided after her husband's death. The latter 
was a true son of the land of Tell and, when 



the war came on instilled his principles into his 
sons, all of whom served their adopted land. 

Martin Oswald enlisted at Platteville, July 7, 
1861, under the first call for troops, being then 
14 years, five months and four days old, 
enrolling for three months, but finding that 
quota full and short time- enlistments stopped 
by Order of the War Department, he enlisted 
at Fond du Lac for three years. Musicians were 
in demand and, on it becoming known that he 
played Ijand music he was detailed to the regi- 
mental band and accompanied the 3d Wiscon- 
sin Infantry to Hagerstowu, Md. He was in all 
the movements of that command until his dis- 
charge July 22, 1862, under General Order 
dismissing all regimental bands. He was in 
the fight at Harper's Ferry, went up the Shen- 
andoah Valley to join Banks, fought at Win- 
chester, and went to Front Royal and Little 
Washington, where he was released from mili- 
tary duty. He returned to Platteville and soon 
after went to British Hollow, where his brother 
established a mercantile business, himself being 
employed as clerk. When the 33d Wisconsin 
was organized in 1862, he obtained an appoint- 
ment as Drum-Major in October, but was not 
permitted to go on account of his youth. (He 
was able to go under his previous enlistment 
because he was accompanied by his brother). 
He received his appointment from Governor 
Salomon, and was deeply disappointed over the 
outcome, but he finally went to a clerk's 
position at Dubuque, Iowa, where by dint of 
much persuasion, backed by bis experience, he 
succeeded in enrolling in Company F, 5th Iowa 
Cavalry. The command being in wanf^of a 
bugler, and his understanding that specie 
of instrumental music, proved a decisive point 
and he was taken, although less than 18 years 
old. He started to join his command Feb. 18, 
1864, and was with the regiment until dis- 
charged, having the satisfaction of knowing 



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that lie did not lose a day while in the service, 
and never receiving an injur}', although his 
regiment was in the activities of the raids dur- 
ing the closing montlis of the war in the West. 
Briefly stated, the following principal actions 
manifest the character of the service in which 
he was engaged: — Stragburg and Winchester, 
Va.; Rousseau's raid, Columbus, Tenn., Frank- 
lin, Nashville (last battle) chasing Hood after- 
wards, in the Wilson raid and, when Davis was 
at large, he went back 800 miles to intercept 
him on a possible route. The skir- 
mishes, the weeks passed in the saddle, 
without rations save raw corn and scanty 
supi)lies obtained by foraging in a country 
already stripped of all apparent resources and 
the dangers of being for weeks at a time in 
guerrilla service : — this is the business of a cav- 
alryman whicii always disappears from history 
from causes beyond the control of statisticians 
to depict. His fatlier died wliile he was ab- 
sent and it is but fit that his memory be pre- 
served in view of his allegiance to the cause of 
freedom and equal rights. 

While carrying dispatches from Millard's and 
Wilson's headquarters at Nashville, he was 
fired on by two scouts, his horse being killed 
and he receiving a slight wound, but he es- 
caped to the woods and succeeded in delivoing 
his messages. 

Tlie son Wiehuul had l^een Orderly Sergeant 
in tiie National Guards of Switzerland and, 
after his first discharge, when one of the Wis- 
consin regiments was raised, one of the com- 
panies marching in front of the house, tendered 
him the place of Captain. But his parents 
were alone ; all the others were in the service 
and he remained to watch his father's declin- 
ing years. 

Mr. Oswald was discharged at ('linton, Iowa, 
Aug. 11, 1865. He returned to Dubuque and 
learned the trade of a marble cutter but was 



obliged to abandon the business on account of 
impaired health. He again entered the em- 
ploy of a brother who was in mercantile busi- 
ness at Mt. Hope, Wis., going thence to Bosco- 
bel, working there for Parker, Hildebrand & 
Co., remaining in that connection about five 
years, going next to Fennimore and establish- 
ing trade in his own behalf. He merged his 
business into trade in hardware, which he dis- 
posed of in 1887. In the fall of ISSS he was 
elected Register of Deeds. Politically, he has 
been identified for many years with the inter- 
ests of his locality, and has served on the 
School Board, being specially interested in ed- 
ucational movements. He represented liis vil- 
lage two years on the County Board and wixs 
instrumental in forming the municipal regu- 
lations of Fennimore ; he has acted 10 years as 
delegate to the Republican Count}' Conven- 
tions and also has been delegate to State Con- 
ventions. He was married at Boscobel, to 
Louisa, daughter of Jacob and Mary (Winter- 
ling) Baumgartner. and they liave had four 
children, one dying in infancy. Delphia, Net- 
tie and Wieland survive. MV. Oswald is an 
Odd Fellow and member of the Encampment ; 
he was for two years District Deputy Master of 
all German Lodges in the county and has held 
all official positions in the t)rders to which he 
belongs ; he was also on the staff of National 
Commander Fairchild. He is a man of un- 
common ability and deserves the best repre- 
sentation on these pages for patriotism and cit- 

izenshij). 

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ELSON G. PLANK, Waukesha, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 10, w;is 
born Aug. 22, 1838, in Denmark, 
Lewis Co., New York. His jjarents, Jacob and 
Mary A. (Stiison) Plank, belonged to the agri- 
cultural class and reared their son to a knowl- 



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edge of farming. He is of mixed blood, his 
forefatliers being German and Scotch. His 
paternal grandfather was a soldier in 1812. 
During tlie first months of the war he was 
deeply interested in the course of events and 
determined to enlist, as he observed the neces- 
sit}' of men of understanding being at the front. 
In September, 1801, he enlisted in the 1st New 
York Artillery, rendezvousing at Auburn, 
Cayuga county. He was mustered there, went 
thence to Wasiiington, was there equipped and 
in camp at Capitol Hill during the winter, 
crossed Chain Bridge, went to Alexandria and 
by transport to Fortress Monroe, thence to 
North Hampton, proceeding after two days up 
the .James and Pamunkej^ Rivers to White 
House Landing and to the front at Yorktown, 
taking part in that siege. He fought at 
Williamsburg, went thence to the Peninsula 
campaign, and "On to Richmond," returning 
to Harrison's Landing. While the army lay 
in the swamps of the Cliickahominy, he con- 
tracted malarial disease and was sent to Liberty 
Hall hospital at Harrison's Landing in an 
ambulance. He went immediately after to the 
city of New York by vessel and one day after 
was furloughed. He reported to the hospital 
at All)any and received honorable discharge in 
January, 1863, for general disability. As soon 
as he recovered he enlisted again in Company 
F, 186th New York Infantry, enrolling May 
2.3, 1864. He was mustered in September fol- 
lowing at Sacketts' Harbor, the place of rendez- 
vous, and went thence to Albany and New 
York, by transport to Fortress Monroe, up the 
.James River to City Poi!)t and to the front for 
assignment to the 9th Army Corps. He was a 
participant in the activities in front of Peters- 
burg and fought at Hatcher's Run, where the 
inexperienced members of the regiment ac- 
(juitted themselves with the coolnes^ and 
bravery of veterans and won warm commen- 



dations from the military authorities. He was 
in the assault of April 2d under Col. Bradley 
Winslow on " Fort Damnation " (Fort Mahone) 
where they earned added laurels. Their major 
led the pursuit, after the colonel was wounded, 
and they were identified with the last days of 
the rebellion, witnessing the finale at Appomat- 
tox. He returned to Washington, marched in 
the Grand Review and was mustered out at 
Alexandria under special telegraphic order. 
No. 22, June 2d, 1865. 

He returned to his home and in the fall fol- 
lowing removed to Green Bay, Wis., where he 
was interested in the business of a carpenter 
and joiner until 1886, when he entered the 
employ of the Wisconsin Central railroad cor- 
poration. His profession is that of stationary 
engineer. He was married in April, 1861, to 
Eliza Delawyer of Carthage, N. Y. Their 
children are named Marietta and William. 



^IHp 




GUIS MANZ, Milwaukee, Wis., mem- 
ber of Robert Ciiivas Post No. 2, was 



if born in Undenheim, Germany, April 



9, 1835, and is the son of Peter and Mary C. 
^lanz. His parents were of mixed German 
origin and when he arrived at his majority, 
knowing he was destined for the conscription 
according to the law of his native country, he 
started for America and landed at the port of 
New Y'ork. He arrived June 30, 1856, and re- 
mained there about one year, removing thence 
to Wisconsin. Pie was a resident of Milwau- 
kee county until the enlistment of the German 
regiments, when he decided to enroll in defense 
of his adopted land. He enrolled as a soldier 
Aug. 21, 1862, in Company C, 26th Wisconsin 
Infantry. He was mustered Sept. 17th following 
and on the 6th of October went witii one of 
the boasted regiments of the State to the scene 



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of activities. His command was attached to 
the lltli Corps under Sigel and went immedi- 
ately to duty, marching in November to Gaines- 
ville, and in December he went to take part 
in the operations against Fredericksburg. He 
returned from that fruitless business and was 
afterwards called out to jtarticipate in the 
famous mud campaign, after which the com- 
mand was allowed to pass the remainder of the 
winter in comfortable quarters at Stafford C. H. 
He performed camp duty until the movement 
which resulted in the tight at Chancellorsville 
and on the 27th of April, at midnight, he was 
equipped and ready for the immediate march. 
He crossed the Rappahannock at Kelloy's Ford 
and, on the 29th, the Rapidan at Germania 
Ford. After hard marching he found himself 
in position with his comrades west of Chancel- 
lorsville. His corps was distributed along the 
Fredericksburg road and he was not in action 
until May 2d. In the liot fight of that day lie 
received a bullet in his hand and before he 
could settle his disturbed thoughts, he was be- 
ing hurried to the rear by hordes of rebels. 
There lie found he was a prisoner, but he re- 
inaiiu'd in the place to which he bad lieen 
driven through the night, suffering with his 
hand. He proceeded tlience to a station where 
he received a small quantity of corn meal and 
hired darkies to cook it into a cake. He went 
on to Richmond and, before i)eing incarcerated 
in Libby, was stripped of everything he pos- 
sessed of which a rebel could make u.so. He 
was treated by a surgeon who desired to ampu- 
tate.his hand, but he obstinately refused and it 
was savech In a few weeks lie was exchanged 
with his comrades of the 26tli in captivity and 
they went to the Marine hospital at Annapo- 
lis, whence they went to join their regiment in 
the Army of the Tennessee, wliere it had been 
transferred as a fighting regiment, which that 
location very much needed. lie was a witness 



of the battle of Chattanooga and tried to obtain 
permission to go into the action, but his colonel 
firmly refused to allow him, as he was still suf- 
fering with his hand which was stiff and 
unmanageable. Finallv, March 1, 1864, he 
was transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps 
in which command he remained until Sept. 22, 
1864, when he was discharged at Louisville, 
Ky., with honor. He returned to Milwaukee, 
where he was employed bj- the Government in 
the mail service and he has been a capable 
and reliable carrier since his appointment in 
April, 1865. He is a prominent member of 
the Carriers' Association, in which he has held 
several positions of responsibility. He was 
married May 14, 1865, to Augusta Thomas and 
their children are named Augusta L., Louis A., 
Emil S., Carl T. and Edmund. 

HARLES H. BAXTER, a merchant of 
Lancaster, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 132, was born at Stillwater, 
Saratoga Co., New York, Nov. 15, 1841. His 
father. Dr. Hiram Baxter, was born in the State 
of New York and married Elizabeth Decker, 
both being natives of Schoharie county. In 
the paternal line the family is of English 
descent, tracing to Richard Baxter, author and 
minister, whose name is inseparably connected 
with Christian literature. The mother was of 
Holland Dutch lineage, being descended from 
ancestors who settled in the Mohawk \'alley. 
Dr. Baxter removed to Lancaster in 1856 and 
was engaged in farming and in the practice of 
medicine as long as be lived, his death oc- 
curring in 1866, when he was about 61 years 
old. The mother died at Lancaster in 1865. 
Their family included four sons. William 
died at Lancaster in 1885; he was a druggist; 
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Wisconsin Infantry ; Mr. Baxter of this sketch 
was tlie third ; H. E. Baxter of Grant county 
is tlie youngest. 

Mr. Baxter was in boyhood wlien he came to 
Wisconsin and received sucli education in the 
common schools as was possible at that period 
for the sons of farmers who assisted in the 
labors of the farm. In 1860 he obtained a 
position in a store in Lancaster and was there 
occupied vuitil the second year of tlie war, 
when he determined to become a soldier. In 
August, 1862, he enrolled in Company C, 25th 
Wisconsin Infantry, from Lancaster and was 
mustered at La Crosse. He went to the frontier 
service in Minnesota, where the Indians were 
troublesome, his company being stationed at 
Sauk Center and in the dead of winter orders 
to report to Madison were received and the 
command marched the entire distance in the 
excessive cold, subsisting as the soldiers in the 
South did, on the country, and securing such 
quarters as was possible. In February the 
regiment proceeded to Columbus, Ky., and, on 
the 27th of April started for Cape Girardeau, 
preparatory to proceeding to the .siege of Vicks- 
burg. They mai'ched through the Yazoo val- 
ley to Snyder's Bluff, remaining there and 
guarding the river until ordered to Helena, 
where a large number of the regiment were 
seized with illness, contracted in the malarial 
district in wliicli they had been stationed, 
after being reared in the wholesome atmo- 
sjjliere of Wisconsin. What the climate left 
undone, was finished by the heat and in August 
only 90 men were fit for duty. Mr. Baxter 
was in the sui)sequent movements of the com- 
mand until he was seized with chronic diarrhea 
and taken to Mound City, Illinois, and was in 
the hospital until his discharge in August. 
He returned to Lancaster and remained until 
the spring of 1864, when he had so far recov- 
ered as to again enroll as a soldier, and he 



enlisted in Company A, 41st Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and was mustered into service at Camp 
Washburn, Milwaukee. He accompanied the 
regiment to Memj)his, Tenn., where he per- 
formed duty througli the summer. He served 
on detached duty at the heaflquarters of the 
Adjutant, being appointed a little later on the 
staff of General Washburn, doing duty at head- 
quarters until he was mustered out in Septem- 
ber, 1864. He again returned to Lancaster 
and in January, 1865, he received a Captain's 
commission and was assigned to Company K, 
47th Wisconsin Infantry. He was onlj' 23 
years old and was one of the youngest men in 
the Wisconsin troops to hold that rank. He 
did yeoman duty in enrolling, recruiting 150 
men in two days. After organization at Madi- 
son orders were received to report to General 
Thomas at Nashville and the command was 
stationed at Tullahoma, where Mr. Baxter as 
ranking officer was frequently in command of 
the regiment. Later he was detached and 
made Chief of Ordnance of the Middle District 
of Tennessee on the staff of General Milroy. 
After his chief was mustered out. Captain 
Baxter was transferred to the staff of General 
Van Cleve and held his former position 
throughout the remainder of his term. He 
was mustered out at Nashville and returned 
to Madison to be finally relieved of military 
obligations. The quality of courage and dar- 
ing exhil)ited by Mr. Baxter was the cause of 
his advancement from the ranks ; he was a 
peculiarly boyish looking individual in youth 
which always militated against his progress to 
distinction and it was frequently remarked 
that he was one of the boj^ captains of the 
army. After his return to Lancaster he en- 
gaged in business with George Howe in the 
sale of merchandise, and he has since continued 
in that interest, the firm now being Charles H. 
Baxter & Co., a son being an associate. The 



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latter conducts a branch store at Fenniniore 
and the business transacted by the firm ranks 
among tlie leading enterprises in that section 
(if the State. In addition to general trade they 
handle coal, lumber, live stock and all other 
articles of traffic incident to tlie locality. They 
own their buildings and are in a flourishing 
condition. 

Mr. Baxter was married in Lancaster, in 
February, 1865, to Maria, daugliter of George 
Howe, who was born in Clinton Co., New York, 
and they have three children — George H. is his 
father's associate ; Laura is a student at the 
University at Madison ; Martha is the young- 
est. Mr. and Mrs. Ba.xter belong to the Con- 
gregational Church ; the former is a Repub- 
lican in political faith and has acted as Chair- 
man of the Central Committee 15 years and as 
a member of the State Central Committee eight 
years; in 1888 he was Mayor of Lancaster. He 
is a Director in the Bank of Grant county at 
Lancaster. He was for ten years President of 
the Southwestern Veterans' Association, eight 
times receiving a unanimous vote for the place. 
He is a substantial citizen and has always been 
identified witli tlie best interests of the com- 
nninity to wliicli he belongs. I 



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ASON W. HALL, Racine, Wis., member 
of (j. A. R. Post No. 17, was born June 
13, 1839, at Verona, Oneida Co., New 
York. He is the son of Ehas and Elizabeth 
(Mills) Hall. Ellas Hall was one of 10 chil- 
dren, his brothers and sisters being named 
Hiram, Dennis, Alonzo, John George, Ethan, 
Almira, Amanda and Cynthia. His father was 
born Nov. 5, 1812, in Rensselaer county. New 
York, and was descended from pure American 
ancestry. His mother was born Feb. 8, 1812, 
and died in September, 1880, at Verona, where 



the father died in 1883. The brother of his 
mother, Benjamin Mills, was in the armory at 
Harper's Ferry at the time of the raid of John 
Brown, who took him prisoner. Her other 
brothers and sisters were named John, Daniel, 
David, James, Nathan, Francis, Catherine, 
Lucy and Amj'. The four last named are the 
sole survivors. The patermil grandfather of 
Mr. Hall was a soldier of 1812. His father's 
family included the following children — Mary, 
Jason, Harriet, Harvey, Melvin, Daniel and 
Emma, and are all living except Harriet and 
Melvin. 

Mr. Hall obtained his education in early j'outh 
at the public schools and was variously occupied 
until he was 21 years of age, when, in 1861, he 
accompanied his uncle, James Mills, to Janes- 
ville, Wis., to learn the sash, door and blind 
business. This purpose was thwarted by his 
entering the army. He enlisted in June, 1861, 
in Company B, 13th Wisconsin Infantry, and 
was mustered September Otli at Janesvilie 
at Camp Tredway. He was made First Ser- 
geant prior to his leaving for the front, whicli 
he did Jan. 18, 1862. He accompanied the 
regiment in all its fruitless marching from 
Fort Leavenworth to Fort Scott, to Lawrence 
and to Fort Riley, to take a part in two expe- 
ditions which came to naught, and went down 
the river to Columbus, Ky., where they per- 
formed guard duty until August, when they 
went to Fort Henry and later to Donelson. 
Mr. Hall fought at Rickett's Hill and marched 
to Donelson afterwards, a distance of 70 miles. 
Until the last of October he jiorformed military 
duty as a scout and in fighting the guerrillas 
and bushwhackers under Morgan. He chased 
the rebel chief to Ilopkinsville and fought 
Woodward at (jarrcttsville, returning to Fort 
Donelson and Fort Henry after a long and 
wearisome march. He was in a chase after 
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double quick to reinforce Fort Donelson. In 
August his regiment started for a march of 
nearly 300 miles to Stevenson, Ala., and de- 
fended that point until assistance came, and 
there Mr. Hall encountered one of the sharpest 
experiences of the war, as the troop was 
in danger of starvation from supplies being cut 
oft'. The winter was spent at Nashville, where, 
Jan. 4, 18G4, Mr. Hall was discharged to re- 
enlist the following day, and after taking his 
furlough he returned to Nashville. The regi- 
ment was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 4th Divi- 
sion, 20th Army Corps, a,nd did picket, guard, 
post and garrison duty in Northern Alabanra, 
performing every variety of military duty ex- 
cept lighting in regular battle, with the pur- 
pose of preventing rebel interference with the 
plans of Sherman. In May, 1863, Mr. Hall 
had been made Sergeant Major, and when he 
re-enlisted he retained that position. The 
liead(juarters of the regiment were at Hunts- 
ville, Ala., and, Jan. 16, 1865, he was commis- 
sioned Captain of Company B. He remained 
with the company about two weeks when he was 
detailed as Commissary on the stalf of General 
T. J. Wood, the regiment having been assigned 
to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 4th Corps, 
General Beattie, Commander of the brigade, 
General Stanley, Corps Commander and Gen- 
eral Wood in command of the division. He 
acted in his new capacity until about July 1st, 
when he rejoined his company and was imme- 
diately detailed as Quartermaster, a position on 
the staff of General Stanley. He accompanied 
the corps to Indianola, Texas, where the com- 
mand disemlmrked for a long and painful 
march to headquarters at San Antonio. Mr. 
Hall operated there as Q. M. of Sub. Dis. of San 
Antonio, Texas, on the staff of General D. L. 
Stanley until his discliarge Nov. 24, 1865, but 
remained in the department until April, 1866, 
engaged in the adjustment of the business per- 



taining to the late command. He returned to 
Wisconsin and soon aftei- went to St. Louis, re- 
turning to Janesville, and, Dec. 1, 1866, he en- 
tered upon the duties of his relations to the 
American Express Company, which he has 
since conducted at various places in Minnesota 
and since November, 1883, at Racine. Mr. 
Hall is a member of several branches of the 
Masonic Order, including Lodge, Knights Tem- 
plar and Commandery. In all his relations — 
in business, socially and as a citizen — he has 
discharged the obligations of his manhood 
uprightly and with honor. As a soldier, he 
was one of the best. His abilities, his sturdy 
adherence to the obligations of duty and his 
firm, reliable character made him a valuable 
adjunct to his command and his genial tem- 
perament and evident good fellowship with all 
made him prominent and popular in all iiis 
relations with men. 

He was married Oct. 22, 1878, to Martha J., 
daughter of J. C. Foster of Verona, New York. 
Their only child is named Lillian Edna. 



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\^\ lis. MARY HUTCHINS, widow of 
Ward S. Hutchins, a soldier of 



residing at Monti- 



C. t.VV^ J^ J]jg gjyj] ^y.j,. 

cello, Wis., was born in Franklin Co., New Jer- 
sey, Sep. 9, 1823. Her parents, Filamon and 
Mary (Sarch) Parcel, settled in Franklin Co., 
Ohio in 1830, going thence to Mercer county 
and residing there until the daughter had 
grown to womanhood ; her mother died there 
at the age of 36 years and her father took an- 
other wife, removing to Iowa, where he died, 
aged about 63 years. Eight children were the 
issue of the first marriage ; Swain, Charles and 
Anderson were the names of the sous ; Ander- 
son was a soldier in an Iowa regiment in the 
civil war ; one sister of Mrs. Hutchins, Cynthia, 
is still living. 



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The first marriage of Mrs. Hutchins occurred 
in Mercer Co., Oliio, where slie became the wife 
of Porter Pratt iu 1840 and removed to Green 
Co., Wisconsin, in 1844, when they located on 
tlie farm now occupied by Mrs. Hutchins, 
situated on tlie border of Monticello. Mr. 
Pratt died there in November, 1852, five chil- 
dren having been born to him and his wife. 
Oliver is the oldest ; Ruth Hulda is deceased ; 
Mary Melissa married Sidney Braden who was 
a soldier in a AVisconsin regiment; Nancy and 
James are the two youngest and the latter is 
tlie manager of the farm. Oliver was a soldier 
in the 5th Wisconsin Battery and lost his health 
in the service; he was with Sherman through 
his campaigns. 

In 1855 her marriage to Mr. Hutchins took 
place. He was the son of Samuel Hutchins and 
his family never came to Wisconsin. Mr. 
Hutchins enlisted Sep. 14, 1861, in Company E, 
13th Wisconsin Infantry, and served with his 
regiment until seixed with fatal illness. He 
came liome on sick leave July lU, 1802, and 
died April 28, 1863. Several times lie believed 
himself so far recovered as to be able to rejoin 
his regiment but always returned home before 
reaching the command. 

Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Hutchins, of whom the youngest, Charles, died 
nine days before his father, when about 18 
months old. Cynthia married William Mur- 
phy of Monticello; Sarah is the wife of E. A. 
Loveiand. Mrs. Hutchins is approaching the 
period allotted for human life, but is still in 
womanly vigor and with faculties undimmed 
by encroaching age and the sorrows of loss 
and deprivation uhicii slie has encountered; 
she is one of the pioneer women who have ad- 
ded their quota to the help the country needed. 



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T^s, EE McMURTREY, Richland Center, 

I|0 ^^'®-' ™^'"^®'' ^^ ^- '^- ^- Post No. 

l—^ 33, was born April 15, 1840, in 
Wayne, La Fayette Co., Wis. His father and 
mother, James W. and Abi (Williams) Mc- 
Murtrey were natives respectively of Georgia 
and Ohio ; were reared and married in Illinois 
and removed to Wisconsin in 1838, ten years 
prior to its admission as a State and where they 
were, in every sense, pioneers. The father 
spent his life in the pursuit of agriculture and 
died in 1850. The family included four sons, 
three of whom became soldiers, and one 
daughter, the youngest. Amy, wife of Everett 
Wilson, of Green Co., Iowa. Joseph, the oldest, 
was a soldier in Company F, 16th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, enlisted Dec. 12, 1861, was wounded at 
Shilob and discharged August 1, 1862; he re- 
sides at Windom, Minn. Thomas lives in Cali- 
fornia. John was a soldier in the 5th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry and was killed in leading the 
charge at Marye's Heights with his company. 
May 3, 1862. 

Mr. McMurtrey was ten years old when his 
father died and when he was 13 he undertook 
the care of his own existence, becoming self- 
supporting and conducting his own affairs 
after that agi'. Until he entered the army he 
was occupied with farming and, as soon as pos- 
sible after the attack on Fort Sumter, lie 
enrolled as a soldier, enlisting at Darlington, 
April 24, 1861, in Company H, 3d Wisconsin 
Infantry. From the date of his enrollment 
the experiences of the regiment were his until 
the battle of Cedar Mountain, Aug. 9, 1862, 
when a rebel bullet changed his relations to his 
command and established a new order of things 
in wiiicli the rebels took a direct part. Mr. 
McMurtrey left the State July 12th for Hagers- 
lown, Md., went to Harper's Ferry, thence to 
Frederick to rout the make-believe legislature 
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Valley of the Shenandoah and participated in 
the actions of that campaign until the battle 
of Cedar Mountain in which he was wounded 
and captured. He was taken to Libby prison 
at Richmond and afterwards to Belle Isle 
where he was paroled Sept. loth, and exchanged 
on the 27th, rejoining his regiment in October 
at Maryland Heights. The regiment was in 
the 12th Corps and was rear guard of the Army 
of the Potomac. Mr. McMurtrey did patrol 
duty on the upper Potomac, was in the cam- 
paign in the winter to the Rappaliannock, 
returning to Stafford C. H. He was in the 
movement April 27th to the Rappahannock 
and in line of battle at Chancellorsville May 1st 
with his regiment and received a bullet in his 
le<r. He was on the field without assistance 12 
days, except a little water given him by the 
rebels and almo.st without food. On the 12th 
day ambulances were sent from the Union lines 
under flag of truce for the wounded on the 
field and he was taken to field hospital and 
thence to Corps hospital where he remained a 
month, going thence to Fairfax Seminary 
hospital and five days later to Chestnut Hill 
hospital in Philadelphia where he was cared for 
until the expiration of his term of enlistment, 
when he was discharged June 22, 1864, and 
sent home. 

He located at Richland Center and in 1865 
established his business as a stock buyer and 
butcher which, with good judgment and wis- 
dom he has since prosecuted, verifying the 
principle that effort in a given direction per- 
sistently followed, leads to success. His record 
as a soldier and citizen has been of the best. 
In the foi'mer capacity he stood to his guns, 
passing through every possible experience of 
war, wounded and a jirisoner, wounded and 
starving and suffering on the field where he 
was stricken down and after weary months in 
hospital returned home to conduct an honorable 



and useful career as a business man. He is 
respected in his generation as he merits. He is 
of Scotch descent, the name in the old country 
being spelled McMurtrie and he is allied to the 
\"irginia "Lees," from whom conies his christ- 
ened name. 

He was married at Richland Center Jan. 6, 
1867, to Marie J., daughter of Thomas Lindley, 
a native of Ohio and Melissa (Soule) Lindley, a 
native of New York. Their two children are 
named Amy Belle and Marvin. The former is 
the wife of E, S. Glasier of Richland Center. Mr. 
McMurtrey is a member of the Masonic Order ; 
his wounds have been a source of trouble to 
him since the war, pieces of bone continuing 
to work out of his leg for 11 years after receiv- 
ing his injury. 

EV. CHARLES T. BURNLEY of 
Hudson, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 151, was born Sept. 15, 1846, 
at Nottingham, England. His father, Samuel 
Burnley, was a manufacturer of woolen goods 
in England. He married Sarah Taylor and 
emigrated with his family to America and the 
United States in the year following the birth of 
his son — 1847. He located in the city of New 
York and there established his business as a 
maker of cloth. Charles is the oldest son and 
child ; Selina married Louis Kleinfieldt ; Sarah 
E. died in childhood ; Isabella died in infancy ; 
George is still living. The father died in 1861, 
in Oneida county, New York, and the mother 
is living at Council Bluffs, Iowa. The business 
of the senior Burnley was seriously injured by 
the financial stringencies of 1856 and his son 
felt it his duty to assume the responsibility of 
maintaining himself, and he became a farm 
assistant at the age of 14 years on a farm 
owned by his father. Subsequently he went 




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to Little Falls tuid obtained employment in a 
woolen mill, having a fair understanding of 
Ills father's vocation. When lie was !(> years 
old he decided to go into the army and en- 
listed July 25, 1803, at New York, went to 
rendezvous at Staten Island and was mustered 
into service in the following month in Com- 
pany C, 18th New York Cavalry. Soon after 
receiving cavalry equipments the • regiment 
went to Washington to Camp Stoneman and 
passed the winter in ])erfecting their knowledge 
of military tactics and, during the time went 
on a cavalry raid to Fairfax C. H., and also to 
Port Tobacco. Mr. Burnley was made Corporal 
while in Camj) Stoneman. In the spring of 
18(>4 the 18th Cavalry embarked for New 
Orleans from Alexandria, Va., to join the expe- 
dition of Banks uj) the Red River. Mr. Burn- 
ley, as Sergeant, experienced all the vicissi- 
tudes and disasters of the ill-fated expedition, 
fighting at odds at Sabine Cross Roads and 
Pleasant Hill, and skirmished at the numerous 
places where the retreat was harassed by rebels 
of the most malicious type. At Grand Ecore, 
the boats conveying the command were stuck 
fast in the rapid and narrow stream, liually be- 
ing released through the ingeimity of Colonel 
Davis of Wisconsin. On this campaign Mr. 
Burnley exhausted 16 horses, being almost con- 
stantly engaged in scouting and skirmishing. 
At Morganzia Bend a halt was made and there 
tlie last action occurred with the rebels, who 
had constantly harassed the rear of tlie retreat- 
ing troops. Thence the command wmt to 
Algiers. At Pleasant Hill the regiment had 
been under fire from early morning until about 
10 o'clock, in a position in the center; the com- 
mand was relieved by the 8th Wisconsin, 
which lost 80 men within 15 minutes. During 
the fight Uen. A. .1. Smith had gotten matters 
into a position in which he felt certain of vic- 
tory, when a courier arrived with a message 



from Banks, ordering a retreat. General 
Smith made a few remarks whicli sounded 
badly to ministerial ears, but obeyed. At 
Grand Ecore, Mr. Burnley, with a detachment, 
went to an island on a scout and succeeded 
in securing a considerable amount of jtrop- 
erty, leaving a conn-ade named McCauley as 
guard. The expedition continued down the 
river leaving the man, McCauley. Mr. Burnley 
stating the fact to an officer, he was informed 
that nothing could be done in the case. Mr. 
Burnlej' told him if he would give him one 
man he would bring him away in safety. He 
was told that it would be at the risk of his life, 
but he went and returned after dark in safety 
with the guard. On aj)proacliing one of the 
Union pickets he was ordered to halt and give 
the password ; not hearing the order at first, he 
nearly lost his life, but the man behind gave the 
alarm in time to save him. From Algiers the 
regiment went to Thibodeaux, turned over 
their horses and rested several weeks, the com- 
mand being much reduced. Only seven men 
of his compan)^ were fit for duty. The next 
move was to Bonnet Carre, where Mr. Burnley 
was transferred to Company E and made Quar- 
termaster's Sergeant. They went thence to New 
Orleans and to Carleton to camp. Orders were 
next received for the regiment to obtain their 
mount and secure horses wherever they could 
find them. This seemed a novel phase of war, 
but he was stationed with his detail at the en- 
trance of the St. Charles theater, New Orleans, 
and when the coaches drew uji filled with 
ladies they calmly removed the horses and took 
them to camp for the use of Uncle Sam. Or- 
ders were to take all horses not attached to 
drays or express wagons. After some drill of 
the unaccustomed steed.s, the regiment sttirted 
on another Red River expedition on transports. 
Soon, intelligence of the surrender of Lee 
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of Kirby Smith. ^\'lnle moving up the river 
tlie}' saw several dead bodies of soldiers floating 
down, killed as was supposed on the exploded 
boats. At Shreveport orders were received to 
go across the country through Texas, and the 
regiment marched through Austin and thence 
to San Antonio and to camj). There Mr. Burn- 
ley was mu.'^tered out Oct. 7, 1865, on account 
of disability caused by a hurt while on his first 
expedition uj) the river. On the route to 
Grand Ecore he was crowded over the edge of 
a bluff and fell with his horse 15 feet; the 
animal was killed and himself injured, but he 
believes the accident saved his life, for, on 
the following day an engagement was had with 
the enemy and the Sergeant who took his place 
was killed. 

After returning from the war he worked a 
year or two in the Globe Woolen Factory at 
Utica, N. Y. He then went to Whitestown 
Seminary to enter upon a preparatory course 
for college. He entered Hamilton College in 
the fall of 1869 and was graduated with the 
class of 73. In the fall of 1872 he w'as elected 
Commissioner of Schools on the Greeley ticket 
and served three years in that capacity in 
Oneida county. After completing his collegiate 
course and serving out his official term he en- 
tered Aui)urn Theological Seminary and was 
graduated thence in 1879. April 22d of that 
3'ear he was ordained by the Cayuga Presbytery 
and installed as pastor at Sennett. He re- 
mained there eight years when he received a 
call to Willmar, Minn., where he located in the 
fall of 1885. He officiated there until Julj', 
1888, when he accepted tiie charge of the Presby- 
terian church at Hudson, Wis. He has been 
its pastor only a short time, but has already 
made his influence felt in the progress of the 
society. He is a man of energy and piety and 
one whose methods and manners insure his 
popularity and efficacy. 




He was married July 2, 1873, at Pascoag, R.- 
I., to Grace, daughter of Rev. Mowryand Sally 
S. (Sargent) Phillips. Their children are 
named Plarold E., John P. and Charles T., Jr. 
The father of Mrs. Burnley was a native of the 
State of New York and her mother of Massa- 
chusetts. Her mother is Jiving at Pro\ndence, 
R. I. In both lines of descent she is of Eng- 
lish lineage. 

NTHONY LAWRENCE, member of C. 

A C. AVashburn Post No. 11, Madison, 
Wis., w-as born Dec. 4, 184.3, in the 
Canton of Graubuenden, Switzerland, and is the 
sou of Jacob and Margaret Lawrence. His 
father was a native born "Switzer," and reared 
his son in his own business of tanner and 
currier and later, the latter performed the 
duties of a clerk in Jiis brother's grocery. 

As was common with the children of Switzers, 
the immortal principles of liberty established 
by William Tell in his native land were 
instilled into his mind from his earliest con- 
sciousness, and when the Civil War came on in 
America the excitement in the Swi.ss Republic 
was very great and awakened in Mr. Lawrence 
an interest in the outcome which grew deeper 
as the months of the conflict rolled away. In 
1862 he put into practical operation his grow- 
ing resolution to proceed to America to take an 
active part in the Great Struggle. Sympathiz- 
ing with the North, he entered the country 
through the port of New York, and went 
thence to Philadelphia with the purpose of 
enlisting l)Ut decided to proceed to Madison 
wdiere a brother resided. He found the 
enthusiasm of war at its height; the barracks 
in the city were crowded with soldiers and 
throngs of men in uniform paraded the streets. 
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veteran furlough Mr. Lawrence determined to 
enter its ranks and he enrolled January 1st in 
Company F, and Feb. 4,1864, he accompanied 
tlie command from the State. The regiment 
went into camp at Fayetteville, Tenn., on the 
lolli, where Mr. Lawrence performed general 
military duty and assisted in the restoration of 
law and order. More than 1,(500 citizens 
of Lincoln county took the oath of amnesty. 
Mr. Lawrence also partook of the experiences 
of guerrilla warfare until the following spring, 
wlien the regiment was assigmd to the 2d 
Brigade, 1st Division, 20th Army Corps. 

General Thomas H. Kuger, formerly colonel 
of the 3d Wisconsin, was in command of tlie 
brigade and on the 27th of April the regiment 
started to join the army, wliich was being con- 
centrated, preparatory to the Atlanta campaign. 
They made connection therewith near Buzzard's 
Roost afler a march of 120 miles. Five days 
later Mr. Lawrence found himself confronting 
the rebel forces at Resaca and was in the action 
two days later, which resulted in a Union vic- 
tory. The charge was made on the extreme 
left, the position of the "3d," which received 
the rebel advance in a manner which placed 
the command in a high rank on the roll of 
fame. The next day the rebels were in full 
retreat, followed by the Union army and the 
conflict was again renewed in the vicinity of 
Dallas. Tn the battle there, ^fay 25, 1864, the 
regiment again distinguished itself, its loss in 
killed and wounded being 111. Mr. Lawrence 
was again in action at Pine Knob, fought at 
Powder Springs and in the heavy skirmisliing 
at Kenesaw Mountain. (During the latter 
operations the 3d Wisconsin was almost con- 
stantly in the line of battle and exposed to 
rebel fire.) He fought at Peach Tree Creek 
July 22d and was in front under fire several 
days until the evacuation of .Atlanta on the 
first of September. Mr. Lawrence had been in 



incessant service since May, receiving injuries 
l)ut remaining with his command. In Novem- 
ber the regiment started under Sherman for 
Savannah, arriving at Milledgeville on the 
27th, the city being entered by the od Wiscon- 
sin and the 107th New York, the flag of the 
former being raised on tiie Capitol. Moving 
onward, the column camped near Savannaii, 
December 22d, and soon after the Northern 
movement commenced. At Robertsville, S. C, 
Mr. Lawrence was in a skirmish and fought at 
Averysljoro and Bentonville. They went to 
Goldsboro and Raleigh where news of the sur- 
render of Lee was received and where the capit- 
ulation of Johnston took place. Three days 
after the movement toward Washington began 
and Mr. Lawrence was in the Grand Review at 
the National Capital. 

He was mustered out at Nhulison, July 17, 
1865, and located in the cajiital city of Wiscon- 
sin, which has since been his place of residence, 
and wdiere he has operated as a machinist. 
He is a member of the Order of Odd Fellows. 
Lizzie Reitberger, a native of Switzerland, be- 
came his wife May 11, 1870, and two of their 
children, named Oscar and Mollie, are deceased. 
The surviving are named Anthony, Mollie (2d), 
Louise, Edward, Lillian, Reuljen and Caroline. 
The parents are members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Mr. Lawrence is a Republican in 
politics ; he receives a pension. 

^f'^^^ ( )TTFR 1 FA) 1 .ENGST A DT, La Crosse, 
^p Wis., a member of G. A. R. Post No. 



38, was born Oct. 18, 1835, in Neheim, 
Westphalia, Germany. His father, Nathan 
Lengstadt, was born in the same jirovince in 
1800, anil marrietl Henrietta Gottschaik, who 
was born in 1799; their respective deaths oc- 
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were named in successive order, Bertie, Jo- 
hanna, Elias, Isaac, Joel, Gottfried, Herman and 
Max. 

Mr. Lengstiidt was educated according totlie 
laws of his native land, attending school until 
the age of 14 years, when he went to an ap- 
prenticeship to learn the business of a saddler 
and, after serving his time, operated as journey- 
man. In 1861 he emigrated to the United 
States, landing in July at Baltimore, Md., 
whence he went to Wisconsin and engaged in 
work at his trade in West Bend. After a few 
months he went to La Crosse where lie worked as 
a saddler until he entered the army of the land 
in which he had sought a favorable chance to 
enjoy the rights of manhood. His understand- 
ing of the situation was manifest from his 
speedy adoption of the troubles as well as the 
privileges of the country and he was mustered 
into U. S. service in .January, 1862, in Company 
H, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry under Col. C. C. 
Washburn. In March he started for St. Louis 
and arrived on the 26th, after two days' travel. 
After receiving equipments, the regiment went 
to Jefferson City, Mo., and marched thence to 
Springfield and from there the battalion of Mr. 
Lengstadt went to join the command of Gen- j 
era! Curtiss at Augusta, Ark. July Sth he was 
in his first action at Cotton Plant, fighting in 
the early morning, tlie regiment losing several 
men. The next move was to Helena, which 
was reached on the 12th and for nine months 
the command remained there, scouting and 
raiding and engaged in cavalry service of mis- 
cellaneous character. In one of these, the bat- 
tle of Oakland was fought in which Mr. Leng- 
stadt was a participant. i 

The action was lively as the rebels were the I 
celebrated Texan Rangers. Orders were re- 
ceived to connect witli the troops en route for 
the fight at Arkansas Post but the action was 
over before the detail arrived. In February, 



1863, the movement to Memphis was effected 
and four months were passed there before the 
command moved to take part in the invest- 
ment of Vicksburg. The colonel had been pro- 
moted to Major-General and the regiment, on 
going to Vicksburg reported to him in com- 
mand of the cavalry' forces around Vicksburg, 
taking position at Snyder's Bluff, Company H 
acting as the body guard of General Washburn. 
Tlie company remained there on duty until 
the siege was over and after the surrender Mr. 
Lengstadt was ill with chronic diarrhea and 
was sent home on a furlough. After a few 
months he reported to Madison for examina- 
tion ; he was determined to rejoin his command 
and pursuaded the doctor that there was noth- 
ing the matter with him and that he desired 
to return to his regiment as quickly as possible 
and rejoined his company at Vicksburg, where 
he re-enlisted in 1864. After a veteran fur- 
lough he returned to Vicksburg and was made 
Orderly Sergeant and remained in the vicinity 
several months, performing desultory military 
duty with a cavalry regiment. He went on 
scouts and raids and also foraged, receiving 
promotion in June, 1864, to 2d Lieutenant of 
Company H, for excellent conduct. Two 
months later he was promoted to 1st Lieuten- 
ant and assumed command of Company H. 
When Sherman organized his Meridian expedi- 
tion Lieutenant L.engstadt accompanied and 
participated in all the work of destruction and 
in December was with Colonel Dale in his 
famous fight at Yazoo City, and where the gal- 
lant and reckless commander received a severe 
wound while cutting the way out of the ene- 
my's power, the rebel force greatly outnumber- 
ing. Returning to Vicksburg on boats the 
command went subsequently to Memphis, built 
barracks, scouted and skirmished, foraged and 
went on expeditions witli Grierson and other 
leaders until after the surrender of Lee, when, 



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ill June, tlie regiment was ordered to Alexan- 
dria to report to General Sheridan. The com- 
mand made a long march through Louisiana 
and Texas to Hempstead and thence to Aus- 
tin to be mustered out Nov. lath. Mr. Leng- 
stadt was discharged at Madison and there 
paid off. 

He was murried March 15, 18GG, at Cincin- 
nati to Lena, daughter of J. Coleman, and tliey 
have three children named Nathan, Albert and 
Otto. Mrs. Lengstadt is a Houthern ladv with 
whom her husband became acquainted wliile 
a soldier in the Union service. He is a travel- 
ing salesman in the interests of Seebach, Levi 
& Lampert, of New York. He is independent 
in politics and receives a pension. 



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OBERT L. BURNS, Delavan, Wi.s., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 6, was 
born in Yates Co., New York, Sept. 
27, 1841. His paternal grandfatlier was ])oin 
ill Scotland and married an American lady 
who was born in New York. Henry and 
Hannah (VVillard) Burns, the parents of Roliert, 
were natives of tlie State of New York and 
moved to Wisconsin in 1845, when their son 
was four years old, and located at Big Foot 
Prairie, Walworth county, on a farm, where he 
was reared with six Ijrotjiers and sisters, of 
wiioin he is the oldest. The father is still liv- 
ing; the demise of the mother occurred in 
December, 1885. Mr. Burns remained on his 
father's farm until ho was of age and he then 
fulfilled a determination which he had made 
at the outset of the war to enlist and he did so 
Aug. 2, 1862, in €omi)any C, !)5th Illinois 
Infantry, an<l wont info rendezvous witli liis 
regiment at Rockford, wliere he remained 
until the command went to join the Army of 
the West and aftiT being with the 'Jotli six 




months he was transferred to Battery M, 1st 
Missouri Light Artillery and in connection with 
this he was a participant in 24 engagements, 
of which the following statement gives an out- 
line, and shows the variety and character of the 
service he performed : they include Tallahat- 
chie, Brownsville, Miss., Richmond, La., Champ- 
ion's Hill, Miss., Siege of Vicksburg, 15 
engagements with Bank's Red River expedition 
under Gen. A. J. Smitii, Sabine Cross Roads, 
Pontotoc, Harrisburg and Town Creek, Miss. 

He was finally mustered out June 7, 18()5 at 
Memphis, Tenn., after the close of the war and 
returned to Wisconsin, where he resumed the 
business of a farmer, after a military service of 
nearly three years. He has since been occu- 
pied on his farm at tlie head of Geneva Lake. 

He was married Nov. 5, 1865, to Maria, 
daughter of Abram and Betsey (Finkle) Har- 
dendorf, who were natives of the State of New 
York. Mrs. Burns was born in Montgomery 
county and went to Wisconsin with her parents 
when about IS years old. She was married in 
Walworth county and is the inotlier of four sons 
and six daughters, named in order of birth 
Cora M., Carlos H., Josie E., George R., Alice 
M., Artiiur \l., Anna M., Jessie P., Nellie and 
Robert E. 



fRA T. HUMISTON, a retired farmer, 
resident at Moiiticello, Wis., and a mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 113, was born 
Dec. 19, 1824, in Allegany Co., New York. His 
paternal grandfather, John llumiston, was a 
soldier of tlie Revolution and Abijah Heden, 
maternal grandfather, fought in 1812 and was 
killed at Sacketts' Harbor ; his widow married 
Captain Daniel Tabor, in the same service. 
The parents, Chauncey and Eunice (Heden) 
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York and were botli of old Holland Dutch an- 
cestors. The father was a clotliier by profes- 
sion and was drowned in the Genesee river in 
New York while bis son was in early cliild- 
hood. The mother was twice married after his 
death and in 1868, becoming a third tinu' a 
widow, she came to the home of lier son in 
Wisconsin, where she died in July, 1868. Mr. 
Humiston is the oldest of her children ; Henry 
A. was born Oct. 30, 1826, and served in the 
Mexican war, dying in July, 1862, of diseases 
contracted there ; Daniel T., born Sept. 3, 1831, 
died Sept. 15, 1840 ; Sarah A. married William 
A. Hicks ; she was born April 1, 1829. 

Mr. Humiston was 8 years old when his 
father died and be was bound (according to 
custom) to Dr. William Stockton of Chautauqua 
Co., New York, living with him until 1838, 
when he took the management of his future 
into his own bands. He tried bis fate and 
fortune in many places, working six summers 
on the Erie and Ohio canal and learning his 
trade of blacksmith in tlie winters. In 1847 
he established himself at Westtield, New York, 
working at his trade until the next year when 
he formed a partnership with a man named 
Wilson at Bucklin's Corners, Chautauqua Co., \ 
New York, and about a year and a half later 
went into business alone, locating at Poland j 
Center for two years. In tlie sj)ring of 1852 be i 
went to Toweville and worked at bis trade 
until April 27, 1856, when he removed to 
Monticello, Wis. There he was in partnership 
with E. C. Fessenden and afterwards with A. 
S. Holway, which arrangement continued until 
1861, when, November 7th, Mr. Humiston en- 
listed in Company I, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry. 
He was mustered at Milwaukee, went thence to 
St. Louis, Jefferson City and Springfield, Mo. 
At Jacksonport on the White River, the regi- 
ment formed a junction with the division of 
General Curtiss, taking a heavy supply train to 



that commander and engaged in severe fight- 
ing to make the transit safely with the needed 
supplies. July 8, 1862, while near Cotton Plant, 
Mr. Humiston was injured by a severe sun- 
stroke, to which he refused to yield and went 
into the action at Cotton Plant on the following 
day, which was a great mistake. He w-as at- 
tacked with fever and at Helena was obliged to 
go into the hospital. Leaving Jacksonport, 
the command went to Clarendon, continuing 
cavalry service en route, driving rebels before 
them and capturing the confederates at the last 
named place. Here Mr. Humiston was obliged 
to surrender to disease and withdraw from ac- 
tive cavalry service ; he received an appoint- 
ment from Colonel Stevens to act as Commis- 
sary of the regiment, in which be served until 
discharged. He bad been ma'de Sergeant at 
the organization of his company, bis papers be- 
ing dated Feb. 12, 1862, and signed by C. C. 
Washburn, Colonel, to rank as such from Dec. 
1, 1861. His second papers were dated at 
Helena, Ark., Oct. 13, 1862, to rank from the 
15th of the month and entitling him to author- 
ity over all non-commissioned officers and en- 
listed men of the regiment. The command 
scouted in the vicinity of Helena and in other 
localities until January, 1863, when a move 
was made to Clarendon and St. Charles, thence 
to Duvall's Bluft'and Helena, where they went 
into camp and, March 1st, went to Memphis 
where Mr. Humiston was discharged April 17, 
1863. He had acted much of the time as 
Lieutenant and it was the general desire that 
he should be commissioned such, but he de- 
clined. Since his return to private life he has 
not performed much heavy labor, having been 
a sufferer from his disabilities. 

He returned to Monticello and exchanged 
bis village property for a farm near the place, 
where he prospered with the help of bis sons. 
In 1882 be sold the place to his youngest son 



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ami purcliased a home in tlio village to whii'h 
he has retired from active concern inthealUiirs 
of life. He was married at Stockton Corners, 
(Jhautanqua Co., New York, Sept. 6, 184'J, to 
Helen ^L, daughUr of Robert and Sabriiia 
(Coe) Wood worth. She was six years old when 
her parents went to that part of New York and 
she is of Holland Dutch lineage, dating back 
several generations in New York. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hnmistnn have been married 40 years and 
their relations are still as tender as those of 
young lovers. Their children are Robert C, 
born Aug. Jl, lyHl, in Cliautauciua Co., New 
York, and Fred. W., horn in the same place, 
Aug. 31, 1854. Adah is an adopted daughter. 
Mr. llumiston is a charter member of Monti- 
cello Union, F. A. and A. M., No. 155. He is 
prominent in his enthusiasm about the Order 
in whose unwritten work he is thoroughly 
posted. He is universally respected. 



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JOSEPH EIGEL, Milwaukee, Wis., mem- 
ber of Post No. 2, Robert Chivas, was 
born in Muehlhausen, Alsace, Aug. 1, 
1839, and was brought to America in the 
following year by his parents, Hippolyte and 
^hu•y Ann (Hahn) Eigel, coming to Milwaukee. 
In the spring of 1841 they located on a farm 
six miles from the city, where the son grew to 
the age of IS, at which time he resolved to see 
and know of some other locality. He had 
learned the business of a carpenter and went to 
MiiniesoUi, where he remained until 1859, 
when he started for the South. He passed 
some time in St. Louis and Natchez, and finally 
went to Memphis, where he operated until the 
time came for him to makeadeci.sion for North 
or South. He was in the employ of a man 
named Brown, wdio entered the service of the 
confederate government in the capacity of a 



recruiting officer, and was by him informed 
that he must take the oath of allegiance to the 
South or leave the place within 24 hours. He 
finessed in a way in which he believed he 
would secure time to get out of danger, and 
made liis way to St. Paul ; he records that 
words cannot describe his satisfaction on getting 
out of a place such as Memphis had become 
under the new regulations. But his forced 
departure from the place and the excitement 
surrounding him resulting from the condition 
of public att'airs, maile him eager to take a 
hand in matters himself, and he resolved to 
enlist. He ein-olled Sept. 16, 1861, at Newport, 
in Company B, 3d Minnesota Infantry and was 
mustered at Fort Snelling, Nov. 7th, following. 
Soon after he went to Louisville, Ky., and 
thence to Lebanon Junction where he per- 
formed guard duty until the next spring, when 
he went to Belmont. He was occupied in pro- 
tecting railroad property until his command 
was ordered to Nashville into camp. His fii-st 
battle was on the last day of 1862 and the first 
days of 18t)3 at Stone River, after the pursuit of 
Forrest over the Cumberland Mountiiins. He 
was in the action in wliich McMinnville was 
taken and helped raise the Union tlag in the 
town, going afterward to Pikeville. A return 
was made to Stone River or Murfreesboro, which 
Mr. Kigel calls a " wild goose chase" after For- 
rest. During the engagement at Murfreesboro, 
he was wounded by a ball in his right leg and 
was captured by the rebels. He was taken to 
Woodbury, Tenn., where he was paroled and 
returned to Memj)his, his former home, where 
he was in the hospital (No. 2) under treatment. 
On recovering he went to Benton Barracks, St. 
Louis and, alter about a month wsis exchanged, 
going back to recruit at Fort Snelling. While 
there several companies were sent to Northern 
Minnesota to quell the Ci'ow Indians, who were 
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among the number who went. He was a.ssigned 
to the command of General Sibley and sent to 
Fort Ridgely, and thence to Fort Ripley, 
fighting in the Indian campaign in Minnesota 
in 1803. At the fight at Wood Lake he was 
again wounded, a ball striking his left hand 
back of his thumb. He was on his knees at the 
time and thought a comrade had hit his hand 
with the butt of his gun. Pie saw the blood, 
wrapped his hand in a handkerchief and fought 
until the battle was over, using his left forearm 
as a rest until his blouse sleeve was burned to 
the shoulder. With other wounded he returned 
to Fort Snelling where the bullet was cut from 
the palm of his hand. He received honorable 
discharge for permanent disability March 18, 
1863. He was unable to do anything for two 
years, but on recovery resumed his business as a 
carpenter, which he followed until 1869. 
About that year he returned to Milwaukee 
where he is prosperously engaged in the prose- 
cution of his business as a dealer in fiour, feed 
and baled ha3^ Feb. 3, 1869, he was married 
to Rosabella Krueger and they have had eight 
children, one of whom is deceased. Her name 
was Anna Katarina and she was the first-born 
child. The others are named Charles, Joseph, 
Annie Elizabeth, Jacob, Michael, .Joseph, 
Charles, Rosa Katrina, Mary Wilhelmine, 
and Stanislaus. Mr. Eigel is a member of 
the society of St. Anthony. 



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•-^Yv^TlLLIAM H. BLYTON, Sparta, 
^'t^I ^^'is., member of G. A. R. Post 
#M. No. 30, was born Oct. 1, 1842, in 
Franklinville, Cattaraugus Co., New York, 
lie is of mixed Irish and Scotch descent, his 
father and mother, although of American 
birth, representing those nationalities. His 
parents, Thomas W. and Elizabeth (McClure) 



Blyton, had nine children of whom he is the 
oldest. The brothers and sisters were named 
Charles W., Olive (Mrs. Pierce), De Forrest, 
Medora (Mrs. Finley), Manley, De Wilton, 
Mary and Marissa (Mrs. Pitts), and they are 
living with the exception of Manley, Charles 
and Mary. The father of Thomas W. was in the 
war of 1812 ; the latter entered the army during 
the civil war, enlisting in the regiment in 
which he had had two sons, replacing one who 
had been discharged for disability. He enlisted 
Sept. 13, 1864, in Company C, 19th Wisconsin 
Infantry, and joined the regiment in front of 
Richmond. He left the State October 3d, with 
the veterans and was in the reconnoissance 
October 27th at Fair Oaks, in which the regi- 
ment lost all but 80 men and afterwards per- 
formed picket duty until April 3d, 1865, when 
he was in the assault on the city and went in 
with his regiment, the Lieutenant Colonel 
raising the colors of the 19th on the City Hall 
— the first regimental flag that flew in Rich- 
mond. Both parents are still living at Dallas, 
Wis. Charles W. enlisted with his brother, 
passed through the same experience and re- 
mained in the service until discharged for dis- 
ability, June 15, 1863. He returned home and 
died at Sparta in December of the same year. 
The family removed to Sparta in October, 
1854, and there the son attained to manhood, 
obtaining his education and helping his father, 
also operating as a clerk. Jan. 23, 1862, he 
enlisted in Company C, 19tli Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and went into Camp Utley at Racine, 
left there in June and went to Alexandria and 
thence to Fortress Monroe to Camp Hampton 
and after some weeks to Norfolk, where the 
soldiers performed provost and picket duty 
until the attack of Longstreet at Suffolk, 
whither the regiment went April 14, 1863, and 
remained there during the siege until June, 
when the rebels were driven back. They went 



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theuce to Norfolk again and were sent to 
Yorktowu and did military duty in that vicin- 
ity until the middle of August, returning then 
to Newport News where they were assigned to 
picket duty until October Sth. Their next 
orders took them to Newbern, N. C, where they 
were placed on outpost and picket duty until 
April 2(3, 1864, and they engaged in constant 
skirmishing. On that date they went back to 
Yorktown to be assigned to the 1st Division, 3d 
Brigade and IStli Army Corps. May 4th they 
went up the .James in the command of Butler 
and, until the capture of Richmond, the regi- 
ment was in the operations referred to in the 
statements regarding the service of the senior 
Blyton. Mr. Blyton officiated as Commissary 
Sergeant of his company after July 1, 1862, 
and while at Norfolk, Oct. 22, 1864, was made 
1st Lieutenant and assigned as Quartermaster ' 
to the 2d U. S. I. and was sent after the close 
of operations in the East to the frontier ; in 
October, 1865, he was promoted to Quarter- 
master at Fort Randall, Dak. In a fight with 
Indians, Dec. 7, 1865, he was wounded in the 
left arm, the bones of which were broken. He 
remained at Fort Randall until June 20, 1866, 
when he went to Fort Leavenwortii to be 
nmstered out six days later. 

He returned to Sparta and engaged in mer- 
cantile interests until he interested himself in 
insurance business, in which he has since 
o{ierated with satisfactory results. He was 
married at Sparta, Jan. 16, 1864, to Harriet E., 
daughter of William and Harriet Washburn, 
and their only child, Edgar Eugene, is the 
assistant of his father in his business. The 
mother died Nov. 9, 1881, and Mr. Blyton was 
again married June 16, 1883, to Sarah E. 
Burroughs. Mr. Blyton is a Republican and 
officiated as Village Clerk from April, 1870, to 
April, 1883, when he was made City Clerk and 
has held the latter position continuously since, 



(1889.) He was Supervisor of the 2d Ward in 
1884, meanwhile, in 1883, having been elected 
on the Republican ticket to the Assembly of 
Wisconsin and again in 1885 and in 1889. 
(Current year.) Mr. Blyton is a man of excel- 
lent executive abilities, which, with his elevated 
character and integrity, have secured for him 
the confidence of the community of which he 
is a member. He has served on the School 
Board since 1885; he is also a member of 
Sparta Lodge No. 94, Order of Odd Fellows. 



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i^^USEBllS MORSE MILES, Chippewa 



=* Falls, Wis., was born Feb. 15, 1847, 
in Mercer Co., 111. His father, Isaac 
Miles, was a native of Kentucky and a farmer 
and brick manufacturer ; he married Elizabeth 
Watkins and removed with his family to Me- 
nard Co., 111., and later to Mercer county in 
the same State, where he died in 1861 ; his 
wife died in Chicago in 1889. They had ten 
children named in order of birth John, Martha, 
Mary, Elizabeth, Nancy, Isaac, David, Eusebius, 
Sarah and Samuel. Only Elizabeth, Isaac, 
David and Samuel are living besides Mr. Miles 
of this sketch. He is of English extraction in 
the paternal line and German in tlie maternal 
line of descent. Prior to 17 years of age Mr. 
Miles was engaged in obtaining his education 
and in farm labor at home. Feb. 10, 1864, he 
enlisted at Galesburg and was mustered on the 
21st of the month into Company C, 11th Illi- 
nois Cavalry and left Camp Butler at Spring- 
Held for Vicksburg Feb. 29th. A year and a 
half was spent in cavalry duty of the character 
required by the exigencies in that locality in- 
cluding scouting, skirmishing, raiding expe- 
ditions to the Big Black River and the Missis- 
sippi, and in August, 1864, Mr. Miles was de- 
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man selected from his company for this duty 
lie acted as scout and was engaged in watching 
for rebels and ascertaining movements in the 
neigliborhood and arresting all suspicious char- 
acters, looked after bridges and performed all 
duty that came in the way of value to the 
Union command, crossing the Big Black River 
several times. During this period he was in 
tlie Hgiit at Grenada., Miss., with Forrest and a 
]iortion of Stewart's cavalry. Kilpatrick was 
in command of the cavalry and the company 
lost three killed and several wounded. The 
regiment was in Slocum's command, Army of 
the Cumberland. From Vicksburg the com- 
mand went to Memphis in 1865, performed 
picket dot}' for some time and Mr. Miles was 
detailed as picket orderly. In March he was 
witli his regiment in the Grierson raids on the 
Mobile & Ohio railroad and was in the sharj:) 
fight at Egypt Station, Miss., which was a suc- 
cess, a stockade being taken with 500 prisoners. 
A return was effected by way of ^^icksburg 
and, after two days, the command went to 
Memphis. After a month they started on an 
expedition to draw Kirby Smith away from 
Banks, but no fighting took place. Returning 
to Memphis the regiment went to White Sta- 
tion and thence to LaGrange and performed 
scout duty about three months, reconnoitered 
and guarded the railroad. At Memphis they 
turned over their horses and went to Spring- 
field to be mustered out Sept. 25, 1865. 

Mr. Miles returned to his old home in Mer- 
cer county and after a few weeks went to Chip- 
pewa Falls and subsequently engaged in the 
pineries and, two years later, commenced 
operations in his own interest, having acquired 
a practical knowledge of the business. After 
two years he engaged in mercantile operations 
at Chippewa Falls and a year afterwards was 
burned out. He opened a hotel at Big Bend 
on the Chippewa River which he managed ten 



years, sold out, moved to Chippewa Falls and 
opened a real estate office which he has con- 
tinued to conduct since. He also has given a 
good deal of attention to the management of 
his fine stock farm in Chippewa county near 
Cartwright, where he is engage<l in the im- 
provement of cattle and hogs. He was mar- 
ried May 21, 1869, to Geraldine, daughter of 
Isaiah and Sarah Chipman. They have had 
two children. Franklin died when about a 
year old ; Eugene H. died when 17 years old. 
Mr. Miles is a member of G. A. R. Post No. 68 
and belongs to the Masons. He is a Republi- 
can of decided stamp. 






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^^ HARLES OTTILIE, M. D., La Crosse, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, 
was born April 3, 1831, at Blanken- 
burg, Germany, where his father, Carl Ottilie, 
was born Dec. 12, 1795 ; he was a mechanic and 
died about 1872. The early life of the sou was 
passed at home and he received the benefit of 
the best educational institutions of his native 
country, finishing his education in the Univer- 
sities of Berlin and Munich. He became a 
resident of the United States in 1860, locating 
at West Bend, Wis., where he entered upon the 
practice of his profession as a physician. When 
the civil war came on he interested himself in 
the work of recruiting, raised a company and 
was commissioned Lieutenant ; subsequently he 
was commissioned A. A. U. S. Surgeon of the 
9th Wisconsin Infantry, Sep. 26, 1862, and as- 
signed to duty at Fort Scott, Oct. 19, 1862, after 
the battle of Newton ia. He performed the 
duties of his position in the general hospital 
until Feb. 24, 1863, when he was relieved from 
duty and in March, 1863, he resumed connec- 
tion with his regiment in Missouri, the com- 
mand being in pursuit of Marmaduke. In 



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June he went to St. Louis and afterwards to 
Helena, Ark., and in October went to winter 
quarters at Little Rock, where the regiment 
was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Divi.sion 
and 7th Army Corps. Nov. 17th, 1803, Dr. 
Ottilie was detailed to take charge of the medi- 
cal department of the 77th Ohio Infantry as 
surgeon and, Dec. 24th, joined that command 
at Camp Denison where the regiment had re- 
enlisted. He accompanied the command to 
Little Rock, performing his duties as surgeon 
until relieved, when he was detailed to take 
charge of a supply train for the front April 11, 

1864, and went to Camden, Ark., encountering 
rel)el guerrillas on the way, and arriving April 
22d. Banks had made his celebrated retreat 
and Dr. Ottilie was detailed for service at the 
corps hospital to look after the sick and 
wounded wlio had been l>rought in. The reb- 
els under Kirby Smith followed up their advan- 
tage and precipitated the battle at Jenkins Fer- 
ry where Dr. Ottilie received orders to prepare 
hospital quarters for 500 men ; he was on the 
field during the furious action of April 30th, 
was taken prisoner with about 450 wounded 
soldiers, remaining in the hands of the rebels 
until November, when he was paroled ; he 
reached Little Rock November 19th, and was 
ordered to duty with his former command, (the 
9th Wisconsin,) being promoted to field surgeon 
and he remained in charge of the sanitary af- 
fairs of the 9th Wisconsin at Camden until July, 
1865 and, August 4th, he was made Senior Sur- 
geon of the brigade. Jan. 5, 1866, lie was 
placed in charge of the medical department of 
the 3d U. S. Cavalry in adtiition to his duties 
with the 9th Wisconsin, which, since Nov. 17, 1 

1865, had consisted of an independent battalion, 
and he continued the discharge of his duties 
at Little Rock until he went with tlie com- 
mand to Wisconsin to be mustered out Jan. 
30, 1866. j 



The service of Dr. Ottilie in the army of his 
adopted country was of marked character from 
his activity and interest in the well being of 
those under his charge, and he secured the af- 
fectionate confidence of the soldiers and tiie es- 
teem of his superiors in authority. (The fol- 
lowing certificate is added for the benefit of the 
descendants of Dr. Ottilie to whom it will be valu- 
able.) " Medical Directors' Office, Department 
of Arkansas, Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 15, 1865. 
Extract from an Inspection Report of the 9th 
Wisconsin Infantry. 'The surgeon deserves 
commendation for the efficient manner in 
which he performs all his duties. ' Respect- 
fully forwarded for the information of the sur- 
geon in cliarge of the 9th Wisconsin Infantry. 
It is an agreeable duty to transmit extracts 
of so commendatory a character. While it is 
l)ut proper for every otticer to perform all his 
duties, it is rarely that such testimony is pre- 
sented as the above. (Signed.) Jos. R. Smith, 
Surg. U. S. A. Med. Dep. of Ark. " 

After leaving the army Dr. Ottilie went to 
Germany and remained with his ])arents three 
years, meanwhile studying in the hospitals at 
Berlin and Munich and making a special study 
of tlie eye. On his return to America he went 
to West Bend and in 1871 he established his 
business at La Crosse where he has risen to 
prominence in liis profession. In 1n75-i1, he 
was appointed city physician and in 1877 he 
was ajipointed Surgeon of the U. S. ^h^rine 
hospital at La Crosse, which was afterwards, 
mainly through his efforts, combined with the 
Sisters' hospital and the institution, thi'ougb 
their combined interest and efforts has risen to 
a high position as a retreat for the sick. It has 
accommodations for 80 patients and the beds 
are generally filled. Dr. Ottilie is a charter 
member of his Post and lias served as its Sur- 
geon. He was appointed Medical Director, G. 
A. R., of the State under Commander Faircliild. 



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He belongs to the Masonic Order and was one 
of tlie founders of the local Body of the A. 0. 
U. W. at La Crosse. He is a Repuljlican in 
politics. 



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15 -K- 




'ANT, Madison, 
ler of G. A. R. 
No. 11, was 
born Feb. 11, 1832, in Tenipleton, Worcester 
Co., Massachusetts. His fatiier, George W. 
Bryant, was born in the Bay State and his 
mother, Eunice Norcross before marriage, was 
a native of New Hampshire. Both grandsires 
of Colonel Bryant were soldiers at Lexington, 
Bunker Hill and Concord. 

He received a good primary education and 
fitted for college at Black River Academy, Lud- 
low, Vt. He matriculated at Norwich Univer- 
sity and was graduated in the class of which 
Generals Dodge and Ransom, names pre-emi- 
nently distinguished in military history, were 
members. Seeing small prospects for activity 
in a military career, young Bryant decided on 
the profession of law and read in the office and 
under the instructions of the Hon. Amasa Nor- 
cross & Snow of Fitchburg, Mass. In 185G 
he was admitted to the Bar in AVorcester, Mass., 
and, a little later, located at Madison, forming 
a partnership with Myron H. Orton, which re- 
lation continued until 1861. The approaching 
crisis in National affairs in the early months of 
that year had aroused the enthusiasm of all 
classes in the Badger State, and when the issue 
of National integrity was in jeopardy, George 
E. Bryant was one of the first to respond to the 
cry of his imperiled country and his name leads 
tlie list of honorable Captains who made haste 
to offer their services to Governor Randall 
when Wisconsin came gallantly to the front to 
share in the suppression of the Rebellion. (It 
is related of an old farmer of the vicinity that. 



standing in the crowd in the evening of Sun- 
day, April 14th, in front of the telegraph office 
at Madison, awaiting intelligence from Fort 
Sumter, as tlie evacuation by the United States 
troops was announced, the old fellow shouted, 
" Now, under God, the world will know whether 
the United States be a Government or not." 
Young Bryant stood near him and often men- 
tioned the impression he received from the 
words, aided by the deep current of patriotic 
sentiment which prevailed.) 

Captain Bryant had been active in the or- 
ganization of the Madison Guards, which was 
assigned to the 1st Wisconsin Infantry as Com- 
pany E, Captain Bryant, went for three months 
and served five months. In the opening of the 
activities of the conflict, the regiment was in 
the van. A soldier of Company E was the first 
to shed blood in honor of Wisconsin on Vir- 
ginia soil at Martinsburg, where the first Wis- 
consin soldier died. (See sketch of George W. 
Drake.) 

When Captain Bryant returned in August 
to Wisconsin everj' nook of settled territory re- 
echoed with the sounds of preparation for war. 
Regiments were in process of organization and 
Badger State boys were rallying to the call for 
troops. In September the 12th Wisconsin 
Infantry was organized and on the 27th Captain 
Bryant was commissioned its Colonel. Leaving 
the State .lanuary lltli following, en route for 
the frontier, the command encountered the 
severities of the season and on the way to 
Leavenworth, Colonel Bryant marched, froze 
and starved with his men and also in the use- 
less plans of the ".Jim Lane " expedition and 
the project which had New Mexico as an ulti- 
matum on war-maps, returning to reach Leav- 
enworth in May. The command proceeded to 
Tennessee, expecting systematic and defined 
warfare, to meet again disappointment and 
to pass a Southern summer in repairing the 



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devastations of rebels and in the performance 
of scout duty incident to the localitj'. In 
October the regiment made a forced march to 
re-inforce General Hurlburt and returned to 
prepare for the Vicksburg campaign. Through 
November and December the comma lul 
marched and counter-marched in unison with 
the plans of Grant who was endeavoring to 
substantiate his base of supplies at Holly 
Springs. After the disaster there the r2th 
Wiscon.sin entered upon anotlier marching 
experience, performing, also, desultory military 
duty until March, when a movement to Mem- 
phis was made. Colonel Brj'ant commanding a 
brigade, of which he had been chief from the 
assignment of his regiment to the 3d Brigade. 
April I'.'tli he was assigned to the command of 
a force in an expedition through Mississippi 
and Louisiana during which his troops achieved 
a victory at Coldwater. Re-connecting with 
Grant, Colonel Bryant commanded the brigade 
until tlie regiment was ordered to position in 
the investment of Vicksburg, and led his men 
until the capitulation, after which he was again 
in command of the brigade and in that capacity 
participated in the fight at Jackson. The 12th 
Wisconsin spent the fall at Natchez, preparing 
for active service, returning thence to ^"icks- 
burg and in .January, veteranized. 

Ck)lonel Bryant engaged in the Meridian 
campaign in which the marked bravery of liis 
regiment elicited the warm commendations of 
General Sherman and, on the return of the 12th 
to Wisconsin the command was received with 
an ovation. It returned to service to sustain 
its record in the " On to Atlanta " movement 
and fought at Kenesaw, Nickajack Creek, Bald 
Hill, July 2'2d in the siege of the objective city 
and afterwards at Jonesboro and Lovejoy's. 
Colonel Bryant was at the head of the brigade 
in the actions of July 22nd and at Jonesboro 
and received the highest commendations of his 



superiors for his effective leadership in critical 
situations. His troops were pursuing Hood 
when the War Department issued orders for the 
muster out of officers whose terms were about 
to expire and he returned to Chattanooga to 
receive final release from military obligations 
to his country, Nov. 6, 1864. 

On his return to Wisconsin he sought a life 
which afforded contrast and relief to the turmoil 
of his career and he engaged in the improve- 
ment of stock on his farm near Madison until 
1866, when he was elected County Judge and 
wasrhis'own successor in 1870 and 1874. In 
the autumn of the latter year he was elected 
State Senator, and served a biennial term. He 
was Quartermaster General six years. Secretary 
of Agriculture for Wisconsin five years and 
Post Ma.ster at Madison four years, the last year 
of his appointment being served under Cleve- 
land. He was again appointed Post Master of 
Madison by President Harrison March 1, 1890. 
In 1880 he was one of the ".306" who voted for 
Grant in the National Convention at Chicago. 

He was married Sept. 27, 1858, to Susie A., 
daughter of Arington and Ann (Weston) Gib- 
son, a descendant of the earliest settlers of 
Fitchburg, Mass. In both lines of extraction 
she is of Scotch lineage and descended from 
families of long standing in America. The 
Weston line settled in Massachusetts. Her 
great uncle was shot to death by a musket ball 
at Bunker Hill while fighting with the butt of 
his gun, his ammunition being exhausted. Her 
father is .still living at her home at the age of 
86 years. (1890.) 

Colonel Bryant is a man who represents the 
principles on which the Nation was founded 
and in which he recognized that its perpetuity 
rested — inllexible fidelity to the higher law. 
As illustrative of his adherence to this " higher 
law" it may be related as a fitting reminiscence 
of him, that, on the occasion of the " Veteran 



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Ovation," having paid the customary honors to 
the Executive of Wisconsin, he passed liis com- 
mand in review before the representative of the 
U. S. Government j>resent at the parade in 
official capacity as Commander of United States 
forces in Wisconsin, showing in this departure 
from the wonted practice of other regimental ' 
commanders his devotion and fealty to the 
Union as well as to his adopted State. It was 
this trait which achieved his success in his 
military career. Persistence in a purpose was 
his characteristic and it guided him to more 
than one triumph on Southern fields. He led 
a storming party at Bald Hill and his men 
captured more rebels than they themselves 
numbered, General Logan stating that more 
dead rebels were piled on that field than he 
ever before witnessed ; and Colonel Dayton of 
Sherman's staff repeated the story in the later 
years. It is mentioned by the biographer of 
Colonel Bryant to impress on those who ex- 
amine these annals after years have shown 
the Great Struggle in all its enormity, to what 
spirit the ultimate triumph of the Union sol- 
diers was due. The South sent to the war men 
versed in the art of fighting and who had been 
reared to prefer conflict to anything on earth. 
The soldiers of the Union went from lives of 
peace to defend the principles transmitted from 
their ancestors who fought at Lexington and 
Bunker Hill. 

"^ V « 'KN ' •■ y ^ 

LBERT BLEUEL, Commander of Post 
"^ Rank and File, No. 240 at Milwau- 
kee, AV^is., of which city he is a resi- 
dent, was born in Cassell, Germany, July 22, 
1841. His father, Jolin Bleuel, was a German 
in nativit)' and descent and belonged to a race 
which served in every successive generation in 
the armies of their country under the conscrip- 
tion ; they were in the 30-years war and 




he was in the army 15 years. He justly 
thought his family had been soldiers by com- 
pulsion long enough and, when the son was 17 
years old, sent him to America, where he 
landed at the Port of New York, .June U, 1858. 
The name of the mother of Captain Bleuel be- 
fore marriage was Mary Kuemmel. In 1859 
Captain Bleuel went to St. Louis, Mo., where 
he engaged in business until the disturbances 
which arose through the hostilities between the 
two sections of the country destroyed all other 
considerations tlian those of war. Captain 
Bleuel distinctly foresaw the results to the Na- 
tion and, as soon as he knew of the existence 
of actual hostilities being in progress, he proved 
the quality of which he was made by enlisting 
April 22, 1861, seven days after tlie Hag went 
down from the battlements of Sumter. He 
enrolled in Company A, 2d Missouri Infantry, 
and was a participant in all the preliminary 
skirmishes and battles which resulted, through 
the determined bravery of the soldiery and the 
strategy of the leaders, in saving Missouri to 
the LTnion. He fought at Camp Jack.son, 
Booneville and Wilson's Creek. August 7th he 
was discharged from service, his three months 
enlistment having expired. September 7th, he 
again enlisted at St. Louis in the 1st Mis.souri 
Horse Artillery which was afterward consoli- 
dated into Company F, 2d Missouri Light Ar- 
tillery ; he enrolled to serve the 2d gun and on 
the organization of the company was made 
Sergeant. He received honorable discharge Oct. 
13, 1864, on the expiration of his term, on tiie 
field at Marietta, Ga. 

He was with the battery through all its ex- 
periences, fighting at Pea Ridge, March 6-7-8, 
1862, and was again in action through the pre- 
liminaries to the assault at Vicksburg, Dec. 20, 
1862 ; fought at Arkansas Post .Jan. 6, 1863 ; 
through the skirmishes and marches and in 
the trenches in the siege of Vicksburg until 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



its surrender ; in the fights at Raymond and 
Jackson ; at Canton and in the expedition to 
Tuscumbia, Tenn. ; was in the fighting at Look- 
out Mountain and in the charge at Mission 
Ridge ; at Chattanooga and Ringgold ; and 
through the Atlanta Campaigu. In the ac- 
tions of all varieties succeeding the fall of At- 
lanta and througii Georgia until he received 
discharge, he was always at his post of action. 
After being discharged he returned to St. Louis 
and, engaged as a machinist until March 5, 
1865, when he again enlisted in Company F, 
4th Veteran Volunteer Infantry and was as- 
signed to the 1st Army Corps. He was made 
Corporal on the organization of the company 
and served as such until his discharge, March 
27, 1860. He joined the regiment in the val- 
ley of the Shenandoah and took part in the 
closing operations there, fighting at Winchester 
and going to Washington, and succe-ssivel}' to 
Columbus, Ohio, and to Louisville, Ky., where 
he continued in the military service until he 
was finally released after a service of four years, 
five months and some days. 

The war record of Captain Bleuel is one 
which deserves special comment. He left his 
native country to shun the necessity of enter- 
ing an army which had no interest of his or 
his family at stake. But, that he possesses the 
true spirit of a patriot is amply proven by the 
fact of his early enlistment and his repeatedly 
entering the service after he had acquitted 
himself like a true soldier and a man worthy 
of all his adopted country could confer. 

lie has a roster of 25 battles besides the 
skirmishes, marches and privations. He went 
to Mihvaukee after his final discharge where 
lie has been occupied as a machinist and en- 
gineer ever since. In 1870 he became a mem- 
ber of the National Guard and enrolled in Com- 
pany C, 4th Battalion, of which he was made 
Captain in 1886. He has operated as engineer 




uf the Adams Tobacco Factory for 16 years, 
since 1875. He was married Sept. 19, 1866, to 
Mary Strotliman, ami their children are named 
Ida, Tillie, Emma, Addie, Amanda and Alice. 
Captain Bleuel is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias and of the South side Turnverein. 

RKA CARPENTER, New Lisbon, 
Wis., was born in the town of Prai- 
rie Round, Kalamazoo Co., Michi- 
gan, April 15, 1840, and is the sou of Ira and 
Sarepta (Buckmau) Carpenter. The parents 
were natives of the eastern portion of the 
United States and were married in Ashttibula 
Co., Ohio, afterwards emigrating farther West 
and lociited about thirty miles from the site 
of Chicago. They were on a farm there 
through the Indian disturbances in Illinois, 
the senior Carpenter doing his work on his 
farm with his gun .strapped to his back, his 
family lieing at Fort Dearborn. Soon after the 
evacuation of Fort Dearborn, which was the 
occasion of a treacherous massacre by the In- 
dians, the family went to Michigan, which was 
chiefiy Kalamazoo county in the western por- 
tion. When the son was 15 years old they 
went to Juneau Co., Wisconsin, and located on 
a farm where the parents passed their remain- 
ing years, dying respectively at 78 and 76 
years. Their seven children all survive. They 
are Albert, Harriet, George (a soldier in the 
13th Michigan Infantry), Alva (enlisted in the 
lUth Wisconsin Infantry, was rejected and 
went to the front afterwards with the 38tli 
Wisconsin Infantry), Orra, Mary and Emmett F. 
Mr. Carpenter secured such education as was 
possible in the several pioneer conditions in 
which his boyhood was passed and was his 
father's farm assistant when he enlisted, Sept. 
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Wisconsin Infantry. He was mustered and 
drilled in camp at Milwaukee and went with 
the regiment to the front at Sliepherdsville, 
Ivy., camped a while and went to Bacon Creek, 
where he was ill with typhoid fever and went 
l)ack to Louisville. As he was convalescing 
from that disease it was discovered that he had 
contracted small-pox. As soon as he felt able, 
after passing through the scourge safely, he 
applied for permission to guard city property 
or to be gent back to his regiment, both being 
denied. It was not decreed that he was unable 
to go, so he took French leave of surgeons and 
hospital and started on his own responsibility 
for his regiment. Communication being cut 
off, he was unable to go far and wrote to his 
captain of the state of afiairs and went home, 
staying a month. As soon as possible he made 
his way to his regiment, although still very 
weak, and started with his company to n:arch 
to Perry ville. This was too much for his 
strength and he was also attacked by chronic 
diarrhea, soon becoming entirely incapacitated 
for duty. After the battle of Perryville he 
went with the regiment to Crab Orchard and 
on the march was relieved of his accoutre- 
ments and kept up with the march to Nash- 
ville. On Christmas day, 1S62, he was sent to 
hospital and remained until Feb. 9, 1863, when 
he received honorable discharge on surgeon's 
certificate and was sent home. For a long 
time he was very ill and his recovery was not 
expected for many months. After growing 
somewhat better he bought his father's home- 
stead and lived on it until 1883, when he 
rented his farm and removed to the village. 
He has established a jirosperous grocery, feed 
and flour business and to it has annexed a 
lumber yard which he is also conducting suc- 
cessfully. Although he has never been a sound 
man he is of active temperament and has 
pressed his business interests in a lively man- 



ner. He is a Mason of high degree, belonging 
to Chapter No. 33. He has been Deputy 
Sheriff of his county and, previous to removal 
to New Lisbon, served on the Board of Super- 
visors. He is a member of the Republican 
party and receives a pension. 

He was married in Vernon Co., Wisconsin, 
March 10, 1861, to Emmeline G., daughter of 
Albert and Lola M. (Thomas) Moses, a native 
of Connecticut. Eva E., Etta A., Winnifred 
M., Alice M. and Dora Isabel are the five 
daughters who have been added to the home 
of Mr. Carpenter. 



L.;>o,HILLIP B. JEWELL, Hudson, Wis., 
wr^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 151, was 
born Oct. 25, 1816, at Hopkinton, N. 
H., and is the son of Ezra and Abigail (Bick- 
ford) Jewell. His father, the son of Barnes 
•Jewell, a soldier of the war of the Revolution, 
was born in Amesbury, Mass., and his mother 
was of English descent, born in Hopkinton. 
The father was a soldier in 1812 and a mill- 
wright by occupation, conducting his business 
chiefly in New Hampshire. Three of ten chil- 
dren born to himself and wife are living. The 
parents died respectively in 1854 at Hopkinton 
and in 1879 at Star Prairie, Wis. 

Mr. Jewell was about 30 years of age when 
he left his father's household to commence an 
independent career in the world. In 1847 he 
went to Wisconsin and settled at St. Croix Falls, 
where he passed five years in lumbering. 
About 1852 he went to Hudson, and after two 
years returned to his former home at St. Croix 
Falls, where he passed two succeeding years. 
In 185G he made a permanent location at Hud- 
son and, at the date of the civil war, he was en- 
gaged in the duties of lumber inspector of Dis- 
trict No. 4. He enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, at Hud- 



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sou, iu Couipauy A, 12tli Wisconsin Infantry, 
and was mustered October 30tli following at 
Madison. On Jan. 11, 1S62, the' regiment 
started, uuder orders for Weston, Mo., and 
there their first camp was made. February 
loth the regiment started for Leavenworth and 
went thence under orders to Fort Scott, expect- 
ing to go ou Lane's Southwest expeditiou, but 
counter orders sent them to Lawrence, whence 
they moved to Fort Riley with the expectation of 
going on another expeditiou, which also came 
to naught, aud in May the command returned 
to Leavenworth. At Fort Riley, Mr. Jewell 
was made wagon master. His command went 
to St. Louis from Leavenworth and received 
orders for Columbus, Ky., the intention being 
to go thence to the investment of Cbrinth, but 
events had transpired rendering their assist- 
ance unnecessary, and the soldiers were occu- 
pied in repairing rebel depredations on the 
routes of transportation until June, when a 
conjunction with the command of Halleck was 
made at Humboldt, Tenn., to remain at that 
point about two months, engaged in scouting 
and guard duty. Mr. Jewell was there taken 
sick but remained with the regiment, which 
moved to Jackson and LaGrange. At the lat- 
ter place he was placed in charge of an ambu- 
lance aud went to Holly Springs about the last 
of November. Thence the regiment went to 
Oxford and Yocono Creek, the troops of that de- 
partment making their changes of base in ac- 
cord with Grant's plans for securing Vicksburg. 
The surrender of the supplies for the whole 
army at Holly Springs by Colonel Murphy, 
Dec. 20, 1862, rendered the whole movement 
futile aud the regiment of Mr. Jewell went to 
camp at Lumpkin's Mills, guarded a railroad 
there, and in January, 1803, went successively 
to Holly Springs, Moscow, Lafayette, Colliers- 
ville and Neville Station, guarding the Mem- 
phis A Charleston railroad until March aud 



moved theuce to Memphis. In April the regi- 
ment was iu the expedition to co-operate with 
General Smith in a movement on the Cold- 
water River, but it was a failure, and the com- 
mand returned to Memphis to go in May to 
Young's Point, crossed the river and went to 
Grand Gulf, where they saw for the first time 
the colored men iu soldiers' uniforms. A month 
later the regiment moved to the rear of Vicks- 
burg aud took position in the left of the invest- 
ing force, holding their camp on a plantation 
known as Magnolia Hall 60 days during the 
siege. Mr. Jewell operated with the ambulance 
corps until the surrender July 4th, taking part 
in the Jackson expedition, returned to Vicks- 
burg, thence to Natchez, aud in February, 1864, 
to the Black River to go on the Meridian expe- 
dition. This was for the purjiose of destruction 
of stores aud routes, including a railroad bridge. 
At Canton the regiment was in a sharj> skir- 
mish, aud on its return to camp had marched 
416 miles in 31 days. In March, 1864, the 
veterans?, who had re-enlisted in January, took 
their furlough, Mr. Jewell reporting at Madi- 
son, where he was assigned to duty at Harvey 
hospital, the officer iu command deciding that 
he was not tit for duty iu the field, and he re- 
mained in this service until his discharge, May 
27, 1865. 

He returned to his home in Hudson and 
then engaged on the river as a pilot. In 1867 
he was made Lumber Inspector of District No. 
4, and held the position until 1886, when he 
resigned. He is Senior Vice Commander of 
his Post and belongs to the Republican jtarty. 
Like all soldiers, Mr. Jewell remembers grate- 
fully all attentions paid to the soldiers on their 
return North, especially a reception given his 
commaud at Chicago by some of the first ladies 
of that city. 

He was married in Hopkinlou in January, 
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died soon after birth ; the death of the mother 
was almost simultaneous, and Oct. 21, 1841, 
.Mr. .Jewell was again married at Warner, N. 
H., to Hannah .Jane Fuller, and the}' have had 
five children, named Marj- .Jane, (who died in 
childhood), Hannah .Jane, George S., Mary D. 
and Ada M. The mother died Oct. 18, 1875. 
Mr. .Jewell was again married at Hopkinton to 
Mrs. Ellen C. R. Spofford, daughter of William 
Re.stieaux, Oct. 1.3, 1878. Bessie is the name 
of their onh- cliild. The first wife of the father 
of Mrs. .Jewell was the granddaughter of Paul 
Revere of Revolutionary fame. Her grand- 
father, Robert Restieaux, was the only member 
of his family who came to this country from 
France. Her motlier descended from Thomas 
and Aquila Cha.se, who landed in America in 
16.39. 

Mrs. .Jewell is the President of the Woman's 
Relief Corps at Hudson and discharges her 
duties with all the interest of a wife and sister 
of patriots. She has a son named William A. 
Spofford, by her first marriage, living at Hud- 
son and engaged as an engineer. 



ILIJAM H. MOIiFORD, Chip- 
pewa Falls, Wis., member of G. 
A. R. Post No. 68, was born .June 
3, 1847, in Mercer Co., Pennsylvania, that 
county being the birthplace of his father, .John 
T. Morford, Feb. 27, 1818. The latter married 
Esther Hazen, born near Sharpsville, Pa., Nov. 
16, 1819. In the paternal lineage, Mr. Morford 
is of mixed Englisli and Irish blood and in the 
maternal line of pure English extraction. The 
children, of whom he was one, were Mary D., 
.James 0. (deceased), Hiram T., Nancy (de- 
ceased), William, Isaac C, .James B., .John .J., 
Lycurgus H. and Martha M. The family went 
West in 1848, locating on a farm in Mer- 




cer county, Illinois, and, when the war broke 
out, father and sons enlisted. In August, 1862, 
he and his sons William and Hiram enlisted in 
Company E, 102d Illinois Infantry. The father 
went through all the service of the regiment 
and survived without injur}' except rheumatic 
troubles. Hiram was wounded in front of At- 
lanta by a shell in the left slioulder, was taken 
to the rear and sent to hospital, rejoining the 
regiment after the march to the sea. He is a 
resident of Humiston, Iowa. The father is 
still living on the old homestead in North 
Henderson ; his wife died in April, 1887. 

Mr. Morford was mustered into his regiment 
Aug. 9, 1862, at Knoxviile, Illinois, and, after 
remaining in camp six weeks, went to Louis- 
ville, Ky., and thence after two months to Scotts- 
ville, in the same State. Three months after 
th^y went to Gallatin, Tenn., and built Fort Gal- 
latin. In the spring of 1863 they moved to 
Lavergne, Tenn., on the Nashville & Murfrees- 
boro railroad and performed guard and patrol 
duty, being mounted, and j)erforming cavalry 
service, assigned to scouting and forage duty, 
subsisting on the surrounding country. In 
May, 1864, they were ordered to Cliattanooga 
and there turned over their horses and were 
assigned to the 3d Brigade, 3d Division, 20th 
Army Corps. May 2d they moved toward 
Buzzard's Roost, but the battle was over before 
they reached the field. They continued on the 
march until they reached Resaca and Mr. Mor- 
ford was a participant in that action. His 
company was placed on the skirmish line and 
ordered to charge through a slough between 
them and the enemy. They remained on the 
slough bottom until night, when they retired 
to the rear, carrying with them their dead and 
wounded. In the morning, with four other 
regiments, they were ordered to make a charge 
on the celebrated four-gun battery in front of 
the works. They took the guns and held the 



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position until niglit, when the rebels withdrew, 
leaving the Union troops in possession of every- 
thing. They were next in action at Burnt 
Hickory, relieving the 1st Division, the fight 
continuing through the afternoon and until 
after dark, when Compan}' E received orders to 
relieve the skirmishers in front; they took a 
position on a ridge in front and about da^'light 
heard a sound of chopping. They were told it 
was the Union troops building rifle pits and 
the Captain issued orders to move to the sup- 
port. They proved to be rebels who opened 
tire on them and they got back the best they 
could with seven wounded. They passed the 
next daj' on picket, and on the following daj' 
the rebels retreated. The command advanced 
to the Chattahoochie, lay there two weeks and 
became on familiar terms with the rebels on 
the other side of the river. Tiiey then crossed 
the river, extended their lines and did con- 
siderable skirmishing. They took part in the ' 
action at Peach Tree Creek, where they were in 
line of battle when the firing commenced. The 
regiment had halted and were cooking their 
dinner, when the bugle sounded for immediate 
action and they were placed on a ridge to make 
an enfilading fire on a rebel line charging down 
the hill, which slaughtered the I'ebels in 
great numbers and compelled the force to fall 
back. They formed again for another charge, 
but finally retreated. The 10"2d moved to At- 
lanta and engaged in skirmishing and build- 
ing works until the battle, in which the corps 
was actively engaged. After the evacuation 
they went into camp, as was supposed for 
winter, but in November they were ordered out 
and moved on the 15th on the march to the 
sea. After passing Milledgeville, Mr. Morford 
was detailed with about 30 men from his regi- 
ment to forage, with a lieutenant in command. 
They were mounted on picked horses (picked 
up on the route) and had an enjoyable time. Af- 



ter being out some time they came to a grist 
mill which was run by negroes where they 
took possession of a large quanity of meal with 
which the}' were about to decamp when a 
jiarty of rebels came up. They started for the 
woods about 30 rods distant, unloading their 
meal as they went, with the rebels close in their 
rear. Thej' had expected to make a stand on 
reaching cover but their ranks were demoralized 
and the lieutenant failed to-give the order to 
halt; private Booth Abbott saved the squad from 
capture by ordering a halt and with the com- 
pany charged on the rebels, recapturing their 
prisoners and killing two of the enemy. After 
stai'ting to rejoin their command they were 
again attacked, when they again dismounted 
and repulsed the rebels, firing from behind a 
fence, after which they remounted and reached 
their command in safety. But they had lost 
everything thej' had collected. They moved 
on to Savannah, were there at the surrender 
and, after two weeks started for the North, 
marching through the Carolinas, the regiment 
fighting at Bentonville, and with the 129t]i Illi- 
nois, the 10'2d was in the fight where the rebels 
made theii' last desperate attack under John- 
ston and they took a large number of prisoners. 
They went on to Columbia and thence to Ra- 
leigh, N. C, where they heard of Johnston's 
surrender. They moved to Richmond, thence 
to Alexandria and camped until after the 
Grand Review. Their next orders were to 
Chicago for muster out June 0, 18G5. 

The father and his sons retunicd home and 
engaged in farming in Mercer county about 
two yeai'S, when our subject removed to Chij)- 
pewa Falls, where he engaged in the lumi)er 
business. This has been his occupation since 
and he has been in the employ of the C. L. C 
Co., nine years. For a number of years he was 
engaged in the woods, looking after the camps 
and general interests of the firm, including the 



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477 



logging and otlier relations. He is a member 
of the Masonic Order, and belongs to the Re- 
publican party. He was married at Eau 
Claire, Wis., July 3, 1873, to Altha F., daughter 
of Isaiali and Sarah Chipman. The record of 
their children is as follows: — Arthur, born -July 
11, 1874; Roy M., born June 3, 1877; Cora E., 
June 17, 1879; Minnie Grace, Feb. 26, 1886. 



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~Tc. lEUTENANT C. H. EGGLESTON, Fox 
11^ Lake, member of G. A. R. Post No. 
1 ^^ 100, was born Aug. 4, 1835, in Chip- 
ping Norton, Yorkshire, England. His parents, 
T. G. and Deborah (Austin) Eggleston, were of 
English blood and breeding for centuries back 
in lineage and removed to America with their 
family within the year of their son's birth. 
After remaining a time in the State of New 
York, they went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and, 
two years later, 1839, went to Waukesha. 
About 1855 they located at Fox Lake where 
they still live. Of six children, Mr. Eggleston 
is the only son. 

He was still a member of his father's house- 
hold when he decided to enter the army of the 
United States, which was to him as his native 
land, never having known any other. Aug. 
13, 1862, he enlisted at Fox Lake in Company 
E, 29th Wisconsin Infantry and was mustered 
as a private in September following. He left 
the rendezvous at Madison, November 2d for 
Cairo and went thence to Helena, Ark., and 
afterwards to Friar's Point, where things were 
made entertaining by the antagonism of Gen- 
eral Gorman, Commandant of the post and 
Colonel Gill of the 29th Wisconsin, who took to 
his service the principles under which he 
enrolled as a soldier for the Union. The mem- 
bers of the regiment were engaged in military 
duty of miscellaneous character while in 



Arkansas and alternated other experiences with 
scouting with the guerrillas in the vicinity, 
who were plenty and, as the population felt 
themselves abetted by Gorman, there were 
numerous bands of the fraternity carrying on 
depredations in the immediate vicinity of the 
Point. The 29th Wisconsin sustained the 
opinion of Sherman, who said a Wisconsin 
regiment was reckoned a brigade in the service 
and when it was assigned to the brigade of 
Colonel McGinnis with veterans who had won 
the highest laurels possible, it was a testimonial 
of merit which every man in the command 
appreciiited. The assignment was made while 
the regiment was on an expedition up the 
White River, on which the command saw some 
service. After this they passed some time in 
work on the roads until Grant commenced 
another Vickshurg campaign and, February 2, 
1863, the 29th started to aid in opening a com- 
munication to the Mississippi River by way of 
the Yazoo. After this the command returned 
to Helena and in April went to tlie rear of 
Vickshurg. Mr. Eggleston was in the activities 
which overtook the regiment in crossing the 
peninsula below Grand Gulf, which had been 
attacked in a fruitless effort to obtain possession 
of the point of landing for the troops. Their 
transports run the batteries and the troops again 
went aboard and went to Bruinsburg, the 29th 
being the first regiment to go ashore. They 
started for Port Gibson and had a scrimmage at 
Magnolia Church which was the opening of the 
battle of Port Gikson. In this the regiment 
was exposed to great danger in checking a flank 
movement of the rebel foi'ce and Lieutenant 
Eggleston received his first decoration as a 
brave soldier and " Charles H. Eggleston " was 
mentioned in the dispatches. He was shot 
through the body, the bullet passing en- 
tirely through his person and wounding 
the right lung. He was injured about two 



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o'clock in llie afternoon, and so fierce was the 
rebel fire that he could not be removed for 
several hours. He was taken to field hospital 
and his wounds were not dressed until the next 
da}'. After some days he was sent to Grand 
Gulf and went with his regiment to Memphis. 
While there (Jrant issued orders to furlough all 
disabled soMiers and he went home for .SOdaj's. 
Before the expiration of his leave he was 
detailed on recruiting service in which he was 
occujtied until March, 1864, when he rejoined 
his command. The regiment had been loaned 
to Banks for the Red River campaign and he 
was just in time to participate in the fight at 
Sabine Cross Roads. He renewed acquaintance 
with the business of skirmishing all the way 
back on the retreat and after arrival at Alex- 
andria engaged in raiding. He was one of the 
assistants on Bailey's fiimous dam, which 
released the Union gunboats, in which service 
the 29th again made a record for faithfulness 
and endurance. June and July were passed in 
tlie interior of Louisiana in varied service, 
including skirmishing, and heavy marching. 
August was passed at Morganzia and the 
following months at St. Charles on the White 
River. After other expeditions the command 
went in November to anotlier and, later to 
Memphis. In December they went on another 
raid to Moscow, returned to Memphis and went 
next to New Orleans. Preparations were made 
for participation in the assaults on the works 
at Mobile and, March 17, 1SG5, they started for 
Spanish Fort and on the "iTth were in the 
trenches under fire. They were in an escort 
of supplies for Blakely and reached Spanish 
Fort again on the day of surrender. They 
went back to Blakely to find it had surrendered 
and afterwards took position in Mobile, 
being the second regiment to enter that 
city. The explo.sion of the magazine killed 
ami wounded several of the regiment, tinguisbed commands in the civil war. The 



Leaving Mobile, the 29th went to New 
Orleans and thence to Shreveport to receive 
the surrender of Kirby Smith and Mr. Eggles- 
ton was there mustered out witii his command 
June 22, LSGo. He received final discharge at 
Madison, July 7th and returned home. His 
commission as 2d Lieutenant was dated May 
3, 1864, and was for bravery at Port Gibson, 
May 1, 18G4. July 2, 1864 he was commis- 
sioned 1st Lieutenant and was mustered out as 
such, having performed his duties as recruit- 
ing officer un<lcr it. He is Commander of his 
Post (1890) and was a charter member of the 
organization. He is a member of the Order 
of Odd Fellows, has l)een prominent in muni- 
cipal affairs and has served seven years on the 
Board of tlie village and one year as President. 
He is actively interested in educational mat- 
ters and is Trustee and Secretary of Downer 
College at P"ox Lake. He was married Oct. 9, 
1866 at Bennington, Wyoming Co., New York, 
to Susie Blaisdell, who is active in the Woman's 
Relief Corps. 

Since his return to private life Mr. Eggleston 
has been occupied in the relations of a lumber- 
man of extensive proportions, engaging in 
operations which include all l)ranches of that 
business. 



^ETH D. STEELE, Platteville, Wis., 
*^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 66, was 
born at Geneva, Ohio, Jan. 17, 1836i 
and is the son of Ralph and Elizabeth (Loomis) 
Steele. His father was a soldier of 1812 in the 
command of General Jackson and fought at 
New Orleans in the capacity of a Lieutenant ; 
he was a teacher by profession and taught at 
Galesburg Academy a number of years. His 
wife was a sister of Colonel Loomis, commander 
of Loomis' Battery, which was one of tlie dis- 



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fathei' died Aug. 10, 1840, aged a little more 
than 49 years ; the mother died Jan. 24, 1836, 
aged 35 years. Six children lived to mature 
life named Minerva, Samuel, George, Elizabeth, 
Wilbur and the subject of this sketch, whose 
life was the price of that of his mother. At 
this writing, 1889, only George survives of the 
brothers and sisters of Mr. Steele. He was a 
soldier in a California regiment, serving four 
years and two months, and is blind from in- 
jury from the explosion of a shell. 

The senior Steele removed his family to 
Galesburg, 111., when Seth was an infant and 
died while the boy was still young. The latter 
was cared for by his eldest sister until he was 
about nine years old wlien he became a mem- 
ber of the family of Edward Whipple and he 
went to Wisconsin and located when about 16 
years of age. He was variously employed un- 
til he enlisted and enrolled Sep. 5, 1861, in Com- 
pany I, loth Wisconsin Infantry. He was mus- 
tered at Milwaukee in the company of Captain 
Overton, who was succeeded by Captain Perry. 
The command was sent to Louisville, Ky., 
and thence U) Shepherdsville, whence Mr. Steele 
accompanied the regiment through all the ser- 
vice in that locality, going successively to 
Elizabethtown, Bacon Creek, Bowling Green, 
Nashville and Murfreesboro and took part in 
the operations on the military railroad of the 
rebels. He was in the marching and move- 
ments afterward until the affair at Paint Rock 
Bridge when he was one of the 26 men de- 
tailed for that service, in which they held the 
place against 400 rebels four hours, eight of 
the number receiving injuries, one man. Ser- 
geant William Nelson, having seven wounds; 
he was in command, and the names of others 
recalled by Mr. Steele were C. McManus, .John 
Camp, George Travis, John Travis, William 
and John Reed. All the men in this service 
belonged to the 10th Wisconsin and this state- 



ment is made here to correct a historical error 
which has appeared in other works. Mr. 
Steele was injured to an extent that sent him 
to the hospital at Larkinsville, Ala., and six 
weeks later he was detailed for service on the 
train between Huntsville and Stevenson in 
charge of the division mail, which position he 
held until the retreat of Buell. He made con- 
nection with the regiment at Stevenson and 
when the engagement there took place, with 
other disabled men he was sent to Nashville. 
He followed the regiment to Louisville where 
he was again obliged to surrender to his inju- 
ries and went to Park Barracks, where he was 
discharged Oct. 22, 1862. He was so enfeebled 
that he was supported while signing the ne- 
cessary papers. At that time he was constantly 
spitting blood and five physicians decided him 
unfit for further duty. He returned to Platte- 
ville and, on recovery resumed labor, acting as 
a stone and brickwork contractor, in which he 
is still engaged. He was married in Paris, 
Grant Co., Wis., Sept. 27, 1863, to Lou, daugli- 
ter of Isaac and Jane (Largent) Richards. Her 
father was born May 7, 1816, and is still liv- 
ing; her mother was born Sept. 25, 1817, was 
a native of Ohio, and died in March, 1878. She 
is the oldest of seven ciiildren ; twins were 
born Nov. 22, 1843, and named Emmeline and 
Caroline; Mary was born April 15, 1846; John 
Henry, Aug. 22, 1848 ; James (deceased), born 
Jan. 1, 18—, and Ella, born Aug. 8, 1861. The 
children of Mr. and Mrs. Steele were James, 
born Aug. 1, 1864, died Sept. 27, 1864; Willie, 
born Aug. 6, 1865; Charles, Marcli 22, 1869; 
Ada, born Jan. 13, 1873; May, Oct. 4, 1875; 
George E., Aug. 18, 1878 ; Daisy, May 8, 1880. 
Mrs. Steele is an active member of the Woman's 
Relief Corps. 



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APTAIN YATES V. BEEBE, New 

Lisbon, Wis., cliief engineer of tlie 
Goodyear, Neillsville & Northern H. 
R., member of G. A. K. Post No. 61, was born 
April 6, 1820, in Washington Co., New York. 
He is unique on the ]iages of this work, being 
a veteran of three wars, including the Seminole 
war in Florida, tlie Mexican war and the civil 
war. He is the son of R. C. and Eliza (Hale) 
Beebe, both of wliom were natives of New 
York. He was reared on a farm and educated 
in the common schools until he was 19 years 
old, when he entered tlie military service of 
his country. The Seminole war in Florida be- 
gan in 1817 and lasted until the capture or re- 
moval of the tribe in 1842. That country being 
the possession of Spain rendered the war a per- 
plexity to the United States until tlie purchase 
the following year, but the Indians kept up 
their hostilities until the date mentioned. The 
seven years' war began in December, 1835, and 
from that date recruits were constantly going 
there until the war closed. Captain Beebe en- 
listed in September, 1839, at Whitehall, New 
York, in Company I, 1st U. S. Artillery, and 
went to Florida on the shij) Albatross, landing 
at Tampa Hay. He was in all the operations 
of his command until the close of the war, 
wiien he was transferred to service in Maine in 
the period of anticipated trouble with Canada 
during the settlement of the boundary question. 
His military experience there was only nomi- 
nal and he availed himself of the opportunity 
offered to go on detached service with a survey- 
ing party and obtained the rudiments of his 
profession in practical experience. His enlist- 
ment was for live years and terminated in 
1844 ; he did not receive his discharge, but re- 
mained in Maine, lumbering and surveying 
until the date of the Mexican war, in 1846, 
when he re-enlisted in the same company and 
regiment, enrolling in August, 1846. The 



organization took passage in the brig Potter 
and landed at Brazos Santiago, where the main 
army under Scott and Taylor joined them. 
The command went thence to Vera Cruz and 
Mr. Beebe was in the fight there March 29, 
1847. April 18tli he was in tlie action at 
Cerro Gordo and went thence to the defenses 
of Mexico. He fought at Cliapultepec Septem- 
ber 13tli and on the next day was with Scott's 
army when the triumplial entry into the city 
was made. After some delay caused by arrang- 
ing terms of indemnity the command went to 
New Orleans and to New York, where Captain 
Beebe was mustered out in 1848. After a stay 
at his old home he joined his brother in Illi- 
nois and bought a farm in Boone county in 
1849 and in 1851 sold and located in .luneau 
county, Wisconsin, on a farm which he still 
owns. When the civil war came on he began 
to organize his battery and was mustered into 
the U. S. service in February, 1862, at Milwau- 
kee. The battery went into camp at Racine 
and thence to Benton Barracks, Marcii 20th. 
They were there equipped with horses and 
guns and went to Pittsburg Landing and Cap 
tain Beebe first led tlu' lUth Wisconsin Bat- 
tery in that action. The command was next 
in the siege of Corinth, went thence to luka 
and marched the long distance to Nashville. 
The battery was in the tight at Stone River 
and returned to Nashville, went thence in the 
spring to service in guarding forage trains and 
engaged in duty near Nashville and Murfrees- 
boro until September, when a remove to the 
Chattahoocliie River was made ; they engaged in 
guard duty during the campaign of Chatta- 
nooga and remained in that vicinity until the 
spring of 1864. May 9th the battery reported 
to General Kilpatrick for duty with the 3d Cav- 
alry Division and went to the campaign of 
Atlanta in the xVrmy of tlie Cumberland. They 
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and operated as guard at vVdairsville and Car- 
terville Ferry until Aug. 3, 1864, when tliey 
went to Sandtown. They were with Kilpatrick 
at Red Oak and Jonesboro and performed 
vaUant service at Lovejoy's. The battery was 
with the cavah'y corps of Kilpatrick in all the 
rapid movements of the closing of the Atlanta 
campaign, tigbtiifg afterwards in September 
and October and keeping up with the restless 
Kilpatrick in his raids and fights at Powder 
Springs and V^an Wirt and in the skirmishes 
between times and went to ihirietta after a 
march in Georgia of 230 miles. With the 
command of Kilpatrick, Captain Beebe led his 
' men through the campaign of Sherman to the 
sea and commenced the march by a fight on 
the 16th of November. On the 27tii they 
fought again and on the 28tii, knocking the 
rebels out for the last time of any importance 
before reaching Savannah. .January 28th 
they started Northward and fought on the 
Salkahatchie, on the North Edisto and near 
Hornsboro. March lOtli they had a fight with 
Wade Hampton and skirmished all the way to 
Averysboro. At Goldsboro, the battery dis- 
banded, its time having expired and Lee hav- 
ing surrendered. They went to New York 
where they received intelligence of the assassi- 
nation of the President and Captain Beebe was 
mustered out at Madison April 26, 1865. 

He went to New Lisbon and resumed his 
connection with the affairs of civil life. He has 
followed the profession of a surveyor and civil 
engineer ever since he has been in civil life and 
has served two terms as County Surveyor in 
Boone Co., Illinois, and four terms in the same 
office in Juneau county. He has been in other 
official positions in local affairs and is operating 
actively also in connection with the railroad as 
stated. His military record includes 03 bat- 
tles, but he received only slight and insignifi- 
cant wounds. At Contreras, Mexico, and at Stone 



River he suffered slight injury, receiving a bul- 
let in his foot at the former place and in his 
leg at the latter. He has served ten years as 
an enlisted man ; two years he was a private 
and eight years a non-commissioned officer, 
being 1st Sergeant in the Regulars and was 
Captain three years. He is 70 years old in 
this current year, is still active physically, and 
mentally is in his primal vigor. He is a man 
whose record as a soldier and civilian honors 
the Badger State and her records will cherish 
his memory as long as they endure. 

He was married in Boone Co., Illinois, Dec. 
18, 1849, to Julia, daughter of John and Olive 
Winkler. She died in 1885 leaving four child- 
ren. Edwin is a resident of California ; Nettie 
married John J. Hughes, a banker of New Lis- 
bon; Dedie is her father's housekeeper and 
Willie Grant is a student at Madison Univer- 
sity. 

>f«f«l^^&^^-^ 

IS^fL^lLLIAU M. FOGO, senior editor of 
^jf^l/ the Republican and Observer, pub- 
^^ lished at Richland Center, Wis., 
was born June 18, 1841, in Columbiana county, 
Ohio, whence he removed with his parents, 
John and Jane (Dreghorn) Fogo, to Wisconsin 
in 1853. The son obtained an excellent educa- 
tion in his native State and in Wisconsin and, 
after coming to the latter State, fulfilled a long 
cherished desire to become a printer, by enter- 
ing on an apprenticeship in the office of the 
Richland County Democrat, where he was still 
occupied when he enlisted, Dec. 12, 1861, in 
Company F, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry. He 
accompanied the regiment from Wisconsin 
March 24, 1862, and performed cavalry service 
until his health failed a year later, when he 
was discharged for disability. He remained at 
home until August, 1864, when he re-enlisted 
in the 42d Wisconsin Infantry, enrolling for 



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three years or during the war and on the 
organization of the command was made Ser- 
geant Major, the date of his apjiointment being 
Sept. 15,1804, and he jjerformed duty in tliat 
cai)aeity with the regiment at Cairo and in 
Southern lUinois. Mr. Fogo returned to Wis- 
consin and was mustered out in June, 18(35, 
after the close of the war. 

As soon as lie could resume connection with 
the aflairs of civil life, he became one of the , 
proprietors of the Richland Counlij Observer, 
which relation he continued a year and went 
thence toCalumet county, where he established 
the Calumet Rejkdor, a journal which he con- 
ducted a year. He went next to Iowa, and 
purchased an interest in the Howard County 
Times, maintaining his connection therewith 
until his return to Richland Center in 1873, 
when he became editor and a proprietor of the 
paper with which his name is now connected. 
Under his management it has become one of 
the leading journals in the State, the abilities 
of Mr. Fogo placing it among the ablest edited 
papers in Wisconsin. He is a pungent writer, 
possessing the caj)acity of joui-nalizing in the 
best manner to a remarkable degree. He is 
sound on all political questions and his edito- 
rials have attracted just recognition for clearness, 
conciseness and directness of argument. His 
abilities have been utilized as Assistant Clerk 
of the Assembly of Wisconsin and for a number 
of years he has been Secretary of the Richland 
County Agricultural Society ; he holds the 
same position in the Old Settlers' Society of 
Richland county. He is a Royal Arch Mason 
and as a citizen commands the highest esteem 
of his generation, as is manifested by the 
importance of the positions to which he has 
been api)ointed. He is a member of the G. A. 
R. Post at Richland Center and in the latter 
part of 1889 received the appointment of Clerk 
of Committee on War Claims of the House 




of Representatives at Washington for which he 
is peculiarly fitted by experience and ability. 
He left Wisconsin to assume the duties of the 
position, Jan. 13, IS'jO. 

He was married in 186G to Amelia St. John 
and they have two children named Emma C. 
and Stephen W. Mr. Fogo is of pure Scotch 
blood, his parents having been born in that 
country. 

^4e^^^*4<. 

ELSON A. BATCHELLER, Black 
River Falls, Wis., member of G. A. 
R. Post No. 92, was born Aug. 20, 
1843, in Jefferson Co., Wisconsin. In the pa- 
ternal line of descent he is of English extrac- 
tion and the lineage of his mother was of Mo- 
hawk Dutch origin. His father, Eben Batch- 
eller, was born in Vermont of a family that 
moved thither from Massachusetts and, when 
he was seven years old he became a resident 
of the State of New York ; he married Lucy 
Comstock and they became the parents of ten 
children named in order of birth Imogene, 
William, George, Josephine, Nelson A., Ann, 
Abbie, Clift, Clara and Andrew, and all are 
living in 1890 excei)ting Josephine and Ann. 
The family removed to Galesville in 1855 
where the father was killed by a vicious cow. 
By a previous removal they went to Michigan 
in 1836 from New York, settling at Port Huron 
and going thence to Jeilerson Co., Wis., locat- 
ing at Lx'onia, where the senior Batcheller 
operated as a farmer and conducted a hotel. 
He also carried on his trade as a millwright in 
which he excelled and went from Ixoiiia to 
Galesville. He built the celebrated mill at 
Watertown called " Rough and Ready " whose 
products came to have a wide fame and were 
-sold in all the Eastern States. The mother 
died ill June, 1883, at Galesville, in her 70th 
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was a soldier in the Kevolulion and was the 
second man after Etlian Allon to enter Ticon- 
deroga. 

Mr. Batclieller liad tlie good fortune to he the 
son of parents who attended to the intellectual 
demands of their children and he received a 
careful education, which fitted him for an in- 
structor of no mean caliher. In the winter of 
1862-3 he conunenced teaching in Jackson 
county and in the winter following he taught 
in Caledonia. In the spring of 1864 he was aj)- 
pointed Town C'lerk of Caledonia and served in 
that capacity until he enlisted. When more 
troops were called for, for service in the preser- 
vation of what had been gained he determined 
that he was as good as any other man to stop a 
stray rebel bullet and contribute to the protec- 
tion of what older soldiers had won and he en- 
rolled Feb. 20, 1865 at La Crosse and was 
mustered at Camp Randall into U. S. service in 
the latter part of the same month in Company 
K, 46th Wisconsin Infantry, Col. Fred S. Lov- 
ell. March 5th the command left the State for 
Louisville, Ky., and went to Athens, Ala. Mr. 
Batcheller contracted disease on exposure to 
Southern climate, was left in hospital at Nash- 
ville, and joined the regiment at Athens. The 
command was distributed as guard on the 
Nashville & Decatur railroad and, about .June 
1st, Mr. Batcheller was promoted to Sergeant 
and detailed with a squad to guard a trestle on 
tlie Memphis & Charleston railroad, between 
Decatur and Huntsville. After two months 
service tliere he rejoined liis regiment at Ath- 
ens, wliere he remained until ordered home. 
He was mustered out at Nashville, Sep. 27, 
1865 and paid off at MadLson, whei'e his rela- 
tions to military life ceased. 

He returned to Caledonia and attended 
school at Trempealeau the following winter. In 
the summer of 1866 he taught school at Cale- 
donia and in the winter of 1866-7 he was a 



student at Eastman's Commercial College at 
Chicago, where he completed a full course. He 
passed the following summer at Melrose and in 
the fall accepted a position at Black River 
Falls as bookkeeper for D. J. Spalding, which 
he held two years. After this he was employed 
as accountant by a railroad contractor and 
afterwards returned to his former employer at 
Black River Falls, engaging in millwright 
work which he thoroughly understood. After- 
wards he was in charge of the saw and grist 
mill of Mr. Spalding until the spring of 1879, 
when he became the proprietor of the furniture 
and undertaking business of A. A. Bartlett, and 
has since conducted his relations therewith 
witli satisfactory results. Mr. Batcheller has 
served as Justice of the Peace four years and 
was a candidate for County Judge, losing his 
election because of the sjanpathy of the com- 
munity for his opponent. He is a member of 
Albion Lodge of Odd Fellows, No. 134, and is 
also a member of the M. W. A. ; he is a Re- 
publican of decided stamp. 

Mr. Batcheller was married .May 11, 1869 to 
Agnes E., daughter of Steadman and Ellen 
(Buchanan) Wiltse, and they have had three 
children — Hugh and Ruth and a babe which 
died unnamed. Ruth is the only survivor. 
Tlie father of Mrs. Batcheller was a civil en- 
gineer and ojierated on the Sandwich Islands, 
as a surveyor. 



/f^ EORGE JONES, Burlington, Wis., 
f^^^ member of G. A. R. Po.st No. 201, 

^^i^^ was born .Ian. 16, 1817 in Haverhill, 
Grafton county. New Hampshire. He is the 
son of .loseph and Hannah (Blanchard) Jones 
and is one of a family of four sons and four 
daughters, named Charles, Horace, George, 
Joseph, Harriet N., Phebe Ann, Martha and 
Henrietta. All are living except the two last 



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named. The fatlier was a farmer and, in tlie 
early history of the place where he resided, was 
prominent in his church connections which he 
inherited from his Puritan ancestors. Both 
parents were of English ancestry. The son 
grew up on iiis father's farm and received such 
education as the schools of that day afforded. 
In 1840 he left the parental roof for the " far 
West" as Wisconsin was then considered, and 
went first to Racine and immediately after 
to Burlington, where he has since resided. He 
made his journey by the Erie canal to Buffalo 
and thence by the lake route. He arrived late 
in the fall and, soon after, obtained work on a 
farm, his first job being that of threshing buck- 
wheat. Not long after he was taken sick and 
was unable to do anything all winter. He 
went to Portage to work in a hotel and remained 
until the last of 1841, when he returned to 
Burlington. He engaged in farming in which 
he was occupied 10 years and then became 
interested in the meat business which he pur- 
sued about the same length of time. After that 
he was interested in managing a hotel and 
meanwhile the country became disturbed 
through the discordant elements in the South. 
He was inclined to enter the service at the out- 
set and July 3, ISGl, he enrolled for three years 
in Company H, 9th Wisconsin Light Artillery, 
Captain C. H. .Johnson. Oct. 14th he was 
mustered in and on the 19th of March the com- 
mand left the State for St. Louis, where partial 
equipment in the shape of six guns was received, 
with recruits which increased their number to 
155 men. Mr. Jones was made Sergeant, and 
accompanied the battery to Fort Leavenworth 
where they received orders to proceed to Denver, 
a march of more than 500 miles which was 
accomplished in 32 days. The captain was 
fearful of tiie interest of his men in the antics 
of the game which was abundant, and he 
forbade any man's leaving the ranks. But 



when they saw the antelopes bounding pro- 
vokingly close the temptation was too great, 
and, the captain and several others gave chase. 
Returning they were placed under arrest, but 
Mr. Jones started a petition which secured their 
release. From Denver, the leftsection, to which 
Mr. Jones belonged, was ordered to go to Fort 
Lyon to perform frontier duty in keeping the 
Indians under control, which was an ea.sy 
matter with the guns. Under Lieutenant 
Crocker they went to Fort Larned, where Mr. 
Jones was detailed to take a number of prisoners 
to Fort Leavenworth for trial. He acted as 2d 
Lieutenant afterwards, in charge of a force 
with which he went to Southern Missouri in 
pursuit of bushwhackers and after two months 
went to Fort Leavenworth. In March, 1864, 
in connection with a section of the battery, he 
went to Council Grove, and thence to Saline. 
His next move was to Fort Riley and 
thence the command made a forced march 
to the Missouri border which Price was inva- 
ding and was pushing toward Independence. 
They went next to the Big Blue, under Curtiss, 
to operate against the forces of Price in his last 
attempt to get into Missouri. Price had given 
out that he would capture Kansas City and 
Leavenworth and would make the latter his 
headquarters. His flank movement, threaten- 
I ing Kansas City, caused a retreat of the Union 
troops to prevent disaster, and they chased the 
wily rebel to Weston, fighting tlie rear under 
Marmaduke, whose force was dispersed on a 
prairit' and the guns brought to bear on them. 
Price was sent towards tiie Arkansas River and 
Marmaduke and his staff were taken. Tiie bat- 
tery pursued to Fort Scott and thence two sec- 
tions chased Price to Fayetteville, Ark., making 
heavj' marches. They rested in camp while 
the cavalry puslied on. The 9th Battery re- 
turned to Fort Leavenworth and the left section 
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dered to Fort Leavenworth to be mustered out 
Jan. 26, 1865. Mr. Jones returned to Wiscon- 
sin, l)ut was not contented to remain at liome 
until definite results were reached in the mat- 
ter of the war. He proceeded to Washington, 
where he enlisted April 10, 1865, for one year 
or the war in Company B, 7th U. S. Infantry, 
and was stationed for a time in the Capital. He 
went thence to riiiladelpliia and was on duty 
at Cam]i Cadwallader until April 7, 1866. On 
his return to Wisconsin, he resumed his con- 
nection witli agriculture, which he has since 
continued with success and is the proprietor of 
a fine farm in a good position, looking over the 
city of Burlington. He was married in Clare- 
mont, N. PI., July 3, 1844, to Rosetta M., 
daughter of Andrew and Lucy (Thomas) Leet, 
both of whom were natives of New Hampshire 
and of American parentage and English 
descent. The family of Mr. Jones included 
several children, named George F., Mary R., 
Rosa M., Francis E., Laura A., Alice E., Oliver 
A., Emma and Ida. Of these, three are de- 
ceased. George F., the oldest son, enlisted in 
the same command with his father and passed 
thi'ough the same experiences, re-enlisting in 
the same battery when his term of service ex- 
pired. He is a prominent citizen of Dodge 
City, Kas., where he is City Clerk and also a 
magistrate. Mr. Jones was the first man in 
Burlington to suggest the raising of a company 
there when the Government established a re- 
cruiting office in that place. 

'AMES WOODHOUSE, ex-Register of 
Deeds of Grant county, Wis., and resi- 
dent at Lancaster, a member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 132, was born at J'ottsville, Pa., July 
5, 1834. His parents, John and Ann (Newton) 
Woodhouse, were natives of England and their 
children, with the exception of the two young- 



est, were born there. The family emigrated to 
America in 1828, locating at Pottsville, where 
the father engaged in coal mining. In 1836 a 
removal to Wisconsin was effected and the 
senior Woodhouse engaged in lead mining at 
Potosi. Five years later they went to Beetown 
and about a dozen years after to Little Grant 
Township, settHng on a farm where the father 
died in 1860. The family included several 
children named in order Levison, Jane, John, 
Samuel, Hannah, Simon, Peter, Mary and 
James. Levison is deceased ; John died some 
years ago; Samuel was a soldier in Company 
F, 7tli Wisconsin Infantry; Hannah is not liv- 
ing ; Simon was a soldier in the same service 
with Samuel and is deceased. 

Mr. Woodhouse was educated in the common 
schools and afterwards engaged in farming and 
working as a carj^enter. He was managing 
the home farm when he decided to enter the 
service and he enlisted Aug. 14, 1862, at Little 
Grant in Company I, 20th Wisconsin Infantry. 
He was mustered at Madison and left the State 
with the regiment for St. Louis, where several 
weeks were passed in preparing for active ser- 
vice, drill, camp and guard duty. The com- 
mand moved thence about the middle of Sep- 
tember to Rolla, where Mr. Woodhouse ex- 
perienced the same sort of routine until march- 
ing orders for Springfield were received, 
whither the regiment moved, involving a 
march of 125 miles. (The camp was located 
on the farm of the rebel General Price.) There 
Mr. Woodhouse was taken sick and rejoined 
his regiment about the first of December and 
his first experience on resuming duty was the 
forced march to re-inforce General Blunt in 
Arkansas, preparatory to the battle of Prairie 
Grove, in which the Union troops were out- 
numbered about five to one. (See sketch of 
Major Henry Starr.) In the second charge Mr. 
Woodliouse was seriously wounded, a bullet 



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striking his right leg below the knee and shat- 
tering the bone and another, almost simulta- 
neously hitting his thigh, 1)reaking the bone. As 
he fell, the bullets fell like rain around him 
ploughing through the leaves on the ground 
and nearly covering his body witli them. He 
tried to roll i)ehind a tree and while doing so 
another bullet made a Hesh wound in the other 
leg. He was wounded about two o'clock in the 
afternoon and lay there until about four the 
next morning. He was taken to a log house 
in the woods, where he remained two days 
with other wounded and was removed in an 
ambulance ten miles to Fayetteville, where the 
wounded were placed in the public buildings. 
A few of the most serious cases, among which 
was Mr. Woodhouse, were taken to private 
houses and he suffered amputation seven days 
after receiving his injuries. Ten days later he 
was taken to a church and remained until Feb. 
7, 1863, when he went with an ambulance train 
of sick and wounded to Springfield, Mo., arri- 
ving there about the middle of the month. His 
condition was serious and ho remained there 
until March 20tli, when he left, for St. Louis 
and was discharged March 23, 1863. 

As soon as {)ossible after returning home, he 
resumed the management of the farm, l)ut as 
lie was ol)lige<l to depend ujif)n lielp he sold 
his interest therei n and went to Bloomington 
wliere he obtained emj)loyment in a ])low fac- 
tory. In the fall of l.S(>!t he was elected Regis- 
ter of Deeds of Grant Co., Wis., and removed to 
Lancaster to assume the duties of his office. 
He held the position eight years and in 1879 
established him.self in tiie sale of furniture and 
sold the proprietoi"ship therein later to Mr. 
Barlow, himself retaining a position as assist- 
ant. About 18S2 he was elected Town Treas- 
urer and still holds the position. 

He is a member of the A. 0. U. W. His 
marriage to Sarah Jane Iluey took place in 



February, 1858, and they have five children. 
Laura, Mrs. Burrows, is a widow ; Otie, Will- 
iam, Eugene and Nett are the others. The 
mother is the daughter of Joseph Hue3\ 



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HARLES W. SMITH, Racine, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
born Feb. 15, 1847, in Somere, Keno- 
sha Co., Wisconsin, and is the son of Charles 
and Anna (Reid) Smith, who were natives of 
Scotland and came to America in early life. 
Their children are named Anna R., Charles W. 
and James R. Mr. Smith remained on his 
father's farm in Somers assisting, after he was 
sufficiently grown, in the farm labors and ob- 
taining his schooling. He desired to enlist 
early in the war, but be wa.s too young, and he 
was only 17 when he enrolled at Kenosha Jan. 
8, 1864, and was mustered into Company H, 
33d Wisconsin Infantry. He immediately made 
connection with the regiment at Pittsburg, 
(17th Corps under A. J. Smith, Division of 
Crocker), and performed militarj' duty there of 
varied character until December, and Jan. 31, 
1865, went on the Meridian expedition. He 
returned thence March 4th, after a long march 
of 370 miles. Orders were received to connect 
with the Red River expedition and Mr. Smith 
enjoyed the triumph of a victory in his first 
engagement at De Ru.ssey, after which the com- 
mand started for Alexandria, and he was de- 
tailed as guard on a commi.ssary boat, where he 
had some severe experiences, the river boat* 
being under incessant rebel fire from the 
shores. He remained on the boat until the re- 
turn to Alexandria, and afterwards went to 
Vicksburg and to Memphis. After other mili- 
tary experiences of varied character he went 
to St. Charles and to Duvall's Bluff. Prior to 
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Roads and went on the Tupelo expedition. 
From Duvall's Blutf he went to Brownsville, 
Texas, after Price, who was trying to get into 
Missouri. He went to Cape Girardeau, and 
thence to St. Louis, where new equipments 
were received, after which they went to Jeffer- 
son City. (In this movement a brigade of 
rebels were captured, who were taken to 
Warrensburg and to St. Louis.) Their 
next move was to the relief of Thomas 
at Nashville and two weeks after they were 
in the chase after llooil. They took large 
numbers of prisoners and chased the rebels to 
the Tennessee and went to Eastport, raided for 
six weeks, took part in the move to luka and 
the reconnoissance to Corinth. Next Mr. 
Smith went to the assault on the defenses 
of Mobile. He traveled on the Tennessee and 
Mi.ssi.ssip|)i Rivers to New Orleans and across 
Mobile Bay to Forts Gaines and Morgan. He 
was detailed with a command to make a feint 
on the city itself, going over to the side of the 
bay where the city was situated, and went to 
Cedar Point. They went thence to the trenches 
at Spanish Fort and after ten days the fort 
surrendered. Tiie assault at Blakely was in 
operation at the same time, and tlie troo{)S took 
possession of Spanish Fort in early morning 
April 9th. Their next orders took them 
to Montgomery, Ala., to aid in destroying rebel 
sinews of war and, while on a foraging expe- 
dition, three of tliera narrowly escaped capture 
by rebel cavalry. At Montgomery they learned 
of the surrender of Lee and they went next to 
Tuskegee and thence to Mobile. The regiment 
was sent home, but Mr. Smith was transferred 
to the 11th Wisconsin and detailed as mail 
messenger, running from Mobile to Columbus. 
Two months later he returned to Wisconsin 
and was mustered out. He did not receive any 
injury and his narrowest escape was at Spanish 
Fort, where his musket was shot from his hand. 



He returned to Racine, obtained a position 
with a kunber hou.se with whom he remained 
19 years and was then made a partner in the 
concern, under the style of the West Shore 
Lumber Company, which is one of the reliable 
and substantial business firms of Racine. He 
was married in November, 1809 to Mary, 
daughter of Barnard and Betsey B: Halenbake. 
Their only chikl, Fred, was born in 1871. 






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^^ APTAIN BENJAMIN S. KERR, attor- 



^ ney at Monroe, Wis., member of 0. F. 
Pinney Post, No. 102, was born at 
Bladensburg, Knox county, Ohio, Feb. 17, 1841. 
He is the son of Joseph Kerr, Jr., and his 
grandfather, Joseph Kerr, was born in Ireland, 
married Elizabeth McCully and emigrated to 
America, locating on a farm near Pittsburg, Pa. 
When his son was a child he removed to Knox 
county, Ohio, on which the grandparents of 
Mr. Kerr died. They were aged respectively 
about 100 and 80 years. Following is the 
record of their six children: — Williaiu, deceased ; 
Hannah, deceased ; Joseph Jr., was next in 
order and is deceased ; John resides in Ohio ; 
Isaac and Elizabeth are deceased. Joseph Kerr 
was born near Pittsburg in 1809 and married 
Rebecca Saunders, a native of Ohio, whitiier he 
went with his parents when seven years old. 
In 1845 he located in Green county, Wisconsin. 
His wife became the mother of eight children 
and is still living at the age of 74 years. Her 
children are all living and are named William, 
Benjamin S., Villetta C, Sarah (Mrs. 0. H. 
Pratt), Joseph, Isaac, Alvah, Milton and Ellen, 
wife of I. H. Weirrich. Mr. Kerr of this sketch 
was reared on a farm and attended through his 
boyhood the common schools. Later he was a 
student at Platteville Academy and in 1862 he 
commenced teaching, which he pursued 



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tlirough two winter seasons. In the spring of 
1863 lie commenced to read for his profession 
with Hon. B. Dinwiddie of Monroe and con- 
tinued in his office until March 1st, 1864 at 
which time he commenced recruiting for a 
company for the 38th Wisconsin Infantry. April 
15, 18G4, he enlisted and on the organization of 
Company D, he was made 1st Lieutenant, was 
mustered at Camp Randall, and. May 3d, 
started for Washington. May 30th orders were 
received by the regiment to go to Alexandria 
where they embarked on the Potomac for 
White House Landing. Marching followed 
and the first service consisted of an expedition 
to Cold Harbor as escort of a train of supplies 
for the army. There, for the first time Captain 
Kerr heard the roar of caiuion and the patter 
of musketry during the action and there the 
regiment lost the first man. On the evening 
of June 16th, the oSth was in the trenches 
under fire before Petersburg, where Lieutenant- 
Colonel Pier, (see sketch) in command of four 
companies of the regiment with the 1st Battal- 
ion of the 1st Minnesota Infantry, made a 
charge on the next day. This was one of the 
most brilliant acts of that campaign, the men 
of the regiment being so exhausted that ihcy 
slej)! while marching and while the roar of war 
was all about them. On the 18th, with his 
company, he assisted in the capture of the 
rebel lines along the railroad. 

The casualties were so great that at one time 
only 20 men and six officers reported for duty. 
The captain having resigned, .July 1st Lieu- 
tenant Kerr took command and was in active 
service throughout the remainder of the war 
with the exception of a week, which he passed 
in hospital suffering from exhaustion ; he was 
subsequently promoted to Captain of his com- 
pany and was a witness of the explosion of the 
mine, July 30th, and was under fire on the 
terrible day ; he fought in the fall on the 



Weldon railroad, at Ream's Station, Poplar 
Grove Church and in the constant i.-tivities 
that filled the time until the openin^L, of the 
spring campaign of 1865. Captain Kerr was 
at his post during the movements which pre- 
ceded the close of hostilities and was at Ap- 
pomattox when the confederacy became a thing 
of the past. His regiment was at the head of 
the Grand Review and he was in command of 
his men. After a short stay at Tenallytown, 
the regiment was placed in the Provisional 
Brigade, for the defense of Washington under 
General Auger, after the assassination of the 
1 President, the •38th being stationed a few blocks 
east of the Capitol until the return to Madison. 
Caj)tain Kerr was officer of the day while on 
guard at Washington and in that capacity 
visited the various posts, one of them being the 
residence of Secretary Seward who was sutter- 
ing from the wounds received on the night of 
the assassination. Captain Kerr was mustered 
out at Washington July 26, 1865, and w:is 
finally relieved at Madison, August 11th fol- 
lowing. 

On his return to civil life he resumed the 
study of law with his former preceptor, Judge 
Dinwiddie, and was admitted to the Bar of 
Wisconsin in March, 1866. He remained in 
his former connection until fall, when he was 
elected District Attorney of Green county and, 
opened his office as a practicing attorney in 
which he has since conducted the liusiness 
accruing. He ranks among the prominent 
attorneys in his section and enjoys the repute 
of a man of cultivation and refinement and 
possesses acknowledged inHuence in business 
and social circles second to none. 

He was married at Monroe, Nov. 14, 1866, 
to Angeline, daughter of Shavalia and Eliza- 
beth (Doolittle) Fayette. Her fatlier is a 
descendant of a brother of Marquis De Lafay- 
ette and her mother belonged to the branch 



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PERSONAL RECORDS. 



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of the Doolittle family from which the Wiscon- 
sin Senator descended. Captain and Mrs. Kerr 
have two children — Maud, horn Jan. ^9, 18G8, 
and Fayette, horn Feh. 12, 1S70. 

/^^ APT. ALLEN RALPH BUSHNELL, 
iV^vV/ attorney at Lancaster, Wis., mem- 
^^^^ her of G. A. R. Post No. 132, was 
horn .July 18, 1833, in Hartford, Trumbull 
Co., Ohio, and he is the son of Dr. George W. 
Bushnell, a descendant from sires who fought 
in the wars of the country in ifs fonnative 
period, his grandfather, Captain Alexander 
Bushnell, being a soldier of the Revolution and 
his father, Daniel Bushnell, having fought in 
1812. The earliest ancestor in this country 
was Francis Bushnell, who settled in the New 
World in its colonial period. Sally, wife of Dr. 
Bushnell, was the daughter of Deacon Elihu 
Bates. The families removed to Ohio where 
the marriage of the parents took place and 
there the mother died ; the father is still living. 
Five of their eight children survive, named 
Sarah B., Amoret, Anna, John L. and Allen R. 
Curtis is deceased ; Milo was a soldier in a com- 
pany of boys who were too young for veteran 
duty and he died of disease while still in ser- 
vice, aged about 15 years. Edward died when 
about 19 years old. 

Captain Bushnell was reared on a farm and 
also studied medicine with his father; he ob- 
tained his elementary education in the com- 
mon schools; went to Hartford high school 
and Oberlin College, and finished his studies 
at Hiram College with Garfield is instructor. 
But he had settled on the profession of an at- 
torney and, while taking his literary course 
taught several terms of school. In 1852 he 
went to Wisconsin, teaching a term at Block 



House Branch, after which he returned to 
Ohio, going permanently to Wisconsin in 1854. 
He taught school in Platteville while pursuing 
his law studies in the office of Hon. S. 0. 
Paine and was admitted to the Bar in 1857. 
About the first of December of that year he be- 
gan his practice at Platteville, established a 
popular business and was elected District Attor- 
ney in 1860, receiving 100 more votes than the 
electoral ticket for Lincoln. He served until 
the condition of National affairs seemed para- 
mount to all other considerations and he re- 
signed to give bis attention to military affairs. 
He aided in raising the Platteville Guards, 
which was organized by Captain Nasmitb, an 
old soldier of the Mexican war. Captain Bush- 
nell was commissioned 1st Lieutenant of the 
company which was mustered into the Ttli 
Wisconsin as Company C, its members having 
enlisted for three months, but, on the order 
providing for the enrollment of no more short 
.service men, they re-enlisted for three years. 
Captain Bushnell's commission was dated in 
May, 18G1, and he was mustered at Madison in 
August and proceeded to Washington and the 
front, where his regiment was brigaded with 
the 2d and 6th Wisconsin and 19th Indiana, 
which organization became the famous " Iron 
Brigade." The command drilled, performed 
camp and guard duty, went to Manassas and 
was stationed between the rebel army and 
Washington, going to Fredericksburg and re- 
maining sometime in that position, raiding 
towards Richmond and skirmishing somewhat, 
but in no set battle until Gainesville. Captain 
Bushnell fought at the 2d Bull Run and was 
afterwards taken sick with typhoid fever, which 
gave him sick furlough and he passed two 
months at home in Ohio. He rejoined his 
regiment on the south slope of the Blue Ridge, 
and was first again in action at Fredericks- 
burg, passed the winter in quarters on the 



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Rappahannock and distinguislied himself with 
the rest in the " Mud Campaign." His health 
becoming impaired, Captain Bushnell resigned 
under surgeon's certificate of disability. He 
had been promoted Captain of his company 
and served as such after the battle of Frede- 
ricksburg. 

He went to his father's house, where he 
remained under medical treatment for a year 
and went back to Wisconsin in 1864. He 
practiced law a short time in Platte vi He and 
went thence to Lancaster where, in 18G5 he 
entered the office of Judge Mills and formed a 
copartnership with John G. Clark in 1867. In 
1880 Mr. Watkins became a member of the 
firm, which continued to exist until the with- 
drawal of Mr. Clark in 18S2. The present 
style is Bushnell & Watkins and they are one 
of the leading law firms in that section of Wis- 
consin. 

Captain Bushnell has been prominently 
identified with the history of Lancaster since 
he became one of its citizens ; he was the first 
Mayor of Lancaster and assisted in forming 
the municipal government. In 1872 he was 
made a member of the Legislature and served 
on the Judiciary Committee with some of the 
most prominent lawyers in the State, that 
session of the Assembly being particularly 
strong. Hu has served a number of years as 
United States District Attorney, and is still the 
incumbent of the office. 

He was married at Lancaster to Laura E., 
daughter of Addison and ]\hxrtlia Burr ; she was 
a native of Vermont and died in 1873, 
leaving a daughter named Mabel. In 1875 he 
married Mary F.,daughterof Cyrus and Fanny 
(Barber) Sherman; a son born of this union 
died in infancy. Captain Bushnell is a Mason 
and belongs to the Chapter at Lancaster. 

The ipiartette of portraits on page 490 of 
which Captain Bushuell's is one, is presented 




with the liveliest satisfaction of the publishers 
of this work. They represent the service of 
Wisconsiu in the war throughout its course. 



OL. JOHN G. CLARK, Lancaster, 
Wis., senior member of the law firm 
of Clark A Taylor, was born in Mor- 
gan Co., 111., July 31, 1825. His father, 
Thomas Pye Clark, was born in Pemberton near 
Wiggin, Lancashire, England, June 20, 17-81, 
and was only 15 j'ears of age when he came to 
America with his brother. He went first to 
Pennsylvania and after {fassing some time on a 
farm went to the city of New York, where he 
reached his majority, spending his time in the 
employ of a mercantile house. He engaged in 
trade in his own interest and went thence to 
Havana, Cuba, where disaster overtook his en- 
terprise and he went to AugusUi, Ga., where he 
again entered into trade and married Isabella 
Clark. She was born in Augusta, Jan. 4, 1786. 
The family moved to Illinois in 1822 and 
settled on a farm in Morgan county, where the 
two youngest children were born. The next 
removal was to Missouri, locating near Marion 
College, Marion county, to obUiin educational 
advantages for the four sons. The father was 
engaged in fitting an expedition for California 
in 1850 at New Orleans where he was seized 
with cholera which terminated his life; the 
mother died tlie same season at Macon, Mo. 
(The original patronymic was Pye, wIiIlIi was 
clianged on tlie marriage of the father to Isa-. 
belia Clark, he taking lier name by Act of 
Legislature.) Their chiMren were named in 
order of birth, William, Thomas, Charles and 
John. The eldest resides in California. 
Thomas was a surgeon and it is re- 
ported died while serving as such in the rebel 
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pressed into reljel service, although holding 
Union principles, and lost his life in the re- 
bellion. 

Colonel Clark was early thrown on his own 
resources. He went to AVisconsin in 1837 but 
remained only a few months. He subse- 
(juently removed with his father's family to 
Marion county, Missouri, and entered Marion 
College, afterwards Masonic College. In Sep- 
tember, 1845, he entered Illinois .College at 
Jacksonville, 111., whence he was graduated in 
1847. 

During, the.se years he partially supported 
himself by manual labor, by discliarging the 
duties of janitor and b}' teadiing, and in the 
meantime creating large debts, which, with the 
accumulated interest, he paid in after years. 

After a short stay in Missouri, not liking the 
prospects when as a laborer he had to come in 
competition with slaves, and where as a teacher 
he could get only about $15 per month, he re- 
turned to Wisconsin in 1847 and engaged in 
teaching and mining, and not succeeding very 
well he hired out to James E. Freeman, a Gov- 
ernment surveyor, as a man of all work, but 
principally as cook and packer. In a short 
time he familiarized himself with the solar 
compass and with the mode and manner of 
making the surveys and was promoted to the 
charge of a company. First as emploj-e and 
subsequently as contractor he followed that 
liusiness in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and 
Missouri until 1854, encountering all the hard- 
ships and exposures of such a career, twice win- 
tering near Lake Superior without tent or 
other shelter except such as a few pine boughs 
might offer when occasionally and hastily 
gathered at nightfall. His men became so ac- 
customed to this exposure that the daily im- 
mersion in midwinter in the swamps and 
streams made no impression on them. 

He became expert in the business and prob- 



ably surveyed as much territory as any man 
in Wisconsin. He located a portion of the 
State line between Missouri and Iowa in 1852 
and survej'ed the adjacent lands. In 1853 he 
was appointed Deputy Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Grant county ; in 1854 he was elected 
Clerk of the Court and was made his own 
successor in 1856, and again in 1858. In 
1860 he was elected to the State Legislature, 
in which position he was serving when the 
business of the entire country was wholly 
demoralized by the advent of fraternal war. 
He was among the first to offer his services 
to Wisconsin and went into camp .with Com- 
pany C, 2d Wisconsin Infantry, with the in- 
tention of going to the seat of war with that 
command. An extra session of the Legis- 
lature demanded his attendance and when that 
business was over he entered the service in the 
capacity of Quartermaster of the 5tli Wisconsin 
Infantry, his commission being dated June 14, 
1861. (Prior to this he received from the Gov- 
ernor a commission as Assistant Commissary 
General of Wisconsin, dated May 31, 1861.) 
Colonel Clark passed through the detailed ex- 
periences of the regiment from muster at Mad- 
ison until May, 1S63, engaged through the first 
luonths in drill, camp guard and picket duty, 
together with the other duties of his position, 
marched in the Peninsula campaign, skir- 
mished at various points and was at Williams- 
burg, where the regiment won renown. He 
suffered all the miseries of the Chickahominy 
and was with his regiment on that celebrated 
retreat, and in the several battles in which 
the 5th took a part. He was in the fight 
at Cramptou's Gap, in the subsecjuent move- 
ments prior to Antietam and was on that 
awful field ; waiting for developments, he 
passed the winter on the Rappahannock and 
entered into Burnside's operations to meet witli 
the common fate ; he was at Fredericksburg and 



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Marye's Heights, encountering immediately 
after, the ruin at Chancellorsville. In May, 
1863, he was commissioned Captain and Pro- 
vost Marshal of the 3d District of Wisconsin 
and officiated in that position until February^ 
1865, when he was commissioned Colonel of the 
50th Wisconsin Infantry. The regiment went 
to Missouri and was scattered witii other troops 
over a sub-district which included a half-dozen ; 
counties, of which he was in command with 
headquarters at Jefferson City. In July the 
regiment was ordered to Fort Leavenworth, 
where Colonel Clark was, for the first time, in 
command of his entire regiment, which iiad 
been sent forward in companies and distributed 
where needed. At a later date he was sent 
with his command to the upper Missouri for 
service on the frontiers, quelling Indians and 
performing duty for which his men had not i 
enlisted and which they did not anticipate. \ 
At the date of the mutiny at Fort Leavenworth, i 
the 50th Wisconsin proved the quality of its 
meml)ers, especially, as its officers and soldiers 
felt keenly the injustice of the course to which 
they were subjected and all the more so in 
view of the fact that the mutinous regiments 
were mustered out before their terms of en- ; 
listment had expired, while the 50th could not 
by any possiljility be relieved until long after 
its term had expired. It remained on the 
plains until June, 1866. 

lie was proud of liis regiment and consider- 
ed it one of tiie best officered, best disci])lined, 
best behaved if not the best drilled, and one of 
the most reliable of any in the service; and 
such was its reputation at Department head- 
quarters; for tiiat reason it was ordered on 
duty where it would necessarily be retained in 
the service after its term should expire, not- 
withstanding the wish of its officers and men 
to return to their shops, farms and families. 
He keenly felt that an injustice was done them. 



Colonel Clark was fitted for his profession 
and admitted to the Bar in 1861, and in 1867 
opened an office as an attorney and in addition 
to his business has been continuously in the 
service of the public. He has been prominent 
in all matters pertaining to the well-being of 
his municipality and active in the furtlierance 
of such projects as seemed to hold a promise 
of permanent good to the community. During 
the constr^jction of the railroad through that 
section of Wisconsin he was Chairman of the 
Town Board and assumed such responsibilities 
and operated in the interests of all concerned 
under the prerogatives of his position as would 
have financially ruined him in case of a 
failure. He has been Mayor of Lancaster and 
was instrumental in the construction of one of 
the best school buildings in the State. 

As Mayor of Jjancaster and as Chairman of 
the Committee he secured and superintended 
the construction and organized one of the first 
and best county asylums for the insane in the 
country. 

He was a candidate before the Ilepublican 
conventions in 1874 and 1880 for tlie nomi- 
nation for Congress. After many l>allots in 
1874 a third candidate was nominated. In 
1880, because of irregularities, he withdrew his 
name. He assisted in the creation of the 
Republican party in 1853 and 1S54, and has 
never swerved from his fealty thereunto. It 
honored him. He tried to iionor it. 

He is at present, (188!>) Master of tlie Masonic 
Lodge at Lancaster wiiich position he lias filled 
eleven years; he has belonged to the State 
organization and is also an Odd Fellow, being, 
in 1878, Grand Master of the State Grand 
Lodge. He was also Grand liepresentative to 
the Sovereign Grand Lodge many years. 

He was married Feb. IDth, 1852, to Minerva, 
daughter of Harvey Pepper of Mineral Point. 
Their children are named Alice, (Mrs. Tiel of 



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California) and A\^illiam Harvey of Lancastei'. 
Colonel Clark is a man of whom Wisconsin 
records bear the best testimonials in all capaci- 
ties in which he has served her interests. 
Necessity for exertion was, through all iiis 
early years, his inflexible instigator to effort 
and she held him with an iron grasp. Asa sur- 
veyor he passed through hardships which 
would liave sent a less resolute man to insig- 
nificant and easier toil ; in his military service he 
sacrificed personal interest and returned to 
civil life a poor man and in debt, being com- 
pelled to sell his real estate to release himself; 
his arduous work on the plains had cost him 
his health and thus equipped, after serving his 
country with a bravery which had received 
due official recognition, he set out to carve a 
career in a i)rivate capacity. He has carried 
the .same traits into his later career which dis- 
tinguished him earlier, and is now at the head 
of one of the leading law firms of the State. 
He is one of the best samples of self-made men 
who have l)een j^laced on record in Wisconsin, 
and the State is justly proud of her son. He is 
an active Grand Army man, belonging to the 
Post at Lancaster. 

He is approaching the allotted term of years 
assigned to man, but is still a model of mental 
vigor, energy and public spirit. He has ful- 
filled to the people of Grant county the promise 
they saw in him when he made his advent in 
Lancaster, fresh from his contest for life in the 
forest, after having waded icy rivers and trav- 
ersed weary miles of untrodden wilderness, in 
a buckskin suit, showing traces of service ; its 
owner making such an impression on the 
peoj)le that he was immediately solicited to 
accept the position of Clerk of the Circuit, in 
which he served in a manner that reflected the 
greatest credit on the discernment of his con- 
stituents. 

Since writing the above Colonel Clark has 



been by the present administration appointed 
Associate -Justice of the Supreme Court of 
Oklahoma Territory and has been confirmed, 
and is now, .June, 1890, there in the discharge 
of his duties. 

The portrait of Colonel Clark may be found 
on page 490. 



'p<^ ON. GEORGE I 
Tf^jp Grant County, 
--^ "i^ cnstfir wiis hoi 



B. CARTER, Judge of 
Wis., resident at Lan- 
caster, was born near Brighton, in 
the shire of Sussex, England, April 18, 1838. 
His immediate ancestry in the paternal line 
were Thomas aud Lydia (Luckings) Carter, and 
in the maternal line Edward and Ann (Brown) 
Fox. His forbears on his father's side prove 
their descent from ancestors dating back more 
than 400 years as property holders in Sussex. 
William Carter, son of Thomas Carter and 
father of " His Honor, " was an innkeeper and 
market gardener in his native country, which 
he left for political reasons in 1850, coming to 
America to enjoy his opinions as a Chartist. 
All his immediate relatives removed to America 
the same year. The senior Carter and his wife 
reared ten children, all of whom are living, the 
Judge being third in order of birth. Follow- 
ing is a brief record of the brothers and sisters : 
William E. is an attorney at Platteville, Wis.; 
Richard, an attorney at Dodgeville, Wis., was 
a soldier in the 2d and 5th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and was promoted after the battle of the 
Wilderness; Sarah E., wife of Edward Chil- 
dren, resides at East Dubuque, Iowa ; Lydia A. 
married John Woodward of Platteville ; Esther 
M. married Mr. Woodward of Livingston ; 
Alice E. married W. R. Carter of Lawrence, 
Kan.; Anna J. lives at Lancaster ; Edwin T. is 
a business man at Annaton, Wis.; Fannie J., is 
the wife of T. B. Sherman of Stitzer, Wis. The 



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family came direct to Lancaster, where former 
friends from the old country resided, bringing 
witli them some means, and, being importuned 
to remain, settled there to form a leading ele- 
ment in the community. Tiie traits of the 
sires were perpetuated in the succeeding gen- 
erations, and the sons secured all the advan- 
tages of education and discipline for contact 
with the world, wliich the laws and customs of 
the country permitted. George Carter studied 
as be could at winter terms of school, and the 
winter before he was 21 years old taught a 
term of school, saving $150, with wliich he in- 
dulged in attendance at Platteville academy, 
being a student there until the .spring of 18G0. 
lie fully intended to pursue a liberal course of 
study, but failing health prevented and he re- 
turned to Lancaster, where he was made Under 
Sheriff of the county. The events of the period 
awakened all his interest and, according to a 
premonition tliat tlie country would liave occa- 
sion to demand tlie best blood of its people be- 
fore the differences of tlie North and South 
were adjusted, held himself ready for the emer- 
gency, and, April ly, IStil, as .soon as the call 
for troops was made and it was possible to en- 
roll for the defense of National unity, he enlist- 
ed in an organization that was assigned to the 
2d Wisconsin Infantry as Company C. His 
roommate enlisted at the same time, there be- 
ing an understanding between the two that 
thej'sliould be comrades in everything, neither 
accepting promotion on tliis account, altliough 
both were offered leading official positions in 
the company. Judge Carter is the first man 
now alive who enlisted from his county, and is 
as proud of that distinction as of liis honors 
which have been accumulating since his return 
to civil life. 

After muster at Madison, the regiment went 
to the front, camping near Washington, and 
was brigaded under (then) Colonel W. T. Sher- 



man. Judge Carter was first in battle at Bull 
Run and he afterwards remained with his com- 
mand, which operated with the Army of Vir- 
ginia. At home he had been leader of a l)and 
and, after Bull Run, yielded to solicitation to 
organize a Ijand and was afterwards, in Sep- 
tember, made Orderly' Sergeant of liis company. 
Nov. 23, 18G1, he was taken with typhoid fever; 
he was sent home, receiving honorable dis- 
charge as disabled; his weight had been 166 
pounds and, on reaching home he weighed 100 
pounds. He had read law for a short time in 
ISGl with I. A. Barber of Lancaster and resumed 
his studies on recovering liis health. In August, 
1862, he was commissioned as a recruiting 
officer, rai.sed about 50 men who were consoli- 
dated with part of a company raised by J. C. 
Moore, the latter being made Captain and liim- 
self 1st Lieutenant of the organization, which 
was assigned to the 33d Wisconsin Infantry as 
Company A. Lieutenant Carter's previous ex- 
perience was utilized in drilling his company 
and it was the best in the regiment, wliich was 
mustered at Racine in Cctober, 1SG2, and sent 
early in November to Memjihis, and incorpo- 
rated with the 13th Corps in General W. T. 
Sherman's division. The command went witii 
Grant in the Mississipi)i campaign and, after 
tlie disaster at Holly Springs went into winter 
quarters at Moscow, Tenn. In February they 
went to Mempliis in the IGth Corps and, wliile 
in camp, Comjiaiiy A won tlie prize for best 
military drill in the division. Lieutenant Carter 
receiving from his men a very elegant sword as 
proof of their appreciation of his interest in 
them. The regiment was in the action near 
Hernando in April and a month later started 
to connect with Grant's army at Vicksburg. 
At Young's Point they landed, and subse- 
quently went to the Yazoo river, thence they 
took position in the investing line of Vicksburg 
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siege and under reljel fire 42 days and nights, 
receiving Ijullets tlirougli his clotlies; his horse 
was killed and he was knocked over by a shell; 
a bullet hit his sword, but he never received 
a wound while in the service, his exposure to 
rebel tire aggregating in all 102 days during 
which he was in 32 heavy engagements. After 
\'icksburg he was in the chase after Johnston 
and was in the fight at Jackson. (In the charge 
of the 1st Brigade, 1,070 men were in line of bat- 
tle and 250 answered to their names at rol^call). 
His regiment was detailed from the brigade to 
find the Pearl River Bridge, thus escaping the 
horrors of that charge. After aiding in the de- 
struction of property at Jackson they returned to 
the Mississippi and afterwards to Natchez. The 
regiment was in the Meridian expedition after 
which they expected to be continued with Sher- 
man, but three divisions were sent to the 
assistance of Banks on the Red River, inclu- 
ding the 33d Wisconsin. It was expected that 
the divisions mentioned would return to Sher- 
man for the Atlanta campaign but tlie falling 
of the river prevented. They were in the 
action at Fort I)e Russey, in reconnoissances 
afterward and retreated after the disaster at 
Sabine Cross Roads, skirmishing with guer- 
rillas and marching from point to point and 
fighting the battle of Tupelo. July 14, 1864, 
Judge Carter sustained a sunstroke but 
remained with his command. (His temerity 
in neglecting himself was proved later, as he 
was obliged in after years to abandon his busi- 
ness and resort to heroic treatment to avert 
more serious consequences than death). After 
the fight at Tui>elo he returned with the com- 
mand to Memphis, went to White River after 
Price, who was pursued to Cape Girardeau, and 
Jefferson City and, finally into Indian Terri- 
tory. On the Big and Little Blue Rivers, about 
1,000 rebels were captured, who were taken to 
St. Louis, where the Judge voted for President 



Lincoln. They went next to Nashville and 
wei"e in the fight there, the command being in 
the skirmish line and capturing 270 prisoners. 
They were of Merriwether's command and the 
part taken by Judge Carter in this afl'air 
received special mention. He had been pro- 
moted to Captain on the death of his superior 
in front of Vicksburg, and his service 
in that capacity was such that his man- 
agement is still the subject of comment 
on historical pages. After Nashville he was 
placed on the staff' of General Moore with the 
rank of Captain and after the fight received the 
promise of a Major's commission. He was in 
the pursuit of Hood to Corinth and luka, re- 
turning to Eastport, Miss., to camp there while 
awaiting transportation to the Gulf, meanwhile 
foraging for subsistence; they had plenty of 
meat and small rations but no bread, and corn 
in the ear was issued for ten days as a substi- 
tute. Finally they reached New Orleans and 
went to the investment of Spanish Fort, being 
in the trenches there throughout the entire 
siege of 30 days, and there Judge Carter was 
commissioned Brevet Major for bravery. After 
the fall of Blakely his command went to Mont- 
gomery, where news of Lincoln's murder was 
received, which transformed the soldiers into 
infuriated madmen ; only the persistent de- 
nials of the rebel prints prevented wholesale 
murder and destruction. The regiment re- 
turned to Vicksburg, where Major Carter was 
mustered out Aug. 9, 1865. 

On resuming connection with civil life once 
more he prospected for business a short time 
and, deciding that law practice at Lan- 
caster presented slight advantage he went to 
Platteville and began operations in trade, in 
which he was occupied five years. In 1870 he 
decided to follow his inclinations and again 
read law with his brother at Platteville, form- 
ing a partnership with him in the following 



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year. In the fall of 1872 he was elected Dis- 
trict Attorney and was made his own successor 
in 1874. In the spring of 1878 his old diffi- 
culty overcame him and he was incapacitated 
for business for four years. Proper medical 
care completely restored his health and in 1882 
lie received an appointment in the land office 
at Madison, where he served four years. March 
1, 1886, he was appointed Judge of Grant 
county and in the spring of 1889 was elected 
to the [)osition of which he is still the incum- 
bent. Me belongs to G. A. R. Post Thomas D. 
Cox, named in memory of the first soldier 
killed ut Hull Run from the company of which 
the Judge was a member. He was first Past 
Commander of the old Post at Platteville in 
18(57. He is a Chapter Mason, holding his con- 
nection with the Masonic bodies at Platteville. 

He was married Jan. 25, 1864, while at home 
on recruiting service to Helen Barber, daughter 
of Addison and Martha Lois (Barber) Burr. 
Her grandfather, Aaron Burr, was born in Ver- 
mont, and was a relative of Vice President 
Aift-on Burr. T. A. Burr, the brother of Mrs. 
Carter, is Postmaster at Lancaster. The chil- 
dren born to her and her husband are three in 
number. Benjamin Farrar, aged 25 years, is 
a druggist at St. Cloud, Minn.; William Burr, 
aged 18, is passing a preparatory year in the 
banking house of Meyer & Co., at the conclus- 
ion of which he will take a university course. 
Laura, aged 13 years, is the youngest and only 
daughter. 

The portrait of Judge Carter may be found 
on page 490. 



i B=CJC - 



ICHARD CARTER, Dodgeville, Wis., 
District Attorney of Iowa county, 
member of the law firm of Ree.se & 
Carter, was born in Sussex, England, May 31, 
1836. His immediate ancestry in his native 




country were conspicuous for principles which 
made it impossible for them to exist under 
monarchical institutions and the family sacri- 
ficed all ties that connected it with the land of 
its nativitj' to found anew their house in a 
country whose civil Government afforded op- 
portunity to enjoy the privileges of untram- 
meled thought and convictions. The sketch of 
Hon. Geo. B. Carter, which appears on another 
page contains the genealogical references which 
trace the ancestry of Captain Carter. 

When he was 14 years old, the latter ac- 
companied bis parents, William and Annie 
(Fox) Carter, to America and was reared on the 
farm in Lancaster, Wisconsin, to which they 
went immediately on landing at the port of 
New York. Home ties were strong and he 
remained under the parental roof, aiding on^ 
the farm and engaged in obtaining an educa- 
tion as he best could. His abilities were 
marked and he became prominent as an assist- 
ant in municii)al matters, acting five years be- 
fore he was 25 years old as Deputy Clerk of 
the Court under Col. John G. Clark. With the 
money he earned he paid his expenses at the 
Platteville academy and was graduated when 
24 years of age. He taught six terms of school 
at home and in 1860 was appointed one of the 
enrolling clerks of the Assembly of Wisconsin. 
He was in Madison when the Proclamation of 
the President calling for troops, dated April 15, 
1861, was received and was in the assembly halls 
of Wisconsin when the matter was discu.ssed on 
the IGth of April. As soon as the Secretary of 
War made his first requisition on Alexander W. 
Randall for a regiment, young Carter hastened 
to ap[)ly for a situation as military defender of 
the flag which had been humiliated at Sumter, 
and it is safe to conjecture that he was the first 
man in Wisconsin to make formal apjilic^ition 
to the executive for enrollment in a Wiscon- 
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open on the morning of the Ifitli of April he 
caUed at his office and by the request of Gov- 
ernor Randall was detailed to go to Grant 
county on recruiting service, after enrolling in 
Company C, 2d Wisconsin Infantry. He was 
asked by the Governor if he could enlist a 
company in 10 days and he replied "tliat he 
could if the Spirit of '76 was not dead. " In 
conjunction with others he raised two com- 
panies in five days. Before the muster of the 
regiment, the enlistment of three mouths men 
was discontinued and Company C re-enlisted to 
a man. Mr. Carter refused a commission on 
the ground of ignorance of military tactics and 
was mustered as Orderly Sergeant June 11, 
1861. At the request of his colonel he was 
transferred to the regimental band, as he was a 
musician. .June 20th he left the State ; June 
oOth he first trod Virginia's soil; on the IGth , 
of July he was equipped in full panoply of war j 
and en route for active warfare witii McDowell's 
command, attached to Sherman's brigade and 
Tyler's division. He was in the reconnois.sance 
at Blackburn's Ford and fought at Bull Run, ' 
the first gun of the first battle of the rebellion 
— a 32-pounder — being fired directly in front 
of his division. Sergeant Carter was with a 
squad deployed in front of the brigade hos- 
pital when Robert Stevenson, bearing the regi- j 
mental colors, approached unarmed and alone, 
pressed by rebel cavalry, sturdily refusing to 
furl the flag ; the color bearer had been 
wounded and the guard dispersed, when 
Stevenson rescued the banner; seeing the situa- 
tion, the hot current in their veins fired to 
fever heat by the experiences of the day, the 
two Carters, Richard and George, sprang for- 
ward and, joining Stevenson, rallied about 60 
men, mostly from the 2d Wisconsin to the sup- 
port of the flag which they triumphantly con- 
veyed to Fort Corcoran. It was a gallant deed 
and Wisconsin will forever keep green the 



memories of the actors therein. During the 
retreat to Centerville, Sergeant Carter twice 
turned over the force to commissioned officers, 
one o( wiiom disbanded them, but Sergeant 
Carter again formed them into military array 
and they reached Centerville in good order. 
In November the Order aljolishing regimental 
bands was issued and Mr. Carter returned 
home. 

March 21, 1862, he went to Washington to 
re-enlist and enrolled in the 5th Wisconsin 
and received the appointment of Quarter- 
Master's Sergeant, the Quarter Master being his 
former chief, Jolni G. Clark. He joined the 
regiment at Flint Hill, Va., and was there- 
after a part of all its history until he was 
appointed Assistant Quarter Master, U. S. V., 
in May, 186-1. He was with his command in 
the activities prior to going to the Peninsula, 
fought at Young's Mills and Lee's Mills, chased 
the rebels to -Williamsburg and fought in that 
most brilliant action. He went next to the 
Chickahominy and survived tlie disasters of 
Golden's Farm, Savage Station, White Oak 
Swamp and Malvern Hill and the worse hor- 
rors of the malaria which destroyed one of the 
finest armies on record. August 16th he started 
to the relief of General Pope, and after several 
movements went to Maryland to fight at 
Crampton's Gap September 14th. He was 
under fire at Antietam, and on the first day of 
November following, Sergeant Carter was 
promoted to 2nd Lieutenant to date from 
October 1st. He was soon after seized with 
illness so severe that he could neither report 
nor cause his condition to be reported, and he 
was tried by military commission, General 
Torbert, President, for absence without leave, 
to receive honorable acquittal on stating the 
facts, the whole misunderstanding growing out 
of an error in a regimental report. March 
lOth, 1863, he joined his command, and, April 



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28th went to the Rappahannock, the regiment 
having been assigned to the " Light Division " 
whose style indicates the service for whicli it 
was designed. In the cliarge on Marye's 
Heiglits, Lieutenant Carter was one of the first 
to full with a musket ball in his hip and was 
conveyed to hospital whence he returned ^hiy 
9tli to his command, his company being with- 
out an officer. May 12th he was commissioned 
1st Lieutenant of his company' and resumed 
active military duty about the 1st of .June. 
Connected with the 3d Brigade, 1st Division 
and 6th Corps the 5th started .June 'Jth to 
cross the Rappaluinnoek and on the loth the 
forward movement towards Gettysburg began, 
the 5th arriving on that historic field on the 
2(1 of July to take immediate position for 
action. Lieutenant Carter was constantly 
under fire throughout the remainder of the 
battle and was afterwards in ])ursuit of Lee, 
engaging in several skimiishes with the rear 
guard of the rebel comniund. He was in unre- 
mitting activities, marching, skirmishing, per- 
forming all varieties of duty pertaining to his 
oHlce and as a soldier until July 2Stli, when he 
went to Washington under orders to place 
himself under medical treatment of which he 
was sorely in need, his condition being serious 
because of his neglect and self-enforced remain- 
ing with his command through the severities 
of the campaigns after being wounded. He 
did not rejoin his regiment until the middle of 
October, meanwhile receiving leave of absence 
for 30 days. In November he was in tlie 
activities on the Rappahannock and was after- 
wards in winter quarters until the military 
movements commenced in the spring, leaving 
camp May 4th to participate in the liattle of 
the Wilderness, where the regiment gallantly 
checked the rebels, holding them until relief 
came. About the 7tli, prior to Spottsylvania, 
Lieutenant Carter was again obliged to suc- 



cumb to illness, hemorrhage of the lungs and 
intermittent fever, with anasarca having 
suj)erveued, and he was sent to Emory hospi- 
tal at Washington. His apjiointmeut as As- 
sistant Quartermaster of Volunteers, was before 
the U. S. Senate for confirmation, on which ac- 
tion was taken by that Body May I'Jtli and he 
reported to Qurtermaster General M. C. Meigs 
for assignment on receiving a letter of instruc- 
tions from the War Department about June 
25th. July 5th, Special Order No. 227, direct- 
ing Captain Richard Carter, Assistant Quarter- 
master of Volunteers, to report by letter, to the 
Commanding General, and in j)erson to the 
Chief Quartermaster, Army of the Cumberland, 
for assignment to duty was issued over the sig- 
nature of E. D. Townsend, Assistant Adjutant 
General, with which Captain Carter immedi- 
ately complied, reporting to Major-General 
Thomas, Headquarters, Department of the Cum- 
berland, who issued Special Field Order No. 
192 instructing Captain Carter to relieve Cap- 
tain Whitehead as forage officer at Chatta- 
nooga, the order bearing date July 14th. In 
compliance Captain Carter reported to C. K. 
Smith, Chief A. Q. M. at Chattanooga and as- 
sumed the duties of the position, which he dis- 
charged until May, 1805, when he was assigned 
to duty as Acting Chief Q. M., Cavalry Corps, 
Military Division of the Mississippi, on Major 
General J. H. Wilson'^s staff at Nhicon, Ga., 
where he received orders to return to ^\'iscon- 
sin to await final disposition of his connection 
with the military aH'airs of the United States, 
which occurred Oct. 20, 1865. Meanwhile he 
was in constant activity on the stafi's of General 
Thomas, General Wilson and General Stead- 
man, his credentials in the shape of Special 
Orders for the performance of arduous and re- 
sponsible duties, manifesting the esteem and 
confidence rested in him by the superior offi- 
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belonged, and it is matter of regret tluit tlie re- 
strictions of a volume of tliis cliaracter pre- 
clude tlie transcription of the mass of ofticial 
correspondence preserved by Captain Carter as 
it is, beside being important in its historical re- 
lations, most valuable as an exponent of the 
character of Captain Carter, to which this 
meager outline is in no sense adecjuate. His 
service with the Arm}- of the Potomac is ab- 
stracted from the report of the same he was 
required to make on acceding to his appoint- 
ment as A. Q. M. of ^'olunteers, and it may be 
stated by an impartial biographer that a more 
modest and unassuming recital of his own 
heroism was never transmitted to the authori- 
ties by a candidate for advancement. But one 
fact was glaringly patent — he was never with- 
held from duty by personal considerations, 
whether of illness or advantage, and at that 
date — the spring of 1864 — the value of every 
man in a responsible position was thoroughly 
comprehended and appreciated liy the Depart- 
ment, and this is particularly true of the ad- 
juncts of the Army of the West, as it may al- 
most be called from the proportion of Western 
soldiers. 

Nov. 6, 1SG5, Captain Carter reported from 
Platteville, Wis., to General Thomas, Adjutant 
General of the Arm}' at Washington and, on 
Nov. 27, 18G.5, his relation with the army ter- 
minated. 

After returning to Platteville, Captain Carter 
was seriously ill for three months but, on re- 
suming connection with the affairs of civil life, 
his efficiency as a municipal officer was again 
recognized in his appointment as Assistant 
Collector of Internal Revenue, in .June, 1866. 
About the same date he was admitted to prac- 
tice at the Dar of Wisconsin and formed a 
partnership with Colonel J. E. Gurley, the rela- 
tion being dissolved after two years, after which 
Caj)tain Carter did not resume active connec- 



tion with legal business until 1871, devoting 
his time to the duties of his office. In the year 
named he located at Dodgeville and has since 
been engaged in legal practice associated with 
S. \V. Reese. In the fall of 1888 he was elected 
District Attorney, running flatteringly in ad- 
vance of his ticket. He has served several 
years as Village Attorney and in other local 
offices. 

He was married Jan. 25, 1865, to Lizzie M., 
daughter of Hon. S. 0. Paine, who died Sept. 17, 
1874, leaving a daughter, now Mrs. Emma C. 
I Marks of Dodgeville. Captain Carter was again 
married to Mary, daughter of William and 
Mary Ford, Oct. 22, 1875. Two children have 
been born to them ; viz.: Mertie, born March 
27, 1877 and died Sept. 17, 1877 and William 
Ford, born Jan. 29, 1879. 

Captain Carter is Commander of Post No. 109 
in 1889, which position he has held since the 
organization with the exception of two terms. 
He is one of the oldest in his connection with 
the Order of Odd Fellows in this locality, has 
been A. Q. M. General of the G. A. R. Depart- 
ment of Wisconsin, and served in 1888 as 
National Aid, G. A. R. He belongs to Chapter 
No. 2, Royal Arch Masons at Platteville and 
also to the Blue Lodge at Dodgeville. One 
of his trophies is the charm of a Chapter 
Mason made from a silver half dollar taken 
from the money of Jeff Davis which he obtained 
by replacing its value. He is Secretary of the 
5th Wisconsin Veteran's Association and a 
member of the S. W. Soldiers' Association ; he 
has been Court Commissioner since 1879. 

It might be within the province of a writer 
placing on record a word picture of a man and 
his relations to his generation, to add comments 
drawn from the story of his usefulness and dis- 
tinguished character but such would be wholly 
inconsistent with his nature and it is best that 
those who will keep his remembrance fresh 



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should form for themselves an estimate of him 
through a simple statement of his life work. 

Captain Carter's portrait appears on page 
490. 



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DELBERT E. BLEEKMAN, La Crosse, 
^ Wis., an attorney and member of 
G. A. R. Post No. 38, was born 
March 2(5, 1846, in Salisbury, Herkimer Co., 
New York. In the paternal line he belongs to 
Holland stock and on the mother's side is of 
German lineage. His great grandfather, Dan- 
iel Bleekman, a Hollander, located in Connecti- 
cut, near Stratford and belonged to a commu- 
nity of loyalists. About the time of the 
Revolution they erected a liberty pole for the 
stars and stripes and made wrought nails and 
drove into the pole to prevent the British from 
cutting it down or climbing it to haul down the 
flag. He fought all through the Revolutionary 
war and his son, Ebenezer B., was in the war 
of 1812 and fought at Sackett's Harbor. Dan- 
iel Bleekman was with Ethan Allen when he 
demanded the surrender of Ticonderoga " in 
the name of the Great Jehovah and Conti- 
nental Congress" and averred all his life that 
Allen added his Maker's name spelled with 
three letters, to his demand. Warren Bleek- 
man, father of A. E. Bleekman, was born Dec. 
14, 1816, at Stratford, Fulton Co., New York, 
and died Sep. 7, 1865, at La Fayette, Ohio ; 
Amanda, his wife, was born in February, 1826, 
at Salisbury, N. Y., and died Feb. 7, 1857, at 
the same place as her husband. Tiie latter 
was a Democrat until the formation of the Re- 
publican party, which he joined. Four children 
were included in the family, Mr. Bleekman 
being the oldest ; Herbert E., Ernest L. and 
Mary were the others. In 1850 the family 
went to Ohio, where tiie son attended schools 



of various grades until he became a soldier. 
He eidisted Feb. 24, 1864, and was assigned to 
Company A, 2d Ohio Cavalry at Akron. Soon 
after he was seized with measles and sent home. 
The regiment was home on veteran furlough 
and he went to Annapolis, Md., in April and 
thence to camp at Washington. May 1st they 
started for the Rapidan, crossed, and entered 
. at once into the Campaign of the Wilderness, 
1 May 5th, having been assigned to Burnside's 
' 9th Army Corps. After fighting on the right 
from morning till night they went to take the 
same position at Sjiottsylvania, after which the 
2d Cavalry skirmished and performed cavalry 
service, occasionally having a brush with the 
cavalry of Wade Hampton's command. The 
regiment belonged to the 3d Division, Cavalry 
Corps, Army of the Potomac and fought at 
Hanover C. H., May 31, 1864, going thence to 
fight at Ashland Station. At the former place 
the fight was in a valley across a plowed field. 
The Ihiion troops chargeil from dead furrow 
to dead furrow and up the hill where the rebels 
were posted, routed and followed them to Ash- 
land the next day, where they were met by 
troops from Richmond and defeated, and they 
were piloted back to the Union lines in the 
night time by colored men. (Mr. Bleekman re- 
lates of the incident which cau.sed tjic dispatch 
of Grant " I propose to fight it out on this line 
if it takes all summer, " that Meade advised 
Grant to retreat after the battle of the Wilder- 
ness which cost 10,000 men, "the flower of the 
Army of the Potomac. " The report spreading 
through the army caused great depression 
until Grant's reply was made known when 
the enthusiasm knew no liounds. It shows 
that the Union soldiers knew every situa- 
tion as well as the leaders and they knew 
that war must be pressed to the issue, if the 
integrity of the Union should lie preserved and 
the sacrifices of tiie soldiers not be in vain). 



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Mr. Bleekiium was in the figlit at Malvern Hill, 
figlitiiig (lisinounted and fell back to Harrison's 
Landing. June 22d, Wilson and Kautz started 
on their raid, passed around Petersburg, weiit 
below Richmond and engaged in a terrific 
woi'k of destruction on the Danville and Wel- 
don roads. The)' went into North Carolina and 
on their return were cut off by rebel cavalry 
with great loss. (See Statistical History of .June 
22d, page 105). They lost their equipments of 
every kind except their small arms and were 
obliged to abandon several hundred contra- 
bands to the mercy of the rebels, who made a 
Fort Pillow experience of it to the poor blacks. 
Mr. Bleekman was injured in the leg during 
the retreat, was sent to City Point and thence to 
Washington and received a furlough. At one 
time amputation was considered by his medical 
adviser, but he strenuously refused. He was at 
home 45 days during the second election of 
Lincoln, and on his return to his regiment was 
sent to hospital and remained until mustered 
out, June 30, 1865. 

On returning home he went to school until 
his father's death, when he went to Little Falls, 
Herkimer county, and attended the Academy 
and afterwards the Albert college at Belleville, 
Ontario, returning to New York in the fall of 
18GS and in March, 1869, located at Tomah, 
Wis., whej'e he engaged in teaching two years, 
meanwhile studying law. In September, 1870, 
he was admitted to practice, and in July, 1871, 
opened liis business as an attorney at Tomah. 
In the fall of 1872 he was elected to the 
Assembly of Wisconsin and in 1873 to the 
Senate of that Body. At the close of his term 
as Senator lie went to Sparta, where he resided 
and practiced law until 1876 when he was 
elected District Attorney of the county, .serving 
one term and then continuing the practice of 
iiis profession until August, 1886, the date of 
his removal to La Crosse. Since his location 



there he has founded a popular and lucrative 
business as an attorney. 

He was married in October, 1868, to Eliza, 
daughter of Timothy and Tirzah Farnham of_ 
Belleville, Out. One child named William E. 
was born to them. The wife died in April, 
1875, of consumption at her father's home in 
Canada. Aug. 24th, 1876, Mr. Bleekman was 
married to Alice, daughter of Harvey and 
Maria (Whiton) Bush, and their cliildren were 
named Katie, (deceased) Adelbert E and Ruth. 
Mr. Bleekman is a member of the Orders of 
Odd Fellows and Masonry, and lie has .served 
as Commander of his Post at Sjiarta, and in 
other responsible positions. Mr. Bleekman is 
a marked representative of the blood and spirit 
wliicb founded and preserved tiie Nation. 









AMES LEE, Racine, Wis., was born April 
21, 1836, in Lancashire, England, and is 
the son of James and Alice (Bridge) 
Lee. His father was a farmer in his native 
country and emigrated on the ship Emblem to 
the United States, arriving in New York May 
3, 1842. He located in Paterson, New Jersey, 
and in June, 1847, removed to Racine. The 
father took a claim on the school section in- 
cluding 160 acres, which he relinquished in 
1851, the land coming into market at that 
date and he sold it on account of the higli price. 
He removed to Caledonia, in Columbia county, 
where he bought 80 acres, Ijuilt his house and 
other farm buildings and remained there until 
the fall of 1863. He sold the farm with the 
intention of going to New Zealand, but, on 
arrival in old England, he heard reports un- 
favorable to that locality and returned to the 
United States, locating a second time in Pater- 
son, N. J., wliere he was employed in Rogers' 
Locomotive Works, removing later to Gentry 



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Co., Mo. Two years after he returned to his ! 
former situation in Paterson, whence he came 
to Wisconsin, and is living with liis son Gabriel 
at Merrimack, Sauk county. The mother died 
July 17, ISSl. The son is the youngest of 
nine children, and besides himself only Eliza- 
beth, Alice and Gabriel are living. .James 
remained on his father's farm until he was 23 
years of age engaged in obtaining his educa- 
tion and assisting on the farm. He accom- 
panied his parents to Caledonia and remained 
at home until his marriage. He operated after 
that event as a farmer until he entered the 
army. Aug. 14, 1802, he enlisted in Company 
H, 23d Wisconsin Infantry and went to Cin- 
cimiati September loth, where the rebel lead- 
ers were worrying the inhabitants, and he 
moved with his command through the re- 
mainder of September, October and November 
to various points in the discharge of military 
duty, and in trying to look after Bragg and 
Morgan. About holidays they joined the com- 
mand of Sherman preparatory to proceeding to 
Vicksburg. When the troops were organized 
for the camjiaign, the 23il was assigned to the 
1st Brigade, General Burbridge, 10th Division, 
(ieneral A. .J. Smith, 13th Corps, General .John 
A. McClornand. They embarked at Memphis, 
landed at Milliken's Bend, went west and de- 
stroyed rebel property, after which they went 
to the Yazoo River and Sherman endeavored 
to make the attack from that point but was 
compelled to aliandon the plan, his troops hav- 
ing fought at Haines' Bluti', which was the first 
fight in wliich Mr. Lee was engaged. Pember- 
tou commanded the rebels, who drove the 
Union troops and forced them to return to 
Milliken's Bend. About a week later they 
fought at .Vrkansas Post, which was one of the 
most satisfactory actions in which the regiment 
engaged, the rei)els surrendering with the loss 
of 6,000 prisoners and their entire armament 



and stores. Another return was made to Milli- 
ken's Bend and they went thence to Greenville 
and afterward to Cypress Bend in February, 
1863, under orders to drive out the rebels, who 
had taken a position with artillery to intercept 
the transports on the river. They captured 
more prisoners and drove tlie remainder 
into the interior, crossing the river Ijy wading 
up to their necks in water, the bridge liaving 
been burned. They remained at Milliken's 
Bend, which was headquarters for several ex- 
peditions in which Mr. Lee assisted until 
March, when the malaria and exposure to the 
miasma of the Mississippi swamps did their 
work and he went to the ho.spital sick with 
fever. He was sent to .Jefferson Barracks in 
St. Louis, where he remained until August. 
While he was convalescing he received a dis- 
patch that his wife was dangerously ill ami that 
he must hasten home to see her. He obtained 
a furlough and reached home to find bis wife 
in her grave, a child of 18 months motherless 
and seven of his wife's brothers and sisters ill ; 
within five weeks they were all dead. liis 
parents were disheartened over the condition 
of things and determined to fulfil a former 
purpose and go to New Zealand. The situa- 
tion in which he found himself was most dis- 
tressing, lie was without means, and his 
mother, his sole dependence and that of his 
child, was to leave him in a strange land and 
about to i)ut thousands of miles and two thirds 
of the earth between him and his last friend. 
All urged his dei)arture with them, and, broken 
in health, despairing and widowed, he consented. 
He accompanied his parents to England, where 
their purpose was changed by the evil reports 
of the country where they proposed to go, and 
after two years they returned to Paterson, New 
.Jersey. He remained in that city until his re- 
turn to Wisconsin in 1807, and he went for a 
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worked as a carpentei". In 1874 he removed 
to Racine and lias been employed at his trade 
with the Pease Manufacturing Company. He 
was married Oct. 4, 1859, to Sarah Jane, daugh- 
ter of William and Susan (Cochrane) Sample 
and they had one child — Susan Lillie, who 
died in Philadelphia when two years old. The 
mother died in 1863, and Mr. Lee contracted a 
second marriage, Sept. 19, 1875, with Lucy 
Ann Potter. Mr. Lee is a member of the Bap- 
tist Church. 

"OHN J. VALENTINE, Waukesha, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No 19, was born 
Aug. 9, 1822, in North Carolina and is 
the son of Shadrach and Margaret Valentine. 
He removed with his parents to Ohio when he 
was 10 years old and grew to maidiood in the 
Buckeye State, engaged in various callings to 
earn an honest livelihood. He came to Wis- 
consin in 184G. He understood the cause of 
the civil war and watched its progress from the 
beginning with all the interest of a man whose 
race was involved, but who was excluded from 
the ranks on account of his color. When the call 
was issued for colored troops he enlisted in the 
49th Wisconsin Infantry and went to Nashville, 
where he was transferred to the 17th U. S. C. 
Inliintry, and assigned to Company I, which 
was mustered into service at Murfreesboro, 
Tenn., Dec. 12, 1863. There Mr. Valentine 
enlisted in February, 1864 and was in his first 
battle at Nashville where the regiment ac- 
quitted itself with distinguished bravery in the 
brigade of General Steadnian. 

Afterwards, he was at Nashville until final 
muster out, Feb. 15, 1866, and performed mili- 
tary duty until discharged. At the close of 
the war he returned to Janesville, Wis., where 
he resided until 1872, when he removed to 
Waukesha and established a restaurant. He 



has since conducted a well i-egulated and popu- 
lar establishment. 

He was 'married in November, 1845, to 
Louisa J. Manly of Columljus, Ohio, and their 
surviving children are named Arthur, Reese 
and Nellie C. Two children are not living. 



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^RANK KELLEY, Menomonie, Wis., 



Commander of G. A. R. Post No. 58, 
in 1889, was born in 1845, in Albany, 
New York, whither his parents, John and Mary 
(Smith) Kelley, emigrated from Ireland in 
1838 ; they were natives of County Down and 
were married on the " Green Isle." Their 
family included six children, named Arthur 
(deceased), Mary, James, Frank, John (County 
Judge of Dunn county), and Thomas. Within 
ten years after their arrival in America, they 
went to Milwaukee and afterwards to Wauke- 
sha county, and after .some years moved to 
Illinois. In 1859 the father fixed his residence 
at Menomonie, where he purchased a farm, on 
which he still lives. His wife died in Milwau- 
kee county. 

The first inijiortant event in the life of the 
son was his enlistment April 23, 1861, in Com- 
pany K, 5lh Wisconsin Lifantry, Captain 
William Evans, for three years. After a month 
at Camp Randall he accompanied his regiment 
to Washington to Camp Kalorama, crossed the 
Chain Bridge September 3d, was transferred 
from King's Wisconsin Brigade to Hancock's 
with the 43d New York, 49th Pennsylvania 
and 6th Maine, and engaged in military duty 
until spring, when the brigade went on the 
Manassas campaign to march back to Alexan- 
di'ia and thence to the siege of Yorktown ; fol- 
lowed the fleeing enemy and skirmished until 
the battle of Williamsburg ; distinguished them- 
selves in that action and went next to the 



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Chickahominy campaign and fought in the 
battle of Goldeii's P^arni, June 28tli. On the 
29th liegan McClellan's "change df base," and 
tlie 5th was under fire at Savage Station, at 
White Oak Swamp and IShdvern Hill, going to 
Harrison's Landing July 4lh and started for 
Alexandria August IGth. The regiment was 
ordered to Bull Run, but arrived after the bat- 
tle, and went next to check the ])rogress of Lee 
into Maryland, participating in the actions at 
Cranijjton's Gap and was under fire at Antie- 
tam. The next movement of the regiment was 
to the Kaj)pahannock campaign and it was in 
support of batteries during the action at Fred- 
ericksburg. After withdrawal, the regiment, 
with others, was organized in the spring into the 
"Light Division," and in April went again to 
the Rappahannock campaign, engaging in skir- 
mishing until the assault on Marye's Heights, 
May 3d, which was one of the marked move- 
ments of the war. (See sketch of Charles 
Knutson.) The command was in the tight at 
Salem Heights, crossed the Rappahannock to 
Belle Plain, and when Lee commenced his 
movement into Pennsylvania, in the (Jtli Corps, 
(the "Light Division " iiaving been broken up) 
the oth commenced a march which terminated 
on tlie field of Getty.sburg, the regiment taking 
position on the left, and the next morning 
moving to and holding Little Round Top; and 
it was in the pursuit on the 4th, going to War- 
renton after capturing the wounded rebels left 
on the field. From camp at Warrenton the 5th 
went to New York to aid in suppressing the 
draft riots. Company K being stationed on Gov- 
ernor's Lsland and in the city, and afterwards 
going to Albany, and thence, after several 
weeks, to Goshen, Orange county, returning to 
Governor's Island and to tiie Army of the Poto- 
mac to again go into a campaign on the IIapj)a- 
hannock, making a charge on liie forts at Raj> 
pahannock Station, November 7th, the assault 



being a triumph under General Russell's man- 
agement. They moved on the double quick, 
but on the way it was discovered that their 
guns were not loaded nor bayonets tixed,as the 
order forward was an entire surprise, and they 
stop|)ed under a tremendous fire from the 
rebels to prepare for action. But the works 
were taken with nine guns and 2,000 prisoners. 
It is Mr. Kelley's opinion that if the charge had 
been made immediately, wiliiout the conference 
of Sedgwick and Russell, they would have 
taken Lee and his whole staff", so unexpected 
was the movement by the rebels. The rebel 
chief had just inspected the works and was 
plainly seen by the men on his white horse, 
but his identity was not known until 
afterwards. The engineers pronouncing 
the forts impregnable, the chief waited 
to see what the "Yanks" would do, and 
he found out. The regiment went next to 
Brandy Station after the rebels and was in the 
vain tight known as Mine Run, in November. 
The first activities in the spring in which the 
regiment ])articipated are known as the cam- 
paign of the ^^'ilderness and Mr. Kelley fought 
on the 5th, 6th and 7th of May, went thence to 
tight at Spottsylvania on the 8th, 9th and 10th, 
the regiment on the last day being on the 
skirmish line and charging Lee's center about 
nightfall. The charge was not supported and 
tliey fell back after accomplishing a jiractical 
victory, the rebels running and many being 
caj)tured, together with guns. If this move- 
ment had been sustained it is probable Lee's 
army would have been divided and the action 
on the 12tii wholly ])revented. The division 
fought all day in what is known as the " Bloody 
Angle," where the noted tree was cut down and 
which Mr. Kelley saw on the left of the column. 
The regiment skirmished constantly until the 
action at Cold Harbor, June 1st, and Mr. Kel- 
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right jaw and another lodging in his shoulder. 
Pie went from field hospital to West Philadel- 
phia hosjiitiil and thence to Harvey hospital at 
Madison. About the middle of September he 
joined his command at Winchester and was in 
charge of the jMcket line on the morning of the 
battle of Cedar Creek, Oct. 19, 1864; tlie even- 
ing before Sheridan and staff passed them, re- 
ceiving a salute from the pickets. About day- 
light Mr. Kelley heard the first shot of the ac- 
tion about 15 miles away and located it accord- 
ing to his best belief; soon after the cannon- 
ading commenced and he detailed a picket to go 
to Winchester, a mile distant, to notify the Post 
Commander, who paid no attention to the mes- 
sage, but a second message received attention 
and Mr. Kelley received orders not to allow a 
straggler or train to pass his lines. P'our weeks 
later the regiment went to the trenches at 
Petersburg, remaining until the spring of 1865, 
fighting February 5th at Hatcher's Run and 
skirmishing March 25tli. The corps made the 
assault April 2d, passed through the abandoned 
lines to South Side railroad, fought at " Little 
Sailors' Creek " after the pursuit and on the 7th, 
and lost 79 men in the charge. The 5th fol- 
lowed to Appomattox, went thence to Danville 
to proceed to Sherman's aid and thence to 
Richmond, Washington and Madison, the war 
being ended, and the 6tli Corjxs having had 
a single review. Mr. Kelley was commissioned 
2d Lieutenant of his company .June 9, 1865. 
When the command was reorganized in the 
spring of 1864, the decimated 10 companies 
were organized into three and received seven 
new ones from Wisconsin, Mr. Kelley being 
placed iu Company A, composed of H, K and A 
companies. 

He has since l)een a resident of Menomonie 
and passed a few years in various employments 
including his present occupation as a manu- 
facturer of brick, and he is now acting as the 



Superintendent of the Menomonie Pressed Brick 
Co. He was married at Menomonie in 1880, to 
Mary, daughter of Jacob and Clara (Knoops) 
Springwood. A child born to them who was 
named James Sedgwick died young; Frank 
W. and Florence May, born April 25, 1890, still 
survive. Mr. Kelley is a member of the Odd 
Fellows and of the A. O. U. W. His brother 
James enlisted in April, 1861, in the Prescott 
Guards, (assigned to the 6th Wisconsin as Com- 
pany B), and fought with the Iron Brigade at 
Gettysburg, where he received a fatal wound 
and died July 21st at Gettysburg ; he was about 
20 years old and is buried in the National 
Cemetery. 

Mr. Kelley is a Republican and in 1890 is a 
member of the City Council at Menomonie. 



AMES H. JOHNSON, Lake Geneva, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 27, was 
born Feb. 9, 1845. In 1847, his parents, 
Charles A. and Charlotte (Hacker) Johnson, 
who were reared and married in the town of 
Bude in Cornwall, England, emigi-ated to 
America with two children — James H. and 
John. The latter is now living in the State of 
New York. Four children of thirteen born to 
them now survive: Charles is a clothier in 
Port Hope, Ontario, Canada; Mrs. Celestia 
Hollis is a resident of Mt. Holyoke, Mass. The 
family landed at Quebec and located at Port 
Hope, removing thence to Buffalo, N. Y., 
where the parents passed the remainder of 
their lives. The father was a sailor and was 
employed on the schooner Iowa, when he lost 
his life by drowning in November, 1855. The 
mother died at Buffalo in September, 1862. 

Mr. Johnson obtained his education in Buf- 
falo and in the very first days of the war, when 
he was sixteen years old, enlisted, but the 



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authority of his mother prevented his being 
mustered ; but before be was seventeen he 
enrolled in Company A, 31st New York Infan- 
try in January, 1862, with Captain Daniels. 
From the camp of rendezvous the regiment 
went to Alexandria and was stationed near the 
Independent (Lincoln) Cavalry, and in the 
spring was in the onward movement from 
Manassas. After that campaign they went to 
Yorktown and West Point and tiience to fight 
in the battles of the Cbickaliominy, and Mr. 
Johnson was in the fight at Mecluinicsville, 
June 2Gtli, Cold Harbor on tlie 27th, Savage 
Station on the 2i»tb, Wbite Oak Swamj) on the 
30tb, and Malvern Hill, July 1st. After the 
retreat to Harrison's Landing, Mr. Johnson 
was taken sick and passed six weeks in hospi- 
tal in Piiiladeliibia, rejoining his regiment at 
Alexandria, and in September was again in 
tbe advance after Lee into Maryland, making 
a forced march to light at Soutli Mountain, 
September 14th and at Antietam or Siiarps- 
burg on the 17th. After McClellan was super- 
seded by Burnsidc, Mr. Jolmson was witli the 
latter commander at Fredericksburg and stayed 
in winter quarters until summoned to tlie 
attempt on the Rappahannock known as the 
" Mud Campaign " ; his first action in the spring 
was in the second battle of Fredericksburg. 
May 31, 1863, be was mustered out and 
returned home. June 20, 1863, he re-enlisted 
in bis old command and was in rendezvous at 
Staten Island wiien the draft riots in the cit}' 
of New York called for all the troops within 
reach of the authorities. Between the 13th 
and lotli of July, more than a thousand rioters 
were killed in tlie city and among tiie wound- 
ed Union soldiers was Mr. Johnson. He was 
in one of the city hospitals 19 days, and on 
recovery found the 31st New York had conso- 
lidated with the 5th New York, its idenlitily 
being merged in that of the latter regiment, 



and he went to Washington as a member of 
the •5th New York. He performed guard and 
picket duty in Alexandria and as train escort 
during the winter of 1803-4. In the spring he 
went witli Grant from Cu]pej)er C. IL, and 
fought May otb, 6th and 7th in the battles of 
the Wilderness. On the 8th he was in action 
at Sjjottsylvania and towards the last of tbe 
month on the North and South Anna Rivers. 
Fron) the 1st to the r2tli of June he was in 
the figbts at Cold Harbor and went to Peters- 
burg where he was in the siege until he was in 
the tliree days' fight on the Weldon railroad. 
He was captured August 10th and taken to an 
island in tlie Apjwmattox River and, after 
three days witliout food, went to Libby. He 
went tbence to Belle Isle and afterwards was 
transferred to Salisbur}- wliere he passed the 
winter of 1864-5. So often has the story of 
prison life been told that it hardly requires 
elaboration on these pages, but let it be 
remembered that Belle Isle prison was 
a space of six acres inhabited by more 
than 10,000 human lieings in every 
pussibie stage of distress ; tliey bad no 
shade in summer and no protection in winter, 
except such as is not worth naming. What- 
ever a man possessed of value or comfort was 
taken from liim in the most brutal manner. 
While the Englisli language endures, the testi- 
mony of Albert D. Richardson and .1. D. 
Browne, wlio were prisoners at Salisl)Uiy, will 
stand against tlie horrible conditions and usage 
of the Northern Patriots by Southern rebels, 
at Salisbury. .\nd it is safe to predict that 
such anotber tlirung of human creatures will 
never again pass in procession as marched to 
Wilmington in the spring of 1865. Not one 
stood uj)rigbt; not one had a hat or slioes ; not 
one but was in rags that scarcely deserved even 
the poor dignity of even that poor name; not 
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suffering such as none but men who suffered 
in so rigliteous a cause could liave survived. 
After recruiting at AVihnington until able to 
endure the trip, ]\Ir. Johnson went to Parole 
Camp at Annapolis and he was well enough to 
take place with his regiment in the Review, 
after which the 5th New York went to Hart's 
Island in New York Harlior, wliere he was dis- 
charged Aug. 5, 1865, under General Order 77; 
and he was mustered out as Sergeant of Com- 
pany C. 

He returned to Buffalo and soon after en- 
gaged in his father's vocation which was for 
many years his profession on the large lakes. 
Aljout 1877 he removed to Lake Geneva, on 
which he has since been occupied and he is the 
owner of a boat which plies on the waters of that 
famed lake. He has been for seven years the 
ca]»tain of a boat on the same lake, from which 
lie derives his title, being known far and wide 
as " Captain .Johnson. " His step-father, John 
Ij. Tifft, was an enlisted man in the 43d New 
York Infantry and was wounded at the first 
Fredericksburg, djdng in a hospital at Wash- 
ington from his injuries. Captain Johnson was 
married (3ct. 14, 1868, to Rebecca M., daughter 
of Leonard and Mary (Thompson) Hudson. 
Mrs. Johnson is a native of England and came 
to America wliile a young girl. She is the 
mother of two children, named George II. and 
Leona May. 



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K^'.-x AVID E. MILES, Chippewa Falls, 
'J^J Wis., enlisted Nov. 7, 1861, at Gales- 
liurg. III., in Company E, 57th Illi- 
nois Infantry, and went into active service soon 
after. He drilled in rendezvous and camp, 
went to Cairo and Donelson, and soon after 
served with the regiment in Northern Ken- 
tucky and Tennessee ; engaged in the siege of 
Corinth and the battle of Corinth, Octoliei- od 




and 4th. On the last day he received a severe 
wound and went from the field hospital to regi- 
mental hospital and was discliarged, after 
spending five weary months under medical 
care in hospital, March, 1863, under surgeon's 
certificate of disability for further military ser- 
vice. 

He returned to Mercer county, Illinois, where 
he recuperated his health, and in 1863 moved 
to Chippewa Falls and engaged in the lumber 
business, which he has since conducted. 

UCIUS FAIRCHILD, Madison, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 11. The 
V underlying principle of all success is 
effort ; and it is a noble comment on human 
character in the abstract, that its best samples 
possess the modesty and humility of spirit to 
make frank declaration of the value of the 
necessity which awakens energy and arouses to 
action. The inherent nobility of labor is 
proven by the fact that work develops a love 
for effort of which the career of him whose 
name honors this page affords an evidence 
whose worth to the generations of the future 
cannot be estimated. In every sphere of life 
General Fairchild has recognized his relations 
to the work of the world. His uplifted head ; 
his serene face, whose lines are marked b}' the 
disciplined spirit; his calm eyes, reflecting an 
inner light which tells of ]irescience and almost 
unerring judgment; his figure, bearing the 
"similitude" of a man ; his empty sleeve with 
its message of sacrifice — all bear witness to the 
singleness of spirit with which he has served in 
his place. What he has acconn)lished testifies 
to the quality of his abilities. He is an insep- 
arable part of the history of Wisconsin, which 
lie helped to make in its most important phases, 
and, better than all, he is the object of unqual- 



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ified love" and devotion from the sons of the 
Badger State. 

Lucius Faircliild is tlie third son of Jairus 
Cassius and Sally (Blair) I'airchild, the former 
a native of the State of New York, and the lat- 
ter a daughter of New England, representing 
one of the best strains in our composite Nation- 
ality — llie Scotch-Irish. She transmitted to 
her sons the traits she inherited from her 
sturdy, upright, conscientious and hrainy for- 
bears, and, when fratricidal conflict threatened 
the LInion, three of them hastened to .support 
its standard. Lucius was born on the 30th an- 
niversary of the birth of iiis father — Dec. 27, 
1831, in Kent, Portage Co., Ohio, in which 
State his parents were married. They removed 
in 1833 to Cleveland and later to Wisconsin, 
and arrived at Madison .June 8, 1846. Their 
son obtained his elementary education in Cleve- 
land and afterwards attended an academy at 
Twinsburg, Ohio, becoming a student at Car- 
roll College, Waukesha, after coming to Wis- 
consin. 

When the gold excitement in California 
aroused the budding energies of the ambitious 
youth of that period, Lucius Faircliild solicited 
his parents' consent to accompany a party across 
the plains in 1849 and in March, equipped 
with a reliable ox team and horse and neces- 
saries, he started for the Pacific slope, lie ex- 
perienced all the rigors of such a trip and 
passed hours in reflection and in scanning such 
plans as crossed the imagination of a hopeful, 
fearless youth , braving untried paths in more 
than one sense. He worked five years in the 
mines and for a time in other avenues of lalior 
which circumstances opened to him and con- 
siders this the formative period of iiis life. He 
reaped the benefit of unflagging etibrt and in 
six years returned East with substantial results, 
among which was his share of the proceeds 
from the sale of 700 bushels of wheat raised on 



a claim held liy him and iiis associates in the 
Scott valley, and whicii lie sold for seven dollars 
a bushel, the location being IGO miles from a 
wagon road, southward. 

The public life of General Fairchild had its 
beginning in California. His abilities and 
understanding of public questions had been 
prominent in that locality and suggested him 
as a delegate to a gubernatorial convention in 
1853 and, altiiough the distance from his loca- 
tion in Siskiyou county was something appall- 
ing, he only saw a duty to be discharged and 
placed his "store clothes" and other valualdes 
on a mule and set forth. '^I'he beast lost his 
foothold, tumbled down a blurt' and the belong- 
ings of young Fairchild disai)peared with him. 
At Shasta City he took the stage for his desti- 
nation and took liis seat in the convention in 
the dignity of shirt sleeves and witli almost 
empty pockets. 

He returned to Madison in 18.5.5 and re- 
sumed liis interest in the afl'airs of the State. 
In 1858 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit 
Court of Dane county and when his term of 
office expired he was fitted for the profession 
of an attorney and was admitted to the Bar of 
Wi-sconsin in 1800. When the "Governor's 
Guards" were organized at Madison he entered 
the ranks as a private and when the emergen- 
cies of April, 18G1, suminoned the military 
companies of the State to the front, the organi- 
zation was one of the first which was authorized 
by Governor Randall to fill its ranks and was 
assigned to the 1st Wisconsin Infantry as Com- 
pany K. He was offered the lieutenant-colo- 
nelcy but declined and was elected Captain of 
Company K and went to the scenes of activity 
in that capacity. He fouglit at Falling Waters, 
the first action in which Wisconsin trooj)S were 
engaged — July 2d — and in August following 
received from President Lincoln an a)>)>oint- 
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About the same time Governor Randall com- 
missioned him a Major in the 2d Wisconsin 
Infantry, both of which he accepted and re- 
ceived leave of absence from tiie regular army 
to serve with tlie Wisconsin regiment, tliis be- 
ing the first instance in the war in which such 
an incident occurred. He was tendered the 
colonelcy of anotlier Wisconsin regiment, wliicli 
he declined and, not long after, was commis- 
sioned Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2d. He was 
acting Colonel much of the time. Colonel O'Con- 
nor being in precarious health and his regi- 
ment, which acquired a high degree of disci- 
pline and drill, was brigaded with the Gth and 
7th Wi.sconsin and the 19th Indiana, forming 
an organization which became famous for its 
exploits. It became a part of the 1st Brigade, 
1st Division, 1st Army Corps and participated 
in the heaviest service of the Army of the 
Potomac. Lieutenant-Colonel Fairchild was 
in the activities of the Manassas campaign and 
in those along the Rappahannock in 1SG2 and 
after the failure to cut off the retreat of Stone- 
wall Jackson from the valley of the Shenan- 
doah, the command went in July to a recon- 
noissance, marching nearly 100 miles. The 
2d was engaged in a cavalry skirmish August 
5th, in which they aided in the repulse of the 
cavalry of Stewart. Almost without rest they 
marched in the retreat of Pope after Cedar 
Mounlain and skirmished at Beverly Ford on 
the Rappahannock and, eight days later, at 
Sulphur Springs. August 28th, between 
Gainesville and Centerville, the brigade had a 
tight of more than an hour in single handed 
conflict with Jackson's forces, contending with 
superior numbers, the 2d losing its colonel. 
Col. Fidrohild's hor.se was killed under him and 
the regiment last 297 men. This was the 
christening of "The Iron Brigade." The 2d 
Wisconsin and the 7th Wisconsin regiments 
were consolidated under Faii'child, all other 



field officers being dead or injured, and fought 
together as one regiment during the second day 
at Bull Run. The 2d Wisconsin covered the 
reti'eat from the battle field. Fairchild was the 
last man of the last regiment to leave the field. 
His commission as Colonel of the 2d, dated 
August 30th. He was with his command at 
South Mountain, Septemljer 14th, but was ill 
subsequently and unable to go to the field of 
Antietam until nearly at the close of the con- 
test on the 17th. December 12th, and for sev- 
eral days afterward, Colonel Fairchild led his 
men in the fruitless action at Fredericksburg 
and in January, his regiment acted such part 
as the situation permitted in the " Mud Cam- 
paign. " He conducted two expeditions, re- 
spectively in February and March, into the 
domains of the rebels in pursuit of whatever 
might constitute or be applied as "sinews of 
war " and was successful in both trij)s down 
the Potomac. He was in the charge at Fitz- 
hugh's Crossing and after the pontoon bridges 
were laid, pressed on to Chancellorsville, where 
he was made a staff officer of General Wads- 
worth, Division Commander. The 2d regiment 
participated in the subsequent movements of 
the brigade, making the heavy marches in the 
efibrt to keep abreast of Lee in his invasion of 
the North. Colonel Fairchild was with his 
men in the first day's fight at Gettysburg. 
Early in the action, while fighting in Mc- 
Pherson's woods near Willoughby Run, the 
Lieutenant Colonel received a mortal wound 
and Colonel Fairchild was hit by a bullet in 
his left arm, which shattere<l it and made am- 
putation necessary. As he rode back he en- 
countered some of his men, and serious as his 
own injury was, he paused to inquire con- 
cerning theirs. He went to the Seminary and 
afterwards to the residence of Rev. Dr. Schaf- 
fer, where he was tenderly and effectively cared 
for. As soon as sufficiently recovered, he re- 



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turned to Madison, cherishing the intention of 
resuming his connection with tlie active work 
of the war as soon as lie siiould be sufficiently 
recruited. He had heen ajijioiuted Brigadier 
General and his wliole interest and desire was 
to remain in tlie army. IJut his friends urged i 
his acceptance of the nomination to the place 
of Secretary of State of Wisconsni vvliich had 
been made by the Union convention and he 
reluctantly yielded, succeeding to the post in 
1864. In 1865, after a service which justified 
the opinions of his constituency, he was nom- 
inated unanimously for Governor by the lie- 
publican convention, and elected by a majority 
of nearly 10,000. Tn 1867 and in 1869 he was 
re-elected, being, at that date the first who had 
been called to the position of chief executive of 
the Badger State three successive terms. In 
December, 1872, he was made consul to Liver- 
pool and in the di.schargo of the duties of one 
of the most important of foreign missions he 
signalized himself as a citizen of the United 
States. He remained there until 1878 when lie 
was made Consul General to Paris and, in 1880 
succeeded James Russell Lowell as Minister to 
Spuin. Wliile at Madrid be represented iiis 
Government in International Congress which ar- 
ranged the international relations with Morocco. 
In March, 1881, he resigned his ministry for 
resvsons which were as commendatory as any 
act of his official career — his family's claims and 
the interest of his children. But the Govern- 
ment detained him "at Madrid until December 
and be did not reach Madison until Marcli, 
1882, where he was cordially received by his 
friends and neighbors. 

A meager outline of his service as a soldier 
has been given. It would be wholly inade- 
quate, if these pages did not contain so many 
records from which he, in his connection with 
the "id Wisconsin and the Iron Brigade, is 
wholly inseparable. All tlie annals of tiiat 



famed organization, from Manassas to Gettys- 
burg, testify of him. 

As a statesman his record is what a repre- 
sentative citizen of a Republic would desire. 
Patriotic, public-spirited, and single-hearted, 
he brought the best attributes of the best 
quality of manhood to tlie emergencies of his 
position and faithfully fulfilled every obliga- 
tion devolving on him. The best interests of 
the State were always the object of his thought- 
ful solicitude and he conducted affairs with 
a judgment and prescience adequate to the 
situation. No mistaken course, leaving irrepar- 
able consequences to handicap a successor in 
office marked his way ; no stain rests on his 
official career to becloud his memory when he 
shall have become only a memory and, when 
the generations of the coming days ask of 
history who achieved the glorious record of 
Wisconsin and who carved her name high on 
the roll of patriotism and fidelity to the Nation, 
in that day the name of Brigadier-General 
Lucius Faircbild will be a peon on the lips of 
young men and old. 

He was a charter member of the first G. A. 
R. Post organized in Wisconsin in 1866. Since 
then he has been prominent in connection 
therewith, and such was his inffueuce and 
manifest usefulness to the Order that he was, 
in .January, 1S8(), made Commander of the 
Department of Wisconsin and, at the 20th Na- 
tional EncampmentatSan Francisco, in August 
of the same year, he was constituted Com- 
mander-in-Chief. In all the Encampments of 
the Grand Army he luis been a prominent 
figure, bringing to them the best abilities of 
which he is possessed and manifesting in every 
manner his interest in the welfare of the 
ex-soldier. 

An admiring biographer would gladly add 
a suitable tribute to his character. i?ut noth- 
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has done as a lal)ni'er in the several fields of 
effort to which his energies, his patriotism, his 
philanthropy, his singleness of heart, liis devo- 
tion to the higher interests of his generation 
have called him. He has honored liis State 
and she will bear him on her records as a well- 
beloved son. 

He was married in 18G4 to Frances Bull 
of Washington, D. C, a native of Detroit, Mich., 
and their three children — Mary, Sarah and 
Caryl — are still under parental care. 



OBERT P. SNOWDON, Black River | 
Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 92 and Commander in f890 
(current year), was born March 24, 1845, in ! 
Cornwall, Orange Co., New York. His parents, I 
John and Elizabeth (Potts) Snowdon, were 
natives of England and the State of New York 
respectively, and the mother was born in the 
same house as her son in Cornwall. Her 
father, Robert Potts, was a soldier in the war of 
1812 and of German lineage. Mr. Snowdon's 
only sister, Sarah E., married James T. Marsh, 
a resident of Solomon's Island, Md. The 
father died in 1845, and the mother married 
Charles Chamberlain, a ship-JHiiider, at Baby- 
lon, L. I. Wiien the son was 16 years old, he 
determined to hnk his fate with the army in 
preparation for the repression of the rebellion, 
and he enlisted in the 12th New York State 
■ militia and was assigned to service as a drum- 
mer. He did all this without the knowledge 
of his family, and in two weeks his asjiirations 
were brought to grief by the appearance of his 
step-father who took him home. With the 
intent of curing his army fever, he was sent 
West in the spring of 18G2, but instead of 
quelling his ambition to join the ranks of the 
defenders of his country's (lag, he found iiim- 



self under influences of a character which 
fostered all his desires in that direction. He 
settled at Black River Falls where he remained 
until he enlisted, engaged in a sawmill. He 
enlisted Aug. 22, 1,SG4, with the expectation 
of mustering in the 48th Wisconsin Infantry, 
and went to rendezvous at Madison, where he 
was mustered as a recruit for Company G, 5th 
Wisconsin Infantry, in September following. 
He joined the regiment at Fairfax C. H., 
remaining there about two weeks, meanwhile 
distinguishing himself as a forager. Once he 
and several comrades brought in a remarkable 
pig, and it was cooked for the mess. Scarcely 
were the bones picked before the widow who 
had owned it appeared and with tears told iier 
story. Her bal)y had died, and she had 
brought up the pig at her breast. Her grief 
was assuaged by substantial means but the 
mess rejoiced in the soubriquet of " cannibal 
eaters" through their service. Witli the 1st 
Division, 3d Brigade and 6th Corps the regi- 
ment left camp for the Shenandoah Valley, 
arriving just after the battle of Cedar Creek, 
Oct. 19, 1864. The command was there 
busy with the bushwhackers until Sheridan 
changed base and connected with Grant's army 
in January, 1865. The regiment moved to 
the trenches at Petersburg, afterwards taking 
position at the right of the old Yellow House 
on the Weldon railroad and was in its first 
engagement at Hatcher's Run, February 5th 
and 6th. The extreme cold and sleety weather 
caused the soldiers terrible suffering. The 
command was next in active warfare April 2d 
(March 25tli they were in the general 
skirmish and drove the rebel outpost; in tiie 
afternoon they were ordered to attack the 
rebel line opposite Fort Fisher and were 
repulsed). They were in the charge, April 2d, 
under Colonel Allen and which was a success, 
giving Petersburg to the Union army. The 



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command planted the colors of the 5tli on the 
parapet and the skirmishing continued 
througliout the day, and afterwards tlie regi- 
ment acted as reserve, guarding trains, etc., 
until ordered into position for the fight at 
Little Sailor's Creek and defeated Lee's rear 
guard, who were called Simm's Pirates, 
Sheridan requesting that they he sent to that 
service. Prior to going into action tiiey had 
marched two miles on the double quick. On 
the 9th they were with Sheridan when his 
command made ready for action, when Lee 
called a haU until lie could confer with Grant, 
and Mr. .Snowdon had the satisfaction of heing 
at the finish of the grand conflict and of seeing 
his side victorious. The regiment was with 
the force assigned to go to the aid of Sherman 
and marched to Danville only to return, 
as Johnston had surrendered and the 
war was at an end. Returning to 
Burke's Station and thence to Richmond, 
they went to Washington over the old battle- 
fields of tiie earlier stages of the war, Freder- 
icksburg, Bull Run and others, having learned 
of the assassination of Lincoln at Burke's. 
They went into camp at Hall's Hill and Mr. 
Snowdon wa.s a i)art of the Grand Review. He 
was mustered out at his camp and returned to 
Madison for final severance of his military 
obligations. He served through as Sergeant, 
being mustered out as 1st Sergeant. 

He again located at Black River Falls and 
engaged in lumbering until the spring of IfclGti 
when he went to New York city and engaged 
in butchering in the Atlantic market at Brook- 
lyn. Having contracted fever and ague he 
went to the south side of Long Island in 1871 
and engaged in the same business until 1874, 
when he went to his sister's home at Solomon's 
Island. In the fall of the next year he re- 
turned to Long Island and was occupied in 
butchering until the spring of 1882 when he 



removed to Gales ville, Wis. In the fall he 

made his permanent location at Black River 
Falls. For some months he engaged in his 
former occupation and in the spring of 1884 
was elected Marshal. On returning to jirivate 
life he engaged in the furniture business with 
N. A. Batcheller, which is his ])resent occu- 
pation. 

He was married Oct. 11, LSHS, to Frances, 
daughter of Samuel and .Jcanuette Wines of 
Bellport, L. I. Four children named llattie E., 
Mary IL, Edward Forrest and Frank have been 
born to them, of whom the two former are de- 
ceased. Mr. Snowdon is a member of the 
Masonic Order, Black River Lodge No. 74, 
having been admitted to the Order at Islip, 
L. I., joining Meridian Lodge, No. 691. He is 
a Republican in political connection and active 
and influential in the local interests of his party. 



^,,^^^*.,« 

7|r LONZO E. HOWARD, Sparta, Wis., 
> yplY meml)er of G. A. R. Post No. 30, was 
.^!^^X^ Ijorn in Masseua, St. Lawrence Co., 
New York, Dec. 29, 1837. He is a representa- 
tive of a father and a grandfather who fought 
respectively in the war of the Revolution and 
in 1812. The latter was named John D. and 
the former, Elisha. His father was born Dec. 
24, 1790, in Vermont, and married Emily 
Moody, both being of American i)arentage and 
English descent. His father was a farmer and 
descended from a line of farmers. Both 
parents died in Masseua and had nine children 
named Phebe, Adeline, Lorenzo P., Daniel P., 
Rufus W., Susan A., Lucius A., Alonzo E. and 
Lyman C. Mr. Howard passed his early life 
under the direction of his parents, receiving his 
jtrimary education in the common schools, su]>- 
])lementiiig that witli a course at St. Lawrence 
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515 



When the war broke out his educational plans 
took flight before the storm of patriotism which 
swept over the land, and he enlisted in May, 
1861, in tlie 16th New York Infantry, but the 
surgeons rejected him as consumptive and he 
went to Middlebury, Vermont, and entered his 
name for matriculation at the college and he 
passed a successful examination. But during 
the interim of vacation his feelings again over- 
came his devices for a collegiate education and 
he enlisted Oct. 10, 18G1, and was mustered 20 
da)'S later into Company A, 92d New York In- 
fantry, at Potsdam. On the organization he 
was made Sergeant, and the regiment went 
from rendezvous in February, 1862, to Wash- 
ington. While engaged in target practice, Mr. 
Howard was hit by a bullet which glanced 
from a tree at which they were shooting and 
received an injury in the hip which kept him 
in the capital six weeks. When convalescent, 
he conducted a squad of his regiment to join 
the command, which had been assigned to the 
od Brigade, Casey's Division, 4th Corps, Gen- 
eral Keyes, and went to take part in the Penin- 
sula campaign. On the day of his arrival the 
command went to the fight at Williamsburg to 
support the artillery, which was the principal 
portion of the army engaged. The movement 
" On to Richmond " was then inaugurated and 
the troops crossed the Chickahominy and in 
the action at Fair Oaks, the division was the 
first to be attacked. Company A went into 
action with 52 men ; and when Sergeant How- 
ard called the roll on .lune 1st, 27 responses 
were received. They went next to the fight at 
White Oak Swamp, where they constructed 
bridges until the beginning of the seven days 
fight, .lune 26th, the regiment being actively 
engaged throughout and retreating to Harri- 
son's Landing after Malvern Hill. When Mc- 
Clellan joined Pope, the 92d was ordered to 
Fortress Monroe and went from Norfolk to Suf- 



folk, made several expeditions up the Black- 
water in Novemljer, going afterwards to New- 
bern, N. C, arriving December 5th and on the 
12th, under Foster, made the expedition to 
Kingston, in which the company lost two killed 
in the fight of December 24th, but the division 
captured 400 prisoners. They went next to 
Whitehall and fought there and at Goldsboro. 
Dec. 24, 1862, Mr. Howard was promoted to 
2d Lieutenant to rank from May 28th. The 
command returned to Newbern early in Jan- 
uary, 1863, crossed the Neuse River, and com- 
menced the building of Fort Anderson, during 
which the garrison was attacked, March 14th, 
by a rel)el brigade and t wo batteries, destroying 
the tents and wounding a man of Company A. 
June 10, 1863, Mr. Howard was mustered out 
and returned home. He re-enlisted Jan. 1, 
1864, in the same company and regiment and 
joined the command at City Point, May 7th. 
His first engagement was at Chester Station on 
the Richmond and Petersburg railroad, and 
May 12tli he fought at Fort Darling and Drury's 
Bluff, his company losing several men. Until the 
close of May lie was under almost constant fire 
at Bermuda Hundred and embarked on the 30th 
at City Point on the James River for White 
House Landing, going to Cold Harbor, where 
they joined Grant's army, and was in the first 
and second fight there, June 1st and 3d ; also 
was in the skirmish line and under constant 
fire until departure on the 12lh for City Point, 

j whence they went to Petersburg and was in the 
beginning of hostilities there on the 15th. Mr. 
Howard was in the action known as the explo- 

! sion of the mine, July 30th, and afterwards 
skirmished on the lines between that point and 
Bermuda Hundred. They went to the north 
of James River, which jilaced them in front of 
Richmond and Mr. Howard fought at Laurel 
Hill and Newmarket, and was on skirmish and 
picket duty until October 27th, when the nou- 



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veterans were mustered out and those whose 
enlistments had been renewed were transferred 
to Comi)iuiies D and (J of the 96tli New York, 
Mr. Howard belonging to the latter. He was 
in action at Fair Oaks where most of tlie two 
companies named were killed, wounded or 
ca])lured. Those who escaped returned to the 
lines, the organization of the regiment being 
nearlj' destro3'ed by its decimation. Mr. Howard 
was with the army until the capture of liich- 
mond. After Fair Oaks, he was detailed as 
Clerk at the Adjutant General's headquarters 
on the field and, Feb. 18, 1865, he was 
made 2d Lieutenant; he reported to his com- 
pany March 2d and on the 20th was made 
1st Lieutenant and assigned to Company K, 
same regiment. He was in command of his 
company until April 3d, and went into Rich- 
mond with the skirmish line, having been on 
))icket through the preceding night. He was 
detailed to go up the river to Dover Coal mines, 
returning to Richmond, May 1st and stayed 
until .June Ist, going to City Point to Ije detailed 
as Ordnance Officer. About the middle of the 
month he went to Culpeper C. H., to sustain 
the reorganization of the municipal govern- 
ment. Warrenton was his next destination and 
in -July, live companies returned there and Mr. 
Howard was appointed Assistant Adjutant 
General. About August 1st, he was made 
Inspector of the troops in Northern \'irginia 
and in November went to Lynchburg. About 
the first of November, posts were established 
at Bristol, Tenu., and Coodson, \n., and Mr. 
Howard officiated in his former ea])acity until 
February, 1800, when he returned to City Point 
for final muster out, which he received on the 
6th as 1st Lieutenant of Company K, 96th New 
York Infantry, after a service of nearly four 
years. He returned to Potsdam, where he 
engaged a year in mercantile pursuits, sold out 
and came to Wisconsin, locating at Sparta, 



May 31, 1867. In September he purchased a 
farm which he conducted six years under most 
unfavorable conditions, his health being 
shattered by his army experiences. He acted 
as a teacher and was made Superintendent of 
schools of Monroe county. In 1876, lie accepted 
a position as V)ookkeeper in an agricultural 
warehouse, and in 1886 engaged with Tyler & 
Hill as secretary and corresponding clerk in 
their real estate and loan office. He was 
married at Sparta, Nov. 9, 1873, to Susie R., 
daugiiter of J. A. and Armina Clark. Tiieir 
only child, Earl Clark, was born .June 18, 1880. 

Lorenzo P. Howard enlisted in the 112th 
Illinois Infantry, went to the Army of the 
Cumberland and fought in the Atlanta cam- 
paign. He died at Kenesaw Mountain, and 
this is all the record of his service in the posses- 
sion of the family. 

Lucius A. Howard enlisted with his brother 
Oct. 10, 1861, accompanied him in all the 
service until May 31, 1862, when he was 
wounded and captured at Fair Oak.s, taken to 
Libby and afterwards to Salisbury, N. C, where 
he was exchanged and went to Annapolis, 
reduced in weight to 70 pounds. He returned 
home, recovered and rejoined his regiment in 
January, 1863, reporting for duty. He veteran- 
ized in January, 1864, took his furlough and 
was with the command until Oct. 27, 1864 
when he was again wounded and captured in 
the second battle of Fair Oaks and taken to 
Richmond, where he died in the hospital about 
November, 1864. 

Lymau C. Howard enlisted in May, 1861, 
in the 16th New York for two years and 
served with his regiment until the battle 
of Bull Run. On the return to Wasliington 
he was taken with typhoid fever and after 
recovery was detailed on account of his 
feeble condition as hospital nurse and he 
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liis term of enlistment. He is now a resident 
of Massena, N. Y., engaged in farming, on the 
old homestead. Mr. Howard of this sketch is 
a prohibitionist ; he is in receipt of a pension 
from tlie U. S. Government. 



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EV. J. S. DINSMORE, formerly a 
Baptist clergyman of Monticello, 
Wis., and a member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 113, was born at Conway, Carroll Co., New 
Hampshire, Dec. 29, 1829, and is the son of 
William F. and Ruth B. (Smith) Dinsmore. 
(The patronymic was originally Denbow, the 
earliest ancestor, Joseph Denbow, coming to 
America about 1622, on tlie second vessel 
which followed the Mayflower, and was one of 
the colonial .settlers of Massachusetts. The 
next generation changed the name to its pre- 
sent form.) Joseph Dinsmore and his son 
Samuel, aged eight years, were captured by 
the Indians; were held 17 years, and, after 
escaping, took part in the fight known to 
history as Captain .John Lovewell's battle with 
the hand of Paugus near what is now Frye- 
burg, Maine, wdiich took place May 8, 1725. 
Samuel Dinsmore was born near Portsmouth, 
N. H., then in the possession of the Massa- 
chusetts Bay Colony, and was a frontiersman 
all his life, having a career of adventure for 
which his early e.xperiences fitted him. Only 
one child of his is known to posterity, who was 
named Stephen and who became prominent in 
the history of that locality. He was for many 
years a Colonel of New Hampshire militia, was 
an extensive landholder and lumberman, was 
prominent in public life and in the employ of 
the State. He married Mehitabel Frye, who 
belonged to an aristocratic English family still 
prominent in the East, and from whom Frye- 
burg was named. Their children were Joim, 



•Joseph, William, Stephen, Sallie, Mary P. and 
Nancy. William was born Sept. 18, 1802, in 
the same house in which his son was born. 
He was a farmer and was married March 13, 
1829, to the daughter of .Jeremiah and Dolly 
(Ethridge) Smith. The father died in New 
Hampshire, Sept. 18, 1879, and the mother, 
who was born March 13, 1807, died in 
January, 1890, in Massachusetts, where all her 
surviving children reside with the exception of 
the son who is named in this sketch. 
The latter heing the oldest, was appren- 
ticed when 14 j^ears old to his uncle to 
be a shoemaker and he followed that business 
until he was 23 years old, when he became a 
carpenter and worked in New England (with 
his hom« in his native State) until 1859. He 
joined the church at Sandwich, N. H., in 1857, 
and, soon after commenced evangelistic preach- 
ing. In March, 1859, he entered the academy 
at North Parsonsfield, Maine, and pursued a 
course of study for two years, when he went to 
New Hampton, N. H., there studying one 
year. His course included both theological and 
literar}' studies and his next move was to lay 
aside his personal considerations and enlist. 
He had watched the progress of the war until 
he determined that, if he had a country his 
duty was to help .save it to himself and suc- 
ceeding generations. Aug. 8, 1862, he enrolled 
in Company E, 12th New Hampshire Infiintry, 
was nmstered at Concord and went with the 
I'egiment to make connection with the Army of 
the Potomac under McClellan, going succes- 
sively to Arlington Heights, Harper's Ferry, 
after Lee to Fredericksburg and, after the use- 
less fighting there, to Falmouth. He was in 
the movements of the spring campaign, in the 
fighting at the fords on the Rappahannock and 
in the battle at Chancellorsville was wounded. 
j He remained in hospital at Aquia Creek only 
a few weeks and pursuaded his comrades to 



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carry him to his command, being one of 16 \ 
men who reported for duty two weeks later, all 
that were left of a company of 87 men after 
Chancellorsville. The command was next in 
pursuit of Lee into Pennsylvania and at Bris- 
tow Station Mr. Dinsmore received a sunstroke, 
which he resisted for the time and was in the 
figlit at Gettysburg. From that field he was 
sent to the hcspital at Frederick, Md., and was 
transferred to Jarvis hospital, established in the 
house formerly belonging to Robert E. Lee. 
He went next to Lovell hospital on Long 
Island and was mustered out on certificate of 
disability April 18, 1864. | 

After being mustered he was made Orderly 
Sergeant of liis Company and after the battle 
of Gettysburg was commissioned 1st Lieutenant 
but his injuries precluded his being mustered 
under it. 

On his return to New Hampshire he re- 
sumed study and also taught school, l)eing thus 
occupied until March, 1865, wlien lie removed 
to Carroll County, 111., settling at Lanark, 
where he was in charge of the schools for a year 
and teaching. In 18(16 he went to Monticello, 
having been called to the charge of the church 
at York Prairie in addition to that of the Free 
Communion Church at Monticello. Three 
years later he was called to Henry county. 111., 
and preached four years. He went thence to 
Adams county where he officiated nine years as 
a clergyman and also engaged in the mercan- 
tile business at Paloma, Adams count}'. In 
1882 he went to La Salle county in the Sucker 
State, to take charge of a church whose man- 
agement he conducted until 1886. In that 
year he returned to Monticello, where lie offi- 
ciated until 1890 in charge of two churches. 
His shortest pastorate since entering the minis- 
try was two years. 

He was married at Sandwich, N. II., May 16, 
1852, to Sarah J., daughter of Parker and 



Sarah (Roach) Paine, both natives of the Old 
Granite State. She was born May 24, 1836 and 
in the paternal line is of English extraction and 
Irish in the line of her mother. She is one of 
12 children, three of whom survive. Her 
father was born Oct. 24. 1805 and died in 1876. 
Her mother was born April 1, 1810 and died in 
February, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Dinsmore have 
one child, nanaed Frank L., a law student in 
the State University at Madison. 

Besides his ministerial labors, Mr. Dinsmore 
is identified with all active reformatory pro- 
jects which come within his jurisdiction, jirom- 
inent among them being temperance work. 
He is a member of the Order of Masonry, 
Monticello L'uion, No. 105. 







ETER W. HILTON, Racine, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
born in Hamilton, Canada, June 23, 
1844, and his father, Peter W. Hilton, was born 
in 1812 in Bolton, England. He was a cabinet- 
maker and emigrated to Canada in 1843, go- 
ing after a few months to East Troy, A\'alwortli 
Co., Wis. In 1845 he went to Racine and 
established his business in company with a 
man named Waite. In 1864 he bought the 
entire interest which he conducted until his 
death in 1871. The mother, Elizabeth Mather 
before marriage, was born in Lancashire, Eng- 
land, and died Aug. 23, 1865. Mr. Hilton 
had three sisters, named Augusta, Catherine 
aiitl .\iin. The latter is deceased. Mr. Hilton 
became the apprentice of his father and was 
with him in business until he entered the 
army. He enlisted at Racine, Aug. 7, 1862, in 
Company A, 22d Wisconsin Infantr^^ and went 
to the front at Cincinnati under Colonel Wil- 
liam Utley and Captain G. K. Williamson. He 
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at Cincinnati went to Covington and succes- 
sively to Lexington, Nicholasville, Danville, 
Louisville and Nashville. The regiment was 
assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Army 
of Kentucky, and went in Fehruary to Brent- 
wood Station, thence to Franklin, was next in 
a reconnoissance to Spring Hill, March 3d, and 
fought in the disastrous action at Thompson's 
Station, escaping capture with 1,100 soldiers to 
be taken prisoner by Forrest with Lieutenant 
Colonel Bloodgood 21 days later, 'i'hey were 
attacked about daybreak, Mr. Hilton receiving 
a call and a " good morning " from a rebel be- 
fore he was dressed. They were taken to Co- 
lumbia, Chickamauga, Knoxviile and Lynch- 
burg en route to Richmond, where they were 
in Libby two days and went thence to Fortress 
Monroe and to Annapolis. The regiment was 
at St. Louis and Mr. Hilton remained about six 
weeks in Benton Barracks before exchange. 
They were sent to Nashville, where they re- 
mained until the spring of 1864, and went to 
Chattanooga, Tenn., to join the 3d Division, 2d 
Brigade and 20th Army Corps in the Atlanta 
campaign under Sherman. In the first action 
at Resaca, May 15th, Mr. Hilton was wounded 
in the shoulder by a shell, which killed or 
wounded about 15 of his comrades and he went 
to the hospital at Nashville, rejoined his regi- 
ment at Chattahoochie River and was in the 
skirmish line when Hood attacked, September 
2d, and moved with the head of the line when 
the mayor and city officials came out to sur- 
render the city, after which they were in At- 
lanta, engaged in building breastworks and 
fortifications, mixed with skirmishing until 
they went to join Sherman on the march to 
the sea, leaving Atlanta November loth. Mr. 
Hilton went to Savannah, engaged in forage 
and other duty on the way and was in a detail 
up the Savannah River to prevent trouble 
from the rebel gunboats; they were fired on, 



but captured the transport Resolute. Return- 
ing to Savannah, they took possession after its 
surrender and went North with Sherman 
through the Carolina.s, Mr. Hilton fighting at 
Averysboro and going to Raleigh and thence 
after the surrender of .Johnston to Richmond 
and Washington to the Grand Review. He re- 
ceived honorable discharge .June 12, 1865, and 
was finally fully released from military obliga- 
tions at Milwaukee on the 25th. He returned 
to Racine and engaged in business with his 
father and a year later went to work with the 
Geyser Threshing Machine Company. He en- 
gaged later with Blake & Elliott, with whom 
he remained 18 years and is now (1889) in the 
employ of the Racine Wagon & Carriage Com- 
pany. 

He was married March 11, 1875, to Mary, 
daughter of William and Maria (Whiting) 
Dibble and their children were named Charles, 
Henry I)., Frank E., Cora, Elizabeth M. and 
William G. Henry, William and Elizabeth 
are the only survivors. 

ENRY K. VINCENT, La Crosse, 
^ Wis., member of Wilson Colwell Post 
No. 38, was born Feb. 1, 1839, at 
Half Moon, Saratoga Co., New York. He is of 
Yankee birth and traces his ancestry in the 
paternal line to stock that was identified with 
the early history of the country, his grand- 
father, .Jeremiah Vincent, having been a sol- 
dier of 1812. His mother descended from 
English ancestry. Stephen Vincent, his father, 
was born on the Hudson, .January 28, 1800, 
and married Anna Godfrey, who was born 
April 4, 1800. The father removed his 
family and interests to La Crosse, Wisconsin, 
in 1855 and was occupied with his business as 
a carpenter there until his death in 1872. The 




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mother died July 27, 1865. Their six chil- 
dren were named Caroline, James, Anloinelte, 
Jeremiali, Martha and Henry. 

The latter passed his youth at home as.sist- 
ing his father in his business until he decided 
to become a soldier, which he did when 22 
years old. In the Aill of 1861 he enlisted at 
Ija Crosse and was mustered into Company D, 
14th Wisconsin Infantry at Fond du Lac. The 
command passed the winter there drilling and 
performing camp and other duty in barracks. 
Muster took place in January, 1802, and the 
regiment started for the front, March 8th, to 
connect witli the command of Grant. Orders 
were received at St. Ix)uis for Savannah, Tenn., 
where they went into camp and prepared for 
the work of war which was thickening in the 
West, prior to the battle of Pittsburg Landing, 
for which field they started on tlie evening of 
April 6th, orders being received to reach what 
threatened to be a field of disaster, with all 
possible dispatch. They arrived just before 
midnight and lay on their arms through the 
night in a heavy rain. In the morning they 
went into action in an advanced jwsition and 
the command suffered heavily in losses. But 
their work was effective and the regiment 
acfiuitted itself in a manner which won for it 
the best commendations. Afterwards the 14th 
acted as i)rovost guard in the vicinitj' until 
July when a movement to Hamburg was made 
where the regiment acted as guard until 
August, and there Mr. Vincent was discharged 
for disability. The exposure at Shiloh to con- 
stant rain for days without shelter and almost 
without food, told heavily on the regiment and 
the command suifered more from sickness and 
death from tliose causes than from tlie casualties 
of the battle field ; all the field officers were 
disabled and several died. 

Mr. Vincent returned to Wisconsin and as 
soon as able he embarked in business witli hi 



brother, of the firm of Vincent & Edwards. 
They have a popular and prosperous lumber 
business, which has been in continuous exist- 
ence for more than 27 years. Mr. Vincent is a 
member of the A. 0. U. W. and has held 
official position in the Order many years. He 
is a Republican in political relations. 

Dec. 7, 1865, he was married at St. Louis 
to Mary E. Hanley and their only child, 
Herbert M., was born May 3, 1867. 



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UGUST KRECH, Milwaukee, Wis., 
■^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 2, 



Robert Chivas, in which he is a 
prominent man, was born i,n 1840, in Saxony, 
Germany, and is the son of George and Mar- 
garetta (Glasser) Krech. He lauded at the port 
of New York in 1857, when 16 years old, and 
where he remained until the advent of the civil 
war, and was one of the first to resolve to enlist. 
He enrolled April 29, 1861, in Company G, 20th 
New York Infantry, and, after leaving their 
quarters in New York, the regiment went to 
Fortress Monroe, then in command of a Divi- 
sion under General Woksely. Shortly after 
Butler succeeded to the command of that local- 
ity. He was afterwards connected witli the 
command of McClellan in the Peninsula cam- 
paign, through whose dangers and exposures 
he passed. He was in the seven days' fight at 
Richmond, on the retreat to Harrison's Land- 
ing, and went next to the defense of Wasiiing- 
ton after the defeat of Pope. 

He fought in the action known as the second 
Bull Run. Among his experiences, which 
were many and varied, and would be full of in- 
terest in a work of more extended scope, he saw 
the battle between the Monitor and .VIerriniac 
in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862. He was 
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an artilleryman, and one of the actions in 
whicli he was engaged was that of Antietam, 
where he saw the battle under the best circiun- 
stauces, his battery crossing the field twice dur- 
ing the fight. After the action he went with 
the command to Harper's Ferry to prevent an 
anticipated fiank movement by the rebels. His 
regiment suffered heavily in killed and wound- 
ed at Antietam and was terribly decimated 
when he rejoined its ranks. Later he fought 
at Fredericksburg and was a participant in the 
terrific charge at Marye's Heights, previous to 
Chancellorsville under Hooker, and afterwards 
crossed the Rappahannock. His term of two 
years soon after expiring, he received honor- 
able discharge. 

He re-enlisted in Company C, 15th New York 
Heavy Artillery, for three years. The com- 
mand was composed of 2,500 assorted men and 
was in all the actions of any importance in the 
Army. of the Potomac after its assignment to 
the 1st Brigade, 2d Division and 5th Army 
Corps. His Captain was named Edward Kais- 
ing. Among the fights on his roll of honor 
were Mine Run, Wilderness, Pine Grove, North 
Anna River, Bethesda Church, Petersburg, 
Weldon Railroad, Yellow House, Pojalar Grove 
Church, Hatcher's Run, the siege of Petersburg 
and Five Forks, and he witnessed the capture 
of Lee at Appomattox. Afterwards he went 
through the closing scenes, including the Grand 
Review at Washington, and received his final 
discharge in June, 1865. He received slight 
wounds at Five Forks and by a piece of shell in 
the Wilderness. At Five Forks his wound 
was caused by a bullet which left traces which 
have never been eflaced. After the fight at 
Five Forks, he passed a short time at City Point 
in the hospital. He was in a detail during his 
connection with the 20th New York to capture 
Fort Hatteras. After it was accomplished he 
remained there two weeks aud returned to 



Fortress Monroe on the Vanderbilt. He assist- 
ed in the captui'e of Norfolk and Portsmouth 
while at Fortress Monroe, going to the several 
points b}' transport. In his connection with 
the battery he performed a vast amount of 
heavy labor, the drill required being that of 
infantry and light and iieavy artillery. With 
the exception of the detail mentioned to the 
hospital, and a veteran's furlough of two weeks 
when he enlisted a second time, he was never 
out of the service until after he wasdiscliarged. 
His record includes 23 battles. Mr. Krecb be- 
longs to the class of German-American citizen- 
ship who have earned all the privileges afford- 
ed under the protection of our fiag and of our 
laws. He has a splendid record as a soldier, 
which he has honored in his career as a citizen. 
After the war, he returned to New York, where 
he remained until 1867, when he determined 
to test the promises of the West to men of en- 
terprise. After examining the claims of Chi- 
cago and other cities he located in Milwaukee, 
settling there in April, 1867. He has since 
conducted his business interests with success. 
He was married in 1868, to Margaret Bechler, 
and their children are named Ida, George, Ed- 
ward, Hattie, Emma, Flora, August and 
Charles. Mr. Krech is a member of the United 
Order of Workmen, belongs to the Druids and 
to the Harugari Hociety. 



"^i^ APTAIN PERRY R. BRIGGH, presi- 
dent of the Juneau County Bank, a 
lawyer of Mauston, Wisconsin, and 
a member of G. A. R. Post No. 59, was born 
Nov. 21, 1825, at Auburn, New York, and is 
the son of Jacob and Nancy (Havens) Briggs, 
both of w'hom were natives of Massachusetts. 
He is the youngest of six children born to them 
and only a sister, Mrs. Susan Conger, is living. 



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His father died when he was about eight 
years old and lie has never since known a 
parent's care. His mother died about 1865. 
He went at 12 years of age to Buffalo, New 
York, to live with relatives and went to the 
Academy at Fredonia, obtaining a fair degree 
of advanced education. About 1855 he went 
to Wisconsin and after a few days' stay at 
Ripon went to Mansion, which has since been 
his place of abode. He purchased a farm and, 
while earning his livelihood, never lost sight 
of his plans for advanced training in intellec- 
tual matters and for acquiring a knowledge of 
law. Jlc studied with John A. Kellogg and 
was adnaitted to the Bar in 1860. They con- 
ducted their business relation jointly until the 
following spring when Mr. Kellogg, then Dis- 
trict Attorney, went to the front with tin- (ith 
Wisconsin Infantry. Mr. Briggs conducted his 
partner's business until the expiration of Mr. 
Kellogg's term, when he was elected to succeed 
him and he .served until his own enlistment in 
one of the State regiments. He enrolled and 
was mustered as 1st Lieutenant of Company E, 
41st Wisconsin Infantry, in May, 1864, and 
served u)itil September following. l""roin Mil- 
waukee the command went to Memphis and in 
his capacity of Lieutenant he had charge of 
the picket line on the night of Forrest's attack. 
He had just been relieved when the firing 
commenced and he, with the others, left his 
bunk to aid in repelling the rascally rebel 
chief During the remainder of the time he 
was on guard and (hill duty and was dis- 
chargeil after his term expired, at Milwaukee. 
He returned to Maustou and began to recruit 
for the 47th Wisconsin Infantry and on the 
organization of the command was made Cap- 
tain of Company C, and mustered as such Feb. 
4, 1865, at Madison. The regiment received 
orders to proceed to Louisville, went thence to 
Nashville and to Tullahoma, where the com- 



mand received excellent drill and instruction 
on military affairs. About two weeks after 
arrival there Captain Briggs was detailed as 
Judge Advocate of a Court Martial at Tulla- 
homa and acted as such about four weeks, 
when he was appointed Judge Advocate of the 
Military Commission with headquarters at the 
same place. After two weeks he w;vs removed 
to Shelbyville, Teiui., and a month later went 
to Murfreesboro, there trying a noted case. 
This duty over, Captain Briggs was assigned 
to the staff of General Van Cleve as Judge Ad- 
vocate of the District to prepare cases for future 
trial and was a member of this commission 
until September, 1865. His health had been 
failing all the time he was in the service and 
at the date mentioned he was ordered home by 
the surgeon, his discharge to follow him. He 
went to Madison and was released with his regi- 
ment Sept. 8, 1865. On regaining a fair de- 
gree of health he resumed his professional 
duties and in May, 1866, he was appointed 
Postmaster and served until his election to tlie 
State Legislature in the fall of 1871 as a Re- 
publican. His wife was made his successor by 
appointment in the postofKce and, together 
they held the office 19 years and 11 months. 
After serving his term as a legislator, Mr. 
Briggs returned to Mau.ston and estaljlished 
the Bank of Maustou, which he conducted 
until he sold his interest therein, in March, 1887, 
At that date he established the Juneau County 
Bank, whose affairs he still manages. He has 
been President since its organization and the 
establishment is engaged in all varieties of 
business pertinent to banking institutions. He 
also transacts a large amount of law business, 
his clientage being extensive and, connected 
therewith, he operates as pension claim agent 
with success. He was married in Versailles, 
Cattaraugus Co., New York, to Mary AVood, in 
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W. Briggs, residing at Birmiugliam, Ala. He 
is United States Marshal of the 1st District. 
Alta, a deceased danghter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Briggs, was the wife of A. C. Carter of Mauston 
and died in October, 1888, leaving three 
children. 

Cajitain Briggs has hold every office in the 
municipality to which he belongs and is now 
Justice of the Peace. He is a Mason of ad- 
vanced degree and belongs to the Cotnmandery 
at Portage ; he has been an active worker in 
the Blue Lodge and Chapter, having held all 
the official positions. In his Post he is an en- 
thusiastic and effective worker, having been a 
charter member and has held all the offices. 



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ENRY SNYDER, Waukesha, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, 
as born at " Bingen on the Rhine ", 
Germany, Sep. 9, 1844, and is the son of Mar- 
tin and Elizabeth (Wifinback) Snyder. They 
remained in their native country until their 
son was eight years old and emigrated to 
America, locating on a farm in Waukesha, Sep. 
8, 1852. He was early apprenticed to learn 
the boot and shoe trade and when the war 
broke out in 1861, he greatly desired to enlist 
but was prevented by his bonds as an appren- 
tice, although he ran away and enrolled twice, 
his father each time interposing his parental 
authority. But he still adhered to his deter- 
mination and enlisted Feb. 14, 1865 in Com- 
pany E, 42d Wisconsin Infantry, being 
mustered in at Madison, February 28th and 
joining the regiment at Cairo. There he per- 
formed such duty as was demanded by the 
position, which required constant activity in 
some direction, from obvious causes. There 
were always rebels to guard, expeditions in 
both directions on the river and often march- 



ing long distances into the interior on de- 
tached duty. Mr. Snyder was a witness of the 
explosion of tlie Sultana with the returning 
soldiers from Andersonville, whose true story 
in connection with the rebel villain who blew 
her up has only lately been told. Mr. Snyder 
relates his endeavors with others to rescue the 
wrecks of humanity to whom the rebels had 
not yet administered punishment sufficient. 
On another occasion he was one of a detail sent 
to Columbus to aid in the capture of Forrest 
who obstinately persisted in getting out of 
everybody's way. But he did not object to 
severe marching in his pursuit. While at 
Cairo, where the camp was in a low swampy 
place, Mr. Snyder contracted rheumatism and 
when the salutes were fired on receiving the 
news of Lee's surrender, he was made deaf in 
his left ear by the concussion. He reached 
Madison June 20th and was discharged in July 
following. 

He returned to Waukesha and engaged in 
manufacturing in which he has made a suc- 
cess. He belongs to several prominent or- 
ganizations among which are the Knights of 
Honor, Patriarchal Circle, Modern Woodmen 
of America and the Waukesha Fire Depart- 
ment of which he is foreman. He was married 
Nov. 25, 1865 to Mary E. Eiler and their 
children are named Lizzie, Amelia, Henry, Al- 
vin and Mabel. 

OSEPH K. CORTHELL, Hudson, Wis., 
Commander of Post No. 151 in 1890, was 
i=i^ born April 24, 1847, in Cattaraugus 
county. New York. In the paternal line he is 
of Scotch lineage, his father, Daniel Corthell, 
having been born in the vicinity of Glasgow, 
Scotland. His mother, Matilda Benham before 
marriage, was born in Vermont. The demise 



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of the senior Corthell took place in Hinsdale, 
New York, and tlie wife and mother is liv- 
ing in McKean county. Pa. Their cii'ldren 
were Lucinda, William H., Joseph K. and 
Ann. Mr. Corthell was educated in the com- 
mon schools and enlisted at 16 years of age ; 
April 10, 1863, he was made a member of 
the Harris (hiards, which went as Company I, 
16th New York Cavalry, from rendezvous at 
Elmira to Washington, having enlisted as a 
body. They were stationed at Stone man for 
three weeks and in the latter part of May went 
on transports to City Point and marched thence 
to Belle Plain, where they were first in action. 
There Mr. Corthell captured a rebel. After the 
fight the company joined the regiment and 
later, was in the " On to Richmond " movement 
under Kilpatrick and with Custer. At one 
time they were within the lines of Richmond 
and operated about that countrj' until Lee 
started through Maryland. The command 
was in his wake in his northward movements 
and went to the battle of Gettysburg, in Han- 
cock's command. The regiment was in tlie 
opening of the action on the Emmettsburg road 
with Buford, being on the picket line, and after 
Reynolds came to the scene was in service on 
various portions of tlie field, fighting mounted. 
In the afternoon of the second day they fought 
dismounted in the vicinity of the Seminary 
and also near the Cemetery. At night they 
found themselves near Little Round Top and 
rested there. On the morning of the 3d they 
were sent to make a charge, were driven back 
and remained until Pickett's charge, when they 
advanced into the woods after the eneni}'. The 
regiment did not leave the field at nightfall but 
followed the rebels some hours after dark. 
With Meade's army the comnuind crossed the 
Rapidan and was, soon after, in a sharp action 
at Rappahannock Station. They operated as 
cavalry in that vicinity and moved when winter 



approached to Culpeper C. H., to winter 
quarters. In the spring they joined Grant and 
participated in the campaign of the Wilderness 
and in the battles leading up to Petersburg. 
They fought on the Weldon railroad, skirmish- 
ing and performing unremitting duty as cavalry 
until tlie action at Trevillian Station, where 
they defeated Stewart's cavalry, tearing up the 
road and cutting off rebel supplies. They were 
in the fight at Port Republic and afterwards 
chased Early in his Washington raid, fighting 
at Monocacy. Tlieir next campaign was in the 
Valley of the Shenandoah, wiiere they fought 
at Smithfieldand Martinsburg with the cavalry 
of Fitzhugh Lee and skirmished in every direc- 
tion between times. While there Mr. Corthell 
was taken prisoner by Mosby's men and taken 
to the mountains ; after three days he succeeded 
in getting away during the night and made 
his way to his command. They fought at 
Winchester under Custer, Mr. Corthell person- 
ally taking several rebels prisoners in a hand-to- 
hand fight, whom he sent back to the rear. He 
remembers that Custer was at least 100 yards 
in advance of his men in the charges. The 
command followed the rebels to Fisher's Hill ; 
there they made a stand and were driven 
beyond Staunton. They fell back to Cedar 
Creek, and were there until the battle Oct. 
19, 1864, in the action where Sheridan 
came back, with the rallying cry " We'll 
lick them out of their boots." Mr. Corthell 
was in battle from three in the morning until 
midnight following. The rebels were followed 
up the valley and Mr. Corthell was in another 
fight at Mount Crawford and Piedmont, also 
fighting at Mt. Jackson, passing through 
Snicker's Gap and driving back Longstrcet's 
corps. They returned over the mountains and 
through the valley, destroying property and 
arrived at Winchester to relieve the 17th Penn- 
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when they moved to Loudon Valley to winter 
quarters and remained until March, and mean- 
while, were attacked in the night by Mosby's 
guerrillas, whom they defeated, driving them 
back and capturnig several. (During the stay 
there the regiment went on a raid to Gordons- 
ville, capturing supplies, cattle and sheep and 
burning a large amount of stores.) In .Janu- 
ary, Siieridan joined Grant at Petersburg and 
the regiment went to the rear of that city and 
fought at Savage Station, defeating the rebel 
cavalry. After this the command was con- 
stantly in the saddle and fighting under Sheri- 
dan until the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. 
They swung around Riclunond, going after the 
surrender to Cloyd's Mills and into camp a few 
days when they moved to Washington to par- 
ticipate in the Grand Review. A week later 
they went back to Virgina and were consoli- 
dated with the New York 15th Cavalry. They 
were ordered to Louisville and performed pro- 
vost duty until after election, much against the 
general feeling of the command and went 
thence to Elmira, having been mustered out 
Aug. 9, 1865, and received final discharge Sep- 
tember 14th. After his long service Mr. Cor- 
thell returned home free from injury, although 
his uniform had been cut to pieces b}' bullets. 

After passing a year in recuperating his 
strength he engaged as a carpenter at James- 
town, N. Y., and afterward jiassed a few months 
in the Pennsylvania oil regions. In 1867 he 
went to Michigan and was occupied in lumber- 
ing about two years, when he went to Wiscon- 
sin and located at La Crosse. He engaged in 
building railroad bridges and two years later 
he located at Hudson, entering the employ of 
the C, St. P., M. & 0. R. R., and has been con- 
nected therewith in some capacity ever since, 
being foreman of the coach department at one 
time. He is a member of Colfax Lodge of Odd 
Fellows No. 85, and is Nol)le Grand in 1890. He 



is also a member of Sylvia Camp No. 84, and 
strongly Republican in political predilections. 

Mr. Corthell was married Dec. 19, 1873 at 
Hudson, to Margaret, daughter of William and 
Letitia (McNichol) Craig, and their children 
were born as follows: — Melvin B., April 18, 
1875 and Georgia E., Dec. 20, 1876. William 
H. Corthell, the brother of Mr. Corthell, en- 
listed in the same company and regiment. He 
was with him through all the service, was 
wounded at Brandy Station and mustered out 
as Sergeant. 



RANK COOPER, Black River Falls, 
f^^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 92, 
was born March 27, 1825, in Derby- 
shire, England, where he was reared to the age 
of four years by his parents, Joseph and Grace 
Cooper. His father was born in 1797, emi- 
grated to America in 1829, and purchased and 
maiiaged a farm in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, on 
which he died in 1SS4. The widowed mother 
of Mr. Cooper still resides on the homestead, 
(1890.) The children were born in the order 
named : .John, Frank, .Joseph, George, Martha, 
William, Samuel and Charles, all of whom are 
living but Charles, George and William. When 
he was 18 years old, Mr. Cooper began an 
apprenticeship to learn the business of a printer 
on the Ashtabula Sentinel, served there three 
years, and in 1847 went to Wisconsin, locating 
at Milwaukee. Until his removal to Black 
River Falls in 1857 he was occupied on various 
newspapers in Wisconsin and, on locating in 
that place, he obtained a position on the .Jack- 
son County Bantier as foreman. This employ 
was interrupted by his entering the army. 
March 27, 1864, on his birthday, he enrolled 
and was mustered into service at Madison, 
April 26, 1864, as "Francis Cooper" in 
Company C, 37th W^isconsin Infantry. Six 



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companies of the regiment went to Washing- 
ton, arriving the 1st of Maj', but Mr. Cooper 
was detailed on recruiting service and reached 
his company in front of Petersburg about the 
beginning of the siege. The regiment was 
assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division and 
9th Army Corps, and occupied a position in 
the " horseshoe " during the entire siege. Mr. 
Cooper was at the explosion ol the mine July 
.30th and in the desperate charge into the crater. 
The action of the regiment has been recorded 
in all its distinguishing particulars, the com- 
nuind earning richly all the encomiums passed 
on its lirilliant and daring service. Mr. Cooper 
received a severe wound in his back and 
suffered an injury to one finger. He found 
himself after six hours of unconsciousness, in 
the crater, lying across his gun. He crawled 
ont on hands and knees, dragging his gun 
with his teeth, and finally reached the Union 
lines. He passed a few days in the field hos- 
pital and was sent thence to Portsmouth Grove 
hospital in Rhode Island, whicli he left after 
two months, before he was able to walk, his 
spine being injured and locomotion affected. 
But the surgeon was determined to treat him 
for lung disease, and he had a decided objec- 
tion to taking medicine for a disease he knew 
he was not suffering from, and he remained 
with his company until March, 1865, under- 
going excruciating pain from his wound. At 
the date mentioned he obtained a furlough, 
went home and rejoined the command in 
April after the surrender of Lee. He had 
improved so inudi that be was able to walk 
fairly well and remained with the regiment 
until muster out near Chain Bridge, July 28, 
1865, after assisting in reviewing the army 
being unable to march therein. After the close 
of the war he received from Governor Fair- 
child a brevet commission as First Lieutenant. 
After his return to civil life he started the 



publication of a paper at Neillsville, which he 
conducted one year. In 1866 he returned to 
Black River Falls and purchased a half inter- 
est in the Banner, of J. A. Watrous, now a 
proprietor of the Milwaukee Snndaij Telegraph. 
He renewed his old interest in newspaper life 
and pursued his vocation as a dispenser of 
intelligence from all portions of the earth in 
company with Mr. Watrous until tlie latter 
sold out to W. T. Price. In 1871 Mr. Cooper 
bought the moiety of his partner and became 
sole proprietor. Prior to Mr. Watrous' with- 
drawal the name of the journal was changed to 
the Badger State Banner. In 1873, Mr. Cooper 
sold a half interest to his son, George Cooper 
who, in 1888, bought the entire interest. 
It goes without saying, that a man who has 
passed his life in the craft never loses his taste 
for the details of the office, and Mr. Cooper 
passes much time in attendance upon his old 
haunts, acting sometimes in the wonted cai)ac- 
ities and in a sense sustaining his old char- 
acter of manager and adding the role of work 
to his daily walk in life. Though on the sun- 
set side of life, he retains his active interest in 
the affairs of the world, and his happy char- 
acter, buoyant spirits and vigorous mind testify 
to the value of a well-spent, industrious life. 
He is a Republican, and all bis journalistic 
enterprises have been guided under that 
regime. The pajter in the hands of his .son 
sustains its prestige and is a factor of improve- 
ment of no mean caliber. Under the capable 
and sagacious conduct of Geo. F. Cooper it is 
steadily growing in circulation and popularity. 
Mr. Cooper was married at Racine, Dec. 24, 
1848, to Catherine, daughter of Francis and 
Cynthia Fox, and their children are named 
Charles J., George F. and Arthur S. The mother 
died in December, 1880, aiid Mr. Cooper was 
married Oct. Hi, 1886, to Mrs. Nellie Darrow. 
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/^^ EORGE HENRY HEAFFORD, Mil- 
1 ^,^ J ^ waukee, Wis., member of the Com- 
^^---^ mandery of the MiUtary Order, Loyal 
Legion, Department of Wisconsin, was born 
Oct. 29, 1845, in Essex, Conn., and is the son of 
William H. and Sarah A. (Andrews) Heafford. 
His father was born April 8, 1825, in London, 
England, and his mother, Dec. 31, 1827, in 
Essex, Conn., a descendant of a family whose 
early history in this country began with that 
of the nation. Her father was a soldier in the 
war of 1812, and her grandfather fought in the 
Revolution. William Heafford was a contractor 
and builder, and removed from Connecticut to 
Chicago in 1856 which was his home until 1880. 
He was an enlisted man in Company A, 72d Illi- 
nois Infantry, Chicago Board of Trade (1st Regi- 
ment), and was raised from the ranks to Com- 
missary Sergeant, .serving as such until illness 
sent him to hospital and finally to Marine 
hospital at Chicago, whence he received honor- 
able discharge in 1864. With his wife he is 
living in Clay Co., Florida. Their family in- 
cluded two sons, George and William Wallace, 
the latter a resident of Buffalo, New York. 

Mr. Heafford grew to manhood in Chicago, 
and he obtained his elementary education in 
the i)ul)lic schools. Later he attended a school 
of higher grade and was pursuing his educa- 
tional course when the war interested his atten- 
tion. When the attack was made in Charles- 
ton harbor, George Heafford was a boy of 16 ; 
when the second year had rolled its dismal 
length around he was 17, with the understand- 
ing of a man, so deeply had he become imbued 
with the sj)irit that ruled the period in Chicago 
and which sent some of the finest Bodies of 
men to the war in tlie whole history of that 
terrible internecine conflict. Young Heafford 
enlisted July 23, 1862, in Company A, 72d 
Illinois Infantry, m which his father was en- 
rolled, and was mustered just a month later. 



The regiment was in rendezvous at Camp Han- 
cock and he remained there one day, orders 
being received to proceed to Cairo. This regi- 
ment was one of the most noted in the service 
for many reasons. Its complement of 930 men 
was raised and organized in one month, and 
on the next day readied Cairo in readiness for 
assignment to field duty. It was composed of 
men, most of whom were prominent in busi- 
ness circles in Chicago, to whom their present 
business, while it had all the elements of 
loyalty to the flag, was also, so to speak, a 
matter of enterprise necessary to their future 
careers, which in American citizenship is a 
synonym for fealty to the Government. Sep- 
tember 6th they went to Paducah, Ky., and on 
the 17th to Columbus, where they performed 
guard duty and drill and made two raids, one 
to Clarkson, Mo., and the other to New Madrid. 
November 21st they joined Quimby's command 
connected with Grant's army, who was moving 
southward with Vicksburg as objective point, 
when the surrender of Holly Springs, the base 
of supplies of the Union troops, defeated the 
purpose of the Great Commander. The wagon 
train was guarded by the 72d to Memphis, 
which remained headquarters until March 1st, 
the command being engaged meanwhile in 
guartl duty and making a raid to Horn Lake 
Creek after guerrillas. They started for the 
Yazoo Pass, returned, and in April went to 
Milliken's Bend, moving thence with Grant's 
army to Vicksburg. They arrived on the field 
of Champion's Hill, May 16th, at a critical 
moment and delivered victory to the Union 
army. On the 19th the regiment opened the 
siege of Vicksburg and in the action of the 22d 
the regiment began the achievements which 
covered the command with a glory which has 
never tarnished. The regiment was thence- 
forward foremost in the siege and in the 
experiences of the war, fighting through the 



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siege until the capitulation, going thence to 
Natchez, skirmishing at St. Catherine's Creek 
and at Cross Bayou, La. The next year was one 
of comparative inactivity witli the exception 
of two expeditions, the one to Benton, where 
sharp figliting occurred and to Grand Gulf, re- 
porting Oct. 30, 1864, to the Department of the 
Tennessee under Howard with Sherman, and 
moved towards Nashville, leaving tliat place to 
join Schofield at Columhia. Leaving there 
Novemher 29tli, the regiment was in action at 
Spring Hill and reached Franklin, where they 
liastily prepared for the attack of Hood, which 
took j)lace in the afternoon of the same day, 
the regiment losing 9 officers out of 16, and 
152 men. The same night the regiment 
started for Nashville where they were in the 
decisive battle of the loth and 10th of De- 
cember. They chased Hood to the Tennessee 
and went thence to Eastport, which tliey left 
in February for New Orleans, preparatory to 
engaging in the operations against the stroilg- 
holds of Mobile. Tiiey crossed the Gulf of 
Mexico, landed on Dauphin Island, crossed 
over to the main land and took part in the 
movement whose ultimatum was the inveigle- 
ment of the rebels into a belief that Mobile was 
the ol)iective point of the brigade. This ac- 
complished, tbe 72d went to Fish River and 
thence to the trenches before Spanish Fort and 
actively engaged in besieging operations until 
the last night, when the brigade, which in- 
included the 72d, made the charge which 
crowned the long siege with success on the 
morning of the same day on which the head 
and front of the rebellion bit the dust at Ap- 
pomattox. Tlie command moved to Rlakcly 
to find that victory was with the Union bannt'r 
there and their next move was on the long 
march of 200 miles to Montgomery which was 
accomplished in 11 days. At that place and at 
Union Springs the regiment performed military 



duty until July 19th,when they started for Vicks- 
burg to be mustered out August 6th, returning 
to Chicago. The experiences of the regiment 
were those of Mr. Heatibrd, wiio started for the 
war in the ranks, was promoted to Corporal, 
Commissary Sergeant, Sergeant Major and Ad- 
jutant, officiating in all these capacities in a man- 
ner which recommended him to the authorities, 
w'ho in view of all the Union army had accomp- 
lished, tried to express the gratitude of the Na- 
tion by brevetting its conspicuously brave men 
and officers. Mr. Heafford received the ac- 
knowledgment of the Government in the shape 
of Brevet Major after the war. 

He returned to Chicago and entered the ser- 
vice of tlie Chicago & Northwestern R. R. cor- 
poration in September following in a promi- 
nent and confidential position and acted suc- 
cessively as ticket clerk, chief statistical clerk, 
accountant, traveling auditor of accounting de- 
partment and chief clerk of the general pas- 
senger department; from July, 1872 to October, 
1876, he operated as assistant general passenger 
agent on the Missouri it Pacific R. R.,and from 
the last mentioned date to May, 1879, in the 
chief capacity as general passenger agent on 
the same route. From 1880, to August, 1882, 
he officiated as general Eastern agent of tlie 
" Bee Line " and from that time to July, 1890, as 
Assistant General Passenger Agent on the Chi- 
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad. At the 
latter date he was constituted General Passenger 
Agent in the interests of the same corjKiration. 
Mr. Heafibrd is one of the most capable railroad 
officials in the country ; no man is his superior 
in the conducting of the att'airs of the various 
departments of the corporations with which he 
has lieen connected, and in private character lie 
is, like Bayard, satispeur et saiis reproche. He ex- 
emplifies all that is embodied in the term "gen- 
tleman" and among his compeers and those in 
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oughly appreciated, which is a full tribute to his 
merits and the quality of his friends. He belongs 
to Masonic Lodge Oriental, No. 33 at Cliicago 
and Milwaukee Council No. 46, National Union. 
He was married Sep. 13, 1865 at Chicago to M. 
Louise, daughter of Captain C. P. and Martha A. 
(Hodgson) Bradley. Mrs. Bradley is living with 
her daughter; the father died March 18, 1865. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Heafford two children have 
been born ; Frank George died when six years 
old ; M. Louise is the single child who brightens 




the rooftree. 



APTAIN CHARLES C. DOW, Portage, 
Wis., Clerk of Columbia County and 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 14, was 
born at Piermont, New Hampshire, June 2, 
1836. He is the representative of two families 
who belonged to the stock which settled New 
England and were identified with the early his- 
tory of the country. His father, Rufus Dow, 
was a clothier and married Maria L. Bedel ; 
he died in 1852, leaving a young family, and 
his wife survived him until 1885. The death 
of his father threw Captain Dow early on his 
own resources and he remained in his native 
State until he was approaching his majority, 
when he determined to test the promise of the 
West and, in 1856, he went to Wisconsin to en- 
deavor to carve out a career which should be 
worth while to a New England boy who had 
inherited the spirit and ambition of ancestors 
who held that manhood and its obligations 
should be the first consideration of every son of 
the Republic who deserved its jtrivileges. He 
first located at Portage where he obtained em- 
ploy as a clerk. He was so occupied until the 
war came on, in every detail of which he was 
interested, feeling that a message was borne to 
him in every report of outrage and insult to the 
flag which he had been taught to reverence. 



He was among tlie first to enlist, enrolling 
April 19, 1861, in the Portage company which 
reported to the Governor as ready for service 
when the requisition for troops was made. It 
was assigned to the 2d Wisconsin as Company 
G, and young Dow was a part of its history un- 
til his discharge at the close of liis term of en- 
listment. He was made Sergeant prior to leav- 
ing the State, June 20th following his enlist- 
ment. He passed the time before the battle of 
Bull Run chiefly in the common way of soldiers 
who have come from habits and lives of peace to 
fight a fratricidal war, because necessity forced 
it — drilling, learning all possible things of war 
and anticipting — they hardly knew what. 

Capt. Dow's first taste of the business in 
which he had engaged was at Blackburn's Ford, 
July 18th, and he was under arms until the 
disaster at Bull Run. In that action a rebel 
bullet passed through his neck and lengthwise 
through his tongue, knocking out a tooth as it 
left his mouth. The wound was exasperating 
and made him long to find an opportunity to 
repay his debt with interest, and, while he was 
in hospital at Georgetown (about a month) he 
had ample time to nurse his wrath, while he 
pondered on the conduct of the field officers of 
the 2d Wisconsin, who had in charge one of 
the finest regiments on the field. He went to 
New Hampshire on a short furlough, rejoining 
his regiment at Chain Bridge, where the com- 
mand was made the nucleus of the "Iron 
Brigade." Returning to Fort Tillinghast, the 
! regiment passed the winter in the defenses of 
I Washington, and, in the spring, moved to the 
Manassas campaign, afterwards taking part in 
1 the movements in May. He was in tlie terrific 
; march to Frederick's Hall Station, in the skir- 
' mishes on the Rappahannock, in the fight at 
Sulphur Springs and at Gainesville. In this 
j action, quoted as " one of the bloodiest of the 
i war," Captain Dow was severely wounded, a 



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buckshot and musket ball passing through his 
body. (His company lost 43 killed and wound- 
ed out of 54 men, 17 being killed ; the bodies 
were unburied for a year, and Captain Dow saw 
them at that date lying where they had fallen.) 
He was captured and held a prisoner five days, 
himself and a comrade picking U]) about a cup 
full of beans, scattered from the stable rations, 
which sustained life for the time being. A 
half of a sheep was supplied for 25 men and 
Captain Dow gave his portion of the soup made 
from it to a comrade, who was wounded in the 
mouth ; he afterwards gave his portion of the 
meat to another and foraged for himself. 
He di.scovered the negro servant of an officer 
who was the possessor of a few very small bis- 
cuit and gave him a gold dollar for a dozen of 
them. On his way back to the rebel hospital 
his hunger overcame him and he ate two of 
them, but when he faced the beseeching eyes 
of his wounded comrsldes he surrendered the 
remaining ten to supply their needs. Greater 
than the daring of the Union soldiers was their 
humanity to their comrades! 

Captain Dow was sent a paroled prisoner to 
the Union field hospital where he received 
medical attention for the first time, although he 
had attended to his wounds as best he could 
himself. He was in hospital about half a mile 
from where he was injured and went thence to 
Washington and remained until Dec. 2, 1862, 
when he rejoined liis regiment at Brook's 
Station on Aquia Creek, his wound still sup- 
purating, llis bravery iiad been so conspic- 
uous tliat lie was coniniissioued 2d Lieutenant 
by Colonel Fairchild ami he assumed the 
duties of that position on making connection 
with his company. Ten days later he was in 
the fight at Fredericksburg, was under fire at 
the fords several days and, on the 20th, went 
into winter (juarters at Belle Plain, where he 
was made 1st Lieutenant, Marcli 1, 1863, and 
whence he went to help cover the command of 



Burnside with glory in the " Mud Campaign. " 
He was in the raiding in Marcii and in the ac- 
tion at Fitzhugb's Crossing, preparatory to the 
battle of Chancellorsville. The 2d Wisconsin 
was the first regiment of the brigade under fire 
at Gettysburg and for his conduct on the field, 
he was promoted to Ca})tain of his company, 
his commission being dated Aug. 13, 1863. 
He was next in action at Mine Run, and in the 
Wilderness and thenceforward was in all the 
movements of his regiment until mustered out, 
June 30, 1864, his last connection with the 
fighting for the Union being in the battles of 
the Wilderness — Spottsylvania, North Anna 
and Cold Harbor, after which his command 
performed provost duty in behalf of the divi- 
sion until permanently relieved. 

Captain Dow returned to Portage where he 
again engaged in mercantile pursuits until 
1875, when he obtained a position in the U. S. 
postal service in which he was occupied five 
years. In 1880 he was commissioned Post- 
master of Portage and served in the position 
until relieved by President Cleveland. In the 
fall he was elected County Clerk on the Re- 
publican ticket, of which office he is still the 
incumbent, (1890.) He has served two terms 
as Commander of his Post and has always 
taken an active part in its affairs. He has 
taken tlie higher degrees in Masonry, is a 
Knight Templar and, in accordance with his 
character, performs active service in his so- 
ciety relations. He belongs to the A. O. U. W., 
and has served as Alderman of the city ; he is 
also prominent in local political matters. 

He was married Dec. 16, 18G7, at Portage, to 
Anna E., daughter of David N. Jones, a native 
of ^h^ryland, and they have three children. 
William C. is a bookkeeper for the Register 
Printing Company ; Carrie L., and Charles H. 
are still students at school. 



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(lOKWELL J. FLINT, Menomonie, 
Wis., a charter member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 58, was its first Cora- 
luander. He was born at Williamstown, Vt., 
March 23, 1842, and is tlie only son of .Joseph 
Flint, Jr., and Lora A. (Fuller) Flint, both of 
whom were born at Braintree, Orange Co., "\'t. 
The earliest known ancestor of this branch of 
the family is Thomas Flint who, with his 
brother William, came from Wales about 1640 
and settled at Salem, now South Dan vers, 
Mass., where he died in 166.3. Some of his 
descendants settled in Hampton, Conn., where 
Jonathan Flint, a soldier in the Revolution and 
great-grandfather of Mr. Flint of this sketch, 
was born Nov. 17, 1755. At the close of the 
Revolutionary war the family moved to Brain- 
tree, ^'t. The name of Flint is familiar in tlie 
annals of the Colonial and Revolutionary wars. 
It is found in the list of " Embattled Farmers " 
who full at Lexington, and it is recorded that 
Capt. Samuel Flint was killed at the battle of 
Stillwater, while gallantly leading his men in 
action. On the maternal side the lineage of 
Mr. Flint shows a mixture of Scotch, Irish and 
English, and among his mother's ancestors were 
the Putnams and ]McClellans of Connecticut. 
In 1845 tlie family moved to New Haven, 
Yt., where the father engaged in the manu- 
facture of wagons and carriages with his 
brother, Samuel B. Flint. The discovery of 
gold in California came soon after, and in the 
spring of 1850 he went to the new Eldorado 
and worked a year in the mines on Feather 
River. But, failing in health, he returned 
home in the fall of 1851, and died June l2, 
1852. In 1854 the widowed mother married 
Samuel B. Flint and the family moving to 
Wisconsin the following year, settled on a farm 
in Buffalo, Marquette Co. Here they lived five 
years — the son doing the ordinary work of a 
farmer boy in summer and attending the 



district school in the winter. By the exercise 
of close economy lie was enabled to attend 
school a short time at Fox Lake and Portage, 
working out of school hours to pay for his 
board. During the winter of 1857 he found 
employment in the office of " The Independent," 
a paper published in Portage by J. C. Chandler, 
(better known perhaps as " Shanghai ") and 
there received his first les.son in the "art pre- 
servative." In the spring of 1860 his parents 
removed to River Falls, Wis., and Mr. Flint 
entered the office of " The Wisconsin State 
Register," at Portage, to serve an apprenticeship 
of three years at the printer's trade. But the 
rebellion came on, and when President Lin- 
coln's call for " three hundred thousand more '' 
was issued, he obeyed the summons and en- 
listed Aug. 6, 1862, in Company C, 23d Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, " for three years or during the 
war." The regiment left Camp Randall, at 
Madison, Sept. 15tli and two daj^s later went 
into camp near Covington, Ky. It formed a 
part of Gen. Burbridge's brigade in .Gen. A. 
J. Smith's division. In October the division 
marched to Nicholasville, and after a brief rest 
moved to Louisville, where the troops were put 
on board transports and taken to Memphis to 
join General Sherman's expedition against 
Vicksburg. They left Memphis Dec. 22d, a. 
magnificent flotilla of steamers and gunboats. 
Arriving at Milliken's Bend, Burbridge's bri- 
gade landed and made a forced march of about 
thirty miles, on Cliristmas day to Dallas, La., 
to cut the Vicksburg & Shreveport railroad at 
that station. • This was effectively done by 
burning the railroad bridge and depot, and 
destroying the track for some distance. Re- 
turning to the boats the next day, the brigade 
passed up the Yazoo river and rejoined the 
main Ijody there operating against the rebel 
lines on the Chickasaw Bayou. Tliis attempt 
to take Vicksburg was unsuccessful, and the 



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troops proceeded to Arkansas Post and 
captured that stronghold Jan. 11, 1863, with 
5,000 prisoners. The remainder of the winter 
they were camped at Young's Point, nearly 
opposite Vicksburg, where many of the regi- 
ment died from exposure and malaria. 

On the 10th of April Mr. Flint was detailed 
for duty in the U. S. Signal Corps and sent to 
the camp of instruction at Memphis. About 
the middle of July he was ordered to report at 
Vicksljurg, and there appearing before an ex- 
amining board, he successfully passed the ex- 
amination, was promoted toasergeantcy in the 
Signal Corps and mustered into the regular 
army. He was assigned to the squad of Lieut. 
Sizer and in October went to New Orleans in 
Capt. Lud wig's detachment. He participated 
in the campaign on the Bayou Teche in the 
fall of 1863, and afterward accompanied the 
expedition to Matagorda, Texas, remaining 
there and at Indianola on signal duty during 
the winter. In Augu.st, 1864, he went with 
the troops under Gen. Granger to Dauphin 
Island and from his signal station near Fort 
Gaines, saw Farragut's fleet pass Fort Morgan ' 
in a shower of sliot and shell, and witnessed 
the desperate tight that followed in Mobile Bay 
with the rebel gunboats, that resulted in the 
capture of the rebel ram Tennessee. He was 
present at the formal surrender of Fort Gaines 
the next day, and the subsequent bombard- 
ment and capture of Fort Morgan. Returning 
to New Orleans Mr. Flint was assigned to Lieut. 
Milton Benner, A. Q. M. of the Signal Corps, 
Dept. of tlieGulf, and aj)pointed (Quartermaster 
Sergeant. In tliat capacity he served until 
mustered out July 4, 1865, by order of War 
Department. 

At the closeof his service Mr. I'"lint returned 
to "The State Register" office and linishcd his 
trade. In November, 1868, he formed a co-part- 
nership with Edwin H. Weber, and the firm 
bought the Prescott (Wis.) Journal, then pub- 



lished by the late Lute A. Taylor. Tiie office 
was destroyed by fire in June, 1871, and not 
receiving sufficient encouragement to continue 
the paper, they closed the business, and in 
August purclursed 'Tlie Dunn County Xeus" at 
Menomonie, Wis., which they have pulilislied 
continuously since that time. The Ncus lias^ 
prospered under their management and is con- 
sidered one of the most influential county 
journals in Northwestern Wisconsin. 

Mr. Flint was married Nov. 9, 1871, to Alice, 
daughter of the late Dr. James Prentice, a 
practicing physician at Portage, Wis., for more 
tlian a third of a century and formerly surgeon 
of the 23d Wisconsin Infantry. Mrs. Flint 
was born in the surgeon's quarters at old Fort 
\\'inneb:igo, Dec. 7, 1851. They have four 
children — Anna Kate, James Prentice, Fred 
Rockwell and Joseph Turner. 

In jiolitics Mr. Flint has always been a 
staunch Republican and zealously labored for 
the success of his party in every campaign. 
He was elected Member of Assembly in 1875; 
and served a term in the State Senate in 1876- 
'77 and again in 1881-'83. During his last 
term in the Senate he was Chairman of the 
Committee on State Affairs, and a member of 
the Committee on Judiciary. He is now Chair- 
man of the Board of Supervisors of Dunn 
county — a position he has held for nine years. 

He has been identified with fraternal and 
benevolent organizations for many yeais. He 
is a member of Menomonie Lodge, No. 164, A. 
F. & A. M.; a charter member and the first 
High Priest of Menomonie Chapter, No. 53, R. 
A. M., and a member of Fort Wiiuiebago 
Commandery, No. 4, K. T., at Portage, Wis. 
He served as Deputy Grand High Priest of 
the Grand Chapter of Wisconsin in 1888-'89, 
and at the annual convocation of the Grand 
Chapter in February, 1890, was elected to the 
office of Grand High Priest. He is a charter 
member of Excelsior Lodge No. 29, Ancient 
Order of L'nited Workmen ; was Grand Master 
Workman ot the order in Wisconsin in 1886, 
and has served as Representative to the 
Supreme Lodge for three successive years. He 
is a member ot tiie Unitarian Society of 
Menomonie, also one of the Directors of the 
Mabel Tainter Library, Literary and Educa- 
tional Society, and a zealous co-worker in all 
the activities of tiiesc organizations. 






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OBERT BELL, Racine, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was Iwrn in 
Moreland, Westmoreland county, 
England, where his father and mother, Jonah 
and iMargaret (Hall) Bell were also born. The 
ancestors and relatives of Mr. Bell were, in 
many instances, identified with the wars of 
England, and one was killed at Sevastopol. 
Sir -John Hall, brother of his mother, was an 
eminent surgeon in the British service and was 
on the field of Waterloo after the hght; during 
the Crimean war he was in charge of the Eng- 
lish liospital under Lord Raglan at Sevastopol 
and, for distinguished services in the Crimea, 
was knighted by Queen Victoria. .Jonah Bell 
died in England in 1845, and in 1854 the 
mother came to America with her children and 
settled in Moravia, Cayuga Co., New York. 

The son received a common school education 
and lived on the home farm until he was 16 
years old, when he engaged in an apprentice- 
ship with C. Perigo & Co., machinists of 
Groton, Tompkins Co., New York. After 
serving his time, he entered the employ of 
C. C. Bradley & Son, machinists at Sycracuse, 
N. Y., remaining until February, 1861, when 
he engaged with Beard Bros., at Fayetteville, 
New York, until the war absorbed his interest 
and, April 18, 1861, under the first call of 
President Lincoln for troops he enlisted in the 
State service and U. S. service, being mustered 
for two years in the former and three months 
in the latter. He was among the first to enroll 
at the recruiting office in the town of Manlius, 
New York. He became a member of Com- 
pany A, 12th New York Infantry and went to 
rendezvous at Elmira, leaving the State in 
May for Washington, together with the 13th 
New York Lifantry, marching through Balti- 
more with loaded guns, but reached the Capital 
unmolested and camped about half a mile east 
of the Capitol, remaining until July, moving 



then to Chain Bridge and thence to the Man- 
assas campaign with Richardson's brigade 
and Tyler's division. The regiment was in 
the advance in the reconnoissance at Black- 
burn's Ford, July 18th, in which the regiment 
sustained some loss in killed, wounded and 
missing — about 42 men. In tlie battle of Bull 
Run, Tyler's command was on the extreme 
left and held the position until the enemy 
tried to turn the left, when the falling back 
commenced ; the 12th fell back to Centerville 
where they remained until 12 o'clock, reaching 
camp at Arlington Heights. After tiie battle 
the regiment engaged in cutting timber 
between Fort Albany and Alexandria. In 
September, Mr. Bell was appointed Acting 
Ordnance Sergeant at Fort Gregg, his regi- 
ment going to Upton's Hill to build fortifica- 
tions. Jan. 20, 1862, Acting Sergeant Bell 
received orders to report to the commandant's 
office at Fort Tillinghast as Acting Ordnance 
Sergeant, in addition to his former appoint- 
ment. (By order of General Doubleday.) Tlie 
regiment started on the Peninsula campaign in 
March and Sergeant Bell asked to be relieved 
in order to join his command and was referred 
to General Wadsworth, who finally gave per- 
mission and he started Apl-il 4th ; he reached 
Fortress Monroe in time for the scrimmage at 
Great Bethel. He was in the siege of York- 
town, and fought at Hanover C. H. (Union loss 
53killed,344 wounded and 730 prisoners.) After 
return to camp at Gaines Mills, Mr. Bell was 
detailed in charge of the nurses in hospital 
and to see that rebel surgeons took proper care 
of wounded men. He was detailed next to go 
to Savage Station to lay out a hosj)ital camp 

\ and was in the actions of that eventful week, 
fighting at Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Gaines 
Mills and Malvern Hill. After Savage Station 
he volunteered to care for the wounded and 

I went with the prisoners to Richmond, was de- 



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tailed to Prison No. 1 at first and then to Libby, 
where lie took care of Major Barnum and Cap- 
tain Truesdell. Sergeant Bahaai, who had 
charge of the wounded at Gaines Mills, was in 
charge of all hospitals in Richmond and 
immediately recognized his former in- 
spector. It was the request of his charges 
that he be allowed to go with them to 
Aiken after parole and it was promised 
but when the time came the privilege 
was denied ; he was a prisoner of war and was 
treated as such and sent successively to Castle 
Thuniler, Libby and Belle Isle, always on 
hospital duty ; he was finally exchanged with 
the prisoners taken at Fort Donelson, being 
sick with scurvy. He went to Belleville hospital, 
New York and thence to Washington in time 
to join his regiment for the battle of Antietam. 
He started on tiiat campaign, attired in an old 
alpaca coat and broad brimmed straw hat and 
was in the action September 17th and again 
September 21st. He was in the fighting at 
Fredericksburg in the winter and, in the spring, 
April 17, 1863, was mustered out at Elmira. 
(When the three-month's enrolment had 
expired the State Legislature of New York 
instructed the Governor to dispose of the regi- 
ments for the remainder of the two years as he 
thought best and he retained them in the U. S. 
service). Oct. 20, 1863, Mr. Bell, on the organ- 
ization of Company G, 85th New York State 
National Guards, was commissioned 1st Ser- 
geant and served therein until February, 1864, 
wlien he enlisted in Battery G, od New York 
Light Artillery, which was then in North 
Carolina and he joined the command at New- 
bern. March 28, 1864, he was made Quarter- 
master's Sergeant. He contracted yellow fever 
in September, 1864, and was sent North in 
February and after recovery rejoined the com- 
mand at Raleigh in April, 1865. In June he 
started from Raleigh for Newberu, going thence 



to New York on a transport and was mustered 
out at Syracuse, N. Y., July 7, 1865. 

He returned to his former employ and went 
thence to Syracuse, where he engaged as a roof 
tinner and otherwise, going West in 1866 and 
locating at Janesville, Wis., where he engaged 
as machinist until Sept. 18, 1867, the date 
of his removal to Rockton, whence he went to 
Racine in May, 1868, to enter the employ of J. 
I. Case & Co., with whom he has since operated. 
May 10, 1871, he was commissioned Captain of 
the Belle City Rifles, National Guards. Oct. 27, 
1869 he was made an Odd Fellow and is Past 
Grand No. 137 ; Past High Priest ; Past Patri- 
arch of Encampment ; he is also Past Councilor 
of the Patriarchal Circle and Lieutenant-Colonel 
of the First Regiment of the Circle; Past 
Archon of Beta Council No. 2, Royal League ; 
Past President of Sons of St. George; Past 
Commander of Post No. 17 ; he is also a mem- 
ber of Pittacus Conclave No. 1 ; of Heptasophs 
or Seven Wise Men ; he belongs to St. 
Andrews Brotherhood and is a member of 
Racine County Committee for the Relief of 
Indigent Soldiers and Sailors. He was elected 
March 20, 1890, as Delegate to the 24th 
National Encampment G. A. R. Nov. 30, 1877, 
he assumed charge of St. Luke's hospital, offici- 
ating as Superintendent, which position he still 
holds in 1890. 

He was married July 11, 1867, to Hannah 
Gilmore, a native of Fayetteville, New York. 
The family are prominent members of St. 
Luke's church at Racine, of which Mr. Bell is 
vestryman. 

The portrait of Mr. BqH appears on page 532. 



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SPENCER CARR, Racine, Wis., was 
born Sept. 4, 1838, in Clark Co., 
• Ohio, and is the son of Thurston 
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535 



pure American extraction and liis mother of 
Irisli descent. Their family included also 
seven children named Alonzo E., Patrick L, 
Jane, George, Maria, Byron L. and Robert E. 
Six are living ; Patrick was a soldier for the 
Union and died at Murfreesboro. The father 
was a farmer and carpenter and bi-ought up 
his son to those trades. He went to Illinois in : 
1832 and located a claim in DeKalb county, 
but his family could not join him on account 
of the Blackhawk war and they came West in 
1848, locating at Racine, where thej' remained 
until the next year, when they removed to the 
farm in DeKalb county. The father was born 
Nov. 5, 1808, and died March 1.5, 1878. The 
mother was born Nov. 17, 1812, and died in 
June, 1884. The son remained with his father 
until he was 21, when he went to Sycamore to 
work at his trade and went thence to St. 
Charles to enlist Sept. 7, 1861, in Company B, 
8th Illinois Cavalry, under Colonel J. F. Farnes- 
worth. He went from the rendezvous at St. ' 
(Charles to the front at Washington, leaving 
the State on the 25th and he spent the winter 
at Alexandria. The command joined the 
Army of Virginia in the Manassas campaign 
and went to Centerville. They were in all the 
movements in the Peninsula campaign in 
Sumner's reserve under Stoneman, who com- 
menced the movement after the rebels had 
abandoned Yorktown and fled to AVilliams- 
burg. After the victory there they went in 
pursuit of the receding rebels and followed on 
until witliin about live miles of Richmond. 
Mr. Carr fought at Meclianicsville ; on the next 
day fought at Gaines Mills; on the 29th he 
was in the action at Savage Station and fought 
on the oUth at White Oak Swamp and July 1st 
was in the actiun at Malvern Hill where the 
seven days' tight before Richmond came to an 
end. The Union army lost about 18 miles and 
retreated in good order to Harrison's Landing. 



There, in July, Farnesworth's regiment with 
several others, was consolidated into a cavalry 
corps which formed the rear guard of McClel- 
lan's army. The movement to Fortress Mon- 
roe followed and the return to Alexandria. 
September 1, 1862, Mr. Carr was in the fight at 
Chantilly where Kearney was killed and on his 
return to Alexandria he went to hospital, ill 
with typhoid fever. While there, Septem- 
ber 20th, he was made 2d LiQ.utenant of 
his company. He went home to recruit and 
joined his command at Falmouth, Va., in Feb- 
ruary and prepared for the operations which 
led to Chancellorsville. The regiment had 
been assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division 
and 1st Cavalry Corps, the organization re- 
maining always the same. Mr. Carr was in 
the fight at Chancellorsville and at Beverly 
Ford June 9th, where a severe cavalry fight 
took place and where his company lost about 
20 men. The brigade lost about 150 men and 

! 1,500 horses and the Captain of Company B 
was killed. The action commenced before day- 
light and continued until after dark. Gen. 
J. L. Beveridge of Illinois, was wounded early 
in the day ; Lieutenant-Colonel Clendenin was 
in command of the brigade and Mr. Carr acted 
as Adjutant. After that fight, Mr. Carr was 
absent on private business and received orders 

! to take command of a body of troops while his 
regiment moved after Lee, prior to the battle of 
Gettysburg. It is the regret of his life to 
have lost this battle. He joined his regiment 
at Boonesboro, Md., where he was in a fight. 
July 30th he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant 
to date from the 11th. In December he re- 
enlisted and returned home on veteran's fur- 
lough. (Two hundred of the command went 
with him and they were recruited to a comple- 
ment of 1,200.) After passing a short time at 
Caiup Stoneman he went on duty at Washing- 
ton and was detailed as post Quartermaster at 



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Bloody Run where he made headquarters until 
his final discharge, Dec. 5, 1864. 

He returned home, went to work at his 
trade in Sycamore and in September, 1865, 
moved to Iowa where he manufactured mill 
machinery and remained nine years ; went 
thence to Chicago and in August, 1888, to Ra- 
cine to take charge of the wood department in 
the estahlishment of the Pease Manufacturing 
Company. • 

May 8, 1860, he was married to Elvira, 
daugliter of John and Am}' (Southwick) Wel- 
ling, at Genoa, DeKalh C/O., Ills. They have 
four children named Ora Maud, Grace, Audrey 
and Fern. Grace is the wife of A. U. Zim- 
mermann. Mr. Carr belongs to the Order of 
Masons. His portrait appears in a group on 
page 532. 



the guarautt-e of the officers to send him home 
if he became discontented, that he should ac- 
company the command. His is probably one 
of the most isolated cases in tlie history of the 
war, in which a man followed the fortunes of a 
regiment throughout, without enlisting or being 
mustered. He went from the rendezvous at 
Camp Utley under the charge of Captain Cy- 
rus H. Johnson, to St. Louis and left Benton 
Barracks for Fort Leavenworth where the bat- 
tery received equipments and he accompanied 
the command on the long march to Denver, 
Colorado, taking the old Platte route. They 
operated sometime in that vicinity, protecting 
the LTnited States mails and endeavoring to 
keep the Indians within bounds. When Cap- 
tain Johnson was relieved Mr. Ball was at lib- 
erty to return home but he elected to reniain 
with the battery and, soon after was detailed 
to assist in the quartermaster's department and 
afterwards he took charge of a quartermaster's 
XJ^^^ IIARLES F. BALL, Racine Wis., was corral of horses. While discharging those 

duties he was asked to become a scout, to which 
he consented providing he could have a cer- 
tain horse to which he had become attached 
and he remained in that service two years. On 
one of his expeditions he went from Fort Lyon 
to Fort Larned, a distance of 280 miles on 
special service with disiKitches, and made the 
trip in three days with Indians all about him. 
For a time he had a companion named Joe, a 
half-breed, whom he retained until he was sat- 
isfied of his treachery. On one occasion, in his 
reckless love of adventure he rode into the 
heart of an Indian camp. The redskins 
mounted their ponies and only the fact that 
his horse was thoroughbred and swift as the 
wnid, saved him from destruction. Once, on 
on his way to Wynkoop, Joe stole out at mid- 
night from their camp, rolling himself along 
the ground Indian fashion and giving two war- 
whoops as a signal for the Indians in the vi- 



i\77^— V l)orn at Colchester, Vt., Aug. 29, 1844 
^^— ^ and is the son of Charles W. and Betsy 
(Bradshaw) Ball, who were the parents of 
Charles, George W. and Emma J., now Mrs. W. 
J. Goff. The father was a farmer and followed 
that business for a long period of years. In 
1846 he emigrated with his family to the West 
and located in Racine county, subsequently re- 
moving to Burlington, where he established 
himself as a freight and express agent in which 
he remained until he retired from active life. 
The {)arentsare still living in Burlington, Wis. 
Mr. Ball obtained his education in the pub- 
lic schools. When the first call for troops was 
made in 1861 he was determined to "follow the 
flag" and connected himself with the Utli Wis- 
consin Battery, Light Artillery. He was too 
young to be regularly enlisted but he was so 
full of jiatriotism that his mother consented, on 
the strength of his promise not to enlist and on 



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cinity. Mr. Ball rose, took bis gun and drew a 
bead on .Joe, wbo sbonted " No shoot ; me good 
Indian. " But tbe Indians were upon tbeni 
and Mr. Ball only escaped by swift riding as 
before. When he returned to Fort Lyon .Joe 
was discharged. Once a report came to the 
fort that tbe Indians were skirmishing near 
Sand Creek and Mr. Ball went to verify it, to 
find himself in tbe midst of a band of Chey- 
enne Indians. He started in an opposite di- 
rection to find himself surrounded hy another 
band, when he started bis horse at full speed, 
emjitied his gun at random among them and 
killed two. He rode into Fort Lyon with his 
pursuers only a mile behind him. He re- 
ceived an aiTow wound and bis borfse was hit 
several times. The injury to his foot gave him 
a deal of trouble and was finally healed by a 
remedy given him by an old Indian. Once he 
bad a fight with an Indian near Sand Creek, 
both iiaving bowie knives. Each held the 
knife hand of the other and matters were 
growing desperate, when a comrade struck tbe 
Indian on the bead with tlie butt of his rifle 
and both rolled down tiie enbankment. The 
Indian was dead and Mr. Ball uninjured, be- 
yond a few scratches. Once be was sent with 
dispatches to Haines' Ranch — 75 miles — start- 
ing in the night and on the next night be 
stopped, staked bis horse and was falling 
asleej), wlien his horse snorted " danger. " He 
jumped up, caught bis blanket and, mounting, 
rode into the timber for safety. Soon after he 
discovered a fire which be knew must be a 
burning ranch. He rode towards it as soon as 
it would do and just before reaching there he 
found the body of a white man — scalped. He 
proceeded, to find near the smoldering ruins 
the bodies of three murdered women — the 
wife and daughters of tbe man. Mr. Ball rode 
back to the fort and an expedition was fitted 
out which reached there the following morn- 



ing to find the bodies unmolested. On looking 
for tracks, Mr. Ball found those of a barefooted 
boy whom he followed and soon came upon a 
lad of 15 years who was flying from him in 
terror. He took him on bis horse and rode 
back. The boy stated that he and his tatiier 
were out after dark, to corral their cattle, when 
they were assaulted by Indians. He hid in 
the tall grass and saw his father murdered and 
scalped. Afterwards he stole to the house to 
find his mother and sisters dead and the ranch 
on fire. He started for the Haines Ranch and 
was overtaken by Mr. BaH. Afterwards Mr. 
Ball went to Wyandotte and thence to Fort 
Leavenworth, where a thief tried to cut his 
pockets. He knocked the fellow down and de- 
livered him to tbe officers. While at Leaven- 
worth he was sent with important dispatches 
to Lawrence and soon after went into the ranks 
under the general order to place every man 
capable of bearing arms in a position to aid in 
the general good. An assault was made on a 
barn in whicli a V)ody of Price's troops were 
entrenched and for a time it seemed as if they 
could not be dislodged, but artillery was 
brought into operation and the inmates were 
captured. A spent ball bit Mr. Ball in the leg 
which he afterwards cut out with hisjackknife. 
He went to Lawrence and thence to Leaven- 
worth and remained there three months, re- 
turning to Wisconsin in tbe fall of 1865. He 
went to Racine and entered tbe employ of Fish 
Bros., and afterwards that of J. I. Case. In the 
fall of 1877 he was elected Constable and later, 
was appointed Deputy Sheriff under George 
Brenner and \»as bis successor until 1888, when 
he was made Sherifi' of Racine county by elec- 
tion on the Republican ticket. Prior to this 
he was Marshal of Burlington and also was 
Superintendent of the western portion of Ra- 
cine county. Since his last election he has re- 
sided at Racine. 



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He was married Oct. 7, 1869, to Flora, 
daughter ofJames and Mary Campbell of Bur- 
lington. Their children are Mabel Howard, 
Artiuir, Herbert and Edward. Mr. Ball'.s por- 
trait is presented on page .532. 



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y^,,^TTO LEHFELDT, Milwaukee, Wis., 
member of Roljert Chivas Post No. 2, 
and a member of the Farragut Asso- 
ciation of Philadelphia, was born in Germany, 
Aug. 7, 1S30, and is the son of Ferdinand John 
and Mary (Westfeldt) Lehfeldt. He remained 
in his parental home until he was 17 years old 
when he determined to take his career into his 
own hands, knowing tiiat he was destined for 
the conscription, and ran away and became a 
sailor. He came to America, landing at Boston 
and for years was connected witii the coast 
trade. In 1849 he found his way to New 
York and made several cruises from that port, 
going in 1852 to San Francisco. After his 
arrival there he interested himself in mining 
for about a year. In 1853 he shipped as a 
sailor on a Chilian brig and made a cruise to 
Hayti and the Phillippine Islands. He went 
from there on a trading expedition to the 
iSouthern Archipelago, where he passed nearly 
a year in the immediate vicinity of the canni- 
bals. He went thence to Sydney, Australia, 
and was at Melbourne when the riot against 
the British Government occurred. He went 
next to New Zealand and again to Sydney, 
thence to the Dutch East Indies, and home to 
Boston. His calling took him, In the early 
j'ears of his life, into all the j«rinci])al waters 
and to all the chief ports of the different gov- 
ernments. The story of his experiences would 
make an interesting book. In 1858 lie suffered 
shipwreck on the coast of New Brunswick, Baj' 
of Fundy, and he endured the hardships of an 
eight-day storm. In the same year he sailed 



his first vessel as Captain, when he command- 
ed tlie Eglantine of Bath, Maine. He went to 
New York and ascertained that the Caledonia 
was about sailing for the scenes of activity 
where the United States fleet was engaged in 
the survey of the La Plata (Paraguay) to take 
action in the matter of the firing by Lopez on 
the Water Witch, one of the vessels thus 
engaged. Lopez satisfied tlie United States 
Government of his desire to make recompense. 
He served as quartermaster and having a 
promise of promotion he enrolled as Quarter- 
master of the San Jacinto, one of the historic 
vessels of the war. He went with her to the 
African coast where two slavers were captured 
named the Storm King and Bonito, having on 
board 1,690 blacks who were sent to Liberia. 
Tlie vessels were sent to the United States and 
made tlie harbor of Charleston, wliere the 
rebels took possession of them and they were 
afterwards in the rebel service. The fact of 
the war was unknown to her crews until they 
found themselves in difficulties. One of the 
prominent affairs on the San Jacinto which 
Mr. Lehfeldt witnes.sed, was the removal of the 
rebel ambassadors, Mason and SlidcU, from the 
Trent to the San .lacinto. He relates that they 
were taken into the port of New York, but it 
was deemed expedient to take them to Boston 
and they were sent to Fort Warren as prisoners 
of war. Mr. Lehfeldt was honorably dischar- 
ged Nov. 30, 18(11. The officers gave him a 
hearty recommend for fidelity to duty and 
capacity as a seaman, and the papers were 
signed by 1st Lieutenant Fairfax of the San 
Jacinto. " U. S. S. San Jacinto, Nov. 30, 18G1, 
Boston Yard. Otto Lehfeldt, who receives an 
honorable discharge from this ship, is a firsts 
rate man entitled to advancement; is fitted for 
a Master's Mate appointment ; is steady in his 
habit-s, intelligent, has been a Mate in the 
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to the Naval Servicu in the capacity of Petty 
Officer or Master's Mate. D. M. Fairfax, 1 st Lieut. 
IT. 8. S. San .Jacinto." In the following year lie 
again enlisted and was assigned to the steamer 
Octorara and served until Feb. 27, 18G5. He en- 
rolled as Quartermaster and took position as 
Gunner's Mate, and when discharged was 
serving as Captain of the forecastle. The Octo- 
rara first joined the "Flying Squadron" and 
during her service she captured, or assisted to 
do so, a number of vessels. They were Tubal 
Cain, .July 24, 1862; S. E. Reed, Nov. 5, 1862; 
a boat prize, Dec. 20, 1862; Rising Dawn, Jan. 
10, 1863 ; Sloop Brave, Jan. 15, 1863 ; Florence 
Nightingale, March .13, 1863 ; the Five Broth- 
ers and the sloop Rosa, March 16, 1863; John 
Williams, March 11), 1863; Schooner W. .J. 
Leach, April 21, 1863; Schooner Hardy, April 
22, 1863 ; the steamer Eagle, May 18, 1863 ; 
.June 24, 1863, 52 bales of cotton were picked 
up; the schooner Winona was captured Nov. 
29, 1863 ; the ram Tennessee and tlie steamers 
Gaines and Selma, August 5th of the same year. 
The Octorara was the flagship and the head- 
quarters of Admiral Porter ; and during the 
bombardment of Fort Powell the rebels made 
an effort to destroy her with a torpedo. The 
torpedo was placed at 10 feet below the surface 
under the starboard quarter of the boat, but 
there being but nine feet of water when the 
trying line was drawn in, the explosion took 
place in the mud and was harmless. Mr. 
Lelifeldt and the quartermaster were on deck 
when she approached and, wiiile trying to 
ascertain whether or not it was the patrol boat, 
Mr. Lelifeldt made ready a howitzer to be used 
in case of necessity. When he found her real 
character he cried out " torpedo boat." Tiie 
sleeping men awoke and with the quarter- 
master ran forward, leaving him alone. She 
came very near and he cut away the Ijoarding 
netting to get a look at her and reacliing out 



caught his hand in the chain guys of her 
smokestack. He called for help to secure her 
but was not heard and she withdrew, a prize 
being lost. During the actions at Forts Morgan 
and Gaines, Mr. Lehfeldt, in the capacity of 
gunner's mate was in charge of the powder 
magazine which was placed in the bow, the 
barrels containing the powder being ranged on 
shelves. He caused its removal to the keelson 
of the boat and, afterwards while lying on a 
vacant shelf, resting, he heard a crash and con- 
cussion. He found a shot had struck immedi- 
ately over the slielves on the port bow ^nd on 
examination found a large aperture had been 
made into which he thrust his head and called 
out to attract the attention of the seamen. 
They came at once, crying out " man over- 
board," when he called their attention to the 
break which was at once repaired. 

On receiving his final discharge, Mr. Lehfeldt 
went to Milwaukee where he engaged iu the 
lake service while able. On one occasion 
he took his vessel through the Illinois canal 
from Chicago to the Mississippi River to New 
Orleans. Since leaving the lakes he has been 
occupied in varied business. 

He was married in February, 1861, to Ade- 
laide Liebtreu and they have had seven 
children of whom four are deceased. Those 
surviving are named Emil, Henry and Martha. 
Mr. Lehfeldt is a member of the Turnverein 
and is a gentleman of the old school in manners. 
He received a good education in his native 
country and manifests the refinement and culti- 
vation of good family and breeding. Mrs. Leh- 
feldt offered her services to the Christian Com- 
mission during the war and served as nurse as 
long as her health permitted. She still retains 
her credentials for efficiency and usefulness 
which are signed by Alexander McGlasher. 

Mr. Lehfeldt's portrait appears on page 532. 



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W. RODECKER, M. D., Wonewoc, ' 
Wis., Department Commander of 
• the Union Veterans' Union, was 
born Aug. 23, 1845, at Peoria, 111., and is the 
son of Dr. G. W. and Catherine L. (Slough) 
Rodecker. The father belongs to the third 
generation in direct lineage from the founder 
of the family in this country, George Rodecker 
liaving emigrated to the New World prior to 
tiie Revolution, from Germany. He was a 
soldier in that war and his son, the grandfather 
of Dr. Rodecker, married a woman named La 
Brunt, a native of Alsace, France. In the 
maternal line of descent Dr. Rodecker is of 
mixed Scotch and German extraction, and his 
grandfather, Jacob Slough, was a soldier in the 
war of 1812; he married a German. Dr. Ro- 
decker's parents are deceased and five children 
survive them : Joseph H., a resident of Cali- 
fornia, was a soldier in the 107th Illinois In- 
fantry ; the doctor is second in order of birth ; 
Samuel J. served in the 143d Illinois Infantry 
and is now deceased ; Addis Emmet is a local 
editor in Shelbyville, Ind.; George W. resides 
in St. Louis, Mo.; Mary A. married Peter E. 
Rupert of Nokoniis, 111. Several children died 
in infancy. The senior Rodecker removed his 
family to Keithsburg, 111., in 1850, and, after 
practicing there aljont eight years returned to 
Peoria and in 1859 went to Nokomis, remain- 
ing until 1875, wlu'u he went to Springfield 
and died there in May, 1882, aged 63 years, his 
wife dying the following year, aged about GO 
years. 

Dr. Rodecker was educated under his father's 
supervision and received a careful training in 
schools of the best character, lie was inter- 
ested in medicine from his earliest boyhood 
and passed much time in his father's office, be- 
coming proficient in understanding many 
things pertaining to the |)rol'ession wiiile little 
more than a lad. He was scarcely 16 years 



old when the war came on and he left school 
to enlist, going to visit an uncle at Vandalia, 
111., and enrolling in Company D, 49th Illinois 
Infantry, in August, 1861. He was rejected on 
account of youth and slightness of physique 
and re-enlisted twice afterwards to be rejected. 
But he finally succeeded in being accepted in 
the same company and regiment and was mus- 
tered at Butler Barracks, Springfield. As soon 
as the command was organized under Colonel 
William R. Morrison, it went to Cairo and 
thence to Fort Holt, Ky., embarking about two 
weeks later for service on the Tennessee River 
at Forts Henry and Donelson, the boy being in 
both actions and receiving a scalp wound. 
After Donelson they stayed there about two 
weeks, sick from using polluted water, and 
afterwards marched to Metal Landing, whence 
they took passage for Savannah, Tenn., and 
two weeks after went to Pittsburg Landing, 
connecting with Ilurlburt's Division of the 16th 
Cori)s, and Dr. Rodecker was in the fight at 
Shiloh, an ounce ball passing through his leg. 
He was sent to hospital at St. Louis and thence 
home, rejoining his regiment in four months 
at Big Bethel Si)rings. lie accompanied the 
command to Germantown, did garrison duty 
five months and fought guerrillas, going to 
Memphis, where the regiment acted as provost 
guard until after the fall of N'icksburg. (While 
in garrison at Bethel Springs the regiment 
participated in the battle of Corinth.) On New 
Year's day, 1SG4, Dr. Rodecker veteranized for 
three years and went on the Meridian expeib- 
tion in February and immediately after joined 
Bank's Red River expedition under A. J. 
Smith and was in the cajiture of Fort De Russey, 
which was taken before the main column 
reached the field. He also fought at Cane Hill, 
Mount Pleasant Hill and Sabine-Cross Roads 
and at Mansfield. The command was in 52 
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tlie rivers and bayous and in the most perilous 
situations, covering the retreat of Banks after 
Sabine Cross Roads. (All the actions in chrono- 
logical order are to found in the his- 
tory in the beginning of this volume. 
Their names are legion.) Smith's com- 
mand went to Memphis, where the 49tli 
drew new clothing and took veteran's fur- 
lough home for 30 days. Dr. Rodecker re- 
joined liis regiment at Memphis and was in the 
campaign in the pursuit of Forrest, fighting at 
Tupelo and on the Tallahatchie and all actions 
in that campaign, returning again to Memphis 
and went thence to Jefferson Barracks, resting 
a couple of weeks before going into tlie chase 
after Pi'ice, when that rebel rascal made his last 
eifort to take possession of Missouri. After 
driving him into Kansas, the regiment returned 
to Camp Jackson and went thence to Nashville, 
then in a state of siege by Hood, and, after tak- 
ing part in the fight, chased him to the Cum- 
berland River, where he was deprived of his 
command and never again led rebels or any- 
body else. After this, the 49th went to Padu- 
cah, Ky., where the command was detailed at 
various points. Dr. Rodecker being placed on 
the staff of General Foster as Aid. The regi- 
ment consolidated again at Paducah, and, Aug. 
19, 1865, was mustered out, embarked for Cairo 
and went to Springfield for discharge from 
State service, Sept. 21, 1865. 

He went home to his father's at Nakomis, 
III., entering immediately on the .study of 
medicine in his office, and in the fall of 1868 he 
matriculated at the Medical College of Chicago, 
studying tliere also in the winter and spring of 
1808-9 and until May, 1872, taking winter and 
spring terms and practicing at home in tlie in- 
terims. At the latter date he took his degree 
and opened an office at 458 Soutli Clark street, 
Chicago. He was taken sick and returned 
home, after recovery going on a lecturing tour 



through Illinois and Indiana, delivering a 
course of eight lectures in most large cities of 
those States, in which he was occupied until 
February, 1873, when he located in Wayne 
Co., 111. After five years of practice he went to 
Springfield and formed a partnership with his 
father, and in the following year, on account 
of sunstroke, went to St. Joseph county, Mich., 
remaining there until 1887. He went next to 
Wonewoc, Wis., where he has practiced his pro- 
fession since. 

He was one of the first members of the G. A. 
R. at Nakomis, 111., belonging to Post No. 63, 
organized in September, 1867, and in 1882 
joined the renewed Order at Constantine, Mich., 
and after removal to Wisconsin severed his 
connection with the Order to join the Union 
Veterans' Union, a National organization, with 
headquarters at Cleveland, Ohio. General 
Dillon of Washington is the originator of the 
Order and the author of the Per Dwm Pension 
Bill, the official organ being the Union Veteran, 
published at Corunna,Mich. The object of the 
Order is to organize veterans who have been at 
least six months in the service at the front, 
this being the qualification of membership, 
another object being the proper legislation for 
soldiers. Among the leading spirits are Con- 
gressman Boothman of Ohio, Allen, Brown, 
Whiting of Michigan, General McNulta of 
Illinois, Alton of Washington, General Clifford 
and WoUaston Rogers of Washington and mul- 
titudes of others. Dr. Rodecker organized the 
Command at Wonewoc and Elroy, and he has 
been chief official of the Department of Wis- 
consin since the organization. The U. V. U. 
has iield four National Encampments, the last 
occurring at Detroit in August, 1889, when 
more than 1,500 delegates were present. In 
the place of the Sons of Veterans the Loyal 
Guards have been organized, and the Woman's 
Veteran Relief Union takes the place of tlie 



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VV. R. C. The several organizations are rapidly 
increasing and the doctor is their strongadherent 
and advocate. He is a prominent Republican. 
He also belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows. 

He was married Oct. 10, 1872, at Fairfield, 
HI., to Matilda A., daughter of Dr. Moses and 
Avarilla (Baker) Winnings, the latter a native 
of Kentucky and the former of I'euusylvania. 
Mrs. Rodecker is a native of Mount Vernon, 
Ind., born Dec. 29, 1852. Their only surviving 
child is named Royal Ciuirle.s, born Nov. 12, 
1875; three children died in infancy. 

A portrait of Dr. Rodecker appears on page 
532. 




!f»f§?|-^li3«J>^5* 



NTHONY P. R. DAHL, Chippewa 
^ Falls, AN'is., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 68, was born March 8, 1849, in 
Trondhjem, Norway, and his parents, Ole R. 
and Pauline (Leid) Dalil were natives of Nor- 
way and descendants of Norwegian ancestors 
from the earliest history of the family. The 
fatlier of the mother of Mr. Dalil, Frederick 
Christian Leid, vvasa Colonel in the Norwegian 
army. Mr. Dahl, senior, removed lii.s family 
to the United States in 1857, bringing them to 
the home in Chippewa Co., Wis., whither he 
had come three years previous. He had 
received the education of an officer in the 
National Military Academy of Norway and 
served eight years in the army in the Engineer 
Corps. Wiien he left his native land the king 
of Sweden presented him a set of drafting 
instruments and a revolver wliich King Sin- 
clair used at the time of his invasion of Nor- 
way. He died on his farm in the town of 
Lafayette, Dec. 30, 1882; his wife died in Octo- 
ber, 18G0, in Bloomer, Chippewa county. The* 
children were named Olaf, Antliony P. R., 
Frederick, Christian M. L., Hannah P., and 
Thomas E.; Anthony and Hannah are the 



only survivors. He was married a second time 
to Ellen Olson, who died in April, 1884. 

After the death of his mother the son resided 
with Dr. Day, and when the war came on his 
father engaged in the business of recruiting 
for the 15th Wisconsin Infantry and enrolled 
him in Company I, both entering that com- 
panj', the father losing the captaincy by one 
vote and going into the ranks. But his abili- 
ties were soon recognized, and he was placed 
in a staff position in the tojiographica] 
engineer's service. Army of the Cumberland, 
under General Carlin. Subsequently he was 
assigned to the staff of General Schofield and 
was taken prisoner while reconnoitering, by 
rebel scouts. During his captivity he was in 
32 prisons, including all those principally 
known for atrocities. When taken he had 
$400 in his possession which he secreted and 
which availed to save his own life and 
the lives of many others, as he pur- 
chased food and necessaries for them. In tlie 
spring of 1865 he was exchanged and returned 
to Wisconsin. The son went into rendex.vous 
at Madison with the " Scamlinavian " regiment 
and left the State March 2d for service in Ken- 
tucky, going to Cairo, Bird's Point, New Madrid 
and Island No. 10. Here Mr. Dahl was in his 
first action, taking his musket there and fight- 
ing as a soldier, although not mustered. (He 
was 13 years old). In the fall of 1862 he 
returned home and enlisted Feb. 28, 1864 
in Comjjany K, 36th Wisconsin Infantry, as he 
was then old enough to muster, although not 
quite 15 years of age. He enrolled at Chip- 
pewa Falls, went from Madison to the front 
and joined the regiment May lUth, in time to 
connect with the Army of the Potomac in the 
Wilderness, with the 1st Brigade, 2d Division 
and 2d Cori)S. The command was in tlie 
reserve at Spottsylvania and went to the North 
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where Colonel Haskell was killed. June 16th 
the command took possession of the first line 
of rebel works at Petersburg which had been 
taken by tlie Union troops and made a charge 
unsupported on the 18th, losing its Colonel 
and many officers, in vain, as they could only 
withdraw after protecting themselves as best 
they could until nightfall. June 22d the 
regiment fought at Jerusalem Plank Road and 
in July at Strawberry Plains. (On the 28th). 
Aug. 14th it was in action at Deep Bottom, 
(Colonel Warren losing his arm), and, Aug. 
25th, fought at Ream's Station, after which 
action, only 44 soldiers of the regiment 
responded to roll call. Twenty-one came into 
tlie ranks from the hospital next day making 
the number 65. Of the large number taken 
prisoners, less than half a dozen ever returned 
and most of them died in rebel prisons. While 
fighting at Ream's Station the gun was shot 
from the hand of Mr. Dahl and lie fell down 
beside a log, lying as dead while the rebels 
were drivhig his command. Thej' passed him 
with a kick, remarked that he was dead and 
passed on. Wiien he could he crawled back- 
wards to the railroad track and, as he was | 
crawling up the opposite side he was seen and j 
fired on, the balls passing through his clothing 
without liodily harm to him. He fell as if 
dead, watched his opportunity and made 
another start for the Union lines which he 
reached in the midst of a shower of bullets, 
but unharmed. The following morning he 
was placed in charge of Company K, held the 
position a few weeks, and maneuvred in front 
of Petersburg. At the first General Inspection 
he was recommended for 1st Lieutenant by 
Gen. John Egan but was thought too young 
and consequently lost what he had honorably 
won and what justly belonged to him. October 
28th he fought again at Hatcher's Run 
wliere tlie regiment took more rebels than 



it had men in its command and February 
5tli they were in another action at Hatcher's 
Run, after which they went to the trenches 
at Petersburg. (After the first Hatcher's 
Run, the regiment was permitted to withdraw 
from the lines to an old fort, where there was a 
spring brook and where they had a rest and 
enjoyment of two weeks' duration.) They 
moved in December to the Pamunkey River 
and returned to Petersburg, their fii'st action 
being February 5th, as stated. While advancing 
to the field, Mr. Dahl was selected and detailed 
to take charge of the skirmish line and after 
passing some time in quarters at Yellow Tav- 
ern was next in line of battle when Fort Stead- 
man was taken. They held the left until the 
rebels reached Fort Calkins, lying on their 
arms through the night and making a success- 
ful charge in the morning, April 1st. They 
followed the rebels to fight at Five Forks on 
the right of Sheridan and chased the flying foe 
to the collapse of the rebellion at Appomattox 
C. II., the 36th witnessing the closing scenes. 
When the conquering host marched through 
Richmond young ladies and boys disti'ibuted 
water to the soldiers. Thence to camp at 
Arlington Heights and to the Grand Review 
tells the story of subsequent movements and 
Mr. Dahl was mustered out July 12, 1865, at 
Jeffersonville, Ind. 

He returned to Chippewa Falls, having su.s- 
tained himself as a soldier although still a 
youtli, receiving a sliglit injur^^ while in the 
15tii Wisconsin and a saber wound in his knee 
at Hatcher's Run. He also contracted bowel 
disease which troubled him several years. He 
olitained work in a sawmill and in 1866 moved 
to Tomali, where he lived eight years, engaged 
in locating pine lands and in the business of a 
lumberman. In 1871 he attended the Com- 
mercial School at La Crosse (being tiien 22 
years old) and afterwards went to the Gales- 



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ville University, subsequently entering the 
First National Bank at La Crosse. A year 
later he returned to Chij)pewa Falls to take 
charge of the office of Register of Deeds which 
was held by his brother, who, on account of 
sickness, was unable to discharge its duties, but 
subsequently he surrendered the charge to W. 
W. Crandall and went to surveying, which he 
followed until 1880, when be entered upon a 
commercial enterprise in Monroe county. In 
February, 1884, his health failed and he did 
no business for a year. For five years he has 
been interested in surveying, in real estate and 
pension business, mainly in the latter, and has 
been eminently successful. He was married 
April 28,1880, to Johanna, daughter of .John 
Lee. She died Jan. 23, 1881. Mr. Dalil is a 
member of the Order of Masons and is inde- 
pendent in politics. The portrait of Mr. Dahl 
is presented on page 532. 



mii 




^ AMUEL H. MOODY, La Crosse, Wis., 
mcmljer of G. A. R. Po.st No. 38, was 
born in Logan Co., Ohio, Oct. 19, 1839, 
and is the son of Robert and Maria (Stothaff ) 
Moody. His father was born in America of 
Scotch parentage an<l married a lady of Amer- 
ican birth and of Holland descent; he was a 
carpenter ami millwright and died in Shelby 
Co., Ohio, and his wife died ;it the same place. 
Their family included 12 children and eight 
of them survive, born in tiie order named ; 
John, Sarah A., Peter M., Samuel, Jane, Chris- 
tine, Maria and Robert A. Mary, Clarissa, 
Helen and Etlie are dead. 

Mr. Moody passed his early years with his 
parents and after their deaths lived with his 
grandfather and went to school and assisted 
him in a sawmill. He obtained a situation as 
clerk, which he filled about 18 months and, in 



1860, came to Wisconsin, locating at La Crosse, 
where he began to learn tlie trade of black- 
smith and was in that business when he de- 
cided to enter the army. He enlisted Oct. 14, 

1861, at La Crosse, and was mustered at Fond 
du Lac in Company D, 14th Wisconsin Li fan- 
try, in 1862. March 8th he left the State for St. 
Louis and Savannah on tiie Tennessee to join 
Grant, and, April 6th, started for the field of 
Shiloh. About midnight he landed, with the 
regiment, and stood on the levee until morn- 
ing under arms. In the morning the regiment 
was assigned to Crittenden's division and took 
position to the left of Shiloh church to sup- 
port a battery. An artillery action commenced 
and the rebels were driven and drove the 
L'nion troops alternately until dark, when sup- 
port arrived, and the rebel battery, which 
had been repeatedly taken and retaken, 
became the property of the 14th Wisconsin. 
Mr. Moody was wounded at Shiloh, but did not 
leave his company. (One of the guns is at 
Madison as trophj' of war.) While retiring, the 
regiment checked a stampede by forming 
across a line that was becoming disorganized 
and compelling it to re-form in good order. 
After Shiloh the regiment remained on that 
field until ordered to Corinth after the evacua- 
tion, moving first to Hamburg, scouting picket- 
ing, performing provost and other duty until 
the movement to fight at luka. (Mr. Moody be- 
lieves that if Rosecrans had carried out the full 
orders of Grant to cover both roads forming 
communication for the rebels, Price's army 
would have been captured, but the Jacinto road 
only was closed, and the Fulton road, by which 
Price escaped, left open.) Mr. Moody was next 
in action Oct. 3-4, 1862, at Corinth, the regi- 
ment being in the 6th Division under General 
Mc.\rthur, Colonel Oliver of the 15lh Michigan 
commanding the brigade. The 24th Wiscon- 
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ing two days from Chewalla with ^'an Dorn 
ami fought their way back to the Halleck line 
— the old works. They were reinforced and 
the battle came on, the main column of the 
rebels attacking, followed by flanking, and at 
night, Colonel Oliver with his command was 
safe in the town. Tliey moved out in the 
morning and held the position on the left 
throughout the 4tli of October, joined 
in the pursuit and returned to Corinth. 
The next movement of the regiment was to 
connect with Grant in his plans on Yicksburg 
moving to Grand Junction and on to Holly 
Springs and Oxford. After the disaster at 
Holly Springs they returned through Holly 
Springs and Oxford lia Moscow, to Memphis, 
and thence to the siege of Vicksburg, where he 
was promoted April 2nd to Sergeant. In Feb- 
ruary Mr. Mood}- went to Lake Providence 
and worked on the canal until April when he 
went to Milliken's Bend to capture rebel sup- 
plies, capturing also 3,000 bales of cotton. In 
May they went to Grand Gulf to join the 17tli 
Corps and moved to Big Black River, helped 
build two bridges and took position in the 
siege of Vicksburg. Mr. Moody was in the 
attack of the 19tli day of May in the Gth Divi- 
sion and 2d Brigade and was wounded in the 
left leg and sent to the hospital at Milliken's 
Bend. He joined his regiment at Natchez 
about August 1st. He was home on sick fur- 
lough a month, connected with the regiment 
at Vicksburg and veteranized December 11th 
and received veteran's furlough. The greater 
part of the regiment had started on the Red 
River expedition, with the Colonel, before Mr. 
Moody reached the command and he was 
afterwards assigned " in Worden's Battalion. " 
In .lune the battalion joined Sherman at Ack- 
worth and Mr. Moody fought at Kenesaw (sev- 
eral actions). Bald Hill and others, and went 
to the siege of Atlanta under McPherson ; went 



thence to the rear of the main army and was 
in the attack at Ezra Church, July 28th. On 
the evening of that day Mr. Moody was ap- 
pointed 2d Lieutenant of Company H, 48th 
U. S. Colored Infantry, and ordered to report 
to Vicksburg (his commission was dated May 
26, 1864 and he was mustered under it August 
30th); he performed garrison duty until the 
Canby Campaign against Mobile, wdien they 
moved to New Orleans, camped at Algiers, 
went thence to Pensacola and thence in the col- 
umn of Steele to fight at Blakely under Gen- 
eral Hawkins. Mr. Moody was with the com- 
mand in the march up the Alabama river to 
Montgomery and returned on transports to 
Mobile, went thence by Lake Ponchartrain to 
New Orleans and afterwards moved to Alex- 
andria and Shreveport, La., performing guard 
duty until ordered to Baton Rouge for muster 
I out, Mr. Moody receiving his discharge Jan. 4, 
1866. 

After his return home he was a farmer about 
five years in Illinois and Wisconsin ; was a 
teamster four years in tiie employ of C. L. Col- 
man. In 1887, he went to California, returned 
in nine months and entered again the employ 
of Mr. Colman as a lumber grader and still 
holds the position. He was married Jan. 28, 
1 1866, to Clara M., daughter of L. J. and Cor- 
1 delia (Baxter) Newton. Edwin W. was born 
Dec. 31, 1868. The mother died April 15, 
1886. Mr. Moody is an Odd Fellow and a Re- 
publican ; his portrait appears on page 532. 

ZRA T. CLARKE, Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
was born in Bradford Co., Pa., 
April 6, 1844, and is of German lineage in the 
paternal line, his father, Joiin Clarke, being a 
descendant of that nationality ; the latter was 
born Oct. 14, 1797, and married Louisa Sliter; 




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was a carpenter and farmer, and died in Dunn 
Co., Wis., Sept. 5, 1885. The mother was born 
May 3, 1809, and tliey had seven children, 
recorded as follows: Sarah Ann, born Aug. 
30, 1827; Amanda, Oct. 6, 1829; Caroline J., 
Nov. 7, 1831 ; Israel S., Nov. 12, 1834 ; .John 
M., Feb. 27, 1838; Maria L., Oct. 25, 1841; 
Ezra is the youngest. 

The first important event of his life was his 
enlistment, before he was 18, Feb. 13, 1862, in 
Potter Co., Pa., and he was mustered at Harris- 
burg April 19, 1862, in Company E, 77th 
Pennsylvania Infantry, going into rendezvous 
at Camp Curtin and joined the regiment May 
30th near Corinth. Mr. Clarke was in the 
siege of that place and engaged chiefly in 
skirmishing and fatigue duty. He went next 
to Tuscumbia, skirmishing on the way, going 
from there to Florence to participate in a slight 
engagement. Thence to Athens following 
Bragg, and to Huntsville, Stevenson and Battle 
Creek outlines the movements of the regiment 
for some time. The command was in tlie 5th 
Brigade, 2d Division and 20lh Army Corps, 
and was ordered back across the mountains 
through Kentucky to Louisville. The regi- 
ment went to fight at Perrysville, but was 
only in line witliout participating. Reluming 
to Louisville, the regiment went to Nashville, 
was there reoi'ganized and assigned to the 5th 
Brigade, 2d Division and 4th Corps under 
McCook. (October, 1862.) At Murfreesboro 
the regiment was on the extreme right wing 
where the first attack was made, the rebels 
being massed in overwhelming force and the 
Union troops driven back. (Lieutenant Colonel 
Housan was killed.) The regiment received 
special commendation for conspicuous bravery 
in this action and after the battle went into 
camp until .Jan. 24, 1863, when the command 
went to Chattanooga and encountered the 
rebels at Liberty Gap in a slight engagement, 



: and the next day defeated the rebels, moving 
on to Manchester, Tenn., and thence to TuUa- 
homa to camp. Rome, Ga., was their next 
point of destination, tint they were cut off and 
turned back, following the ridge down to the 
battle field of Chickamauga, where Mr. Clarke 
fought September 19th and 20th, the regiment 
being in position in the center of tlie line. The 
action ended Sunday night and tlie regiment 
was so badly cut up that there were not enough 
left to draw rations. About the close of the 
fight Mr. Clarke took a big rebel prisoner, 
taking his gun and telling him to fall in line 
in the rear. He remarked that there was a 
whole brigade of his forces in tlie rear. His 
Maj(jr coming up then, told him that they were 
Union troops. When Clarke found out to the 
contrary he made quick time to the rear, lest 
the man he had taken prisoner should lind out 
how he had been fooled. The regiment was 
in camp at Chattanooga some time and went 
to Whiteside, Tenn., to guard a railroad bridge, 
remaining until spring, a part of the regiment 
veteranizing. While the vets were absent on 
furlough the remainder were placed in the 84th 
Illinois Infantry, and before their return Mr. 
Clarke was ill with intermittent fever, was 
sent to hospital at Chattanooga and two weeks 
later to Nasliville. In a month he started fpr 
his regiment, but was sent by the Examining 
Board of Surgeons to convalescent hospital. 
Soon after he was again ill with chronic bowel 
complaint and went to Nashville, thence to 
Chattanooga and was placed on detached ser- 
vice in charge of a drove of cattle. While 
driving the same towards Atlanta, he met his 
regiment and went into the ranks near Marietta 
and marched to Chattanooga, went to Hunts- 
ville and Pulaski, Tenn. From camp there he 
went to Columbus and was in a slight skirmish, 
moving afterwards to Franklin to fight Nov. 
30, 1864. Mr. Clarke received a shot in his 



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ankle (I'iglit) uiul, after lying on the field all 
night, was taken prisoner. In a negro hut 
in the vicinity two rebel surgeons, named 
White and Hannott, cut ofl" his foot and a 
[lart of the lower leg, against his remon- 
strances as only one small bone was fractured. 
The act was in keeping with rebel char- 
acter and was performed in a manner to 
mutilate and disable him from further service 
and in a way that should preclude his wearing 
a cork leg without another amputation. It is 
a matter of regret that the scamps cannot be 
traced and jiroperly advertised. They after- 
wards boasted of their noble deed toward a 
helpless foe. Humanity would be noble in a 
rebel but the quality was seldom found in war 
annals. After 18 days the battle of Nashville 
changed the features of his case and the field 
and prisoners were abandoned. Mr. Clarke, on 
regaining the Union lines, was sent to hospital 
at Nashville and remained until Feb. 6, 1865, 
receiving a furlough and going to hospital at 
Pittsburg where he had a brother. He was dis- 
charged April 19, 1865, after intense suffering 
from his wounds which had not received proper 
treatment in the beginning. His illnesses were 
severe and once his life was despaired of. 

As soon as able after the war he went West, 
locating near Eau Claire and going thence to 
Dunn county, to take up a homestead claim, 
which he improved. About 1878 he went to 
Chippewa Falls and learned the business of 
cabinet maker in which he has since been 
engaged. He was married June 24, 1868 at 
Grant, Dunn county, Wis., to Kittie E., daughter 
of James and Sarah Ann (Lee) Warren, the 
step-daughter of J. H. Duncan. Their son, 
James Alfred, was born Nov. 9, 1869. Mr. 
Clarke is a Republican in politics and receives 
a pension. His portrait appears on page 532. 




M. HESS, Police Justice of New 
Lisbon, Wis., insurance agent, 
• member of G. A. E. Post No. 61, 
was born June 18, 1832, in Rensselaerville, 
Albany Co., New York. Mr. Hess traces his 
ancestry to some of the most prominent per- 
sonages of the war of the Revolution, a relative 
in the paternal line being John Williams, who 
was one of the three captors of John Andre 
and who married into the Hess family. His 
grandfather, Peter Hess, was a Colonel and 
commanded a regiment in 1812 and the family 
is in possession of many relics of both wars 
that have been referred to. David and Han- 
nah (Chapman) Hess, parents of Mr. Hess of 
this sketch, were both born in the State of 
New York. The former died about 1836 when 
his son was 4 years old. The mother is still 
living at the age of 87. When the son was 20 
years old he made a trip to Illinois, returning 
to his former home where he engaged in saw- 
mill business and went to Wisconsin in 1854. 
He located in New Lisbon which has since been 
his home. He is one of four children; his 
brother Albert resides at Binghamton, New 
York, and is Freight Agent of the Lackawanna 
& Great Western railroad. Catherine is Mrs. 

D. Davidson of Allegany county. New York ; 
David, the youngest, lives at Newark Valley, 
Tioga Co., New York. D. W. Schoolcraft, a 
half brother, resides near Parkersburg, Iowa. 
Mr. Hess is thii'd in order of birth. On com- 
ing to Wisconsin he engaged in real estate and 
in other business relations until he entered the 
army. Sept. 1, 1864, he enrolled in Company 

E, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery, and was 
mustered at Madison. The regiment was sent 
as mustered by companies to respective sta- 
tions, Company E going to Fort Lyon on the 
heights of Alexandria and in the redoubts. 
This position was in defense of the Capital and 
the work of the battery, besides standing in 



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readiness for that service, included drill in 
heavy and light artillery practice and in in- 
fantry tactics as well, as they were quite as 
liable to be called on to tight as such as in 
artillery, as heavy siege guns are practical only 
in forts. Besides these several drills the artil- 
lerymen were laborers in every sense, having 
their foils to build and keep in repair and to 
perform all the work necessary to a local com- 
mand. During the period of his service, from 
September, 1864, to June, 1865, Mr. Hess was 
in all the defenses which the several raiders 
caused in the vicinity of the city and aided in 
in tlie repulse of Mosby and his guerrillas. 
When changes were made to different forts, 
practice changed and the whole service of Mr. 
Hess was one round with siege guns, mortars 
and small arms in tlic varieties of drill. Artil- 
lerymen, who are stationed as defenders of a 
a position with heavy guns are the hardest 
worked men in the service so far as labor is 
concerned, as their drill includes that of three 
branches of the profession of a soldier. June 
26, 1865, orders were received to report to Mil- 
waukee for muster out, which took place July 
13, 1865. After his release Mr. Hess had a 
narrow escape from a hand grenade. 

He returned to New Lisbon and for a year 
was occupied in the restaurant business and he 
operated as a commission merchant in fiuit un- 
til 1868. In that year he established a fruit 
and grocery business which he conducted until 
1875 and was obliged to change his occupation 
on account of impaired health. He began to 
act in the capacity of an insurance agent and 
in 1869 was made Justice of the Police Court 
of New Lisbon, in which lie has since con- 
ducted his duties. He is also a farmer and is 
considerably interested in raising cranberries. 
He also acts as pension claim agent in which 
he has met with success. He was married Jan. 
10, 1860, at Mauston, Juneau Co., Wisconsin, 



to Janave, daughter of James Ferlando, a 
native of Plymouth, England. She died Dec. 
16, 1887, leaving two daughters named Flor- 
ence and Mary, the former born Nov. 2, 1860 
and the latter April 12, 1868. 

Mr. Hess is a charter member of iiis Post and 
has been a-ctively engaged in its interests since its 
organization. In December, 1889, he was made 
Commander during his absence, having jwsi- 
tively declined to accept the position on pre- 
vious occasions. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order, Lodge No. 103, and has served 
as its secretary for successive years. In 1859 
he was Coroner of the county and has served 
several terms as Deputy Sheriff and in other 
local municipal offices. He is a substantial 
business citizen of his town and county and is 
respected as such. 

The portrait of Mr. Hess appears on page 

532. 

^4^^^^^. 

'^^'OHN DESMOND, La Crosse, Wis., mem- 
ber of a. A. R. Post No. 38, Wilson 
Colwell, was born Nov. 7, 1844, in 
Geneva, New York. His parents, Timothy and 
Julia (Haley) Desmond, were natives of Ireland ; 
the father emigrated to the United Stiites in 
1840, and returned for his bride to Ireland in 
1842. They located in America, settling at 
Waterloo, Seneca county, New York, and open- 
ing a grocery, removing thence in 1867 to 
Dubuque, Iowa, to engage in farming, where 
the senior Desmond died in January, 1871 ; 
his widow is still his survivor and resides on 
the homestead. Their children were named 
John, Mar\', Abbie, Margaret, Julia, Lawrence, 
Ellen, Honora and Timothy. Mr. Desmond 
was reared as a farmer's son, obtaining a fair 
degree of schooling at the common schools and 
enlisted in the second year of the war. He 
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was mustered into service at Auburn in Com- 
pany M, 16th New York Heavy Artillery. 
December 26tb, he went into camp at Elmira 
and went two weeks later, to the front at York- 
town, in a state of siege by the Union troojis. 
The battery arrived there in January, 18G4, 
when it went into winter quarters and remained 
until spring. It was then stationed at Fort Ma- 
gruder at Williamsburg and drilled and acquired 
practice in light and lieavy artillery tactics and 
also as infantry, as an artillery command is 
never certain what exigencies will overtake it. 
The battery remained there about a year, per- 
forming meanwliile detached duty, and moved 
in the spring of 1865 to the campaign which 
ended in the fall of Richmond, the battery not 
arriving on the scene of action until Lee had 
surrendered but was in readiness to be placed 
in position on siege duty if need should be. 
(At Yorktown, a part of the duty of the ai'til- i 
lerymen was to patrol the river on special 
police duty in skiffs). After going to Rich mond 
they returned to City Point and witnessed the 
surrender of the rebel arms at that place. 
After three weeks the command went to the 
Roanoke River on detached duty and remained 
there a month, going thence to Washington 
and to Hart's Island. Mr. Desmond was 
mustered out Aug. 21, 1865 and went home to 
Waterloo, New York. He afterwards went to 
Pennsylvania and obtained employ in the 
oil regions about four months. His next 
remove was to Auburn, New York, where he 
served an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, 
remaining there about two years and comple- 
ting his indentures. He went to Dubuque, 
whither his parents had removed and operated 
there as a blacksmith nine years for A. A. 
Cooper in a wagon factory. In October, 1886, 
he went to La Crosse and opened his present 
business. 

He was married May 12, 1870, at Auburn, 



N. Y., to Catherine, daughter of Daniel and 
Mary Murphy, natives of Ireland. To Mr. and 
Mrs. Desmond three children, named Timothy, 
Frances and Mary have been born. Mr. Des- 
mond is a member of the Republican party. 
His portrait appears on page 532. 






'^OM LINDLEY, Editor and Publisher 
of the Juneau County Sun, resident 
at Mauston, Wis., formerly a soldier 
from the Badger State in the civil war, was 
born August 17, 1837, in the town of Munson, 
Geauga county, Ohio. " Tom " is an individual 
with traits and characteristics which make him 
a conspicuous figure in his generation, from 
his generous temperament and genial disposi- 
tion which endow him with some of the 
best qualities for popularity among his con- 
temporaries. From one side of his lineage he 
inherits the happy-go-lucky traits which keep 
his good spirits and hopefulness always to the 
fore, and from his Scotch forefathers have de- 
scended to him the perseverance and go-aheada- 
tiveness which have earned for him the respect 
and esteem of all who know him. His parents, 
Thomas Lusk and Melinda (Sowls) Lindley, 
were of New England origin and, respectively 
of Scotch and Irish stock. 

About 1842 young Lindley went with the 
family to northern Illinois and, a little later to 
Green county, Wisconsin. He obtained all the 
education possible under the circumstances of 
several changes of location and in a pioneer 
period, but always possessed a wholesome idea 
of doing something in his own behalf to get on 
in the world. He was 11 years old when he 
commenced the preliminaries to his vocation of 
printer, and first made acquaintance with the 
" case " with Grattan & McFadden, of Freeport, 
111. When 13 he was apprenticed to Israel 



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Sanderson for five years and remained in 
Monroe, attending school three months in each 
year. A change of proprietors threw him out 
before the expiration of his indentures, and he 
went to Janesville, where he graduated as a 
journeyman printer. Meanwhile, he had 
become imbued with the spirit of the times, 
which aroused in him the consciousness of 
possessing inherent principles to which, as a 
man and prospective American citizen, he owed 
a faithful allegiance and in 1856 he went to 
Middleport, Illinois, where he engaged in the 
publication of the Iroquois Republkan, and did 
good service in the interests of the Republican 
party, during the Fremont campaign, although 
but 19 years old. He established on a perma- 
nent basis the paper on which he made liis 
debut in the editorial profession wliile still a 
boy and which is still in substantial existence. | 
He sold his interest therein and returned to 
Wisconsin. Witli the exception of his army 
experience he has since been continually 
connected with the press of the Badger State. 

Li the earliest period of the war he entered 
the ranks of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry as a 
musician and served from June, 1861, to Feb- j 
ruary, 1862, accompanying the Iron Brigade , 
through all its movements meanwhile until 
discharged for disability. As a memento of 
the war it should be recorded, imperishably, 
that the musical organization of which he was 
a member was acknowledged to be the wont 
band in the world, and had a National reputation 
as such, of which fact its members were justly 
proud. After recovery, Mr. Lindley re-enlisted 
in Com])any D, 11th Wisconsin Inftintry, and 
served in the ranks until the end of the war. 
He was with his command in its lively move- 
ments in Tennessee and Mississi])pi and also 
in Louisiana ; raided, scouted, destroyed rebel 
connnnnications; performed military duty of 
every character except actual fighting in set I 



battle and, probably succeeded in making one 
individual believe tliat he was a specially 
obnoxious object to the confederacy as he meant 
to be, and sincerely trusts that he fulfilled his 
mission in the war. He went to the assault on 
the defenses of Mobile, marched to Blakely, 
where he was in the skirmish line under heavy 
fire from the rebel works, took part in the 
charge April ,9th, and went with the regiment 
to plant the colors of the 11th Wisconsin on the 
parapet, the first Union colors above the works. 
Mr. Lindley was mustered out Sept. 5, 1865, 
at Mobile, and returned to Wisconsin, arriving 
on the 18th of the same mouth at Madison. 

He was married August 22, 1858, to Mary L. 
Chapin, a native of Bradford county, Pa., who 
is three years her husband's junior. Six 
children have been added to their household, of 
whom two — George C. and Sadie M., are dead. 
Those living in 1890 are Josephine A., Jennie I., 
Florence C and Bert E. Mr. Lindley was, 
formerly, an active worker in the G. A. R., but 
failing health compelled him to fallout several 
years ago, and, although affiliating therewith 
in spirit, he has never resumed actual connec- 
tion with the Order. 



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OHN C. BATY, La Crosse, Wis., was 
born Jan. 20, 1842, in Jefferson Co., New 
York, and he is the .son of John and 
Arvilla (Churchill) Baty. His father was born 
in Ireland in County Monaghan and emigrated 
to Canada, where he was married in Darling- 
ton, Province of Ontario. He was a farmer by 
vocation and removed soon after marriage to 
New York State, where he passed his remain- 
ing years in that occupation. He died in 1888 
and the demise of his wife occurred in 1884. 
The son was reared on the farm until 14 when 
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Ontario, serving as such two years. He again 
engaged in that calling on Lake Erie, being 
employed on the transportation line of the 
Chicago & Ogdensburg Grain Company. In 
1864 he entered the Government employ at St. 
Louis, Mo., as a teamster and after a month's 
trial he decided that he did not understand 
the language needed by a mule driver and 
concluded to try a field where the dialect, if 
not so exacting, was within his scope and he 
enlisted Dec. 11, 1864, as a sailor in the Union 
service, and was assigned to the Avenger, a 
river Ijoat, operating between ^'icksburg and 
Natcliez in keeping the river clear, and Mr. 
Baty saw some lively service in the expeditions 
to Bruinsburg, where the rebels had acquired 
a habit of assaulting the boats at every possible 
opportuni,ty. In July, 1865, he was transferred 
to the Argosy, a transport employed in trans- 
ferring ordnance from Mound City to the 
arsenal at Carondelet. Later he was again ' 
transferred to the receiving ship Great Western 
at Mound City, wiiere he served until he was 
discharged, Aug. 16, 1865. 

He went afterwards to Chicago and, later to ' 
Berlin, Wis. He engaged for some time in 
fanning and went to Waupaca county where 
he was occupied on the Wolf River three years. 
Later he went to New London, Wis., and en- 
gaged in sawmill work until 1872 when he 
went to Merrilian, Jackson Co., and operated 
as a repairer of saws until 1879. In that year 
he settled at La Crosse, and during the first 
year of his residence there worked for Holway 
& Co. He passed a year on the river and next 
entered his present employ with McDonald 
Bros., and is in charge of the saw fitting de- 
partment. 

He was married in Berlin, Wis., to Margaret, 
daughter of Patrick and Mary Crimmings, and 
their children were named William, Emma, 
Gu}', Frank, Joim, George and Leo; all are 



living but John. Mr. Baty is a Democrat in 
political belief and connection and Ijelongs to 
theOrder of A. 0. U. W. 



IiSAAC R. BRYAN, Sparta, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 30, was born in Calla- 
way county. Mo., March 9, 1840, and his 
father, James T. Bryan, had been long a 
resident of that State, operating as engineer in 
a woolen mill. He married Sarah E. Hackney 
and died in 1845. The mother was born Nov. 
13, 1813; both parents were of American birth 
and descended from old ancestral stock of many 
years standing. The mother is still living in 
Sparta. The family left Missouri soon after 
the father's deatli and after passing four years 
in Ohio, went to Petosi, Grant county, and four 
years later removed to Wabasha county, 
Minn., where the son attained to man's estate 
and entered the army in the first year of his 
legal freedom. He enli.sted Dec. 24, 1861 at 
Fort Snelling in Company H, 5th Minnesota 
Infantry, remaining at the fort until spring, 
when the regiment was sent to Hamburg 
Landing on the Tennessee, thence to Farming- 
ton and in May their introduction to rebel 
malice occurred. May 8th Mr. Bryan was in 
the action near Corinth and also fought on the 
9th. Thence the command belonging to the 
2d Division, General Stanley, and 2d Brigade, 
General Plummer, Pope's " Army of the Missis- 
sippi," marched under Colonel Murph)^ on the 
Tuscumbia road, August 18th. In the latter 
part of September, he w'as in the movement to 
Corinth and fougiit on the 3d and 4th of 
October at Corinth, where the company lost 
heavily. Slierman was endeavoring to com- 
plete his plans for the reduction of Vicksburg 
an<l tiie brigade moved to reinforce him, but 
the business was interrupted by the loss of the 



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stores at Holly Springs and the regiment went 
to LaGrange, following Forrest about Ten- 
nessee for a time and going to Jackson, remain- 
ing thereabout through the winter of 1862-3. 
In tiie spring they moved to Memphis and 
Vicksburg on transports having passed a week 
at tlie mouth of tlie Yazoo on a small island 
and landing at Milliken's Bend. They ope- 
rated ill that vicinity for some time, build- 
ing bridges, making canals and in other service. 
About the first of May a movement was made 
against Vicksburg on the Louisiana side, and 
the command crossed to Grand Gulf and went 
tlieiice to the fight at Jackson, skirmishing and 
active all along the route. The regiment was 
continually on the skirmish line for two days 
and on the 14th the reljcls were driven out of 
Jackson. The next move was towards Vicks- 
burg in pursuit of Pemberton, driving him into 
the city and they were in the .siege there until 
the 2"2d of May and took part in the grand 
assault on that date. Their next move was to. 
Satartia on the Yazoo River and they returned to 
Haines Bluff. The command then went across 
tlie river to the Louisiana side to Riclimond to 
drive Taylor back and they had a sharp fight. 
They returned to Louisiana and went into 
camp about three miles above Vicksburg to 
guard tlie lines there and remained until the 
fall of Vicksburg, July 4th, when they wont 
over to celebrate the victory and the National 
holiday. They ]>assed some time in camp on 
the Blackwater and operated until spring in 
camp and other military duty until they were 
ordei'ed to the Red River expedition and em- 
barked on transports at Vicksburg and joined 
Banks near the mouth of the Reil River, re- 
maining with his command until tiie defeat at 
Pleasant Hill, not participating in that fight. 
Afterwards, thej' were occupied in miscella- 
neous military duty until they went to Mempliis. 
Mr. Bryan had re-enlisted and in August took 



his veteran furlough, rejoining the command 
at Memphis. He engaged in the pursuit of 
Forre.st, returned to Mempliis, went next to the 
White River to Duvall's Bluff, marched towards 
Little Rock and north towards Missouri, and 
reached Cape Girardeau after a march of 350 
miles. He was next in the chase after Price to 
Jefferson City and to Independence, but the 
rebel chief escaped into Kansas and they re- 
turned to Jefferson without him, Init with satis- 
faction ill the capture of Marmaduke. The 
next remove was to St. Louis and in the last of 
November, 1864, they went to Nashville and 
occupied the bluffs above the city, taking part 
in the action of December 15th and 16th. Mr. 
Bryan was wounded in the left arm near the 
shoulder by a minie ball. He was acting 
during the charge as color bearer and he re- 
mained in hospital until June, 1865, when he 
joined his regiment on the Tombigbee River 
at Mcintosh's Bluff and remained on duty in 
Alabama until September, when he returned 
to Fort Snelling and was mustered out on 
the 26lh. 

He attended Hamlin Universitj-at Red Wing 
two years, when he went to Sparta and has 
there been engaged in miscellaneous varieties 
of liusiness witli the exception of three years, 
when he conducted a drug .store at Arcadia. In 
1886 he was elected Circuit Clerk on the peo- 
ple's ticket, and in 1S8S was re-elected on the 
Republican ticket, to wliicli party he belongs. 
He is a member of the Odd Fellows Order, 
Lodge 94. 

He was married Aug. 26, 1868, to Emma, 
daughter of Chri.stian Johnson, at Sparta. 
Their children were named Isaac R., Mary 
Ella, Lilly M., Howard T., Tliad T. and Henry 
M. Isaac and Henry are not living. 



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/^^ OLONEL W. W. ROBINSON, Chip- 
v^iV/ P^^^''*^ Falls, Wis , member of G. A. R. 

^^^^=^ Post No. 68, was born in Fairhaven, 
\'ermoiit, Dec. 14, 1S19. .lolin Robinson, who 
accompanied the Pilgrims to Holland and 
thence to America, was his earliest ancestor in 
this country and in the maternal line he is of 
French Huguenot descent. His father and 
mother, John W. and Rebecca (Merritt) Robin- 
son, were natives of Connecticut and had two 
sons, tiie only brother of Colonel Robinson 
being Andrew N. The father was a lieutenant 
in the war of 1812 and fought at Sacketts' 
Harbor, Plattsburg and Stone Mill, being 
severely wounded in the last. He removed to 
Wisconsin in 1860 and died in Rock county 
while the civil war was in progress, his wife's 
demise occurring a few weeks later. 

The son was carefully educated at Rutland 
and Castleton Academies in Vermont and he I 
was sent afterwards to Norwich Military 
Academy in that State on the banks of 
the Connecticut River, where he was a 
classmate of other officers who reached dis- 
tinction in the volunteer service and in the 
Mexican war. Colonel Robinson taught school 
in his native State and at Jeffersonville 
Academy, N. -J., and in 1840 he went to Cleve- 
lan<l, Ohio, and taught two years. He pros- 
pected in the West and vi.sited Wisconsin but 
returned to Cleveland and afterwards enlisted 
in the Mexican war, and was made Lieutenant 
in Company G, 3d Ohio Infantry under Colonel 
Curtiss of Pea Ridge fame in the civil war. He 
was promoted to Cajjtain for distinguished ser- 
vices in Mexico and after continuing through 
the war, principallj' occupied in cavalry skir- 
mishing near the San Juan River, he returned 
to Ohio. In 1852 he went to California across 
the plains, operating there in contracting and 
gold digging and in establishing the interests 
of the Minnesota Water Co., among the placer : 



miners. He went to Minnesota and engaged 
extensively in farming and took prominent 
part in the development of the locality where 
he settled, founding Wilton, the (then) county 
seat of Waseca county. In 1858 he came to 
Wisconsin, locating at Sparta. During his 
residence in Minnesota he was made Colonel of 
the State Militia and performed much .service 
in perfecting the organizations in drill. When 
the rush to fill the quotas required of Wiscon- 
sin was made the Governor appointed him 
Lieutenant Colonel of the 7th Wisconsin and 
he went to the front in September, 1861, join- 
ing the Wisconsin Brigade of Rufus King. 
(See sketch.) He performed duty with his 
command, made the fruitless march in the 
spring of 1862 under McClellan towards Man- 
assas, went to the first campaign of the Rappa- 
hannock, and engaged in small affairs at 
Thornburg near Fredericksburg. He was in 
the movement to Frederick's Hall Station and 
went to Cedar Mountain in time to retreat with 
Pope and to skirmish at Beverly Ford. He 
participated in the move to Warrenton after 
the skirmish at Sulphur Springs, and fought 
in the first terrific action in which Wisconsin 
troops were engaged at Gainesville, August 
28th. F'our regiments, the "Iron Brigade," 
held the ground against 33 regiments of 
rebels. The Lieutenant Colonel had been made 
Colonel of the 7th Wisconsin in the fall of 1861 
and in this action his horse was shot under 
him and he received a bullet in his leg. He 
was sent to Washington and home, rejoining 
his command a few days previous to the fight 
at Fredericksburg in December, 1862. During 
the action his regiment was on the extreme 
left and after it was over the command fell 
back to Belle Plain and went into winter quar- 
ters. In January, Colonel Robinson helped 
pull Burnside out of the mud, and in the 
.spring went to encounter the disasters whose 



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story is told on countless pages of this work. 
In the 1st Corps under Wadsworth, Colonel 
Robinson fought at Fitziiugh's Crossing, April 
29th, the transit being hotly contested by the 
rebels, and he received orders to cross with his 
regiment on pontoons which was done. They 
were ordered back and the scrimmage across 
the river continued until the battle of Chan- 
cellorsville and the brigade reached the field as 
support, Sunday morning, May 3d. The regi- 
ment took its former position afterwards 
below Fredericksburg and remained until 
General Wadsworth ordered General Reynolds 
to detail Colonel Robinson with a command of 
troops, (which was composed of his own regi- 
ment, two companies of the 2d Wisconsin and 
the 50th PeniLsylvania Infantry) to report to 
General Russell. Accordingly, he crossed the 
Rappaiiannock with his command at Kelley's 
Ford, found General Russell at Brandy Station 
and supported a cavalry force in a recon- 
noissance towards Culpeper C. H., June 9th. 
They were needed, for the rebel cavalry made 
an attack and the troops fell back after " lick- 
ing" a greatly superior force. Hooker, with 
the main army, was in the pursuit after Lee, 
and the 7th Wisconsin marched 160 miles to 
the vicinity of (Gettysburg, Lee taking a cir- 
cular route thither. The rebels readied York 
in advance and created consternation, l>ut 
Gettysburg wiped out their offenses in that 
locality. 

The Iron Brigade distinguished itself on the 
first day of that fight in a manner that needs 
no feeble elaboration on these pages, but Gen- 
eral Meredith, commanding, was wounded and 
the brigade continued its masterly work com- 
manded by Colonel Robinson of the 7th Wis- 
consin. He conducted its career during the 
remainder of the figlit and was at the head of 
the brigade through his connection with the 
command, except for a short period while home 



on a furlough, and until the second day's bat- 
tle of the Wilderness, when he was again placed 
in command. June 30th, the brigade biv- 
ouacked between Emmettsville and Gettys- 
burg anil when the firing commenced on the 
morning of July 1st, was ordered to move by 
quick marches to the field, movnig 25 minutes 
and halting 5 minutes until near Getty.sburg, 
when they turned ofl'from the main road and 
advanced at a double-quick to meet the enemy's 
infantry, who were advancing to attack our 
cavalry, engaged at the time with the rebel 
cavalry. Tliey were the first Union infantry 
on the field, " double-quicked into the wheat- 
field," and received a storm of shot from the 
"Devil's Den," when they charged and drove 
the rebels out, taking a large number of prison- 
ers. An order was received by Colonel Robin- 
son to fall back toward the town, which move- 
ment was executed by alternating battalions, 
with firing, until he reached Seminary Ridge, 
when a stand was made and where Lieuten- 
ant Colonel Callis (see sketch) was severely 
wounded. Just before sundown orders were 
received by Colonel Robinson to fall back to 
Cemetery Hill and the brigade fell back, pass- 
ing through the town. (The brigade had lost 
fully one-half its members in killed, wounded 
and missing.) July 2d, Colonel Robinson, with 
his command, occupied a position in the front 
line of the right of the center of the main 
army and held it during the two day's fight- 
ing, occasionally moving to support a weak 
point. Lee retreated during the night of the 
3d and the brigade remained on the field on 
the 4th. On the morning of the 5th the com- 
mand started on the retrograde march in the 
same route it had come, keeping on east of the 
Blue Ridge, the enemy being on the west until 
the pass at South Mountain leading to Ilagers- 
town was reached. At the latter place the rebel 
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neat, but none occurred as Lee got out of the 
way. Colonel Robinson moved with his brigade 
to Warrenton aud thence to the Rappahannock, 
and remained at various camps at or near 
Ra{)jialuinnock Station until the movement at 
Mine Run, and the 7th was in the action at 
Buckland Mills. November 26th Colonel Rob- 
inson was in the tight with his command at 
Mine Run. At Kelley's Ford veteranizing took 
place and Colonel Robinson went to Wisconsin 
with his regiment on furlough, returning to 
Culpeper C. H. In the spring the brigade 
went to the Wilderness campaign, the 1st and 
5th Corps uniting as the 5th under Warren. 
The command crossed the Rapidan, bivouack- 
ing at the " quartz mills'' and, on hearing the 
firing the next morning, advanced to the rebel 
breastworks with the enemy on the left and 
right, the Union troops falling back with great 
loss. They rested on their arms through the 
night without light or food. On the morning 
of the Gth the firing commenced again, the 
rebels being driven back to their batteries on a 
line, crossing the Plank Road, the right falling 
back and leaving the 7th alone in front. Col- 
onel Robinson issued orders to his men to lie 
down, which they did, but they afterwards fell 
back. He met General Wadsworth and they 
had some conversation, which was tlie last in- 
terview of the gallant commander with any 
human being before he was shot. That night 
Colonel Robinson resumed command of the 
brigade. On the 8th the battle of Laurel Hill 
was fought. On the 12th the brigade was 
again in action at Spottsylvania. The fight- 
ing had been incessant for many days and 
everybody was worn out, and on a inarch to 
another position on the Bowling Green Road it 
was thought tiiey might obtain rest, but soon 
after an order came for Colonel Robinson to 
take a position with the brigade at a point in 
advance of the army to hold a bridge. Thence 



the command went to the North Anna River, 
where they had a vigorous fight. They then 
moved to the crossing of the Pamunkey, threw 
up breastworks on the hills and kept in almost 
constant motion to some point ; going to Cold 
Harbor and the Chickahominy, having moved 
June 1st to Bethesda Church. The 7th went 
to the James River and to Petersburg, erecting 
breastworks and preparing for participation in 
the work in the trenches there. For more 
than 30 days Colonel Robinson had not been 
able to remove his sword or his clothing and, 
harrassed by slight wounds and worn out, there 
being a full line of officers, he resigned. 

He went to Sparta, Wis., and engaged in 
farming until 1873, when he removed to Chip- 
pewa Falls, where his son-in-law resided. In 
1875 he was appointed U. S. Consul to Mada- 
gascar and continued in that incumbency 12 
years. He discharged his duties with dis- 
tinguished honor and made himself a favorite 
at Court and with the people. When the 
Madagascan ambassadors were about to visit 
the United States and Europe in 1882, the 
Queen made a special request of the President 
that Colonel Robinson be allowed to accompany 
them which he did and everywhere received 
the most distinguished attention. He returned 
to America in December, 1886, and, not liking 
the idea of a life of inactivity, he embarked in 
the coal trade, associated with his son under 
the style of H. F. Robinson & Co., buying the 
ownership of the partner of liis son. 

Colonel Robinson was married in 1843 at 
Cleveland, Ohio, to Sarah Jane, daughter of 
Daniel and Sarah Jane (Bowen) Fisk. Their 
first-born child — Edward L. — died when eight 
years old ; Leonora married General Hollon 
Richardson, of whom a sketch appears on other 
pages. Two children, named Herbert Fisk and 
Inez were born to Colonel Robinson and the 
youngest daughter died in 1864. The second 



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in order of birth, William W., was sent to West 
Point whence he was graduated and he is now 
(1890) a Lieutenant in the 7th U. S. Cavalry at 
Fort Reilly. During the course of the dis- 
tinguished service of Colonel Robinson the 
alternative of a commission as Brigadier was 
offered him or a scholarship for his son at West 
Point and he unhesitatingly chose his son's 
advantage, tlie appointment being made in 
1863. His thorough military education has 
always kept Colonel Robinson's interest in mili- 
tary organizations alive and he has always 
been active in the drill of local organizations. 
The companies whose instruction he has super- 
intended have proved the value of his teachings 
by taking prizes on many occasions. He is 
a tlioroughbred in soldiers' life and carries 
himself in accordance with the principles 
instilled by his training and experiences. 
Andrew N. Robinson, his brother, was (Quarter- 
master of the 7th AV'isconsin ; was injured dur- 
ing the first year of the war and was discharged 
for disability ; he lives in Tennessee. 

Colonel Robin.son is passing his sunset of 
life, surrounded by his children and grand- 
children. He is at the verge of man's allot- 
ment of years and can look back over his 
career, devoted to his country, witli the content 
he deserves as a true son of the Re})ublic, a 
patriot in descent and fact and a citizen whom 
all deligiit to honor. The highest terms of 
praise could not be heard in the echo of his 
splendid service for the flag whose stars he 
helped to burnish anew amidst the clouds of 
fratricidal war. i 



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OHN F. MOORHOUSE, Racine, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post John L. Stew- 
art, No. 134, at Oneida, New York, was 
born May 31, 1845 at Coldbrook, Herkimer Cb., 
New York. His father, Charles A. Moorhouse, 



was born Nov. 1, 1805, of German parentage 
and died Feb. 2, 1861, in the State of New 
York. The mother, Elizabeth Gray before 
marriage, was born June 20, 1812, in New 
York of American parentage and died July 30, 
1875 in Ohio. Their children were born in 
the order named as follows: — Catherine, Ro- 
mania, Eugenia S., John F. and Ahirtha J. 
The father was a blacksmith and followed that 
business luitil five years before his death when 
he bought a farm. John was the only son and 
remained with his parents until he succeeded 
in entering the armj'. He had all a boy's en- 
thusiasm and tried at various times to enlist 
but was too young and when he did enroll he 
stretched one year until it counted two, to ac- 
comj)lish his purpose. Finally, he recorded as 
a defender of the Hag Jan. 27, 1864 in Company 
D, 10th New Y^ork Cavalry at Morrisville, N. 
Y. He was mustered and joined the command 
at Warrentown, Va., where the regiment was 
in quarters preparing for the spring camj)aign, 
wliieli opened in May, and Mr. Moorhouse was 
in the 2d Division under Gregg and attached 
to Sheridan's cavalry corps. He was first in 
action May 5th and four successive days fought 
in the Wilderness. May 8th he was in the 
fight at Todd's Tavern and pressed on to Rich- 
mond when Sheridan moved his forces May 
9th to co-operate with the plans of Grant, who 
had taken position at Spottsylvania. He was 
in the movements in which the work of de- 
struction was pushed, on the ^'irginia Central 
railroad, including tlie rolling stock, 1,500,000 
rations and other property. On the route tliey 
released 400 Union prisoners on their way to 
Libby. He was in the actions at Beaver Dam 
Station, South Anna, Ashland and Yellow 
Tavern. Prior to this he was in a close action 
at White Grove Church near Port Royal, which 
was nearly a hand-to-hand encounter, lie was 
iu the lights on the North Anna River and on 




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the 27th of May fought in the passage of the 
Pamunkey River. May 30th he was in the 
fight at Hanover C. H., and went, not long 
after to Washington, where he was seized with 
typhoid fever and after a long time in hospital 
ohtained a furlough of 60 days, rejoining his 
regiment at City Point and went into winter 
quarters. Preparations were made for tiie ac- 
tivities of the spring campaign, wliicli were 
opened by the reconnoissance at Hatcher's Run, 
in which the Union troops suffered heavily. 
Colonel Gregg being among the wounded. Mr. 
Moorhouse was in the subsequent movements 
prior to April 1st, when he was in the fight at 
Five Forks, after which the command was in 
position on the left of Petersburg until its sur- 
render, the cavalry remaining there until after 
the surrender of Lee. He returned to City 
Point and went next to Alexandria and to 
Cloyd's Mills, where the regiment was consoli- 
dated with the 24th New York Cavalry, the new 
organization being called the 1st Division of 
Cavalry. The authorities wished to send them 
West, but they demurred and the regiments 
went to Syracuse where Mr. Moorhouse was 
mustered out July 19, 1865. He returned to 
Cold brook, and learned the blacksmith trade 
which he followed in his native county and 
thereabouts until his removal to Racine, where 
he arrived in Januarj', 1889. He has since 
worked for the Racine Wagon and Carriage 
Compan}'. 

He was married Jan. 28, 1868 to Elizabeth, 
daughter of Justus and Ann (Simpson) Kelley 
at Rome, New York. Her parents were of New 
York birth, where her father died June oO, 
1870. Her mother is still living in Coldbrook, 
N. Y. 



f^^^ DWARD SINCLAIR, proprietor of the 
Pine Tree House at Chippewa Falls, 





Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
68, was born June 18, 1837, in Ogdensburg, 
New York. His father, George Sinclair, was 
born in New York of Scotch descent and mar- 
ried Mary Cardence, who was of French 
extraction. Both are deceased. Mr. Sinclair 
and a sister named Mary lived to maturity. 
When he was nine years old he went to the 
lakes in the capacity of a " royal's" boy on the 
sailing vessel Quebec on which he remained a 
season. The following year he passed on Lakes 
Huron, Michigan and Erie and spent three 
winters in steamboating on the Mississippi 
River, employed as a diver on one of tiie toll 
boats, and one winter he passed in Mobile in 
the cotton yai'ds. Afterwards he sailed " before 
the mast" until he had been a sailor nine 
years, and meanwhile had made a trip to 
Glasgow and Greenoch, Scotland. For three 
years prior to leaving the lakes he operated as 
a diver, and worked once on the steamer 
Atlantic, wrecked off Cleveland opposite Long 
Point, sunk by the Ogdensburg. She was in 
175 feet of water. He operated as a diver 
thi'ough the following summer on the Northern 
Indiana which was sunk at the mouth of 
Detroit River. Subsequently he acted as diver 
on the propellor Keystone State on Lake Erie 
and recovered 484 barrels of pork. In 1851 he 
enlisted as a marine for a year on the man-of- 
war Michigan and, after being on board of her 
six months, while she lay at Buffalo, he jumped 
overboard, swam ashore and shipped on a sail- 
ing vessel on the lakes, running from Buftalo 
in the grain and lumber trade. He tben ship- 
ped as a second mate on the barque Utica. 

In 1857, he left the lakes and went to Jack- 
sonville, 111., and thence to Beardstown to learn 
tiie business of wagon-making. He worked 
six months and quit, going to Concord Station 



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to open a shop for liimself, hiring liis black- 
smith, and was carrying on a good business 
when the war came on. He locked up his 
shop, tools and wagons, and went to Jackson- 
ville and enlisted April 10, LSGl, being one of 
the first to enroll. He went thence to Spring- 
field and to Cairo, where he was mustered into 
('ompany B, lOtli Illinois Infantry, April ■29th, 
under Capt. Jolni King and Colonel G. D. 
Morgan, for three months' service. During the 
time he was on guard and picket duty, march- 
ed to Wilde's Mills through the woods in the 
night on the double quick after rebel cavalry 
and arrived to find at break of day that the 
rebels had been doing the same as they had — 
running. On the return Mr. Sinclair caught 
cold, which settled on his liver, and he went to 
hospital and was discharged July 29, 1861. 

He returned to Jacksonville and passed six 
months under treatment for his health, but 
growing no better he went to Chatham, 
Canada, and was sick in bed a year under 
constant treatment. "When he got better he 
went to Bay City, Micliigan, and remained 
nine years, working as he could at blacksmith- 
ing and in the salt works. He went from 
there to Nebraska, looking for a location but 
not finding one tliat seemed satisfactory he 
went to Chippewa Co., Wisconsin and located a 
homestead on sections nine and ten, including 
IGO acres which he improved and lived on 16 
years, also managing a blacksmith shop at the 
same time and a sawmill. While there his 
oldest son, George, was instantly killed by 
liglitning and himself met with a serious 
accident, a log falling on his leg and crushing 
tlie lower part. Subsequently he exclianged 
his farm for hotel property in the city and 
engaged in its management in which he has 
since been occupied. 

He was married Sept. 21, 1S61, at Beards- 
town, 111., to Melissa, daughter of William and 



Eliza (Gilbert) Chester. Their surviving son, 
William, is with his father in business. In 
politics Mr. Sinclair is a Republican. His 
portrait is presented on page 558. 



^^^ EORGE LUDWIG PFAFF, Portage, 
[^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
14, was born Jan 25, 1841, in Saxony, 
Germany. His father, Adam Pfaff, was born, 
reared and educated in his native country after 
the laws of the land and served five years in 
the German army. He married Elizabeth 
Schleiger and they had seven children. The 
son George was educated according to law, 
learned a trade and, after serving an apprentice- 
ship, worked as a journeyman until the time 
approached when he would be con.scripted into 
the German army. 

Sunday morning at nine o'clock, May 13, 
1860, lie started for the New World, determined 
to find a home in a land where the inherent 
rights of a man were entitled to respect. He 
sailed on the ship Anna Attelius and was on 
the sea 52 days, three of which were passed in a 
storm among the icebergs, and the passengers 
as well as crew assisted in saving the vessel 
from wreck. Mr. Pfaff landed at New York 
and used his last dollar to pay his fare to Chi- 
cago, going thence on foot to Burlington, Ra- 
cine Co., Wisconsin. He obtained a place to 
work on a farm four months and went at the 
expiration of that time to Burr Oak, La Crosse 
county, and hired to work on a farm ten 
months for §10 a month. The community was 
in a state of ferment from the assault on Fort 
Sumter and in some manner the raw German 
boy determined that his services were needed 
and, although but live months of his time were 
served, in company with a companion, he went 
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and enrolled in Company F, 9th Wisconsin In- 
fantry, and theirs were the two first names en- 
tered from the town of Farmington. (The 
company was organized at La Crosse with tlie 
explicit understanding that it should be made 
a part of a regiment that should be assigned to 
the command of Sigel.) The command went 
to Camp Sigel, Milwaukee, and drilled and re- 
cruited there until Jan. 22, 18G2, when a start 
for Fort Leavenworth was made. At Quincy, 
Illinois, they crossed the river on the ice and 
went thence by rail to Weston, Mo., en route to 
Leavenworth, Kansas, and after arrival there, 
pitched tents and sent a team across the river 
for some beer. But the ice was treacherous 
and the load, with team, went under, the driver 
saving his life with difficulty. The regiment 
made a long march to Fort Scott, expecting to 
join an expedition under General Lane, but it 
did not materialize, and in May the command 
marched to Baxter's Springs in the Indian Ter- 
ritory, where frequent expeditions against the 
rebels with their Indian proselytes were made, 
and Indians were also assigned to the Union 
force, which marched to Fort Gibson, skirmish- 
ing and exterminating rebel camps on the way. 
The regiment had seen very hard service and 
their difficulties were increased by the chnnge 
in commanders until Colonel Salomon again 
assumed the reins of government and conducted 
the command back to more desirable quarters. 
When the command went to Quawpaw Reserve 
it was on quarter rations and many days they 
were without water. The horses of the cavalry 
were lost on account of drouth and want of 
food, foraging being impossible in that country 
and no base of supplies accessible. At Quaw- 
paw Mr. Pfaff broke his arm, but remained with 
his regiment. It was still exposed todepredatory 
attacks from Indians and performed excellent 
service among the rascally redskins, who had 
become rebels for whisky considerations chiefly. 



i The regiment returned to Fort Scott and after- 
wards did enough marching in Missouri after 
imaginary foes for a whole campaign. When 
the Army of the Frontier was organized the 
regiment went to Sarcoxie, Mo., and on the 
oOth four companies went to Newtonia and 
made a charge which nearly annihilated their 
whole number, many being killed and the rest, 
including the wounded, being captured. Gen- 
eral Salomon, who had been made brigade 
commander, was on the alert, and as soon as he 
could secure reinforcements he recovered the 
wounded men, who had been taken by the 
rebels, General Herron arriving from Spring- 
field, Mo. The force operated in Arkansas en- 
deavoring to rout the rebels until arrival at 
Rheas' Mills, and thence tlie command went to 
Cane Hill. An action took place at Prairie 
Grove in which the main force was en- 
gaged, but the 9th arrived too late to parti- 
cipate in the battle and returned to Rheas' 
Mills, its forced march of 45 miles in 32 hours 
availing nothing. A little later the regiment 
went on a raid to Van Buren, marching nearly 
60 miles in two days, fording Cove Creek 39 
times and entering Van Buren in the evening. 
They returned after four days to Rheas' Mills, 
arriving .Jan. 2, 1863, and for many days after, 
the command moved constantly to intercept 

! Marmaduke in his retreat from Springfield. 

i The experience was a hard one as the incessant 
rain left the roads in a terrible state and the 
streams were almost impassable. Jan. 29th 

i they camped at Crow Creek, south of Spring- 
field, and Feb. 21st, went into winter quarters 
at Stahl's Creek. March 17th they broke camp 
of foraging expeditions through Missouri and 
with head(iuarters at Forsythe, raids were made 
for many miles in extent. Foraging proving 
hardly successful, the artillcr\' and trains were 
sent to Springfield, the regiment marching 
thither by way of Hartsville, Salem and Rolla 



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and moved thence July 8th to St. Louis. The 
next renioviil was to Helena, Ark., and thence 
to Little Rock, the men heing constantly 
annoyed on the way by guerrillas. The winter 
was passed in military duty pertaining to the 
demands of tlie region, working on fortifica- 
tions, guarding trains, etc., and in .January 
veteranizing took place, Mr. Pfaff re-enlisting 
for tliri'c years. In the 1st Brigade, 3d Divis- 
ion and 7th Army Corps under Steele, the regi- 
ment went on the Red River expedition and 
Mr. Pfafl' was in almost constant skirmishing j 
during the month of April. In the repulse of I 
the rebels on the 11th, Company F performed 
distinguished service and also on the 15th, on 
which date Marmaduke was repulsed. The 
bat^is of supplies being threatened, the regiment 
fill back to Little Rock and on the waj' was 
fought the battle of Jenkins' Ferry, where the 
9th made a record second to none in the service. 
At Little Rock the command was con.solidated 
into a battalion of four companies, the regiment ; 
as an organization being mustered out. 

After veteran furlough Mr. PfafF went with 
his battalion, Jan. 22, 1865 to Mount Elba and 
returned to Little Rock where he performed 
jirovost duty, chief!}', through bis period of 
service. During this time two citizens and one 
Government employe were executed for murder. 
The regimental clerk was hung during the stay 
of the regiment at Little Rock before the close 
of the war, having been in communication 
with the rebels, who offered him §2,0U0 for 
inforiualion concerning fortifications and other ' 
details; he promised to m;u'ry a girl on receipt 
of the money and she reported him at head- 
quarters. The battalion remained in Arkansas 
until Jan. 30, 1866, when it was mustered out 
and returned to Wisconsin. During his service 
Mr. Pfaff had sore eyes and was in the blind 
ward of the hospital at Little Rock two months ; 
lie has never fully recovered. 



Since reaching home after the war he has 
been in the employ of the St. Paul railroad 
corporation in several capacities and in 1890 is 
foreman of the freight depot at Portage. While 
operating as switchman he had several acci- 
dents. He was married Dec. 25, 1866, to Mary 
Weidner and their children are named Ella, 
Frank, Louis, Emma, Eva, Martha, Albert and 
Mary. 

Mr. PfatTs portrait appears on page 558. 



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father, William Cooley, was of English birth 
and married Ann Lucas in his native country, 
where he was in the military service. The son 
was born in Birmingham, England, and when 
he was eight years old the family came to 
America, locating at Janesville, Wis., where the 
father was occupied for many years as a marble 
cutter. The family included the following 
named cliildren all of whom are living but 
Arthur and Lewis: — Samuel, Herl)ert, Lewis, 
Arthur ()., William, Ernest and Andrew — all 
sons. Mr. Cooley obtained his education in 
his native and adopted countr}-, attending 
school at Janesville and studying until old 
enough, when he learned the trade of making 
sash and blimls. He worked successively at 
.Janesville and Beloit and tried for a job at 
Chicago, but went to Wheaton and there 
stopped until he enlisted and was mustered 
into U. S. service Sept. 18, 1861, in the 8th 
Illinois Cavalry in Company E. From camp 
at St. Charles he went to Washington to Camp 
Illinois, thence to Camp California across the 
border and remained there and at Alexandria 
until the spring of 1802. Mr. Cooley was first 
in a skirmish in April of that year on the Rap- 



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pahatuiock River. Mtiy 4tli he was in action 
at Yorktown, following Magnider and fighting 
him next day at Williamsburg. Mr. Cooley 
was in the successive engagements May 31st 
and June 26111 at Mechanicsville, was also in 
the actions at Gaines' Mills and Malvern Hill, 
August 5th, the colonel (Gamble) being 
wounded in the charge. In September Mr. 
Cooley was in a skirmish at Falls Church, 
fought at Poolesville (7th), Barnestowii, South 
Mountain (14th) and Boonesboro (15th), where 
Captain Kelley of Company E was mortally 
wounded. In the same month, after a tigiit 
with Stuart's cavalry, Mr. Cooley was promoted 
to Corporal and also a man named Edward 
Wayne, the former being at the request of the 
wounded Captain Kelley. The next action was 
at Antietam, where the regiment was at the 
right of the main pike Sept. 17th under Gen- 
eral Sumner and at Shepherdstown, Va.,led the 
advance in the skirmish September 20th. The 
command was in the actions at Martinsville, 
Upperville and Fredericksburg with the 1st 
Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps of Stone- 
man, fighting under Pleasanton. The winter 
was passed at Aquia Creek and in the spring 
the regiment went down on the Northern Neck, 
Va., after negroes and horses and took enough 
of the latter to remount the entire command, 
also brought back 800 blacks without much 
figliting. June 9, 1863, at Beverly Ford, Mr. 
Cooley was in a hard fight and marched all 
night in sleet, intelligence being received that 
Stuart was preparing for a raid into Pennsyl- 
vania and Maryland and the rebel picket line 
was captured at the Ford, the 8th Illinois, 8th 
New York and 3d Indiana crossing the Ford, 
forming on the bank and charging the enemy's 
camp while they were asleep. They were re- 
pulsed, but Colonel Davis remained on the 
field and called for the 8th Illinois (his own 
regiment having broken and run) who were 



supported by the Indiana regiment and the 
rebels were driven back two miles. The 
ground was held until night, when an infantry 
force arrived and they fell back across the 
ford, Colonel Davis being killed and a large 
number of the 8th killed and wounded. Mr. 
Cooley was in the actions at Ashland and Dis- 
patch Station, after which the regiment joined 
the main arm^' and went to Gettysburg. Com- 
pany E, attached to Buford's cavalry force of 
6.000 led the reconnoissance on the Emmetts- 
burg Road and were the first to make the at- 
tack in the most memorable light of the war, 
Lieutenant Jones firing the first shot at the 
picket post. General Reynolds being killed be- 
fore noon in this part of the fight. The regi- 
ment fought again at Williamsport and Falling 
Water, at Chester Gap, July 23d, Culpeper Aug. 
5th, and again at that place, Sept. 13th ; on 
the Rapidan on the 14tli and in October at 
Morton's Ford on the 10th, Brandy Station 
on the 12th and Culpeper on the 13th and 
Brandy Run on the 15th. At Culpeper 
he re-enlisted and went into winter quarters, 
receiving promotion Dec. 1, 1863, to Ser- 
geant and taking veteran furlough, going 
home to Dubuque, Iowa. He was called back 
to the front before his 30 days expired, going 
into camp, "Scott's 800 Barracks " near Wash- 
ington, where he performed provost duty until 
the spring of 1864. About this time the 8th 
was detached from the main army and held by 
General Auger for his service, with head- 
quarters at Fairfax Court House, and so re- 
mained until they were mustered out. Tiiey 
were in the fight at Mouocacy and were driven 
back in the first charge, but in the second, with 
400 against 24, they cut their way through the 
rebel forces, taking several prisoners, and mak- 
ing their escape. Two days after he, with his 
comrade, William H. Chad wick, and another 
man, were sent out, with Mr. Cooley in chj^rge, 



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on scout duty and were made prisoners. They 
made their escape soon after and joined their 
regiment at Muddy Branch. While at that 
place they were engaged in picket duty, also 
in raids after Mosby, following him nights and 
camping days, making frequent captures of his 
men. They were engaged principally in this 
kind of warfare until the assassination of Lin- 
coln, when they were sent in search of Booth. 
They found nothing but his boot at the house 
of Dr. Mudd, and soon returned to Fairfax 
Court House. In June the regiment was 
ordered to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, for mus- 
ter out, and tlience to Chicago to be discharged, 
July 17, 1865. 

After the war, Mr. Cooley passed seven and a 
half years at Dubuque engaged in a planing 
mill. From there he went to Clinton, Iowa, to 
work in a sawmill, whence he went to La 
Crosse and engaged with Sawyer & Austin as 
a sawyer, in which capacity he has since re- 
mained. 

Mr. Cooley was married at La Crosse April 
14, 1882, to Agnes, only daughter of .John and 
Sophia Shultz. Her parents are living at South 
La Crosse. By a former marriage Mr. Cooley 
had two children : Herbert H., born May 22, 
18ns, and Minnie, born June 12, 1S70. 

Mr. Cooley is a Republican of strong connec- 
tions and is a worthy citizen. His portrait is 
on page 558. 

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IJ^IIOMAS LITTLE, Portage, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 241, Rank 
and File, Milwaukee, Wis., was born 
Sept. 29, 1835, in the village of Prosperous, 
County Kildare, Ireland, and he resided with 
his parents in his native country until he was 
21 years old. His father and mother, John and 
Sarah (Chamney) Little, were born in Ireland, 



and his grandfather, James Little, was a soldier 
in tlie artillery service of Great Britain and in 
his later life he came to Canada. An uncle of 
Mr. Little of this sketch, Wm. Chamney, was a 
soldier in the Crimean war in 1854. 

Thomas Little landed at the port of New 
York on the day of Budianan's election in 
1856, and soon after began railroading in Wis- 
consin in which he was occupied until his 
enlistment in the service of his adopted coun- 
try. Aug. 9, 1862, lie enrolled in Company F, 
24tli Wisconsin Infantry and went into rendez- 
vous at Camp Sigel. He went to the front with 
the regiment two weeks later in the capacity of 
Corporal to which he was appointed on the 
organization, August 20th. The Western 
troops were centering in Southern Ohio, as 
Kirby Smith was threatening Northern Ken- 
tucky across the river and an invasion of Ohio 
was dreaded. The 24th Wisconsin went to 
Cincinnati and Covington, and was assigned to 
Greusel's Brigade by Lew Wallace in Gordon 
Granger's Corps. After going to Louisville 
and to camp at Salt River Pike, the regiment 
was assigned to the 37th Brigade, 11th Division 
and 3d Army Corps, Army of the Ohio. Mr. 
Little was in the Perryville campaign and 
fought there after Bragg had been driven to 
cover, October 8th. He was in the pursuit to 
Crab Orchard, returned to Bowling Green and 
went thence to Nashville, November 22H. He 
participated in the movements preparatory to 
the action at Stone River and left Mill Creek 
for the scene of approaching activities, Decem- 
ber 26th. No braver regiment fought in the 
several days' battle than the 24th Wisconsin 
which recorded that command as one of the 
best on the field. One of General Sill's orders 
was " to put on your ba3'onets and give them 
naked steel." They were his last words as he 
fell dead from his horse, his words being heard 
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full. Ill the reorganization in January, 1863, 
the 24tli was placed in the 1st Brigade, 3d 
Division and "iOtli Army Corps under Lytle, 
Sheridan and McCook, three of the bravest 
officers in tlie service. Mr. Little was in the 
campaign preparatory to the operations on tlie 
Chattahoochie River, known as the Tullahoiiia 
campaign. July 1st the inovement to Chicka- 
mauga Creek commenced, and Mr. Little ' 
participated in one of the most remarkable 
campaigns of the war, although the experiences 
of the Union soldiers, tiie atrocities of the 
rebels and the uncomplaining endurance of 
the troops have never received a tithe of 
recognition or S3'mpathy. He was taken sick 
during the fall, and went to hospital at Steven- 
son, Ala., and tlience to Cowan, Tenn., wlien 
the wounded from the battle of Chickamauga 
required the hospital nearer the field. Mr. 
Little joined his regiment at Loudon, Tenn., 
and his command was assigned to the 4th 
Corps, Army of the Cumberland for the Atlanta 
campaign under Sherman. Mr. Little fought 
at Rocky Face Ridge May 9tli, 18G4, and at 
Resaca on the 14th, occupying positions in the 
skirmishing of two subsequent days, when he 
went with the command to figlit at Calhoun on 
the 17th. His company fought at Adairsville, 
or Pleasant Hill, on the next day and remain- 
ed before Dallas exposed to constant rebel fire ! 
11 days. He fought in the actions known as 
Kenesaw in June and crossed the Chattahoociiie 
River and Peach Tree Creek, moving to the 
trenches before Atlanta. (At Rossville, a rebel 
factory was destroyed which was under the 
j)rotection of a bogus French tlag, but General 
Newton took possession of tiie flag and 
ordered the destruction of the mill). Mr. 
Little left the siege of Atlanta to take 
part in the destruction of the rebel lines of 
communication and was in the fight at Jones- 
boro and Lovejoy's. After the surrender of 



Atlanta they went to garrison Chattanooga and 
moved thence to the Nashville campaign. At 
Pulaski, November 4tli, the soldiers voted for 
Lincoln and pressed on to prepare for any dis- 
position of himself wliich Hood might see fit to 
make. The regiment guarded railroads, built 
earthworks and forts, went on a reconnoissance, 
burned a bridge on Duck River and afterwards 
skirmished all the way to Franklin with the 
rebels. Mr. Little was in the desperate fight- 
ing of the hand-to-hand variety with fixed 
bayonets at Franklin and went to fight again 
in front of Nashville. After the pursuit of 
Hood he was in the after movements, going to 
Huntsville to winter quarters and thence in 
March to go if need be to join Grant, but went 
to Bull Gap to repair communications. On the 
news of Lee's surrender and the assassination 
of the President they returned to Nashville and 
were mustered out June 10th, returning for re- 
lief from Wisconsin State service soon after to 
Milwaukee. 

Since his release from military life Mr. Little 
has been in the employ of the St. Paul railroad 
as an engineer. 

As a testimonial to his character, bravery 
and manhood it is only necessaiy to say to the 
reader that the newspapers of tiie whole land 
and other lands as well, heralded his action of 
the morning of Oct. 28, 1886, when he opened 
the throttle of his engine ho|)ing to save the 
passengers of his train, although there was not 
the ghost of a chance for saving himself, ap- 
parently. He saw before the train an open 
switch and did his duty as he knew it. He 
closed the brakes " as they were never closed 
before," said one on the train, and crawled from 
under his wrecked engine, with his face covered 
with blood, but still unmindful of self and went 
to the relief of the passengers in the burning 
coaches. The story of his heroism at the rail- 
road disaster at Rio, Wis., is better known than 



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it can be told here, and, suffice it to say, that 
he was again at his post in a short time, 
aUliougli he was j)aiiifully injured. Bishop 
Whipple of Minnesota was on the train on his 
way East and went to the branch U. S. Mint at 
Philadelphia during his absence wiiere he or- 
dered the strikingof agold medal for Engineer 
Little, by whose side lie worked like anotiier 
hero to rescue women and children. (On the 
day on which this account was edited, July 16, 
1S90, the wife of Bishop "Whipple died from the 
result of injuries received in a railroad acci- 
dent in November, 1889.) 

Mr. Little was married Aug. 11, 1855, to 
Elizabeth Mulvey of Marryborougli, Ireland, 
and their children were named Gideon M., 
Sarah Jane, Lucy, Fannie, (now Mrs. A. D. 
Gill) Maria, John James, Mary Ann, Thomas 
John and Elizabeth M. L. Mary Ann, Thomas 
J. and Elizabeth M. L. are deceased. Mrs. Lit- 
tle is a prominent member of the Woman's Re- 
lief Corps, which she joined July 29, 188-1. On 
the same date she was elected President of 
Corps No. 9 at Portage and held the office suc- 
cessively three years. In 1885 she was made 
Senior Vice President of the Wisconsin Depart- 
ment and was re-elected the following year; in 
1887 she was made Delegate-at-Large to the 
National Convention and in 1888 was aj)point- 
ed Aid on the staff of the National President ; 
she was reappointed in 1889 and was also made 
a member of the Executive Committee of Ar- 
rangements for the National Convention of that 
year. She has also filled the office of Assistant 
Inspector and been detiiiled to institute Corps, 
in 1890 (current year) she is a delegate to the 
National Convention at Boston : slie has at- 
tended five successive National Conventions 
and every Department Convention held in the 
State; she is a member of the Episcopal Church 
and in 1889 and 1890 was a member of the 
Church Society. Mr. Little belongs to the 



Masonic fraternity and to the Brotherhood of 
Locomotive Engineers. He is a Republican. 

The portrait of Mr. Little is presented on 
page 558. 

(^^ DWARD F. LONG, Black River Falls, 



Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
92, was born Sept. 16, 1846, in Aarons- 
burg, Center Co., Pa., and was sixth in order of 
birth of seven children born to his parents, 
Daniel and Mary (Emmert) Long. His father 
was a native of Berks Co., Pa., born in 1803 
and descended from the class known as Penn- 
sylvania Dutch to which the mother also be- 
longed ; .she was bora in the same county and 
died at Aaronsburg in 1871, the demise of her 
husband having occurred there in 1864. Eliza, 
Simon, Melinda, Lewis, Kate, Edward and 
Anna were the names of their children and 
Simon, Eliza and Anna are deceased. 

Mr. Long was reared on his father's farm 
and went to the public schools. A month 
after his 15th birthday he enlisted and 
was mustered into the State service at Ilarris- 
burg in November, in the 14lli Pennsylvania 
Infantry at Camp Curtin. Not long after he 
was mustered into the U. S. service in Com- 
pany I, 56th Pennsylvania Infantry and re- 
sorted to strategy to pass the mustering officer, 
a burly comrade answering to his name and 
passing for himself. In February, 1862, the regi- 
ment was ordered to Washington and Aquia 
Creek, which was regimental headquarters 
through the spring and summer, and the com- 
mand was chiefly occupied in repairing rail- 
roads thence to Fredericksburg. In August, 
1862, Mr. Long was discharged for disability 
and went home. In September, 1863, he again 
enlisted at Aaronsburg and was mustered at 
Harrisburg into Company C, 184t]i Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry and while there was on de- 



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tached duty. In February, 1864, the regiment 
went to the front, taking position at Belle 
Plain and going thence to White Oak in the 
spring campaign in tiie Wilderness. The regi- 
ment was in Hancock's Corps (2d) and was in 
some of the heaviest fighting, beginning May 
5th and continuing with little intermission 
until the 12th and including Spottsylvania and 
all the actions on the Po River, the movement 
to the North Anna and the lighting at Jericho 
Ford, the passage of the Pamunke}', the fight at 
Mechanicsville, and the successive actions at 
Cold Harbor June 1st, 2d and 3d. Skirmish- 
ing went on while crossing at Deep Bottom 
and Ream's Station, and June 17th the regi- 
ment arrived at Petersburg and went into the 
hot action of the 18th. During the succeeding 
days the command was under constant fire in 
the trenches and on the 22d moved in the 
charge on the Weldon railroad. The regi- 
ment went next to Fort Smith in the rear of 
Petersburg and thence to the front line of 
works where they operated in the rifie pits un- 
til the 27th of October when the fight at 
Hatcher's Run occurred and afterwards the 
lS4th went to Fort Smith, going thence to Fort 
Steadman and Fort Sedgwick (Fort Hell) and 
in December to the Yellow House on the Wel- 
don railroad in another raid. February' 5th 
Mr. Long was in the action at Hatcher's Run, 
fought two days and remained in camp there 
until March 25th, when Lee made a sudden at- 
tack on Fort Steadman and took it. When 
this attack was made his command was on the 
extreme left and they made a feint assault. 
They broke the enemy's line on the 1st of 
April, following it up with more or less fight- 
ing until the surrender of Lee. After the close 
of all the hostilities the 184th went back to 
Burke's Station and to Richmond, Fredericks- 
burg and to camp at Clover Hill until the 
Cirand Review in which Mr. Long was a par- 



ticipant and he was afterwards mustered out at 
Clover Hill and di-scharged July 14, 1865 at 
Harrisburg, Pa. 

He returned to Aaronsburg and soon after 
entered the Commercial School atBinghamton, 
N. Y., and completed a course of study. He 
afterwards engaged in the manufacture of lum- 
ber at Lock Haven until 1869 when lie com- 
menced to fit himself for his profession of 
dentistry. He completed his preparation for 
this business after going to Wisconsin in 1870, 
and located at Black River Falls in 1875. He 
has conducted his business there since that 
date and has built up a substantial and remu- 
nerative practice. He is President of the Wis- 
consin State Dental Society, to which position 
he was elected at the convention of July, 1889. 
He belongs to the Knights of Pythias, is a 
member of the Grand Lodge and of the Uni- 
form Rank. He is an ardent member of his 
Post and has been on the alert for the interest 
of the Order since his first connection there- 
with. He has served two terms as Deputy 
Inspector on the staff of Commander Weissert 
— 1888-9 ; he was one of the alternates to the 
National Encampment at Boston in 1890. 

He was married at Black River Falls, May 
23, 1877, to Cora E., daughter of George C. and 
Nellie (Thorp) Perry. Mr. Long is a Republi- 
can in political affiliation. 



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•^\ J. BURNH AM, Richland Center, Wis., 
\V)s^# !iiember of G. A. R. Post No. 33, was 

^•>^^^ • born at Bristol, Addison Co., Ver- 
mont, ( )ct. 20, 1842, whence his parents, W. H. 
and Lydia (Johnson) Burnham, removed to 
Wisconsin in 1855 and located at Bear Creek, 
Sauk County. About 1876 the father and 
mother went to California, wliere the former 
died and where the latter still lives. The 



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youngest child, a daughter, died, and the sec- 
ond son, William, a merchant and a member 
of tlie South Dakota Legislature in 1889, was 
an enlisted man in the Gth Wisconsin Battery. 
Mamie married F. M. Colburn, the pastor of an 
M. E. Church at San Diego, Cal. 

Mr. Burnham is the first born child and 
passed his youth in school and on the farm, 
teaching occasionally winters, until he entered 
the army. He enlisted Sept. 23, 1861, from 
Sauk county, in the 6th Wisconsin Battery and 
was mustered at Camp Utley, Racine, wliither 
he went, starting from the State March loth, to 
New Madrid, Mo., and was occupied in drilling 
in light and heavy artillery tactics as best they 
could, until they helped themselves to equip- 
ments through capturing guns, small arms and 
horses, which were in their possession until 
1863, when their outfit was subjected to the dis- 
approval of the inspectors and, when tbeir con- 
demned equipments were surrendered, they 
drew new ones. The command performed 
heavy artillerj' duty, working on fortifications, 
guarding the Mississippi, preventing the passage 
of rebel gunboats and engaging in several skir- 
mishes, including scrimmages with rebel artil- 
leiy on the opposite side of the river. In May 
the battery moved to the siege of Corintli and 
remained at Rienzi, near Corinth, until Octo- 
ber 1st, when tlie command started to take part 
in the battle of Corinth, where on the first day 
of the l)attle, Oct. 3d, they were under fire which 
they could not return, owing to the location of 
the skirmish line. On the second day, October 
4th, the batter}' located on the extreme right of 
the line ; was captured and held a short time 
by the enemy, but was soon recaptured, losing 
5 men killed and 25 wounded. After tlie bat- 
tle the battery engaged in outpost duty. No- 
vember 2d the battle went witii Sullivan's 
brigade under General Hamilton to participate 
in Grant's Mississippi campaign, going to the 



Yocono River and returning after the Holly 
Springs disaster to Memphis. The winter of 
1862-3, was passed tbere and in the spring the 
battery went to the Yazoo Pass expedition and 
was in the successful movement to the mouth 
of the Tallaliatchie River to be recalled for the 
purpose of going to Milliken's Bend, marched 
thence and protected a position during the bat- 
tle of Port Gibson. At the Bend, Mr. Burn- 
liam was taken sick and, after leaving the hos- 
pital, joined his regiment about Jhiy 19th be- 
fore Vicksburg, where he was in the trenches, 
constantly under fire and doing siege duty un- 
til the fall of Vicksburg. (At Corinth the 
average fire of each gun was 37 rounds.) After 
Vicksburg capitulated, their guns were prac- 
tically used up. September 12th, with the 1st 
Brigade in the Division of J. E. Smith and the 
15th Corps under Slierman, they started for the 
relief of the starving, besieged troops at Chat- 
tanooga, the Gth Battery being the first to take 
position across the river with Sherman's divi- 
sion above Mission Ridge, before an infantry 
regiment had crossed, and the battery held an 
important jiosition November 25th, joining in 
the pursuit and returning to Chattanooga, 
where they turned over their two last guns and 
went to Bridgeport, Larkinsville and Ilunts- 
ville, where they received four new Napoleon 
guns and new equipments. They passed the 
winter of 1S63-4 there and performed garrison 
duty until June, when they went to Georgia 
and guarded a bridge on the Etowah River, 
where Mr. Burnham, his term of service having 
expired, was mustered out Oct. 10, 186-4. 

After his return to Sauk county he was alter- 
nately occupied in farming and teaching until 
1871, when lie became jirincipal of schools at 
I^ne Rock, where he officiated three years and 
served two years in the same capacity at Rich- 
land Center. In 1876, associated witli his 
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drugs, and their joint relations continued until 
his brother went to Dakota in 1881. Mr. Burn- 
liam pursued his businesss singly until 1887, 
wben he closed his traffic in that line and be- 
gan business in the purchase and sale of farm 
pi'oduce. He has been active in the duties of 
citizenship and has materially advanced the 
interests of his political luirty, though not an 
office seeker. He is prominent in the Masonic 
fraternity and is chief of the fire department. 

He was married at Richland Center, in 1870, 
to Mary, daughter of Judge D. and Emma 
(Brigdon) Strickland, and the niece of Hon. 
Benjamin F. Wade. She was born in Beaver 
Dam, Wis., whither her parents removed from 
Ashtabula Co., Ohio. Mr. Burnham is one of 
the officers of the 6tli Wisconsin Battery Asso- 
ciation and delivered tbe address at the meet- 
ing at Lone Rock, Wis., in 1878. 



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.,,^^> HARLES VON BAUMBACH, Milwau- 
kee, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, and of the Loyal 
Legion, Wisconsin Commandary, was born in 
Kircheim, Hessen, Germany, June 18, 1840. 
His father, Ludwig von Baumbach, belonged 
to a good family and entered the military 
service of his country at the age prescribed by 
law and passed through the training common 
for officers, as he was made a Captain in a Ger- 
man regiment. Later, he became a member of 
the Parliament and during the upheaval of 
affairs through the attemj>t to establish a con- 
stitutional government, became disgusted with 
the condition of affairs and determined to seek 
a new home in tlie New World, whither he 
came in 1848. He was born in 1799, married 
Mina vonSchenck and they had eight children 
named Ernst, Moritz, William, Frederick, 
Ciiarles, Reinhard, Lilli and Clotilde. Fred- 
erick enlisted in the 5th Wisconsin and after- 



wards went out as Captain of Company B, 35th 
Wisconsin and was made Major of the regiment 
Oct. 25, 1865. Reinhard died in Ohio. Lilli 
married Adolph Rosenthal, (now consul at San 
Francisco, 1890) and died in Milwaukee in 1869. 
Clotilde married Rudolph von Kaltenborn of 
Milwaukee. 

The family located at Black River, Ohio, 
and the father engaged in farming, in which 
pursuit he was occupied until he removed to 
Elyria in 1854, settling in Milwaukee in 1857. 
He received the appointment of Imperial Con- 
sul of Germany and held the position until 
1878, when he was succeeded by his son-in-law. 
He died in Milwaukee in 1882 ; his wife died 
in the same city in 1871. 

Charles passed his youtli on the farm, in 
school including a year at high school in Elyria 
and was an assistant for a year in a drug store 
in Cleveland, coming thence to Milwaukee in 
1859, where he commenced operations in the 
same line in which he was occupied until he 
entered the army. June 13, 1861, he enlisted 
in Company C, 5th Wisconsin Infantry and 
went to rendezvous with his command, being 
made Corporal Jul}' lltli on the organization. 
November 2d he was made Sergeant. The 
regiment left the State on the 26th of July and 
was detained at Baltimore some days, after 
which they pioceeded to Washington and 
camped in the vicinity of the old arsenal, sub- 
sec[uently going into camp at Meridian Hill. 
Until September 3d he was engaged there in 
drill and camp duty, and on that date the regi- 
ment moved to connect with Hancock's Brigade 
in Smith's Division and remained in that 
vicinity until ordered to connect with the 
command of McClellan on the Peninsula 
campaign. September 11th, Mr. von Baum- 
bach was in bis fir.st action at Lewinsville, and 
next in a reconnoissance March 27th, after 
returning from tiie fruitless movement towards 



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Manassas. April 4th he was in a skirmish 
and in line when the scrimmage was in -prog- 
ress at Lee's Mills. He was in the siege of 
Yorktown, the rehels evacuating tiieir works 
on the 3(1 of ^hiy, and he followed with the 
regiment to fight at Williamsburg, May 5th 
and (illi, and sustained an injury on the 
last day. His name was first on the disjiatclies 
as wounded from Company C, a musket ball 
having hit his left arm and also a buckshot 
struck liini in the right leg. He was taken to 
the hospital boat on the York River, thence to 
Fortress Monroe and was furloughed from the 
convalescent hospital in Washington, return- 
ing to Milwaukee. Aug. 1, 1862, he was com- 
missioned 2d Lieutenant and acted as mu.ster- 
ing officer. August 20th following he was 
commissioned Captain of Company C, 24th 
Wisconsin Lifantry and made connection with 
his command September 5th. Bragg was 
making himself lively and entertaining in 
Northern Kentucky, and the regiment left 
Wisconsin to connect with the command of 
Lew Wallace in Greusel's Brigade and Sheri- 
dan's Division. In a month, October 8th, 
the regiment was in action at Perryville, 
where its splendid record began. The regi- 
ment went with the army and followed the 
rebels four days, going afterwards to Nashville 
and in the movements later with Murfrecsboi-o 
as objective point, w'as transferred to the com- 
mand of Rosecrans. The 24tli was in the 
right wing during the figliting of December 
30th, 31st and January 1st and amply sus- 
tained its record. The regiment went into 
winter quarters in the city, where various 
changes were made in the officering of the 
regiment and he was promoted Major, to rank 
from Dec. 24, 1862, as senior Captain. In the 
spring, the command went to Tullahoma and 
moved thence to the campaign on the Chatta- 
hoochie, skirmishing and performing such 



military duty as the situation demanded until 
the battle of Chickamauga, where General 
Lytle, Brigade Commander, was killed while 
standing behind the flag of the 24th Wiscon- 
sin. The regiment fought on the right flank 
in Sheridan's Division near Widow Glenn's 
House and changed to the left flank, coming 
into position opposite Longstreet's command. 
The I'egimental loss was heavy and the colors 
were torn in tatters from the standard. Col- 
onel Theodore S. West, (see sketch of General 
Hobart) was injured and captured and Major 
von Baumbach assumed command. The sit- 
uation on the river is too well known to re- 
quire elaboration, but it is not too much to say 
that none but those wlio participated therein 
can realize the situation, the troops being on 
short rations, liable to attack at any moment 
from a foe who would be irresistible from the 
low water and the general state of aft'airs, and the 
24th remained under assault from the rebel 
batteries on Lookout and Mission Ridge, en- 
joying the reverse of affairs (when the success of 
the charge, whose responsibility Grant and every 
other high official denied, until it became the 
most magnificent action of the war, became a 
fact) especially appreciating the situation when 
the same guns whicli had annoyed them were 
turned against their owners. In the fight 
above the clouds the 24th Wisconsin started on 
the double quick up the heights, stimulated 
by all they had endured and, encouraged by 
the presence of Hooker with fresh troops from 
the Eastern army, fought like wild men and 
crossed the mountains. In this action Robert 
J. Chivas was killed. Major von Baumbach 
resigned his commission Nov. 28, 1863, owing to 
debilitated health, and it was accepted Decem- 
ber 7th. 

On resuming connection with active busi- 
ness life after his recovery, he engaged in the 
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traffic until 18G5, when he sold out and went 
to St. Cloud, Minn., and operated in furs witii 
* the Indians, returning to Milwaukee to re- 
establish his business as a druggist. He after- 
wards formed a partnership with Theo. Ger- 
hardy, estabiisliing a whole.sale house. Iir 1885 
they incorporated under the style of "Tlie 
Charles von Baumbach Company " with a 
capital stock of $100,000. Ai)ril 14, 1887, their 
establishment was burned and they opened 
business soon after on Broadway, removing to 
their present quarters, April 1, 1888. Their 
annual transactions reach about $800,000, and 
they employ an average of 30 clerks. 

Mr. von Baumbach was married at Milwau- 
kee in November, 1867, to Clara, daughter of 
Dr. F. Rosenthal. Their first born child died 
in early infancy ; Ludwig was accidently killed 
at the age of 17 years while hunting; Hedwig 
died of scarlet fever ; Emma, Ada and Freder- 
ick are the survivors of six children born of 
this union. Mr. von Baumbach belongs to 
the Knights of Pythias, No. 42, and is an ex- 
Chancellor of his lodge ; he is a decided Re- 
publican in political connection and action. 

He is a representative of the best type of 
German citizenship and is esteemed and re- 
spected as he merits. The duties of his citi- 
zenship in his adopted country have always 
been his highest consideration and his native 
high breeding and unstained manhood have 
always made him conspicuous in business and 
society. He was impetuously brave and en- 
thusiastic in his military career with two of the 
finest regiments that went from the Badger 
State, and performed his obligations as an army 
officer in the most creditable manner. He is a 
citizen of whom Milwaukee is justly proud and 
all his relations witli the community are such 
as to reflect credit on him as a man. 



/^^ EORGE HINTON, Mansion, Wiscon- 
y ^.,^_ A *' sin. Register of Deeds of Juneau 

^i^^ county (1890), was born Aug. 17, 
1831, in Licking Co., Ohio. His father, 
Thomas Hinton, was a native of Harrison Co., 
^Mrginia, and married Rebecca Bailej' of St. 
Lawrence Co., New York. In 1839 the senior 
Hinton removed with his family and interests 
to Boone Co., Illinois, whence the son went to 
Juneau county in 1850. His parents followed 
him in 1854 and located in the town of Orange 
on a farm. Ten children were born to the 
parents of Mr. Hinton. They were named in 
order Isaac, Mary, George, Rebecca, Hannah, 
Marinda, Thomas J., Almira, Joseph J. and 
John M. Joseph J. was a soldier in the 42d 
Wisconsin Infantry and Thomas J. enlisted 
with George in the same company and regi- 
ment and saw exactly the same service, was 
wounded almost in the same manner on the 
same day, suffered amputation of the arm as 
he did in the same hospital, and was discharged 
with him. This case is probably without a 
parallel in the history of Wisconsin troops, if 
not m the war. 

On arrival in Wisconsin Mr. Hinton inter- 
ested himself in lumbering and pushed iiis 
business relations in that line three years. He 
then engaged in farming and in 1860 removed 
to New Lisbon and opened a mercantile enter- 
prise and, soon after, was appointed Deputy 
Postmaster. He continued his business in that 
avenue until he enlisted March 14, 1864, in 
Company B, 38th Wisconsin Infantry, and went 
to the front after the organization of his com- 
mand after he had acted as a recruiting officer 
with good results. Four companies were mus- 
tered for immediate service and went to the 
front under Colonel Pier, doing camp duty at 
Arlington Heights and going thence to Alex- 
andria. (See sketch of C. K. Pier.) Thence 
they moved to White House Landing and con- 



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solidated with tlie 1st Minnesota Infantry, one 
of the hravest commands in the service and 
wliicli Irad become decimated in action. 

Their first duty was as escort for trains of 
supplies for Cold Harbor and, after Grant com- 
menced his grand flank movement the com- 
panies went to fight at Petersburg. At Cold 
Harbor Mr. Hinton was ill but did not know 
what was the matter and was sent ijack to 
Alexandria, sick with measles. After he be- 
came well he rejoined his regiment, stationed 
then at Fort Scott in front of Petersburg, and 
was in his first action at Hatcher's Run. Dur- 
ing the time he was at Alexandria, Mosby was 
raiding and threatening Washington and when 
the Provisional Battalion was organized of the 
canvalescents for jiossible service, Mr. Hinton 
was made Captain of a company, which was 
first stationed at Fort Lyon, then at Fort Ethan 
Allen and Fort Woodbury. Thej' disbanded 
after the guerrilla chief had finished his civili- 
ties. Mr. Hinton was in the movement to the 
Weldon railroad, his connuand being foremost 
in the advance. He returned to the trenches 
at Petersburg, and in the charge on Fort 
Mahone, April 2d, which gave the key to Rich- 
mond to the Federal troops, he and his brother 
Thomas were wounded. A bullet passed 
through the elbow of his right arm, and he has 
the missile now in his possession. He left the 
field, was pickeil up \)\ an ambulance and 
taken to the field hospital, where his arm was 
amputated, and he was afterwards removed to 
Fairfax Seminar}- liospital. Both himself and 
brother received honorable discharge May 18, 
18G5, from Seminary hospital, by order of the 
Secretary of War, which permitted them to be 
relieved of military duty without waiting to be 
discharged with the regiment. 

in December, 1SG5, Mr. Hinton received the 
appointment as Postmaster of New Lisbon, Wis., 
and he held the office until 1885. In 1880 he 



was elected Register of Deeds and re-elected in 
1888. He was a charter member of his Post 
and belongs to the I'nited Order of Workmen. 
During the troublesome period of the early days 
of tlie war, he belonged to the Union League. 

He was married at Sharon, Walworth Co., 
Wis., in 1862, to Cynthia A. Ramsey, a native 
of (3hio, and they have six children. William 
W. is employed in the Mauston Bank. Frank 
H. is a telegraph operator at Postville, Iowa. 
Jessie V., Howard II., Guy and Georgia are the 
four 3'oungest. Mr. Hinton is a Republican in 
politics. 

OHN F. RUSSELL, La Crosse, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
born June 27, 1840, at Oswegatchie, St. 
Lawrence Co., New York. He comes of good 
old Revolutionary stock, although he came 
near being on the other side as a descendant of 
a patriot of the struggle. His grandfather was 
a Captain in the English naval service and 
came to America in that capacitj'. His sym- 
pathies were with the colonists and he tried 
several times to resign his commission and 
leave the navy, but was not permitted. Finally, 
he deserted, offered his services to the American 
side and fought in the war to the finish. His 
son, Rev. James Russell, was born in Johns- 
town, New York, March 29, 1805, was married 
to Sally Pratt Aug. 24, 1830, and died April 12, 
1843, in Oswegatchie, New York. The mother 
was born in tliat place May 25, 1811, and is de- 
ceased. Their children were Alfred, Catherine 
E., Margaret R., Cynthia J., Sally D., John F., 
and Charles. All are dead except Mr. Russell 
and his sisters Margaret and Catherine. The 
father was a carpenter and also preached in the 
interests of the M. E. Church, his services be- 
ing contributed to struggling churches and he 
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latter lived successively with men named Hardj" 
and Young, passing eleven 3'ears with them and 
afterwards spent a summer managing a thresh- 
ing machine. He had then earned enough 
money to attend Gouverneur Seminary and 
was a student there when the war attracted 
the attention of all classes, students as well 
as others. He hastened to enlist and was 
mustered at Albany, New York, May 15, 
1861, for two years or during the war. He en- 
rolled in Company G, l(3th New York Infantry, 
under Captain N. M. Curtis and Colonel T. A. 
Davies. June 25th the command went to 
Washington to camp for a few days, thence to 
Alexandria, went into camp July 11th and on 
the 17th started for the field of Bull Run. The 
regiment was in Miles' Division and his com- 
pany was deployed as skirmishers at the open- 
ing of the action. After it was over the regi- 
ment returned to Fort Ellsworth, and, Sep- 
tember 17th, went to Fort Lyon and was 
assigned to the 2d Brigade under Slocum, in 
Franklin's Division. In March, 1802, the regi- 
ment was assigned to McDowell's Corps in the 
former brigade and division. Meanwhile, Mr. 
Russell was taken sick and sent to Fairfax Street 
hospital, ill with typhoid fever. He was able 
to accompany the regiment to Fairfax C. H. 
in the Manassas campaign and returned to 
Camp Franklin. April 14th another move was 
made and the regiment went to Warrenton 
Station, going thence by train to Carap Vernon. 
April 17t]i the division started on the campaign 
of the Peninsula, landing at Yorktown, where 
the command was held as support, and. May 
4th, shipped on the Daniel Webster for West 
Point, there went on the skirmish line and Mr. 
Russell there killed his first man. He was 
serving as Corporal. Maj' 15th the regiment 
arrived at White House Landing, marched in 
a reconnoissance to Mechanicsviile, skirmished 
there and fought at Hanover C. H., May 27th. 



June 18th the command crossed the Chicka- 
hominy and constructed a bridge. June 27th, 
Mr. Russell fought at Gaines Mills and was in 
the second day's fighting of the celebrated 
seven days actions before Richmond, his com- 
pany losing four killed and 15 wounded. He 
was wounded in the knee, but did not leave the 
regiment, using his gun as a crutch during the 
remainder of that campaign. June 28th he was 
in the fight at Savage Station and at Charles 
City Cross Roads on the oOth. In this action 
the 16th supported the artillery in a front po- 
sition. The regiment formed the first reserve 
at Malvern Hill and went to Harrison's Land- 
ing. August 16th orders were received for 
Cliarles City C. H., and the regiment went 
thence to Alexandria on transports from New- 
port News, and the second Bull Run was fought 
August 30th in consequence of these move- 
ments. After fighting there, the 16th fell back 
to Alexandria, crossed Long Bridge to George- 
town and remained over Sunday. The regi- 
ment went after Lee through Maryland and 
was in the fight at Burkettsville Gap (South 
Mountain) September 14th, which was a hot 
battle, went into action again at Antietam 
where the regiment formed a part of the picket 
line and made the last charge, being on the 
field 36 hours. Winter quarters were estab- 
lished at Belle Phxin, December 5th, and thence 
the command went to the Mud Camj)aign and 
to Fredericksburg to an engagement. They 
went into camp at White Oak Church and in 
April, 1863, Mr. Russell was made 1st Duty 
Sergeant, fighting at Frederick.sburg, April 
27th. He went to Salem Church, where the 
16th was hotly engaged, the enemy pouring a 
deadly Hank fire on their left. The captain and 
1st lieutenant were wounded and Mr. Russell 
took charge of the company and led it from the 
field, although he had received three wound.s. 
During the following night he went to the field 



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and brought oft' the officers of the company, 
making a compromise with the rebel pici^ets. 
Company G mustered 11 men tlie next morn- 
ing. This was the last action in which the 
16th engaged, its term ha^ng expired. The 
command returned to Albanj^ and was mustered 
out May 23d at Albany, New York. 

In July, altera short stay at home, Mr. Ru.s- 
sell went to Alexandria and was employed by 
the Government as receiving clerk in the Gov- 
ernment bakery, being afterwards night over- 
.seer, having chai-ge of all supplies of baked 
material for the Army of the Potomac. In the 
spring of 1864 he went into the construction 
service at City Point, engaging in building 
docks and storehouses, in which he was occu- 
pied until 1865, and was present at the great 
explosion at City Point when over 200 tons of 
fixed ammunition was destroyed by the shrewd- 
ness of a rebel .spy. While in this business he 
was captured at Harper's Ferry by a gang of 
Mosby's guerrillas while they were threaten- 
ing Washington, and with 19 others was taken 
across the Shenandoah River, wading the river 
under spur of their captors, who took them 
to the mountains and stripped them of clothes, 
money, watches and all portable property and 
turned them loose. Mr. Russell had §150 and, 
not expecting to save it, put it in hi.s mouth as 
tobacco. The men went to Alexandria and 
Mr. Russell was employed in the Quarter- 
master's Department until the close of the war. 

After his return home he went to the oil re- 
gions of Pennsylvania where he was engaged 
as a carpenter and builder until the winter of 
1865-6. He was then em])loyeii on the Reno 
& Pithole R. R. of which General Burnside was 
President. In March he went to LaCrosse, 
Wis., where he engaged in the business of a 
photograj)her. After a few months he began 
operating as a carpenter and builder and as a 
contractor. In July he went to Hokah, Minn., 



in the employ of the Southern Minnesota R. R., 
working at his trade and returning to La 
Crosse for the summer. In the fall he went to 
Hokah again and took charge of the truck de- 
partment of the car shops, succeeded to the 
charge of the car works and as superintendent 
of the car and machine shops, remaining tiiere 
until liS74, and was also operating as a bridge 
builder. 

In the fall of 1875 he was nominated on 
the Democratic ticket for County Treasurer of 
Houston Co., Minn., and in February, 1876, 
went to Caledonia, Minn., to discharge the 
duties of the position. He was re-elected and 
served three terms or six years, and in the fall 
of 1881 was nominated for State Treasurer be- 
ing defeated by a small vote. In the fall of 
1882 he went to Hokah again and in February, 
1888, located at La Crosse, where he has since . 
engaged in real estate and insurance, and also 
has combined with his other business that of a 
dealer in marble. 

He was married May 1, 1877, to Alida A., 
daughter of Andrew and Caroline Swenson. 
Their children are named Charles H., John A., 
William F., Emma A., Hattie A., Bessie E., 
Archie L., Reuel E. and Elsie Idell. 

Mr. Ru.ssell is a member of the Order of 
Masons and A. 0. U. W. ; he was made a 
Mason at the old Alexandria Market Lodge, 
the old Washington organization, in 1864; he 
also is a memlier of the I. 0. 0. F., Lodge 
Sarepta, No. 142, Alexandria, \'a. 



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/f^ EORGE L. SHORT, La Crosse, Wis., 
I!^^^rv member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
^*t=i^ born in Steuben Co., New York, 
March 11, 1840, and is descended from Ira, 
son of Benoni Short of Welsh descent. The 
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575 



of Welsh lineage. With three sons named 
Benoni Jr., .John and Asa, he fought in 1812. 
Ira was a farmer, born .Jan. 21, 1808, and is 
deceased ; his wife, Eliza A. Higgins before 
marriage, was born in Trenton, N. .J., Oct. 5, 
1813, and died Aug. 12, 1885, at Davenport, 
Iowa. Their nine children are living — Abigail, 
Adeline, Jane, George L., Ira H., Allen M., 
Jerome E., Charles M. and x\nna A. The 
family went to Carroll Co., 111., in 1842, and 
later to Albany, Whitesides county, in 1855. 
The early life of the son was passed on his 
father's farm until he was 18 years old, and 
the first important event of his life was his 
enlistment Aug. 17, 1.861, at Morrison, White- 
sides Co., 111. He was mustered in at St. 
Charles, 111., in September in Company C, 8th 
Illinois Cavalry, Colonel John F. Farneswortli. 
The regiment went successively to Washington 
to camp Illinois, to Virginia to camp Califor- 
nia and to Alexandria, Falls Church and Aquia 
Creek, passing the winter on picket duty. In 
April the command moved towards Manassas 
and to Centerville and Warrenton, and from 
there to Fredericksburg where they had an 
engagement. They returned to Alexandria, 
embarking for Yorktown, where Mr. Short was 
taken with measles, sent to hospital and home, 
after being discharged for disabilitj'. Jan. 24, 
1864, he re-enlisted in the same regiment and 
company at St. Charles when the command 
was there on veteran furlough. On being sent 
to the front at Washington the regiment was 
assigned to the defense of the city, threatened 
by Early in the spring. After moving to 
Gaysboro Point the regiment was sent to Camp 
Relief on patrol duty in the Capital and went 
July 4th to Muddy Branch, thence to Point of 
Rocks and skirmished all day, went to Fred- 
erick City and over the Blue Ridge, meeting 
Early with the command of Lew Wallace at 
Monocacy July 9th, the rebels being victorious. 



In the course of the next day the regiment was 
cut off from the main column and fought the 
enemy that day and the next when they were 
driven into Frederick. During the night they 
retreated to Monocacy Junction. The next 
morning they engaged the rebels on the left 
pike leading to Frederick. Part of the regiment 
was then detached and sent to the lower bridge 
on the Monocacy River to keep the rebels from 
crossing. Subsequently they were driven back 
as far as Rockville, where a skirmish took 
place and where they met Major Whitney from 
Camp Distribution with 1,400 recruits whom 
the boys called "gilligollies," destined for 
different commands. He was advised to turn 
back but he replied that he would go to 
Monocacy or to hell and paid the price of his 
temerity, his men being killed, stampeded and 
taken prisoners. After holding a position on 
the pike the regiment went to Tanallytown 
and had another fight with Early July 12th 
near Fort Stevens. The command went next 
to Leesburg and fought at Snicker's Gap, and 
in the Loudon valley were again in a fight 
with the rebels, driving them back through 
Snicker's Gap and then retired to Piedmont 
for rest. The rebels again appeared and 
another engagement took place. The regiment 
started for White Plain to guard railroad com- 
munications for Sheridan's army in the valley 
of the Shenandoah after which they were in a 
skirmish nearly every day until December with 
Mosby's command, when they nioved to White 
Plain and guarded the Orange & Alexandria 
railroad, went thence to Fairfax C. H., to 
winter quarters and were often out on raids 
and in frequent engagements with Mosby's 
men. They remained there until after the 
assassination of Lincoln, when they were sent 
to Port Tobacco in search of Booth and on the 
same errand to Newport, Md., scattering 
through the country along the Potomac River 



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and Chesapeake Bay ; they found Booth's boot 
in Dr. Mudd's house. The regiment was re- 
called to Washington and sent to St. Louis via 
ParkersVnirg, Va., and Company C was placed 
on tlie steamboat Prima Donna for St. Louis. 
Mr. Short was mustered out at Benton Bar- 
racks, July 17, 1865, and went home to Albany. 
His first employ was on the river as second 
pilot for two years, and at the end of that time 
he became master and pilot in which occupa- 
tion he has since been engaged, running 
between St. Paul and St. Louis. He is regard- 
ed as one of the most reliable boat masters on 
the Mississippi. He was married at Morrison, 
111., to Ellen, daughter of Orel Mills, their mar- 
riage being dated April 19, 1866. He was 
again married April 28, ISSO, at La Crosse to 
Isabella, the accomplished daughter of Otho 
and Louisa Barnes. They have one child, 
Mabel. Mr. Short is a member of the Kniglits 
of Pythias and a Republican. Mrs. Short is 
prominent in her connection with the Woman's 
Relief Corps, and holds tlie position of Secre- 
tary. In political opinion she is a zealous 
Democrat. Otho Barnes was born in the State 
of New York, and his wife in Somersetshire, 
England. Tlicy were married in Canada and 
settled in Woodstock, where Mrs. Short was 
born. They had five children — Absalom and 
Charles (twins), Isabella, Phebe and Esther. 
The father is living in Washington; the 
mother died in Monroe county and was buried 
by her daughter, Mrs. Short, in the cemetery 
at La Crosse. 



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LFRED HOLMES, Commander of G. 
k^ A. R. Post No. 14, at Purhigc, Wis , 
(1890), was born Sep. 18, 1844, at 
West Point, Orange Co., New York. Ilis 
parents, Joshua and Jane (Bodham) Holmes, 



were both born in England, the former at 
Halstead, in the shire of Essex, Feb. 21, 1807 
and the latter Dec. 4, 1802, at Bridgenorth, 
Shro])shire (Salop). Tiiey were married Dec. 
18, 1835, at St. Andrews, England, by a " ward- 
robe" clergj-man of London. March 19, 1836, 
they reached America and went to West Point. 
The senior Holmes was a miller bj' trade but 
did not find employ and enlisted at West Point 
in the regular service of the United States for 
five j'ears, enrolling in the spring of 1840. He 
served through his period of enlistment and 
in 1855 went to Wisconsin, locating on a farm 
in Wyocena, Columbia county, where the 
mother died in 1872, aged 70 years. The 
father is still living at Columbus, aged 83 years. 
Their four cliildren are still living. Jane 
Ann is Mrs. D. D. Tompkins ; James H. served 
in the 23d Wisconsin Infantr\' three years ; 
Emma married J. R. Decker. Mr. Holmes is 
the youngest of them all. He received a com- 
mon school education and was his father's 
assistant on the farm when the war came 
on. He was onlj' 17 years old when he 
enlisted Sep. 18, 1861, on his birthday, in Com- 
pany D, 10th Wisconsin Infantry, at Portage. 
He mustered with the regiment September 18th 
and went to Shepherdsville, Kj'., and thence 
to Bacon Creek and there passed the winter of 
1861-2 and performed camp and guard duty 
until February 10, 1862, when they moved by 
way of Bowling Green towards Nashville, 
skirmishing on the way, taking possession of 
Bowling Green and reaching Huntsville, Ala., 
April 11th. On the way they destroyed a rail- 
road bridge on the Memphis & Ciiarleston R. 
R. and guarded the position, wiiich had cut 
Beauregard's communications. Mr. Holmes 
was with a detail to guard a britlge 16 miles 
from Stevenson, Ala., April 27tli and ou the 
29th fought at Bridgeport; he afterwards was 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 



577 



was with his regiment in guarding the trains 
from Huntsville to Stevenson. He was in the 
forced marches to Louisville, arriving there 
September 28th, fighting on the way. About 
the first of October the regiment started in pur- 
suit of Bragg and was in the fight at Perryville 
on the 8th, Company D losing more than a 
dozen men. They made a return b}' marches 
of great hardship to Nashville and, Dec. 31, 
1863, were again in battle at Stone River. Tlie 
action lasted four days and after it was over 
the regiment camped near Murfreesljoro until 
Rosecrans moved to Tullahoma, going to camp 
at Cowan Station, thence to camp at Anderson 
and, September ■2d, the movement to Georgia 
commenced. A part of the regiment was in 
the fight at Dug Gap and went into battle 
at Chickamauga, on the 19tli, tlie command 
being 373 strong and coming out with 26 men 
and three ofiicers, tlie rest being killed, wounded 
or prisoners, the latter including 123 officers 
and men. Mr. Holmes represented two of these ; 
classes being wounded and a prisoner. A piece 
of shell struck his foot and he was afterwards 
taken prisoner, but he escaped. He was knocked 
insensible during the fight and on regaining 
consciousness, found he had been stripped 
naked by the soldiers of the 5th Arkansas. As 
he was considering his condition, a shell from a 
Union battery struck in close proximity to the 
rebel guarding him and while the latter was 
recovering from his terror he took occasion to 
slip out of his reach and run for the woods. I 
He came across seven dead rebels, from whom 
he collected a wardrobe, and made his way to 
the Lhiion lines, falling in with a comrade of 
the 33d Ohio. He went to 01 lattanooga, where 
his command was reorganized and remained 
there in starvation and hardsbiji with Rosecrans' 
command who awaited reinforcements from 
Grant in one of the most dangerous positions 
of the war, as all that had been accomjilished 



was in danger. Sherman came, and then 
Hooker, and the fighting which drove Bragg 
from Lookout and Mission Ridge followed. If 
the war ever presented a complete picture of 
uncomplaining want and sacrifice it was at 
Chattanooga. While on picket at the foot of 
Lookout Mountain Mr. Holmes had two crack- 
ers and some beachnuts and acorns for three 
days and nights ; the men stole part of the 
scanty allowance of the horses to keep life in 
their famished bodies, but no complaint has 
ever been made. When Hooker came and the 
battle above the clouds was fought with its 
glorious, unexpected victory, officers watching 
the movements of the volunteer soldiers with 
voiceless amazement, the men moved to win 
and did it. At Ringgold afterwards the 10th 
received recruits and started November 15th 
on the march to the sea, preceded by the siege 
of Atlanta and its attendant battles. Mr. 
Holmes fought at Dallas, Kenesaw Mountain 
and Peach Tree Creek, and all tlie battles lead- 
ing up to and including Atlanta. After the 
fall of Atlanta the regiment was ordered to 
Marietta. Hood broke his cartel and started 
North to interfere with Sherman's communica- 
tions and took position in the trenches before 
Kenesaw. Thei'e the time of the original en- 
listment expired and Mr. Holmes went home 
and was discharged at Milwaukee Dec. 24, 
1864. His weight when he enlisted was 170 
pounds and when he arrived home it was 110 
pounds. At Perryville a bullet passed up the 
right fore arm and lodged near the jugular 
vein in the neck. During this action 13 balls 
passed through his coat and one tore away the 
top of his cap. At Murfreesboro he received a 
saber cut in his head and was carried from the 
field. Dr. Marks, now of Milwaukee, dressed 
his wounds and he was soon in readiness for 
action. He was in every engagement in which 
his regiment was concerned and performed as 



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much scout and picket duty as an\' man in the 
command. He was young and of excessively 
active temperament and much of the time 
acted as an officer, tliough persistently refusing 
a commission. He returned home before the 
close of the war simply on account of impaired 
health from hardship and privation. After his 
discharge he returned to Portage and could not 
assume connection with active business until 
1873, when he commenced operations as a grain 
and live stock buyer at Westfield, Wis. On 
his return to Portage in 1876 he continued to 
operate in the same avenue until 1888, when 
he sold his business relations on account of his 
ill health. He is a charter member of his Post 
and has held most of the official positions 
therein. He is one of the oldest Odd Fellows 
in the city and is an active Republican. He 
was a candidate for the office of City Clerk in 
the spring of 1890, but was defeated by a 
small majority; subsequently lie received the 
appointment of census enumerator. 

He was married Oct. 21, 1867, by Rev. 
Tliomas Keenan at St. Mary's Church at Por- 
tage, to Anna H. Brady, born in Vermont, 
Dec. 25, 1843. Their children were born as 
follows:— Mary E., March 26, 1870 ; Charles E., 
April 18, 1872; Catherine J., April 24, 1874; 
Raymond E., Jan. 23, 1879; Alfred, April 11, 
1881. 

?^^ ENERAL HOLLON RICHARDSON. 
Among the countless personal rec- 
ords in the history of the civil war 
there is not one which more perfectly illus- 
trates the spirit of the North wiiicli accom- 
plished the repression of the rebollion than 
that of him whose name heads this account of 
his connection with the story of the Iron I)rig- 
ade. The volunteer soldiers were thorns in 
the sides of the officers who had been trained 




at West Point and to whom secrecy was the 
grand desideratum of existence. But every 
one of them knew what he was fighting for as 
well and sometimes better than his superiors, 
for back of him lay his home, all he had 
struggled and hoped for and above all, the 
sacred inheritance from his sires of a united 
country. They had been trained in ways and 
expectations of peace evermore; the war was 
a surprise and a painful surprise to most of 
them ; but thej' knew wliat was at stake and 
what they did, they did advisedly of their own 
convictions and consciences. The delays and 
mistakes of the officers at the beginning of tiie 
war galled them ; l)Ut they were true patriots 
and inflexible supporters 'of authority and 
knew that Right was their sUindard bearer and 
that time would remedy all mistakes. And 
they fought on to see rebellion in its last 
throes on many fields, the Iron Brigade seeing 
the confederacy make its last desperate effort 
at Appomattox Court House. The liistorian 
who transcribes these inadequate records does 
the work with pride in the volunteer soldiers 
of the Nortli and especially in the case of Gen- 
eral Richardson, knowing that on countless 
pages is his name inscribed in connections in 
which it appears in all the luster his magnifi- 
cent career merits. 

He was born at Poland, Ohio, Dec. 25, 1837, 
and is the oldest of nine children born to 
Hollon and Clarissa (McKenzic) Richard.son. 
William, George, Lemuel, Mary, Louise, Mar- 
tha (deceased), Ella and Katie succeeded him 
in order of birth. His father was born at Rowe, 
Mass., of ATnerican lineage; his mother was 
born in Peiuisylvania and was of Scotch de- 
scent. The senior Richardson was a contractor 
in the East during the period of construction 
of canals and railroads and operated in connec- 
tion with many public thorougli fares, one of 
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across the Allegheny mountains. He died at 
Chijipewa Falls in 18SG, aged 82 years. His 
wife died in Poland, Ohio, in 1855. 

Hollon Richardson was a studious, reflective 
hoy and detained all the advantages possible 
in the scliools to which he was sent in youth. 
He studied for the profession of law and in 
August, 1857, was admitted to the Ohio Bar by 
Chief .Justice Bartley, on the motion of Hon. 
.J. D. Cox, Secretary of the Interior in Grant's 
first administration. In April, 1858, he se- 
lected bis field of work at Chippewa Falls, Wis- 
consin, and in 18G0 was elected District Attor- 
ney for Chippewa county. He held the oftice 
until he entered the military service of the 
United States. 

With the first call to arms he closed his 
office and was the first man to enlist in his 
county. At his own expense he entered upon 
the work of recruiting and enlisted about 30 
men, started with them on an open flatboat, 
improvised for the business, and conducted 
them to be sworn into service. He returned 
and -recruited as many others, with whom he 
was mustered into the 7tli Wisconsin Infantry. 
Governor Randall tendered him a Captain's 
commission which he refused but, at the urgent 
solicitation of liis comrades, he accepted a com- 
mission as 1st Lieutenant of Company A, and 
went to the front in September to enter the 
organization known afterwards for its sterling 
character and reliability on the field as the 
Iron Brigade, which will have as deathless a 
repute as the band that fought at Thermopylae 
or the Light Brigade of the Crimea. With 
McDowell, the Ttli went to the campaign of 
Pope and was afterwards in tlie campaign of 
the Rappahannock and Mr. Richardson was 
with the 1st Corps umler Hooker with his regi- 
ment, which led the advance at South Moun- 
tain, where he was in action, although suffer- 
ing from chronic bowel disease, contracted in 



August, 1862, before Fredericksburg, and from 
which he has never recovered. (His weiglit 
was reduced from 180 to 110 pounds.) He was 
in the second Rappahannock campaign and 
fought at Fredericksburg, where he received 
two flesh wounds. It almost goes without say- 
ing that he fought at Gettysburg, so many 
times is his name mentioned in every account 
of the action. At the first day's battle he saw a 
di.sheartened Pennsylvania regiment trail their 
colors and flinch ; he rushed forward with all 
his impetuous spirit awake, seized the flag and 
shouting, tried to rally the faltering command, 
but in vain. His position was one of great ex- 
posure and it is probable that the rebels re- 
spected his brave movement, for he was un- 
harmed, and he bore away the flag. He was 
reconnoitering after the first day's fight and 
captured a rebel lieutenant and two men, from 
whom he obtained information regarding the 
enemy's plans which he regarded of great im- 
portance and communicated them (o General 
Wadsworth, his Division Commander, and to 
whom he also made some suggestions as to the 
disposition of our forces, which caused that 
officer to advise immediate communication 
with Meade. General Ricliardson gave Gen- 
eral Meade the intelligence he had gathered 
and suggested the advantage of placing guns 
in position on the right of the hill and the ex- 
tending of the Union lines on the right. 
Meade appreciated the advice and ordered rifled 
guns placed there; General Richardson sug- 
gested the advantage of howitzers, when Meade 
drew up haughtily and said, "Sir, when I want 
your advice I will call for it." He smarted 
somewhat under the rebufl" but made like sug- 
gestions to Wadsworth, who considered them of 
such moment that he ventured to present them 
to Jtleade, who treated him in a similar man- 
ner. But General Richardson had the satisfac- 
tion of knowing afterwards that every one of 



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them were put into effect, and that they were of 
the utmost service. An attack was contem- 
plated on the position where the guns were 
placed and was prevented hj* tlie information 
which General Richardson imparted to Meade 
about midnight of July 1st. Of his services 
that day in action the following letter speaks 
in terms that deserve record here; " Head- 
quarters, 2d Brigade, 1st Division, A. C, Aug. 
13, 1863. To the Governor of Wisconsin. 
Sir: — I desire to recommend to your especial 
consideration. Captain Hollon Richardson, of 
tlie 7th Wisconsin Volunteers. His faithful- 
ness as an officer generally ; his bravery and 
good judgment in the various battles in which 
he has been and especially on the bloody field 
of Gettysburg, where he manifested the utmost 
coolness and bravery, entitle liim to the especial 
considei'ation of the Executive of the State he 
has so much honored. At Gettysburg he vir- 
tually commanded the brigade for a portion 
of the day. It cannot be known huw many 
lives he saved by the manner in which he 
brought off the troops from that field on the 1st 
of July, when there seemed to be no one else to 
give orders, most of the field officers having 
been killed or wounded. Very respectfully, 
L. Cutler, Brigadier General." General Wads- 
worth wrote to Governor Randall of him under 
date of July 14, 1863:— "In the battle of Gettys- 
burg, as the senior staff officer of the Brigade, a 
large and unusual amount of responsibility de- 
volved upon him, amounting at times to the 
command of the brigade. His conduct on this, 
as on other occasions of severe trial, was in the 
highest degree tneritorious." 

^ He was in the attack on the 18th of June at 
Petersburg and was one of two otlicers who, 
with about 400 men, advanced to within a 
stone-throw of the enemy's works, moving for- 
ward in great danger from the shells from the 

Union batteries whicli, in trying to protect the 



movement, were fired so low that their missiles 
fell close to the assaulting column which held 
its position, gained in tlie face of a pitiless rain 
from nmsketry and artiller}' and, commenced 
with bayonets and tin plates to throw uj) 
breastworks. Richardson appreciated the sit- 
uation, saw that nothing but a general as.sault 
would save them and ran the gauntlet of hell- 
fire to brigade headqxiarters. The whole com- 
mand shared witii him the glory of the move- 
ment in which the force was com])elled to fall 
back after fighting to the last moment. Major 
Richardson (then) ran a half mile and received 
a wound in his hand. 

The following correspondence speaks for 
itself: Headquarters, 7th Wisconsin Vet. Vols., 
February 18, 1865. Major General G. H. War- 
ren, Com'dg Sth Armj' Corps. General : 
Ever since the 18th day of June before Peters- 
burg, I have been thinking of the proposition 
I made you in July last. I feel that it is of so 
much importance as to justify a second consid- 
eration. I am satisfied in my own mind as 
then that the works of the enemy in front of 
Petersburg, or at almost any point on the line 
can be carried by assault, and I think with 
a loss of less men than in open field, fighting 
with the present extended lines; judging from 
our own it is fair to presume that the enemy 
can have but a light line of men in their works. 
If that line of men can be attacked in force 
without giving the enemy previous notice, if 
Fort Fisher manned as it was could be carried, 
I can see no good reason why we may not have 
equal success. I think two corps sufficient for 
the work. I would, a week or ten days in 
advance of the movement, by order require, 
that every night each and every man should 
actually have in his possession sixty (60) rounds 
of cartridges and four (4) days rations. I would 
equip each file closer with a spade. The 
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place, until the order " charge " should be given. 
I can but believe that their movements is a 
most treacherous tell-tale and would be liable 
to put tiie enemy on his guard. 

I would move the troops by night from their 
cabins in light marching order on a short 
hour's notice. I can see no reason why two 
corps cannot be thus put in position ready for 
the charge with such secrecy as to preclude 
suspicion, and without the knowledge of our 
pickets or the pickets of the enemy. My plan 
for the assault is the same I suggested last sum- 
mer. If you will permit me to select 1,000 
j)icked men from the troops of your corps, per- 
mit me to officer them from the officers of the 
corjjs, allow me to drill them at least two days 
each week until the time of assault, I will carry 
the works of the enemy at any point on the 
line that may be selected. The breach once 
made, the two corps can take positions without 
opposition, and with the Pioneer force on the 
field can so entrench, before the enemy can 
make his dispositions, as to make every 
obtained position perfectly secure. I would 
make the assault at early daylight in two Hues 
of battle. I believe I can reach the works of 
the enemy before he can get out of his blankets. 
Respectfully, H. Richardson, Lt. Col. Cora'dg 
Regiment." 

" Confidential. Headquarters, 5th Army 
Corps, Feb. 28, 1865. Col. Richardson, Dear 
Sir: — I have read your communication of the 
ISth and showed it to General Meade. The 
main objection to keeping your plan a secret 
is that you request to select your men and drill 
them before hand, and that will certainly 
arouse discussion and put the enemy on his 
guard ; if the preparation of the assaulting col- 
umn could be made up with necessary secrecy 
the time may come when it will be desirable 
to make the effort. Respectfully, G. H. War- 
ren, Maj. Gen." 



"Headquarters, 7th Wisconsin Vet. Vols., 
March 2, 1865. Major General G. H. Warren, 
Com'dg 5th Army Corps. General : — Your 
favor of the 28tli, in answer to mine of the 
18tli ult., received. You state that the main 
objection to keeping my plan a secret is " that 
you (I) require to select your (my) men and 
drill them beforehand, " stating " that that 
will certainly arouse discussion, and put the 
enemy on his guard. " Permit me to suggest 
that your objection might be obviated if it 
could be made to apjiear, that at your head- 
quarters, or at headquarters of the Army of the 
Potomac, it was necessary to have a body 
guard or skirmish command of 1,000 picked 
men, say one Captain, one Lieutenant, three 
Sergeants, four Corporals and thirty privates, 
from regiments who have especially distin- 
guished themselves in battle, to be selected 
with great care by the commanding officers of 
the respective regiments. 

Should the above be thought objectionable, 
might not the command selected as above for 
" special service " be sent beyond the lines of 
the department, then drilled and secretly re- 
turned when needed? Shovild my suggestions 
or former proposition meet with favor, I would 
be pleased to have the command armed with 
tl*e Spencer rifle. Respectfully, H. Richard- 
son, Lt. Col. Com'dg Regiment." 

His proposition was finally accepted and he 
selected his own regiment as the nucleus of the 
assault and with picked officers he began opera- 
tions. He had drilled 14 days when the rebels 
anticipated his movement by doing what he 
was jweparing to do and, although the splendid 
courage of the Union troops prevented the rup- 
ture of the Union lines, they took Fort Stead- 
man. But they paid the cost at Fort Mahone. 

Major General Warren in his official report 
of the 5th Army Corps, at the battle of Five 
Forks, Virginia, says : " During this last 



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charge my horse was fatally shot within a few 
paces of the lino where the enemy made his 
last stand ; an Orderly by my side was killed 
and Colonel Richardson of the 7th Wisconsin, 
seeing my danger, s])rang between me and the 
enemy, saving my life and receiving a severe 
wound." 

He w^as six times wounded in action and 
was breveted three times for distinguished ser- 
vices in the field. These occurred on the dates 
that are catalogued with tliem, as follows: 
Dec. 2, 1864, Lieutenant Colonel; March 13, 
1865, Colonel, and March 13, 1865, Brigadier 
General of Volunteers. The first was conferred 
for bravery in action at Gravelly Run, Oct. 27, 
1864, when, with 155 muskets he captured 226 
rebels and re-took about 50 Union prisoners. 
In his memoirs General Sheridan mentions 
him for conspicuous action at Five Forks, Va. 
Swinton's history gives him conspicuous men- 
tion for the acts referred to herein, as do the 
Wisconsin historians, Quiner and Love. He 
was mustered out July 3, 1865, after the close 
of the war and refused a field position in the 
regular army to which he was recommended 
by Warren. Since tlie war, at the suggestion 
of General Sherman he reported to the AVar 
Department the fact that soldiers who wore the 
high black hat, as did his command, never 
suffered sunstroke, although the article of head- 
gear was the subject of much derision during 
the war. (It must not be forgotten that the com- 
mand was designated the " Big Hat Brigade." ) 

After the war he went to Baltimore and re- 
sumed the jiractice of law. During the first 
campaign in which Grant was a candidate he 
pu.shed his claims with all his vigor and im- 
petuosity and served as a delegate to the Na- 
tional Convention at Chicago in 1867 which put 
General Grant in nomination. He returned to 
Ciiip])ewa Falls in 1870 and has since been a 
resident of that place. 



He was married in Washington, D. C, May 
9, 1862, to Leonora, daughter of Colonel W. W. 
and Sarah (Fiske) Robinson. Their children 
are Leonora and Mamie. Leonora is the wife 
of E. H. Victor of Chippewa Falls. 



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UCIAN TOOLS MALLORY, Wauke- 
^.,.. sha. Wis., member of W. B. Gushing 
^ Post No. 19, was born Dec. 13, 1835, 
in Barkhamstead, Litchfield Co., Connecticut. 
His father's name was Amasa, and he had the 
misfortune to lose his mother when three days 
old. In descent he represents Amasa Mallory, 
a Revolutionary patriot who fought at New 
Haven as a minute man and assisted in the ex- 
pulsion of the British from that vicinity. His 
father came to Wisconsin and when he was 16 
years old he joined him, going thence to Kan- 
sas during the troubled period there and on his 
return stayed a twelve-month at Beloit. He 
went next to Rockford and thence after two 
years to Pike's Peak, returning subsequent to 
the excitement there to Rockford. He went 
next to Janesville, where he enlisted as a sol- 
dier Dec. 27, 1863, in the 12th Wisconsin Light 
Artillery, and joined the command as a recruit 
at Huntsville, Ala., the battery being under 
the command of Captain William Zickerick 
(see first volume Wisconsin series). He re- 
mained there until June following, when he 
went to Stevenson and in July to Allatoona, 
Ga., where he performed guard and garrison 
duty until the memorable action there October 
5th, when he was engaged in the fighting. 
The battery made a most honorable record, and, 
November 12th, went to Atlanta, made connec- 
tion with the forces of Sherman and marched 
to the sea, and Mr. Mallory endured all the 
vicissitudes of the long march, fighting at 
Hickory Hill, Beutonville and Columbia, S. C. 







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585 



Small justice can be done within the limits of a 
sketch to the experiences of an artilleryman. 
He must become acquainted with the military 
tactics pertaining to other branches of the ser- 
vice to which he is liable to be summoned un- 
der all conditions. He must perform hard 
labor on a march, and operate always from 
.standpoints which specially advertise him as 
an enemy to his foes, his position being always 
apparent and his identity unmistakable. 

After the surrender of Johnston Mr. Mallory 
went to Richmond and Washington, where his 
battery passed in the Grand Review. He re- 
turned to Wisconsin to be mustered out .Tune 
26, 1865. 

He entered the employ of the C. & N. W. 
railroad corporation and, two years later, that 
of the St. Paul. For a number of years he has 
operated as an expressman, and in various call- 
ings. He was married to Sarah Jane Tooth- 
aker and they have two children. They are 
twins and are named Frank and PYed. Clar- 
ence died while the father was in the army. 
Mr. Mallory is a charter member of the Order 
known as the Royal Arcanum. 



EROY G. ARMSTRONG, M. D., Mayor 

1^ of Boscobel, Wis., (1889) was born in 

'^ Cortland, K Y., March 7, 1834. His 



father, Robert Armstrong, was a North of Ire- 
land man by descent, Scotch-Irish in lineage 
and represented an ancestor named Francis 
Armstrong, who emigrated to America in 1728, 
a little more than 100 years after his forbears 
had gone to Ireland from Scotland to escape 
from one rigorous condition to encounter 
another equally distressing, but which served as 
a stimulus to preserve the Scotch blood in purity; 
the cognomen Scotch-Irish being distinctive 
and applying only to the class referred to. 



Francis Armstrong located iu Goshen, Orange 
Co., New York, and from him descended several 
generations now represented in New York 
(Owego) by Francis 4tli and 5th. The early 
generations in America preserved their char- 
acter for dignity and prominence and became 
what was termed in the old country " gentle- 
men " on account of their land holdings, on 
which their descendants still dwell. The 
mother of Dr. Armstrong, Huldah Grant 
before marriage, was descended from stock that 
came from Scotland to America and located in 
Litchfield Co., Conn.; she is the daughter of Levi 
and Rhoda (Andrus) Grant and lives with her 
daughter in Janesville, Wis. The father died 
in 1875. 

In 1845 the family removed to Whitewater, 
Wis., where the son grew up and completed his 
elementary education, also entering upon the 
.study of medicine there and at Fort Atkinson 
and Wisconsin State University. In 1856 he 
went to Chicago and matriculated at Rush 
Medical College, where he finished his course 
and was graduated in 1859. His first year of 
practice was passed at Palmyra, Wis., whence 
he went to Fennimore, Wis., and was commis- 
sioned Assistant Surgeon of the 8th Wisconsin 
Infantry, Aug. 11, 1862, entering on the duties 
of the position while that command was 
stationed at Corinth, Miss. But he was first 
made acquainted with the whole horror of 
a surseon's life after the battle of Corinth, 
wliere he amputated 39 legs and arms of rebels. 
While on this service he contracted camp 
dysentery and, finding the disease uncon- 
trollable in that climate, he returned home and 
I in Auguist, 1864, he was appointed Assistant 
! Surgeon to the 6th Wisconsin Infantry, acting 
as first assistant of that command through the 
siege of Petersburg. He was commissioned 
I Chief Surgeon of the 48lh Wisconsin Infantry, 
with which he was mustered into service in the 



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spring of 1865 and left Milwaukee March 22d 
for St. Louis; be left that place for Paoli, 
Kansas, and went thence to Fort Scott, where 
he was in charge of the hospitals. He super- 
intended the transfer of 50 wagon loads of sick 
and wountled to Fort Leavenworth and he pro- 
ceeded with the conamaud westward, two com- 
panies going to Fort Zarah, two companies being 
stationed at Fort Larned, two companies at Fort 
Dodge, two companies at Fort Aubrey and two 
companies at Fort Lyon, these posts being 
established for the protection of mail and Gov- 
ernment trains in Kansas and Colorado Terri- 
tory, the Lidians being hostile. In the course 
of his service in Colorado, Dr. Armstrong 
became familiar with famous characters on the 
frontier among whom was Kit Carson. (Kit 
Carson died at Fort Lyon May 23, 1868). Dr. 
Armstrong made his headquarters at Fort 
Larned (regimental headquarters) and was 
actively engaged in the duties of his profession 
and in the work of saving his own and the 
scalps of the men in his charge from the In- 
dians, who made matters lively for the 48th 
Wisconsin Infantry in Kansas and Colorado. 
The regiment was mustered out at Leaven- 
worth and reached Madison in January, 1866, 
Dr. Armstrong receiving an aj^pointment as 
Surgeon of the U. S. Tost at Fort Larned, 
where two companies each of cavalry and iit- 
fantry, regulars, were stationed, and in Feb- 
ruary, 1866, he severed his connection with 
military service. 

On his return to Wisconsin he located at 
Boscobel, where he has continued to reside in 
the same house of which he Hrst took po.sisession. 
He has established a successful and popular 
practice at Boscobel and politically and socially, 
as well as in every sense pertaining to his citi- 
zenship, is one of the most pojiular men of his 
city. He was the Hrst Commander of John 
McDermott Post No. 101, and has been active 



in his interest in Grand Army matters. He is 
a member of the Order of the Loyal Legion, 
Commander}' of Wisconsin, his rank as Major 
in the U. S. service entitling him to member- 
ship in that body. He is advanced in Masonry 
and is a Knight Tenii)lar ; he is present Pre- 
late and Past E. C. of De ^lolai Commandery 
No. 15, K. T. He is an Odd Fellow and be- 
longs to the A. 0. U. W. He was an attend- 
ant at the Conclave of the K. T. at Washing- 
ton in 1889. Although he is Mayor of Bosco- 
bel, he is not an asi)irant for political advance- 
ment, but lias accepted the jiosition beeause of 
the strenuous desire of a multitude of friends 
who believe him the best man for the place. 
Dr. Armstrong is the possessor of merited jiopu- 
larity through liis honorable character and up- 
right, stainless life. 

He was married at Milton, Rock Co., Wis., 
in 1861, to Sarah D., daughter of Jonathan and 
Mary Bond. Charles Allen, their oldest son, is 
a practicing physician and the business asso- 
ciate of his father, the firm style being L. G. & 
C. A. Armstrong. George G., youngest son, is 
a student in the Law Department of the Uni- 
versity at Madison, Wis. Dr. Armstrong is a 
member of the various medical associations of 
Wisconsin and was President of the State Medi- 
cal Society in 1887-8. 

Dr. Armstrong's portrait appears on page 584. 

•>^«*^^I€^»-K- 




ANFORD SCHRAGER RIDDELL, M. 

1)., Chijipewa Falls, Wis., is a histor- 
ical character such as seldom receives 
historical perpetuity in a volume like this. His 
name takes the historian to the days when New 
Orleans became Federal property under tiie 
auspices of Farragut and Butler and of tliis 
period Dr. Riddell can say "of all this I was 
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587 



unique, even in this land of unique national- 
ities, liis earliest forefathers having belonged to 
Normandy 200 j'ears before William invaded 
England, his first known ancestor being record- 
ed in tluit country in 885. He was of knightly 
blood and married a daugliter of the royal 
house of France. As was the custom, he was 
known by liis given name only, which was 
Walgrinus, Earl of Angoulesme and Arragon. 
Seven generations from him was Galfridus, 
founder of the earldom of Angoulesme, which 
branch closed with Isabella of Angonlesme 
(Duchess) daugliter and lieiress of Count and 
Countess Aymer Talliafer of Angoulesme, who 
bore the patronymic Riddell. She became the 
consort of John of England of Magna Charta 
fame and tlie ancestress of the entire line of 
English royalty, though with her died Oct. 19, 
121G, tlie dukedom and prestige of the house of 
Angoulesme, tlie estates passing to the crown. 
It would be interesting history to trace the suc- 
cession of these estates which have probably 
been conferred several times. The later ances- 
tral stock of Mr. Riddell branched into Scot- 
land, went to Ireland in 1609 to secure im- 
munity from the persecutions of James, son of 
Mary, Queen of Scots, where the Scotch-Irish 
race preserved itself intact 100 years during a 
series of persecutions in no wise less than those 
they had fled from, and in 1709 their emigra- 
tions to other portions of the earth commenced. 
In 1718 three brothers, *Robert, Hugh and 
Gavin Riddell, came to Massachusetts and from 
the first of these Dr. Riddell claims descent. 
John L., his father, was the son of Gavin, the 
son of Robert. John L. was born in Leydeii, 
Mass., Feb 20, 1807, was educated in Oxford 
Academy and at the Rensselaer School in Troy, 
New York, receiving from the latter his degree 
of A. B. and later post graduate degree of A. 
M. He was a devotee of science and became 
eminent for acquirements in chemistry, botany 



and geology. He acquired fame in the lecture 
field at a period when lectures on natural 
science were among the novelties of the plat- 
form, and he became prominent as a scholar 
and student in man}' States and the Dominion. 
In 1835 he became Professor of Chemistry and 
Botany in the Cincinnati Medical College from 
which he received his degree as M. D. In 1836 
he was made Professor of Chemistry in the 
Medical College of New Orleans and in 1852 he 
held the chair in that institution under State 
patronage. Prior to this, in 1838, he had con- 
ducted an exploring expedition into Texas, 
whence had come rumors of mines of gold and 
silver of exceeding richness, which aroused all 
his interest, but the Indians presented obstacles 
too formidable for students to contend with, as 
the redskins were not amenable to argument 
nor could they be impressed with the impor- 
tance of geological researches and the senior 
Riddell abandoned his expedition and returned 
to New Orleans. He was appointed afterwards 
by the President as Melter and Refiner at the 
U. S. Mint at New Orleans and held the posi- 
tion until 1849. During this period he made 
numerous contributions to the scientific litera- 
ture of the day, which have since been fully 
recognized for value and he published among 
other things "A Monogram of the Dollar," in- 
cluding fac simile impressions of about 600 
vai'ieties of American and Mexican dollars and 
half dollars, both genuine and counterfeit, with 
assays of each and the mode of detection of the 
spurious. He also promulgated a Thesis on 
Miasm and Contagion, which lias since been 
generally adopted on the theory that "organ- 
ized and living corpuscles of various kinds " 
were the agents of communication in contagious 
disease. In 1860 he was appointed Postmaster 
at New Orleans and held the position until the 
Federal Army took possession of the Crescent 
City. He married Mary E. Knocke of New 



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Orleans and they had two sons, John S. dying 
young. Dr. Riddell was born at New Orleans, 
Aug. 22, 1838, and in December, 1839, lost liis 
mother by death. He was sent to his grand- 
mother in New Yorlc and in 1848 returned to 
his father at New Orleans and became a student 
in the Ijouisiana College, going thence to the 
Academic Department of the University of 
Louisiana. Subsequently he entered the Med- 
ical Department of the University whence he 
was graduated in March, 1860, having made a 
special studj' of uterine diseases. After his re- 
turn to his father his boyhood days ceased 
and he became a constant assistant to the 
labors in the laborator}', beginning at an early 
age to prepare and perform the experiments 
before tiie claisses as his father's assistant and 
acquiring a knowledge of chemistry which 
seemed to become his by natural selection. He 
assisted him in analyses and microscopical re- 
searches and aided in completing and perfect- 
ing the binocular microscope, which instrument 
was invented by the senior Riddell. His own 
attention was early drawn to the field of dis- 
covery, and he discovered, described and named 
the Polygonum Nova au reliensis. In 1860 he 
was selected as assistant of the State Geologist 
of Texas and he rendered valuable assistance 
to science there. When he returned to New 
Orleans he entered upon the regular practice 
of medicine and became Assistant Postmas- 
ter under his fatlier. In 1861 he was called to 
the Chair of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the 
New Orleans Dental College and held the posi- 
tion nominally until 1866, though, through the 
war the College was inoperative. When it was 
reopened in 1866 he was solicited to resume 
his former connection therewith, but sent in- 
stead his formal resignation. 

Rebellion was rife around the Riddells for 
many months but they hoped to receive immun- 
ity from its evils, as they had been so absorbed 



in scientific connections and business as to be 
practically outside of the question. But it was 
a vain hope. Tiie senior Riddell was a 
thorough Union man but was early brought 
into contact with rebel plans, being designated 
to prepare the light for the forts at the mouth 
of the harbor. In order to save his father this 
humiliation, his son assumed the duty and 
arranged the system of lights at Forts Jackson 
and St. Phillip. Prior to this he had been 
notified by the rebel authorities that he must 
unite with tlie confederates or be treated as 
their enemy and he was conscripted into 
Mullin's Battalion of Scouts and Sharpshooters, 
designed for home service. The Mullin Battal- 
ion was distributed along the river near Fort 
Jackson for the purpose of picking off ]>ilots 
and officers that came up on the Union gun- 
boats. The officers of the command were 
a dissipated set and their habits were easily 
communicated to the rank and file, the dis- 
order being at such a pitch that some of the 
time Dr. Riddell was in command and exer- 
cised such discipline as he could. Fnially the 
presence of the battalion became so obnoxious 
to other troops in the vicinity that they were 
ordered up the river. Dr. Riddell was stationed 
at Algiers and wentaboai-d an old launch which 
was armed with an old field piece — a brass six- 
pounder. The rebels in the vicinity wanted a 
demonstration made of the sentiments of tlie 
company and thought something should be 
done as expressive of loyalty to the South and 
possibly intimidate the North at the same time, 
so the old launch was taken out into tlie stream 
to be ready for the Union fleet when it came 
along and when it did, two shots from the six- 
pounder notified the flag-ship that she had 
better surrender to the confederacy then and 
there represented. But she just brushed the fly 
off with a whisking shot on the bows which 
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liath. Disgusted with such levity the launch 
turned her back and went her waj'. 

Dr. Riddell was satisfied with his demonstra- 
tion, pulled down his confederate rag, put it in ' 
his pocket and started for New Orleans. Far- 
ragut had just landed about a score of marines 
and the city was in a tunnilt of excitement. 
People were fleeing ; the desperate classes 
formed into mobs; the officers brought up the 
marines and took possession of the U. S. Mint 
and Postoffice. The mob thickened and Farra- 
gut gave notice that if any of his men were 
murdered he should lay the city in ashes. 
Captain Ramsey was in command of the little 
squad of men and he was informed by Gen. 
Duncan that it would be impossible to restrain 
the populace after dark and Captain Ramsey 
stated that the Custom House should be 
defended. The Richmond lay in the river and 
the signaling had failed. Dr. Riddell went to 
Captain Ramsey, placed his life at his service 
and undertook to deliver a dispatch to the 
Richmond although he felt all the risk he . 
incurred. The papers were given him and he 
rolled them in tinfoil and placed them in his 
mouth. He left the postoffice and marciied 
boldly to the wharf followed by a howling mob i 
who were curiously watching his movements. 
While he watched his opportunity to give a 
signal for a boat to the Richmond, the despera- 
does discussed the expediency of hanging him. 
But this took all their abilities, individual and 
collective, and the doctor succeeded in giving 
the signal and when the boat arrived it was in 
the nick of time to save his neck. He went 
aboard and surrendered his message; the 
Richmond signaled the flag-ship, which sig- 
naled to Captain Ramsey to come on board 
with the marines. Soon after Dr. Riddell 
left the postoffice the mob broke in its 
doors and commenced depredations. He re- 
mained on the Richmond all night and went 



to the city in the morning, the marines again 
landing and holding the city days, going 
aboard the gunboats at night, until Butler ar- 
rived. That officer requested Dr. Riddell to re- 
open the postoffice but, as his health was poor 
he asked to be relieved, gave up the keys, with 
the combinations to his son. Dr. Riddell of 
this sketch, and on Butler's ordering the vaults 
oj)ened Dr. Riddell consented on condition that 
a receipt should be rendered for the contents, 
which was done and Dr. Riddell turned over 
the property to Butler. Subsequently, after he 
had taken the oath to support the Constitution 
of the United States he took charge of the post- 
office under .Jno. M. G. Parker. He reorgan- 
ized the business and remained on duty there 
until June, 1802, when he resigned and went 
North by sea and remained until fall, when he 
returned South. He was in New York during 
the draft riots and when orders were issued to 
allow no one to leave the city, with 19 others, 
he made one of an association of merchant 
marines, bought a steamboat and sailed out of 
New York harbor for New Orleans, stopping at 
intermediate seaports and having a good time 
generally until quarantined at New Orleans. 
He tried to sell the craft to Butler but he did not 
want it, and he sold it to other parties for $28,000. 
After his return to New Orleans he enlisted in 
the summer of 1863 in the 5th Louisiana ( White) 
Infantry, U. S. A., and was made Captain of 
Company E. The command was for home 
duty and in about three months Dr. Riddell 
commenced to recruit for a cavalry command, 
but his father's health was failing and he gave 
up military connection and resumed his prac- 
tice. In the summer of 1865 he was sum- 
moned to go to Brazos Santiago at the mouth 
of the Rio Grande in the construction of a 
liorhthouse and while there General Weitzel re- 
quested his assistance in the management of 
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received the appointment of Physician to the 
Household of Carlotta, wife of Maximilian, 
which he accepted and was about leaving to 
report in the city of Mexico, when the death of 
his father, Oct. 7, 1865, recalled him to New 
Orleans. In 1866 Dr. Riddell went to New 
York State and opened his business as a medi- 
cal practitioner. In 1874 lie located at Chip- 
pewa Falls, Wisconsin, wliere lie has established 
a splendid ami ]M)pular practice as a physician. 
He is a member of the New Orleans Academy 
of Science to wliich he was elected when he 
was 21 years old, in 1859; he belongs to the 
Chenango Co., New York, Medical Society. He 
is a member of the Chippewa Co., Wisconsin, 
Medical Society into which the Chippewa Falls 
Society was merged, and which he helped to 
organize and served as its President, Secretary 
and Treasurer ; he al.so belongs to the American 
Medical Association. The literary work per- 
formed by Dr. Riddell for his profession is 
enormous and he is justly regarded as a man 
whose scientific attainments entitle him to 
eminence, irrespective of his acknowledged 
skill as a physician. 

He was married at Cinciunatus, New York, 
in December, 1806, to Josephine, daughter of 
Roswell K. Bourne, and following is the record 
of their children: — Mary B., born Dec. 13, 1867; 
Josephine L., born June 13, 1869 ; Sanford L., 
born June 27, 1870 ; George W., born Sept. 18, 
1871; Louisiana, horn June 24, 1873. Jose- 
phine L. was married June 12, 1889, to Ricliard 
Sleight, an attorney at Hurley, Wis., and they 
have a son, Richard Riddell Sleight, born May 
6, 1890. 

Sanford L. and George W. are members of 
the camp of Sons of Veterans at Chippewa 
Falls, Wis. Sept. 17, 1887, Dr. Riddell was 
married at Ciiippewa Falls to Isabella Brown. 

Dr. Riddell's portrait aj^pears on jtage 584. 






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J^^ EORGE E. CATLIN, M. D., a prac- 
1 ^,^ j l ^ ticing physician at Lake Geneva, 
^--^ Wis., a former soldier of the civil 
war and one of the first to enlist under the first 
call of the i'resident for troops on the fall of 
the Hag at Fort Sumter, was born March 19, 
1840, near Wellsboro, Tioga Co., Pennsylvania. 
He is the re])resentative of four generations of 
Catliiis who descended from the founder of this 
branch of the family in America. The latter 
is now known only as "General" Catlin, all 
data concerning his anteceilents being unavail- 
able at this writing. He came to America dur- 
ing the course of the French and Indian war 
in command of a bod}' of French troops and 
after the conflict was over settled in Boston 
where he died. He had three sons, one of 
whom remained in Boston; another went to 
Vermont and tlie third settled in Connecticut 
where he founded the branch of the family 
from which Dr. Catlin is descended. Few 
items of his history are known now except 
those relating to his descendants in Connecti- 
cut and that his youngest son was his name- 
sake, Joel. He was a soldier in the Revolution- 
ary war and his grandson remembers vividly 
the enthusiasm with which he was accustomed 
to speak of that struggle and of matters per- 
taining to the countr\'. He went to Rome, 
New York, and late in life he went to Tioga 
county, Pennsylvania, where he died when 
several j-ears past fourscore. 

Joel Catlin, father of Dr. Catlin, was still 
young when his father located in Tioga county, 
where he remained on the homestead after 
1822 until his death in 1884. 

The youth of Dr. Catlin was passed in school 

' and, after attending the academy at Wellsboro 
he entered a seminary at Mansfield and was 
graduated from the Normal department. He 
was afterwards a student at a select school in 

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when the intelligence of the assault on Sumter 
was quickly followed by the call for troops and 
he liastened to respond. April 19, 1861, as 
soon as the requisition for Pennsylvania was j 
issued, he enlisted in the " Sherwood Com- 
pany," a local organization which was assigned ' 
to the 6th Penn.sylvania Infantrj' Reserve and 
the entire period of three months' enlistment 
was passed in drill at Camp Curtin, where the 
regiment was held in readiness for any service. 

After return home, young Catlin again be- 
came a student until Oct. 19, 1861, when he 
enlisted in Company B, 101st Pennsylvania 
Infantry. He was mustered at Harrisburg, 
went thence to Washington and in the spring 
went with McClellan to the campaign of the 
Peninsula. He was in the siege of Yorktown 
and after that action carried the colors, partici- 
pating in the battle of Williamsburg and at 
Fair Oaks. He was taken sick at the close of 
the latter engagement and was transferred from 
the field hospital to a hospital in Philadelphia 
whence he was discharged for disability Sept. 
24, 1862. He again became a student at Mans- 
field and taught school through the succeed- 
ing winter. 

Aug. 10, 1863, he enlisted in Battery E, 5th 
U. S. Artillery from Wellsboro and joined the 
battery at Charabersburg. He was instructed 
in light and heavy artillery drill and in 
infantry tactics and in addition to the heavy 
labor always connected with artillery service 
was in all the actions of the 6th Corps to 
which his battery was assigned throughout 
the campaigns of Grant which led to the close 
of the war. Beginning with the Wilderness in 
the .'^jiring of 1864, iie fought with his battery 
at Spottsylvania, Ny River, Laurel Hill, on the 
North Anna, at Cold Harbor, at Petersburg on 
the terrible 17th and 18th of June, and was in 
all the exposures and skirmishes which follow- 
ed, including Fort Sedgwick (Fort Hell), at 



that place until its fall April 2, 1865, and he 
was in his last fight at Sailor's Creek five days 
later. Reference to the pages of detailed his- 
tory will show what this meager outline in- 
volved. Dr. Catlin was discharged as Sergeant 
.Jan. 17, 1866, at Key West, Fla., whither the 
command had been sent on detached duty 
after the close of the war. 

He reached his home in February, and in 
March went to Janesville, Wis. He traveled 
through Minnesota and in June returned to 
Janesville and began the study of medicine 
with Dr. Burden of Milton, working through 
that summer also in the office of the City 
Treasurer. In September he entered college 
at Beloit where he studied three years, and in 
the fall of 1869 went to Ann Arbor, Mich., and 
entered the Medical Department of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan; in March, 1870 he matricu- 
lated at Detroit Medical College, receiving his 
degree of M. D. from that institution. He 
located his business as a physician at Genoa 
Junction and two years later settled perma- 
nently at Lake Geneva, where he has advanced 
to popularity and prominence in his profession 
and socially. He has been for some years a 
member of the State Medical Society and of 
the American Medical As.sociation. He is a 
Royal Arch Mason, belonging to the Chapter 
at Lake Geneva. 

In May, 1871, Dr. Catlin was married to 
Lucretia D., a daughter of Major Benjamin 
Van Campen, who descended from stock which 
was famous in the Indian conflicts in which 
the early settlers of the country were engaged. 
On the mother's side, Mrs. Catlin belongs to 
the family made conspicuous through Saun- 
der's spelling-book. Elmira (Hill) Catlin, the 
mother of Dr. Catlin, was the daughter of 
Major and Polly (Hopkins) Hill, her mother 
having been of the family of Stephen Hopkins, 
the signer of the Declaration of Independence. 



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The portrait of Dr. Catlin which appears on 
page 584 is presented in this volume as a 
representative of a family whose generations 
have been prominent in all the history of the 
country. True to the blood and principles 
he inherited, from boyhood he never separated 
his personal interests from those of the coun- 
try whose honor he defended by three enlist- 
ments. 

LBERT W'ALLBER, Vice President of 
the Weisel & Vilter Manufacturing 
Co., Milwaukee, Wis., and member 
of Robert Chivas Post No. 2, G. A. R., was born 
April 13, 1842, in Berlin, Prussia. His parents, 
Julius and Henrietta (Krohn) Wallber, came to 
America in 1850, landing at the port of New 
York and residing in that city until 1855, when 
they removed to Milwaukee. The father died 
Dec. 8, 1879, and the mother is yet living. 
(1890.) Their family included five children, 
whose record is as follows : Emil, Judge of tbe 
Municipal Cburt at Milwaukee ; Albert Charles, 
bookkeeper for Schlitz Bottling Works ; Emma, 
wife of Oberforstmeister Heinrich von Kujawa, 
of Liegnitz, Prussia; Marie, wife of C. C. 
Schmidt, cashier of the 2d Ward Savings Bank 
of Milwaukee. 

Albert Wallber received a careful education 
in New York, and when Governor Salomon be- 
came chief executive of Wisconsin, he obtained 
a clerical position in his office, where he was 
occupied when he determined to enter tlie 
army. He enlisted in July, 1862, and on tlie 
organization of the regiment was commissioned 
2d Lieutenant of Company F, 26th Wisconsin 
Infantry, August 20th following, and received 
in the course of liis service the following pro- 
motions: l.st Lieutenant of Company I, acting 
as Ordnance Officer of the brigade, Feb. 1, 1863, 
and also as Adjutant of the 26th. He left Wis- 



consin with liis command and participated in 
all the operations of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division 
and 11th Corps, under Sigel, marched to Gaines- 
ville, went to the useless campaign of Fred- 
ericksburg, to the still more vain " Mud Cam- 
paign," and was in the position with his regi- 
ment at Chancellorsville. Mr. Wallber passed 
through that disaster unhurt, to encounter 
casualties of war at Gettysburg in the first day's 
fighting, being knocked down by a shell and 
taken prisoner on the field. With his squad, 
of unfortunate comrades he was marched to 
Stanton, Xa., jammed into a car and taken 
direct to Libby prison at Riclimond. He re- 
mained there until he made his escape Feb. 9, 
1864. He encountered all the miseries of 
prison life, which have been so often told and 
which mark the Southern people as capable of 
tbe most infamous atrocities which darken the 
pages of any history of any war since civiliza- 
tion has held sway. But he had the satisfac- 
tion of knowing that he was in excellent 
company and many acquaintances from Mil- 
waukee sliared the rigors of confinement, 
starvation and hardship with him. When 
the famous tunnel was finished by which Libby 
lost 109 men and the North regained 57 good 
and true soliiiers, (52 l)eing re-taken) he was 
among the number who made their escape to 
the Nortiiern lines although enfeebled by pri- 
vation and incarceration in a i)]act' witliout 
cleanliness or comfort of any descri]ition. He 
tVoze his feet, the weather being bitterly cold 
and increasing in that respect as they wandered 
towards the polar star and, when he reached 
Wa.shington he was sent to Douglas hosjiital 
for treatment. When able he was transferred 
to Milwaukee, but a long time elapsed before 
lie was sufficiently recovered to transjict busi- 
ness. His physical system was so badly 
shattered that he was forced to resign liis com- 
mission. As soon as he was well enough he 



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engaged as bookkeeper and in that capacity 
officiated for several leading business firms of 
Milwaukee and also as business manager. In 
October, 1888, he was elected Vice-President of 
the house already mentioned, of w'hich he is a 
member. Together with Mr. Domschke, he has 
prepared a most entertaining account of his 
experiences in prison and escape, which has 
become popular with the German people of the 
State. It is called " Erinnerungen ; 20 Monate 
in Gefangeuschaft, " and no book in the library 
at Milwaukee is in greater demand, as the ex- 
periences of soldiers in the civil war are taking 
their just prominence. The sketch of Gen. H. 
G. Hobart on another- page gives a graphic ac- 
count of some facts in connection with the most 
remarkable escape of any prisoners of war held 
by the South and some items not before pub- 
lished. 

Mr. Wallber is prominent among his country- 
men and is President of the German and En- 
glish Academy, a member of the Turnvereiii 
" Milwaukee " and Deutsche Gesellschaft. He 
was in high station in the Masonic Order, hav- 
ing served as High Priest of Milwaukee Chap- 
ter. 

He was married in Milwaukee in 1867 to 
Marie Lasche, a native of Saxony, Germany, 
and daughter of Ernst and ]\Iarie Lasche. Mr. 
and Mrs. Wallber have two children: — Ralph 
is Order Clerk in the Han ford Oil Company ; 
the other is a daughter named Hermance. 

Mr. Wallber's portrait appears on page 584. 

AMES DAVIDSON, Sparta, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 30, Department 
Commander of Wisconsin in 1888, was 
l)orn .Jan. 27, 1825 in Allegany county, New- 
York. His parents, James and Jane (David- 
son) Davidson, were born in Acworth, New 



Hampshire, respectively Jan. 15, 1781 and 
Dec. 26, 1785. They were descended from Wil- 
liam and Mary Davidson who were born in the 
North of Ireland of Scotch-Irish parentage, 
their ancestors having emigrated in 1619 from 
Scotland under the persecutions of the Scottish 
"kirk" in order to secure religious freedom, 
which scheme failed, their sufferings under the 
Irish of that section being of no less degree. 
In 1719 the immigration to America began and 
they afford one of the best strains in the nation- 
ality known as American. Mr. Davidson of 
this account is of the sixth generation from the 
couple named above. His father was a farmer 
and lumberman, rafting his lumber down the 
Alleghany River to Pittsburg. He died in Feb- 
ruary, 1843, and his son assumed charge of his 
business. The mother died Sep. 18, 1868. 
They had ten children born as follows: — Sum- 
ner, Nov. 30, 1808 ; Mary Jane, July 14, 1810 
Harvey, Aug, 5, 1811 ; Joshua L., Dec. 6, 1812 
Stephen L., Feb. 28, 1814 ; Zoe, Feb. 18, 1817 
Rebecca, July 25, 1819 ; Clarissa, Feb. 18, 1822 
James, Jan. 27, 1825 ; John S., Nov. 20, 1828 
only Stephen, James and Rebecca are living 
and the latter, Mrs. Bell, resides in New York. 
Stephen lives in Kansas. 

Mr. Davidson assumed the management of 
his father's business on his death when he was 
18 years old and, after three years he began 
the manufacture of buckskin mittens. He sold 
out in two years, engaging in the sale of that 
merchandise three years, meanwhile acquiring 
a wide acquaintance. He thought this would 
be of service as a recommend in some other 
line of business, but found it difficult to 
win confidence in that method of transacting 
business until he encountered for the hundreth 
time a member of a boot and shoe house, who 
asked him if he had secured a place. He 
answered that he proposed to take the road in 
his interest and at such remuneration as they 



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were willing to give him. The first year they 
paid him §800, and he remained with them 
until he received $5,000 annually. Subse- 
quently he engaged with another tirm until 
1861, and when the war became a fact, he de- 
termined to enter the army and recruited for 
the 5th and 6th New York Cavalry. On the 
organization of the regiments he was offered 
the colonelc}' of the latter, but accepted the 
position of Major of the 5th, many of his per- 
sonal friends being therein. They broke camp 
on Staten Island in the fall and went to Balti- 
more to be equipped. Their horses were un- 
shod and that work was accomplished under 
difficulties by Major Davidson, the officers 
whose duty it was refusing to attend to it and 
the Major took possession of the blacksmith 
shops in Baltimore, detailed expert men from 
his own regiment and had the work performed. 
The excitement of this action was immense 
the Baltimore press discussing it with earnest- 
ness and the Union papers stating that " Major 
Davidson was not raised among the owls of the 
Alleghany mountains to be scared by Balti- 
more rebels. " The next move was to Annap- 
olis and the management of the colonel of the 
regiment giving Major Davidson much annoy- 
ance, he made use of some stringent language 
in relation to his superior officer, for which he 
is proud to say he was placed under arrest, 
but for an exceedingly short time. They went 
into a school of instruction at Annapolis, erected 
quarters and made arrangements generally for 
the winter which was passed there. In the 
spring they went to Harper's Ferry to join 
Banks in the movement up the Shenandoah, 
involving a march of 200 miles. They were 
in all the movements in May and after the re- 
treat to Strasburg, two companies from the 5th 
Cavalry were at Front Royal in the Federal 
rearguard under Major ^'oigt. In the middle 
of the night of May 24th, a courier Ciime in 



announcing the movement ofthe rebels and sta- 
ted that if a point six miles in advance was 
gained, they would be wholly cut off. They 
remained until the middle ofthe following day 
in full readiness to move, hearing the tliunder 
of the battle going on at Winchester but were 
not called into action. Finally they decided 
to protect their stores at Strasburg by burial 
and then they moved up the hill and descried 
a force of cavalry and a large infantry force. 
They changed their route to the left with 
Major Davidson in command, in deference to 
the request of the officers who had become dis- 
gusted with the colonel. They arrived at Win- 
chester at three in the morning, found the situa- 
tion dangerous and retreated, crossing the river 
and going into camp. Major Davidson had 
become so dissatisfied with the want of courage, 
military ability and general character of his 
brother officers that he determined to resign 
and rode to headquarters for that purpose. He 
stated his reasons to General Banks who 
promised to remedy the troubles if he would 
return to his regiment, but he did not deem it 
wise and persisted in resigning, which was ac- 
cepted and he returned to New York "and re- 
sumed charge of his business. He met Sena- 
tor Harris, who urged his return to the army 
with promises that tlie difficulties should be 
removed and that he should receive promotion, 
even to a Brigadier-Generalship if hu desired, 
and he decided to reconsider the proposition. 

He went to St. Louis to attend to business 
and from there went to Black River Falls in 
Wisconsin, and later his own affairs engrossed 
his attention and he gave up all idea of return- 
ing to the service. In 1867 he located at 
Sparta, which has since been his headquarters 
in the management of his extensive landed in- 
terests in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Kansas. 

He was married in New York to Mrs. Delia 
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Sparta, where they propose to pass their re- 
maining years. Mr. Davidson is a Repubhcan 
of no uncertain stripe, and is active in every 
avenue where he can be of use. He has acted 
as delegate to the National, State and local 
conventions, but has persistently refused politi- ! 
cal ofhcial positions. He was the first Com- ' 
mander of tlie Post to which he belongs and is 
widely known as an enthusiastic G. A. R. man. 
In 1886 he was Delegate-atrLarge to the Na- i 
tional Encampment at San Francisco and in , 
1887 he was one of the Council of Administra- 
tion for Wisconsin. In 1888 he was made De- 
partment Commander of Wisconsin by ac- 
clamation. Mr. Davidson possesses the traits i 
of the race which he represents. His sense of 
manhood, courage and uprightness is worthy 
his sires' record in defense of those characteris- 
tics, and in his private as in his public career 
he has honored his convictions. 

^^^ ENERAL FRED C. WINKLER, Mil- 
r^ waukee. Wis., a member of a leading 
law firm of the Cream City, a member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 1, and also belonging to 
the Order of tiie Loj-al Legion, Wisconsin Coni- 
mandery, was born March 15, 1838 in Bremen, 
Germany. His parents were natives of and 
descendants from a family of long standing in 
Germany and the father came to America in 
1842, fixing a home for his family in Milwau- 
kee prior to the admisision of the Territory of 
Wisconsin as a State and the son, who accom- 
panied his mother to Milwaukee in 1814, when 
six years old, may be claimed as a citizen of the 
State " to the manor born." He was educated 
under the tutelage of Professor Engelmann, 
obtained an available knowledge of branches 
taught in the common schools in this countrj^ 
and utilized it before he was 18 years of age. 



He had a decided predilection for the profession 
of law and commenced his studies to that end 
under the instructions of H. L. Palmer of Mil- 
waukee. In the fall of 1858 he went to Madi- 
son to accept a position with the law firm of 
Abbott, Gregory & Pinnej^ and acted as clerk 
with that firm, meanwhile passing examination 
for admission to the Bar of Dane county and 
was admitted April 19, 1859, to practice in the 
State courts of Wisconsin. He returned to 
Milwaukee to establish himself in the prosecu- 
tion of his business as an attorney, in which he 
was engaged until the condition of the country 
became the paramount interest of himself, as of 
every reflective man who saw the impending 
peril to his relations in every avenue, and, 
when the call for German troops was issued 
under the influence and authority of Sigel, 
young Winkler then at the threshold of a prom- 
ising career, left his private affairs with his 
other connections and devoted himself to the 
accomplishment of the purpose of the call 
referred to. He had formed a partnership with 
G. von Deutsch, who had entered the cavalry 
service previously and after that event Mr. 
W^inkler had conducted the business of the 
office singly until he decided to enter the ser- 
vice himself. He used his influence and every 
other resource in his power to raise men, and 
recruited for a company which was assigned to 
the 26th Wisconsin Infantry as Company B, of 
which he was made Captain on its organiza- 
tion. October 6, 1862, the regiment left the 
State for the front, going to Washington and 
thence to Fairfax C. H., to be assigned to the 
11th Arn:y Corps under Sigel. It can be truly 
said of the 26th Wisconsin that, prior to going 
to actual warfare, it was one of the hardest 
worked organizations in the service. Its enlisted 
men were in earnest, and drilled and fitted for 
duty in the most thorough manner and, when 
assigned to duty, no other regiment in the ser- 



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vice exceeded its military discipline. Multi- 
tudes of its members were men who had left 
their native land to escape compulsory military 
service and they had entered upon the obliga- 
tions of soldiers of their adopted country in dead 
earnest and for a purpose, in which no man 
who was ever enrolled under the laws of con- 
scription ever was concerned personally. Dur- 
ing the fall a change of base was made to 
Gainesville and the regiment went in December 
to Falmouth to aid in the consummation of the 
plans of Rurnside. The abilities of General 
Winkler were utilized in the capacity of .Judge 
Advocate in successive courts-martial through 
the winter and spring. He went into tlie spring 
campaign, crossing the Rappahannock and 
Rapidan and took part in the fight at Cliancel- 
lorsville, being attached to the staff of General 
Schurz, Division Commander. At Gettysburg 
the 26th Wisconsin was again hotly engaged, 
especiallj^ on the first day when Lieutenant- 
Colonel Boebel (see sketch) and Major Baetz 
being wounded. Captain Winkler was for a time 
the ranking and commanding officer of the 
regiment. Captain Winkler was made Major 
October 8, 1863. He was practically in com- 
mand of the 26th thereafter to the close 
of the war, the Colonel resigning without 
resuming charge and the Lieutenant-Colonel 
hehig disabled and mustered out on account 
of his wounds. He accompanied liis com- 
mand under Hooker to the relief of the 
Armv of the Cumberland and was in the fiehtins 
at Wauhatchie, October 27lli. He fought at 
the head of his men three days — November 
23-4-5 — at Mission Ridge, chased rebels on the 
26th and 27tli, marched back to Parker's Gap 
and started the same day — the 29tli — to join 
the expedition for the relief of Burnside at 
Knoxville. This was a hard march and when 
its object had been accomplislied the regiment 
returned to the base of Lookout Mountain for 



I winter quarters. In the Atlanta campaign the 
roster of General Winkler shows the battles 
and skirmishes of Buzzard's Roost, Snake 
Creek Gap, Resaca, Dallas Woods, and the sev- 
eral actions known as Kenesaw Mountain. He 
was in the battle at Peach Tree Creek and went 
to the trenches at Atlanta. August 17th the 
Commander of the 26th was made Colonel, 
having been promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel 
in May. On numberless pages of this work the 
experiences of the volunteer soldiers of the 
26th are recounted and Colonel Winkler was a 
part of it all. His regiment went with Sherman 
on the march to the sea, and was water bound 
in Savannah from December 21st to January 
13th, when it moved Northward engaged in 
the work of crippling the resources of the 
rebels, who were met at Averysboro, where a 
stiff fight was had on March 16, 1865. The 
regiment fought its last battle at Bentonville 
March 19, 1865, and went to Goldsboro, Ral- 
eigh, Richmond, Washington and home. C-ol- 

1 onel Winkler, at the head of his men, marched 
in the final parade at Washington and returned 
to well-deserved honorary recognition of ser- 
vice at Milwaukee, which siill regards liim as 
one of her most creditable sons. In the ad- 
justment of honors after the close of the war 
he was breveted Brigadier-General of \'^olun- 
teers by the War Department. 

On resuming connection with tlie affairs of 
private life, he re-opened his business as an 
attorney and in 1867 became associated with 
A. R. R. Butler. Later, he became a member 

, of the firm of Jenkins, Elliott & Winkler, one 
of the ablest law firms in tiie city at that date 
and at this writing — 1890 — is one of the mem- 
bers of the most prominent comlnnation of 
attorneys in the Northwest, Winkler, Flanders, 
Smith, Bottum & Vilas. 

In character General Winkler is a marked 
man of his generation. An able jurist, culti- 



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vated and refined in the best senses of those 
terms, he is modest and retiring in prodivity 
and sustains the dignity which his career from 
tlie beginning of liis connection with tlie work 
tlie worltl lias liad for liim to do has conferred 
on him. For it has always been of the 
worthiest. Rising through merit to the head 
of his command in tlie army, he has always 
placed himself in the category of a volunteer 
soldier. He fought with his men from start to 
finish ; his interest and energy in the war 
never flagged and he was never in one instance 
absent from his post of duty. Of such a man 
as General Winkler, needing no elaborate and 
detailed statements of a war record which his 
country preserves on a thousand pages, it can 
justly be said and in it a man no more honored 
can be by inscriptions on tablets of brass — He 
recognized and did his duty. 

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j^ ONRAD KREZ, Milwaukee, Wis., 
member of Sheboygan Falls G. A. R. 
Post, was born April 27, 1828, in 
Landau in the Palatinate to Bavaria, a pro- 
vince on the Rhine in Germany. His father, 
Jean Baptiste Krez, served his prescribed term 
in the Bavarian army, and later in life entered 
the Grecian service under King Otto in the 
same conflict in which Lord Byron engaged, 
and died in Greece in 1839 ; he married Louise 
Henrietta Naas, who bore him two children. 
Paul died in Germany. 

Mr. Krez received the best educational train- 
U5g his country affords, studied at the univer- 
sities at Munich and Heidelberg, and prepared 
for the profession of law. He belonged to the 
progressive class in his own country, and at the 
age of enthusiasms became involved in the 
political issues that shook German}' in 1848, 
when an attempt was made to establish a con- 
stitutional Empire, including Austro-Germany 




of the then German Confederacy, and he threw 
all his hopes as a true son of Germany into the 
balance. When the Hungarians were over- 
thrown, when the last hope for the unification 
of Germany had perished, he determined to 
sever his connection with the land of his birth 
and started for the United States, arriving in 
.January, 18.51. He studied law in the city of 
New York and in 1854 went to Sheboygan, 
Wisconsin, and was admitted to the Bar ; he 
established his practice there and continued 
his business with success until the advent of 
war. He was serving a term as District Attor- 
ney when he enlisted, Aug. 18, 1862, in Com- 
pany E, 27th Wisconsin Infantry. 

When the regiment was organized, Mr. Krez 
was made Colonel. He completed the organi- 
zation and went to camp at Milwaukee, the 
regiment leaving there March 16, 1863, for 
service in Northern Kentucky. An encounter 
with the rebels of slight moment took place at 
Satartia on the move to Vicksburg, where the 
regiment was assigned to the Provisional Divi- 
sion under Gen. Nathan Kimball in the 16th 
Corps. It took position at Snyder's Bluft', a 
situation designed to protect the besieging 
forces, and operated there in miscellaneous 
duty incident to the situation, until the sur- 
render of the city. A removal to Helena was 
effected, where the 27th was assigned to the 
command of Steele and went thence to the 
capture of Little Rock. Colonel Krez had 150 
men in line when he started on the march, t!>« 
rest of his command being sick at Helena. 
Sevei^l skirmishes took place en route to 
Little Rock, which town was taken by General 
Steele as if he were playing a game of chess, 
checkmating the confederate forces by moving 
a column on each side of the river, by which 
the confederate army, superior in numbers to 
General Steele's command, was compelled to 
evacuate the place with small loss to the 



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Union force. The next general movement in 
which the regiment took part was in General 
Steele's Red River expedition, the 27th being 
one of the regiments of Colonel Engleman's 
brigade, General Salomon's division. But 
wliile endeavoring to effect a junction with 
General Banks, the army was harassed by 
Shelby and iMarmaduke's commands, wlio en- 
deavored to retard their march, but with- 
out great success. General Steele left Cam- 
den when disaster had overtaken Banks. A 
train .sent out for supplies had been captured 
by tlie confederates, and the escort defeated 
and taken prisoners, and General Steele was 
cut off from all communications ; Colonel 
Krez was sent out with infantry and cavalry 
to reconnoiter. He discovered the footprints 
of a column of infantry and ascertained that 
the enemy was attempting to intercept General 
Steele by getting between him and Little 
Rock. At night Steele broke camp and stole 
across the Washita River, followed closely by 
Kirby Smith who came up with him at Saline 
Bottom. The first IjIovv fell on the 27th in the 
battle which followed. The main attack was 
made when General Rice had taken their 
place in the rear of tlie column in the resump- 
tion of the march, and by him the enemy was 
decidedly repulsed. Without further molestation 
General Salomon's division crossed the Saline, 
being compelled to leave the dead and wounded 
on the field in charge of surgeons and assist- 
ants. A forced and unincumbered inarch was 
rendered necessary by the state of the roads and 
the troops iiad notliing to eat for three days 
except corn on the cob and coffee. Afterwards 
the regiment was ordered to report to General 
Canby and formed with the 28th Wisconsin, 
33d Iowa and the 77th Ohio, part of tlie 3d 
Brigade, 3d Division, 13th Army Corps, witJi 
Colonel Krez as Brigade Commander, and in 
that capacity he was with his command in the 



siege of Spanish Fort 14 days under an inces- 
sant storm of shot and slid! from tlie rel)el for- 
tifications. On the morning of the 9th of 
April, Spani.';h Fort was occupied by the Union 
force, the 27th proceeding to Fort Blakely to 
witness its capture. Colonel Krez, at the head 
of his command, inarched to Mclntosii's Bluff 
under orders to take possession of the confeder- 
ate navy yard, which order he executed, waging 
war until the confederate admiral surrend- 
ered the naval vessels and transports to his 
su|)erior officer. He returned with his brigade 
on the fleet of transports to Mobile wlience the 
regiment started with General Steele's old 
troops of the 7th .\rmy Corps across the Gulf to 
Brazos Santiago, Texas, to form part of Gen- 
eral Steele's command. Thence the regiment 
went to Clarksville and from there in August 
to Brownsville where they were mustered out 
and sent to Wisconsin. During all the service 
imperfectly outlined in this sketch, Colonel 
Krez was always with his command and per- 
formed service of the most meritorious charac- 
ter which was properly recognized by the 
Government in the form of a commission as 
Brevet-Brigadier General. 

On the day following his return to Sheboy- 
gan, he opened his office and followed iiis pro- 
fession as an attorney until he w'as appointed 
by President Cleveland Collector of Customs 
of the port of Milwaukee and he received his 
commission July 27, 1885. In his capacity as 
a representative of the President, under tlie law 
empowering him to suspend officers during the 
recess of Congress, he operated until May 17, 
1886, when he was appointed, confirmed and 
commissioned for four years as Collector of the 
port; Nov. 27, 1889, he was removed by Presi- 
dent Harrison ami turned over his office to his 
successor. Ho soon thereafter commenced the 
practice of law in Milwaukee. In political af- 
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. He was married in New York City in 1852, 
to Addie, daughter of Judge John A.Stemmler 
and he has seven children; — .fosephine, Louise, 
CorneUa, Paul, Albert, Alfred and Gertrude. 
Cornelia is married to W. M. Jennings of 
Brookville, Kansas. 



OHN G. TEALL, Racine, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born June 15, 
1845, in Elgin County, Ontario, the son 
of .John B. and Permelia Ann Teall. Their 
children were named John G., Ann M. and 
Sarah A. The latter died in Michigan and the 
elder daughter at Racine. The father was 
born and reared in New York but died at 
Vienna, Elgin Co., Ont., March 27, 1851. He 
was a millwright. The mother was a native of 
Canada and died in Vienna, Elgin Co., Ont., in 
1849. Both parents were of English descent. 
Mr. Teall went to Racine when 14 years of age. 
Besides attending school he served an appren- 
ticeship of two years in the carpenter trade and 
then followed the occupation of running wood- 
working machinery, with which he was occu- 
pied until he entered the army. He enlisted 
in 1862, but, being so young, his stepmother 
asserted her authority and his name was re- 
moved from the rolls. 

Jan. 4, 1864, he enrolled in Company A, 22d 
Wisconsin Infantry, and joined the regiment at 
Murfreesboro witliin the breastworks. (The 
command belonged to the 2d brigade, 3d Divi- 
sion and 20th Army Corps, under General 
Hooker.) He was first in action at Resaca, 
made the movements with the command to 
Dallas and was in the activities in that vicinity, 
fighting later in the several actions at Kenesaw 
Mountain, known as Pine Knob, Lost Moun- 
tain, Golgatha Church and Nose Creek, and in 
the intrenchments before Atlanta until Sher- 



man moved to Jonesboro. He went with the 
Great Captain to the sea, and after the opera- 
tions about Savannah, moved to Goldsboro and 
Raleigh, thence to Richmond and Washington. 
He was taken sick prior to the Review, which 
he witnessed from an ambulance. June lOlli, 
he was transferred to the 3d Wisconsin Infan- 
try and was mustered out at Washington, Aug. 
15, 1865. He returned to Racine, where he at 
once secured employment running wood-work- 
ing machinery until the fall of 1886, when he 
was elected Register of Deeds for Racine Co., 
Wis., and in 1888 he was re-elected to the same 
position, on the Republican ticket. Mr. Teall 
is a substantial and honored citizen of Racine 
County. In his official duties he sustains his 
record as a soldier and enjoys the satisfaction 
of those who strive to respond to the demands 
of duty. He is Senior Vice Commander of his 
Post, a member of the A. 0. U. W., of the Mod- 
ern Woodmen and the Knights of Pythias. 

He was married Oct. 16, 1873, to Sarah M., 
daughter of William M. and Margaret M. 
Shepherd. The parents of Mrs. Teall removed 
from Wasliington Co., New York, to Racine in 
1843. The mother survives and lives with her 
daughter, Mrs. Teall, the only survivor of five 
children. The father died in 1889. 



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OBERT GILLER, Portage, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 14, was born 
in Scotland May 12, 1822, and is the 
son of William and Mary (Nutt) Giller. He 
was reared in his native country and came to 
America during the progress of the Crimean 
war in 1854. Colonel Morrison of England 
was married to his sister and was a resident of 
the city of New York, where he made a stop 
and proceeded thence to Dexter, Michigan, 
where a sister resided and with her husband 



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she accompanied her brother to Portage where 
all linve since resided. Mr. Oilier obtained a 
position as currier in a tannery, in which he was 
oocnpied until he entered the army of the 
United States. Aug. 15, 1862, he enlisted in 
Company H, 23d Wisconsin Infantry and, 
after muster at Camp Randall, went under 
Colonel J. J. Guppy to the front At Cincinnati 
and iijK'rateil in military duty in Nortliern 
Kentucky until late in November when the 
regiment went to Memphis. Tlie regiment 
moved in the plans of Grant on \'ieksl)urg in 
the command of Sherman, and destroyetl rebel 
buildings, railroads and stores of every de- 
scription, going to Chickasaw Bayou and, later 
to the caj)ture of Arkansas Post. The next 
movement was to Young's Point, and in the 
spring the men went to almost incessant 
duty performing excellent service in scouting, 
skirmi.'^hing, cajtturing rebels, horses, mules 
and supplies and also engaging in foraging. 
Mr. Giller was anaong those who volunteered 
to run the blockade and returned safely to his 
regiment after the service was performed. The 
recruiting of the regiment, which had lost 
many men through sickness, took place at 
Milliken's Bend and Mr. Giller was in the light- 
ing at Port (libson. Champion's Hill and Black 
Kiver Bridge, on the way to the rear of \'ieks- 
burg. At Port Gibson the regiment was the 
first to take possession and the regimental colore 
were placed on a church. They went to search 
for rebels, moving on the double-quick to Ray- 
mond, and went thence to the action last 
named, Black River Bridge, where the shots 
fell thick and fast. General A. J. Smith issued 
peremptory orders and the place was tiiken by 
assault with several thousand prisoners. The 
23d was in the siege of Vieksburg afterwards 
until the surrender and followed Johnston to 
Jackson. 

In August llie regiment went to New Orleans. 



At Two Rivers, Carrolton, La., Mr. Giller was 
color bearer while the troops were reviewed by 
General Banks and he was in the expedition 
with his command through Southwestern 
Louisiana, skirmishing as did no other regiment 
only those in the same service, the rebels being 
stationed in squads at every turn, fighting 
in ambuscade and everj' other despicable 
variety of manner known to rebel malice. At 
Carrion Crow Bayou, Mr. tJiller received a 
bullet in his right thigh but did not leave his 
company, and joineil in the chase to Opelousi\s, 
La. He went back to Carrion Crow Bayou and 
with his regiment to tlie Red River expedition 
and repeated his former experiences, saving the 
regiment^vl flag in the action at Carrion Crow 
Bayou. He was captured at Sabine Cross 
Roads and taken to the stockade prison in Texas 
where he was held until spring. He was taken 
sick with intermittent fever and sent to St. 
Louis hospital, where he remained until his 
brother was killed in front of Richmond, Va. 
Obtaining leave of absence, he went to New 
York and returned to ^hidison, where he was 
mustered out ^hiy 31, 1865, after three years 
and a month in the service. 

He went to Marquette county to visit a sister 
and thence to Portage where he has a situation 
as janitor of the High School building and 
Presbyterian church. 

He was married in his native country to 
Elizabeth Curey, a native of Scotland, and their 
only child is named Mary Ann. The wife died 
in 1801 and Mr. Giller was again married in 
1866, to Mrs. Margaret Robinson, a native of 
Scotland. Their children are Elizabeth and 
Theodore. The parents belong to the Presby- 
terian church. Mr. Giller is a Republicixn in 
politics and is drawing a pension. 



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OIIN W. ALLISON, La Crosse, Wis., 
(~\t TiH'iiihcr of (i. A. U. Post No. 38, was 
l)urn Aug. 28, 1828, in Crawford Co., 
Illinois. lie represents stock which was early 
idenliruHl with the history of this country, his 
grout grunflliithcr Allison having eniigraled to 
America from Scotland and settled in Virginia, 
where his son Samuel was horn. lie was mar- 
ried there and thei'e llichard S., father of Mr. 
Allison of this sketch, was horn. The latter 
married Lavina Laniasters and they had 12 
children, of whom six are living in 1890. 
Richard iVllison was horn Nov. 6, 1798, at 
Warm Springs, the hirthjilace of his father and 
grandfather, and was a cahinet maker hy trade 
and also donated his services as a Baptist 
clergyman to the church. His parents went in 
his youth to Kentucky and thence to what is 
now Lawrence county, Illinois. That portion 
of the State was infested with Indians and they 
returned to Kentucky and again went hack to 
the same location in Illinois. (Ahout the same 
time the first Harrison went to Marshal county, 
Indiana, and huilt Fort Harrison at Tippe- 
canoe.) Oct, 15, 1845, the father went to the 
Territory of Wisconsin, whercs lie located in 
Green county and went hack afterward to 
Council Hill, 111., where he died March 4, 1854 ; 
his wife survived him until March (i, 1881. 

The son was reared on a farm and learned 
the vocation of !i mason, which he pursued un- 
til he hecame a soldier. When the first sounds 
of coming war echoed through the Bailger 
State he enlisted in a local company in April, 
18G1, for three months, hut was never mus- 
tered, lie reported at Washington and was 
assigned to the quartermaster's department and 
detailed for a teamster. He returned to Wis- 
consin July 1, 1801, and re-enlisted Sept. 6, 
18Gl,in C"omi>any F, 8th Wisconsin Infantry. 
Octoher r2th, following, he left the State for St. 
Louis and was sent thence with a por- 



tion of his regiment to the iron district, 
with camp at Pilot Knoh. On the 2()th he was 
in the action with the forces of Jeff Thomp- 
son, guarding the haggage, and returned to 
Pilot Knoh after the jiursuit of the flying 
rebels. Not many days later the command 
started after Thompson again, following him 
with the expectation of a fight until Indian 
Ford was reached, when Hardee came up with 
a force and the troops fell back. They went 
next to Sulphur Springs and remained from 
the latter i)art of December until January, 18G2. 
He went thence to Cairo to provost duty and 
early in March wont to Point Pleasant, Mo., and 
operated on the river against the gunboats and 
in Aj)ril went to the scenes of activity after the 
evacuation of island No. 10. A start was made 
for Memphis, but they were unable to land near 
Fort Pillow, returned up the Mississippi to the 
mouth of the Columbia Kiver, wenttoPaducah 
and Farmington, fighting under llalleck. 
They went to Corinth and after the siege to 
Memphis. There he was assigned to duty as 
division teamster and joined his regiment at 
Huntsville, Ala. He went to Memphis and was 
placed in charge of post teams and went thence 
on detached duty to Vicksburg with horses in 
the spring of 1863. He there succeeded in 
making connection with his regiment and re- 
mained in the work of the siege until he was 
hurt by a horse, which accident disabled him 
for a time. After the surrender he received a 
furlough of 20 days and on its expiration was 
ordered to report for transportation to Madison. 
He was there examined, reported unfit for 
duty and was discharged July 28, 1863. He 
returned to Lafayette county and re-enlisted 
Oct. 5, 1863, going to Camp Washburn and 
was mustered into Battery D, 1st Wisconsin 
Heavy Artillery Nov. 20, 1863, as a veteran. 
The command was ordered to New Orleans, 
but Mr. Allison was placed on detached duty 



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to go to Madison in charge of recruits and dis- 
charged that duty until April, 18G4, when he 
started for the front with the recruits and 
joined his battery at Fort Jackson, La. He 
was again placed on detached duty, buying 
cattle, looking after docks and in other mis- 
cellaneous duty. 

During the time he also took a lot of horses 
down the river and around the Gulf to Fensa- 
cola. He returned to his quarters in July and 
was ordered to Berwick Bay and assisted in the 
destruction of the fort there. There he was 
also assigned to the care of the army mail to 
New Orleans and in November was taken sick 
and sent to Marine hospital at New Orleans, j 
where he remained until Jan. 25, 1865, and 
received a furlough of 60 days. He went to 
Wisconsin and reported at the hospital at Mad- 
ison on the expiration of his furlough. He I 
was there during an examination of disabled 
soldiers and was transferred to the Invalid 
Corps. He went in person to General Pope 
and protested against the assignment and was 
told that it would be arranged. He was, soon 
after, placed on detached duty to accom- 
pany a squad of the Invalid Corps to Detroit 
and turned them over at headquarters. He | 
went to Milwaukee and was placed in the mail 
service. Soon after. General Pope sent for him 
to take chai-ge of some men to be conducted to 
Camp McClellan, New York, to their respective i 
regiments. Poj)e wrote him to return to his 
headquarters and he was discharged July 1, 
1865, at Camp Reno, Wis. 

He resided in La Fayette county until 1869, 
when he removed to Sparta and in 1881 he lo- 
cated at La Crosse, since his home, and where 
he has engaged as a teamster. Jan. 19, 1852, 
he was married at White Oak Springs in La 
Fayette county to -lane, daugiiter of Joseph 
and Ann Alderson. Their children are named 
Anna, Matilda, Delia, Lina, Ida, Josephine and 




Lulu. Delia and Josepliiue are deceased. 

Mrs. Allison was born in Richmond, Yorkshire, 
England. She came to the United States with 
her i»arents in 1849 and settled at Council 
Hill, Jo Daviess Co., 111., where her father en- 
gaged in farming during the remainder of his 
life; his wife is also deceased. 

Mr. Allison is a member of the Republican 
party, and draws a pension. 

<j;^UGENE L. ANDERSON, Mau.ston, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
59, was born Nov. 18, 1843, at Elgin, 
Illinois. His parents, L. C. and Emily (Pratt) 
Anderson, were born and married in the State 
of New York and removed thence to Illinois in 
the fall of 1842, where the father was a farmer, 
and from there the famih' went to Wisconsin 
in 1853, residing successively at Mauston and 
near Kilbourn City, the parents dying in Maus- 
ton. But three of their eight children are living 
in 1890. Until he was 17 years old the son was 
an inmate of his father's house aiid obtained a 
fair degree of education. At the age mention- 
ed he enlisted in Company K, 6th Wisconsin 
Infantry, enrolling June 20, 1861 and was 
mustered at Madison. With his regiment he 
left the State to go to Washington and thence 
to active service. The regiment went by way 
of Harrisburg and Baltimore, and at Wash- 
ington was stationed at several points perform- 
ing military duty and drilliiig until March 10, 
1862, when a start was made under McDowell 
for Manassas. The movement ended with 
little results, and the regiment returned to 
Washington and operated on the outposts of 
the Capital. The brigade passed the interve- 
ning time until McClellan's return from the 
Peninsula, in operations between Manassas 
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Jackson in check and afterwards McDowell's 
command was sent to reinforce Pope and 
camped on the battle field of Cedar Mountain. 
They were forced to retreat and on the way en- 
countered the rebels in several skirmishes, 
returniTig to the battle field of Bull Run. Mr. 
Anderson wiis in all the activities of his regi- 
ment in the Virginia campaign, fought at 
Gainesville and in the 2d Bull Run, going 
afterwards to AVashington and thence to the 
fighting in Mar^dand which seemed constant, 
as the Union troops followed the rebels from 
point to point. In the fight at South Moun- 
tain he was a participant, and at Antietam his 
military career ended. During the first half of 
the day's fighting he received a musket ball in 
his knee, the missile passing through the joint. 
He lay on the field two days before his wound 
was dressed and was finally removed to Keedys- 
ville to a school building used for hospital 
purposes, remaining there more than a week, 
when he was sent to Frederick, Md., to Semi- 
nary hospital and remained there until his dis- 
charge, .Jan. 25, 1863, the surgeons having de- 
clared that he could never recover the use of 
his leg and he has always been disabled. 
Much use of his other leg has caused varicose 
veins, so that he is considerably crippled by 
his injury. He went to Mauston after dis- 
charge and engaged in mercantile business in 
1861 with his father, who was advancing in 
years. He afterwards assumed entire control of 
the management, purchasing the entire interest 
before his father's death. He is one of the 
leading merchants in that place and carries a 
full stock of goods suited to his j)atronage. He 
was niarrieiJ, in 1865 at Mauslon, to Mary F. 
Parker, a native of Pennsylvania. Tiiey have 
one son. named Verne. 

Mr. Anderson is a member of Northern 
Light Lodge, A. F. & A. M. Socially and in 
business circles he has a high standing and is 




considered as one of the leading citizens of his 
locality. He was a good soldier and has sus- 
tained his civil career in the same manner in 
which he served his country in the rebellion. 
He is a Republican in politics. 



;;/,^5^ HRI8T0PHER V. CLARK, Eau 
Claire, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 52 (Eagle), was born Feb. 
14, 1848, in the city of New York, whither his 
parents, Dennis and Catherine (Murray) Clark, 
removed from Ireland sometime in the " thir- 
ties." After some years they went thence to 
Manistee, Mich., and, after four years, went to 
Chippewa Falls, Wis. They reached that place 
in July, 1859, and there the mother died in 
the fall of 1861, the father surviving until 1884. 
He was a farmer throughout his life. 

The son obtained a fair schooling and worked 
as a farm assistant and in a mill until he en- 
listed when he was 14 years old as a drummer 
at Chippewa Falls, Aug. 15, 1862, and was 
mustered into Company K, 30th Wisconsin In- 
fantry. The regiment remained in camp at 
Madison until the spring of 1863, when intelli- 
gence reaching the authorities of trouble with 
the Indians on the frontiers, the command 
went up the Missouri River to Sioux City and 
thence to Fort Leavenworth. The next re- 
moval took them to Fort Lincoln whence, with 
five others. Company K was ordered to Mil- 
waukee. There they performed provost duty 
and service in looking after substitutes and 
drafted men. The command engaged in this 
sort of service until the spring of 1864, when 
orders were received for Fort Snelling and, 
after a few days, the regiment went to Fort 
Ridgeley. About the first of July they went to 
Fort Wadsworth and built a new fortification, 
returning in September to receive orders for 



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the South to join Sherman. On the way they 
stopped at Fort Snelling and were ordered to 
report at St. Louis. Tiiey went from there to 
Paducah, Ky., and passed about six weeks tak- 
ing care of rebel movements that might other- 
wise interfere with Slierman's plans and an- 
ticipated an attack by Forrest which was not 
made. Tlieir next removal was to Louisville, 
Ky., and thence to Nashville in November, but 
they did not arrive at the latter place, being 
switched off at Bowling Green and remained 
there about six weeks doing guard duty. 
Thence the command went to Louisville and 
performed duty until mastered out Sept. 22, 
1865, returning to Chippewa Falls. 

He engaged in lumbering for D. E. Miles for 
a time, remained at Chij)pewa Falls until 1870 
and employed nearly the entire time in the 
same business. He went thence to Stillwater, 
Minn., where lie worked in the woods and as a 
lumberman. After two years he went back to 
Chippewa Falls and removed to Eau Claire in 
1884, and has since been similarly occupied. 
He was married Aug. 17, 1869, at Cliippewa 
Falls, Wis., to Julia, daughter of Michael and 
Nora O'Niel. Her father is deceased and her 
mother is still living. Honora, Willie (died at 
7), Catherine (died at 11 years of age), .Julia, 
Mary, Loretta, George and John are the chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Clark. While in the army 
Mr. Clark contracted lung fever and before h-e 
had sufficiently recovered orders for transfer 
were received and in the attendant exposure 
he took another cold which brought on a re- 
lapse, ending in typhoid fever, which left his 
blood in a diseased condition from which he 
has since suffered. Large and troublesome 
sores appear on his limbs and he is nearly dis- 
abled by them. In politics he is a Democrat. 



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OSEA WHITFORD ROOD, princi- 
of schools at Palmyra, Wiscou- 
sni, and a member of A. D. Hamil- 
ton Post No. 4, of Milton, was born May 30, 
1845, in the town of Persia, Cattaraugus county, 
New York. He reckons it good fortune to 
have come into existence in a log house. It 
was located on a stony little farm and was the 
home of his maternal grandfather, George 
Thorngate. 

This grandfather was born in ^hirlborough, 
Wiltshire, England, in 1798. When 15 years 
old he enlisted for life in the British army. In 
the early part of the war of 1812 his regiment 
was in Scotland guarding French prisoners, 
but later it was sent to Canada to fight the 
Yankees. While in camp near the Thousand 
Islands of the St. Lawrence the breezes from 
the free side of the river seemed to inspire him 
with the spirit of liberty, and one dark night 
he, with two or three comrades secured a skitf, 
turned their backs upon King George and his 
dominions, as well as his service, and took the 
initiatory step toward American citizensliip. 
They were successful, but the young soldier 
had adventure enougii in that escape to fur- 
nish abundant material for highly entertaining 
stories for his grandchildren. 

He found a home in Jefferson county, Ne\v 
York, where some years later he married Ma- 
tilda Thorngate, a maiden of sturdy Yankee 
stock, of Concord, New Hamjishire. A few 
years after marriage he removed with liis little 
family to the aforesaid stony farm in western 
New York. There he struggled with tlie j)rob- 
lem of rearing six children with remarkable 
appetites, and at the same time clearing up a 
farm in a heavily timbered, as well as stonj', 
country. Though he accumulated little of this 
world's goods, he did, with the aid of his good 
wife, succeed in maintaining them all in toler- 
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order of birth, Marianne, David, Hannah, 
Henry, diaries and George. 

About 1842, David made the acquaintance 
at Clarence, in the same county, of a young 
man named Charles P. Rood, and one day in- 
vited him to his home. This young man was 
born at Highgate, Franklin Co., Vermont, May 
31, 1823, and was one of a large family, the 
children of Burrell and Mary Rood. The death 
of the mother was the cause of the breaking up 
of the home, and the children were more or 
less scattered, Charles going to Clarence, where 
he was quite alone in the world. 

Being made welcome at the home of the 
Thorngates, he often visited them, and after- 
ward lived with them. And it was quite 
natural that he should fall in love with the 
eldest daughter, Marianne, she being a very 
amiable and lovable maiden. The result of 
this was that in July, 1844, the young couple 
were married, both being then 21 years of age. 

Another result was a very lucky event in 
the life of the subject of this sketch — he was 
born ; and he had the rare good fortune to 
bring into the world with him a tolerable de- 
gree of vitality, rejoicing both his parents and 
grandparents. 

This enlargement of the family and the fact 
that five young men, or Vjig boys, of the house- 
liold wanted new farms to develop, led Mr. 
Thorngate to talk about "moving out West." 
As Wisconsin Territory seemed, at that time, 
the land of particular promise, they all decided 
to go there. Accordingly, in September, 1845, 
the two families landed in Milwaukee, then a 
small village by the side of Lake Michigan. 
They settled in the town of Lake, where they 
remained two years, when they removed to 
Johnstown, Rock County. Finding all the 
desirable land in that region already claimed, 
they moved, in 1850, to Waushara County, in 
what was then kuowu as the " Indian Laud." 



The grandfather took a "claim" in the town 
of Dakota, but Mr. Rood located three miles 
farther west, in the town of Richford. Two 
more sons, George B. and William llermati, 
had in the meantime made their appearance 
in the family ; and on the 4th of July, 1851, 
the advent of another son, Charles J., was 
duly celebrated in the log-house in which they 
had settled on the 13th of the previous May. 

This was a typical pioneer home in the 
woods, and there five more children were 
born, making in all' five boys and four girls. 
They were a sturdy lot of youngsters, aftbrd- 
; ing very little revenue to the one physician 
in that part of the country, whose single 
visit on a momentous occasion when catnip 
and " boneset " seemed inadequate to the im- 
mediate needs of one of them who was ill, 
wa,s at once so impressive and repressive that 
the children went about the house all that day 
on tiptoe and with bated breath. 

The farm proved to be of a sandy soil, and it 
can be seen that with five hungry boys and 
four girls having excellent appetites the pantry 
was sometimes nearly empty ; and when the 
tired, self-sacrificing mother finished for this 
one or that a pair of blue-drilling trousers, a 
jeans coat or a calico frock, nine young souls 
rejoiced either in individual ownership or in 
warm sympathy and hearty gladness for 
another's good fortune. Their sore toes testi- 
fied to the location of every grub in the new 
roads and every stub in the late clearings. 
Yet all grew up together happy, and really 
fortunate in their entire ignorance of many vices 
that come in the train of our intense civilization. 

At first, the nearest school was two and a half 
miles distant, and the boys could go only in 
the summers. AVHien, a few years later, a scliool 
was established near their own home, they could 
go only in the winter, their work being neces- 
sary on the farm in summer. 



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The home school was peculiarly fortunate in 
having for some time the work and influence of 
two teachers of more than ordinary ability. 
These teachers were Miss Esther Maine, and J. 
L. Pope; the former taught five terms and the 
latter two. Both liad not only teaching aljility, 
but what is far better — the power to awaken 
such an interest in the minds of children as 
always makes tliem desire knowledge. 

No such spelling matches liave been known 
since the war as those which took place in tliat 
little country school liouse. Fine buildings we 
have, and costly apparatus, but no more hearty 
interest in the arithmetic and the spelling book 
than we had in that little log school house. 

But there were educational influences in the 
Rood houseliold besides tliose pertaining to the 
school. Patriotism was instilled in the minds 
of the cliildren by the weekly visits of that 
sterling newspaper and public educator, The 
New Vork Tribune, with Horace Greeley for its 
editor. The substantial principles of religion 
came to them through the benignant influence 
and example of praying parents; and the sweet 
daily life of grandfatlier Thorngate, who seemed 
to the boys and girls a veritable white-haired 
saint. 

The father of the young Roods was an 
inveterate and comprehensive reader, and, hav- 
ing a memory that clung fast to every fact, 
he came to be, in spite of his lack of early 
scliool training, a thoroughly well informed 
man. His constant study of the Bible made 
him very familiar with its contents, and it was 
therefore very natural that he should become a 
lay-preacher; and in this cai)acity he served 
many years in various communities, always 
iioidmg the peculiar notion that the Gospel 
should be preached without money and without 
price. He was also a radical temperance man, 
and often lectured in the interest of total 
abstinence. 



I Hosea, the subject of this sketch, from the 
first desired a liberal education ; hence, when 
he got so that he could parse a little, knew the 
lessons in his geography, had ciphered to the 
"Rule of Three," could spell the school down 
once in a while, and had grown so bold as once 
or twice to " see home " the prettiest girl in the 
neighborhood, he thought it high time for him 
to strike out into the world, earn some money, 
and then seek a further culture in some higher 
institution of learning. Accordingly in the 
spring of '61, a little before he was sixteen years 
old, he obtained permission of his father to go 
" the prairie " to hire out for the summer season. 
The 20th day of April he left home on foot, 
with a scanty stock of cheap clothing and a few 
little home treasures in a bundle on his back, 
for a seventy-mile walk to Dane county to 
"look for a job." He engaged to work for 
Dwight Brown, of the town of Vienna, six 
months at ten dollars a month. He does not 
forget to this day that he was exceedingly 
fortunate in his choice of a place to work, for 
Mr. and Mrs. Brown took him into their home 
and treated him, not as a hired man, but as a 
son. 

That summer of '61 has come to be a his- 

' toric one. The fall of Fort Sumter — call for 
troops — enlistments — good byes — battles — sad 
news — Bull Run — call for more troops — more 
enlistments — a settled conviction that a long 
and bloody w^ar was to be fought in which the 
very life of our Nation was at stake. 

The farm-boy was only sixteen, but through 
all the racket and din of war he could hear 

i every day the more plainly a voice within him 
that told him his country had need of him. 
Tlie constant uneasiness caused by that voice 
could be relieved only by enlistment. On the 
6th of October he was enrolled as a mem- 
ber of a company being raised at Delton, Sauk 

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Lieutenant John Gillispie, the latter having 
just returned from three uiontlis of service in 
Company K, 1st Wisconsin Infantry. 

At Delton he began tlie life of a soldier. On 
going to Camp Randall, Madison, Captain Van- 
derpoel's command was assigned, as Company 
E, to the 12tli Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel 
George E. Bryant commanding. (See sketch.) 
The regiment left the state Jan. 11, 1862, going 
into camp for a month at Weston, Mo. ; then 
two weeks at Leavenworth, Kansas ; then a 
march to Fort Scott ; after another two weeks, 
a march to Lawrence ; three weeks later, a 
march to Fort Riley ; in the last of May, a 
march back to Leavenworth with orders to re- 
port to General Grant, at Corinth, Miss. Dur- 
ing three months tlie marching of the regiment 
had aggregated over five hundred miles. Ar- 
riving at Leavenworth, the regiment took a 
steamer for Columbus, Kentucky. The cir- 
cumstances demanding reinfoi'cements at Cor- 
inth having ceased to exist, the Twelfth was 
employed in bridge building and guard duty 
along the line of the railroad leading from 
ColumV)us to Corinth. The greater part of the 
summer — from July 8th till October 1st, the 
regiment was in camp at Humboldt, Tenn. 

In October, the Twelftli joined Gen. Grant's 
army at the battle on the Hatchie, when the 
rebel generals, Price and Van Dorn, attempted 
to regain possession of Western Tennessee. 
The regiment was with Gen. Grant in his 
attempt to reach ^"icksburg by marching down 
tiirough Mississippi, which movement was 
frustrated by the surrender of Holly Springs to 
the rebels and thus breaking the connection 
with the base of supplies. 

After this, the Twelfth was engaged till the 
spring of 1863 in guarding the Memphis and 
Charleston railroad. In May it went down tlie 
river to join the main army in the siege of 
Vicksburg, taking position in the investing 



line of works June 9th. After the surrender of 
the stronghold, it became a part of General 
Sherman's expedition to Jackson in pursuit of 
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston escaped 
after some heavy fighting, and Sherman 
returned to Vicksburg. In August, tlie Twelfth 
was sent to Natchez to garrison the place and 
make various raids into the surrounding 
country, the principal of which was in Louis- 
iana as far as to Harrisonburg. While at 
Natchez in January, 1863, the most of the regi- 
ment re-enlisted, among them Private Rood. 
Returning to Vicksburg the first of February, 
the Twelfth joined General Sherman's great 
" Meridian Expedition," marching in one 
month a distance of 416 miles. After this was 
accomplished, the regiment started, March 
13th, on its "Veteran Furlough" of thirty 
days, after which it joined the 17th Army 
Corps under Gen. Frank P. Blair at Cairo, 111., 
going from there by way of Clifton, Tenn., and 
Huntsville, Ala., to join Sherman's army at 
Kenesaw Mountain. After this the regiment 
took part in all the active operations around 
Atlanta in the summer of '64, — Kenesaw 
Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Bald Hill, Ezra's 
Church, Jonesboro, the chase after Hood, and 
afterward the "March to the Sea." Through- 
out that memorable summer of '64, the Twelfth 
was nearly every day where the enemy's bul- 
lets made life interesting and lively, but 
mighty uncertain. The regiment lost heavily, 
the subject of this sketch being fortunate 
enough to escape with only a slight wound, 
July 21, at Bald Hill. He remained on duty 
with his company a week afterward when, worn 
out with fatigue and the pain of his wounded 
arm, he was sent to the hospital where he 
remained until just before the march to the 
sea was begun. He had the common exj)eri- 
ences of all the boys in that marcli and the 
succeeding one through the Caroliuas, and, 



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after the surrender of Johnstou's arm)', the ' 
inarch to Washington to participate, May 25tli, 
in the Grand Review in tliatcity. After this the 
Twelfth went with tlie most of the Western 
troops to Louisville to be mustered out of ser- 
vice, their turn coming July 16, 1865. He 
arrived at his home at the same time with his 
father and brother Herman, both of whom had 
served in Conipanj^ G of the o7th Wisconsin. 
A mouth later, George, another brother, was 
discharged from three years of service in the 
30tli Wisconsin. These younger brothers both 
enlisted before tbey were 16 years old. 

Just here a paragraph must be given to the 
devoted little mother who gave eight of her 
dear ones to the service of their country, — her 
husband, three sons and her four brothers. 
Her brother David, of the 7th Wisconsin, died; 
Henr}-, of the same regiment, was severely 
wounded, as also was George, of the 5th Wis- 
consin ; Charles, of the 4th Iowa, came home 
unhurt. In the meantime, the white-haired 
old grandfather declared that, if more men 
were needed, he'd go himself. While all these 
loved ones were in the service, the brave little 
mother, maintaining the spirit of matrons who 
live on classic pages, wrote cheerful, motherly, 
encouraging letters to her soldiers, and daily 
sent many prayers up to the God of Battles to 
deal gently with them in the terrible storms of 
war. If the world were filled with books, the 
stories of the heroic patriotism of those who 
suffered at home could never be fully told ; 
and no attempt has ever been made or ever 
will be made to compass that which was the 
strength and gave triumph to the Union arms, 
— the all-powerful influence of the soldiers' i 
homes. That mother still lives (1890), in ' 
North Loup, Nebraska, where she is the idol of ' 
her nine boys and girls, all of whom are yet liv- 
ing. Her husband died at North Loup, March 
17, 1878, where her father also died in 1883. 



On the 13th of October, 1866, H. W. Rood 
was married to Miss Ann E. Munroe, of Rich- 
ford, Waushara County, Wisconsin ; and now 
after nearly a quarter of a century of married 
life, he knows that either out of pure luck or a 
remarkably good judgment he made a rare 
choice of a wife. They have three children, 
Louis P. Harvey, a carpenter, born in 1867; 
Ida Lillian, a student in Milton College, born 
in 1870 ; Lola Grace, born in 1885. In 1869, a 
daughter, Minnie May, died in infancy. 

Immediately after the war, the young sol- 
dier went to teaching in the common schools 
of Waushara County ; and, although he felt 
not very well qualified, he liked the work so 
well that he determined to devote his life to the 
profession. He was obliged to make up for 
the lack of early advantages by close applica- 
tion to books during every leisure hour. In 
1886 he passed the required examination and 
obtained an Unlimited State Teachers' Certifi- 
cate. In 1878 he graduated from the Teach- 
ers' Course in Milton College. Besides teaching 
in the common schools of Waushara and Mar- 
quette counties,' he taught several terms of 
select school and assisted the Countj'^ Superin- 
tendent through several terms of Institute 
work. He has been principal of high schools 
one year in each of the following named places; 
Sun Prairie, Pewaukee and Cadott; six years at 
t)niro ; and is now serving his fourth year as 
principal at Palmyra. January 2, 1891 will be 
his twenty-fifth anniversary of continuous 
school work. He is a member of the Seventh- 
Day Baptist Church, at Milton, and is inde- 
pendent in political opinion. 




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FRANK POWELL, M. D., La Crosse, 
Wis., more widely known perhaps 
• as White Beaver, is, par excellence a 
representative citizen whose claims to recogni- 
tion as sucli are fitting to be placed on perma- 
nent record in every biographical work pub- 
lished in his section, which preserves the stories 
of the frontiersman, the pioneers of citizens of 
any grade, because he typifies the people of the 
North and South and in his veins courses the 
blood of the tribe of Seneca Indians, who 
deserve permanent recognition in the personal 
histories of the West. 

He was born among the mountains near the 
Kentucky River, not far from the Tennessee 
line, and is the son of Dr. C. H. Powell, a native 
of Kentucky of Scotch lineage and Fannie 
Tompkins, the daughter of an Indian medicine 
chief and a lady who was born in Tompkins 
Co., New York, near the lake most noted for 
beauty of all the famous internal lakes which 
form the finest summer resorts in the world in 
central New York. The father of Dr. Powell 
was born of the chivalry of the Kentucky blue- 
grass region and was a high-toned, cultivated, 
polifshed gentleman and a physician of wide 
repute. He came North on a surveying trip 
and met the lady who became his wife and her 
father while on a bunting excursion. She was 
a beautiful and gifted girl and attracted the 
attention of the Southern gentleman, who took 
her with him to Kentucky as his wife. »She 
was, in a sense, a cultivated woman as she had 
inherited the skill of her father in the under- 
standing and knowledge of botanical remedies, 
and she possessed the indomitable courage, 
endurance, firmness and nobility of character 
which liave sent the types of her people to the 
pages of history in honor and renown. Her 
grandfather was a brave of the Beaver clan, 
was a soldier under Sullivan of Revolutionary 
fame, dying of a wound which he received in a 



battle near Niagara Falls in 1779, in an expedi- 
tion against the Indians formed for retaliation 
against the tribes in Western New York for 
the Wyoming and Cherry Valley massacres. 
The senior Powell died in 1855, when his widow 
with her son.s, Frank, George and William, 
returned to New York and she engaged in 
farming, removing later to the West. Reach- 
ing Chicago, a short stoj) was made and, later, 
the mother proceeded to Omaha and, again 
yielding to the roving instinct, the family 
settled on the Platte River, in Nebraska, near 
Lone Tree. There the mother died in 1879 and 
her sons buried her in a grave dug by their 
own filial hands. 

Dr. Powell was born May 25, 1847, and 
received his elementary educational training in 
the home of his parents, there being no school 
advantages among his native mountains and 
he learned as it were, intuitively, the science of 
medicine, acquiring a knowledge of the healing 
virtues of plants. When he arrived at Chicago 
as mentioned, he entered the drug store of F. 
A. Bryan and studied pharmacy two years; he 
accompanied his mother to Omaha, whei'e he 
obtained a position as chief clerk in the drug 
establishment of James J. Ish, M. D. He 
became so valuable an adjunct to his establish- 
ment that Dr. Ish admitted him to a full partr 
nership and the firm of Ish & Powell acquired 
a wide fame as dispensers of remedies in nearly 
all the far West. It became the custom of 
Frank Powell to visit yearly the ranch of his 
family and there he met the Sioux Indians, 
with whom he could hardly avoid affiliation 
and he became the friend of Buffalo Bill (Wil- 
liam F. Cody) and multitudes of other sons of 
the wild life of the plains. They found him 
the son of his mother and the wide contrast of 
his life in civilization with that of the border 
awoke in him a new taste which interested him 
in more than one sense. He became for the 



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nonce a brave of their quality and their delight 
in him awoke a corresponding sentiment in liiy 
heart and, partly from inclination and partly 
from business motives, also with a commingling 
of a zest for excitement, he joined in their 
hunts, their scouts and their fights. He became 
White Beaver from his descent from that branch 
of the Seneca Indians and his white skin. 
Once, on the Sweetwater, he saved his parly by 
his bravado daring and he endeared himself 
beyond words l)y the skill with which he 
treated the wounded after the melee was over. 
He repeated his feats until his name was well 
known among the tribes of the Western plains. 
As White Beaver he entered upon a career 
of recklessness in border life which would fill 
a volume. He liad abandoned a good bu.siness 
for a life of adventure, and gradually he drifted 
away from all civilized associations. Many 
times, however his character asserted itself and 
he was -never known to commit a deed of 
dastardly character or one which impugned 
his moral purit\' ; daring, reckless of human 
life as an Indian, revenging tribal wrongs with 
all avidity and athliating with the people to 
whom his blood allied him, he led a life char- 
acteristic of a brave of the frontier. But ties 
still held him to civilization, and at intervals 
he renewed communication with his former 
life. He liad entered the Masonic Order at an 
early age, and in 1869, being then a 32d-degree 
Mason, he was ajipointed District Deputy Grand 
Master for Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado, 
and conferred tiie degree of Master on Buffalo 
Bill at Platte Valley Lodge, Cottonwood | 
Springs, in the same year. In the latter part 
of ISG'J he applied for an opportunity to enter 
a competitive examination for a sciiolarship 
in Louisville Univer.sit}' and carried oif the 
privilege, his examination with thirteen others 
being conducted by (Jeneral Estabrook. He 
paid his current expenses by acting as janitor i 



in the college, was made demonstrator of 
anatomy and was graduated in 1871, and, true 
to his instincts, he accepted a proffer of the 
position of Post Surgeon from General Jos. B. 
Brown, of tiie Department of the Platte, 
although offered a chair in the University. He 
operated at Fort McPherson and Fort Larramie 
and otiier garrisons, and he went with the 
soldiers on tlieir expeditions against the red- 
skins, where he was noted for being in the 
front if there was anything exciting or dan- 
gerous in the balance. In 187G his career on 
the plains came nearly to an end in a fight 
with the Arapahoes, always his foes and who 
knew him well as such. He was prostrate and 
fainting from loss of blood when he was rescued 
by an Indian who owed liim a favor and he 
was carried on a litter to the home of his 
mother in the vicinity. On his recovery he 
resumed tlie duties of Post Surgeon at Camp 
Stambaugh and was in a fight with the Chey- 
ennes which was his last. He had promised 
his mother to return to liis practice and in 
1877 he located at Lanesboro, Minn., and he 
operated as a physician and surgeon with the 
greatest success and acquired a wide popu- 
larity. While there he had an encounter with 
a Norwegian in wliich his hand became dis- 
figured, but as long as he remained on tiie bor- 
der he was called to encounters with the Indians. 
In 1878 Dr. Powell was married at Minneap- 
olis to Bertie, daughter of Edward S. and Mary 
K. Brockway, whose inHuence has withdrawn 
him from his wild life wholly. In 1881 he 
made a short trip as a showman with Buffalo 
Bill, which wholly terminated his career as an 
ally of Indian life. In 1882 he located at La 
Crosse and at once entered upon an extensive 
practice and his proprietary remedies, Wiiite 
Beaver's Cough Cream and Wonder Worker 
have acquired a world-wide reputation ; be is 
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which represents a business of $50,000 annu- 
ally, and his associate is his foruaer friend and 
compeer of tlie plains, William F. Cody. The 
name of Dr. Powell is associated with tlie most 
conscientious skill in his profession and he is 
summoned to cases at long distances, requiring 
the l)est medical knowledge. He has secured 
the confidence of his fellow townsmen and his 
influence and the esteem of his generation is 
well attested by his election on the People's 
ticket in 1886 as Mayor of La Crosse and his 
re-election in 1887. In 1888 he was nominated 
on the Union Labor ticket for Governor of Wis- 
consin and received the largest vote of the 
ticket. He is a believer in the principles of 
the Republican party as the palladium of the 
interest of the working men and in that party 
he expects to see their best interests served. 
He is devoted to his profession in a remarkable 
degree and liis quarters are fitted for the re- 
ception and treatment of large numbers of pa- 
tients who throng his rooms and receive the 
attention of himself and his corps of assistants. 
His establishment includes a wonderful collec- 
tion of curiosities, such as a man of his experi- 
ences would preserve as mementoes of his life 
in the wild West. 

His administration of the municipal affairs 
of La Crosse while Mayor secured for him the 
trust of all classes. 

His character is noble and generous ; he is a 
splendid specimen of physical manhood and 
.his ripe and successful years are passed in an 
elegant home, surrounded with all the appur- 
tenances of quiet home life of the best type. 

Dr. Powell's portrait appears on page 610. 



^4e^^a^*,<. 

^VER TORICELSON, Postmaster at Black 
^ River Falls, W^is., member of G. A. R. 
^ Post No. 92, was born Nov. 14, 1839, in 
Bergenstift, Norvyay, where he was brought up to 



the age of 14 years by his parents, Torkel and 
Kjerstine Haldorson. In May, 1854, he came 
to the United States with his father's family, 
consisting of father, mother and a brother 
named Haldor. Their first location was on a 
farm in Dane county, Wisconsin, and in 1857 
they went to Columbia county and thence in 
1859 to Jackson countj^ settling on a farm 
which the father purchased from the Govern- 
ment and improved ; he died thereon June 1, 
1886, and his widow still survives in 1890. 
The son went to school in his native country 
and after arrival in America. In 1859 he be- 
came the posse.ssor of 80 acres of unimproved 
land on which he was occupied until he entered 
the army of his adopted country. Dec. 4, 1861, 
he enlisted at La Crosse and was mustered into 
the U. S. service as Sergeant in Company H, 
15th Wisconsin Infantry, going into Camp 
Randall to rendezvous until March 2, 1862, 
when the regiment started for the front, pass- 
ing through Chicago where the "Scandina- 
vian " regiment was honored by the presenta- 
tion of a beautiful flag from the Chicago ladies. 
The command proceeded to Bird's Point, Mo., 
and a few days later embarked on transports 
for Island No. 10. After the evacuation there, 
April 7th, the regiment took possession of the 
rebel works on the Kentucky shore opposite. 
The situation was very unwholesome and he 
was taken sick with typhoid fever. (Prior to 
going to Island No. 10, the regiment was in the 
action near Union City, east of Hickman, Ky., 
which was the first meeting of Mr. Torkelson 
with the rebels. The rebel camp was surprised 
while eating breakfast and everything captured 
the rebels being routed.) In June the regiment 
went to Union City and thence to Humboldt, 
removing thence to the south of Corinth and 
from camp there to luka. There Mr. Torkel- 
son was again ill and went to hospital at Farm- 
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Dennison, Ohio, and remained there two 
months, rejoining liis regiment near Perryville 
just after the battle. He was with McKee's ex- 
peflition after guerrillas and on return to camp 
at Franklin with aljout 50 prisoners, Mr. Tor- 
kelson was detailed to take charge of the squad 
from his company which was assigned to the 
Pioneer Corps in the 2d Battalion. The next 
move was to Gallatin and back to Franklin 
Pike, moving out the latter part of December 
preparatory to the battle of Stone River, Decem- 
ber 31st and January 1st, in which he was en- 
gaged, his couipany losing two men, going after 
it to camp for winter. In January, Mr. Torkel- 
son was detailed with a squad to run a sawmill 
near Murfreesboro, where he was engaged until 
about the 1st of May. He was again sick, and 
when the regiment moved south in June, 1863, 
he was sent to the hospital near Murfreesboro, 
and about August 1st he went to Nashville to 
hospital No. 4. On examination he was de- 
clared an invalid and sent to Jeffersonville hos- 
pital to the Invalid Corps and thence to Camp 
Denni-son and Camp Chase in Ohio and placed 
on guard duty at the military prisons. After 
two months he was sent, in December, 18G3, 
to Camp Douglas, Chicago, and assigned to the 
15th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps. Dec. 
19, 1864, he received his discharge. During 
the last six months of service he was in charge 
of the guard house and had surveillance over 
Marmaduke after his capture with Cabell, Octo- 
ber 25th ; during his time also the consj)iracy 
to release the rebel prisoners was discovered. 

Mr. Torkelson returned to his home and, 
after a short rest, went to the High School at 
Galesville, returning afterwards to his farm. 
He was married at La Crosse, Dec. 18, 1865, 
and went to work on liis farm in true pioneer 
.style, and has made a complete success of iigri- 
culture, adding by degrees to his land until he 
is the owner of 240 acres, all under improve- 



ment, which forms his home farm. He also 
owns tracts of land in other localities and is 
justly considered one of the substantial men of 
his county. While in his township, he officiated 
as Chairman of the Town Board several terms, 
and in the fall of 1881 was elected Register of 
Deeds, which necessitated his removal to Black 
River Falls. He was re-elected twice and held 
the position seven years. In 1888-9 he held 
the position of Commissioner of the Poor, and 
Oct. 16, 1889, was appointed Postmaster, to 
which he was commissioned Dec. 20, 1889. He 
is one of the citizens of the West who 
thoroughly sympathize with institutions of the 
country which he has made his own and to 
whose interests he is a stanch adherent. He is 
decidedly a supporter of American ideas, prog- 
ress and Government and sustains his record as 
a defender of the National flag. 

Mrs. TorkeLson, Martha Anderson before 
marriage, is the daughter of Iver and Guria 
Anderson of Vernon county. The children 
born to herself and husband are Amelia K., 
Ida G., Julia C, Theodore B., Martin W. and 
Francis A. The oldest daughter is the wife of 
A. B. Peterson of Blair, Wis. 

ILLIAM FLETCHER GOOD- 
HUE is a descendant from a well- 
known family of eastern Massa- 
chusetts. His paternal ancestor in America 
was William Goodhue, who came from Kent 
Co., England, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., in 
1636, being one of the first settlers of the town. 
From him was descended Benjamin Goodhue, 
the first United States Senator from Eastern 
Massachusetts. He was Cbairman of Commit- 
tee on Revenues and the present revenue law's 
are very much as they were originally framed 
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Jonathan Goodliue, an old-time merchant of 
New York wliose bust' is in tlie secretary's 
office of the New York Chamber of Commerce. 
Mr. Goodhue has the written orders of another 
ancestor who was an officer in the war of 1812, 
belonging to tlie Massachusetts Contingent. 

The subject of this sketch is tlie son of Wil- 
liam Perley and Sarali Elizabeth Goodhue ; was 
born in Bo.ston in 1844; when ten years of age 
his parents removed to Wisconsin and first re- 
sided in Janesville, but finally settled at Brod- 
head, Green Co., from which place he enlisted 
May 4, 1861, in the Green County Volunteers, 
which became Company C, 3d Wisconsin In- 
fantry. This regiment was mustered into ser- 
vice June 29, 1861, at Fond du Lac, and was 
commanded successively by Colonels Hamilton, 
Ruger, Hawley and Stevenson, and belonged 
to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division, 12th Corps, 
Army of the Potomac and the 2d Brigade, 1st 
Division, 20th Corps, Armj' of Georgia. He 
served with the regiment in its Virginia cam- 
paigns and in its campaigns under Sherman 
in Georgia, South and North Carolina. Dec. 
22, 1SG3, he re-enlisted with the regiment at 
Wartrace, Tenn. During the last year of the 
war he was Assistant Topographical Engineer 
and attached to the 1st Division, 20th Army 
Corps; when Sherman's army reached Fayette- 
ville, N. C, he descended the Cape Fear river 
to Wilmington, N. C, making a complete sur- 
vey of the river to ascertain its value as a 
" cracker line " in case of protracted military 
operations on its upper waters in North Caro- 
lina, rejoining the array again at Goldsboro. 
He also assisted in surveys and on detail maps 
of the route of the 20tli Corps for nearly the 
entire distance from Savannah to Washington, 
D. C. At Louisville, Ky., July 18, 1865, he 
was mustered out of service and returned home, 
and on the loth day of September of that year 
entered Milton (Wis.) Academy, where he 



studied for one year, and in September, 1866, 
was again living " beneath the canvas," be- 
ing engaged in railway surveys and con- 
struction in Kansas. In 1866-7 he was As- 
sistant Engineer to Colonel J. B. Vliet (of 
Milwaukee) on the Leavenworth, Lawrence 
& Galveston R. R.; assistant engineer on the 
Union Pacific railroad (east Division) in 1868- 
9-70-71, under General A. Anderson, Chief En- 
gineer, formerly Sherman's Military Superin- 
tendent of Railways and the man wiio so ably 
operated the "cracker line "during the Atlanta 
campaign, the same engineer who built the 
Northern Pacific railroad. In 1872 Mr. Good- 
hue was U. S. surveyor in the Indian Territory, 
where he surveyed over 200,000 acres of tribal 
lands for the Ottawas, ShawneesandSeminoles. 
In 1873 he returned to Chicago and became 
engineer editor on the Chicago Railway Re- 
view, writing upon and investigating the nar- 
row gauge railway system during the famous 
"battle of the gauges," which certain enthu- 
siasts claimed to be " the railway of the future." 
In 1875 he returned again to tlie more arduous 
life of a constructing engineer and became the 
chief engineer of the Chicago, Danville & Vin- 
cennes railroad, rebuilding the line in 1877 
under the reorganization of the company, now 
known as the Chicago & Eastern Illinois corpo- 
ration, and the "Nashville Route." Under the 
same management he built the Chicago & 
Western Indiana railroad, 17 miles long, ter- 
minating at the Polk Street depot, and now 
used by five important railway lines. The 
construction of the road involved the removal 
of about 400 houses in the city of Chicago, a 
turn bridge across the Calumet, forty grade 
railway crossing, two large switch yards, two 
large round houses and two large freight ware- 
houses, all of first class construction, costing 
all together about $2,000,000, completing the 
work in sixteen months. In 1881 he was en- 



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gaged in railway construction on the Chicago, 
Burlington & Quincy railroad in Northwest 
Missouri, Ijetvveen Bethany and St. Joseph ; in 
1882 he located a railway line from the Dela- 
ware Mine to Lac la Belle, Kewenaw Point, 
Lake Superior. In 1883 he was appointed, 
with four other engineers, on the committee on 
structural material and tests at the great Rail- 
way Exposition held in Chicago during the 
month of June. In July of the same year he 
made a topographical survey to determine the 
practicahility of a ship canal from Bay de 
Noquet to Lake Superior, across the Michigan 
peninsula, and was largely instrumental in 
hringing the plan, with the aid of maps, re- 
ports, etc., before the legislatures of Michigan, 
Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota, and the 
scheme was endorsed by these several legisla- 
tures. A bill is now before Congress for an ap- 
propriation of §50,000 for the survey of the 
canal route ; its construction will effect a sav- 
ing of 271 miles between Lake Michigan and 
Superior ports. In August, 1883, Mr. Goodhue 
went to Baltimore and took charge of the con- 
struction of three large bridges on the Gun- 
powder River (Md.), on the New York extension 
of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. In 1884 he 
became a United States engineer and was en- 
gaged in a hydrographic survey of Norfolk 
Harbor, Va., and later on surveys of the Tar 
and Pamlico Rivers in North Carolina, also 
building a large steam derrick for removing 
obstructions from those rivers ; just 20 years 
previous to this work done in North Carolina 
he made the survey to the Cape Fear river, a 
stream flowing parallel to the Tar river and in 
the same State. Wliile engaged on Govern- 
rnent work in North Carolina he was elected 
city engineer of Racine, Wisconsin, and re- 
turned to Wisconsin and entered upon the 
duties of city engineer of Racine, August 18, 
1885. While holding this office he planned 



the water works system for the city, which is 
conceded by experts to be one of the finest sys- 
tems in the west ; supplying the city, as it 
does, from Lake Michigan, through a 24-inch 
cast iron main, 7,192 feet in length, laid in a 
trench ten feet below the lake bottom, termin- 
ating in 50 feet of water. The pipe is leaded and 
calked in the usual manner and is the first 
cast iron pipe ever laid under a large body of 
water. He also established the street grades 
for Racine, and planned a complete sewerage 
system, both of which were adopted and are 
now used. 

In 1887 Mr. Goodhue became broken down 
in health and sufiered a severe (internal) sur- 
gical operation, anrl is unable to follow the 
more laborious part of the work devolving 
upon the constructing engineer which he has 
followed so long and successfullj'. In 1888 he 
opened an office in Milwaukee for general 
practice as consulting engineer ; from that date 
to the present date he has engaged in the 
land drainage work of the Muskego and Wind 
Lake Valleys in Waukesha and Racine coun- 
ties ; sewerage plans and construction of sewers 
for Waukesha ; water works for Manitowoc, 
Ripon and Burlington ; sewerage for Mari- 
nette, Wis., and Escanaba, Michigan, besides 
other engineer work of minor importance. 

Mr. Goodhue is a member of fifteen years 
standing of the Western Society of Engineers ; 
he has been a member of Grant Post 28 of 
Chicago, III., Gov. Harvey Post No. 17 of Ra- 
cine and is now a member of E. B. Wolcott 
Post No. 1, of Milwaukee, and is Secretary of 
the Association of the 3d Wisconsin Infantry. 
In 1877 he married Elizatieth Freeman Snell 
of Augusta, Maine, and resides in Milwaukee. 



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<^^AVID BYARD, Racine, Wis., formerly 
.£)Vl n member of the Order of the Grand 
Army, was born Aug. 7, 1840, near 
Railway, Union Co., New .Jersey, and he is the 
son of David and Maria Byard, who were the 
parents of Thomas, John, Mary, Lucy, Cor- 
nelius, Anthony and David. Until the latter 
was of suitable age to learn a trade he was oc- 
cupied on his father's farm and attended school. 
He learned tlie business of a blacksmith at 
Railway and before he had completed his ap- 
prenticeship he went West and arrived at Ra- 
cine, Wis., Dec. 21, 1861. He obtained employ 
in the blacksmitli department of the Mitchell 
Wagon Company, where he remained until the 
spring of 1862, when he engaged with the Ra- 
cine & Mississippi railroad corporation, with 
whom he operated a few months. 

Aug. 7, 1862, he enlisted at Racine for three 
years and was mustered into tlie service of the 
United States at the same place August 12th 
following, in Company A, 22d Wisconsin In- 
fantry, by Captain J. M. Trowbridge, and was 
mustered out near Washington, June 12, 1865, 
with his company. In September he left the 
State with the regiment for Cincinnati to pro- 
tect that city from a threatened rebel attack. 
October 7tli they were sent to Louisville and 
there performed guard and scouting duty until 
February, 1863, when orders were received for 
a change of base to Danville, whence they went 
to Louisville, shipped on transports for Nash- 
ville and marched thence to Franklin. March 
5th, in the fight at Thompson's Station or 
Spring Hill, Colonel Utley and about 200 men 
from the command were captured and the re- 
mainder, numbering about 500, under Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Bloodgood, marched to Brentwood 
to protect the railroad trestle work. March 
25th following, Forrest captured Bloodgood's 
entire force with greatly superior numbers and 
the Union prisoners were marched to Colum- 



bia C. H., Tenn., where they were paroled. 
They went next to Shelby ville and TuUahoma, 
having been deprived of everything in the way 
of clothing except a light dress suit. The next 
movement was to Libby at Richmond and 
thence to City Point on tlie James River, where 
the steamer State of Maine, loaded with rebels, 
awaited their arrival. Thence to Fortress Mon- 
roe and Annapolis the released prisoners pro- 
ceeded, where their worn clothing was replaced 
and they went to St. Louis and Nashville, 
reaching the latter place in June, 1863. April 
19, 1864, the regiment joined Sherman's forces 
for the Atlanta campaign. A few miles from 
Marietta Mr. Byard was ordered by the quar- 
termaster and colonel to take horses and escort 
Lewis Dickinson to Marietta Station, whence 
he was to go to Chattanooga to get 'the regi- 
mental books for the purpose of making up the 

j pay roll, and, after performing the duty, he re- 

; turned in safety to his regiment. The next 
move was to Atlanta, where an armistice was 
agreed on by Hood and Sherman which stipu- 
lated that all rebel families should leave the 
city and two acres of neutral ground were 
set apart for them. Mr. Byard was detailed to 
go to East Point, leaving Atlanta about 11 
o'clock in tlie evening and arrived at his des- 
tination about sunrise the next morning. He 
left the family and furniture he had escorted 
thither and returned safely to Atlanta. He 
was next in the march to tlie sea and arrived 

I at Savannah about the middle of December. 

■ Savannah surrendered December 21st and the 
command crossed from the city to South Caro- 
lina on the Planter, a rebel steamer wliich was 
captured by Robert Small, a colored man, in 
the harbor at Charleston. Mr. Byard was in 
the march through South Carolina to Raleigh, 
having traversed more than two thousand 
miles. After the surrender of Johnston the 

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the Grand Review and returned to Wisconsin 
as stated. Mr. Byard was discharged at Mil- 
waukee, June 27, 1S65. and returned to private 
life at Racine. 

He entered the employ of the railroad again 
and after some time engaged with J. I. Case & 
Co. Later he entered the employ of the rail- 
road again in the shops, where he is now occu- 
pied. (1S90.) 

He was married Oct. 29, 1868, to Josephine, 
daughter of Thomas and Eliza (Vallicott) Dick- 
inson. Her father was born in 1817 in York- 
shire, England, and came to America in IS-W, 
locating in Racine county. His wife was a 
native of England and their children were 
named Josephine and Esther (twins) and Ro- 
selia. The latter is Mrs. James Spence of Ra- 
cine. Mr. and Mrs. Byard are the parents of 
two children — Georgia M., born Aug. 19, 1869, 
and Thomas Dickinson, born March 8, 1876. 
Mr. Byard is a member of Lodge No. 18, Orion 
Chapter, and Commandery No. 7, Masonic Or- 
der at Racine. 






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JAMES (JOHN) B. WRIGHT, Milwaukee, 
Wis , member of G. A. R. Post No. 240, 
Rank and File, was born May 24, 1839, 
in Liverpool, Eiiglaud, and is the son of Joseph 
and Ann (Niel) Wright. His father was a 
carpenter and came to the United States in 
1847, locating in Pliiladelphia. Three children 
were included in the family, the son mentioned 
herein being the eldest. His parents died in 
the Quaker City, and he worked with his 
father there until the age of 15 as a builder. 
In 1854, when at that age, he enlisted in the 
Crimean service and went to Liverpool to ship 
on H. B. M.'s ship Esk (21 guns), enrolling for 
10 years. He served on her about nine 
months and was in two engagements — Bomar- 



sund and Abo, between the Baltic Sea and 
Gulf of Bothnia. He was then assigned to the 
A\'asp and operated in the vicinity of Sevas- 
topol one season ; he also served on the Duke 
of Wellington, the Pearl and the Majestic. He 
was twice wounded while engaged on shore 
with Russian naval batteries. He was in 
hospital about three months and soon after left 
the Crimea. Near Malta, he took French leave 
of the Majestic, jumping overboard and swim- 
ming one and a fourth miles ashore to Valletta 
on the island. He was seen from the ship, 
hailed and tired at ; a boat was lowered and in 
the pursuit he escaped, reached shore, deceived 
the guard and was admitted within the gate. 
He was cold and sought a place where he could 
obtain brandy and coffee; he was taken into 
custody, treated to a free ride on a goat to the 
station, which saved him from being taken by 
the ship's crew, and, as he could not be detained 
without charges, he soon obtained release, Siiil- 
ed on the Hibernia to Cork, thence to London 
and Liverpool and from there to Australia on 
the U. S. ship Invincible, and mined nine 
months, went thence on an American ship to 
Callao, Peru, going after five months to l^n- 
don on the North America, loaded with 
guano. After passing a few weeks in British 
ports he went to New Orleans on the Portland 
and went next to Havre, returning to New 
Orleans and again to Liverpool. The expected 
rebellion was becoming the prominent topic in 
all ports, and he determined to have a hand in 
it; returning to the United St^vtes and landing 
at Boston in December, 1860. He shipped on 
the Macedonia as a common seaman and was 
in the coast service, connected with the L'nited 
States vessels preparing for war, going mean- 
while to ^'era Cruz. He returned to New 
York and was transferred to the Miami, a new 
boat built at Philadelphia, and left that city 
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expedition to Roanoke Island, encountered the 
terrific storm, drifted disabled and was towed 
back to Fortress Monroe by the Cassjiudra. 
After being refitted in dr^* dock at Baltimore, 
she started for tiie Gulf squadron and Farra- 
gut took possession of l)er as flag-ship at mid- 
night after her arrival at Ship Island. She 
went to Pilottown as such until the. fleet crossed 
tiie bar, when the admiral's flag was transferred 
to the Hartford. The boat was in the action at 
F'ort Jackson, April 17th, engaged afterwards 
in bombarding there and at St. Phillip six 
nights and seven days ; there were more than 
a thousand guns in the forts within 1,200 j'ards 
of the flotilla, and the Miami suffered extensive 
injuries above her waterline. Mr. Wright was 
knocked down once. After this action the 
boat went to Black Bay and towed the Great 
Republic, with the 4th Wisconsin aboard, and 
landed the troops at Algiers. The boat went 
next to Fort .Jackson and transferred the 
prisoners to New Orleans, going to Ship Island 
afterwards to refit. Orders were received for 
Mobile Bay but they were countermanded, and 
the vessel started for Vicksburg on the Missis- 
sippi. Tiiey were " fired " on at Grand Gulf, 
and on returning " fired " that town. Mr. 
Wright was in two engagements at Vicksburg, 
and the Miami returned to New Orleans for 
repairs and went to Fortress Monroe with the 
body of Captain Wainwright. The Ixiat was 
next sent to Newport News and to take position 
at the mouth of the .James River and on being 
replaced by the Ironsides, went to Albemarle 
Sound, N. C, and remained there until the 
spring of 1864, having a fight at Plymouth 
with the ram Albemarle, April 17th. The 
ram sunk the Unit«d States and only two of 
her crew escaped — Captain French and the 
gunner's mate. Lieutenant Commander Flus- 
ser was killed with several of his men. Flus- 
ser was succeeded by French and after the 



boat had proceeded to the mouth of th& Roan- 
oke to picket the location, Mr. Wright was de- 
tailed with assistants to examine her; she was 
very little injured and. May oth, .she was in 
another conflict with tlie ram and three con- 
sorts. The fighting began about four in the 
afternoon and ended about nine in the eve- 
ning, the ram escaping and one of her consorts 
being captured. At Plymouth Mr. Wright 
was detailed on special duty to obtain informa- 
tion regarding rebel movements and came near 
being captured. The Miami went next to the 
James River, near " Dutch Gap " and remained 
until the close of the war. A portion of the time 
Mr. Wright was in charge of torpedo boat No. 4. 
June 24, 1865, he was discharged at Philadel- 
phia and remained in that city until 1866. 

In that year he went to Wisconsin and lo- 
cated at Milwaukee. He engaged as a con- 
tractor and builder and has made a success of 
the enterprise. Jan. 9, 1867, he was married 
in Philadelphia to Mary C, daughter of Adam 
B. and Anna L. (Louder) Wright, and their 
children were named David Farragut, Thomas 
A., .John F., Frank L., Eva and Anna ; all are 
deceased but Thomas. The parents of Mrs. 
Wright were respectively of English and 
American birth and both are deceased. Mr. 
Wright is a Republican in political affiliation. 

ff^ ILBERT W. COOK, Black River 
p Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 92, was born June 7, 1828 in 
Colchester, Delaware Co., New York, and is the 
son of Jonas and Ma r3' (Reynolds) Cook. His 
father was born in Colchester on a farm of 40 
acres on which he passed his whole life and on 
which he died at 76 years of age. Rol>ert, the 
father of .Jonas, was a native of Massachusetts 
of English lineage, whence he went to the State 
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fgrred to. His wife was born in New York and 
was of Dutcli extraction. Tlie maternal grand- 
father of Mr. Cook was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion. Until tlie age of 23, Mr. Cook remained 
at home, obtaining his education and was one 
of 14 children, named in order James, Gilbert, 
Harriet, Allen, William, Sarah Ann, Anna, 
Walter, Jane, Cynthia, Lafayette, Adelbert and 
a pair of twins who died in early infancy. 
Seven are living. In 1851 Mr. Cook engaged 
in lumbering in Michigan about 18 months and 
in 1853 settled at Green Lake, Wisconsin, re- 
moving thence two years later to Jackson 
county, where he was occupied in farming, and 
he managed his farm at Alma Center until the 
spring of the civil war. June 8, 1861, he en- 
listed at Sparta in the State service and was 
mustered into the service of the United States 
in July following. He became a member of 
Company I, 4th Wisconsin Infantry and went 
to rendezvous at Camp Utley, leaving Racine 
for Washington, July 15tli. The disaster at 
Bull Run aroused the military spirit of Colonel 
Paine which had already been stirred at (ker- 
ning and where he took an engineer from his 
ranks to take the train to Eimira, and arms 
were obtained for the command at Harrisburg 
for safety in passing through Baltimore. The 
command went into camp at the Relay House 
and thence to the eastern shore of Virginia 
after guarding railroads near Baltimoi'e until 
November. Tliey were in the command of 
Gen. John A. Dix and returned to Baltimore 
to winter quarters, building the Wisconsin hos- 
pital. In FelMuary orders were received to 
report at Foi-tress Monroe, preparatory to a 
movement to Newport News and thence, after 
two weeks, the regiment embarked for Ship 
Island. Tliey ran the gauntlet of rebel fire at 
Sewall's point at the mouth of the James River 
and proceeded on the Constitution under Gen- 
eral Williams, the steamer containing also the 



6th Michigan and 21st Indiana regiments. 
The first rebel shot from the rebel battery went 
over amidship ; the second fell short and the 
third fell within 15 feet of the bows, but they 
were under full head of steam and made their 
way out in safety. After a month at Ship Is- 
land the three regiments started on the Great 
Republic for New Orleans and remained at the 
mouth of the Mississippi River, detained by 
low water. The vessel was finally towed 
within hearing of the guns in the bombard- 
ment of the forts which defended the entrance 
and the next removal was to Black Bay, oppo- 
site Forts Jackson and St. Pliillip, landing two 
companies and sending them to Quarantine to 
cut off tlie possible retreat of the rebels. There 
Mr. Cook witnes.sed the running of Farragut's 
fleet past the forts, and Major Boardman and 
his two companies having succeeded in con- 
vincing the rebels that they had best surrender, 
the Great Republic returned to the S. E. Pass 
and started for New Orleans, running aground. 
The 4th Wisconsin was taken off by the 
steamer Laurel Hill and landed at the foot of 
Canal street, April 30th. They went into 
quarters at the Custom House with Butler and 
Company I was detailed as his body guard. 
Two weeks later the command went toward 
Vicksburg, returned down tiie river and, while 
passing Grand Gulf, was fired on. Mr. Cook 
was taken sick and was obliged to go to hos- 
pital on arrival at Baton Rouge. Two weeks 
later he went to convalescent hospital and re- 
mained until the regiment returned from the 
second expedition to Vicksburg, in tiie latter 
part of July. Aug. 5th, under General 
^\'illiams, who had had Colonel I'aine arrested 
because he would not surrender fugitive 
slaves, the regiment fought at Baton Rouge and 
Williams was killed while leading the 21st In- 
diana against Brockenridge, llio rebels being de- 
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until December, went to Baton Rouge and re- 
mained ill winter quarters ; in March, 1863, a re- 
comioissance in force was made to Port Hudson 
and the 4th lay all night on their arms three 
miles from the works, listening to-the guns from 
Farragut's fleet, that dauntless commander 
having passed the Port. Returning to Baton 
Rouge, the regiment went to New Orleans to 
camp at Algiers, and thence to Berwick Bay, 
tlie command nuinliering aliout 18,000 men. 
April 10th, at night, the soldiers lay on their 
arms and in the morning the skirmishers were 
driven in and the battle of Bisland began, the 
rebels being commanded by Dick Taylor. The 
Union arms triumphed after two days' fight- 
ing and pursued tlie rebels to Alexandria. At 
Opelousas the regiment was ordered to obtain 
horses in whatever manner was possible, and 
returned to Alexandria after chasing a bat- 
talion of Texas cavalry. The next move took 
the regiment down tlie river to Bayou Sara and 
tiience to the siege of Port Hudson, acting as 
mounted infantry and the brigade made an 
assault May '27th on foot and remained close 
to the fortifications six days, being relieved in 
the night. The company made the raid the 
next morning on Clinton in which Captain 
Levi Blake was killed. June 14th the regi- 
ment was again in an assault on Port Hudson 
after performing garrison and picket duty and 
on the date mentioned went to the front ready 
for attack in the morning. The regiment lost 
half its men, and Colonel Paine lost a leg, being 
wounded while gallantlj^ urging the supports 
forward to the relief of his men. The regiment 
remained in the siege until the surrender, July 
8th, and went thence to Baton Rouge to be 
equipped as cavalry. In the fall they veteran- 
ized and, until the spring of 1864, were on 
constant scouting duty. During the spring 
Mr. Cook took his furlough and joined his regi- 
ment at Baton Rouge. In the summer he was 



ill with typhoid fever and in hospital several 
weeks. In November he was with the regiment 
in a feint on Mobile to attract the rebels from 
Sherman's movements, went through the pine 
forests to the coast and returned to Baton Rouge. 
March 1, 1865, they were ordered to Mobile to 
the attack on the defenses there and after the 
fall of the forts and the capitulation of Mobile, 
they went through Alabama into Georgia and 
returned after crossing the Chattahoochie to 
Alabama, camping during an armistice at 
Eufala, where Sherman and Johnston were 
engaged in trying to make a treaty. They also 
took a position at a bridge opposite Macon to 
intercept Jeff Davis, wliose whereabouts were 
then unknown. They went to Vicksburg, 
arriving June 5tb, went to the Red River to 
Alexandria and Shreveport, going later to San 
Antonio, Texas, with the 4th and 6th Michigan 
and 14th New York on the terrible march. 
August 26th Mr. Cook was discharged on 
account of the consolidation of companies and 
was mustered out as Corporal at New Orleans 
and returned to his home after a long service 
without a wound. 

He located on a farm at Alma Center and in 
1884 retired to a home at Black River Falls. 
He was married October 3, 1864, at Alma 
Center to Mrs. Martha J. Court, daughter of 
Millet J., and Mehitabel (Baker) Smith and the 
widow of John H. Court, a soldier of the 10th 
Wisconsin Infantry, who enlisted in 1861 and 
was wounded at Perryville, Oct. 8, 1862, dying 
eight days later and leaving three sons, one of 
whom is deceased — Edward W. ; Melville A. 
and John W., the two younger are living. The 
only child of Mr. and Mrs. Cook is Effie M., 
born Sept. 4, 1869. Mr. Cook is a Republican 
ami draws a pension. Mrs. Cook's father was 
born in Durham, N. H., Oct. 26, 1799, and her 
mother in Dartmouth, Mass., June IS, 1807. 



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MiRTIN THOMAS MOORE, La 
Crosse, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 38, was born Aug. 9, 
1847, in Wauwato.sa, Mil\vaul:ee Co., Wiscon- 
sin, where his parents, Lorenzo W. and Miranda 
(Lighani) Moore located in 1845. His father 
was born in Bennington, Vt., of German and 
Irish ancestry and was the son of an officer of 
tiie war of 1812; he went in early life to 
Adams, Mass., and in 1845 removed to Wiscon- 
sin ; his wife was born in 1811 of English and 
Scotch i>arentage and died in 18S4, lier hus- 
band surviving her until 1887. 

Mr. Moore was reared on a farm and attended 
the common schools until he enlisted, four days 
before he was 15 years old, and so small was 
he in stature then, that he was called " Little 
Johnnie." But he was old enougii and his 
patriotism was strong enough to insure his en- 
rollment as a soldier which occurred Aug. 5, 
18G2, when he enlisted in Company E, 24th 
Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel J. H. Larrabee. 
The regiment left Milwaukee in the same 
month for Jeflersonville, Ind., Cincinnati and 
Louisville, to be assigned to Greusel's 87th 
Brigade and Sheridan's 11th Corps. They 
were in the chase after Bragg tbrough northern 
Kentucky, and Mr. Moore was first in system- 
atic warfare at Pcrryville, October 8th. The 
next fight of any considerable magnitude on 
his roster was Stone River, in which he was in 
action from December 30th to January 3, 1863. 
lie was next in hospital and returned to his 
command July 4, 1863, rcpoi-ting for duty on 
that day. He was assigned by special order to 
Fortress Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, Tenn., and 
was relieved to join his regiment in March, 
1864. 

The 24th Wisconsin was in the 4tli Army 
Corps, preparatory to the campaign in Georgia, 
and Mr. Moore was in action May 9tli at Rocky 
Face Ridge, where, on the crest of the hill, he 



had the best opportunity to view the situation 
of a contest between two great contending 
forces. When the Union troops carried the 
crest, the rebels tried to drive them back by 
rolling stones down upon them, but the posi- 
tion was taken and held until it became a cer- 
tainty that the rebels had left their fortifica- 
tions, when the command went to fight at Re- 
saca. May 14th. On this field Mr. Moore was 
knocked down by a ball which passed through 
his hat. The charge was made through what 
was called the "Valley of Death," and after his 
first fall he was again knocked down in a pre- 
cisely similar manner. He moved back be- 
hind a log and, as he raised his gun to fire, a 
bullet knocked it out of his hand. He was in 
the skirmish line at Calhoun, May 17th, and 
moved with his command to Pleasant Hill near 
Adairsville, where the 24th encountered the 
rear guard of the rebel army and had a sharp 
skirmish on the 18th. On this date Mr. Moore 
received a bullet in the upper part of his left 
leg and was taken to the rear. Tlie Imllet was 
extracted, and through the kindness of his 
regimental surgeon he was conveyed in an am- 
bulance to a plantation with Lieutenant T. T. 
Keith, who afterwards died from the effects of 
his wound. In the room where they were 
placed was another bed, containing the wife of 
a reltel colonel who had given birth to a child 
during the battle, several shots passing through 
the walls above her bed. Tiie next day Mr. 
Moore was removed to the field hospital of the 
4th Corps near Kesaca, remaining there until 
May 24th, when he was removed to Nashville. 
In company with the colonel of an Ohio regi- 
ment, whose foot and ankle were badly shat- 
tered, he was placed in a box car and reached 
Nashville three days later, without having re- 
ceived any attention, and having waited on his 
wounded companions to tlie best of iiis abilit}'. 
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of the same hospital in which he had pre- 
viously passed six months of ilhiess. 

About June 3d he went to Jeffersonville, Iiid., 
where he was in the hospital when Mrs. Har- 
vej' visited the Wisconsin soldiers and who 
obtained for him a pair of crutches. He went 
thence to the U. S. hospital at Madison, where 
it was decided to assign him to tlie Veteran 
Reserve Corps and he was detached, much 
against his will, from his own company and 
assigned to Company C, 5tli Regiment, V. R. ' 
C, July 26, 1864. He remained on duty at 
Camp Morton until mustered out July 5, 1865, i 
at Indianapolis. 

During his service he acted as Orderly for 
Colonel Larrabee, with wliom he was a favorite. 
While on detached duty, stationed at Fortress 
Rosecrans at Murfreesboro, he was assigned to 
a battery as Sergeant in charge of three pieces, 
and also was acting Captain in that service un- 
til he rejoined his regiment in March, 1864. 
While at Murfreesboro, expecting an attack 
from Wheeler and Morgan, his men stood at 
their guns 48 hours. The people had been or- 
dered out of the city by the commaiiding officer 
and hundreds of them went into the forts and 
were as well provided for as possible. During 
this time many child births occurred, and 
the mothers received the tenderest care 
from the army surgeons. Mr. Moore was on 
duty as officer of the guard during the mem- 
orable cold nights which began .Jan. 1, 1864. 
On account of the extreme severity of the 
weather he assumed the responsibility of call- 
ing in all the guard except from one post, and 
there the sentry was relieved every twenty 
minutes. Even in regular (quarters it was im- 
possible for the men to keep warm and they 
only saved themselves from sutfering by build- 
ing a "fire-ring" of cordwood, within which 
they gathered. 

Mr. Moore recalls many incidents connected 



with his military life at Camp Morton — some 
auiusing, some sad and some tragical ; attempts 
to tunnel out were frequently made ; the para- 
pets were often scaled at great risk of life and 
other affairs were constantly occurring. Twice 
he was himself arrested as a deserter while go- 
ing out on what he considered duty, to retake 
])risoners who had escaped and in other service 
as important. Each time, as an indorsement 
of his zeal in service, he was acquitted and pro- 
moted. While at that place he was in the de- 
tail which accompanied the last 500 prisoners 
from Camp Morton to Richmond for exchange. 
They went by rail to Baltimore, traveling in 
freight cars and from there on Government 
transports to a point about seven miles below 
Richmond, arriving a short time pi'ior to the 
surrender of Lee. 

After muster out he returned to Wauwatosa 
and attended Wayland University at Beaver 
Dam, Wis., until the autumn of 1867. In 1868 
he commenced a thorough preparation for the 
profession of a dentist and in 1869 located his 
business at La Crosse, where he has built up a 
popular and prosperous practice. He was mar- 
ried May 17, 1871, at La Crosse, to Emma S., 
daughter of Egbert N. and Mary S. Bagley. 
Their only child is named Vera I. 

Mr. Moore is a member of the Order of 
Masonry, belonging to the Lodge and Com- 
mandery; is a Knight Templar and belongs to 
the Grand Commandery. He was one of the 
first members of the A. 0. U. W. in Wisconsin, 
belonging to the Grand Lodge and to the 
Arcanum. 

Since 1878 he has been an active member of 
the State National Guards. In August, 1878, 
in conjunction with others, he was instrumental 
in the organization of the Light Guards, which 
was mustered on the 14th day of that month 
into the National Guards, Mr. Moore receiving 
a commission as 1st Lieutenant. In August, 



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1879, he was commissioned Captain of the com- 
pany, and in 1881 the State organizations were 
formed into battalions, and, May 19th of that 
year, he was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, 
commanding the 3d battalion, W. N. G. In 
1883 the State troops were organized into regi- 
ments, and, June 11th of that year, Mr. Moore 
received a unanimous vote for Colonel and was 
commissioned as such by the Governor of Wis- 
consin. In addition to his discharge of duties 
as inspector of the several companies of his 
command, he assembles them every summer 
for a week of instruction in camp. With others 
he wa.s instrumental in llie purcliase by the 
State of 600 acres in Juneau county for the 
purposes of camp and drill, which is called the 
Wisconsin Rifie Rtuige. Colonel Moore devotes 
himself conscientiously to the drill and training 
of his command during the weeks of instruc- 
tion, the efficient and systematic methods em- 
ployed by him being demonstrated by his prize 
winners in rifle practice. His regiment was 
the first to occupy the Range as a camp of in- 
struction, and during the six da^'S of encamp- 
ment in 1889, 11,000 rounds of service ammu- 
nition were fired, the result of every shot being 
recorded. 

Mr. Moore is a Republican, but in the 
multifarious duties of his profession and other 
relations, will not become an office seeker or 
office holder. The chief trait of character 
of Colonel Moore is conscientious discliarge 
of duty wliich he impoK>s on himself, or 
which rests on him in iiis jirofession, as head 
of a State miliUiry organization and in the 
obligations of his citizenship. 



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OHN EDWARD PENNEFATHER, Mil- 
waukee, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, was born May 4, 
1816, in County Tipperar}', Ireland, at Holy 
Cross and came to the United States with his 
parents when an infant of seven montlis. From 
the port of New York they went to New Brun.s- 
wick, N. J., and remained in the vicinity of 
the Atlantic seaboard and at Ellicottville, Catr 
taraugus Co., New York, one j-ear. They 
removed to Kenosha, Kenosha Co., Wisconsin, 
locating soon after on a farm in Wheatland 
township, now included in New Munster. The 
fatlier passed several yfears there and removed 
to Milwaukee. 

The son obtained his education in the Cream 
City and was 17 years and 10 months old when 
he enlisted, Feb. 29, 1864, in Company H, 13th 
U. S. Regulars at Milwaukee and was assigned 
to a command which was designed to consist of 
three battalions, two of which were not enlisted 
as expected, and one of which was enlisted only 
after the surrender of Lee. The 13th U. S. 
Infantry was the first regiment of which Sher- 
man had command, and Mr. Pennefather 
enlisted as a recruit, only 85 men being left in 
the organization of 800. The Battalion had 
made a glorious record, being the first to plant 
the Union colors on the fortifications at Vicks- 
burg, and it is the only regiment of regulars 
that has retained its identification and kept up 
its re-union yearly. Oct. 11, 1863, at Colliers- 
ville, Tenn., four of its companies were attacked 
by 2,000 rebels under Chalmers and supported 
by two pieces of artillery, Sherman being with 
his command on the way to Mission Ridge ; 15 
men were lost before aid arrived in the defense 
of the Great Commander. The Battalion was 
at various points after Mr. Pennefather's enlist- 
ment, and he was in the fight at Nashville, 
after which the command went on frontier ser- 
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Fort Benton, Montana, at the headwaters of the 
Missouri River. The Battalion comprised the 
first troops sent to that localitj' and built 
block houses on the upper waters of the river, 
with headcjuarters at Camp Cook. Tliey 
readied that point by crossing the Bearpaw 
Mountains instead of the river, which was 
made uniiavigable by shoals. The train in- 
cluded about 54 wagons, and they were attend- 
ed by a few faithful Indians, about 3,000 hos- 
tile redskins having collected on their flanks 
before they were half-way to their destination, 
onecompanj' out of the eight which constituted 
the Battalion being mounted. On the evening 
of July 16, 1866, Mr. Pennefather was in com- 
mand of about 64 of his own company and the 
mounted infantry, when an attack seemed 
imminent, but the plans of the redskins failed 
and the night passed without alarm. He was 
made Corporal soon after enlistment and after- 
wards Sergeant. While in tlie former position 
he was sent from Fort Leavenworth to Larra- 
mie, with nine men, to guard the paymaster 
and was promoted on his return, as he had per- 
formed a difficult and dangerous service. On 
his return he stopped at Fort Kearney and 
passed two months, awaiting transportation to 
his l;)attalion. Fort Kearney was a sub-post 
for soldiers in emergencies, as the escort squads 
traversed long distances and places of assist- 
ance and supply were scattered widely apart. 
The captain in charge placed him in command, 
although he was only a boy and he conducted 
tlie affairs of the garrison until he joined his 
battalion. 

After he was mustered out he returned to 
Milwaukee and engaged in a wholesale boot 
and shoe house (Ewing Bros. & Co.), remaining 
with them four years. His next occupation 
was in the U. S. Express office, and after a 
month he applied for a situation in the post- 
oflSce which he obtained through his army 



connections and he still holds the position. 
When the Sheridan Guards of Milwaukee 
were organized, June 29, 1869, he was made 
Orderly Sergeant and retained that position 
for five years. In 1874 he was made 1st 
Lieutenant, holding that place and officiating 
as Adjutant two years in the 1st Regiment, 
Wisconsin National Guards. He was after- 
wards made Captain of the Sheridan Guards, 
and after a year resigned and went to the 
ranks, remaining six years, when he was 
elected Quartermaster of the 4th Battalion, 
resigning Nov. 30, 1889. During the labor 
riots of May, 1886, he, as Quartermaster, 
attended to the necessities of the troops called 
out to suppress the ricters and performed the 
duty under most difficult conditions, involving 
much danger. On one occasion, accompanied by 
his Quartermaster Sergeant, he drove through 
streets crowded with rioters in a hack filled 
with provision, and if his_ business had been 
understood by the maddened multitudes the 
consequences would have been most serious. 
This feat must be recorded as a portion of the 
histor}' of that' time, and Mr. Pennefather 
received the commendations of his superior 
officers for his courage and pluck. His com- 
missions in the National Guard were dated 
as follows: — 1st Lieutenant, July 21, 1874; 
signed by Gov. W. R. Taylor ; his commission 
was renewed Nov. 7, 1879, by Gov. W. E. 
Smith ; Dec. 8, 1875, he was made Adjutant 
by Governor Taylor ; Aug. 19, 1876, Gov. H. 
Ludington commissioned him 1st Lieutenant, 
and the same official signed his pajjers as 
Captain, July 6, 1877. 

Mr. Pennefather was married Aug. 1, 1870, 
to Lizzie A. Blackwell who died April 26, 1884, 
after becoming the mother of seven cliildren 
named .James Sheridan, George Rooney, Mary, 
John Patrick, Elizabetii Ann, Catherine 
Josephine and Alice Rose, who died when six 



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months old. Oct. 28, 1885, Mr. Pennefather 
was a second time married to Mary, daughter 
of Patrick and Johannah (8i<ahen) Connors. 
Bartliolomew Biackwell, brotlier of the first 
wife, was a soldier in the British service and 
was in the charge of the 600 at Balaklava, 
being one of tlie few survivors of that action. 
His brotlier-in-law has his silver cigarholder, 
bent and shortened by bullets. His uncle, 
John Biackwell, was a general in the Irish 
Legion in the French service. An autograph 
letter of General Sherman to Mr. Pennefather 
is appended, and it is to be noted that it is a 
communication of one of the highest ranking 
officers of the United States to a private. 
"Headquarters Army LI. S., Washington, D. C, 
June 26, 1871. Mr. John E. Pennefather, Mil- 
waukee, Wis. Dear Sir: — Your letter of June 
15th with your j)etition endorsed is received, 
and I will do my best to accomplish what you 
ask. I will endorse your petition and letter to 
the Postmaster-General who will, I think, try 
to oblige you. But times are changed since 
the close of the war, and the politicians are 
very jealous of the soldiers and they claim all 
the offices as necessary to reward their friends 
and adherents. This is not what any of us 
expected during the war, for we then supposed 
service rendered the whole country would 
always be rated above mere party allegiance. 
Yours truly, W. T. Siierman, General." 

OLUMBUS MILLER, Chi])pewa Falls., 
Wis., member of (i. A. 11. Post No. 
68, was born at Prairie du Chien, 
Wis., Jan. 17, 1848, and liis parents, Jolin and 
Mary (O'Neil) Miller, were l)orn respectively in 
Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The senior Mil- 
ler was of German extraction and went to Ken- 
lucky and worked as a farm assistant until his 




marriage, after which he went to Prairie du 

Chien in the "forties." In 1854 the family 
removed to Chippewa Falls, and afterward the 
father kept a hotel at Juneau Falls on the 
Chipiiewa River. The mother died there in 
1866, and in 1878, the father died in Minnesota. 
Virginia, Emmeline, William, Newton, George, 
Alexander and Columbus were the names of 
the cliildren. Mr. Miller was a member of his 
family until he became a soldier and he enlisted 
in February, 1864, and was mustered into the 
U. S. service at Madison in Company K, 36th 
Wisconsin Infantry. In May orders were 
received to report at Washington for immediate 
service and the recruits for the 36th Wisconsin 
join.ed their command during the camjiaign of 
the Wilderness in the 1st Brigade, 2d Division 
and 2d Corps, under Colonel Haskell. Mr. 
Miller fought in the Wilderness and went next 
to action on the North Anna River. After tiie 
march thither he was on picket duty in an old 
saw mill through the night and all next day, 
receiving orders to charge about dark on the 
breastworks of tiie rel)els in front of tliem in the 
woods. They fought until 10 o'clock and fell 
back, and the next action was at Tolopotomy 
Creek. In the fight at Cold Harbor Colonel 
Haskell was killed and the loss in the command 
was very heavy. The regiment took position 
in front of Petersburg, June 16th and fouglit 
on the 18th, being in reserve the day l)efore. 
About 10 o'clock on the IStii Mr. Miller was 
wounded in the elbow by a musket ball, was 
sent to field hospital, his arm was amjjutated 
and he went thence to City Point in an ambu- 
lance, was placed on board a steamer and sent 
to Annajiolis. Tlie latter part of August he 
received a furlough and went home to Chippewa 
Falls. At the exp'iration of 30 days he reported 
at Madison and remained there until his 
discharge, Dec. 23, 1865. As soon as able he 
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and operated at different points until 1880, when 
lie located at Chippewa Falls and engaged in 
teaming for the C. L. & B. Co. 

He was married April 20, 1878, to Zilpha, 
• laughter of Thomas and Sarah (Johnson) 
McCann, niece of Dan McCann, who obtained 
the eagle which went with the 8th Wisconsin to 
the war. (See sketch of T. McGuire). Stephen 
S. McCann, father of Tiiomas, was one of the 
first settlers at Chippewa Falls; he and his 
wife were born in Ohio. Mrs. Miller is the 
oiliest of their six children, Sarah, Barbara, 
William, Thomas and George being the names 
of her brothers and sisters. Four children 
have been born to herself and husband named 
Mary, Walker, Estella and Clarence. Mr. Mil- 
ler is a Republican in political connection and 
draws a pension. His brother William enlisted 
in 1861 in the 2d Michigan Infantry and served 
four years in the Army of the Potomac, was 
captured and taken to Andersonville, where he 
died. George enlisted in 1863 in the 6th Wis- 
consin Infantry, was wounded in the battle of 
Cold Harbor and died in hospital at Baltimore 
in 1864 ; he is buried in the soldiers' cemetery 
there. 

Mr. Miller is a member of the Odd Fellows 
Lodge at Chippewa Falls. 



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EVI M. KING, La Crosse, Wis., a 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
'^ born Sept. 29, 1842, at Fort Hill, 
Lake County, Illinois. Chauncey and Hannah 
E. (Marble) King, his parents, were natives of 
the Stale of New York and the father died Feb. 
1, 1882, at Sheboygan Falls, Wis. He was a 
Ituilder by profession and located in the town 
of Avon, Lake county, in the Sucker State 
when he went West and settled on a farm. 
In 1845 he went to Oshkosh, Wis., and, being 



a skilled mechanic in nearly every branch of 
building he engaged in constructing steam- 
boats. About 1870 he went to the place where 
he died and there managed his farm and busi- 
ness. He was a Hollander by descent, and his 
wife was a native of Ohio, of English extrac- 
tion ; she resides at Waukegan, 111. Levi. M., 
Clarence 0., Arabella E., Walter W. and 
Milton were the names of their children ; the 
latter is deceased. 

When Mr. King was about 15 years old he 
engaged in steamboating on the Fox and Wolf 
Rivers in the capacity of mechanical engineer 
for which his father had fitted him. During 
the season of navigation this was his employ 
and he attended school alternate winters. He 
also found interest in trapping, which business 
was then good. When the attack was made 
on Sumter he was 19 years old and tried to en- 
list in the 2d Wisconsin Infantry but was re- 
jected on account of youth. Nov. 29, 1863, he 
enlisted at Appleton in Company I, 3d Wis- 
consin Cavalry with the recruits for the com- 
mand of Captain Theodore Conkey. He 
operated as recruiting officer for a time and 
mustered at Camp Randall, Madison. He 
passed the following winter there in drill and 
in February went to Fort Leavenworth to join 
the regiment. After two months they were 
ordered to Fort Scott, where Mr. King was at- 
tacked with the small-pox and carried in an 
old wagon to the pest house, where he re- 
mained about five weeks, with others sick with 
the same disease. On recovery he returned to 
Fort Scott and was assigned to hospital duty 
while recovering his former vigor. He re- 
belled at this and left the hospital without dis- 
charge and went to his regiment and company. 
Soon after he was transferred to Company C at 
Fort McKean, Kansas. The duty there was 
to keep a lookout for guerrillas and bush- 
whackers and he was in the saddle most of the 



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time. Once he went to the Cherokee Nation 
after cattle and the detail secured ahout 800, 
getting away with them after a fight, bringing 
them to Fort Scott. He remained there until 
about the 1st of August, 1SG4, and operated 
as scout and escort for trains, following uj> 
gentlemen of the bush and Indians and per- 
forming other fi-ontier duty. He went thence 
to Fort Kiley and about the last of September 
the company went to Fort Zarah, Kansas, and 
built a stockade. He had been made Sergeant 
and while there he was placed on detached 
service, escorting hay trains to Fort Larned. 
While executing this duty he was ruptured 
by a bucking horse and has never recovered 
from the injury. He remained in that vicinity 
until the spring of 1865, living in dugouts, 
subsisting on salt meat and stale rations of all 
sorts. There the command was reorganized 
into Companies G and L, Mr. King being placed 
in the former. Theodore Conkey was made 
Colonel of the new organization. 

Mr. King thinks that officer was a better specu- 
lator than tighter. Mr. King was made Duty 
Sergeant on the reorganization and marched 
with his company to Lawrence where they 
were ordered to escort Colonel Parry to Fort 
Lyon, Col. This command had a dispatch 
line covering a thousand miles. Aug. 7, 1805, 
by special order, Sergeant King with his com- 
pany, was relieved from duty and ordered to 
report at headquarters at Fort Lyon for as- 
signment to duty as Ordnance Sergeant. He 
was occupied in this until the last of Septem- 
ber, when his command was ordered to Fort 
Leavenworth for muster out, whicii ceremony 
took place Oct. 27, 1865. 

He returned to Oshkosh, Wis., and on re- 
quest of Colonel Conkey went to Appleton to 
assist him in making out his returns, dating 
back 20 months. He was known to tiie"bo3's" 
as Captain of Company Q, of Colonel Conkey's 



Mules. This command seemed to have a sort 
of independent mission from first to last. Mr. 
King passed a winter at Weyauwega working 
as blacksmith and returned to Oshkosh to aid 
in building a shingle mill and made shingles 
one summer. In the winter he went to the 
woods logging and in the spring engaged in a 
handle factory as foreman. The establishment 
was converted into a furniture factory of which 
Mr. King had charge six years. His next 
venture was as engineer in .Jackson county, 
where he operated two years. He spent a year 
at Sheboygan Falls, went to Mukwa, purcha.sed 
a farm and was an agriculturist two years. 
He was convinced that his forte was not farm- 
ing and he sold his property and went into the 
woods. In the spring of 1880 he went to La 
Crosse and has since engaged in marine en- 
gineering through the navigation season and 
acts as a machinist in the winters. He is now 
making a special study of the electric light 
machinery'. He is a Republican and a mem- 
'ber of the A. O. U. W. 

He was married Dec. 17, 1865, at Weyau- 
wega, to Alidah A., daughter of John H. and 
Sarah Jane (Calkins) Thorne. Their four 
children were named Sarah E., Levi II., Mil- 
ton and Clarence C. Milton is deceased. 



|jj^Y>jr^^LTER F. SUITER, La Crosse, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 38, was born Oct. 10, 1822, at 
Herkimer, New York. He is the son of John 
and Catherine B. (Hlanchard) Suiter and in the 
])aternal line is of German descent. The 
Blanchard family in New York were prominent 
in jniblic position and politics. The father was 
a farmer and builder and was a prominent 
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Clinton. He and liis wife lived and died in 
New York and their children were named 
Jane, James, Anthony, Mary G., Walter F., John 
and Angustus. Mary and John are deceased. 

The youth of Dr. Suiter was passed at home 
and after his father's death with the family of 
Rev. John V. Spinner (father of F. E. Spinner), 
who was his guardian. He was educated in 
the primary schools of Herkimer and at Clin- 
ton Academy. He entered Union College at 
Scbenectad}', where he studied about two years 
and completed his education at Girard College, 
Philadelphia. He afterwards taught school 
three years in New York, Vermont and North 
Carolina, and then continued his medical 
course at Jefferson College, Philadelphia, com- 
pleting his preparation for the profession of a 
physician at Castleton, Vermont, where he 
took his degree. He opened his practice at 
Amsterdam, New York, and, after two years, 
went to Ilion, New York, and practiced three 
years. In 1853 he went to Kansas and located 
at Ossawattomie. When the troubles growing 
out of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise 
came on, Dr. Suiter, with the blood of German 
ancestors in his veins, took the deepest interest 
in affairs between the factions and allied him- 
self with the defenders of Ossawatomie with 
John Brown in the "Pottawattamie Stnbbs"as 
Surgeon; with 72 men in the organization 
they did what they could in aiding Brown to 
protect the settlers in their rights. Aug. 18, 
1853, Dr. Suiter was captured by the Border 
Ruffians while acting as a scout, tried by a so- 
called court presided over by tlie notorious 
Colonel Atchison and sentenced to be hung at 
two in the afternoon. But there had been a 
raid on a colony of Georgians, who had moved 
into Kansas with their slaves, and two men, 
named Grant and Cook, claimed his surrender 
to them on the ground of liis connection with 
that movement. He was given up, taken from 



Westport where he had his first trial, to " Milt 
McGee's " tavern, near Kansas City, was tried 
again and sentenced to be "bagged" and 
thrown into the Missouri River. He was 
placed in a bedroom with a guard and was 
there supplied with a knife by one of the party, 
whom he had formerly befriended. He was 
called for and placed in a 'bus and the proces- 
sion started for the river. It Was raining 
heavily and, on nearing the Missouri, Child's 
Tavern appeared where the party deter- 
mined to test the whisky of that hostelry, and 
he was taken to the saloon and offered drink, 
but declined, his thoughts being busy with the 
problem of escape. A guard had been placed 
at the door of the room and another at the 
landing below; he watched his opportunity, 
made a rush for the first guard, pushed him 
over with such force that he felled the other 
and they both pitched over to the landing be- 
low. Dr. Suiter rushed past them, saw the 
steamer David Tatum pulling in, swam to her 
remote side and climbed by means of the 
guards to the lower deck, where were huddled 
several hundred mules. He concealed himself 
among them, stayed with them four days and 
nights, extracting some of their food and water, 
and went to St. Louis. He sought out Frank 
P. Blair and from him obtained enough money 
to reach Chicago, where he made matters 
known to the Secretary of the Kansas Aid 
Society and offered to take a force into Kansas 
and fight the border ruffians out of the Terri- 
tory. They not being in full accord with his 
views, declined his proposition, and he finally 
secured the sending of a small force of 300 un- 
der Colonel Kittredge into the Territory. The 
Doctor started for McHenry Co., Ill, where 
he estabhshed his practice as a physician 
at Marengo. When the war came on he 
devoted his time and money to recruit- 
ing, with a full remembrance of his Kan- 



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sas experiences and a full knowledge of all 
the atrocities of which the South would prove 
capable. He helped raise seven companies for 
the 95th Illinois Infantry. In the ensuing in- 
trigues for place he was passed over and 
entered the ranks as a private soldier. "Dick" 
Yates, the war Governor, fully understood his 
claims and when the regiment arrived at Chi- 
cago appointed him Assistant Surgeon. In 
September, 1862, the regiment went to the 
front, passing through Kentucky and going 
into camp in Jackson, Tennessee. Orders were 
received for the regiment to connect with 
Grant's army for the subjugation of Vicksburg 
and they went to the rear of that place by way 
of Jackson. At Abbeville he was detached 
and directed to establish a hospital at Holly 
Springs where Van Dorii had made a raid 
December 20, 1862, the base of supplies for the 
army of Grant being there in charge of Colonel 
Murphy of the 8th Wisconsin. Upwards of 
2,000,000 rations were destroyed, 2,000 men 
taken prisoners and Grant's plans for a sum- 
mer's campaign utterly ruined. The gallantry 
of the major of the 82d Illinois prevented a 
much worse disaster as there would, otherwise, 
have been many more prisoners taken and the 
suj>plies converted to rebel use. Dr. Suiter re- 
ported at La Grange and was ordered to join 
his regiment at Memphis but failed to do so 
until it readied Lake Providence, La. He was 
directed to establish a hospital there and re- 
mained until April, 1863. His regiment had 
gone to Smith's Plantation, La., on the march to 
the rear of Vicksburg, going by way of Grand 
Gulf While crossing at Smith's Plantation, 
Bayou Joseph, he saw a soldier (Graves) drink- 
ing ; an alligator appeared which the man 
caught by the tail as he swung around, and 
tried to haul ashore but failed and anutlier 
soldier coming up with an ax knocked the 
"gator" in the head; it measured 12 feet. 



The army fought its way from Grand Gulf to 
Cold Springs, Ttica, Raymond, Champion's 
Hill and Baker's Creek, ariiving at the Big 
Black River Bridge which had been burned by 
the rebels. The next morning the 95th crossed 
on pontoons and took up a line of march 
to the rear of Vicksburg. It was assigned to 
the 3d Brigade, 6lh Division and 17th Corps, 
Logan's Division, and took jjosition in the siege 
May 19, 1863. May 24th the doctor was made 
I'urvej'ing Surgeon to supply hospitals with 
medicines and other necessaries, and left the 
regiment. He rejoined his command about 
the last of May and, June 7, 1863, was a{>- 
pointed Senior Surgeon of the Artillery Brigade 
witli whicli he served until the close of the 
war. The command went through the At- 
lanta campaign, and through to the sea and to 
Washington. After the fall of Vicksburg, Dr. 
Suiter accompanied the command to Cairo, 
took transports uj> the Tennessee to Huntsviile, 
Ala., thence went to Decatur, had a slight en- 
gagement, and fought at Resaca, going after- 
wards to the several engagements at Kenesaw 
and Peach Tree Creek, reaching Atlanta by 
way of Rockwell. In the engagement at Nick- 
ajack with Polk's forces. Dr. Suiter observed a 
reconnoitering party on Pine Mountain an<l 
told a gunner near Inm to sight liis piece in 
that direction. Commotion followed and soon 
the intelligence of the death of Polk was re- 
ceived, Joe Coleman, 1st Minnesota Battery, 
firing the .shot that .j>robably killed the rebel 
General. It was Clayton's Battery of Rodman 
guns and was attached to the 17th Corps under 
McPherson. At Roswell's factor}* the works 
were protected by an English flag, but it was 
destroyed and the command crossed the Chat- 
tahoochie to position before Atlanta. During 
the action at Bald Hill the key to Atlanta was 
secured through the occupation by Leggett's 
forces and McPherson was killed on the 22d 



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where General Gresham was also wounded the 
day before. 

The 4th Division of the 17th Corps under 
Leggett carried Bald Hill with a loss of 750 
men, but it virtually carried Atlanta, too. ,The 
rebels under Hood flanked on tlie next day and 
McPlierson was ordered to the heights taken 
the day before. Dr. Suiter went to the foot of 
Bald Hill and fixed his cjuarters at a spring 
near the fork of a road. There was a small 
growth of timber and underbrush and soon 
after he heard the feed call of the Minnesota 
Battery and immediately after a bugle sounded 
" Boots and Saddles." In another minute 
McPherson and Hickenlooper, with their order- 
lies, came up and asked the direction of the 
roads. He told them that the right led to Bald 
Hill to Leggett's headquarters, and the one on 
the left to the rear of the 2d Division of the 
17th C'orps. They chose their respective roads 
and as McPherson entered a copse to the left a 
volley of musketry from the rebel line echoed 
through the air. In an instant McPherson's 
horse ran towards the Minnesota Battery and 
the men of that command caught it. Dr. 
Suiter went to the copse and saw General 
McPherson lying on tiie ground, his orderly 
dismounted and holding his own horse. Dr. 
Suiter tore open McPherson's shirt and found 
he was dead, with several shot in his body. He 
drew him to cover and in five minutes the 
rebels passed not five rods away. An ordnance 
wagon came rattling down the hill ; tiie doctor 
stopped it and sent the body forward to the 
rear. The firing lulled a moment but soon 
went on, and in a few minutes Dr. Suiter was 
ordered to attend General Force, who was 
wounded. He next received orders to go to 
the l-5th Ohio and while moving to the posi- 
tion of that command a shell struck the 
head of his horse, which fell upon him. 
Major Mann and Captain Clayton released him, 



but he was crushed in the left hip. Before 
he was well he was attacked with typhoid 
fever and when sufficiently recovered he re- 
ceived orders to go to his command in the 
vicinity of Ezra's Church, where a succes- 
sion of fights took place. Hood broke his 
cartel, moved North and afterwards the com- 
mand went to .lonesboro where Sherman ope- 
rated to destroy the railroad and cut the only 
line of communication left to the rebels. After 
the fall of Atlanta he was sick again with 
typhoid fever and after recovery went with his 
charge on the march to the sea. After leaving 
Savannah for Beaufort, Dr. Suiter established 
a hospital at that place and about a week later 
started for Columbia, reaching that city Feb. 
17, 1865. A soldier of the 16th Wisconsin 
crossed the river on an improvised boat and 
run up a Union flag on the Capitol. The 
town was filled with liquoi seemingly and 
everybody was " full." Burning cotton filled 
the streets, tufts blowing with every gust of 
wind, and smoke and flame filled the air. 
Dr. Suiter from the streets saw people lying 
dead on beds in the houses, smothered by the 
smoke, the front walls of the buildings having 
fallen out. (In no instance has more stories 
about an incident of the war been told than of 
the burning of Columbia. Of all that have 
been furnished the historian of this work, none 
coincides with that of Sherman in his Memoirs 
but this.) The march went on after days to 
Orangeburg and Winnsboro, thence to Cheraw 
to find a large amount of rebel stores. The 
inauguration of Lincoln was liere celebrated. 
In the course of the progress, the Minnesota 
Light Artillery had a fight with Wade Hamp- 
ton's command and took a field piece which 
was sent to the Governor of Minnesota, which 
bore an inscription of having been presented 
to South Carolina by the English government. 
At Fayetteville the rebels were found on the 



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opposite shore of the Cape Fear River and the 
city with its fine old arsenal was destroyed. 
Oft the way to Goldsboro Dr. Suiter had been 
detained looking after some disabled men and 
was following in the rear, when he .saw a com- 
motion on a plantation. As he passed the 
gate, Dr. Richards, Division Surgeon of the 
17th Corps, asked him to go down to the house. 
He did so and saw a stately old man pacing 
about ami abusing the Union soldiers, declar- 
ing that he had always been a Union man and 
now he was getting his [lay for his sufferings 
for principles. Devastation ruled in his house 
and on Dr. Suiter's rebuking the soldiers, one 
of them slipped a paper into his hand of 
which the following is a verbatim transcript, 
grammar, punctuation, capitals and all. " We 
thi emdersigned Citizens of Coonsboro Destrict. 
meet on Thursday the 9th day of May 1861 
At the Election Precinct of Said destrict, for 
the purpose of forming ourselves into a Com- 
pany, for the express purpose of protecting 
Ourselves, our family, our property &C — 
whereas, a call has been made by the Federal 
Government for fourses to assist in the Sub- 
jugation of the South; and whereas in the 
Opinion of this meeting, said Call is illegal, 
unconstitutional and tends to the Sui)jugation 
of our Liberty — Resolved 1st that we pledge 
ourselves to devote our time, our means and 
(if necessary) our lives to the resistance of Such 
Arbitrary and dispotic measures — 2d That we 
further pledge our means our lives, and sacred 
honor to protect & defend our Homes & lire- 
sides to the very last extent. 3d That we rec- 
ommend that a vigilance committee of P. 
Richardson, P. Goodwin Wm Hastings of our 
citizens be appointed for this destrict whose 
duty it shall be to bring all suspisious persons 
or traitors to Justice, & delt with according to 
Law. also a Patrole be appointed by said Com- 
mittee whenever needed." Pharaoh Richard- 



son's name, (evidently the maker and drawer 
of the document), leads a list of 32 names 
attached, some in their own hand and others 
in Richardson's, their owners either being un- 
able or afraid to sign their names themselves. 
But the old fireeater Pharaoh, liardcr hearted 
than his illustrious predecessor of Egypt, 
hesitated at nothing on that 9th day of May, 
1861. He did not foresee a day about four 
years later, when he should stand and 
vociferate his fealtj' to the Union to save 
his property and neck, and that did 
not do it. Dr. Suiter held the paper in 
his iiand and questioned the planter seri- 
ously, the latter claiming to have been a 
Union man from the start. Dr. Suiter read 
the paper to him and he was wholly unable to 
explain its contents consonantly with his assev- 
erations. A finely developed negro had been, 
meanwhile, brought in, and when questioned 
said " he had belonged to Massa Richardson, 
but he wanted to belong to you alls." His 
master had complained that the Union soldiers 
had robbed his smoke-houses, but the negro 
stated that the rebel soldiery had done it. He 
was allowed to tell his knowledge of afitiirs and 
said in his master's presence that it had been 
customary there to release L'nion soldiers to 
work on the roads under parole and in one of 
his spasmodic attacks of loyalty to the Union, 
Richardson had selected 31 "galvanized Yan- 
kees," as the paroled men were called, and had 
them shot in cold blood. Their bodies were 
placed in a field adjoining the hog yard and 
after they were dead the fence was taken down 
and the brutes turned in to devour the still 
warm and quivering bodies. Dr. Suiter went 
to the premises, unable to believe the horrible 
account, but saw human bones and skulls and 
the identical hogs rooting among them, dig- 
ging into the eye-sockets, etc. Exasj)erated 
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He demanded an explanation and Richardson 
told him that they were prisoners who refused 
to work after their release and that it so aggra- 
vated the rebels that they had shot them. 
That did not account for tlie giving of the 
bodies to the hogs and, as the old scamp stood 
shivering with fear, he told him he had noth- 
ing to say about the disposal of his case which 
he would leave to the good Union soldiers 
there. He mounted his horse and as he rode 
awa}^ a shout caused him to turn ; a human 
liody was dangling from a branch of a tree in 
front of the house and he had the satisfaction 
to notice that it was kicking vigorously. He 
leaves the reader to decide whether the Union 
soldiers had hung one of themselves by way of 
expressing their disapproval of feeding legiti- 
mate pork with the bodies of murdered Union 
.soldiers. 

Between Goldsboro and Raleigh the 17th 
Corps was in a tight at Benton vi lie, coming up 
to assist the 20tli Corps which had been in 
action the day previous. (March 21st). Before 
reaching Raleigh the news of Lee's surrender 
was announced and at Raleigh the information 
of the assassination of President Lincoln was 
given to the army. The pursuit of Johnston ; 
the armistice ; the conference, with the terms 
made by Sherman; the transmission to Wash- 
ington ; the rejection by the authorities, smart- 
ing under the revelations of the plot which had 
destroyed the grandest liuman life on earth and 
which contem{)lated that of many others ; the 
finale by which .Johnston laid down his arms 
and stopped the rebellion are matters of history 
which need no elaljoration here, but it is a 
grand thing to remember that one has been a 
part of it all. Marching Northward through 
Richmond and to Alexandria the 17th Corps 
went into camp at that place and was in the 
Grand Review May 23d. Dr. Suiter received 
orders to go to Chicago to take charge of the 



Soldiers' Home. When his regiment returned 
he went to Springfield to be mustered out Aug. 
17, 1865. 

He located in Marengo, III., and, two years 
later, went to Mount Ayre, Iowa, and bought a 
tract of land on which he Ijuilt a house. After 
one summer he returned to New Boston, 111., 
and practiced medicine, associated with Dr. T. 
S. Stanway, until 1879. In 1871 he was 
appointed Examining Surgeon for Pensions. 
He sold his business in 1881 and opened his 
practice at Davenport, Iowa, removing in 1883 
to La Crcsse, Wis., and is pursuing his business 
in conjunction with his son. Dr. F. C. Suiter. 
He was appointed Examining Surgeon for 
Pensions March 7, 1890. 

He was married March 20, 1853, at Little 
Falls, New York, to Nancy, daughter of Friend 
Cook and the children born of this union 
are Friend C, Electa B. and Elizabeth. Dr. 
Suiter belongs to the Orders of Odd Fellows 
and Masons, and he is a decided Republican. 
In addition to his business in town he conducts 
a large stock farm in the vicinity of La Crosse 
where he is breeding improved stock. 



3^3S 



OHN T. PATTERSON, Mauston, Wis,, 
Past Commander of G. A. R. Post No. 
59 and surveyor of Juneau county, was 
born Feb. 3, 1838, at McConnellsville, Morgan" 
Co., Ohio. His parents, James and Mary 
(Whiteside) Patterson, were natives of Pennsyl- 
vania and there married. In 1819 they settled 
in Ohio and spent their entire lives on a farm. 
They reared nine children on the Buckeye 
farm and their offspring were born in the order 
named : Leander, Isabel, Elvira, James S., 
Mary A., Maria, Adeline, John and Emeline. 
The latter is the only one not living. About 
1860 the son went West to Iowa. He intended 



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remaining to observe as to future prospects but 
saw little to encourage him after the breaking 
out of the war. He returned to his home in 
Ohio and enlisted Aug. 22, 1862, at his birth- 
place, in Company C, 122d Ohio Infantry. He 
was mustered at Camp Goddard, Zanes\nlle, 
Ohio, and was transferred to the non-commis- 
sioned staff as principal musician, in the capa- 
city of drum-major. He went with the com- 
mand to Parkersburg, Va., thence to Clarks- 
burg and passed almost a whole year in Y\r- 
ginia and North Carolina in conllict with 
guerrillas under Mosby and other bushwhack- 
ing leaders. In .June, 1863, the regiment was 
at Winchester, where they had had headquart- 
ers for six months, and there Mr. Patterson was 
in his first regular battle. Its date was June 
13th, and at fir.'^t promised victory, but the 
rebels were too strong and the ammunition of 
the Union soldiers exhausted ; the last shell 
had been fired and after three days' anxiety 
and hard battle those who could, cut their way 
out. The force was commanded by Milroy 
who lost 4,080 men captured, and Mr. Patter- 
son was among them. He was taken to Libby 
and Belle Isle and held in rebel bondage until 
November, when he was paroled and ex- 
changed. When the arrangements were being 
completed there were 5,000 men to be called 
and he was almost at tlie last, and almost in de- 
spair, too. On the evening of the last day of ex- 
change his name was called. lie was so nearly 
exhausted from hardshij) and privation that 
his comrades carried him from thejjrison. He 
went to Annapolis and thence to Brandy Station 
when recruited, to join his command. He 
reached his company to fight at Locust Grove 
and Mine Run in November, 1863. They 
went into quarters at Brandy Station and in 
the sj)ring went to the" campaign of the 
Wilderness, on May 5lh and Gtii was in the 
battle of the Wilderness and went to Spottsyl- 



vania with the 6th Corps, and to Cold Harbor. 
The regiment went to the James River, thence 
to Bermuda Ilundi'ed and to Petersburg. He 
was previously in the activities on the North 

i and South Anna rivers, and was again in action 
at Jerusalem Plank Road. After raiding on 
the Weldon railroad, he went with the corps to 
reinforce Gen. Wallace at Monocacy during 
Early's raid on Washington and, after helping 
drive the rebel chief away (the regiment losing 
heavily), the command went to Washington, 
Fi'ederick City and Harper's Ferrj'. Mr. Pat- 
terson was in an action at Smithfield and went 
again to the valley of the Shenandoah with 
the 6th Corps. He was in the action at Win- 
chester September 19th and his regiment was 
the first infantry to cross the stream. Mr. Pat- 
terson was detailed to the hospital at Winchester 
and was in charge of the wards. He was 
transferred to a hospital east of the city and 
rejoined his regiment at Newtown missing only 
the fight at Cedar Creek, October 19tli. This 

; was the only action in which his regiment par- 
ticipated in which he was not engaged. About 
the first of the year 1865, the corps started for 
Petersburg under Sheridan and Mr. Patterson 

] took part in the entire siege after that date and 
in the actions outside. He was with Sheridan's 
command at Amelia Springs, Little Sailors' 
Creek and High Bridge, marking many minor 
engagements during tlie chase after Lee to 
Appomattox. His command was detailed to 
proceed to Danville to aid Sherman in closing 
if need be, but marched back on receiving news 
of .lohnston's surrender, and went to Washing- 
ton. Mr. Patterson was in the Grand Review 
and was discharged "near Washington" June 

I 26, 1865, to be mustered out at Columbus, Ohio. 
He arrived home July 2d and on the 27th of 
the same month started for Wisconsin, going 
direct to Mauston, where he has continued to 
reside. For 20 years he was a farmer in Juneau 



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and in the fall of 1886 he removed to Mansion 
cit)'. When a boy he had acquired a knowledge 
of engineering and practiced that business 
sufficiently during his agricultural experiences 
to retain a practical knowledge of the vocation. 
In 1886 he was appointed County Surveyor and 
still discharges the duties of the position. He 
also conducts a line of business in the sale of 
agricultural machinery. 

He was married .Jan. 1, 1862 in McConnells- 
ville, Ohio, to Lizzie E., daughter of William 
and Elizabeth (Hosic) Bell. The family of Mrs. 
Patterson were Virguiiaus. Four sons belong 
to the family and are named Edward R., Harry 
E., Arthur and Victor. Mr. Patterson is a 
charter member of his Post, and is a Repub- 
lican. 

'^^^Jy^lUAAM HUGH McFARLAND, 

Madison, Wis., member of C. C. 
tpJiL. Washburn Post No. 11. was born 
May 4, 1844 in Liverpool, England, being the 
only sou of John and Catherine (McEwen) 
McFarland. The father was born April 3, 1814 
in the same city as his sou and was the son of 
John McFarland, born July 28, 1782 and 
a native of the North of Ireland, whither his 
forefathers had gone to escape the persecutions 
of the Scottish kirk to encounter disaster as 
desperate in Ireland, where tlie Scotch-Irish 
lived from 1609 to 1709, preserving their 
nationality and founding a race which has 
proven one of the best strains in this country. 
The clan legend of the McFarlands is that the 
patronymic was originally spelled Pharlan and 
changed in the early part of the 16th century. 
Gilchrist, founder of the clan, was a brother of 
the individual who was made Earl of Lennox, 
the family estates lying west of Loch Lamond, 
where 28 lairds held sway successively. John 
McFarland (1st), wife, Elizabeth, '~tra'S born 



June 24, 1787. John McFarland (2d) was a 
mechanic and came to America in 1844, loca- 
ting in Milwaukee where he died in February, 
1845, and was buried at Nashotah, Wis. The 
mother died five years later in Liverpool, 
whither she had returned the summer follow- 
ing her husband's death. 

Mr. McFarland accompanied his mother to 
his native place aud returned in 1853 to Mil- 
waukee to reside with his uncle, W. H. McFar- 
land, who took charge of his rearing. He 
attended the public .scliool in Milwaukee, and 
tiie first important move of his life was his 
enlistment at Milwaukee, May 10, 1861, in the 
Milwaukee Zouaves, an organization which, 
although it was composed of boys, was the 
admiration and pride of Milwaukee for thor- 
oughness of drill and military discipline. The 
first service of the command was in the bank 
riots of June, 1861 and, July 13th, they were 
mustered into the 5th Wisconsin Infantry as 
Company B, at Camp Randall, Madison. Drill, 
camp duty and, finally going to the front, pro- 
ceeding to Wasliington and to camp at Merid- 
ian Hill, and to Chain Bridge to work on 
fortifications filled the soldier's record of Mr. 
McFarland until the spring of 1862. He 
accompanied the general movement of the 
army and camped at Fairfax C. H., having 
had nothing like experience of war save the 
affair at Lewinsville, Sept. 11, 1861. The 
regiment went next on the Peninsular cam- 
paign with McClellan, moved to Hampton and 
camped at Newport News. Mr. McFarland was 
in the siege of Yorktown, skirmishing on the 
march there, and he was occupied in military 
duty until the evacuation. He was in hot 
action at Williamsburg, where the conduct of 
the men elicited the only words of praise 
McClellan ever spoke to a command. On to 
the swamps of the Chickahominy was the 
next watchword preliminary to the battles of 



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Golden's Farm, White Oak Swamp and service 
comiected with the "Forward to Richmond" 
movement, only to win a siglit of the spires of 
the rebel capital and afterwards to march, 
after Malvern Hill, to Harrison's Landing, 
operations which outline one of the most fear- 
ful experiences of the war. Mr. McFarland 
"*• fought at Cramptou's Gap and was in the 
subsequent movements, lying under fire all 
day at Antietam, and in the march when gen- 
eral orders were issued for the movement of 
the army he was taken sick, fell unconscious 
by the roadside and was taken to Frederick 
City, Md.; he was removed later to Camden 
street hospital in Baltimore, and in the spring 
joined his regiment at Belle Plain in time for 
assignment to the " Light Division " for service 
on the Rappahannock. He was a participant 
in the charge on Marye's Heights and heard 
Colonel Allen's charge to his men, which in 
itself was a death warrant if not successful. A 
minie ball knocked him down and another , 
struck him in the side, but he did not fall out 
and was one of 18 men out of 42 in his com- 
pany which went on with the command to 
Ghancellorsville. He was in the action at 
Salem Church and Bank's Ford, where, about 
seven o'clock in the evening, he received a 
shot in the thigh. May 4, 1803, (his 19th 
birthday.) He lay all night on the field 
within hearing of the rebel jiickets and 
was visited in the morning by a rebel 
surgeon who gave him some morphine, 
and soon after had him conveyed on a 
stretcher to a barn which was filled with 
wounded, as well as the "lean-to" in connec- 
tion. He lay all night with the rain dripping 
on him from tlie eaves and was placed in the 
morning in a corn-crib which afforded some 
protection. On the 7th of May his leg was 
amputated by two rebel surgeons and on the 
12th the wounded were paroled and sent across 



the Rappahannock River to be driven in am- 
bulances over a rougli corduroy road to Belle 
Plain Landing. The jolting opened his wound 
afresh, the stitches separating and exposing the 
stump of bone, which rendered a second am- 
putation necessary and he remained in field 
hospital there until June 14lh, wlien he was 
placed on a transport and taken to Armory 
Square hospital, Washington. He received a 
furlough in September, returned to Wisconsin 
and in the late fall was transferred to Camp 
Randall hospital, to Harvey hospital in Decem- 
ber and in Feljruary, 1SG4, he was again sent 
to Armory Square hospital and soon after went 
to St. Elizabeth hospital, Washington, to be 
discharged March 22, 1864. 

He went from the hospital to New York and 
there and in Newark, New Jersey, he passed the 
time until his return to Wisconsin in 1867. 
He was variously engaged until January, 1886, 
when he was appointed by Governor Rusk in 
the office of the Adjutant-General and in 1888 
was transferred to the Farmers' Institute De- 
partment, his present incumbency. (1890.) He 
was made a staff attache of Governor Rusk at 
the G. A. R. Encampment of 1887 at St. Louis 
and in 1888 received the same honor at Colum- 
bus. He has, of late years, devoted much time 
to researches for all items relating to the 5th 
Wisconsin Infantry. 

He was married April 6, 1871, at Cottage 
Grove, Wis., to Susan E., daughter of Artliur 
Steward, and their children are William II. 
Jr., J. Frank, Catherine May, Albert H., Jessie 
B., Maud S., Jeremiah Rusk and Thomas. The 
father of Mrs. McFarland (Arthur Steward) 
was born in Ohio and died in 18G4 in Minne- 
sota. Her mother, Polly Mackay, was a native 
of Scotland. Henry D. Steward enlisted in the 
16th Michigan Infantry and lost jiart of his right 
hand in action ; he resides in San Francisco, 
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civil war, was captured by the rebels and died 
in Libby prison. Charles Steward served in a 
Minnesota regiment and lost part of his left 
liand. (These were brothers of Mrs. McFar- 
land.) Mr. McFarland's portrait appears on 
page 036. 

^^ OLWERT K. PIER, attorney, Milwau- 
kee, Wis., was born in Fond du Lac, 
Wis., in 1841, and is a descendant 
from French Huguenot stock. His parents, 
Edward and Harriet (Kendall) Pier, came from 
Vermont to the Territory of Wisconsin in 1836 
and built the first house in Fond du Lac 
county on a farm which is still in the family 
and against which there has never been a 
mortgage, judgment, tax or other lien recorded. 
The children were named Anna, Ruth, Carrie 
and Colwert, the two latter being twins. 

Lidians were plenty and schools scarce and 
at 16 young Pier was sent to Lombard Univer- 
sity at Galesburg, 111., whence the Wisconsin 
students came home to enlist under the call of 
President Lincoln for troops. April 16th found 
Colwert Pier a member of the " Badger Boys," 
which became Company I, 1st Wisconsin In- 
fantry. He makes no claim to being the 
youngest man in the array or the first to enlist, 
but he insists on being recorded as one of the 
first to be sent to the guard house. 

The regiment waded the Potomac with Pat- 
terson's column to fight Longstreet's men at 
Falling Waters, .luly 2d, which drove the 
enemy and lost one of its best men. (See 
sketch of George W. Drake.) 

On his way home Pier left the regiment to 
take a sick comrade home to Ithaca, N. Y., and 
went thence to the Law School at Albany, N. 
Y., returning in six months to Fond du Lac, 
and recruited under the call of the Governor for 
the " Badger State Zouaves " ; was elected Cap- 



tain and subsequently Colonel of the regiment 
to which the company was assigned. Ten full 
companies, fully equipped, were tendered 
through tiie Governor to the general Govern- 
ment, Lieutenant-Colonel George B. Goodwin 
being sent to Washington to make the offer. 
Provost Marshal Frey was of the opinion that 
the Government had troops enough and the 
offer was declined. Within 30 days, when the 
men had nearly all entered other regiments, 
the Governor received a telegram that the regi- 
ment would be accepted. (Let it be noticed 
that 600,000 troops were called for after General 
Frey's promulgation of his opinion.) 

In March, 1864, Pier was commissioned Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of the 38th Wisconsin Infantry, 
the last three-years regiment from the State, 
and with the fir.st five companies organized, he 
joined the command of Grant at White House 
Landing. There the re-enlisted veterans of the 
1st Minnesota were merged with the 38th Bat- 
talion, with Lieutenant-Colonel Pier in com- 
mand. Their first dose of rebel lead was taken 
at Cold Harbor and in the 9th Army Corps the 
command participated in the subsequent ope- 
rations of the Army of the Potomac. During 
the assaults of June 16-17-18, Colonel Pier was 
wounded each day, but he did not leave his 
command and says with pride, " My boys never 
went into a fight, on a march or fatigue duty 
that I was not with them." The capture of 
Petersburg with its radiating railroads meant 
everything, but 100,000 brave men left the 
ranks for the rear or their graves before it was 
taken. The Wisconsin National Guard, located 
in 40 towns and cities in the State, are as brave 
and far more efficient than were the volunteers, 
but 25 times their number were annihilated 
before Petersburg was taken. The aggregate 
losses of Donelson, Shiloh, Gettysburg, Vicks- 
burg and Sherman's march to the sea, were 
less than those of the Army of the Potomac 



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in driving Lee from Petersburg. Colonel Pier I 
says: — "Before Petersburg we shot days and 
worked nights ; it was dangerous to be safe any- 
where, as the opposing lines were almost within 
stone-throw of each other ; the rebels shot to 
kill and killed by thousands. We returned 
tlieir compliments and probably threw two : 
pounds of lead and iron to their one. My deci- 
mated command used 5,000 rounds of ball 
cartridges every 24 hours; the graveyard be- 
hind the liill hourly increased its membership 
and if a man left liis position or stood upriglit, 
he did so at the peril of his life. From .June, , 
1864, to April, 1865, it was continuous hell and j 
tiie truth cannot Ite written or painted. Major . 
Roberts of my regiment, (now of Waupaca) put 
it pat when he exclaimed, " you may call this 
war, but T call it murder." As good and brave 
officers and soldiers as ever lived were cashiered 
or shot because the strain was too great for 
human endurance. We bucked or built breast- 
works all the time. Burnside's mine explosion 
cost the army 4,000 men between sun-up and 
sun-down. If is too awful to tell. Tlie recruits 
came from the North to fill tiie vacant ranks 
and we buried them beside the others. Eitiier 
the dusl was stifling or the mud ankle deep 
and no one had a choice between the two. 
General Grant kept " iiaminering away " with 
what little was left of the iiammer. August 
l!)th we wont for the Weldon railroad and 
walked into a pocket surrounded by rebels. 
The ablest straggler in the army could not find 
the rear, for there was none. But we lield the 
road all the same. Sept. 30th, at Poplar Grove 
Church, the rebels gave us more than ordinary 
courtesy demanded from host to guest, and 
when the five companies from Wisconsin joined 
the 38th Battalion there, they looked like a 
brigade, and the way they threw up breast- 
works was a sight to be seen ; they were less 
than 16 feet high in some places. When Grant 



sent us in November for the South Side rail- 
road, we had not gone far before we decided we 
did not want it so much as we thouglit we did, 
and some of the boys are there yet. In Jan- 
uary, 1805, the first flag of truce we had seen 
for nearly a year was raised in front of my 
pickets. Three rebel commissioners crossed the 
lines to interview President Lincoln at City 
Point; we tiiought peace had come ; the firing 
ceased and tJie boys shook hands, but the flag 
soon went down, the men jumped for their en- 
trenchments and the firing went on as before." 
The 109tli New York, a regiment of thorough- 
breds, had lost all its field officers. General 
Wilcox, Division Commander, detailed Colonel 
Pier to its command. It was a most delicate 
affair in all respects. The l)attle-scarred veterans 
from New York did not want a youngster from 
Wisconsin placed over them and the Badger 
knew it; besides, he preferred to remain with 
the command with which he had fought and 
suffered through previous campaigns. He 
ordered a dress parade in full view of the 
enemy and under their lire. (Quartermaster 
Hopkins of tlie 109th says: — The Adjutant 
read the Order and. Colonel Pier advancing to 
his side said to the officers in line, " this Order 
is as objectionable to me as to you and I will 
have it revoked as soon as I can ; meantime we 

I must remember we are soldiers. You expect 
me to do my duty as I know you will doyoui-s. 

I Adjutant! dismiss the parade!" Fort Stead- 
man with the 14th New York Heavy Artillery 

j was captured by the rebels under General 
Gordon the next morning, and the 109th as- 
sisted in recapturing the fort witii 2,000 of its 
captors. This ended the discontent and Col- 
onel Pier remained in command until Lee 
surrendered and the veteran regiment reached 
Washington on its way home. 

April 2, 1865, Colonel Pier's regiment with 
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charge on Fort Mahone at break of day and 
held tlie works against the desperate efforts of 
the rebels to retake their broken line of fortifi- 
cations. The battle raged all day, the rebel 
assaults growing weaker and less frequent as 
the intervening space was piled with rebel 
dead. Under cover of darkness Lee retired and 
Petersburg had fallen. The command of Col- 
onel Pier followed the fleeing enemy until the 
surrender of Lee at Appomattox virtually 
closed the war. Colonel Pier was appointed 
President of a General Court Martial at Wash- 
ington and served as such until the 38th was 
ordered to Wisconsin for muster out. 

He again entered into practice of the law but 
left it temporarily during the financial strin- 
gency of 1873-7 and took charge of the Fond 
du Lac County Savings Institution, as its at- 
torney, the principal managers being stricken 
with sickness and dying ; but tlie bank sur- 
vived, while hundreds of similar institutions 
went down. 

Colonel Pier was married in 1866 to Kate 
Hamilton and to them three daughters have 
been born — Kate H., Carrie H. and Harriet H., 
ail of whom, including the motiier, being grad- 
uates from the Law Department of the Wis- 
consin State University at Madison and 
engaged with the husband and father in the 
active practice of the profession. Tiiis is prob- 
ably a unique case in tlie history of the world. 

They are all hard workers and effective 
speakers and their labors do not seem to inter- 
fere with their society obligations in all circles 
of which they are deservedly popular. 

Colonel Pier is an ardent Republican and an 
active friend of the ex-soldiers and their de- 
pendents. He does not seek office but takes 
the stump at every Presidential campaign and 
is in demand Memorial Days and at Grand 
Army gatlierings. He was President of the 
great State Re-union at Milwaukee in 1880 and 



Secretary of the National Encampment Council 
in 1889. He is five feet, nine inches in 
height, well proportioned, witli (hirk hair and 
complexion and is inclined to look and act on 
the brighter side of life. 



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/^^ EORGE C. NICHOLS, Racine, Wis., 
t /,^ jV member of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
^&^ born Aug. 29, 1843, in LaFayette 
Co., Wisconsin. His father, Rev. Cyrus Nich- 
ols, was born in 1799 at Reading, Mass., and 
was a representative of the Puritan Presbyte- 
rian stock which settled New England. He 
was reared in the Presbyterian faith and 
was ordained a minister of that church. He 
came to Wisconsin as a pioneer preacher and 
preaclied the first Presbyterian sermon at 
Racine, where he was a resident more than a 
half century. He married Diana C. Hurlburt, 
who was born in 1805 in Vermont. He died 
in June, 1883. The mother is still living. The 
early life of the son was passed on a farm and 
he obtained such education as was furnished 
by the common schools of that period. He 
was one of several children named in order of 
birth Jane, Sidney, Henry, Mary, George, Sam- 
uel and Agnes. Mr. Nichols was engaged in 
the business of a blacksmith when he decided 
to enroll in the military service of his countrj^ 
which he did Aug. 7, 1862, in Company A, 22d 
VV'isconsin Infantry, Colonel Utley. tie was 
mustered September 2d and left the State on 
the 16th for Cincinnati, expecting immediate 
service of active character. The command 
went to Covington, thence to Louisville and 
Nicholasville, going thence to Danville and 
from there to Nashville, looking after the move- 
ments of Morgan and Bragg. They went to 
Franklin from Nashville and Mr. Nichols was 
in the disastrous action at Thompson's Station, 



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where the colonel and more than 200 of the 
regiment were taken prisoners. They went via 
Tullahoina to Richmond, arriving there after 
two weeks' travel to remain eleven days before 
exchange. During his incarceration there Mr. 
Nichols was sick and in hospital, going thence 
to Annapolis on parole. He remained about 
three months and while there, Baltimore was 
threatened, which caused the ordering of the 
convalescents and paroled prisoners from An- 
napolis to tlie defense of the city. Mr. Nichols 
went thence to Camp Tyler, a post for the 
stragglers from the Gettysburg field, and joined 
his regiment in September at Murfreesboro, 
and he was in camp there until the movement 
to Atlanta in the spring of 1SG4. He accom- 
panied Sherman with his regiment and was in 
the fights at Resaca, Dallas, Golgotha Church, 
Kenesaw Mountain, Powder Springs and Peach 
Tree Creek. In the latter engagement his com- 
mand was on the skirmish line and Company 
A occupied a ravine where the rebel fire passed 
over their heads, while their own fire was very 
effective. He was in the subsequent move- 
ments of his regiment prior to and following 
the fall of Atlanta and went with Sherman to 
the sea; he was detailed to a foraging squad 
and continued in that variety of service until 
Savannah was reached. He went thence to 
Bentonville, Goldsboro and Raleigh and after 
the intelligence of Lee's surrender was received 
went to Richmond and Washington and to the 
Grand Review. Returning to Milwaukee he 
was discharged June 12, 1865, his period of en- 
listment being closed by the termination of the 
war. Returning to Racine he resumed his 
business as a blacksmith in which he operated 
until he entered the employ of the Hurlburt 
Manufacturing Company, his present relation. 
He was married June 3, 1868, to Alfia, 
daughter of David and Marietta (Lewis) Ewen, 
and they have one child, George S., born March 



25, 1869. Mrs. Nichols has two brothers named 
Wallace D. and Lyman C. Her father died 
June 3, 1888, and her mother is still living at 
Delton, Wis. They were from Essex Co., New 
Jersey. Mrs. Nichols is a prominent member 
of the Woman's Relief Corps. 



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UDWIG JANKE, Waukesha, Wis., a 



gy. member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, at 
^■^ that place, was born Oct. 11, 1843, in 
Germany, the native country of his parents, 
Michael and Christina (Rhode) .Janke. He 
is the descendant of ancestors in both lines who 
were soldiers in the wars of Germany and be- 
longed to the military force of their native 
land through the regulations which retjuire 
every male child to serve a term in the army. 
The father was an officer in the Prussian ser- 
vice. When the son was three years old, the 
family removed to America and on landing at 
the port of New York came at once to Wash- 
ington Co., W^isconsin, settled on a farm and 
there reared their family. At 16, the son ap- 
prenticed himself to a blacksmith and followed 
that calling as an occupation until he entered 
the army, lie was then 22 years of age and 
enrolled March 25, 1865 in Company D, 51st 
Wisconsin Infantry. The first seven companies 
were pushed forward to the regimental ren- 
dezvous at St. Louis, Mo., as fast as mustered 
and left that place May 9th for Warrensburg, 
with the exception of Company B, which was 
sent to Carondelet. May 18th, Companies C 
and D went under orders to Kingsville, where 
they performed heavy camp and other dutj', 
in the way of guarding railroads and contest- 
ing territory with bushwhackers, besides al- 
most daily wearisome marching. June 20th 
they went to Pleasant Hill, where they 
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sin Infantry, retaining their original number. 
Aug. 5, 1865 they were sent to Madison and 
mustered out. 

Mr. Janke I'esumed his business as a black- 
smith and operated at Milwaukee one year, 
after wliicli he went to AVaukesha. Reentered 
into partnership with Peter Lowe in the prose- 
cution of his trade and after seven years en- 
gaged in the business of a wine merchant in 
which he is still occupied. He is a member of 
the Order of Odd Fellows and belongs to the 
Partriarchal Circle. He is also a farmer, own- 
ing 1.50 acres of valuable land less than four 
miles from -the city, on whicli he is engaged in 
rearing blooded stock. Mr. Janke is a pros- 
perous and thrifty citizen and is enjoying the 
success of his efforts in bis several callings. 

He was married May 22, 1869 to Rosa Kupir 
and they have two children. They are named 
Mary Frances and Albert Emil. 



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ILLIAM HENRY HARRISON 
CLAY LEWIS, Waukesha, Wis., 
member of Post W. B. Gushing, 
No. 19, was born April 15, 1840, in the city of 
Philadelphia and is the son of David P. and 
Caroline (Schillingsberg) Lewis. His father 
was born in Middleborough, Mass., and his 
mother in Bristol, Bucks Co., Pa., of German 
parents. When the son was 15, he was 
apprenticed to learn the business of a painter, 
which he pursued for five years. At the begin- 
ning of the war, he resolved to enter the army 
and did so while the first excitement was still 
rife and the cry of the President for 75,000 
troops still agitating the country. He enrolled 
May 27, 1861 in Company K, 3d Pennsylvania 
Reserves, for three years or the war, unless 
sooner discharged. His rendezvous was in tlie 
city until ordered to Easton and thence to Camp 



Washington, where news of Bull Run was 
received. The next destination was to Har- 
risl^urg for equipments, whence the command 
went, via Baltimore, to Washington and 
Tenallytown into camp. A return to Wash- 
ington was made where they were sworn into 
United States service. (They were enlisted in 
State service). They were assigned to the 1st 
Corps, 2d Division, under General McCiellan, 
and 2d Brigade under General Meade. The 
Colonel was H. G. Sickles, and the first smell 
of rebel powder of Mr. Lewis in set battle, was 
at Mechanicsville. He fought tlirough all the 
actions of the Peninsular campaign and made 
the return to Harrison's Landing. After going 
to the defense of Washington he was next in tlie 
Manassas campaign and fought in the 2d Bull 
Run, where he claims he did a good quality of 
foot-racing. He was at Antietam, in the mud 
with Burnside in December, following whicli 
he was included in an order from Washington 
transferring the command to the regtilar ser- 
vice and he enlisted for three years in the 
United States regular army, with assignment to 
Battery C, U. S. Light Artillery. He went 
immediately to scenes of activity and was next 
in battle at South Mountain. He fought next 
at Gettysburg and after that fight went to aid 
in the draft riot at New York. Seymour, the 
governor, objected to other than New York 
soldiers, but the matter was settled by the Gov- 
ernment. Wlien Mr. Lewis returned to the 
front, the battles of the Wilderness were immi- 
nent and he was in them and at Spottsylvania 
C. H. He fought next at Cold Harbor and on 
the 7th day of June, 1864, he suffered the loss 
of both hands by a premature discharge of the 
gun he was serving. He was ramming a 12- 
pound shot, when, through the mismanage- 
ment of the man at the vent the accident 
occurred. His right arm was torn away for 
three inches and his left hand was severed at tlie 



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wrist. He was sent to hospital at White House 
Landing, thence to Alexandria and Philadel- 
phia. He went to Stump hospital No. 24, and 
to South street liospital where he received 
honorable di.scharge in the spring of 1865. He 
remained in Philadelphia until 1876 when he 
went to the Soldiers' Home at Dayton, Ohio. 
He left there the same year, coming to Milwau- 
kee Nov. 27, 1876 and resided at the Soldiers' 
Home until lie took his di.scliarge in March, 
1877, since which date he has lived in the city. 
June 6, 1877, he was married to Fidelia 
Newson. 



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SPENCER D. SMITH, resident at Tur- 
ner, Du Page Co., Ill, and a member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 27 at Lake 
Geneva, Wis., was born in Greece, Monroe Co., 
New York, August Id, 1834. He is descended 
from ancestral stock of the genuine Yankee 
stripe, his grandfathers representing the blood 
which settled New England and which estab- 
lished the Government. His grandfather, 
Elijah Smith, was born in Connecticut where 
his forbears for generations had been born. 

J. W. and Eliza Ann (Lewis) Smith, parents 
of Spencer D. Smith, were both born in the 
State of New York, the father being a black- 
smith and removing in 1844 to Albion, Cal- 
houn Co., Mich., where he worked at his trade 
until 1852, in which year he made another 
transfer of his interests to Michigan City, Indi- 
ana, and he there pursued his business until 
his removal to Turner, 111., where he operated 
in the interests of the C. & N. W. R. R. until 
he determined to enter the army and he enlisted 
under the call for troops in the snmnur of 
1862 in the 105th Illinois Infantry which 
was mustered at Dixon, 111., Sept. 2, 1862, under 
Colonel, afterwards General, Daniel Dustin, of 



Sycamore, 111., and the regiment was assigned 
to the Array of the Cumberland with which it 
remained throughout the war. The senior 
Smith served in every one of its campaigns, 
fighting first at Stone River and in the .«pring 
his regiment was assigned to the 1st Brigade, 
3d Division and 20th Army Corps under Lyttie, 
Sheridan and McCook. Mr. Smith was in the 
Chattanooga campaign, fought at Chickamauga 
and Mission Ridge and passed through the 
actions of the Atlanta campaign. He was 
in the march to the sea with Sherman and 
fought at Averysboro, going North to Washing- 
ton to the Grand Review and beiilg discharged 
at the Capital of the United States, June '7, 1865. 
He returned to Turner and, during the admin- 
istration of Grant, was made postmaster there 
and discharged the duties of the position until 
his death, which occurred Sept. 9, 1884, at Fort 
Atkinson, Wis., where he and his wife were 
visiting. Their surviving children in 1890 
are Spencer, the eldest ; Mrs. Frances E., wife 
of 1). C. Stanley of Downer's Grove, 111., who 
has four daughters; Mrs. Alice A., wife of 
William Gokey of Turner, who has a son and 
two daughters. 

Mr. Smith of this sketch is of mixed Holland 
Dutch, Welsh and Scotch extraction, his 
ancestors on both sides having descended from 
those nationalities. His maternal grandfather, 
Moses Lewis, came of Welsh progenitors in the 
paternal line. 

Until he was 19 years old Mr. Smith was 
engaged in obtaining his education and re- 
mained under parental guidance. In 1853 he 
became independent, engaging as a farm laborer 
on the place of William Warner, four miles 
from Albion, Mich. He also worked in the 
livery stable of Mark Crane, the sheriff of Cal- 
houn county, some time when he engaged with 
the Michigan Central comjiany as fireman fora 
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three years. His next remove was to Michigan 
City, where he engaged on tlie Alljanj' cfe Salem 
railroad and, September 15, 1859, he rose to the 
dignity of an engineer and was assigned to the 
charge of an engine called Providence, which 
he conducted six months and succeeded to the 
management of the EUiottsville, running the 
Cincinnati Express for a year and a half. Dur- 
ing the commencement of the excitement per- 
taining to the war he became much interested 
in the course of events ; and after going to Illi- 
nois to engage with the Illinois Central, in_ 
wiiose interest he run engine No. 55, between 
Trliana and Centralia until 1861, he deter- 
mined to enlist and enrolled May 16tli in the 
independent organization equipped by Solomon 
Sturges of Chicago, known to history as 
" Sturges' Rifles." The company was com- 
manded by Capt. James Steele ; 1st Lieutenant, 

N.E.Sheldon; 2d Lieutenant, Foster. It 

was mustered by George B. McClellan and when 
that officer was a.ssigned to tlie command of 
Western Virginia, the company was selected by 
him as his body guard and accompanied him 
through all his campaigns until he was relieved 
of the command of the Army of the Potomac, 
when the company was mustered out. Burn- 
side su[ierseded McClellan in November, 1862, 
and Mr. Smith was relieved at Washington, 
where he was mustered out Nov. 25, 1862 by 
General Uuggles. He accompanied " Little 
Mac" in his campaign in West Virginia, went 
with him in the reserve to Grafton, Parkers- 
burg, Buchanan and Cheat Mountain and in 
April, 1862, went with him to Fortress Monroe, 
to Yorktown and Williamsburg, to the Chicka- 
hominy and to Harrison's Landing, witnessing 
all tlie operations on the Peninsula. He went 
to Fredericksburg and Bull Run, was in the 
chase into Maryland, saw the action at South 
Mountain in the reserve and fought at Antie- 
tam. During his service he performed such 



duty as his company was assigned to and 
received injury but once and that througii the 
mischievousness of a comrade who pricked a 
mule he had obtained at Malvern Hill and 
which he was riding, the beast throwing him 
violently and injuring his arm. 

He returned to Turner and applied to the 
Illinois Central corporation to be reinstated in 
his position according to terms when he enlist- 
ed and obtained a situation. He was in that 
employ until June, 1863, when he went to 
Nashville and entered the Government service 
as an engineer on the railroad from Chatta- 
nooga to Knoxville, Atlanta, Decatur and 
Stevenson, in which he was occupied 10 
months. He was exposed to many dangers and 
had many narrow escapes, that section being in- 
fested with loose bands of marauding rebels 
who amused themselves by firing through his 
engine cab. He returned to Turner and en- 
tered the employ of the C. & N. W. company, 
running principally between Clinton, Iowa, and 
Turner, sometimes running from the latter 
point to Freeport, 111. In 1879 he took his 
present run to Lake Geneva and is engineer on 
the leading passenger train which goes to that 
place. 

Mr. Smith was married Feb. 2, 1864, to Sarah 
B,attles in Chicago. She was born in West- 
moreland, N. H., June 6, 1836, and died at 
Turner, June 4, 1876. They adopted a daugh- 
ter, Sadie, who was born June 25, 1868, and 
who is an expert type-writer and short-hand 
reporter in Chicago. Pearl, only issue of the 
marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, was born July 
13, 1870. She is her father's housekeeper. 
Mr. Smith is a member of the Masonic frater- 
nity and belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomo- 
tive Engineers. He occupies a responsible po- 
sition and is one of the most trusted employes 
of the great railroad corporation in whose in- 
terest he operates. He is known as a man who 



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has never met with a serious accident on tht- 
road. In one instance when his engine killed 
a man at Elgin, 111., he was fully exonerated 
from blame, lie is highly esteemed and re- 
spected for his sterling qualities and his good 
fellowshij) has secui'ed for him a multitude of 
friends. He is jwjjular in Grand Army circles 
and was Aid-de-Camj) on the staff' of Com- 
mander Faircliild. 



yr^'^J^ILLIS B. MOFFETT, Waukesha, 
W^/i ^Vis., and a member of G. A. 11. 
#M Post W. B. Gushing, No. 19, was 
born in Perry, Wyoming Co., New York, where 
he was brought up to the calling of his father 
on a farm until he was li) years of age, when 
he was aj)prenticed to learn the trade of a 
mason. His parents were Jairus and Sophro- 
nia (Bartlett) Mofl'ett, and the date of his birth, 
June 26, 1834. He also learned tiie Inisimss 
of a miller and came to Wisconsin in 1S5-1, 
following the latter trade in Delavan, Wal- 
worth county, until he became a soldier in the 
first year of tiie civil war. Aug. 20, 1861, he 
enlisted in Company A, 10th Wisconsin Infan- 
try for three years or the war. Previous to 
going to the front he spent the time at Cam]) 
Ilolton, engaged in acquiring a knowledge of 
military duty and set out for Louisville, Ky., 
November 9th. The regiment went to Shej)- 
herdsville and performed railroad guard duty 
until December 5th, when the "lOtli" was as- 
signed to Sill's Brigade at Elizabelhtown. The 
command moved to Bacon Creek for the win- 
ter, and engaged in military duty until they 
moved in February to Green River, thence to 
Bowling Green, Nashville, Murfreesboro, Shel- 
byville, Fayetteville and Iluntsville, passing 
over an immense territory and experiencing 
wearisome marching. Mr. Moffett was in the 



action in which a railroad bridge was destroyed 
which broke the rebel communications, prevent- 
ing reinforcements reaching Beauregard. The 
"10th" was in active duty until the battle of 
Perryville, the first set battle in which Mr. M. 
engaged. He was worn uut with excessive 
marching and was taken from the field to hos- 
pital No. 6 at Louisville, remaining there six 
months and receiving discharge for disability, 
April 8, 1862. He returned home and, after 
complete I'ecovery, enlisted April 10, 1864, in 
Company A, 37th Wisconsin Infantry. The 
regiment was hastened to Washington where 
troops were greatly needed and made connec- 
tion with the Army of the Potomac, June 2d. 
A week later they went to Cold Harbor, for as- 
signment to the 1st Brigade, 3d Division and 
9th Army Cor])S. Mr. MoU'ett was in tlie move- 
ment of (h'ant's force across the James and 
went to the front of Petersburg. He was in 
the activities of systematic warfare which fol- 
lowed in front of the city and in tiie terrible 
fighting of June J 7th and 18tii. (His ca))tain 
was mortally wounded.) He was under almost 
constant fire until the explosion of the mine, 
July 30tli, and was among the first to enter the 
ruined fort. August 19th he was in a fight on 
the Weldon railroad and, after heavy desultory 
duty, particij)ated in the action at Poplar Grove 
Church. He was present when FortSteadman 
was captured and moved with his command in 
the spring, when Grant connnenced the oj)era- 
tions which ended in the collapse of the rebel- 
lion. He was in the movement of the entire 
line of Grant's army, April 2d, 1865, after 
which he was compelled to go to tlie hospihil 
at City Point, Alexandria, and to Madisun, 
where he was honorably discharged May 20, 
1865, as Corporal. 

He resumed his business at Delavan, which 
he followed until disability compelled him to 
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out cessation since the battle of Perryville with 
varicose veins, and, latterly, with two ulcers 
caused by the rigors of that marcii. He re- 
moved to Waukesha in 1889. He was married 
Oct. 2.3, 1857, to Sarah .Jennings, a native of 
New York, and tbeir children are named 
Frank D. and Charles .1. Moftett. One child, 
Walter, is deceased. Mr. Moifett is an out-and- 
out Republican, voting as he shot. 




ICHARD H. COSGRIFF, Chippewa 
Falls, Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
Post No. G8, was born Dec. 15, 1844, 
at Dunkirk, New York, his parents, Daniel and 
.Johanna (Mahoney) Cosgriff, having been 
natives of County Cork, Ireland. They be- 
came residents of the United States in 1844, 
locating near Dunkirk, N. Y., where the father 
engaged in farming. In 1851 the family 
removed to Hudson, Wisconsin, and located on 
a fixrm wliich tlie father cultivated until his 
death in 1872 ; his widow .still resides on the 
homestead. Richard, Daniel, Michael, .John, 
Owen, Thomas and William are tlie names of 
the children. 

Mr. Cosgriff was an assistant on the farm 
until he entered tlie army. He enrolled in 
Louisa Co., Iowa, and was mustered into U. S. 
service in December, 1862, at Davenport, Iowa, 
in Company L, 4tli Iowa Cavalry. Leaving ' 
Camp McClellan after two weeks stay,tiie recruits 
were ordered to join the army in tlio rear of 
\^icksburg and in January, 1SG3, tlie regiment 
was assigned to tlie 16th Army Corps. The com- 
mand was with (trienson througli tlie campaign 
and siege until the surrender of ^^icksburg, 
followed Johnston and fought at Jackson, 
going afterwards to the Meridian expedition. 
After returning to Vicksburg they went to 
Memphis for winter quarters. The command 



was there when Forrest made his celebrated 
raid and helped drive the rebel chief back, 
following him about 10 miles, when they 
returned to Memphis, remaining there some 
time. Their next action was at Tupelo, Miss., 
and Mr. Cosgriff was also in the fight between 
Tupelo and Pontetoc, in July, 1864, in which the 
rebels were defeated. The command returned 
to Memphis, went on Tioard transports to 
Louisville and moved soon after to Gravelly 
Springs and performed guard duty through 
the winter, fighting bushwhackers and guer- 
rillas. In the spring of 1865 the regiment 
went in Wilson's raid to Selma, fought Forrest, 
driving his troOps back, and went thence to the 
Chattahoochie River. During this raid the 
command was on quarter rations. From Selma 
they went to Montgomery, had a slight skir- 
mish there, the rebels abandoning the town. 
After a day of rest the entire command went 
with Wilson to Columbus where the rebels 
entrenched, following up Forrest. 

With a picked detail of 50 men, Mr. Cosgriff 
was ordered to take a bridge which spanned 
the Chattahoochie River and which was 
strongly guarded, saturated with turpentine 
and strewn with combustibles. It was an 
old-fashioned, covered bridge and at the end 
opposite the Union troops the rebels had 
planted a battery. It was ready for a rak- 
ing fire in case the attacking party should 
fight their way through. The assault was 
made about 10 o'clock at night, and the brave 
fellows fought their way through without the 
rebels knowing but they were their own men 
until they were upon tliem, when it was too 
late to use their battery and a liand-to-hand 
fight followed. Mr. Cosgriff knocked aside 
with the butt of his gun more than one bayonet 
aimed at his breast, his command taking the 
battery and turning it upon the rebels, holding 
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ments arrived. During that fight he person- 
ally captured a hattle-flag and brought it- safe 
to his command. Mr. Cosgriff received a per- 
sonal letter of thanks from President Lincoln 
and Secretary Stanton and also a medal of 
honor. Eleven of the force were killed and 15 
wounded. Soon after they went to Macon, Ga., 
"and after the surrender, intelligence of Lee's 
surrender was imparted to General Wilson by 
Howell Cobb. A few days after news of the 
as.sassi nation of Lincoln was received. The 
command was detailed for the pursuit of Jeff 
Davis, but were on the wrong route and went | 
back to Macon, thence to Atlanta, where they 
were invited to re-enlist for service in Texas, 
but declined and went to Davenport to bo mus- 
tered out. Mr. Cosgriff returned home and 
engaged in the lumber business. Subsequent- 
ly he went to Chippewa Falls, locating in that 
city about 1870, and has there continued to 
conduct his lumber interests. 

lie was married Feb. 14, 1871, at Wausau, 
Wis., to Mary A., daughter of Simon and 
Melinda Culdtluirst, and their children are 
Richard Jr., Mary and Lou. Mr. Cosgriff is a 
member of the A. O. U. W., and in politics a 
Democrat. 






I^^REDERICK ALLEN COPELAND, a 
' Ifvci^ prominent citizen of La Crosse, Wis., 
-^ was born July 14, 1845, at Ypsilanti, 

Michigan, whither his j)arents, Allen A. and 
Mary A. (Kittredge) Copeland, removed about 
1840 from Ijowell, Mass. In both lines of de- 
scent he belongs to stock of New England ori- 
gin. His father was a merchant at Lowell and 
conducted a similar business at Ypsilanti for 
ten years, removing thence to Battle Creek, 
Michigan, and in 1867 to a farm near Pawpaw, 
Mich. In 1860 he went to Baraboo, Wis., 
where he remained until 1869, the date of re- 



moval to Winona, Minn. In 1872 he went to 
La Crosse, thence to Weaver, Minn., and, while 
he had a residence there, he revisited hi.s former 
home in Massachusetts, and while on that visit 
died at Mansfield; his wife is living. Six of 
their 11 children are living, named Edward A., 
George N., Frederick A., Lucius D., Harriet A. 
and Willis E. Harriet married A. N. Bachelor 
of Littleton, N. H., a prominent Democrat and 
one of the counsel of the Governor (1890). 

When he was 16 years old Mr. Copeland en- 
listed. He enrolled Dec. 3, 1861, at Baraboo, 
Wis., and was mustered in during the same 
month with Company F, 3d Wisconsin Cavalry. 
In the spring the regiment went to the front, 
leaving the State March 2Cth, 1862, stopping at 
St. Louis for partial equipments, and went 
thence to Kansas. Arriving at Fort Leaven- 
worth, horses were added to their outfit and with 
Company F in the 2d Battalion, Major B. S. 
Henning, they went to Fort Scott. That was 
the border of the frontier and the last defense, 
the command there engaging in all sorts of 
frontier service, chieHy scattering guerrillas. 
Mr. Copeland was introduced to one of the 
worst features of war at Montevallo, Mo., with 
the command of Colonel Coffee. He was next 
in a similar experience in the unequal fight 
at Prairie Grove, Dec. 7, 1862, where the rebels 
were whipped by a Union force one-third as 
great through the prowess of Wisconsin soldiers. 
The next move of the 3d was to Van Buren, 
Ark., and thence to Forsythe, Mo., encounter- 
ing before reaching Van Buren, a force of 
Texas Rangers whom they scattered while tak- 
ing, their breakfast. Mr. Copeland lost his 
horse and had to sul)stitute an old mule which 
he bought for $10. Thus mounted he started 
with his command and had the distinction of 
always bringing up the rear. (He was called 
Balaam.) At \'an Buren they burned several 
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Ai'kunsas with supj)lies. They went from For- 
sythe to Salem, sending impedimenta bv way 
of Springfield. In the spring of 1863 they 
went to l*"'ort Scott and Companies A, G, D and 
F remained there until the spring of 1SG5, 
guarding the outpost of tlie frontier and scout- 
ing between the Missouri, Kansas and Indian 
Territories. Soon after arrival at Fort Scott 
Mr. Copeland was detailed at headquarters of 
C. W. Blair, Comnunidaiit. He veteranized 
•fan. 1, 1864 and took veteran furlough. In 
the fall he was relieved of detached duty and 
made Commissary Sergeant of his compaiiy, 
which he joined at Camp Insley. At the 
reorganization in the spring of 1865, Company 
A was made Company K and Mr. Copeland 
was commissioned Lieutenant to date in April. 
In .Tune following Companies F and K were 
ordered to Fort Leavenworth and on arrival 
there were ordered to Marysville, Kan., and 
remained there, protecting and escorting 
emigrant trains. There Mr. Cofieland was 
made (Quartermaster of the l)attalion and in a 
short time went to Madison, Wis., to be mus- 
tered out Oct. 23, 1865. 

Four sons of Allen A. Copeland proved their 
right to their inheritance by fighting in the 
war of the rebellion. W. H. Copeland, en- 
listed in .June, 1861, in Company A, 6th Wis- 
consin Infantry and fought with the Iron 
Brigade until the battle of Antietam, where he 
received a fatal wound, dying in the afternoon 
of September 17th and being buried on the 
field. His name is in the dispatches. Edward 
A. was with Kit Carson in the 3d New Mexico 
Cavalry and George N. was with the army of 
Tennessee. 

After his return home Mr. Copeland ob- 
tained a position in a dry goods store and 
passetl three years as a clerk at Baraboo. He 
started for Winona, Minn., stopped in La Crosse 
and chanced to meet I. H. Moulton, the suc- 



cessor of the agent of the St. Paul railroad cor- 
poration to whom he applied vainly for a 
position under him, but a week after arriving 
in Winona he received a telegram summoning 
him to La Crosse to the employ of the corj)ora- 
(ion. His head fell in the autumn of 1870, 
when the force was reduced, as he was one of 
the youngest servitors. But Captain Moulton 
had become interested in him and obtained for 
him a position with the Southern Minnesota 
, railroad, where he was occupied until the 
i spring of 1871, when he entered the employ of 
Hart & Morton, dealers in agricultural imple- 
ments, commission merchants and ticket agents 
for railroad and steamboat transportation. 

In December, 1871, he was appointed book- 
keeper of the La Crosse Lumber Company of 
which Gov. C. C. Washburn was President. In 
1875 the Governor purchased the interests of 
the other stockholders and in 1878, in addition 
to his duties as bookkeeper and cashier and gen- 
eral factotum of the establishment, Mr. Copeland 
was put in charge of all the property of Mr. 
Washburn in pine timber lands and superin- 
tended all lumbering operations connected 
therewith. After the death of Mr. Washburn, 
in 1882, he received instructions from the exec- 
utor of the estate to assume full charge of all 
' the late owner's lumbering interests. By the 
terms of the will the estate was to be settled in 
I five years and, during the interim, the interests 
; under Mr. Copeland's control made a net show- 
ing of $300,000 above appraised valuation. In 
April, 1887, the executors submitted to Mr. 
Copeland a proposition to purchase the mill 
property, which he finally accepted with much 
reluctance. He continued his management 
and paid for the property in one year, besides 
securing a large amount of staniling timber. 
He controls in 18^0 about 80,000,000 .stumpage. 
The capacity of his mill is 200,000 feet per 
day and 30 horses are in use. The circular 



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band and gang saws are used and the market 
includes the Southwest. 

Mr. Oopeland was named in tlie will of Gov- 
ernor Washburn as one of the trustees of the 
library founded by him and to the efforts of 
Mr. Copeland are largely due tlie completion of 
the library Imilding, its attractive style of 
arcliiteclure and its arrangement. The estab- 
lishment is under his care. Early in 1887, Mr. 
Copeland organized a stock company for the 
inirposc of planting an electric light and he was 
made President. This secured to the city a very 
efficient system of lighting, and Mr. Copeland 
has been instrumental in constructing one of 
the finest Edison electric light plants in the 
country. In anticipation of the growth of La 
Cro.sse, a plant was placed commensurate with 
fnture demands. Mr. Copeland is also Presi- 
dent of the Brush Electric Light Co., at La 
Crosse, and Director in the La Crosse Gaslight 
Company. On the organization of the Ex- 
change State Bank he was made its President 
and is a stockholder in the Batavian Bank, lie 
has in every possible manner fostered the pub- 
lic interests of La Crosse, and, with other citi- 
zens equally interested, he has aided in secur- 
ing for La Crosse one of the finest opera houses 
in Wisconsin. 

Mr. Copeland lias also made a record in the 
State military organization known as tiie Na- 
tional Guards of Wisconsin. He has an ex- 
ecutive ability which is exercised in all his re- 
lations and in connection with the militia 
of which the Badger State boasts, he has 
sustained his repute. In 1878, when the 
Light (tuards of La Crosse were organized, 
he was made 3d Sergeant and, August 22(1, 
1879, he was made 2d Lieutenant by unan- 
imous choice and was commissioned by the 
Governor; .Inne 17, ISSl, he was pronioteil 
to Captain of the comjiany and June 2U, 1881, 
his connection with the Lisht Guards ceased 



through his appointment on the staff of Gover- 
nor Rusk with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, 
and he was assigned to duty as Assistant 
Inspector General. June 3, 1886 he was con- 
stituted aid-de-camp on the staff of Governor 
Rusk and, on the ex])iration of the term of 
that official in 1880, Mr. Copeland tendered his 
resignation. During his relations with the 
Light Guards he performed excellent service 
in their drill and acquirement of military 
tactics and made his value a personal consider- 
ation to all the organization for faithfulness 
and integrity in all his connections witli them. 
His increasing business and his multifarious 
duties in all his business connections made it 
impossible for him to continue a member of the 
organization, as ranch to his own regret as to 
that of otiiers. Tiie efficiency of his manage- 
ment was proven by the efficiency of the com- 
mand and his ability as a militars' officer was 
demonstrated by his appointment i)y Governor 
Rusk on staff duty at Milwaukee during the 
May riots of 188G. Mr. Copeland is a Mason, 
belongs to tiie Republican jiarty and is a mem- 
lier of the Loyal Legion, Cominandery of Wis- 
consin. 

He was married in October, 1874 at La Crosse 
to Cora, daughter of Col. Tlieo. and Marie A. 
(Thomas) Roljolf. Two daughters have lieen 
born to the house of Copeland at La Crosse, re- 
sjieclively as follows: Marie Louise, Aug. 7, 
1875, and Irene, March 15, 1877. 



'imit^m^^ 



-v^ r L L E N B U L L A R I) A U B E R Y 
("Doc"), Milwaukee, Wis., honorary 
member of Robert Ciiivas Post No. 2, 
was born in .\pril, 1848, in Burlington, Vt. 
His father, Aliicrt Aubery, was descended from 
noble French lineage, remotel}' removed, the 
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Aubery. In 1849 the senior Aubery went to 
California, accompanied by two sons, and tiie 
three died in tlie new El Dorado. After the 
removal of her surviving sons to the West, the 
mother, Almira (Blish) Aubery, started with a 
daughter to join them and both were lost on 
the St. Lawrence lliver with the propeller 
Buckeye. 

" Doc" Aubery was reared in his native State, 
his educational training being of a character 
which developed the princijdes which have 
governed every step of his career and which 
sent the young, fresh blood of the New England 
States to the defense of the Union which was 
its natural heritage, perhaps more than that of 
any other section of the country. And when 
the 2d Vermont Infantry was making up its 
complement in the earliest period of the strug- 
gle, the boy of 14 years sought a situation in 
which he could accompany the regiment to the 
front. His enthusiasm was rewarded in June, ! 

1861, and he marched away in the capacity of 
attendant to Lieutenant, afterwards Caiitain, 
H. K. Leach of Company H, in whose service 
he remained until after the battle of Rull Run, ' 
after which he became a newsboy and an at- 
tache of the Iron Brigade, of which organiza- I 
tion he is one of the must j)rominent members. \ 
He is the sole representative of the fraternity 
of newsboy.s, wiio was taken prisoner during 
the war. 

His capture was the result of his business 
enterprise. No papers had been received in 
camp for weeks and he set out for Washington 
at a time when every route was infested by 
confederate scouts. He started back Nov. 18, 

1862, with 1,000 "Chronicles" piled in front 
of and l)ehind him on the saddle, entrenched 
in the stack being some "proof" whisky for an 
officer. On the 19th he encountered two horse- 
men in overcoats of " regulation blue." Lie 
presented his pass, which was received with a 



smile which sent his heart down into his boots 
as the situation dawned on his senses. His na- 
tive Yankee siirewdness came into play and 
he represented to the "corporal" that a small 
newsboy was of no account to the confederacy 
and tried the efficacy of his excellent whisky 
as a subtantiating argument. He was com- 
pelled to take a ffrst taste to prove its innocence 
of drugs, when his captors took generous 
drinks. But his appeal for release was unavail- 
ing and, presentlj', he was approached by a 
lieutenant who demanded his whisky, but who 
had the decency to pay for it in confederate 
notes, amounting to $12. 

He was then taken to the headquarters of 
Gen. .J. E. B. Stuart who treated him con- 
siderately and ordered that he be provided for. 
The next morning he was en route to Libby 
prison at Richmond with about 50 others. On 
being taken in charge by the notorious Major 
Turner that official asked if he had any valu- 
ables. The boy told him of the confederate 
money and also of $380 which he had saved 
with the expectation of sending it to his mother 
from Washington but had been prevented by 
the closing of the express ofl[ice. Tears came 
to his eyes as he thought of his mother's needs, 
dependent on her boys for support, and as a 
brightening spot on a career that will blot his- 
tory's pages through all time, let it be recorded 
that Turner promi.sed that tlie money should 
be safely cared for and returned to him, which 
promise was faithfully kept, its owner receiving 
it in the original package. 

The prison experiences of "Doc" Aubery 
differed in no whit from tho.se which are re- 
counted on many pages of this work, and after 
his return to the Union lines, he found it his 
ffrst imperative necessity to remove distinctive 
traces of confederate cliaractcristics. Then he 
procured a supply of papers and resumed con- 
nection with the " Iron Brigade." His welcome 



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to that organization has never been less. He 
witnessed the fight at Fredericksburg, but did 
not try to press his business as he had done at 
tiie battle of Gettysburg. For more than a 
week before that famous fight no papers had 
been accessible and on the morning of tlie 1st 
of July he succeeded in obtaining a supply of 
New York and I'hihidelphia journals. He 
followed the brigade with his wares, and when 
he thought he had a favorable opportunity, he 
approached tiie cemetery gate and offered his 
papers. They were selling with great rapidity 
when the rebels opened fire, and it was his 
impression that the wliole confederate army 
was aiming directly at that gate. He quickly 
decided that the location was not favorable as a 
news stand and prepared for retreat, when tlie 
soldiers, determined to have the papers, detain- 
ed him. He suddenly hurled his stock to one 
side and as the men sprang after tliem he took 
immediate steps to place the hill between him- 
self and the rebel batteries. " Doc " states that 
tliat was the last time he tried to do Ijusiness 
with a line of battle. 

He frequently trusted poor fellows whose 
hungry eyes asked for papers for which they 
could not pay, and such were always certain to 
rciml)urse him on receiving their money. In 
1888 a one-armed veteran made a successful 
searcii for him to j)ay a newspaper bill con- 
tracted in those old days, over wliich they had 
a merry season of remini.seence. 

There is no lietter beloved member of the 
Grand Army in tlie country than "Doc" 
Aubery. (This personality is the responsibility 
of the liistorian, and it i.s inserted in view of 
the coming time, when it shall be solely the 
property of tiie descendants of soldiers and of 
faithful recorders of tiie manhood and glory of 
the rank and file.) He is also a member of the 
Patiiarchal Circle, honorary member of the 
Iron Brigade and belongs to the Sheridan 




Guards, W. N. G. He was the first honorary 
member of the Iron Brigade and at the reunion 
of that Body in 1882 his daughter, now Mrs. 
\V. A. Ellis, presented a banner and was 
adopted as the " Da lighter of the Iron Brigade." 

^^ 

ILLIAM CHARLES LAIB, Black 
River Falls, Wis., member of G. 
A. R. Post No. 92, was born June 
3, 1847, at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. His 
father and mother, Charles and Elizabeth 
(Fuller) Laib, were born respectively in Ohio 
and Germany, the former of German lineage. 
The father was a gunsmith and pursued that 
occupation in Pittsburg until he removed to 
Madison, Wis., where lie was again occupied in 
that vocation. In 186G he settled at Black 
River Falls, where he died June 3, 1885, his 
wife dying in Madison many years previous. 
Their children, five in number, were named 
William C, Henry R., Christina, Mary Ann and 
Franklin C. The sou learned the business of 
his father, but after leaving home did not fol- 
low it as a vocation. Prior to the war he en- 
gaged on the river and enlisted at Oshkosh, 
enrolling March 29, 1804 in Company B, 37th 
Wisconsin Infantry. April 28tli, he left camp 
Randall at Madison arriving with the regi- 
ment May 1st, at Arlington Heights, and, with 
the 1st Brigade, 3d Division and 9th Corj)s, 
started May 29th for Alexandria, to embark 
there for White House Landing, camped and 
guarded prisoners until June 10th, when tiie 
regiment was assigned to duty as escort for the 
train of supplies for the field of Cold Harbor, 
and skirmished on the way. They were in 
Burnside's commaiul and, June 12th, stivrted 
for Petersburg, arriving June IGth. Before 
they had prepared supper they were ordered 
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supper in a new position when war sounded 
and they occupied the works taken by a bat- 
tery, through the night. The lirigade formed 
in Hue of battle in a ravine preparatory to 
charging a line of works extending from the 
Baxter road almost to Hare's Ilill, where 
Fort Steadman was built. The charge was 
made and still another before the works were 
taken, the loss being 138 killed and wounded, 
44 men dj'ing on the field and 10 from wounds. 
They made another furious charge on the 
morning of the 18th and advanced and re- 
treated through the day. The loss was 103 
killed and wounded on that d-ay. Mr. Laib 
was wounded at that figlit in the left leg and a 
few days later, was sent to the hospital at Alex- 
andria. He deserted the hospital and joined his 
regiment. June 20th the regiment went again 
to its former position and remained under fire 
until July 10th, and seven days later went to the 
trenches; and after the exjilosion July 30th, 
charged through the crater, being driven back. 
Only 95 men were left of 250 to answer to their 
names. August 19th they were engaged in 
building a fort on the Jerusalem Plank Road 
and the next day went to the Weldon railroad, 
reaching their brigade near Yellow House where 
tiiey were soon after in action, losing 10 killed 
and wounded. On the 21st the regiment 
engaged in building a line of fortifications 
across the railroad which were attacked in 
three different places simultaneously, the o7th 
moving to support the 19th New York Battery 
and lost 10 killed and 25 wounded, but drove 
the rebels. They performed guard and garri- 
son duty on the Weldon railroad until ordered 
to move to Ream's Station, covered the retreat 
of the 2d Corps which had been worsted in a 
fight there, and fell back to their lines. -The 
regiment constructed new works near Blick's 
Station and moved September 29th to Yellow 
House and Foplar Grove Church where the 



command was in action, losing 25 killed and 
75 wounded. October 27th they were in the 
reconnoissance at Hatcher's Run, losing two 
men and went into camj) on the Pegram farm. 
November 9th the brigade moved from the 
extreme left to the extreme right in front of 
the old mine and they went into winter 
quarters, although still exposed to the fire of 
the rebels, which was not in any sense dimin- 
ished. December 8th they moved down the 
Jerusalem road to Hawkins' Tavern to support 
the 2d and 5th Corps on their homeward march 
after a raid on the Weldon railroad. They 
remained in the rifle pits of Petersburg until 
the opening of the spring campaign and, 
March 25th, were ordered to Fort Steadman, 
the rebels having broken through the Union 
lines. But they gained no advantage, as the 
drill and eflSciency of the Union troops pre- 
vented their making an advance and two days 
after, the beginning of tli« end appeared, when 
Sheridan commenced his movements. April 
1st the regiment went to the picket line and 
saw the action that was followed next day by 
the general movement and formed a line inside 
the bastions of Fort Hell (Sedgwick). At day- 
light they assaulted Fort Mahone (Fort Dam- 
nation) and Petersburg was the confection that 
fell into Grant's hands. The three rebel lines 
of works were broken and when the troops 
entered Petersburg, Lee was on the wing. (See 
sketch of Hollon Richardson). The 37th fol- 
lowed the retreating rebel army, guarding rail- 
roads, doing picket duty until tlie surrender, 
returned and went into camp near Washington, 
April 20th, taking part in the Grand Review 
in May. Mr. Laib was discharged at the 
Delany House, July 27, 1865, and returned to 
Madison and Oshkosh. 

In 1866 he went to Black River Falls and 
engaged on the river and in digging wells. He 
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of Mathew and Maria (Wallhers) Marvin, and 
they had several children named Frank, Mary, 
Cln-istina, Addie, William C. and George; 
Frank is deceased. Mr. Laib is a Republican 
in political connection. 

/^^ ENERAL DAVID ATWOOD, pro- 
i ^v J P"^*'Oi' ^^^^ cliief editor of the " Wis- 

^"-—^ consin State Journal" at Madison, 
was born at Bedford, New Hampshire, Dec. 15, 
1815. In the paternal line of descent he is of 
unmixed English origin, his primal ancestor 
in this country having been John Atwood, who 
emigrated from England in 1(343 and established 
a family contingency which remained intact at 
Plymouth, Mass., until 1777, when Isaac At- 
wood, his descendant ni the fourth remove, 
settled with his household at Bedford, N. II. 
Nathaniel, son of John 1st, was born in 1652; 
his son Jolm was born in 1684; Isaac, son of 
the latter, was born in 1719 and his son Isaac 
in 1747. The last was the grandfather of 
David Atwood of this sketch. His father was 
named David and was born March 24, 1779, 
being one of nine children born to David and 
Hannah (Clmbbuck) Atwood, his grandmother 
being the great aunt of Emily Clmbbuck, (third 
wife of the famous Baptist missionary, Ado- 
niram Jud-son,) whose name became famous 
thi'ough her literary career. David Atwood, 
Sr., married Mary Bell, a native of Bedford, 
Sept. 21, 1802. She was born April 12, 1781 
and died in October, 1857. David Atwood be- 
came a nonogenarian, dying in 1869. It is an 
acknowledged fact that a majority of men who 
have carved remarkable or useful careers have 
inherited their best traits from their mothers. 

Mary Bell represented one of the best strains 

in the composite nationality of this country. 

The Scotch who settled in the north of Ireland 



in 1619 to escape the persecutions of the Scot- 
tish " kirk, " found themselves in a dilemma of 
no less proportions and after enduring the 
rigors of their situation for exactly 100 years, 
in 1719 their emigration to America began. 
John Bell, earliest American ancestor of Mary 
Bell, removed to Bedford, the nucleus of a 
settlement of Scotch-Irish, in 1736. His son 
John, born in Ireland in 1732, was the father 
of Joseph, born in 1757. He was married to 
Mary Houston, June 4, 1776, and their daugh- 
ter Mary was the third issue of their alliance. 
But David Atwood of this sketch owes much 
to his paternal line, which came of the same 
material as that on which the house of Bell 
was founded ; and to the sturdy Presbyterian 
element of the Old World which was the foun- 
dation stone of the New World, he is indebted 
for his traits of probity, understanding, hardi- 
hood and perseverance. (It is not generally 
understood that the term " Scotch-Irish " has 
reference to race only in its first part, and the 
Scotch in Ireland j)reserved their blood un- 
mixed with that of the people among whom 
they settled ; their persecutions made the race 
instinct on both sides very strong and it dom- 
inated every relation, its influence operating for 
decades after their removal to this country. 

The New England life which nurtured the 
character of David Atwood deserves a volume. 
In this work there are countless instances in 
which it moulded the characters of men who 
found out the purpose of their being in the 
events which made the existence of this 
country statuesque in the procession of nations. 
They reju-e-senta toil in the fields of agriculture 
which is unj>aralleled ; they represent labor 
which began before daylight and ended after 
it had fled ; they represent months of labor 
and weeks of schooling; they represent life 
with few characteristics of ease and comfort and 
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endurance. But tliey brought to bear on the 
opportunities of the magnificent West, self- 
reliance, hardihood, integrity, economy, un- 
selfisliness, and a capacity for observation and 
generalization wiiich has developed the mar- 
velous resources of this world within a world, 
— the West — to a degree which gives older, 
idler and more envious peoples an opportunity 
to wonder in startled amazement over con- 
stantly recurring achievements. To this class 
of workers belongs David Atwood. He can 
have no more desirable meed of praise, than 
that he has placed his name among the fore- 
most of those to whom reference has been 
made, and no more enduring epitaph than 
that "he served liis fellow men." 

He grew up in the same town with Horace 
Greeley and Zachariah Chandler and, when IG 
years old, took leave of his father's roof-tree to 
make his essay to take his part in the work of 
the world. In 1832 he became an apprentice 
in the printing establishment of his elder 
brother, John, at Hamilton, New York. In 
five years he had acquired the whole art of 
printing, as known in that period, and several 
other things. He was then 21, and after visit- 
ing his parents lie returned to Hamilton to 
find his brother's partner dead and an imme- 
diate change a necessity. The house had be- 
come involved through the printing of a large 
edition of a work, entitled "The American 
Common Law," consisting of eight volumes, 
and the unraveling of the complication de- 
pended on the sale tiiereof. His relations with 
the business liad included some experience as 
a travehng salesman ; and David Atwood 
undertook the supplying of a trade which he 
himself establislied — selling the volumes to in- 
dividual lawyers. It is almost safe to say that 
he was the pioneer traveling salesman, cer- 
tainly in that avenue. He spent three years 
in vending his books in what were then re- 



garded as distinctively Western States, which 
were open to traffic of that description. He 
journeyed 10,000 miles with his own convey- 
ance, experiencing all the vicissitudes incident 
to such business at that period, when transpor- 
tation facilities were meager and traveling with 
money dangerous. But he gained a bi"oad 
knowledge of men; his business brought him 
in contact with a class of men who are now 
hardly known ; young, aspiring, hard-working 
lawyers, who foresaw their opportunities and 
who were to be found at points eligible to their 
ambitious projects. Scores of those who wel- 
comed him with satisfaction to both parties, 
and profit to him, have become famous in the 
archives of the Nation. His work was com- 
pleted in the summer of 1839, when he re- 
turned to Hamilton. He had a strong desire 
to locate in Cincinnati, but he had contracted 
the bete, noir of a New Englander — the fever and 
ague — and was pursuaded to change his plans. 
In September, 1839, he began his connection 
with the profession of his life as a principal on 
a newspaper. He had become imbued with 
the spirit which prevailed in Ohio which urged 
the claims of General Harrison, with whom he 
! had formed an acquaintance, and his enthusi- 
asm in the conduct of his paper, " Tlie Hamil- 
ton Palladium " in which he was associated 
with his brother, John, althougli it had been a 
subject of comment of varied significance, lo- 
cally, received its just reward in the election of 
" Old Tippecanoe." He conducted the mechani- 
cal relations of the " Palladium " and assisted 
in its editorial management until the Clay 
campaign, in which his brother became an 
active element outside, leaving David with the 
entire responsibilitj' of the newspaper on his 
hands. He had an office boy to assist in " ink- 
ing" and working the hand-press, and he suc- 
ceeded in issuing with regularity, not only the 
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called "The Mill-Boy." In addition to his 
labors in the printing office, he attended eve- 
ning meetings and advocated the doctrines of 
tiie Whigs. Altliough he was obliged to record 
defeat, Mr. Atwood traces to his efforts at that 
period much of the success he has since reaped 
as the reward of honest perseverance in a good 
ctiuse. 

Among other relations in which he took an 
interest was that of the local military. In 
1841 he had already become prominent in 
that respect and was made Adjutant on the 
staff of Colonel, afterwards Senator, James 
W. Nye, from Nevada, then commanding 
the 65th New York Militia. In the following 
year he was commissioned Major of the regi- 
ment, his papers bearing the signature of Gov- 
ernor Seward and Adjutant-General Rufus 
King, maker and organizer of the " Iron Brig- 
ade." (See sketch.) Later, he succeeded Colonel 
Nye, his commission as chief officer of the 65th 
New York being signed by Governor Bouck, 
father of the famous " Gabe " of Oshkosh, Wis., 
His connection with the regiment was whole- 
some and proHtal)le to its members, and he ap- 
plied himself to its benefit witli tlie same 
energy and perseverance as to otiier matters 
and " General Training " became something 
Ijeside riotous semblance of military tactics. 

His liealth became seriously impaired and 
under the advice of his phj'sician he started to 
lind a new field of effort. In February, 1845, 
with a young friend, he started for Illinois in a 
wagon and, together, they purchased 550 acres 
in Stephenson county, where David Atwood re- 
covered his health in the prosecution of his 
farm labors. He had preserved large anticipa- 
tions of the possibilities of the great Sucker 
State tiirough wliich he had traveled eight 
years l)efore, all of which he has lived to see 
fulfilled. In tlie spring of that year he went 
to Ohio and was chief drover of a flock of 1,700 



sheep for a distance of 450 miles to his farm, 
walking the entire distance. But the invest- 
ment was disastrous, as was the whole farming 
enterprise, and in two years he had lost his 
substance, but regained permanent health. 
His mind reverted to his trade and he turned 
his attention to Wisconsin a.s a possiljle field 
wherein to renew his connection with the 
"guild." Madison had about 600 inhabitants 
when he arrived there, Oct. 15, 1847. " Some- 
thing to do "was his uppermost thought and 
he set forth at once on that quest. He found 
his way to the office of the Madison Express, 
published by W. W. Wynian, whose sons have 
become distinguished, and received an offer of 
six dollars a week and his board, to become the 
factotum of the establishment — editor, business 
manager, reporter, compositor, foreman, et 
cetera, et cetera, as occasion demanded. He 
closed with the offer, although dismayed by 
what was expected of him, but he fulfilled his 
contract, attending every session of the Conven- 
tion which was engaged that winter in con- 
structing tlie Constitution of the State, and his 
reports were such as to justify the sagacitj' of 
Mr. Wynian in securing his services. All the 
editorial work was performed by him. In Octo- 
ber, 1848, associated with a son-in-law of Mr. 
Wyman, he became by purchase a proi)rietor 
of the paper, whose style was changed to the 
Wisconsin &pre.ss, its character becoming more 
general. But several influences operated to 
oppose the progress of the new enterprise. The 
State Government was Democratic and two 
journals of that persuasion at Madison flour- 
ished from obvious causes. Only the economy 
and good management of Mr. Atwood prevent- 
ed a collapse. And, also, in 1850 the SlcU€sina7i 
was placed in competition with the paper which 
had stood lo3'ally to Whig princijdes; and in 
June, 1852, a consolidation was effected, but 
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aster came, Mr. Atwood resuscitated his connec- 
tion with journalism and issued tlie Wisconsin 
State Journal, the first nuiuher of the daily 
bearing the date of Sept. 28, 1852. In the fall 
of 1851, when the Wliigs elected Governor Far- 
well, that official recognized the efforts of Mr. 
Atwood, by an appointment as Quartermaster 
General of Wisconsin. On the organization of 
the Republican party, the paper adopted its 
tenets, which it has since represented singly at 
the capital of Wisconsin. Horace Rublee, now 
editor-in-chief of the Sentinel at Milwaukee, be- 
came associated in the management of the 
Joimml ill 1853, the relation existing until 
1869; Major J. O. Culver succeeded him and 
was connected with the Journal until Jan. 1, 
1877, since which date Mr. Atwood has con- 
ducted it alone. The varied service Mr. 
Atwood has rendered his generation is 'evi- 
denced by the numerous responsible positions 
he has filled. In the .spring of 1854 he 
became prominent as an agitator of the forma- 
tion of a new political party, and he was one 
who.se activity set in motion the machinery 
which resulted in the organization of the Repul> 
lican party, and was a member of the com- 
mittee that prepared the first Republican plat- 
form. He served as Clerk of the Lower House 
of the Assembl}- in 1855 ; and in 1856 was 
engaged in tlie substantiation of the claims of 
Governor Bashford to his seat. In 1858 lie was 
made Major-General of the 5th Division of the 
State Militia by Governor Randall. In 1861 
he was a member of the Assembly of Wiscon- 
sin and in the first year of the war he occupied 
positions wherein lie performed effective service 
ill raising and equipping soldiers from Wiscon- 
sin. In July, 1862, he received a commission 
from President Lincoln as U. S. Internal Rev- 
enue Assessor for the 2d Congressional District. 
In this office his duties were of the most 
arduous character, the regulation of the new 



state of affairs requiring to be made smooth to 
the understanding of the taxpayers in order to 
proceed harmoniously. When President .John- 
son assumed the reins of government, Mr. 
Atwood staunchly sustained his views of un- 
mi.xed Republicanism and, as a result, was the 
first Wisconsin official suspended by Mr. John- 
son for "offensive partisanship." But his 
course was admired and lauded by his party 
without stint. He served as Mayor of Madison 
in 1868-9 and in the latter year received a flat- 
tering vote in the Republican Convention for 
the nomination as a candidate for Governor of 
Wisconsin. In Januar\-, 1870, Mr. B. F. Hop- 
kins, Representative in Congress from the 2d 
District, died and Mr. Atwood was made his 
successor. His abilities were soon recognized 
in a body where workingmen were at a pre- 
mium, and he served his constituency in a 
manner in every way creditable to them and 
himself. He performed effective service in 
behalf of Wisconsin and secured advantages 
which have been of lasting benefit to the State. 
He urged the creation of the Centennial Com- 
mission and was appointed by Grant, Commis- 
sioner from Wisconsin. March 4, 1872, on the 
convening of the Commission in Philadelphia, 
he was made chairman temporarily and served 
until the election of President Hawley and was 
active throughout in important positions where 
his executive abilities were required. 

Mr. Atwood has officiated in many public 
positions of trust in his locality. He has been 
a magistrate, a trustee, was treasurer of the 
State Agricultural Society thirteen years, of- 
ficiated sixteen years as trustee of the State 
Insane Hospital, has been member and Presi- 
dent of the City Board of Education, served 30 
years in various capacities in the (Madison) 
Mutual Insurance Company, is President of the 
Madison Gaslight and Coke Company, has been 
director and president of several railroad en- 



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terprises and has been curator of the State 
Historical Society since its inception in 1849. 
He probably stands alone, in having been com- 
missioned a Notary Public by every Governor 
of the State of Wisconsin. He was for eight 
years Wisconsin member of tlie Republican 
National Committee, and has been present at 
every convention since the first nomination of 
Lincoln. In 1876 he was a member of the 
convention. j 

Aug. 23, 1849, he was married to Mary, 
daughter of Cbnnor and Susan (Shriver) 
Sweeny of Potosi, Wis. Their first born son, 
Charles David, died in 1878 aged 28 years. 
He had been vice-consul at Liverpool four 
years under Lucius Faii-child, and was after- 
wards associate editor of the "State .Journal." 
In 1874, lie was married to Elizabeth, daughter 
of Dr. A. .J. Ward, who.se sketch appears on 
another page. In 1875, David Atwood, his 
only child, was born. 

Mr. Atwood of tlii.'' sketch has three surviv- 
ing children — Harrie F., Mar}' L., of Madison, 
and Elizabeth G., wife of Edward P. ^'ilas, 
member of the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, 
Smitli, Bottom & Vilas, of Milwaukee. 

Connor Sweeny was born in New York City, 
March 4, 1792; Susan, his wife, was reared 
within four miles of the field of Gettvslmrg in 
Pennsylvania. Mrs. Atwood was born May 3, 
1819, in Franklin Co., Pa, and is of Dutch and 
Irish extraction. 

Before this imperfect account of a man wiiom 
succeeding generations will estimate justly 
from a statement of what he has done and his 
motive in effort, is in print, he will be 74 years 
old. In his apparent firm health, seemingly 
unbroken constitution and extraordinary vigor 
is manifest the advantages of a well-regulated 
life, made .such by intelligence and judgment. 
Comment is hardly required by even the 
minutest biographer, when such an array of 



usefulness is portrayed. When a British officer, 
maimed and aged, was accused of treason and 
arraigned l)efore the triljunal whose existence 
he had helped to make possible, was called on 
for his defense, he raised his armless coatsleeve 
and said sternly, " I fought at Waterloo." 
^^^lat he has done stands ever a witness of the 
life and character of General Atwood. If the 
true account of his social experiences could be 
written they would form a I'emarkable record. 
He has been associated with most of the prom- 
inent men in the history of Wisconsin and of 
the Nation. His capacity for making friends 
is equal to liis perseverance in the avenues of 
business and he has a reputation for hospitalitj' 
and as a conver.sationalist such as might be 
looked for in one with his temperament and 
having had his experiences. " Never recreant 
to convictions of duty " will always be his 
memorial in the thoughts of those who remem- 
ber him after his name shall have become but 
a memory. 

It is believed that the above inadequate 
account of one wlio, since it was written, has 
suddenly entered into the rest of the just and 
upright, is the last prepared of him and it is 
thoroughly reliable as he revised and corrected 
it with his own liand, only a few days before 
he passed away. 

General Atwood was stricken with sudden 
illness, Dec. 11, 1889, and after a few hours the 
name he had made so honorable and which 
will be treasured as sacred in Madison wiiile 
his generation lasts, became only a memory. 
But such a memory as Wisconsin will bear on 
her muster-roll ■ of sons who lived only to her 
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OSEPH McCLELLAN BELL, charter 
member of the Mihtary Order of the 
Loyal Legion, Wisconsin Commandery, 
member of E. B. Wolcott G. A. R. Post No. 1, 
at Milwaukee, Wis., was born at West Chester, 
Pa., Nov. 21, 1836. He is the son of Thomas 
Sloan Bell, Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and 
Keziah Ann, daughter of Judge William Camp- 
bell of the 3d Judicial District of Pennsylvania, 
(including Chester and Delaware counties). 
The ancestors in the paternal line left Scotland 
in the time of James 1st, in 1619, to escape the 
persecutions of the Scottish " kirk ", only to en- 
counter troubles of a worse nature in their 
refuge in the North of Ireland, whicii, however, 
insured the purity of the race known to pos- 
terity as the Scotch-Irisli and sent to this 
country one of its best strains of race and 
character, as is exemplified in many directions, 
the families, more than those of any other 
nationality which have come to these shores, 
transmitting to descendants their sturdy 
strength, intelligence, hard common sense and 
integrity and also, more than any otiier do 
they preserve the family patronymic through 
successive generations. The " Bells " and 
" Sloans " sent representatives to the South of 
Ireland and many became barristers and solic- 
itors in Dublin. Judge Bell's father and 
mother came to Philadelphia in the hitter part 
of the 18th century, where Thomas S. was 
born ; another son, William, became an officer 
in the United States navy ; Mary was the only 
daughter. 

Thomas S. Bell was fitted for his profession 
in the law office of Judge, afterwards Governor, 
Porter of Philadelphia and practiced in Cliester 
county, subsequently succeeding his father-in- 
law, Judge Hemphill, as presiding Judge of 
the 3d Judicial District, prior toJiis accession 
to the position of Chief Justice. He served 
many years, and ■ftheii the office was made 



elective he resigned and died in Philadelphia, 
in 1861. His wife was granddaughter of Col. 
Joseph McClellan, commissioned by the Gov- 
ernment to the command of the 1st Pennsyl- 
vania Reserves in the Continental Army, to 
serve under General Anthonj' Wayne, who 
wrote on the reverse of his papers when they 
were returned to the " Office of War & Ord- 
nance " expressions of commendation as to the 
services of Colonel McClellan and regret for 
his resignation, adding a recommendation that 
his resignation be accepted. About 1856 these 
impers were discovered in the archives of the 
War Department and are now in possession of 
the family, together with the sword and epau- 
lettes presented to him by General Washington 
after the battle of Brandywine. The children 
of Judge Bell are Caroline Darlington, wife of 
Dr. William Goodell of Philadelphia ; William 
Hemphill, a West Point graduate and an of- 
ficer in the U. S. regular army; Joseph Mc- 
Clellan, of this sketch ; Thomas Sloan, a lawyer 
and Lieutenant Colonel of the 51st Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry ; he served under Burnside and 
was killed at Antietam after taking and cross- 
ing the stone bridge on the left of the line of 
battle (Burnside's Bridge); Annie Rosalie, wife 
of Clifford Hemphill of West Chester. 

Colonel Bell was educated at the New London 
and West Cliester academies and afterwards 
read law with John Hickman of West Chester, 
pursuing his studies from 1855 to May, 1857, 
when he was " warranted " by the War Office 
and attached to an expedition under General 
E. F. Beale, for the survey of the 35th parallel 
route to the Pacific. In July, the first assis- 
tant of the expedition resigned and Colonel 
Bell was promoted to the vacancy. During 
1857, 1858 and a part of 1859, he pursued this 
work, and took service in tbe Subsistence De- 
partment of New Mexico, with headcjuarters at 
j Albuquerque, and later at Fort Ujiion. In the 



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latter part of ISGl, the force under General 
Canby, whicli had been aroused by the condi- 
tions of war, became informed of the intended 
invasion of General Sibley at the head of the 
Texan troops and steps were taken to prepare to 
meet him. the regular force being small and scat- 
tered and practically without officers, many va- 
cancies existing ; it became imperative that these 
be Hiled and General Canby was authorized by 
the War Dej)artment to make the appointments. 
Additional troops were required and must be 
supplied by volunteers. Colonel Bell was then 
stationed at Fort Union and was ordered by 
his Chief to report at Santa Fe where he was 
commissioned 1st Lieutenant in the 2d New 
Mexico Infantry, to render him eligible to 
appointment, and he was made Captain of Com- 
pany I, 3d U.S. Cavalry, wliicli, witli Company 
G, 2d Dragoons, was formed into a light battery 
commanded by Captain J. P. Hatch (General) 
and afterwards in command of Captain Alex. 
McKae. Colonel Bell passed tiirough the New 
Mexico campaign and after the battle of Val 
Verde in which all other officers were killed 
and himself thrice wounded, he was in com- 
mand to the close of tlic campaign, which 
resulted in tiie expulsion of the invaders with 
decimated and l)roken ranks. Colonel Bell was 
sent to Washington under special instructions 
of General Canby and, a few days after liis 
rei)ort to the Secretary of War, he was promoted 
to Cajttain Assistant Adjutant General to rejiort 
to General B. S. Roberts, U. S. A., Chief of 
Cavalry, Aimy of Virginia, organizing for 
movements on the Rapidan. He was a partici- 
pant in all the movements of tiie forces 
under Pope until the command went north 
into Maryland, when Colonel Bell was assigned 
to duty at headquarters at Harper's Ferry, 
going thence into West Virginia to clear the 
rebels out of the country south of Clarksburg 
towards the Kanawha River. He was ordered 



i to the Northwest to inspect and push troops to 
the front and was appointed by General Pope, 
Inspector General and Chief of Ordnance. At 
this time General Thomas api)lied for the 
assignment of Colonel Bell to his staff as A. A. 
General, which on being referred to the Com- 
mander of the Department of the Northwest, 
was returned to the War Department with the 
statement that lie was necessary to the exigen- 
cies of his present position and a request added 
that the assignment be not made. 

Later, he was ordered to Milwaukee, whither 
General Pope transferred his headquarters and 
in addition to his other duties. Colonel Bell 
acted as A. A. General of his staff until Pope 
was ordered to the command of the Military 
Division, with headquarters at St. Louis and 
Colonel Bell was assigned to duty tliere as Ad- 
jutant-General and was promoted to Major and 
Lieutenant-Colonel. In the spring of 18()G he 
made a tour of inspection through Kansas, 
Nebraska, Colorado and New Mexico,, forward- 
ing his resignation on his return, which was 
accepted by the War Dejiartment in December. 
On the reorganization of the Regular Army, 
Colonel Bell was offered a commission and 
afterwards a second commission, but declined 
both. 

lie was married at Milwaukee to Harriet, 
daughter of .lusiah E. and Harriet (Johnson) 
McClure. Mrs. Bell belongs to a family of 
Scotch descent, whose first re j)resentatives came 
to America in the 18th century, purchased and 
occupied lands in Massachusetts and founded a 
numerous line of descendants. Josiah E. went 
to Chicago in 1835 and was early identified 
with the development of the Garden City, 
whence he removed to Milwaukee in 1840, 
where his family have since lived. Harriet, 
his wife, is the only daughter of Col. Seth .lohn- 
son of the 2d United States Infantry, an officer 
of 1812, who served afterwards at \i>iicii£ j cint 



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on the lake frontier until he was made Com- 
mandant at Fort Dearborn (Chicago). About 
1840 he resigned his commission and passed 
tlie remainder of his life at Racine, Wis. Nine 
welcome and beloved children have been added 
to the Bell household, named in order of birth, 
Harriet, Joseph McClellan, .Jr., Caroline D., 
(deceased), William H., Thomas S., Mary, 
Martha, Catherine and Alexander McClure. 
C!olonel Bell has been a Republican since the 
organization of the party. 

There is, on these pages, no more thorough 
representative of American institutions than 
Colonel Bell, whose modest story told in simple 
terms, is wholly inadequate in view of all that 
might have been justly said. Born of the best 
stock in our composite Nationality, bred in 
gentle and refined methods, early imbued with 
the true principles of patriotism and also with 
a sense of his country's right to the best 
strength and service he could give her, he re- 
sponded to every call made upon him and per- 
formed his duty in a manner consonant with 
his birtii, training and conscience. In his pri- 
vate career, he has regulated his life in accord- 
ance with the principles of his forefathers and 
sustains his record as a soldier in the service of 
his country in her most pressing need. 

HARLES J. ALDEN, of La Crosse, 
Wis., is a member of Wilson Colwell 
Post No. 38, G. A. R. He was born 
in Monroeton, Bradford Co., Pa., July 5, 1844. 
He represents most of the romance that came 
to this country in the first trip of the May- 
flower, his earliest ancestor, John Alden, land- 
ing on Plymouth Rock, Dec. 20, 1620. The 
latter acted as advocate for a friend in his suit 
for the favor of Priscilla Mellen, who asked 
him why he did not speak for himself, the in- 




cident forming the theme of Longfellow's poem, 
"The Courtship of Miles Standish," and the 
critical moment "Why don't you ask for your- 
self, John?" giving Rogers one of his happiest 
inspirations for a charming group of statuary. 

The parents of Mr. Alden, Sylvester W. and 
Frances (Wilcox) Alden, were born respectively 
in Bradford county, March 19, 1810 and July 
31, 1815. The former was the son of Timothy 
Alden, himself the son of Israel Alden. From 
the founder of the family, who was assistant 
and secretary to Governor Bradford, the 
branches are many and widely diffused and 
the value of a thread of a romance to preserve 
interest in genealogy is proven by the fact, 
that it is probably possible to trace the family 
descent through all its avenues. Sylvester 
Alden removed with his family to Wisconsin 
and became heavily interested in lumbering in 
the vicinity of Green Bay, where he died July 
13, 1881, the demise of his wife having oc- 
curred Aug. 29, 1847, at Monroeton. They 
had two sons. De Alanson T. was an enlisted 
man in Company H, 21st Wisconsin Infantry, 
(enr.olled the same day with his brother), lost 
his health and was transferred to the Veteran 
Reserve Corps, Sept. 20, 1863, and died June 2, 
1864, after discharge, from the results of dis- 
ease acquired in the service. 

The senior Alden came alone to Wisconsin in 
1856 and located at Menekaunee, where he 
commenced his lumbering operations. His son 
remained East with his relatives three years 
and joined his father in 1859, and until 1862 
he was occupied at home and in obtaining his 
education. He was determined to enlist as 
a soldier and did so Aug. 15, 1862, in Company 
H, 21st Wisconsin Infantry, with his brother, 
enrolling at Fond du Lac and being mustered 
at Oshkosh. Sejjtember 5th he left the State, 
going to Cincinnati, crossing into Kentucky 
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been annoying the people of that section. 
October 8th the Union soldiers had the satis- 
faction of repaying his attentions in a decisive 
and summary manner in which Mr. Alden was 
a participant, receiving his first initiation in 
set battle at Perryville. After commencing the 
engagement, the regiment suffered doubly from 
being advanced beyond the main line and the 
loss was correspondingly greater. (The Colonel 
was wounded and Lieutenant-Colonel Hobart, 
whose sketch is on another page, took command 
of the regiment after Perryville). Mr. Alden 
was in all the exposures and severities encoun- 
tered by the command for some weeks and 
went to camp at Mitchell ville and went after 
great suffering from similar causes to those 
mentioned, in December to Nashville. Witli 
many others, he was ill prior to leaving Mitch- 
ellville, one of the causes being his inhalation 
of dust on the marches. He went with the 
regiment to Stone River, although he was so ill 
that the officers proposed to send him to hos- 
pital, but he felt that death was certain if he 
went there and ills brother assured the officers 
that he would care for him personally. He 
was in the action at Murfreesboro in connection 
with the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 14th 
Corps. When the regiment prepared to par- 
ticipate in the movements southward, an order 
was issued for the examination of the men and 
Mr. Alden and his brother were both rejected. 
Tlirough intercession witii Colonel Hobart he 
was permitted to accompany tlie command 
towards Tullahoma but he failed on the march 
and was sent back to Murfreesboro and to hos- 
l)i(al. He improved somewhat in health and 
was transferred to the \'eteran Reserve Corps 
at Jeffersonville, Ind. He was sent tlience to 
Indianapolis and detailed for duly at General 
Carrington's headquarters, remaining until the 
removal of his chief, when lie was transferred 
to the headquarters of General A. P. Hovey 



and served in that connection until the close of 
the war. He was mustered out June 30, 1865. 

Mr. Alden joined his father at Green Bay 
and was interested in the business of a lumber- 
man until 1870, when he located at Tomah, 
Monroe county, and engaged in the sale of dry 
goods and in the relations of general merchan- 
dising. He had, also, a branch establishment 
at Oakdale. In 1876 he became interested in 
agriculture and conducted a farm three years. 

In 1878 he commenced operations as a pen- 
sion claim agent, for which his tastes and 
capacity fitted him and of which he has made 
an eminent success througii his well-known 
character for integrity and perceptions of jus- 
tice and right, receiving his first initiation into 
his business through obtaining recognition of 
his own claims on the Government. He opened 
his office in 1882 at Tomah, and in 1886 his 
business demanded a different location and he 
removed to Sparta. In the .spring of 1889 he 
fitted his rooms at La Crosse, where he is en- 
gaged in one of the most popular and extensive 
business relations of the kind in Wisconsin, his 
upright character and his success obtaining for 
him just recognition in all the relations of his 
duty to his patrons. In his business he ranks 
among tlie foremost in tlie country. During 
the first eigiit months of 1889 he secured 284 
claims of which 162 were original and 105 in- 
creases. 

He was married at New Lisbon, Wis., Sept. 
10, 1872, to Antoinette, daugiiter of Joseph 
antl Dorcas Davidson and their children are 
Frances May, Sylvester W., Leola and Charles 
J., Jr. In political connection Mr. Alden is a 
Republican; he belongs to the Kniglits of 
Pythias and to the Subordinate Lodge and Eu- 
campment of the Odd Fellows. 

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:;v^^\r ARL GUSTAF DREUTZER, Milwau- 
kee, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 1, was born Feb. 21, 1845, in Got- 
tenburg, Sweden, where his parents, Carl Fer- 
dinand and Annette (Oeberg) Dreutzer, and 
their ancestors liad lived for generations. lie is 
a representative of the seafaring class of his 
native country, his father, grandfather and 
uncle liaving been in the Swedish navy and 
merchant marine, and with the proclivity of 
sons to follow the steps they respect and honor, 
he was reared to the same calling, on which he 
entered after obtaining an education in the 
Swedisli schools, learning the rudiments in his 
own and some foreign languages in the most 
thorough manner, ^^llen he was 13 years old, 
and on March 24, 1858, he went to sea and 
sailed as a cabin boy and steward on several 
voyages, going to Southern Africa, Capetown 
and Port Elizabeth, also to St. Helena and 
Brazil. 

In tlie summer of 1860 he came to America 
and, having determined to "cjuit the sea," he 
entered the printing office of the Waupaca 
(Wisconsin) Sph-it and was first instructed in 
the "black art" by the Redfield Bros., pub- 
lishers and editors. It goes without saying 
that lie was of too active temperament and too 
much interested in the well-being of the coun- 
try he had adopted and from which he lioped 
much, to remain inert and let others struggle 
when his own interests hung in the balance, 
and lie determined to offer himself as a soldier, 
which he did Feb. 11, 1862, iu Company G, 
14th Wisconsin, enlisting at Fond du Lac as 
a private and going thence from rendezvous 
March 8th, to proceed from St. Louis to tlie 
field of Shiloh, where the battle was in jirog- 
ress and wliere he found himself exposed to 
all that hot warfare could present. He was 
only a Ijoy, alone in a strange land and facing 
a determined force of men, who were figliting 



with desperation, and he aided his command 
in winning its first meed of glory at Pittsburg 
Landing. He was in the subsequent move- 
ments of his regiment, performing provost 
duty, reconnoitering and making expeditions 
to various points, going in September to the 
luka campaign, preparatory to tlie last fight at 
Corinth, which closed the military career of 
"Corporal" Dreutzer. October 3d, soon after 
the battle opened, he was in the skirmish line 
and received a wound which disabled him and 
for which he received honorable discharge the 
26th day of November, 1862. 

In March, 1863, he located at Milwaukee, 
obtaining a situation in the office of the Sen- 
tinel, then owned by Germain and Brightman. 
He desired to fit for the business of a job 
printer which he had begun at Waupaca and 
he secured a place with Starr & Son first as 
compositor, then as press feeder and advanced 
in his profession until he became foreman of tlie 
office. In 1869 he became part owner by pur- 
chase of an interest in the Riverside Printing 
Company and has been inside manager of that 
establishment since. Its business has extended 
until it is one of the most prominent and pop- 
ular printing houses in the Northwest, with 
relations extending in widely diffused direc- 
tions. 

Mr. Dreutzer was married Oct. 21, 1869, to 
Alice Harriet Whitridge, of Springfield, Ohio, 
at St. Peter, Minn. Three daughters, Annette, 
Corrilla Charlotte and Ruth have been born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Dreutzer. Their home is at 
Wauwalosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, where he 
"enjoys life as well as a deaf man can." His 
character is such as makes the world pleasanter 
and better ; his fun and good spirits never 
falter ; he has enough of the goods with which 
the world repays industry and well-directed 
effort, to relieve liim from apprehension of 
possible di-saster in advanced life, and perplexi- 



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ties and difficulties are not permitted to poison 
the modicum of comfort a man may take who 
has "j)lovvod tlie briny deep," can "splice the 
main brace" and swear in seven di fie rent 
languages. 

In May, 1890, he returned for the first time 
to his native count^3^ He passed a few weeks 
there among the familiar scenes of his youth, 
renewed old ties, and met the heartiest friend- 
ship and hospitality ever extended to anj^ 
human being, and rejoiced to find that the 
tongue his mother taught him came back to 
him after a disuse of nearly thirty years, with 
such power tliat in three weeks he suddenly 
hecame conscious that his thoughts began to 
frame themselves in Swedish, for, on meeting 
an American lady, he discovered that he must 
take thought how to address lier properly in 
her own language. 

There is no more popular citizen of Milwau- 
kee than "Gus" Dreutzer, and if a man needs a 
friend whose honor can be relied on, such is to 
be found in him of whom this incomplete 
record is made. He is tender-hearted as a 
woman ; he is fearlessly conscientious ; his life 
is stainless and to the generations wiio will re- 
member him in the future that must come to 
all, his name will Ije a .synonym for all that is 
noblest and best in human character. 



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NEN DANIELSON, Racine, Wis., raem- 
A her of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was 
i)orn in Norway, April 27, 1840. lie 
grew to youth in sight of the sea with which 
he fell in love and, when he was 14 years old, 
he engaged in service on the merchant vessels 
plying on the Baltic sea and went also to the 
Mediterranean and visited all the Englisli ports. 
In the fall of 18G0 he suffered shipwreck on the 
coast of Norway and reshipped on the Genoa, 



which was in the coast service and went to 
Cardiff, Wales, where he left the ship to engage 
on an English barque bound for the United 
States. He engaged in the coast service and 
made two trips to the West Indies and trans- 
ferred his allegiance to the United States at 
Boston, shipping on the Donelson, May 24, 18G4, 
and going from Boston to Norfolk, and thence 
to Port Royal on blockade duty, going thence 
to connect with the Gulf Squadron and was in 
the fight at Fort Fisher, the Donelson after- 
wards lying there as a guard-ship until ordered 
to Pensacola, where Mr. Danielson was trans- 
ferred to the Buckthorn, a tugboat of the fleet 
commanded by Commodore Armstrong. He was 
assigned to the quartermaster's department and 
was in the service at Pensacola and Mobile 
Bay and the intervening waters until he was 
taken ill, when he was sent to the hospital at 
Pensacola. He remained on the Buckthorn 
after liis recover}^ uivtil 1867, when he was 
transferred to the Paul Jones, homeward 
bound, and was mustered out May 23d of that 
year in New York. One of the incidents of in- 
terest in his career while on the Donelson was 
the chase after a blockade runner which was 
continued into mid-ocean without avail. On the 
return there was a heavy storm which necessi- 
tated the overthrow of tlie armament of the 
boat with iier starboard anclior. She ran into 
Beaufort without loss of a man, but Cap- 
tain Pickett was subjected to a court martial 
for the loss of the guns and anchor. He was 
fully exonerated and received promotion for 
bravery. 

After leaving the United States service Mr. 
Danielson shipped on a vessel bound for Africa 
and had some exciting experiences. He re- 
turned to Boston, where he s]Hj)](ed for a cruise 
to the East Indies and was gone 11 months, re- 
turning to Boston, went to England and re- 
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three months, on a vessel on which he went to 
the port of Hong Kong, China, the voyage con- 
suming 15 months, and he returned to tlie New 
World via San Francisco and the Cape of Good 
Hope. He started on another trip, intending to 
go to the Spanish mines, up the Angostura River 
but returned to New York and came West and 
entered tlie lake service in wliich lie remained 
two years. He then engaged three years as a 
carpenter in Chicago, going thence to Michigan 
City, Indiana, where he remained about nine 
years. He went to Racine and has since been 
in the employ of the J. I. Case T. M. Co. 

He was married in Chicago in the fall of 
1872 to Cunelda Sorenson and their surviv- 
ing children are Severn, Charles and Gilbert. 
Mr. Danielson is a member of the Order of 
Foresters. 






BAVID C. DAVIS, La Crosse, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
born April 3, 1847, in Burlington, 
Iowa. Both parents, Jonathan and Eliza 
(Sims) Davis, were of Welsh lineage, the former 
having been born in Massachusetis, Oct. 17, 1800, 
and the latter in Battle Creek, Ohio, the daugh- 
ter of a resident of Virginia. The senior Davis 
was a farmer and millwright and they reared 
several children, named Margaret, .Joseph, 
David, Reulien, Harriet and John. In 1828 a 
removal to Iowa was effected and thence to 
Burlington, where the family residence was 
maintained until 1870, when the father went 
to California. His wife had died in Wapello, 
Iowa, in 1852, of cholera. He enlisted in Bur- 
lington, Iowa, in 1861, in Company K, 1st Mis- 
souri Topographical Engineers, and served 
chiefly in the Department of the West until 
discharged in 1802 for disability, having fallen 
from a trestle, dislocating his shoulder and 
fracturing his collar bone. lie is a resident of 



Portland, Oregon, and became a nonogenarian 
Oct. 17, 1890. (Current year). 

Until the date of the war, Mr. Davis was a 
member of his father's family and from the 
firing on Sumter he passed two years in en- 
deavors to find a place where he could enlist. 
At 14, in 1861, he enrolled in Fletcher's Bat- 
tery (Iowa), but was rejected as soon as he 
stated his age. In June of the same year he 
endeavored to enlist in the 9th Illinois Infan- 
try at Monmouth, Illinois, but was again unsuc- 
cessful, being rejected as soon as muster was 
called, as the law stated the duty of the re- 
cruiting officers. He expected the fate and 
followed the command to Cairo to meet rejec- 
tion. July 12, 1863, he made another effort 
which was successful, he having attained to the 
age of 16 years, three months previous. He 
enrolled in Company A, 7th Iowa Cavalry, 
Captain E. B. Murphy. The regiment was sent 
on frontier service to Kansas, to Fort Kearney 
to suppress the Indians in Nebraska. The 
winter of 1863-4 was passed there and in the 
spring the batter}^ returned to Brownville in 
the same State, where tliey operated as cavalry 
in the civil war, which was a service not de- 
manded in other wars, and included scouting 
and skirmishing, fighting guerrillas and bush- 
whackers, foraging and guarding special points, 
the command sometimes spending daj^s in the* 
saddle. After four months the cavalry went 
to Dakota City, Nebraska, and were placed on 
garrison duty, guarding mail routes and set- 
tlers. After three months they went to Fort 
Kearney, again on forced march, making 310 
miles in five days and arrived there the day 
before the Plum Creek massacre. In the morn- 
ing they went to the Creek and arrived there 
just as the redskins withdrew after accomplish- 
ing their bloody work. They had .scalped 12 
men and earned off Miss Ray. They returned 
to Fort Kearney, drew one day's rations and 



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started after the Indians towards Little Butte. 
Crossing tliis they pressed on to the Elk River, 
there found the red villains and defeated them 
after a fight of 11 hours, also recaptured the 
stock they had driven off; they had burned the 
rest of their plunder. Returning to Fort Kear- 
ney, they buried 200 citizens who had been 
murdered by the Indians. (August 8th and 
12Ui, 1864; see pages 112, 113, 115 and 118.) 
On the 28th they went to Cottonwood Springs 
and organized what was known as the Mitchell 
expedition, went south to Solomon River, 
crossed tiie Republican River and established a 
base of supplies. In returning they struck the 
Platte River at Beauvoir's Ranch and made a 
treaty with 1,.")00 Indians. Company A went 
thence to AlkaH Station, Neb., and Ijuilt a fort, 
remaining there the balance of the summer. 
In the fall they started on another expedition, 
having jiassed the previous time in escorting 
the stages with passengers and U. S. mails. 
They scouted south as far as the Solomon River 
and encountered the Indians several times, 
losing several men in the figiits with the red- 
skins. The company returneil to Cottonwood 
after being out 90 days in the dead of winter. 
Mr. Davis was then placed on detiiched service 
in the spring of 1805 with 25 men of his com- 
pany and went to Fort Larramie, escorting 
Paymaster Ohnstead. (Mr. Davis was then not 
18 years old.) On the return from this duty, 
the detail escorted a band of Indians towards 
the Indian Territory under the terms of the 
treaty. On tlie second morning the Indians 
commenced an insurrection and got away after 
killing several men. The command went next 
to Fort MrPiierson and to Fort Alkali, and 
remained through the summer, acting as 
escort on the routes of travel for stages and 
mail coaches. Their next remove was to Fort 
Jleatb, where they were engaged until spring 
ill the same duty and soon after (18G6) received 



orders for Fort Leavenworth to be mustered 

out. Mr. Davis was released from milit^iry 
obligation May 17, 1866, and paid at Daven- 
port, Iowa, on the 25th. He had a remarkable 
service which was important enough to receive 
official recognition in the midst of the most 
important period of the war and went through 
the Indian campaign with two slight wounds, 
one from an arrow and the other from a bullet 
in his leg. He had imbibed a liking for the 
free air and experiences of the plains, and 
after his discharge he went to Fort Kearney in 
Montana with the Government supply trains 
and acted in the Government service through 
the following winter. In May, 1867, he return- 
ed as far east as Amador, Minnesota, and thence 
to the Mississippi River and has since been 
engaged in some capacity on the mighty 
stream. He has rafted, boated and performed 
every specie of duty on the river craft that 
came within bis al>ility. In 1875 he located at 
La Crosse, Wis., where he has established a 
boat livery, including skiffs, yachts and every 
sort of boat to be utilized for water use on the 
river at that point and lias also a yard for 
building skiffs. His boat building is securing 
an excellent reputation for beauty and safety. 
He was married May 7, 1875, at De Soto, 
Wis., to Carrie, daughter of Welcome B. Lum- 
bard, and their only child is named John N., 
born Nov. 14, 1883. Mr. Davis is also oper- 
ating as master of steam vessels and pilot from 
Read's Landing to Dubuque, Iowa. 



AMES G. KIDDLE, Racine, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born in 
Norfolk, England, Oct. 3, 1839, and is 
the son of .lames and Sarali (Gibson) Kiddle, 
who had six ciiildren — Sarah, Klizabetb, Mar- 
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father was a carpenter and a man of excellent 
character and habits. In 1850 he came to the 
United States and purchased a farm in Cook 
Co., 11!., near Bremen, on which he is still liv- 
ing, aged 90 years, the place being managed bj' 
his sons. The family remained in England 
until the farm was bought, when they came to 
the New World. The mother died of cholera 
in 1852. Mr. Kiddle remained with his parents 
until he reached his majority, when he went to 
railroading in the interests of the Chicago & 
Rock Island road, and operated as a brakeman 
and then as baggage master until he entered the 
army. He tried to enlist in the early years of 
the war, but was rejected until Oct. 11, 1864, 
when he was enrolled in Chicago in Company 
K, olst Illinois Infantry. He made connection 
with the regiment at Atlanta and found him- 
self a member of the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, 
17th Army Corps. He remained about a week 
before joining Sherman's forces on the tramp 
to the sea and soon after was detailed in one of 
the foraging parties, in which he operated un- 
til he arrived at Savannah, where he was de- 
tailed to guard the rice mills, which supplied 
the troops with plenty of food. The entire 
country had been flooded by the rebels and the 
j)rogress of the Union troops was much retarded 
by the immense tracts of water; the siege pro- 
gressed slowly until a 64-pounder from Fort 
McAllister was brought into requisition which 
soon settled matters, and the Union soldiers, 
skilled iu every kind of mechanics, stopped the 
discharge of water, when the advance began. 
Mr. Kiddle has never recovered from the effects 
of the concussion in the cannonading ; the men 
were on duty 24 hours and the rebels left their 
works about two in the morning. The follow- 
ing morning they went to Savannah, remained 
a week, went to Beaufort to head oft". Johnston, 
thence to Pocotaligo, obtained supj)lies and 
started for Richmond, Washington and the 



Grand Review. The regiment went to Louis- 
ville, performed provost duty about two weeks, 
and went to Illinois to be mustered out July 
19, 1865. 

Mr. Kiddle resumed his old employment in 
Chicago on resuming his connection with civil 
life and remained until 1872 when he engaged 
with a plow factory at Peru. In 1877 he went 
to Racine, engaged in the plow works of J. I. 
Case and after nine years engaged with his 
present employers, the Racine Hardware 
Manufacturing Company, and still ojierates in 
the wood department. He was married Sep. 5, 
1868, at Chicago, to Sarah Ann, daughter of 
Marshal and Sarah A. Golding. Their children 
are named Martha E., Ida M., Susie B., James 
and Mamie. 



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and Pauline (Dufty) Denniston. The father 
was born near Dublin, Ireland, in 1801 and 
his wife was a native of Hartford, Conn. Both 
died at Lockport, after rearing a family of 12 
children named Anne Pauline, Matilda, Emily, 
Grace, James, Helen, Mary, George, Sarah, 
Martin, John and Hardy. 

When he was 16 years old tiie latter went to 
Milwaukee, Wis., and obtained emjiloy as a 
bookkeeper. After two years he went to Water- 
town, Wis., and made that his homo until he 
went into tiie army. He enrolled at that place 
Feb. 5, 1862, in Company D, 17th Wisconsin 
Infantry, Captain D. D. Scott and Colonel J. L. 
Doran. From Camp Randall the regiment 
went to St. Louis and thence to the battle field 
of Pittsburg Landing, the battle being over 
several days before. The regiment was assigned 
to the 1st Brigade and 6th Division, the brigade 
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to the siege of Corinth. Tlie command was in 
duty on the Mobile & Ohio raih-oad until the i 
battle of Corinth, in which the regiment took 
part October od and 4th. The fii'st day the 
command fought on the outside of the forti- 
fications and on the second fell back within the 
works. On the first day Company D lost two 
men killed and 20 wounded. In the pursuit 
the Union troops followed to the Hatchie 
River and returned to Corinth. They per- 
formed guard and camp duty there until 
ordered to connect with Grant's forces for the 
Vicksburg campaign, went to Grand Junction, 
thence started to go to Holly Springs and re- 
turned, on receiving news of Murphy's surren- 
der of the stores, to go to the aid of Grand 
Junction which was in great danger. They 
lay on their arms there until ordered to Mos- 
cow, Tenn., went to Memphis, thence to 
Young's Point and from there to service on 
the canals at Lake Providence. Two months 
later they moveil to Milliken's Bend and in 
May, in Ransom's Brigade and McPherson's 
Corps, they crossed the Missi.ssippi River at 
Grand (iulf, going to Raymond and expecting 
to fight at Champion's Hill, but did not arrive 
in time. They joined in the pursuit of the 
repulsed rebels and went to Black River 
Bridge, crossed on the floating bridges and 
took position in tlie siege of Vicksburg. They 
had slept on the battle-field of Chamj)ion's 
Hill among tlie dead and at Black River 
Bridge witnessed another fight. May 19th the 
regiment took part 
works and made 
Ivansom and on the 22d covered the retreat of 
the Illinois regiments which stormed the 
breastworks. During the jirogress of the siege 
the regiment made a raid and fought portions 
of one da}' with rebel cavalry, driving them 
and taking their flag, which was brought from 
its pole by Mr. Deuniston, who climbed after it. 



in the assault on the 
I gallant record under 



After the surrender of the city, the command 
went to Natchez, took possession of the place 
and afterwards the regiment was mounted by 
its own efibrts, taking horses wherever they 
were to be found, whether in the fields or 
attached to carriages, on the ground that " all's 
fair in war," and especially in this war. They 
did scouting and skirmishing duty, collected 
cattle and everything available and which was 
loss to the rebels. In the early fall they were 
ordered to Vicksburg, went into winter quar- 
ters and performed camp duty until January, 
when veteranizing took place. Mr. Denniston 
took his furlough home and afterwards rejoin- 
ed his regiment, going to Ackworth to connect 
with Sherman. June 10th the regiment took 
position near Big Shanty in the left of the line 
of battle. On the 19th the skirmishing com- 
menced and they were in the operations 
in the vicinity of Kenesaw Mountain, 
crossing the Chattahoochie and fighting at 
Bald Hill under General Leggett. The 
17th took part in all the afterpart of the 
siege of Atlantii and after the fall of the city 
went to Lovejoy's Station and to Jonesboro. In 
August the command went in pursuit of Hood 
to Snake Creek Gap, and returned to Marietta 
preparatory to the march to the sea. Mr. Den- 
niston was a participant in all the varied ser- 
vice with the column to the siege of Savannah 
which has been recounted a thousand times. 
From Savannah the command went to Beau- 
fort, 8. C, and marched thence to Goldst)oro. 
From there to Raleigh, skirmishing on the 
way, the regiment went to take part in the 
movements until the surrender of Johnston, 
Aj)ril 2G, 18Go, when the march Northward 
began. Going to Richmond and Petersburg 
and thence to camp near Washington, the regi- 
ment was in the Review and went thence to 
Louisville to await the com}iletion of the mus- 
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ing Mr. Denniston went home and returned to 
Louisville the day before the muster out, re- 
turning with the command to Madison to be 
discharged from State service, July 28, 1865. 
At Corinth he was promoted to Cbmmissary 
Sergeant in 18G2, and to Sergeant ^hljor, Dec. 
15, 1862. He was afterwards made Adjutant 
of the regiment to date from April 18, 1865, 
and acted in that capacity prior to date of com- 
mission about a year. 

On returning from the war he went to \Va- 
tertown and engaged in work in a chaii' factory, 
leaving Watertown for La Crosse in 1870, and 
engaged with the Milwaukee and St. Paul 
Railroad corporation, with whom he is still in- 
terested. 

He was married Feb. 29, 1864, at Watertown, 
to Mary E., daughter of Hiram and Melinda 
Harder, and their children are named Florence, 
Paulina, Carrie E., Hattie L, Grace Olive and 
Annie. .James Hiram is deceased. I^r. Den- 
niston is a member of the Knights of Honor 
and a Republican in politics. 



MIABLE DESHAMP, Chippewa Falls, 
Wis., a member of G. A. R. Post JSTo. 
68, was born in September, 1833, in 
Prairie du Chien, the son of Joseph and Louise 
(Lapoint) Deshamp. His father was born in 
Canada and went to Prairie du Chien in the 
earliest days in the history of that location and 
there met and married his wife. He was a 
soldier in 1812 and was at Fort Prairie du Chien 
when it was attacked by the British men-of- 
war, and when the troops and citizens were 
driven to the Iowa side without provisions and 
subsisted on berries and fish caught from the 
river and eaten without salt. Their only vari- 
ation from this food was a little corn which 
they sometimes obtamed. The British held 




tlip place about three months and were driven 
away by the United States troops which ar- 
rived from Mackinac down the Wisconsin 
River and through the Portage. The father 
was a friend and associate of General Taylor 
and he and his wife attended dances at the 
fort. Joseph Deshamp was a farmer and car- 
penter. Their children were Joseph Jr., 
Amiable, Edmond, Frederick and Therese, all 
living in 1890 but the oldest. The father died 
in 1859 at Prairie du Chien and the mother is 
still living on the homestead. 

Mr. Desliamp possesses a roving disposition 
and a desire to see new places, and in his 
youth traveled extensively. He finally settled 
down about two years prior to the war and en- 
gaged in farming until he enlisted and was 
sworn into service March 18, 1865, in Company 
I, 48th Wisconsin Infantry, at Madison. He 
went to Milwaukee, obtained permission to re- 
turn home and attend to business and returned 
to find that his regiment had gone to St. Louis 
and he joined the command at Benton Barracks. 
After three weeks he went to Warrensburg and 
thence to Fort Scott. He performed guard 
duty there and was occasionally sent out on 
scouting expeditions and detached duty to 
Humboldt and elsewhere. In September the 
command was ordered out on the plains and 
stationed at Fort Dodge, the companies being 
variously distributed, Companies I and B being 
assigned to Fort Dodge to keep open the roads, 
and the routes of travel for the trains of Gov- 
ernment and emigrants, free from Indians. 
Sept. 22, 1865, he was made Corporal while on 
the march to the fort. Indians occasionally 
threatened to attack but no great mischief was 
done by them, although they were continually 
prowling about and watching for a chance to 
catch some of the soldiers too far from the fort. 
They remained there through the winter, sub- 
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Deshamp says " were as thick as pigeons in 
spring." In February, 1866, orders were re- 
ceived to go to Fort Leavenworth where the)' 
were aiustered out on tlie 19th. 

Mr. Desliamp returned to Prairie du Chien 
and remained there 11 years engaged in fann- 
ing. He sold his place and started for the 
•South, going to Dallas, Texas. He returned as 
far north as Quincy, 111., went thence on the 
river to New Orleans with the view of working 
on the jetties at the mouth of the I'iver, but 
found the work nearly done and he returned to 
Skipper's Landing on the river and thence to 
Prairie du Chien and Chippewa Falls, where 
he has since remained in the emj)loy of the 
French Lumbering Company, with the excep- 
tion of the time he passed on a trip to the 
Pacific slope, going by way of the Northern 
Pacific to Portland, Oregon, thence by steamer 
to San Francisco, and thence over the Central 
and Uiiion Pacific to Prairie du Chien ; up the 
Mississippi River to St. Paul, thence to Red 
Lake Fulls and to Chippewa Falls, which he 
considers as good a place as any he saw on his 
trip. His brothers, Edmond and Frederick, 
were soldiers in the civil war. In politics he is 
a Republican. 



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AMES FLANAGAN, Milwaukee, Wis., 
was born Aug. 22, 1836, in Massachu- 
setts, and is the son of William and 
Catherine (Duff) Flanagan. His father was a 
native of Ireland and his mother was born in 
Yorkshire, England. The family emigrated to 
Massachusetts in 1829, where the son was born 
and reared until he was 6 years old, when ho 
accompanied his parents to Waukesha Co., 
Wis. He was there brought up on a farm and 
enlisted Nov. 5, 1861. He enrolled in Com- 
pany I, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry, and shared the 



fortunes of his command until he was mustered 
out Dec. 22, 1862, on account of disability. As 
soon as recovered he re-enlisted, enrolling in 
Company I, 39th Wisconsin Infantry, May 30, 
1864. He received honorable discharge with 
a certificate of personal acknowledgment from 
President Lincoln on the expiration of his term. 
After his i-eturn to Wisconsin he entered the 
recruiting service under the Provost Marshal 
and, during the winter of 1864-65 he enlisted 
192 men, securing their enrollment within 
three weeks. On the organization of the 51st 
regiment he was commissioned 1st Lieutenant 
of Company A, and performed military duty 
with that organization until the close of the 
war, receiving his third honorable discharge 
Aug. 22, 1865. 

While a member of the 1st Wisconsin Cav- 
alry Mr. Flanagan was engaged in heavy scout- 
ing in Missouri and was frequently under rebel 
fire in numerous skirmishes. He accompanied 
his command in the raids into Arkansas and 
was in the action at Jonesboro, where his com- 
pany was attacked in tiie court huuse and com- 
pelled to surrender through superior numbers 
of the enemy. Five of Company I were killed 
and three wounded. Sergeant Flanagan lost 
his horse, which was shot under him, and was 
severely injured by a clubbing with a musket 
in the hands of a rebel. He was among the 
captured and, twenty-four hours later, was one 
of eight who escaped, reaching the L'nion lines 
after twenty days' wandering through swamps 
and forests. He was at Memphis with the 39th 
Wisconsin and a.ssisted in the rej)ulse of For- 
rest in his midnight attack on the city. 

Mr. Flanagan returned to Waukesha county, 
where he resumed farming, in which he was 
oecui)ied until 1875 when he removed to Mil- 
waukee. He is engaged in the business of a 
contractor and builder, and is regarded among 
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City. He was married Nov. 30, 1865, to Mary 
E., daughter of Thomas and Maiy Ann (Dow- 
ling) Lambe. Tlieir children included two 
sons, William and Frank J. The older is de- 
ceased. 



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^:^'^^ILLIAM H. THOMAS, Racine, 
Xv^tJ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 17, was born April 3, 1840, 
in Gallipolis, Ohio. His parents, William and 
Frances (Duvall) Thomas, had two children, a 
son and a daughter, the latter being named 
Frances. The family in the paternal line are 
of American l)irth and Welsh lineage. The 
mother was descended from ancestry wholly 
American. His father was a lawyer by pro- 
fession and resigned that business for that of a 
merchant. He was tlie son of William Thomas, 
a soldier of 1812 and who fought in the Mexi- 
can war, the son coming naturally by an in- 
heritance of patriotism which he honored by 
his own career as a soldier. The father was 
born in Gallipolis and died there in 1851, and 
his widow died in the same place the next year. 
The son passed his early life at home obtaining 
such education as he could in the schools of 
that period, and when old enough he learned 
the trade of a blacksmith, serving his appren- 
ticeship in Cleveland, Ohio. When the call for 
troops was made, he was one of the first to re- 
spond and enlisted April 18, 1861, in Huron 
county. He was unable to obtain assignment to 
any regiment, so great was the rush of volunteers 
and, becoming disgusted with the manner in 
which local military affairs seemed to be con- 
ducted, he returned home and went to work. 
But tlie fever of unrest, created by the existing 
condition of public affairs again overcame him 
and, July 18, 1862, found him a soldier in 
Company B, 123d Ohio Infantry. His caj)tain 
was Harris Kellogg and colonel, William T. 



Wilson. His regiment left camp at Monroe- 
ville, Ohio, for Parkersburg, W. Va., and hur- 
ried thence to fight at Antietam, after which 
the command went to the Shenandoah. Mr. 
Thomas fought at Charlestown and was in the 
sharp fight at Winchester fist) during the sec- 
ond invasion of Lee, and afterwards partici- 
pated in the marches, skirmishes and various 
battles which followed. He was in the valley 
through the operations there in 1864 and in 
the last of November after Sheridan's raids and 
fight at Winchester in October, the 123d Ohio 
was transferred to the Army of the James, 
operating with that command until March 27, 
1865, when the regiment was assigned to the 
24th Army Corps, General Ord, General Gibbon 
being division commander. With the Army 
of the Potomac, the regiment took part in the 
operations at Petersburg until the evacuation, 
after which, Mr. Thomas fought in the several 
actions to the date of the surrender at Appo- 
mattox, including Little Sailors' Creek, Hatchers' 
Run and Farmville. The night of April Sth, 
Mr. Thomas was with the 24tli Corps in its 
march around Lee's right flank, cutting him 
off from Lynchburg and on the next morning, 
when Sheridan was attacked by Gordon, 
prefacing Lee's last attempt to escape, that 
ofKcer planted his command across the intended 
path of Lee, who ordered a charge, but when 
the Union cavalry moved aside the 24th C^rps 
was there in solid lines, and Lee made haste to 
avail himself of the terms of Grant. After the 
termination of hostilities in Virginia the regi- 
ment was assigned to the 2d Division and 25th 
Corps to go to Texas in pursuit of Kirby Smith, 
landing at Point Isabel and proceeding up the 
coast to Brazos Santiago and up the Rio Grande. 
During the last part of his service, Mr. Thomas 
was detailed in the quarterma-ster's department 
where he operated until his discharge Oct. 25, 
1865, and he was finally mustered out Nov. 



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25tli following at Camp Cadwallader, Phila- 
delphia. In November, 1862, at Clarksburg, 
he was promoted to Corporal, was made Ser- 
geant ill July, 1SG3, at iMurtinsbiirg, and at 
New Market Heights in front of Richmond, for 
distinguished bravery on tlie field, he was pro- 
moted to Second Lieutenant. 

After his return to Ohio he engaged in car- 
riage blacksniithing and in March, 18G7, went 
to Winona, Minn. After a year he went to 
La Crosse and thence after two years to Rock- 
ford, 111. He went two years later to Chicago 
and six inonthsafterwards to Milwaukee, where 
he lived 10 years when he removed to Racine. 
He was married Aug. 20, 1868, at Sparta, Wis., 
to Ellen, daughter of William H., and Servena 
(Clarke) Brooks. Their children, six in num- 
ber, were named William B., George H., Clara 
Edwin, Albert E. and Frank. William is not 
living. Mr. Thomas was one of tlie first mem- 
bers of the G. A. R., which he joined in 1867 
in Norwalk, Ohio. He was a charter member 
of Post No. 4 at Winona and he joined Gov- 
ernor Harvey Post at Racine in 1883. He has 
served in several official positions. 

/^^ EORGE J. VANDERPOOL, Wau- 
1 ?.,^ j l^ kesha. Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
^~---^ No. 1!), was born in Albany county. 
New York, March 12, 1831, and is the son of 
William and Lovina (VaiiBenschoten) Vandei- 
pool. In both lines of descent he represents 
the class known as tiie Knickerbockers of tlie 
Empire State, some of whom were in the war 
of J 812, being a lineal descendant of some of 
the most prominent names which are iiientilied 
witii the history of Fort Orange, as Albany was 
formerly called. He remained in his native 
county until he was 16, when his father re- 
moved his interests to Wisconsin, locating on a 



farm in the town of Vernon, Waukesha county, 
where he became identified with the clearing 
and settling of three farms. His father had 
become blind and the domestic responsibility 
resting on him, he found it impossible to fulfill 
his desire to enter the army until the war was 
somewhat advanced. Aug. 15, 1862, he en- 
listed and was assigned to Company B, 28th 
Wisconsin Infantry, and rendezvoused at Camp 
Washburn, Milwaukee. After performing duty 
for the State in suppression of the draft riots, 
he accompanied the regiment from Wisconsin, 
December 20th, going successively to Colum- 
bus, Union City, Helena, to the expedition up 
the White River, the Yazoo Pass expedition 
and the operations in the vicinity of Mobile in 
Alabama and to Texas. On Christmas morn- 
ing, 1862, orders were issued to form line of 
battle in anticij)ation of a fight with Bragg ami 
every man was set to work building a breast- 
work. The tools available consisted of tin cups 
and a few shovels and in an hour the work was 
(lone, eliciting the compliments of Major ( Jray 
in the words "Boys, that beats the 4tli Wiscon- 
sin all liollow." In the expedition down the 
Mississippi, the work of skirmishing was lively 
and they captured a piece of artillery. They 
held St. Charles on the White River during 
the taking of Arkansas Post and destroyed a 
portion of the railroad, making the exj)e<lition 
a complete success. After returning to Helena 
they participated in the memorable fight there 
and afterwards went on the Yazoo expedition 
on which their sufferings and privations were 
severe. They returned to Helena, remaining 
until August, 1863, when they went to Little 
Rock and thence to Pine Bluff, where they re- 
mained employed in building fortifications and 
repulsing the rebels. Much heavy marching 
was accomi)lished, and in the first months of 
1865 they moved to Little Rock. Orders were 
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ceeding thence to Mobile Bay, tliey were as- 
signed to tlie 3d Brigade, 3d Division and lotli 
Army Corps. Tiiey were at Fort Morgan in 
Mobile Bay until March 17, 1S65, when they 
went to aid in the investment of Spanish Fort. 
They arrived there and took position March 
27th and were under constant fire 13 days. 
Wlien the fort capitulated they went on the 
double quick to find tluit FortBlakely had been 
United States property only a brief time. 
They went next to Mobile, Ala., and after the 
rebels had surrendered the gunboats and otiier 
property incident to carrying on warfare, they 
went on the captured boats to Mobile, went 
next to Brazos de Santiago and afterwards to 
Brownsville, Texas, where they remained from 
.July until August 23d, when they were mus- 
tered out. 

Mr. \'^anderpool returned to Wisconsin, where 
he has since operated as a farmer with success. 
He has taken a prominent part in Ihe adminis- 
tration of local affairs, has served his town- 
ship as Supervisor and has been Deputy Sheriff 
of the county. He was married Nov. 25, ]So5, 
to Catherine Van Buren and they have had 
several children of whom one is deceased. 
Byron V., Leslie W., Linden K., Lillie May and 
George G. are living. Lauren died at the age 
of 10 years. Mrs. Vanderpool belongs to a 
branch of the family from which President 
Yan Buren sprang and her father fought in 
1812. Her relatives, William Shaw and John 
Howe, were soldiers in the late war. 



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T^pRANK D. BURDETT, La Crosse, Wis., 
T^^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
■J^ born Feb. 20, 1846, in Windham Co., 

N'ermont, and his parents, Francis A. and Jean- 
nette (Mack) Burdett, represented two families 
of early Eastern stock. In the maternal line 



they date to the families of Gibson and Kellogg 
of England. Both father and mother were 
natives of Windham county, where the son was 
born, and the father was a hotel keeper and 
drover. In 1854 the family became incorpor- 

j ated with the West, locating at Lodi, VViscon-. 

' sin, and the parents resided there four years, 
on a farm. The senior Burdett went thence 
to Lake C'ity, Minn., where he engaged in the 
grain trade and died there March 16, 1886. 
His widow is still living at Lake Cit}', Minn. 
Three children were born to them of whom Mr. 

I Burdett is the oldest. Sarah A. was born Feb. 
2, 1852, and Flora E. is the wife of J. Ford of 
Detroit. The son passed hisj^outh in the com- 

: mon schools and, as soon as the war broke 
out tried to enlist but was tlirown out every 
time on account of his youth. Finally, he went 
to St. Paul, Minnesota, on his own account with 
a regiment and took a hand in the suppression 
oi the Indian outbreaks, fighting redskins at 
Birch Cooley in September, 1862. He found 
his time fully occupied in skirmishing and 
scouting and, finally was permitted to enlist, 
being mustered into service in December, 1863, 
at Fort Snelling in Company A, 6th Minnesota 
Infantry. In the spring of 1864 the regiment 
was ordered to Helena, Ark., and after a month 
there went to Napoleon, remaining there 
through the summer. During that period Mr. 
Burdett was taken sick and sent back to Jeffer- 
son Barracks, at St. Louis, where he remained 
until he received a furlough, his father going 
after him. His leave of absence was renewed 
and he finally received discharge at Fort Snell- 
ing in January, 1865, for disability. 

In December, 1864, he went to Lake City and 
engaged in the grain business with his father 
until 1874. In that year he removed to La 
Crosse which has since been his j)lace of abode. 
He is in the employ of John Paul, a lumber 
manufacturer, as filer and scaler. 



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He was married at Wabasba, Minn., Aug. 4, 
1864, to Mary, daughter of William Conway, 
of Lake City. Two children — Laura and Lelia — 
were born of thi.s marriage. His wife died in 
December, 1882. He was again married at 
Meridian July 4, 1885, to Hattie F., daughter 
of Stephen and Elizabeth Fitch, and they have 
had one child named Frank S. 

He is a Repuljlican in politics, made such by 
the issue growing out of the opposition to the 
Bennett law. 

-^^^if^IIOMAS CLARK, Milwaukee, Wis., 
meniher of E. P>. Wolcott Post No. 1, 
G. A. R., was born at La Prairie, 
Canada, Nov. 15 1833. His fatlierand mother, 
James and Ellen (Plunkett) Clark, were born 
in Ireland and came to America about 1830. 
The father was killed by a premature exj)losion 
of a blast in a stone quarry and the mother 
died in Milwaukee, Dec. 5, 1879. Tlieir family 
included five children ; Patrick enlisted in the 
Mexican War and died on the Gulf of Mexico 
of yellow fever on his way home ; John was in 
the 2d Wi?consin Battery in the rebellion, and 
re-enlisted in the regular ai'oiv after the close 
of the war, in 1806; Mary died at sea ; Ann re- 
sides in California. 

The parents removed from Canada to Rome, 
New York, and after becoming a wiilow the 
mother went to Milwaukee when her son was 
about six years old. Tbat city was his place 
of educational training and business until he 
entered the regular service of the United States. 
He enlisted April 21, 1858, at Milwaukee, went 
to Jefferson Harracks near St. Louis, and, after 
drilling there a month went to Leavenwortii in 
May and started for Camp Floyd, Utah, May 
25th,. arriving October loth. Mr. Chirk was 
assigned to Company H, 5th U. S. Infantry 
and remained tliere until May, 1860, engaged 



in the labor common to garrison duty in time 
of peace. In that month orders were received 
to proceed to Albuquerque, N. M., and Com- 
pany II started with 60 pack mules, got lost in 
the mountains in transit over an unknown 
route, but finally reached their destination, 
after a severe experience, in July. A montli 
later. Company H, with three other companies 
of the regiments went to Bear Springs, N. M., 
afterwards Fort Faunlleroj' and built a stock- 
ade post of protection against the Indians. 
Three months later Company H went to Fort 
Defiance and stayed therefrom December, 1860, 
to the following spring, under command of Cap- 
tain Whiteall, in the connnand of General 
Canby and at times engaged in expeditions 
against the Navajoe Indians. The next re- 
move was to Albuquerque and to Santa Fe 
where Mr. C'lark was attached to Company E, 
Company H having been, for a time disbanded, 
and he was sent to Los Pinos to join that or- 
ganization. He went thence to Fort Wingate, 
where he acted as Sergeant Major of that post 
until ordered to Fort Union, N. M., to instruct 
Mexican militia. March 28, 1862, he was in 
the fight at Apache Canon or Pigeon's Ranch 
against the Texans under the renegade Gen- 
eral Sibley, in which 100 prisoners were taken 
and the wagon trains of the rebels destro3'ed. 
The enemy penetrateil down the Rio Grande 
River and were pursued a ilay's march l)elow 
Fort Craig, (which was for some time head- 
quarters) wliere tbey took to the mountains, 
the regulars in hot pursuit. Mr. Clark went 
next to Los Pinos and was discharged to re-en- 
list March 1, 1863, in the same company and 
regiment. He was made Duty Sergeant and 
went tiience to Sant^i Fe to relieve tlie provost 
sergeant at headquarters of his regiment, after 
fighting at Peralto, N. M., April 15th. The 
regiment went from there to Fort Bliss, Texas, 
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at Franklin, Texas. He aided in rebuilding 
Fort Bliss which had been destroyed by the 
rebels and, in 1865, after being transferred to 
Coiujiany K, went up the river Kio Grande to 
Albuquerque, N. M. He was promoted to 1st 
Sergeant and served there until August, 1867. 
Thence he went to Fort Union, whence his reg- 
iment was ordered to concentrate and marcli to 
Kansas. His company was detailed at Fort 
Union to escort General Marcy, Inspector Gen- 
eral, to Fort Harker and engaged in a fight 
with Indians at Ginieron Crossing of the Ar- 
kansas River in wliich one private was killed 
and the 1st Lieutenant lost a leg. He went 
next to Fort Dodge and Kansas to escort the 
commissioners sent by the Government to 
Medicine Lodge to negotiate peace with the 
redskins, of whom there were 1,100 in sight. 
About 300 wagon loads of goods and 400 head 
of cattle were taken out for tlie Indians and a 
week later the escort returned to Fort Harker. 
Mr. Clark was made Quartermaster's Sergeant 
of his regiment, Nov. 11, 1867, went to Fort 
Hayes, Kansas, and was promoted to Sergeant 
Major, Dec. 11, 1868. In 1869 he returned to 
Fort Harker and in 1871, headquarters of the 
regiment were transferred to Fort Leavenworth, 
then Department Headquarters under General 
Pope with Colonel Miles in command of the 
regiment. In 1872 Mr. Clark was appointed 
Ordnance Sergeant, his papers dating in May. 
He went thence to Fort Duncan, Texas, where 
he remained until April 9, 1877, when he was 
discharged on his own request under Special 
Order No. 65, Headquarters of the Army, 
Washington, D. C, dated March 28, 1877. He 
is in possession of the testimonials of his cap- 
tain, D. H. Brothertown, and of General Miles, 
for character, trustworthiness and competency 
and they are papers which will be treasured by 
his descendants. General Miles wished to rec- 
ODQiaend him for a commission as Lieutenant 



but Mr. Clark demurred at further recognition 
of his services and merits. 

He returned after discharge to Milwaukee, 
obtained a position on the police force and 
served three years, resigning on account of an 
injury to his ankle which disabled him nine 
months. When able, he engaged in his pres- 
ent occupation (1890) as night watchman at 
the Plankinton House. He was married Jan. 
9, 1870, at Fort Harker, Kansas. 



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Bridge, Rensselaer Co., New York. He is de- 
scended from the old Holland Knickerbocker 
stock whicli .settled so large a portion of the 
Empire State and dates to that period. The 
great grandfather married Catherine Knicker- 
bocker and his son Dedrick married Maria 
Knickerbocker. The latter fought in the Revo- 
lution and was killed and scalped by the In- 
dians at Scliaghticoke, New York. The bullet 
passed through his tobacco box which is in the 
possession of his grandson who relates the 
story. The family were connected with Aneke 
Jans, who was the original owner of the estates 
in the center of New York, including the 
Trinity Church property. Oliver Thayer, the 
maternal great grandfather of Mr. Van Vechten, 
was one of the Boston tea jtarty. His son, 
Oliver Thayer, Jr., fought in 1812. He was 
born Aug. 26, 1784, and died Feb. 15, 1876, and 
he was a schoolmate of Governor Marcy. Cor- 
nelius and Caroline (Thayer) Van Vechten 
were the parents of two sons and four daughters 
— Henry, Helen F., Martha A., Eveline, Julia 
and Don. The last named is not living. Mr. 
Van Vechten of this sketch passed his early 
life on the farm and he attended the public 
schools up to the time he became a soldier. 



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July 28, 1862, he enlisted at Troy, New York, I 
ill Troop M, 1st Regiment New York Mounted 
Rifles, under Colonel C. C. Dodge. The com- 
mand went from New York to take part in the 
operations on the Eastern field and our soldier 
was first in action at the siege of Suffolk, where 
he fought against Longstreet. After a service 
there of three weeks the regiment entered upon 
a series of raids and scouting expeditions to 
which little justice can be done in a limited 
sketch. In July, 1863, it was connected witli 
the Tarboro raid into North Carolina where it 
performed efltective service in the work of de- 
struction on the Weldon railroad and in other 
localities. After the termination of that move- 
ment tbe command took position in front of 
Petersburg and was in the noted actions in- 
cluding operations from June ISth to tbe 22d 
(1864). July 21.><t tbe regiment was consoli- 
dated with the 3d New York Cavalry, called 
afterwards the 4th Provisional Cavalry, com- 
manded by Colonel E. B. Sunnier. In Septem- 
ber the command crossed the James and on 
the 28th took a position in front of Richmond 
where they could look into ibe city. They 
were engaged in severe skirniisiiing in connec- 
tion with otlier regiments and performed picket 
duty near Richmond until October 7th when 
they were in the fight at Johnston's Farm on 
the north side of the James. There they dis- 
mounted to make a feint as infantry when they 
lost a portion of their horses. They were in 
the fight at Charles City Cross Roads and from 
December were at Norfolk and Suffolk, where 
they performed duty until the approach of the 
termination of the war, when they participated 
in several actions and were mustered out June 
12, 1865, at Richmond, Va. 

Mr. Van Vechten went West within tliat 
year, locating at Racine, where he engaged as 
traveling .salesman with the Blake & Bcebe 
Fanning Mill Company four years and has since 



been in the same capacity with the Racine 
Hardware Company. He was married Nov. 5, 
1857, to Sarah J., daughter of James and Mar- 
garet Calary, who died May 18th, 1880. Four 
children were born to them named Charles H., 
Frank D., George and Florence. Charles is 
not living. Mr. Van Vechten was again mar- 
ried Feb. 26, 1887, to Louisa Stoker. 

^ EROME E. PARKER, La Crosse, Wis., 
Sl • member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
^— ^ born in Troy, New York, September 22, 
1841. His father, Edward S. Parker, was born 
Feb. 16, 1819, and passed the greater portion of 
his life in agriculture. He traced his descent 
to Puritan stock and married Sarah Maria Mil- 
ler, a native of America, born of Scotch ancestry, 
in May, 1824, at Mechanicsville, New York. 
The senior Parker traveled to the West with his 
family on the lakes in 1846 and remained in 
Milwaukee until 1848, when he took posses- 
sion of a farm in Dane, Dane county, which he 
conducted a few years and removed to Clifton. 
In 1860 he resumed farming on bis jilace and in 
1866 traded it for a hotel at Black Earth, which 
he managed until about 1870. Subsequently he 
bought a home in Florida to which he removed 
witii his wife and died March 8, 1888 at Plant 
City. His wife still lives at Orlando, Florida. 
When the son was 15 years old he engaged 
with a surveying party in Wisconsin ami after 
passing two years in that occujiation, he 
resumed his educational course, in which he 
was occupied when he resolved to enlist, which 
he did Sept. 18, 1861, at Prairie du Sac, Wis., 
in the 6tli Wisconsin Light Artillery, Captain 
Henry Dillon. March 15, 1862, he left Camp 
Utley, Racine, for the front and received orders 
at St. Louis for New Madrid, Mo., and arrived 
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fenses and drilled as heavy artillery until 
ordered to Corinth to erect fortifications and 
hold tlie position. The battery was vinder 
fire in the siege of Corinth and in tlie 
battle there. Mr. Parker was in the figliting 
of October 3d and 4th in the extreme rigiit 
and the battery being supported by the 80th 
Oiiio. A brigade of Price attacked, drove 
the regiment back and took the guns of 
the battery, the command losing six killed and 
21 wounded. The 10th Iowa charged and 
retook the guns, driving Price, and the rebel 
was pursued a short distance, after which the 
command returned to Corinth. The disaster at 
Holly Springs ended the plans of the campaign 
and the battery went to Buntyn Station and 
performed military duty until March, 1863, 
when it was ordered to Memphis and Holly 
Springs and destroyed railroads and other 
property in Grant's first movement on Vicks- 
burg. Returning to Vicksburg, the battery 
went next on the Yazoo expedition, going soon 
after to Milliken's Bend and thence to Bruins- 
burg. After the fight at Port Gibson, the 
battery pursued the rebels to .Jones' Cross 
Roads and fought there, and also at .Jack- 
sou and Champion's Hill, after which tlie 
command went into the trenches at Vicks- 
burg and was constantly under fire until the 
capitulation, attached to the 17th Army Corps. 
The brigade was transferred to the 15th Corps 
(Sherman's), afterwards engaged in a march of 
240 miles to the Chattanooga and the battery 
was next in the fight at Mission Ridge and in 
the pursuit towards Ringgold. They returned 
to Chattanooga and went thence to Bridge- 
port and Larkinsville and eventually to 
Huntsville, marching thither on Christmas 
day and appropriating some dres.sed veal 
which was protected by a flag marked " small 
pox." Mr. Parker re-enlisted Feb. 17, 1864, 
took his furlough in March and rejoined the 



battery at Huntsville. The command went in 
the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 15th Corps 
under J. E. Smith to the Etowah River and 
guarded bridges until November, when they 
went to Cartersville, having received new 
equipments and moved thence to Nashville 
where they were stationed at Fort Gillem until 
the flight of Hood. Here Mr. Parker was 
taken sick and went to the hospital, when his 
father was sent for to take him home. As 
soon as he recovered he rejoined his command 
at Chattanooga about tlie middle of May and 
lemained there until the close of the war. Mr. 
Parker was mustered out July 18, 1865, at 
Madison, Wis. 

He resumed his studied at Madison which he 
continued for two years, his health being too 
poor for any effort in the way of labor. Both 
asthma and chronic bowel complaint recurred 
at intervals for a long time. In 1870 he went 
to La Crosse, where he engaged in clerking in 
the pension office until it was transferred to 
Milwaukee. In 1872 he was appointed Deputy 
Collector of Internal Revenue until he fell into 
" innocuous desuetude " through Grover Cleve- 
land having the same disease in an aggravated 
form, and the Government as represented by 
that individual dispensed with the services of 
Mr. Parker in October, 1885. He passed the 
following winter in Florida and in the spring 
engaged in the jewelry business at La Cro.sse, 
prosecuting his interests in that direction two 
years. In the spring of 1889 he was elected 
Commissioner of the Board of Public Works on 
the Republican ticket. He was married Dec. 
26, 1866, in 'Dane county to L. Alice, daughter 
of Thomas B. and Elsie VV. (Mack) Worth ing- 
ton. Their children are named Edward W. 
and Addie F. Mr. Parker is a member of the 
Masonic Order. He has a pension. 



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in 



Milwaukee, Wis., a 
A. R. Post No. 1 , E. 
was born Sept. 7, 1840, 
Bavariii, Germany. He remained in liis 
native land until the age of 12 years, when his 
parents, Joim Engelhart and Catherine (Diel- 
mann) Fink, transferred their familj'^ and in- 
terests to America, reaching this country in 
1852 and locating on a farm in Oak Creek, 
Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin, and since that date 
Mr. Fink has been connected with the history 
of that locality. The father died Jan. 8, 1880, 
on the homestead ; the death of the motlier 
took place Feb. 9, 1864, while her son was a 
soldier. The household included seven chil- 
dren of whom Mr. Fink is second in order of 
birth. His brothers and sisters were named 
Mary, Engelhart, Jacob, Simon, Helena and 
Louise. Engelhart and Helena are not living. 
The former was a soldier in the 5th Wisconsin 
Infantry, was killed in the battle of the Wilder- 
ness and buried on the field. 

After coming to America, young Fink was 
occupied on the farm until the age of 20, when he 
obtained a position as clerk in a store in Milwau- 
kee. Aug. 17, 1862, when the war exitement was 
at its crisis in Milwaukee he enlisted, enrolling 
in Company B, 26th Wisconsin Infantry. 
With the regiment, he left the State for active 
scenes of war Oct. 5th following his enlistment, 
a member of one of the finest commands sent 
out by the Badger State. The regiment 
camped at Fairfax C. H., and was assigned to 
the 3d Brigade, 3d Division and 11th Corps. 
Ml". Fink was in the expedition to Thorough- 
fare Gap, New Baltimore and Warrenton, starts 
ing for . the field of Falmouth opposite 
Fredericksburg, preparatory to assisting Burn- 
side, and found that general just withdrawing 
his forces. He was in camp at Stafford C. II., 
through the winter until he had the delight 
and satisfaction of " sticking in the mud " in 



Burnside's second campaign, with the rest, 
after wliicl; he performed mijitary duty in 
«vmp until the movement in the spring. On 
the 27th of April, with his command, he moved 
to the Rappahannock to partici])ate in one of 
the most terrific battles of the war, in which 
the North was practically whipped, oidy the 
South did not know it. The story of the cross- 
ings of the Rappahannock will never be fully 
told. One captain told the writer that, if liis 
men had crossed under the order issued, two- 
thirds would have been drowned. But the 
troops pressed on over the river, crossed the 
Rapidan and marched to Chancellorsville. 
[ The 26th Wisconsin took its position for one of 
I the hottest fights of the campaign on the ex- 
treme right. On the 2d day of May, 1863, in 
the onslaught of the rebels on the position of 
the 26th, Mr. Fink was wounded, a musket ball 
' hitting him in the right arm, wholly disabling 
it. He was conveyed to the hospital at Fal- 
mouth, his wound was dressed and, latei-, he 
was transferred to Washington to Judiciary 
Square hospital. June 26tii, he was sent to 
Fort Schuyler, New York, and in November, to 
David's Island. .Ian. 7, 1864, he obtained a 
tjansfer to Harvey hospital at Madison, Wis., 
and about the middle of March, 1864, was 
mustered into the Invalid Corps, stationed at 
Madison, in wiiich service he remained until 
discharged Mav 10th following. 

He returned to Milwaukee and engaged in 
the business of a commercial traveler for three 
years. In 1867 he opened business on liis own 
account as a dealer in wool, hides and furs. He 
pressed his interests in these avenues until 
1878, when he spld and began to o]ierate in 
lands. Ho is also interested in the manufacture 
of machinery, being a member of the ^^'ilkin 
Manufacturing Companj'. 

Mr. Fink has been active in the duties of his 
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County Board of Supervisors in 1870-1-2-3 
and lias been two terms a member of tbe Wis- 
consin Legislature, serving in 1876-7. In tbe 
last named year he was made United States 
Marshal, holding the position through the ad- 
ministrations of Hayes, Garfield and Arthur 
and until May 10, 1885. June 13, 1889, he 
was appointed Collector of Internal Revenue 
for the 1st District of Wisconsin, which position 
he still occupies. He is a decided Republican 
in political faith. 

Mr. Fink was married May 13, 1866, to 
Catherine Streiff at Milwaukee and their chil- 
dren are named Albert, Edward and Emma. 
The mother died Jan. 6, 1883, and Mr. Fink 
was again married, Sept. 12, 1883, to Rosa 
Blankenborn at Milwaukee. 






|jryiJ^ILLIAM H. VAN WIE, Mauston, 

' Wm ^^^■' "^«""'^«^i" of Gt. A; R. Post 
S^^ No. 59, was born July 24, 1837, 
in Cayuga Co., New York. In the paternal 
line of descent he is of Holland Dutch origin, 
liis grandparents Van Wie having been natives 
of that country and in the maternal line he is 
of direct Holland ancestry, his mother having 
been born in Holland. His father, Andrew 
Van Wie, married Eliza Cushman, who with 
her brother came to America alone, being or- 
phans. She died in 1858. The father is still 
living at Kilbourn City, and was born in 1816. 
Of the 10 children, of whom Mr. Van Wie is 
one, two are deceased. Edward, William, 
Daniel, David C, John A., Devillow, Adelj)hia, 
Mary E., Helen and Isadore, are their names in 
order of birth. Daniel and Devillow are de- 
ceased. Mr. Van Wie can give a fraternal 
record of which Wisconsin ought to be proud, 
himself and three brothers being soldiers in 
the civil war. David enlisted in the 16th Wis- 



consin, Jan. 21, 1862, served until after tbe 
battle of Shiloh and wiis discharged in July for 
disability ; he afterwards enlisted in Company 
K, 6th Wisconsin Infantry, and completed his 
term. John was a soldier in the 8tli Kansas 
Infantr}', Devillow was the youngest son and 
enlisted in the 19th Wisconsin Infantry, Com- 
pany E, and was taken prisoner at Fair Oaks, 
Oct. 27, 1864. He enrolled March 8, 1862, had 
veteranized and, while leading his company, 
the officers being disabled, the color sergeant 
was shot, but he seized the |lag and followed 
his command up to the fort. He was captured, 
taken to Libljy prison and held until he was 
starved nearly to death. Tardy release came 
and unconscious and dying he was taken to his 
home at White Creek, where he died of rebel 
atrocities five days after arrival, April 4, 1865, 
never recovering consciousness fully. (And 
strangers stop to drop a tear over the extinguish- 
ment of a noble life). James Van Wie, his 
cousin, enlisted the same day and was shot to 
death at Fair Oaks. The fourth brother of 
Mr. Van Wie could not enlist, being blind. 

The parents of Mr. Van Wie removed from 
the State of New York to Marshal, Micbigan, 
in 1845 and in 1852 located in Wisconsin. The 
portion of Mauston where they fixed a resi- 
dence is now in Adams county. They were 
farmers and the sons were trained in that call- 
ing, Mr. Van Wie obtaining such education as 
tlie common schools afforded. He also engaged 
in the lumber business in which he was occu- 
pied several years prior to entering the array. 
He was early to enlist when Wisconsin sum- 
moned her sons and enrolled under the second 
call, June 23, 1861, in Company K, 6th Wis- 
consin Infantry. He was mustered at Madison 
and went to the front soon after that ceremony, 
which occurred July 16tli. The regiment 
passed the winter of 1861-2 in the defenses of 
Washington and performed drill and camp 



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duty at Arlington Heights. In the spring of 
1862, orders were received to move to the 
Manassas campaign (wliich came to naught) 
and after the march, the reginaent went back 
to quarters. Mr. \'an Wie was next in the 
Rappaiiannock campaign near Fredericksburg 
under McDowell, Colonel Cutler of the 6th Wis- 
consin having become brigade commander. 
He experienced the deliglits of Pope's retreat 
from the Rapidan and was first in action at 
Cedar Mountain. He again fought in a slight 
action at White Sulpliur Springs and went to 
another Rappahannock cani))aign. He fought 
at bloody Gainesville, the 2d Bull Run, and 
was with his regiment in the movements after 
Lee in Maryland. He was in the two sharp 
actions at South Mountain and Antietam after 
having skirmished continuallj' previously, was 
again in the charge at Fitzhugh's Crossing, 
at Chancel lorsville, Brandy Station and Gettys- 
burg. He was shot at Gettysburg and Sergeant 
Van Wie was mentioned in the dispatches as 
wounded. He was in field hospital four days, 
badly wounded in the right knee, but he was 
"on deck" within a week and with his regi- 
ment. " Not one in a hundred would have kept 
up" was the universal verdict, but he did it. 
He was in the action known as the Haymarket 
fight and at Mine Run ; in December he vet- 
eranized at Culpeper, Va., and in the spring 
went wilii his regiment to the campaign of the 
Wilderness, fighting at Spottsylvania, Laurel 
Hill, .Jericho Ford, North Anna, Bethesda 
Church, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, first and sec- 
ond Weldon railroad raids. Hatcher's Run, 
first and second Gravelly Run and Five Forks. 
He was in the pursuit after the rebels and went 
to the finish at Api)omattox C. H. June 16th, 
he was among those transferred to the Army of 
the Tennessee under Logan at Louisville, 
formed into a Provisional Brigade expecting to 
go to Soutiiern service, but was mustered out 



at JefiFersonville, Ind., July 14th. He received 
final discharge from military obligations to 
State and Nation July 28th. His record is 
splendid ; he enlisted as a private and acted as 
Duty Sergeant to the date of the fighting at 
Petersburg, in June, when he received a commis- 
sion as 1st Lieutenant of his company, dating 
from Feb. 28, 1864. With the exception of 
the wound mentioned, he was not injured, but 
was sick at Fairfax Seminary hospital with 
typhoid fever. 

After the war he returned to Mauston and 
engaged in the business of a liveryman for 
some time. During 10 years he engaged in 
mercantile operations which caused impaired 
healtli and he afterwards interested himself in 
lumbering, in which he is still occupied. He 
is also operating as a real estate and loan agent. 
Mr. Van Wie is a charter member of his 
Post and also belongs to Northern Light Lodge, 
A. F. & A. M. He is a Democrat in jwlitics. 

He was married Dec. 27, 1865, at Friend- 
ship, Adams county, to Dell, daughter of 
Alonzo and Mary A. (Church) Avery. Four of 
their children are living. Mary is the wife of 
Geo. H. Hale of St. Paul. Fred is a telegraph 
operator at Spokane Falls, Wash.; Will and 
Edd are students at school. Dell died when 
10 years old ; " Baby Dell," as she was known 
to all Mauston, was killed by an accident in the 
machinery department at a fair at Mauston. 

ENRY H. POWERS, Black River 
Falls, Wis., member of (J. A. R. Post 
No. 92, was born June 15, 1848, in 
Sherl)rook, Canada. Simon, his father, and 
Simon, his grandfather, were natives of New 
Hampshire, and the mother, Elizabeth James 
before marriage, was born in Wales. In the 
paternal line the descent is from Ireland, 
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the Revolution and the great grandfather of 
Mr. Powers was a Revolutionary soldier. The 
latter is one of seven children of his parents, 
named Henry H., Harriet, Charles, Herbert, 
Catherine, Cornelia and Samuel, all still sur- 
viving in 1S90, except Catherine. In 1853 the 
family located in Walworth Co., Wis., and the 
parents both died in La Crosse, respectively in 
1886 and 1884. The oldest son, Henry, ob- j 
tained his education in the common schools 
and in the High School at Galesville, Wis. 
When he was 16 years old he enlisted at La j 
Crosse, Aug. 31, 1864, and was mustered into ! 
Company K, 2d Wisconsin Cavalry and joined 
his regiment as a recruit in front of Vicksburg. 
The regiment was attached to Grierson's com- 
mand and raided and scouted under him in 
Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas, also de- 
stroying property, burning bridges, tearing up 
railroads and in other cavalry service incident 
to the situation. During this period the regi- 
ment was in the fight at Egypt and aided in 
capturing seven hundred prisoners. They 
were also in the fight near Yazoo City under 
J,he command of Osborn, and returned from 
the raid, having been driven back by the 
superior force of Forrest to the Yazoo River, 
and from there to the mouth of the Sunflower 
where they had the protection of the gunboats. 
In the winter of 1864-5 the command left the 
Mississippi River at Gaines' Landing and struck 
oft' south through the State. They went to 
Arkansas and destroyed supplies, with large 
amounts of cotton, and broke up rebel recruit- 
ing stations. They returned to Memphis and 
operated in that section of country until the 
close of the war. 

Later the regiment went to Grenada, Miss., 
and there Mr. Powers was detailed as clerk in 
the Commissary Department; prior to this he 
acted as Orderly to General Schenck. While 
there he was discharged under an order calling 



for the discbarge of those whose time had ex- 
pired prior to a certain date, and he was 
mustered out June 14, 1865, at Memphis. 

He returned home while liis regiment went 
to Texas, a proceeding that greatly disgusted 
him. He attended school for a time and after- 
wards engaged in teaciiing and also in explo- 
ring. He continued teaching until about 1875, 
and has since operated in exploring and in the 
lumber business. He belongs to the Knights 
of Pythias and in politics is a Republican of 
decided stamp, always " voting as he shot." 
He is in comfortable circumstances and has a 
pleasant family ; his wife was Miss Rlioda A., 
daughter of .James L. and Susanna (Beavers) 
Hutchins, and their children were Herbert, 
Lottie, Price and Laura ; the two oldest are not 




BR AH AM GUNN, La Crosse, Wi.s., 

^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 

born Oct. 16, 1846, at Mineral Point, 

Wis., and he is the son of and Sophia 

(Blayler) Gunn. His father was born in Scot- 
land and came with his parents to Hartford, 
Conn., where he was reared ; he died in Cali- 
fornia and his wife is still living in Galena, 111. 
Their children were named Rebecca, Elizabeth, 
Abraham and Samuel. The oldest daughter 
married William Allendorf of Galena ; her sis- 
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson, lives in Chicago. 
When the son was in childhood the faiuily re- 
moved to Galena where he learned the trade of 
a carpenter, in which he was occupied until 
1861, when he made an effort to enlist in the 
45th Illinois Infantry, known as the "lead 
mine" regiment. He was only 14 years old 
and could not enlist regularly, but engaged as 
a waiter and went out in charge of Captain H. 
L. Fisk of Company E. Frona camp of rendez- 



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vous at Chicago — Camp Douglas — he accom- 
panied the command to the seat of war on the 
Tennessee River and he was a participant in 
the operations at Fort Henry and Donelson, 
after which he was taken sick and sent to the 
hospital at Cairo, being discharged in abont a 
month. He tlien engaged in the government 
service, doing blacksmith work on the black- 
smith boat Swallow, which was detailed to 
operate in that line of business on tlie gun- 
boats and transports on the river between Fort 
Pillow and Memphis. He participated in that 
business returning later to Galena. He then 
entered Government service as a teamster and 
went to Rolla, Mo., in the spring of 1863. He 
had become old enough for a soldier and en- 
listed at Rolla, April 1, 1803, and was mustered 
at St. Louis into Company E, 11th Missouri 
Cavalry. He was in cavalry service against 
the bushwhackers in Missouri with Sedalia as 
headquarters, crossing the State and going 
finally to Fort Scott, Kansas. He was in 
the pursuit of Quanlrell ami his guerrillas 
and went back to Missouri to follow up Price. 
He was in winter quarters at Springfield 
Mo., and in the spring, attached to tiie 3d 
Brigade, 2d Division and 7th Army Corps, 
under General Steele, went southward, skir- 
mishing and fighting, to Brownsville and 
thence to Little Rock. He was attached to an 
expedition to Duvall's Bluff and was wounded 
in the fight at Ashley Station, Aug. 24, 1864. 
He was injured in the thigh and taken to a 
liospital, but refused to remain there as there 
was small-pox in the hospital, and he crawled 
on his hands and knees to his tent. He was 
sick eight months, but recovered in time to 
start on the Red River expedition with his 
regiment, which did not connect therewith and 
he remained at New Orleans until mustered 
out, Aug. 9, 1865, going to St. Louis to be paid 
and to receive final discharge. He had been 



made Corporal, Sept. 4, 1864, and promoted to 
Sergeant, June 23, 1865. 

He returned to Galena and obtained a situa- 
tion on the Illinois Central Railroad which he 
filled until 1871, when he went to Texas and 
engaged in butchering and supplying tlie rail- 
road contractors with meat. In 1872 he re- 
turned to Galena and removed, ten months 
later, to La Crosse, where up to 1890 he en- 
gaged in teaming. Upon the completion of 
the new Government building he was apj)ointed 
janitor. He was married, Oct. 28, 1875, at La 
Crosse, to Ann, daughter of Joseph D. and 
Catherine (Fletcher) Orton. Her parents were 
born in Yorkshire, England, and emigrated to 
Bloomington, 111., removing thence to La Crosse 
in 1856, where the father is still living ; the 
mother died Oct. 19, 1889. They had six chil- 
dren named Mary, Thomas, Ann, John, Joseph 
D., and another child, who was named Joseph I)., 
both tlie latter being deceased. The children 
of Mr. and Mrs. Gunn are named Alvin J., 
Catherine May and Carrie E. The first born, 
Alvin, died in childhood. Mr. Gunn is a 
member of Odd Fellows Lodge, No. 153, and 
of the Order of Modern Workmen. He is 
also a member of the Republican party and 
draws a pension. 

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OlIN MARTIN GALLOW.W, Milwau- 
(^11 kee. Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
E. B. Wolcott, No. 1, was born .hily 24, 
1847, at Sackett's Harbor, New York, the exact 
location being on the site of the famous battle- 
field. His father and mother, Hiram and 
Sarah Ann (Gowing) Gallowa}', were born in 
the same county as their son, the birtii of the 
former occurring March 10, 1804, and that of 
the latter, June 8, 1824. They are still living 
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same county where they have passed their 
lives. Their children were all soldiers and 
named in the order of hirth Francis M., 
Chauncey M. and .John. The second was in 
the 1st New York Artillery and afterwards in 
the 16th. 

Mr. Galloway of this sketch was reared on 
the home farm to the date of entering the j 
army, -July 29, 1862, when he enlisted in Com- 
pany D, 10th New York Heavy Artillery. It is 
prohable that no other body of men, organized 
for active warfare, arrived at such a status under 
the circumstances of misunderstanding, red 
tape and final dislocation of all plans under 
which they enrolled, for service in the war of 
the rebellion. The supposition under which 
they hastened to fill tiie ranks was that they 
should be equipped and organized as light 
artillery, but red tape intervened and from 16 
companies, formed of as finely developed 
physical samples of humanity as ever combined 
in a command, except the guard of Freder- 
ick the Great, the organization known to his- 
tory and fame as the 10th New York Heavy 
Artillery were mustered for immediate ser- 
vice. September 18, 186.3, all vexed questions 
having been settled, the command left the 
State and had a triumphal trip to Washington, 
where the complications were renewed and a 
compromise effected by stationing the command 
which was neither heavy nor light artillery 
noi- infantry, owing to the above stated reasons, 
in the forts of the Capital. Complications were 
not terminated by this arrangement and the 
command was not mustered for duty until 
Jan. 6, 1864. Of the amount of work accom- 
plished by this command during the months 
of adjustment of their affairs, and which the 
rank and file held aloof from with most com- 
mendable success, there is no need to speak. 
The organization was composed of men, who, 
while thiey awaited the settling of the waters, 



gave their attention to the business of making 
good soldiers of themselves. March 4, 1864, 
the regiment started from the forts for active 
service, joining the army of the Potomac, pre- 
paratory to taking part in the campaign of that 
summer under Grant. June 12tli a forced 
march was made to Whiteliouse Landing, 
where the force embarked for City Point, moving 
thence towards Petersburg and they were first 
in battle on the 15th. This was the beginning 
of the siege of Petersburg and the regiment 
was constantly engaged in constructing trenches 
through the nights, which were torn down 
every day by the rebel batteries. They were 
ordered thence to Point of Rocks, returned to 
Petersburg and entered the rifle pits. Their 
position was one of danger and daily casualty 
throughout the siege until ordered to the sup- 
port of the 9th Corps after the firing of the 
mine. Returning to the trenches, the troops 
were on duty until August 13th when the 
regiment was ordered to move to Washington, 
General Early having invaded Maryland. 
The command had been 65 days under fire 
and 600 men out of 1,544 started for the defense 
of the Capital, leaving nearly 1,000 comrades in 
their graves or in the hospitals. Sept. 23, 1864, 
tlie regiment was ordered to Harper's Ferry to 
connect with the Army of the Shenandoah and 
five days later was engaged in escort, forage and 
other duty under Sheridan. October 4th they 
went to Port Royal, guarding the supplies of 
cattle and sheep until they joined the army at 
Front Royal. The regiment was in action at 
Cedar Creek and went thence to Winchester and 
in December started for Bermuda Hundred, 
leaving 30 men detailed for duty, Mr. Galloway 
being one of the detail. He joined the com- 
mand on the James River, the brigade holding 
the works between the James and the Appomat- 
tox Rivers, and exposed to the rebel artillery fire. 
An action occurred Januarv 22d and another 



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on the 23d, during which the rebel gunboats 
run the batteries and were discovered by the 
10th, who reported the fact only to be treated 
with contempt ; after the battery had blown 
up one of the gunl)oats, two Union monitors 
were sent to guard the position. April 2d 
the 10th New York opened the attack on 
Petersburg, whose fall was the entering wedge 
that split the rebellion. Mr. Galloway was in 
all the service of his commiind which has been 
outlined, and was mustered out at Petersburg, 
June 2o, 1865, and returned home. 

About the 1st of November, 1867, he went to 
Milwaukee and liis first prominent performance 
was his first Presidential vote for General Grant 
in 1868. He was variously occupied until his 
apj)ointment on the city police force, Sept. 3, 
1884, and he is one of tlie most trusted and 
efficient men in that service. He is an Odd 
Fellow. His marriage to Sarah A., daughter 
of William and Sophia Hempsing, occurred 
May 10, 1873. She was Itorii in Montgomery 
Co., Pennsylvania, Jan. 5, 1846. Two sons 
have been added to the family ; Charles A\'ash- 
ington was born Feb. 22, 1877 ; Erving ^'an 
was born Nov, 11, 187U. 

ISAAC CHARNLEY, Racine.Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 17, was born Aug. 
23, 1834, at Oldham, Lancashire, Eng- 
land, and is the son of James and Rachel 
(Mitchell) Charnley. His father was a stone- 
mason by trade and emigrated to America 
with his family in 1842. They came to New 
York on a sailing ve.ssel and linished their 
journey to Wisconsin on the Erie canal and on 
the lakes. A farm was purchased in tiie town- 
ship of Caledonia, on which the son remained 
until it was sold and received the education 
and training common to farmer's sous of that 



period. When the farm was sold the parents 
went to Milwaukee, where they resided with a 
son named Francis until their respective 
deaths; that of the mother occurring in 1868 
and the father's demise taking place in Jmie, 
1872. They had 11 children of whom three « 
are living — Charles, William and Isaac. 

After the sale of the farm, Mr. Charnley 
fitted himself for the business of a carpenter 
and builder at Racine, in which vocation he 
operated until he entered the service of the 
Government during the war. In the fall of 
1863 he engaged as a bridge builder in Tennes- 
see along the line of operations of the Union 
troops there stationed. After his contract was 
completed he returned to Racine and, in the 
fall, enlisted in Company K, 1st Wisconsin 
Heavy Artillery and went with his command 
to the defenses of Washington, passing his 
time in acfjuiring a knowledge of all varieties 
of military duty and service excepting that of 
cavalry, as the contingencies of the position at 
the National Capital presented the possibility 
of the troops garrisoning the several forts 
being called at any moment to fight as heavy 
or light artillery and also as infantry. Added 
to these was the heavy labor on the forts, to 
which service Mr. Charnley was often detailed, 
as he was titled for it by his profession. The 
period was one of the greatest interest and one 
of the incidents burned into his recollection is 
that of the assassination of the President. He 
was on his way to Fort Lyon when the intelli- 
gence reached his ears and he states that if the 
South had belief of any possible outcome to 
their frantic operations against the general 
Governnjent, its representatives should have 
been in Washington on the morning after the 
dastardly murder of Lincoln. He believes that 
every man in arms would willingly have 
begun and fought the whole war over again. 
It had been brought to an end by the Spirit of 




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the North, which clearly saw to the end all the 
cost to all sections if the South conquered ; and 
that Spirit burned never so briglitly as when 
the murdered Chief lay on his bloody bier in 
the Capital of the Nation. Mr. Charnley was 
mustered out June 26, 1865. 

He returned to AVisconsin and engaged in 
the business of a contractor and builder at 
Racine and, at a later date, added the sale of 
hardware and builders' materials and opened a 
store on Main street where he has since con- 
tinued to transact a prosperous and popular 
business. In 1875 he associated his son George 
with himself in business, the style of the firm 
being Cliarnley & Son. 

In 1858, Mr. Charnley was married at Racine, 
to Mary, daughter of John and Mary McClen- 
nan and their surviving children are named 
Ida M., George and Forrest. Francis L. and 
Harriet M. are deceased. Mr. Charnley is a 
member of the Order of Odd Fellows, Sons of 
Temperance, Royal Arcanum, Royal League, 
Good Templars, Royal Adelphia, Royal Tem- 
ple of Temperance and Temple of Honor. He 
is earnestly interested in temperance work and 
never loses an opportunity in a quiet way to 
promote the progress of the cause. 




1819, in Clarendon, New York. His ancestral 
stock in America settled in New England, and 
his grandfather, Samuel Lewis, resided in 
Brimfield, Mass. Shubal, the father of .James, 
was born in New England, Feb. 27, 1783, and 
was a son of a sire who had nothing to give 
him but good advice, a sound training of mind 
and body, and the opportunity to carve a for- 
tune for himself. All of this was made capital 



and helped to mould a man out of the crude 
material in the New England boj', with such 
aspirations and ambitions as the times, his 
circumstances, his heritage of integrity and 
need of effort inspired. He grew up an honor 
to his parentage and to a splendid and success- 
ful manhood, acquiring large possessions in 
two States. He was three times married; 
Eleanor Robertson, of Scotch lineage, became 
his wife Jan. 29, 1815, and died Oct. 8, 1834; 
following is the record of the children born of 
this union; William L., born Oct. 19, 1815, 
married Eliza Martin; Shubal was born Nov. 3, 
1817, and was a distinguished soldier of the 
Mexican war, leading a force of men to the 
ramparts of Cbepultepec and receiving the 
tribute of a sword from his superior officers ; he 
was married in August, 1839, to Mrs. Sarah 
Ann (Nichols), widow of Harvey Brown, M. D., 
and died in August, 1856. James T. is next in 
order. Hiram W. was born Jan. 13, 1823, and 
was married Sept. 2, 1847, to Melissa P. Tous- 
ley. Mary Jane was born Sept. 6, 1825, and 
married Oscar A. Harris. Andrew J. was born 
May 23, 1828, and died Jan. 20, 1840. Lydia 
A. was born Sept. 22, 1831, and died Oct. 12, 
1834, four days later than her mother. 

The elementary education of Governor Lewis 
furnished a substantial basis for a course of 
study at Clarkson Academy and Clinton Sem- 
inary in his native State, and he had just 
passed his majority when he entered upon the 
study of law with Governor Seldon of Clarkson, 
N. Y.; he alternated study with teaching in the 
village of Clarendon, then a pioneer town in a 
pioneer county and lie records the experiences 
as those befitting the place. He slept many a 
night under a roof of such primitive architec- 
ture that he often watched the stars while in 
his bed and often awoke to brush the snow 
from the bed covers. He was a faithful and 
popular teacher; his pupils remember his gen- 



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erous, opulent nature and his wholesome good i 
spirits, which he combined with the dignity 
and refinement of the model pedagogue of 
those days. 

In his native State he absorbed an interest 
in the militia and went to " General Training" 
with all the gusto of the youth of the 
Empire State, who played at patriotism 
with a feeling too deep for formiUation in 
words; but Patrick Henry's speech and the 
utterances of the cotemporary statesmen found 
an eclio in every soul, and left on the pure 
altar a sjmrk which smouldered beneath the 
debris of time until the breeze which wafted to 
the homes of the North the wail from Sumter's 
dismantled walls, fanned the embers to a flame 
which glowed till the world was red with its 
radiance and till the insulted banner of the 
Republic again kissed the vernal winds on 
which, four years before, was borne the prelude 
of a requiem of Freedom, and again signaled 
an integral Nation. In 1838, at 19, he enrolled 
in the New York Militia and was made Ser- 
geant of Captain Thomas W. Moines' company ; 
in 1840 he was made a Lieutenant in the 215th 
New York Infantry, but all that passed for 
little in reality so far as actual war was con- 
cerned, but it taught fealty to Country and 
State and tiie training was excellent as a 
method of discipline. j 

He was admitted by examination in open 
Court to practice as an attorney in the State 
Courts of New York and declined a flattering 
otter to locate in Clinton, N. Y., in order 
to test what seemed to him the prospects 
of a more untrammelled career in the West. 
After lie came to Wisconsin in 184.5 he 
was admitted to the Bar of the United 
States District Court in the same year and 
subsequently obtained the ])rivileges of the 
Bar in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. It 
is not fitting or necessary to elaborate the 



career of Governor Lewis as an attorney ; in his 
repeated appointments and election to judicial 
positions the story of his ability, influence, rep- 
utation and reliability is told better than any 
fulsome words can delineate, for Wisconsin 
pioneers were quick to recognize abilities, such 
as the Commonwealth demanded, even in posi- 
tions of comparative obscuritj' and the efti- 
ciency of .James T. Lewis was utilized by his 
generation in the capacity of District Attorney, 
County .Judge, Court Commissioner and mem- 
ber of the Court of Impeachment which tried 
Hon. Levi Hubbell. He was the single mem- 
ber from Columbia county in 1848 to aid in 
forming the State Constitution, was elected 
Member of the Legislature in 1852 and Senator 
in the following year. In the same year, 1853, 
he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Wiscon- 
sin and served in the office of his chief in 
1855 during Governor Barstow's absence from 
the State. In 1861 he was made SecreUiry of 
State under Governor Harvey at the oj)ening 
of the war period and served one term, acting 
as Governor during the special session of the 
Legi.slature, Governor Salomon being absent. 
On Monday Jan. 4, 18G4, Governor Lewis re- 
ceived from his predecessor the reins of guber- 
natorial management of the Badger State. The 
date will outline the responsibilities of the 
situation to those who beloiiged to that day and 
the students of history will realize what must 
have been the character of a man whom 
the State selected to bear the standard of her 
trials and triumijhs, for Wisconsin won a name 
which is not discounted in the annals of tiie 
war and her soldiers wrested respect from the 
martinets of the regular service as did no 
others. His first message spoke to the hearts 
of the people and in every movement it was 
apparent that his best qualities were to the fore. 
No question that affected the interests of the 
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respectful consideration ; no issue was too great 
for his management in tiie way to secure the 
greatest good to the greatest number ; every 
transaction of the municipal Government of 
the State was a measure of benefit throughout 
his entire administration and many acts were 
of a character whose permanency and advant- 
age have become stronger as the years have 
rolled on. April 21st, 1864, Governor Lewis, 
with the executives of four other States, offered 
to the President the organizations known as 
"hundred-day men." He regulated the finances 
of the State to the'advantage of the citizens and 
secured by his systematic, prompt and energetic 
measures the confidence of the people to an un- 
common degree. He was ever on the alert for 
the benefit of the soldiers in all conditions; his 
presence cheered the boys from the Badger 
State and he gave them opportunitj' to under- 
stand that he never for an instant forgot to look 
after their welfare. He obtained the removal 
of sick and wounded to the State — the first 
instance of the kind in the history of the Gov- 
ernment; he caused hospitals to be built; a 
Soldiers' Home was founded under his auspices 
and, although economy and careful manage- 
ment marked his administration, when the 
Government made a demand he spared noth- 
ing to aid in the speedy suppression of the 
rebellion he hated with all the fervor of a 
patriot whose veins quickened with the blood 
of his ancestors. 

In 1805 he declined a renominntion, desir- 
ing to give his manhood's strength to the ad- 
vancement of the interests of his family and to 
the arrangement of his private "affairs, wliich 
had missed the managing hand during his 
public life. In the same year he declined the 
appointment as foreign minister offered him 
by President Lincoln and in 1860 as Re- 
gent of the State University. In 1808 he was 
chosen vice-President of the State Historical 



Society and in 1870 he went to Europe ; in 1874 
he served as School Commissioner of Columbus 
and went to the National Convention of 1876 
as Delegate. In the same year he declined 
a proffer of the position of Commissioner of In- 
ternal Revenue and as Railroad Commissioner 
for the State in 1878. In 1882 and 1883 he 
traveled around the world. 

If the emoluments of office manifest the 
value of a man to his generation, those of 
General Lewis would delineate in enumeration 
his exact status to the relations of his citizen- 
ship ; if the lustre of his public life which 
glows after two decades are passed, are to be 
relied on as significant of his reputation and 
labors in tiie active portion of his career, his 
connection with liis fellows in every respect has 
been one that will live without tarnish. His 
influence as a member of society and as a gen- 
erous and sympathetic friend is unlimited; 
an evidence oi' the spirit which actuates him 
and of his sense of responsibility in general 
affairs is his voluntary and munificent contri- 
butions to charitable, benevolent and educa- 
tional institutions. As evidence of his personal 
popularity it may be added that he received 
every vote in his city for Secretary of State 
and on the State ticket he received for Gover- 
nor the largest majority ever given a candidate 
I for the office in the State. And when he de- 
clined reuoraination, the LInion State Conven- 
tion (for Wisconsin was not in the political 
arena during the war) passed resolutions of 
regret and encomium on liis administration of 
the affairs of the State. 

The portrait of Governor Lewis appears on 
page 688. In the strongly cast features, in the 
lines of character and in the expression of good 
will may be read an outline of his connection 
with ^Yisconsin, which the most faithful 
biographer cannot impart with the most capa- 
ble pen. 



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Governor Lewis was married to Orlinda M., 
daughter of David Sturges, in 1846, in Claren- 
don, N. Y. Tlieir children were named Henry 
S., Selden J., Charles R. and Annie L. The 
oldest child is not living. 



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\U^3\ ETER IMIG, Ft. Atkinson, Wis., mem- 
.'*lf^— T her of G. A. R. Post No. 159, was born 
-*^ in Waukesha Township, Wisconsin, 

in 1845, and is the son of Philij) and Christina 
(Harter) Imig. His jmrents were born in tiie 
province of Lower Rhine, Germany, where thej' 
were married and whence they emigrated to 
America in 1843. They located on a farm in 
Waukesha Township where their son was born 
and wliere he remained until he was 13 j'ears 
old. He went to attend .school at Waukesha, 
where he continued his studies until he was 16 
years of age. He had become interested in the 
affairs of the war which were engaging general 
attention and, with the consent of his pai'ents, 
he enlisted Nov. 28, 1861, in Company E, 3d 
Wisconsin Cavalry and joined the command in 
rendezvous at Janesville, where he remained 
engaged in military duty until the regiment 
left tiie State March 26, 1862, for St. Louis, 
preparatory to connecting with the defenses of 
the frontier. En route to Chicago the train 
had an accident tlirough M'hich several soldiers 
were killed and wounded. Mr. Imig was a 
guard on the platform and chanced to step 
inside for a moment to which he attributes his 
escape from injury as all the guards were killed 
or wounded. May 3d, they left for Leaven- 
worth and on arrival there equipments were 
received and assignments into battalions were 
made. Company E being connected witli the 
" 1st " which was stationed at that point. 
Several months were jiassed in which the ex- 
periences were more lively than entertaining. 



consisting chiefly in encounters with the guer- 
rilla forces of Quantrell. After much fighting 
and scouting Mr. Imig was detailed a special 
escort to the paymaster, whose field of opera- 
tions included the route from Leavenworth to 
Fort Larned in Kansas. He returned to the 
ranks after the duty was performed, and which 
included a journey of 150 miles under all the 
rigorous circumstances which characterized 
that service. In September he went to Fort 
Scott, where he joined the frontier forces of 
General Blunt. Prior to the battle of Prairie 
Grove he engaged in fighting bushwhackers 
and was in his first regular battle at that place. 
He was in the chase after Price and went to 
^'an Buren, thence marclied long distances and 
was in the saddle for days at a time, going back 
to obtain supplies of horses and other neces- 
saries. He fought at Fort Blunt and Cabin 
Creek and there had his first taste of Indian 
warfare. He passed more time in pursuit of 
bushwhackers and in cavalry service until tlie 
command went into winter quarters at Van 
Buren, wliere he was in a detail to erect tele- 
graph poles and wires. They vainly expected 
to obtain a supply of materials at Dardanelle 
wliere a train was stationed and thence Mr. 
Imig went to Little Rock on special service 
after the supjilies which were not at the former 
place. The weather was intensely cold, tlie 
river there being frozen for the first time. In 
February, 1864, the regiment veteranized and, 
after his furlough, Mr. Imig rejoined the 
frontier command and was assigned to Com- 
pany C, and stationed at FortMcLeati. (Wiiile 
at Little Rock, Janury 10th, he witnessed the 
hanging of David 0. Dodd, a rebel spy.) 
Duiing the remainder of his term of .service he 
operated in behalf of the .same sort of outlaws 
that had already engaged so much time of 
the connnand and went successively to Little 
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was mustered out Sept. 8, 1865. Seven days 
later, ill from chronic bowel disease, he was 
sent to the hospital at Little Rock and thence 
to Madison where he received his discharge 
July 10, 1866. He returned to Waukesha, 
and, after recovery, located in Jefferson county. 
He was a farmer there until 1876 when he re- 
moved to Ft. Atkinson. He was married Dec. 
27, 1866, to Jacobina Wagner and their chil- 
dren are named Kate and Frank. Mr. Tmig 
belongs to the Odd Fellows and is a Democrat. 

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Mi AJOR EDWARD A. WHALEY, 
^ jr®\ Rostmaster at Prairie du Chien, 
•-^^■^^^^ Wis., was born near Athens, Ohio, 
July 12, 1837. His father, Arvin Whaley, 
was born in York State and married Elizabeth 
Hewitt in Ohio ; she was a native of Vermont. 
They went to St. Francis Co., Arkansas, in 1841, 
going thence in 1843 to Fairport, Muscatine 
Co., Iowa ; in 1852 they located in Prairie 
du Chien, Wis., .where tiie father died in 1856, 
aged 54 years. The mother survived him 
until Jaimar}^ 1888, and died at the age of 82 
years. Eight children lived to maturity and 
the survivors now are Zenas S., who served in 
the late war as a member of the 24th Iowa In- 
fantry ; Harrison H., a member of Company A, 
31st Wisconsin ; Charles F., and Edward. The 
latter worked at the same trade as his father, 
that of cooper, until he enlisted. The educa- 
tion he obtained wassuclias was to be obtained 
at the common schools, but afterwards through 
his business and contact with the world, he 
became well informed and is what is called in 
common parlance a self-made man. He en- 
listed at Prairie du Chien, April 30, 1861, iu 
('ompany C, 6th Wisconsin Infantry as a private, 
and attained the high rank of 8th Corporal be- 
fori' leaving the State. He left Madison with his 
regiment July 16th, the first stopping place be- 



ing Harrisburg, Pa.; July 3d they went to Balti- 
more, Md., and thence to Washington where 
the regiment was brigaded with the organiza- 
tion which became the Iron Brigade. Major 
Whaley was in every detail of movement with 
his regiment until the battle of South Moun- 
tain, where he was wounded through the left 
leg, a gun-shot causing a bad fracture of the 
bone two inches below the knee. He was taken 
back to a barn which constituted the field 
hospital and the next day was taken to Middle- 
ton ; ten days later he was moved to Frederick, 
Md., after being in hospital two months at this 
place. The surgeon decided to amputate his 
leg which he strenuously resisted, refusing to 
take the chloroform, when the Medical Direc- 
tor, Dr. Hewitt, was called in, who performed 
an operation, removing a quantity of bone 
j from the leg. Major Whaley was afterwards 
I transfered to another part of the city to a 
different hospital and was placed under the 
care of Dr. Pinckney, who decided on 
another operation on account of necrosis, and 
a quantity of affected lione was removed and 
the leg saved. He was afterwards sent to Camp 
Dennison, Ohio, and returned thence to his regi- 
ment for duty. He re-enli.sted and accompanied 
his regiment on a thirty-day furlough which was 
pleasantly spent among friends at home, return- 
ing with his regiment in February, 1864, to Cul- 
peper,Va. He took part in the great campaign 
through the wilderness which commenced on 
the 5th of May, 1864. While standing in line 
of battle May 11th, he received a bruise on the 
collar-bone from a bullet which had struck the 
limb of a tree overhead and glanced downward. 
He participated in the battles of Spottsylvania 
C. H., North Anna, Cold Harbor, crossed the 
.James River at City Point, and continued the 
march to Petersburg. He participated in the 
charge in front of that place June 18th in 
which engagement he received another bruise 



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from a spent ball on the knee of the right leg. 
July 25th in front of Petersburg he was again 
wounded, the bullet which did tlie mischief 
issuing from the rifie of a rebel shiU'pshooter 
cutting otl'the first joint of a toe on the right 
foot, passing under and making a gash through 
the ball of tlie foot, causing a very painful 
wound. July 26th he was promoted from First 
Sergeant to (kptain of his company. While in 
winter quarters in the vicinit}'' of Petersburg, 
the following Order was issued : Headquarters 
1st Provisional Brigade, March 11th, 1865. 
General Order No. 10. Capt. E. A. Whaley, 
Company C, 6th Wisconsin Veteran Volonteers, 
is hereby appointed Acting Major of the regi- 
ment and will be obeyed and resjiected accord- 
ingly. By command of J. A. Kellogg, Col. 
commanding Brigade, signed J. A. Watrous, A. 
A. A. G. Colonel Kellogg being in command 
of the brigade and Lieutenant Col. Kerr being 
absent on leave, left the regiment under the 
command of Acting Major Whaley most of the 
winter. In extension of the lines fartliur to tin- 
left in the spring at tlie battle of Gravelly Run, 
Colonel Kerr was wounded. Major Whaley 
took command of his regiment and moved for- 
wiud with the corps to Five Forks,, in which 
engagement he received a gunshot wound in the 
right leg, which caused the amputation of the 
same near the hi)>, the operation being j)er- 
formcd at the field hospital Ajiril 1, 1865. 
Soon after tiie amputation he was taken by 
ambulance to Dinwiddle C. IL, and thence to 
Humphrey Station on the temporary railroad 
built by the army to bring supplies from City 
Point, to which place he was taken. lie went 
thence to Armory Square hospital, Washington, 
D. C, from which lie was finally discjiarged 
from the army, August 4, 1865. His roster of 
important battles includes Gainesville, second 
Bull Rmi, South Mountain, Mine Ilun, Wilder- 
ness, Spottsylvania C. II., Laurel Hill, Jericho 



Ford, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Gravelly Run 
and Five Forks. 

Although Major Whaley had for some time 
been acting Major and assisting in command, 
he was never mustered as an officer higher in 
rank than that of a captain, but soon after the 
Vjattle of Five Forks he received a commission 
from the War Department as Major by Brevet; 
for gallant and meritorious conduct on the batr 
tie field of Five Forks, in which he was in 
command of his regiment. As soon as he re- 
covered from the effects of his last wound and 
amputation he obtained a situation in the post^ 
office at Prairie du Chien and, Jan. 15, 1866, 
was commissioned Postmaster at his home of- 
fice and has been continued in the position 
throughout every administration since. He 
has served in military and civil life in a man- 
ner which proves the quality of citizenship and 
reliability. 

He was married at Harper's Ferry, Iowa, to 
Mary A. Ryan, October 29, 1866, and she died 
in 1874, leaving a child named William A., 
who is the assistant of his father in the post- 
office. Major Whaley was again married in 
1877 to Ada F. Sprague, of Glen Haven, Wis., 
and tiny have a daughter named Ada May. 

Major Whaley organized the Post of the G. 
A. R. of which he was the first commander; 
he is an Odd Fellow and also a member of the 
Modern Woodmen : his wife is a member of the 
Woman's Relief Corps, in which she is prom- 
inently active. 



OHN B. \'LIET. Senior Vice Commander 
of E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1, (1890) at 
Milwaukee, Wis., was born April 2t), 
1822, in Wilmington, Clinton Co., Oiiio, and is 
by profession a Civil Engineer. He served as 
private, nnassigned, and as recruiting officer, 
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as Captain of Company I, of the 31st Regiment, 
Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, to March 29, 
1865 ; then as Lieutenant Colonel of the 51st 
^\'isconsin to September 5, 1865. In lineage 
in the paternal line he is of Holland origin, 
his patronymic being originally Van Vliet, of 
which iiouse, two brothers named Daniel and 
William came to America from Holland, both 
landing at New Brunswick, N. J., about 1750 
to 1755, William locating on the North River, 
in New York. Daniel, from whom Colonel 
Vliet is descended in direct line, remained in 
New Jersey and dropped the particle Van 
which marked the nationality. William A'an 
A'liet was the founder of the family which has 
retained the whole name. Daniel Miet was 
the father of John, David, Daniel, Margaret, 
Jesper, William, Garret and Abram, of whom 
the oldest five sons served as soldiei's in the 
Revolutionary War and were in the battle of 
Monmouth. Jesper Miet, the fourth son, 
married Poll}' Black and was the father of 
Abraham, Garret, Acsah, John, .Jesper Jr., and 
Keturah. 

The second son. Garret Vliet, who was the 
father of the subject of our memoir was born in 
vSus.sex, N. J., Jan. 10, 1790, and when a boy 
moved with the family near Wilksbarre, Pa., 
where he grew to manhood. He served a 
short time as a soldier in 1815, was engaged for 
a season in the survey of the " Holland Pur- 
chase, " in the State of N. Y., and about 1819 
prospected as far West as St. Louis, going 
finally to Ohio, settling near Cincinnati where 
he married Rebecca Frazey, January 25, 1821. 
He was employed as an engineer in the con- 
struction of the Miami Canal, was County Sur- 
veyor of Hamilton county (including Cin- 
cinnati) in 1838-4 and 5, first came to Mil- 
waukee in 1835 and surveyed the part of the 
original plat of the city on the West side in 
that year; in 1836 he surveyed, as U. S. 



Deputy Surveyor, ten townships of Government 
land in the present counties of Milwaukee, 
Waukesha and Washington; moved his family 
to Milwaukee in 1837 and settled on the farm, 
now a part of the city, where he died August 
5, 1877. He was a member of the first Con- 
stitutional Convention of Wisconsin. The an- 
cestry of Colonel Vliet in the maternal line is 
not so distinctly traceable, but the nationality 
was English. 

His mother was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
Aug. 23, 1805, and died at the homestead in 
Milwaukee, Jan. 6, 1890. John B. Vliet was 
the oldest of five sons, of whom the third, Os- 
car F., died in infancy ; the second, Jesper, 
died in October, 1865; the fifth, Abram, died 
in February, 1882. William, iiis remaining 
brother, is a civil engineer and resides at Kan- 
sas City, Kansas. Jesper enlisted Aug. 1, 1862, 
in the 24th Wisconsin Infantry and was dis- 
charged Feb. 23, 1863, to accept promotion in 
the Engineering Department. 

Coming to Milwaukee with his parents at 
the age of 15 years and going upon land 
which had to be cleared of heavy timber 
and converted into a farm, the subject of 
our memoir was deprived of the benefits of 
a liberal education, which had been his aspira- 
tion. For his mother had taught him to read 
and also the elements of writing at the age of 
four years. At the age of 14 he had mastered 
the course of studies in the common schools of 
Cincinnati and entered Woodward High School, 
of which Thomas J. Matthews, the father of 
Stanley Matthews, was president and the latter 
was his schoolmate. At the age of 12 years he 
began to go surveying with his father as a 
chain-carrier and gaining practice in the in- 
tricacies of the surveyor's calculations. In the 
spring of 1837 he accompanied his father to 
Dubuque, Iowa, to survey that and several 
other town sites under a Government contract. 



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the work, however, beiug cut short by a change ! 
of commissioners. Tlien, after five years of 
drudgery among the stumps and roots of a new 
farm on timbered land, at the age of 20 years, 
he accomj)anied his father's party in the sur- 
vey of six townships near Iowa City, Iowa, for 
the Government, and it All to his lot to lead 
the party, and from that on until the breaking 
out of the war, land surveying and afterward 
civil engineering, became his vocation. 

When Fort Sumter was fired on, his residence 
was at Kilbourn City, but being in Milwaukee 
when a meeting was held to raise the first com- 
pany of soldiers under the call for 75,000 men, 
he attended with the full determination to en- 
list should there be any lagging on the part of 
the younger men, residents of Milwaukee. But 
within an hour it was announced that the com- 
pany was full and many went away disap- 
pointed that they could not get in. It was 
estimated that three companies could have 
been enlisted that evening. 

After the reverses and miscarriages up to 
August, 1862, enlistments fell off" and recruit- 
ing became very difficult. There was a crying 
call for more men. At this juncture John B. 
Vliet got an enlistment blank, liJkd it out with 
his own name, went before a notary public and 
was sworn in as a soldier, procured a room, 
hung out a flag and began recruiting in Kil- 
lK)urn City on bis own account. A considerable 
number of men were enlisted for various regi- 
ments. Then a commission was given him to 
recruit a comi)any for the 31st Regiment, which, 
after much tribulation, was accomplished by 
the aid of bis lieutenants and he and they 
were regularly commissioned and mustered in. 

The regiment left the State March 1, ]8f«, 
and proceeded to Columbus, Ky., where it was 
stationed to guard General Grant's line of com- 
munication and supply along the Mississippi 
River. Its annals have been written and 



recorded. April 26, 1863, Colonel Vliet was 
detailed as Topographical Engineer on the 
staff" of General Asboth. .lune 24th he was 
permitted to command his company in a 
reconnoissauce by railroad to Trenton, Tenn., — 
60 miles into the enemy's country — re- 
turning the same day. August 28th he was 
relieved from the detail at his own request and 
ordered with his company to garrison Fort 
Quimby, asmall detached fortification mounted 
with 11-inch columbiads and 32-jiouu(l guns. 
September 23d be was relieved from this <luty 
and ordered to proceed with his comj)any and 
regiment to Nashville, en route to re-en force Gen- 
eral liosecrans at Cliattanooga. He was taken 
down with malarial fever and confined in 
Nashville till November lOth when he rejoined 
his regiment at Murfreesboro, Tenn. December 
23d he started for Chattanooga to obtain an 
order for a recruiting ])arty from the regiment 
to go to Wisconsin. December olst he was 
ordered to go to Wisconsin with a detail to 
bring forward recruits, in which he was en- 
gaged until April 28, 1864, making three trips 
to the Army of the Cumberland and one to 
Fort Leavenworth, Kas., and distributing in all 
about 600 men, when he was ordered by (ien- 
eral Sherman to take the remaining recruits 
(22 or 23) and guard a drove of 680 beef cattle 
to Chattanooga. On arriving there he was 
ordered to take charge of the same drove, aug- 
mented to 1,200, and proceed to the front. He 
overtook the army at Resaca, May loth and 
the next day was ordered to follow up the army 
with the cattle and di-stribute them on requisi- 
tion — thus becoming an acting Commissary of 
Subsistence. For the next month he was con- 
tinually under the sound of cannon and mus- 
ketry ami on the 16th or 17th of .lune went to 
the front, by leave, to witness the actual opera- 
tions of warfare, for which he had not hitherto 
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artillery firo and determined not to go in again 
for curiosity. Jiine 18th he was taken prisoner 
near Ackworth, Ga., by a party of scouts — the 
army having made a flank movement to the 
rigiit witii which lie had not kept pace. He 
remained a prisoner of war at Macon, Ga. until 
July 28th and at Chiirleston, S. C. until Oc- 
tober 5th. While at Charleston the pri-soners 
were under fire from the guns of their friends, 
who sent 100-j)ound Parrot shells every fifteen 
minutes from their batteries six miles away. 

Octol)er 5th, en route from Charleston to Go- 
Unnbia, near Orangeburg, S. C., he sprang from 
the train while it was in rapid motion and 
proceeded Northwest, via Edgefield, S. C, 
Washington, Athens, Dahlonega and Ellijay, 
arriving at the Union lines at Dalton, Ga., Oct. 
29th, traveling about 450 miles in 24 nights. 
Jan. 6, 1865, he rejoined his regiment at Sa- 
vannah, Ga. In the meantime, it had partici- 
pated in the siege of Atlanta and the "March 
to the Sea." 

January 18th he left Savannah with his regi- 
ment on the campaign through the Carolinas. 
January 26tli he was detailed as Topographical 
Engineer on the staff of Col. Wm. Hawley, 
commanding 2d Brigade, 1st Division, 20th 
Army Corps. January 29th he was in front of 
the skirmish line at Robertsville, S. C. ; Feb- 
ruary 12th he served target for rebel cannon 
practice at the North Edisto River, S. C. ; March 
loth he was buried in the ruins of the falling ar- 
senal building at Fayetteville, N. C, which the 
engineers were tearing down by order of Gen- 
eral Sherman. He was in hospitals at Wil- 
mington, N. C, Willett's Point and David's 
Island, N. Y. Harbor, until April 14th, and 
while in the latter hospital he received notice 
that he had been commissioned successively 
Lieutenant-Colonel of the 50th and 51st Re^i- 
ments of Wisconsin and a few days later the 
commissions arrived, dated respectively Febru- 



ary 20th and 21st. He went to Raleigh, N. C, 
where his (31st) regiment then was, for orders, 
and joined the 51st Regiment at Kingsville, 
Mo., May 17th. His date of muster was sub- 
sequently corrected to March 30, 1865. He 
remained with the 51st at Kingsville and 
Pleasant Hill, until July 30th, when it started 
for Madison, Wis., for muster out, which oc- 
curred from Aug. 19, to 29, 1865, the Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel remaining until September 5th to 
close up the affairs of the regiment. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Vliet claims no credit for 
brilliancy of achievement or high honors won, 
nor has he a particle of envy for those who 
were more successful or had better opportunity, 
for he remembers that greater opportunity was 
coupled with greater exposure and danger, and 
therefore those who achieved it are entitled to 
their distinction. He takes, however, what he 
conceives to be a just pride in a consciousness 
of having done his duty faithfully in the part 
allotted him in the great work of suppressing 
the rebellion and saving the flag of his coun- 
try — emblem of its institutions. 

While stationed in Western Missouri he had 
heard of a great railroad projected from the 
Missouri River, at Leavenworth, to the Gulf of 
Mexico, at Galveston, under the control of Sen- 
ator (General "Jim") Lane, and glowing ac- 
counts of the richness of the country it was to 
traverse and determined, when out of the ser- 
vice, to engage in that enterprise should op- 
portunity offer. So, twenty days after closing 
up his connection with the army he set out on 
the 20th of September for Kansas, and on the 
9th of October was appointed Chief Engineer 
of the Leavenworth, Lawrence &• Ft. Gibson, 
afterward the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Gal- 
veston Railroad, and continued in that service 
until the spring of 1870, operating the road as 
Superintendent also during the year 1868, 30 
I miles having then been constructed. Having 



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in 1848, while acting as City Engineer of Mil- 
waukee, located the line of the Milwaukee & 
Prairie du Chieu R. R. williin the city, the 
first line upon which a railroad was huilt in 
Wisconsin, and he was now instrumental in 
i>uikling the first piece of railroad West of the 
Missouri River without Government bonded 
subsidy — a way-mark of progress which affords 
him some personal satisfaction. 

In the fall of 1870 he returned to Wisconsin 
and engaged in a flouring mill business near 
Dartford, (ireen Lake Co. This did not prove 
remunerative. He remained there until 1882, 
wlieii he returned to Milwaukee and now re- 
sides in tlie old farm house which he helped 
to build when a boy. He never fully recovered 
from the injury received from the falling walls 
at Fayetteville, N. C, which, since he left Kan- 
sas in 1870, has prevented him from doing 
much in the way of his profession. He is now, 
in 1890, engaged in a pension agency business. 

"OSEPH GALE, La Crosse, Wis., member 
of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was born May 
14, 1838, in St. Lawrence (3o., New York. 
His father, Joseph Gale, was a carpenter and 
millwright and followed those vocations until 
he went to California, when he lost his life on 
the route. His wife died in Parisville, New 
York. Both were of Frencli parentage, the 
father having been born on tiie sea. Joseph is 
the only survivor of their eight children. In 
1855 they wezit West and located in Dubuque 
Co., Iowa, where the son remained until he 
enlisted. 

He was a pupil in the common schools and 
worked with his father in his vocations, of 
which he obtained a complete knowledge. He 
enrolled Aug. 12, 1862, at Prairie du Chien, in 
Company D, 31st Wisconsin Infantry, and went 



into camp at Fort Crawford and thence to 
Camp Utley, Racine, remaini'ng in the latter 
until spring. The war experiences of Mr. Gale 
commenced by a removal from the State, March 
1, 1863, to Columbus and to quarters at Fort 
Halleck. After performing provost duty there 
several months orders were received to proceed 
to Murfreesboro, whence the command went to 
a raid into Georgia, moved afterwards to Nash- 
ville and entered again on provost duty. The 
next orders took the regiment to Chattanooga, 
where the winter was passed and in the spring 
it went to tlie Atlanta campaign. The first 
action in which Mr. Gale took part was in the 
battle of Atlanta, July 22d, the regiment having 
been in reserve and supporting the rear of the 
main army in its movements. It had been as- 
signed to the 3d Brigade, 1st Division and 20th 
Army Corps, and was in the left of the line of 
battle. Subsequent to the action, the regiment 
was in the siege in the picket line, and after the 
surrender the brigade was the first to march 
into the city. The 31st remained there until 
tlie march to the sea and went out of the burn- 
ing city of Atlanta to start Nov. 14, 1864, for 
the foot race through Georgia. Mr. Gale 
marched, skirmished, foraged and went to 
Savannah to the siege and the water bondage, 
leaving that city January 13th for the North. 
Rations were and had been short and when the 
troops received plenty of rice they were in a 
condition to appreciate it. Mr. Gale partici- 
pated in the entertaining movements of Sher- 
man's army through the Carolinas and skir- 
mished nearly every day in some action more 
or less inijiortaiit. He was in the fight witli 
Johnston in that officer's last desperate attempt 
at Bentonville to impress his power on the un- 
derstanding of Sherman, the corps of Mr. Gale 
being the force attacked. They skirmished all 
day and lay on their arms at night to find the 
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inai'ch to Raleigh, near which place Johnston 
surrendered, was resumed and thence after two 
weeks, the command started for Richmond. In 
the onward march northward thej' passed the 
old battle fields of the Wilderness, of the seven- 
day's tight before Richmond and others equally 
historic and which had been before to them 
only names. Mr. Gale was with his regiment 
in the Grand Review in May, 1865, and went 
afterwai'ds into camp at Washington, remain- 
ing about two weeks. He was paid off and dis- 
charged at Madison, June 20, 1865, and re- 
turned to La Crosse. He passed several years 
occupied as a ship carpenter and entered the 
employ of M. B. Holwa}' as a millwright. He 
has since operated in that department, of which 
he is in charge. 

He was married Aug. 16, 1862, to Mary, 
daughter of John and Anna (CroU) Schoen- 
berger, of German birth and extraction. Her 
parents reside in Vernon county. They came 
to America in 1855 and located in Wisconsin, 
where her father lias since been engaged in 
farming. Mrs. Gale is one of eight children 
and her brothers and sisters were named Henry, 
Anna, Otto, Charles, Dorotliy and Lewis. Otto 
is the only one not living. Charles L. and 
Edwin J., are the names of tlie children of Mr. 
and Mrs. Gale and the first-born child is de- 
ceased. Mr. Gale is a member of the Masonic 
Order; in political faith he is a Republican. 
He was nominated in 1889 for Alderman and 
defeated by a small majority in a strongly 
Democratic district. 



TCHOLAS GRUBER, Black River 
Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 92, was born April 18, 
1835, in Bavaria, Germany, where his parents, 
John and Barbara (Miller) Gruber, were born 




and reared and descended from stock of long 
standing in tlieir native land. They had two 
children, a daughter named Barbai'a being the 
elder. In the spring of 1841 the senior Gruber 
came to the United States, the wife and mother 
being deceased. The father was a tailor and 
located in Ohio. 

The son came to the United States in 1857, 
landing in June in New Orleans, going thence 
in a sliort time to Lexington, Mo., where he 
was when tlie war came on. He expressed 
Union sentiments freely, was ordered to leave 
with all possible haste and went to St. Louis, 
where he enlisted in the 4th Missouri Infantry 
and afterwards in the 1st Iowa Infantry at 
Davenport, but was not mustered into either. 
He continued his movements toward the North 
and finally reached Black River Falls, where 
he enlisted in August, 1861, and was mustered 
into the U. S. service Sept. 12, 1861, in Com- 
pany G, 10th Wisconsin Infantry. After a few 
weeks in camp the regiment went, November 
9th, to Louisville, Ky., and went to camp at 
Shepherdsville, Ky., going thence to Bowling 
Green, Nasliville and Murfreesboro in tlie 3d 
Brigade, 3d Division and 14th Corps. The 
regiment was placed on provost duty at Mur- 
freesboro in the spring of 1862 and went thence 
to Huntsville, Ala., where four companies, in- 
cluding G, were detailed to break the rebel 
communications near Chattanooga and de- 
stroyed a bridge and captured 21 engines and 
200 cars, which act prevented Beauregard re- 
ceiving reinforcements. While lying at Hunts- 
ville the command made a forced march to 
Decatur and afterwards the brigade went to 
Tennessee by way of Stevenson to the river, 
where they had an engagement with the rebels 
j at Bridgeport. 

They returned to Larkinsville and guarded 
the Memphis & Charleston Railroad and, June 
1st, started for Stevenson. While passing 



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through a cut the train was attacked and on i 
the 4th of July, Captain WiUiam Moore of 
Company G, was murdered by the bushwhack- 
ers after he was captured. When the move- 
ment caused by Brugg's invasion of Kentucky 
commenced, Mr. Gruber was witli the com- 
mand in the movements to Nashville and 
Jjouisville, acting as rear guard in preserving 
the Union trains. On the march to Bellefonle 
he was seriously hurt in his knee, a wagon tip- 
ping upon iiim. The rebels tried to present 
their trains leaving Stevenson and they had a 
scrimmage there. After reaching Louisville, 
Mr. Gruber was ill and went to hospital, his 
sickness being caused by eating of poisoned 
pie, bought of a rebel. He joined the regi- 
ment the day after the battle of Perryville and 
was in the chase after the rebels, going to 
Bowling Green and thence to Nashville, leav- 
ing there for Murfreesboro for the battle of 
Stone River, December 31st. The 10th held a 
position near the center on the Murfreesboro 
•pike and after the figliting was over they 
crossed on the other side and went into camp. 
Mr. Gruber was there discharged March 21, 
18G3, for disability. 

He returned to Black River Falls and en- 
gaged in hunberiiig, continuing in that busi- 
ness until August, 1889, wlien failing health 
compelled hina to quit active business life. He 
belongs to Albion Lodge, Order of Odd Fellows, | 
No. 134, and votes the Republiciin ticket. He 
receives a pension. 

He was married March 28, 1863, at Melrose, 
Wis., to Minerva, daughter of Simon and Abia 
(Fuller) Enierton, a native of New York. They 
have three children ; Maud is Mrs. W. A. Cas- 
well of Tacoma, Washington ; Mabel married 
George W. Meacham of Cliicago; John A. is 
the youngest. 




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AMUEL KING VAUGHAN, deceased, 
formerly a resident of Portage, Wis., 
was horn April 20, 1824, in South 
Adams, Massachusetts, the son of El)enezer and 
Mary (King) Vaughan and of mi.xed Welsii 
and English ancestry. In 1841 his father 
settled in West Troy, New York, and embarked 
with liis son in the shoe business. They trans- 
ferred their home and business to Fond du 
Lac, Wisconsin, in 1848 and there conducted 
their interests four years, the younger Vaughan, 
meanwhile, studying law. In 185'2 he was ad- 
mitted to the Bar of that county and located 
at Wyocena, the county seat of Columbia 
count}-. Within the same year he was elected 
Clerk of the Circuit Court and on the removal 
of the county seat to Portage he removed 
thither. He was re-elected and served both his 
terms acceptably. 

He again established his business as a dealer 
in boots and shoes and was thus engaged in 
April, 1861, wlien his country demanded his 
attention. A companj- was promptly organized 
on the call of the Governor under the demand 
of the President, of which John Mansfield was 
Captain and Samuel K. Vaughan, 2d Lieuten- 
ant, which was mustered as Company G, 2d 
Wisconsin Infantry, Lieutenant ^'aughan's 
commission dating from April 25, 1861. He 
fought at Bull Run and resigned Sept. 16, 
1861, on account of illness. He returned to 
Wisconsin and as soon as able entered upon 
the work of recruiting, raising a company of 
which he was made Captain (his rank dating 
from Dec. 19, 1861), and which Wiis assigned as 
"D" to the 19th Wisconsin Infantry. At 
rendezvous in Racine the still incomplete com- 
mand was ordered to Camp Randall, Madison, 
April 20, 1862, to guard the rebels taken at 
Fort Donelson and Island No. 10, and the 
regiment was there completed and naustered 
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history of the command as an adjunct of the 
forces for the Union in the field commenced. 
After reaching Washington it was assigned to 
service in Southeast Virginia, the regiment 
operating until April, 1863, at Hampton, For- 
tress Monroe, Norfolk and Portsmouth. All 
sorts of dreary military service were performed 
save actual warfare and, after more work of a 
worse type, the regiment went to Suffolk and 
remained until June, when a marcii to Nor- 
folk was made and thence to Ycrktown on 
transports. After several movements on guard 
duty the regiment went to Newbern, N. C, 
where Captain Vaughan was made Major, 
Dec. 3, 1863. Feb. 1, 1864, the regiment repul- 
sed a rebel attack at Newbern and six com- 
panies under Major Vauglian went to Ply- 
mouth April 19th to reinforce Wessel's com- 
mand who fougiit three days to suffer defeat 
and the action terminated before the arrival of 
aid. April 26th a movement to Yorktown was 
made, where the regiment was assigned to the 
3d Brigade, 1st Division and 18th Army Corps. 
May 4th they started to reinforce at Bermuda 
Hundred on the .lames River, engaged in 
activities on the Richmond & Petersburg rail- 
road and were in the movements against Fort 
Darling which culminated on tlie 12th and 
finished on the 16th with the vain attack of 
Butler. The 19th lost 25 in killed and wound- 
ed, and returned to Point of Rocks. In June 
the command was in another raid on the rail- 
road and on tlie 20th, in the 2d Brigade and 
2d Division, the 19th took position in the 
trenches before Petersburg and were under 
incessant fire of the hottest character until the 
assault liy tiie 9th Corps on the 30th, when it 
was in the supporting column. 

Major Vaughan was with his men in the 
siege of Petersburg and in October accom- 
pajiied them to tlie fighting before Richmond, 
traversing the old fields where thousands of 



men had fallen needlessly in former campaigns 
and in the od Brigade, 1st Division and 18th 
Corps, fought in the battle of Fair Oaks, con- 
tinuing in camp on Chapin's Farm until or- 
dered to tlie charge on the works at Richmond, 
April 3d, when tlie regiment entered the evac- 
uated city and Lieutenant-Colonel Vaughan, 
with his own hand planted the colors of the 
regiment above the works. He was commis- 
sioned as mentioned, April 28th, and moved 
with his command to Fredericksburg and re- 
turned to Richmond for muster out August 
9th. Aug. 9, 1865, he was commissioned Col- 
onel of Volunteers by Brevet to date from Au- 
gust 30th, and. May 22, 1866, in the adjust- 
ment of honors for conspicuous bravery, he 
received a United States commission as Briga- 
dier-General of Volunteers by Brevet to rank 
from Aug. 9, 1865. The only lapse in his 
commissions from 2d Lieutenant to Brigadier- 
General was that of 1st Lieutenant. He re- 
signed as 2d Lieutenant and afterwards entered 
the service as Captain. 

He i-eturned to Wisconsin after the war and 
was elected Sheriff of Columbia county in tiie 
fall of 1866. He served through 1867-8 and, 
on resuming connection with the life of a pri- 
vate citizen, lie again opened a business enter- 
prise in the manufacture of fanning mills. 
His health was broken by his long and unin- 
terrupted service and he succumbed to rheu- 
matism, which assaulted the citadel of life, 
and he died of heart disease, Sept. 29, 1872. 

He was married June 10, 1844, to Lavinia 
W. Wandell, of West Troy, New York, and 
their children were Lucy Eleanor, Eugene Au- 
gustus, Eugenia Lavinia and Myrick Douglas. 
The son enlisted Oct. 27, 1861, in his father's 
company and regiment. He was made Cap- 
tain in a colored regiment and served until after 
the close of the war. He died Oct. 19, 1888, 
from rheumatic disease, contracted in the army. 



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Colonel Vaughaii is borne in tender remem- 
brance by those who loved liira as a most at- 
tractive man in character and career ; he was 
genial, social and domestic and his name was 
connected with all tluit is best and highest in a 
coniinunity ; he was prominent for temperance 
principles and possessed a positive character 
which was manifest in his military career, but 
he never made enemies. He served in civil 
office in his municipality and was jjroniineiit 
in the Order of Odd Fellows. He was a mem- 
ber of tlie Baptist Church and Superintendent 
of a Sunday School at tlie time of his death. 






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AVID ROWLAND, Racine, Wis., 
Commander of 0. A. R. I'osl No. 17, 
(1889), was born in Wales, June 18, 
18o(), and is the .son of David and Sarah 
(James) Rowland. He had one brother and 
one sister named respectively .lolm and 
Sarah. His father was a Congregational clergy- 
man and came with his family to the United 
States in 1840 and died soon after in the city 
of New York. The brother and sister died 
about the same time. The niotlior afterwards 
married a man named Morgan. Wiien the 
son was about ten years old he went to work on 
a farm on Long Island, where he remained 
about six years and, at the end of lliat time he 
ensasred as cabin bov on a whaler and suffered 
sliipwreck. He went on the vessel which re- 
lieved tlie crew to San Francisco and remained 
in C!alifornia about one and a half years. He 
left there in the fall of 1855 and reached New 
York in 185G. He came thence to Racine 
where his mother had permanently located aixl 
obtained a situation with the J. I. Case T. M. 
Company in 1858, with whom he remained 
until he enlisted. 
Aug. 18, 18G2, he enrolled in Company F^ 



■22d Wisconsin Infantry, and went into Camp 
Utley, Racine, which was named for the sturdy 
and inflexible man whose name is honored by 
the entire State for his career during the war. 
Mr. Rowland was mustered September 2d and 
left the State on the IGth, going to Cincinnati 
with every expectation of lighting Kirby Smith. 
The regiment was in constant activity, reach- 
ing Lexington late in October and on the last 
day of the month was assigned to the 1st 
Brigade under Colonel Coburn ; moved to 
Nicholasville and went later to Danville, where 
they chased Morgan and where Morgan 
chased them. Their next move took them to 
Louisville, and they went thence to Nashville, 
to Brentwood Station, to Franklin and, on the 
3d of March, Mr. Rowland was in the recon- 
noissance towards Thompson's Station and was 
in the disastrous action on the 4th at the latter 
place with the command under LieiUenant- 
Colonel Rloodgood. On the 8th he went to 
Brentwood Station ami on the 25th they were 
surrounded by the troops of Forrest and were 
obliged to surrender. They were taken to 
Libby prison where the\' were exchanged the 
following day. Mr. Rowland went to City 
Point, to Fortress Monroe and to Annapolis, 
whence he went to join the regiment at St. 
Louis, where he remained two months. He 
went to Nashville, thence to Franklin and 
Mvnfrecsboro where the winter was passtnl. In 
the spring the regiment went to the Chatta- 
hoochie River, being assigned to the 2d Brigade, 
under Butterlield. He was next in action at 
Resaca, where Company F lost heavily in 
killed and wounded. He fought at Buzzard's 
Roost, Cassville, and in the several actions 
known as Kenesaw Mountain. He was at 
Peach Tree Creek and afterward went to the 
river, while Sherman moved to the right of At- 
lanta. After the siu'render which released him 
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the sea. After the surrender of Savannah he 
went Northward with the army and was at 
Goldshoro and Raleigh. He went tlience to 
Richmond, where Hallec]< desired to review tlie 
troops of Sherman liut " Uncle Billy " stoutly 
resisted such a course and declared that " if he 
could not see Richmond without a review he 
would march his men round that city. " June 
12, 1865, after witnessing and participating in 
the Review in Washington in May, Mr. Row- 
land was mustered out and returned to Racine 
and resumed his former business. 

He was married Oct. 15, 1859, to Elizabeth, 
daughter of .J. N. Davis, and their children 
were named .John D., Sarah J., David, Annie 
Jane and Daniel. Jane died in 18G3 and 
Daniel in 1878. The family have the gift of 
song which characterizes the Welsh and several 
of the children rank high as vocalists. Mr. 
Rowland served six years on the School Board 
of Racine and acted in the capacity of Alder- 
man about four years. His half brother, John 
D. Morgan, was in the same regiment, passed 
through the same experiences until Brentwood 
Station and died at Nashville, March 25, 1863. 
His body was brought to Racine for burial. 



^„^^g^*.H^ 

AMES R. SPENCER, an attorney at 
Waukesha, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 19, was born Nov. 10, 1844 in 
Cortland county. New York. His parents, 
James and Bethia (Bennett) Spencer, removed 
to Pennsylvania about 1846 and settled on the 
Susquehanna River on a farm where the son 
remained until he attained the age of 19 years. 
He enlisted in February, 1864, and joined 
Company F, 52d Pennsylvania Infantry as a 
recruit, reaching the regiment within 10 days 
after enrolling. The command was engaged 
in the siege of Charleston and Mr. Spencer 



performed duty on .James and Morris Islands 
in the harbor, connected with the operations 
that resulted in the surrender of the city, which 
may be considered as the cradle of rebellion. 
The islands in possession of the United States 
troops were covered with batteries and the 
infantry fought as artillerymen, enduring 
great hardship and exposure, and subjected to 
many dangers which have received little recog- 
nition at the hands of the historian. On one 
end of Morris Island the rebels had huge bat- 
teries, the guns, in some instances being so 
large a man could creep into them. (The 
"Swamp Angel, " belonging to the Union army, 
was an eight-inch gun). The firing of the 
Union troops upon the city was so effective that 
not a building upon the seaboard remained 
intact at the date of the iall of Charleston. Mr. 
Spencer in March, 1865, with his regiment, 
went to Newbern to join Sherman's army when 
he arrived on the coast, and was assigned to 
the command which went with the great leader 
who had broken the backbone of the confeder- 
acy, to the finale at Goldsboro and Raleigh 
and witnessed the surrender of .Joe Johnston, 
April 26th. He remembers the excitement 
that prevailed on the receipt of the news of the 
assassination of the President and states that if 
the battle which was impending had been 
fought, the results to the rebels would have 
been something that would have made a sor- 
rowful page of history. His regiment went to 
Salisbury, where he remained until July, when 
he went to Harrisburg, Pa., and was mustered 
out at Camp Curtin, July 22, 1865. His dis- 
cbarge was dated at Salisbury, July r2th. 

After tlie war, Mr. Spencer followed the trade 
of a carpenter for several years. In 1866 he 
went to Wisconsin, locating at Brookfield where 
he resided until 1870 when he went to Wau- 
kesha. He entered the law office of W. S. 
Hawkins and read for his profession under hi§ 



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instructions until he was admitted to the Bar 

in .lune, 1S72. Since that date lie lias been 
engaged in the duties of an attorney. He is 
prominent in political circles, lias served two 
years as Ciiairnian of the County Republican 
Committee and also in several municipal 
offices. He has served eight years as Justice 
and five years as one of the Special Ti'oasury 
agents of Waukesha county. In 1885 he acted 
as Supervisor. He is prominent as a Mason 
and Odd Fellow and as a (irand Army man. 
He was a charter member of his Post and 
served as Adjutant three years. He has been 
Commander two years, several times delegate 
to State Encampments ami was delegate to the 
National Encampment at St. Louis in 1887. 
He was Aid on the personal stall' of Com- 
mander-in-Chief Rea. The maternal grand- 
father of Mr. Spencer was a soldier of 1S12 and 
his only brother, Wm. L S])eiicer, was a soldier 
in the 177th Pennsylvania Infantry. 

Tiie marriage of Mr. Spencer to Elizabeth A. 
Chamberlain took place Sept. 5, 1872, and their 
children are named Grace B., Jessie M. and 
Bessie A. Tiie father of Mi's. Spencer and two 
brothers, named respectively Eugene R. and 
George L, were soldiers in Wisconsin regiments 
during the war. 



^^^ ZRA L. MOWliRS, La Crosse, Wis., 



iTTT^— V member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 
^^ ^ born March 6, 1842, at Albanj', New 
York. His father, Jacob Mowers, was born in 
Herkimer Co., New York, and married Almina 
Hall, a native of Schoiiarie county in the same 
State. The lineage of Mr. Mowers in the pa- 
ternal line descends from the stock tliat settled 
the Mohawk Valley and which included the 
Van Rens.'selaers, Herkimers and Astors, and 
in the maternal line he is of English extrac- 



; tion. His grandfather, Peter Mowers, was a 
soldier in the Indian wars, in the war of the 
Revolution and 1812. The wife of the latter 
was a pioneer child in the neighborhood of 
malicious Indians and passed through terrible 
experiences when the country was all frontier, 
one of which was having her coil of hair shot 
off l)y an Indian arrow. The father of Mr. 
Mower was a blacksmith and farmer and went 
West with his family in 1844, crossing the 
lakes to Racine, Wisconsin, and driving thence 
to Lake county, Illinois, and locating at what 
is now Half Day, and where he still resides; 
his wife died in 1879 near Albany, N. Y. The 
children were named Ezra, George, John, 
Frank and Alice. Mr. Mowers obtained an ad- 
vanced degree of education at the Waukegan 
Academy after leaving the common school. 

He was 19 years old when the events which 
preceded the war interested his attention and 
when State organizations were being formetl he 
joined one at Half Day in" April, 1861. Soon 
after came the call of the President for 75,000 
troops and with his company he was mustered 
into the U. S. service, May 24, 1861, in Com- 
pany 1, 15th Illinois Infantry, with T. J. Turner 
as Colonel. The former organization had head- 
quarters in the old " Patterson " house and 
after drilling two weeks enlisted for three 
months. The 15th went into rendezvous at 
Freeport, Illinois, and on being mustered in, 
enlisted for three years' service. About the 
middle of June they went to Alton and became 
a ])ortion of a l>rigade under Colonel Hecker. 
Aliout the middle of Jul\- the regiment 
received orders to go to St. Charles, Mo., 
and thence went to Mexico in pursuit of bush- 
whackers. The next removal was to Fulton, 
-Mo., and, three weeks later, another movement 
was made to St. Aubert, Mo., whence the com- 
mand embarked for St. Louis. Orders were 
there received to proceed to Rolla and there the 



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command went into camp. Mr. Mowers was 
taken sick and obtained leave of absence, re- 
joining liis regiment at Sedalia six weeks later. 
In February they were ordered out of winter ^ 
quarters for St. Louis and thence went to Fort 
Donelson, Tenn., arriving just after the termina- 
tion of the action and were placed on duty as 
guard of the rebel prisoners. March 5, 1862, 
a movement to Fort Henry was made and I 
thence to Pittsburg Landing, for assignment 
to Gen. Stephen A. Ilurlbut's Division. II is 
command was in the tight at Sliiloh in which 
nearly half of Company I were killed or 
wounded and he helped bury 144 of his regi- 
ment. The siege of Corinth followed and after- 
wards Mr. Mowers was in the chase to Holly 
Springs, going next to Grand .Junction. He 
was in the second action at Holly Sj)rings, and 
went to La Grange and thence to Memphis to 
camp after the action at Moscow. He went | 
with Ilurlbut's Division to Bolivar and to 
Hatchie and was in the fight there with Price 
and Van Dorn, returning to Bolivar with an 
escort for 1,400 prisoners. There tlie 13th 
Corps was organized, including the 2d Brigade 
and 3d Division under Hurlbut and the next 
movement of that command was to Holly 
Springs and Oxford, Miss. \'an Dorn was 
threatening the supply ])Ost of Holly Springs 
and they fell back there and to Franklin, where 
they went into winter quarters. In the spring 
of 1863 the command started on the Vicksburg 
campaign, went to Memphis and Young's 
Point, up the Yazoo River and to Haines' 
Bluff. The regiment took position on the ex- 
treme left in McClernand's command and 
passed through the siege of Vicksburg, remain- 
ing until after the surrender, when they were 
transferred to the 17th Corps. They were in 
the action at Jackson, having fought at Cham- 
pion's Hill, drove out the rebels under .Johnston 
and went to Natchez. They returned to \lcks- 



burg and went next to the Meridian expedition, 
where Mr. Mowers took part in the work of de- 
struction under Sherman. The winter was 
passed at Vicksburg and in the spring of 1864 
the command went to Cairo, where the 17th 
Corps was reorganized with General Blair in 
command. The next movement was to Clifton, 
up the Tennessee River and across to Ilunts- 
ville, Ala., and, while there, the three years' 
enlistment expired. Mr. Mowers went with the 
non-veterans to Nashville and Springfield, 111., 
and was mustered out in .June, 1864. 

He went home to Lake county and after 
some time went to Michigan and became in- 
terested in lumbering, remaining four years. 
In 1873 he went to La Crosse, Wis., and 
engaged with the La Crosse Lumber Company, 
and later with C. L. Coleman ; afterwards he 
entered the employ of McDonald Bros., as a 
scaler and filer, in which capacity he is acting 
in 1890. He was married Sept. 15, 1864, at 
Racine, Wis., to Mary Leonard, and they have 
a child named Elmer, born Jan. 1, 1876. 

NDREW JACKSON WARD, M. D., 
^ Madison, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Po.st No. 11, was born in New Mil- 
ford, Susquehanna Co., Pennsylvania, March 1, 
1824. He is the son of William and Sallie 
(Briggs) Ward, both of whom were of sturdy 
Puritan ancestry and genuine Yankees of the 
most decided claims. The son was reared in 
his native State, received a careful primary 
education under the guidance of judicious 
parents and early determined on the profession 
of a physician as his chosen calling. He ob- 
tained a training of broader range at the 
academies in Montro-se and Towanda in the 
Keystone State and entered the office of Dr. 
Case, of Howard Flats, Steuben Co., New York, 




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and in 1843, attended liis first course of lectures 
at tlie University of Pennsylvania at Pliila- 
deli)liia, and, after three terms of tiiorougli 
prei)aration at that institution, he opened his 
active practice at Painted Post, in the county 
where he first studied. He was a reading, ob- 
servant man and saw in the advent of the 
Mexican war a possihle opening for a school of 
practice his course of study had not supplied 
to him, and he hastened to New York, after six 
months, to enlist in Stevenson's New Yurk 
\'oluiiteers. The regiment went from the 
rendezvous at Governor's Island to the after- 
ward "Golden State" via Cape Horn, arriving 
in the spring of 1847. He was first ordered to 
Sonoma in the capacity of Medical Officer and, 
soon after, was stationed at Sutter's Fort and 
was there when the gold excitement awakened 
the interest of the country. While lie was at 
Sutter's Fort a dinner was given to General 
Kearney, (shot at Chantilly in the civil war, 
Sept. 1, 18()2), Indian boys being employed as 
waiters on tliat festive occasion who presented 
themselves for duty in primitive condition, and 
it became necessary to institute a requisition 
for shirts for tiie brigade of dinner assistants to 
sustain the dignity of the affair. Wiien General 
Kearney arrived, General Fremont was there 
and refused to salute his brother officer, was 
placed under arrest, tried by court-martial fur 
conduct unbeconiijig an oflicer and gentleman 
and was acquitted and saved from the punish- 
ment in such cases made and provided by the 
intervention of his father-in-law, Tliomas H. 
Benton. (Alx)ut tlie date of this writing, July, 
1890, Fremont passed away in New York). 
This affair occurred in 1847. A detacliment 
from tlie regiirient was sent to San Luis Key, 
Lower California, where he remained until the 
fall of 1849, when the regiment was disbanded. 
(Sherman's Memoirs, Page 39, mentions this 
fact.) After he was mustered out Dr. Ward 



practiced medicine at Sutter's Fort one year 
and then returned East on the steamer Oregon 



)\- tile way of Panama, actiu' 



liis capacity 



of a jihysician and surgeon. 

He went to ^\'asllington and remained a 
short time and went thence to North Carolina; 
after a few mouths he went to Madison, Wis- 
consin, reaching that place about the first of 
July, 1850. After practicing medicine actively 
ten years, in 1860 he went to the scenes of ex- 
citement ill Denver, Colorado, and the Rocky 
Mountains. lie was there about a year and 
became connected with the history of that lo- 
cality in the capacity of a medical man. He 
obtained a knowledge of all the settled portions 
in that vicinity and with it an acquaintance 
with many men whose names became public 
property through their connection with tlie in- 
teresting events of that section. He was with 
Major II. II. Sibley at Taos, New Mexico, when 
a courier arrived from Denver in haste, an- 
nouncing the attack on Sumter. Impelled 
by the spirit of sires wiio luul fouglit to estab- 
lish the Government, Dr. Ward waited for no 
particulars, Ijut sjirang impetuously to his am- 
bulance, wliicii was in waiting for him to 
linisii tlie civilities of guest at tea with the ma- 
jor, and made his return with all possible dis- 
patch to Denver, a distance of '250 miles, 
through territory infested with hostile Indians 
and wholly uninhabited by white men. He 
reached his destination without being molested, 
sold his amliulanco and dejiarted by stage to 
Leavenworth, and took tlie boat for St. Louis, 
where he was a witness of the tremendous ex- 
citement in a State where the factions of the 
Union and rebellion were striving for sway. 
Col. Frank P. Blair was engaged in raising a 
Union regiment and offered Dr. Ward a posi- 
tion as surgeon, which the latter refused, pre- 
ferring to return to Madison, regarding Wiscon- 
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accredited, ami lie arrived in its capital city 
within tlie same mouth which saw the inaug- 
uration of rebellion. The first regiments were 
already on their way to the field and the 5th 
Infantry was being organized. Dr. Ward re- 
ceived an appointment for a temporarj'^ position 
as surgeon with it and, after the first battle of 
Bull Run, Governor Randall telegraphed in- 
structions for the immediate attendance of Dr. 
Ward at Washington and on his arrival there 
he was commissioned Surgeon of the 2d Wis- 
consin Infantry, Dr. J. M. Lewis having been 
cajitured by the rebels. From this date until 
in the autumn of 1863, the histor\^ of the Iron 
Brigade is that of one of its surgeons who was 
never absent from his post. (When he joined 
his conuuand the regiment was brigaded under 
(then) Col. W. T. Sherman. Calling at his 
tent one day for a pass, he was regarded by the 
grim soldier with curious interest. "I ought 
to know }'ou ; " said the officer, " did you not 
jiull a tooth for me with a claw hammer at 
Sutter's Fort in (California in 1848. " Tiie hero 
of the backbone ejiisode of tiie war was then a 
li<'utenantin the regular army.) He discharged 
his duties at the various positions on the Rap- 
pahannock, at Gainesville, 2d Bull Run, An- 
tietam, Fredericksburg, Fitzhugh's Crossing, 
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. 

Dr. Ward describes the battle of Gainesville 
as particularly severe, and states that the loss 
in the fighting on August 28th, 29th and 30th 
as appalling, the regiment going into action 
with about 430 men and losing 297 in killed, 
wounded and missing. He was in charge of 
about 200 wounded on the field of his own 
command and with them was captured by the 
rebels. His horse, a very fine bay, was appro- 
priated by "Extra Billy Smith," of unwhole- 
^(ime rel)el notoriety, and his .saddle became 
the property of one of the "Virginia Tullivers," 

Dr. Ward 



commanding 



a rebel brigade. 



chafed for a few days over the discomforts to 
which his wounded were subjected and, finally, 
with characteristic energy resolved to make his 
way to the commander of the confederate army 
and urge the necessities of his men. He found 
General Lee at his headquarters, five miles 
away, was received with true Virginian cour- 
tesy and his complaint was heeded in a practical 
manner, the rebel chief ordering his own son 
to go with a flag of truce to the Union com- 
mander notifying him that permission was 
granted to collect the wounded of the Union 
troops in rebel custody from the named fields 
and to transfer them to the Union lines. Dr. 
Ward had candidly stated that he wanted for 
his men, not only needed supplies, but transfer 
to tiie Union lines, and it is recorded as a mat- 
ter of perhaps heretofore unwritten history 
that he obtained the relief and transfer, not 
onl}' of the wounded under his immediate care, 
Ijut those within the rebel line. His arrange- 
ment with Lee was telegraphed to Washington 
and the Surgeon-General forwarded all the 
aniliulances, carriages and vehicles obtainable 
that could be aj)pro|iriated to the service in 
question. Dr. AVard accompanied the first 
train of several hundred wounded mvn and 
gave his personal attention to their distribu- 
tion in the hospitals in and around Washing- 
ton, returning to his command just in time to 
take charge of the wounded at South Moun- 
tain. 

When the first day's fighting at Gettysburg 
was ended, Dr. Ward was left in charge of all 
the wounded of the 1st Army Corps, number- 
ing about 2,119, among them being General 
Lucius Fairchild, whose arm he amputated. 

In the fall of 1863 the command went into 
winter quarters with Di-. Ward as Medical Di- 
rector of the 1st Division, 1st Army C'orps. In 
the spring of 1864, the Division witli the rest 
of the army of Grant crossed the Rapidan, 



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and at a breakfast to which General Wads- 
woi'tli, Divisiuii Coiiiiiiandcr, iiivitt<l his I'litire 
staff, the host remarked in tlie course of tiie 
meal, "If we got through this all right, I will 
invite you all to spend tlie winter with me on 
my plantation in Florida." The gallant ofHcer 
led liis men to the Wilderness where he 
was shot May Gth. The command engaged 
in the lights in the Wilderness and lost very 
heavily. Dr. Wan! and his assistants attended 
and sent to tlie rear !*00 wounded, many 
of whom had suffered the amputation of an 
arm or leg, all being transj)orted in army 
wagons on pine bushes a distance of 30 miles 
across the country to Fredericksburg. At 
Kjiottsylvania, Colonel Ilarshaw, State Treas- 
urer of Wisconsin at tliis writing, 1889, had an 
arm amputated by Dr. Ward. 

When the 2d Wisconsin veteranized. Dr. 
Ward was commissioned surgeon of the 43d 
Wisconsin Infantry, which was enlisted and 
organized in July and August, 1864, and joined 
the command at .lohnsonvillc, Tenn. Alter a 
few days' looking over the situation, he took 
charge of a considerable number of sick and 
wounded, accompanying them to Nashville. 
On reporting to Dr. Mitchell, Medical Director 
of the Department, he was met with, "My God ! 
Dr. Ward! is it you? Where have you been 
all these years — since 1846? You are just the 
man I want to see here." Through the iii- 
lluence of his classmate at the University of 
Philadel])hia, he received a staff' appointment 
with tienoral Thomas, whose army was falling 
back to Nashville with Hood on its heels. Dr. 
Ward was, in his position of Inspector of all the 
hospitals in the city and vicinity, directed to 
order out all convalescents able lo perform 
military duty and, under his directions, 2,000 
invalids went into the trenches. After matters 
had quieted. Dr. Ward conducted an ambulance 
train, conveying sick and injured soldiers from 



Knoxville, ChatUmooga and Huntsville to 
Nashville. After Jmc's surrender he resigned 
his commission and returned to Madison, where 
he received an appointment as Surgeon at 
Camp Randall in the same year. Later lie was 
breveted Lieutenant-Colonel by President .John- 
son for meritorious service. Since 1860, with 
the exceiition of the period of the Cleveland ' 
adminislralion, Dr. Ward has acted as Pension 
Examiner, lacing re-appointed by President 
Harrison in May, 1889. He is one of the most 
respected citizens of Madison and enjoys a sub- 
stantial practice. He possesses a character full 
of traits which render him conspicuous for 
integrity, jniblic spii'it and energy. He has 
been popular in bis business and social rela- 
tions and hi all his connections with his gen- 
eration has received the trust and esteem to 
which bis career entitles him. He was a 
charter member of C. C. Washliurn Post, for- 
merly Cassius Fairchild Post. In 1S8S he was 
apjiointed by the Department Commander to 
111! a vacancy as State Surgeon of the G. A. R. 
of Wisconsin. 

He was mairicd in August, 184(i, to Ellen 
McConnell and lliey have had two children. 
Jessie is deceased and Elizabeth is the widow 
of Charles Atwood, formerly ^'ice-Consul to 
Liverpool. (Sec sketch of Gen. David Atwood). 

The portrait of Dr. Ward which aj)pears on 
page 700, will give satisfaction to Wisconsin 
soldiers to an extraordinary degree. 

:\ IIHJP CHEEK, Jr., Haraboo, Wiscon- 
sin, charter member of G. A. R. Post 
No. 9, (Joe Hooker) was born May 11, 
1841, in Silverion, Somersetshire, England, of 
which Cuuntry his parents were nativcsand de- 
scended from a line of unmixed English ances- 
try. He is the son of Philip and Hannah 




PERSONAL RECORDS. 



711 



(Gunningliara) (Jlieek. In 1852, tlie senior 
Clieek removed liis family to America, reacli- 
ing tills country April 1st and locating in 
Newark, New Jersey, where he remained two 
years and removed thence to Pawtucket, Rhode 
Islan<], where he resided the same length of 
time. In May, 1S5G, he settled in Excelsior, 
Sauk Co., Wis., where his son was a resident 
until 1870 when he moved to Baraboo. The 
latter was essentially a farmer until 1S70, wlien 
he severed his active connection with the busi- 
ness of an agriculturist. He was almost 
twenty years of age when the civil war came 
on, and developed to his understanding his obli- 
gations as a future citizen of a land disturbed 
by internecine differences. He read his duty 
clearly in the progress of events and resolved 
to enter the service of the country which guar- 
anteed to him the possession of his rights and 
privileges as a man, and enrolled as a defender 
of her flag. 

He enlisted May 10, 1861, in Comjiany A, 
6th Wisconsin Infantry, unconsciously carving 
his name on a roster which tells its stor}' to the 
world on every page of the history of the war 
as the "Iron Brigade." After rendezvous at 
Camp Randall, Madison, he was mustered Jul}' 
IGth and was with his command when it left 
for Washington on the 28th. In camp at Ar- 
lington Heights, he received full instruction 
in the ways of the warfare he was expected to 
participate in during the months that were im- 
mediately at hand. An advance of the army 
was confidently anticipated, not only by the 
whole country, but by the soldiers of the Army 
of Virginia. But all were doomed to the dis- 
appointment of delay and the winter was 
passed in drill, parade and review. March lU, 
1802, a movement was made on Manassas ; and 
after the evacuation, the command went to 
Alexandria, later going to position on tlie Rap- 
pahannock, where the regiments of the brigade 



engaged in such service as the emergency de- 
manded, building jwntoons and guarding 
bridges and blockhouses. In May, the com- 
mand expected to form the advance of the 
reinforcements for the army of McClellan, but 
went instead to connect with Shields to prevent 
the retreat of Jackson from the valley of the 
Shenandoah. They returned to Falmouth and 
in July took part in a scrimmage in the vicinity 
of Spottsylvania C. H., engaged in the destruc- 
tion of railroad projierty and other rebel sin- 
ews of war, returning to Spottsylvania. They 
were in the skirmish at Beverly Ford, fought 
again at Sulphur .Springs, and, two days later, 
Mr. Cheek helped win his honors as a member 
of the Iron Brigade in the bloody fight at 
Gainesville. He was again in action at the 2d 
Bull Run, where, as well as in the former ac- 
tion, the loss to the brigade was terrible. He 
was in the preparations for the subsequent ac- 
tions resulting from Lee's invasion of Mary- 
land ; and, after the chase, Mr. Cheek was again 
in l)attle at South Mountain and in the pursuit 
of the rebels on the loth of September and on 
the following day, and fought them again at 
Antietam. The heroic service of the "Iron 
Brigade" on those days will never be told in all 
its strength ; men came thence so dazed by the 
rapidity of the action and the accumulation of 
horrors, that they could not speak of what they 
had witnessed. The company of Mr. Cheek 
went into battle at South Mountain with 44 
men ; three men and a sergeant responded at 
roll call on the ITth after the battle of Antietam. 

Mr. Cheek was among the severely wounded. 
A piece of shell struck him in his right ankle 
and he was taken from the field to the house 
of a Union citizen of Reedsville, Md., whence 
he was sent to Washington for examination 
and where he received honorable discharge as 
unfit for further military duty, Dec. 18, 1SG2. 

He returned to Baraboo, wholly disabled and 



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was unable to resume active labor until the 
following summer. Nov. 15, 1863, he was ap- 
pointed Deputy Provost Marshal of the 3d 
Congressional District of Wisconsin under 
Captain .John (i. Clark of Lancaster. In 1870 
he was made Clerk of the Circuit Court of 
Sauk county and, during six years of service 
as such, read law and fitted for admission to 
the Bar, which ceremony took place Jan. 1, 
1876. He opened liis husiness as a lawyer at 
IJaraboo and practiced there until .January, 
1S87, meanwhile serving five years as District 
Attorney. In 188G he was elected Commis- 
sioner of Insurance <in tlie Republican ticket 
and was re-elected in 1888; he is still holding 
the incumbency in 1890. 

The personal connection of Mr. Cheek with 
Grand Army matters in the State of Wiscon- 
sin entitles him to special cre<lit in that rela- 
tion. He was a charter inemlier of his Post, 
was its first Commander and is holding that 
jwsition at this writing. In 1SS3-4 he was 
Commander of the l)ej)artnu'nt of Wisconsin. 
In 1885-6 he was Assistant Adjutant-(!cneral 
of the Department and, during the adminis- 
tration of Commander-in-Chief Fairchild, was 
Senior Aid-de-Canij) on his staff. In the sev- 
eral National Encampments, he has performed 
effective service, in view of whicli, he is one of 
the most popular and thoroughly appreciated 
members of the fraternity. At the date of bis 
war service, Mr. Cheek was an alien under the 
laws of his adopted country, of wiiich he did 
not become a citizen until January, 1869. lie 
is a member of the Order of Masons. 

July 20, 1801, he was married to Catherine, 
daughter of Henry and Mary Faller. Three 
children were the issue of the marriage. Rob- 
ert W. was killed by a stroke of lightning, 
April J4, 1880, when fifteen and a half years 
of age; Arthur W. was born March 11, 1867; 
Catherine Jane was born Jan. 31, 1873. The 



brothers and sisters of Mr. Cheek were named 
as follows: Jane, Sarah A., Robert, Hannah and 
Elizabeth, and Jane and Robert are deceased. 
The latter was a soldier in Company A, 19th 
Wisconsin Infantry, and was killed Aug. 7, 
18(!4, at Petersburg, Va. 




OLONEL MILES L. BUTTERFIELD, 
Waukesha, Wis., a member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 19, was born Nov. 27, 1837, 
in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, and in 1842 his par- 
ents, David and Susan (Case) Butterfield, 
removed to Knightstown, Henry Co., Ind. 
The mother died there in 1854 and the father 
survived until 1880, dying at the age of 74 
years. Of their nine children only four are 
living. They are Mrs. Harriet Shelley, Sylves- 
ter, who fought in the war in an Ohio regi- 
ment under Sherman, Miles L. and John, who 
was in an Illinois regiment. Leon (deceased) 
was a soldier in the i»2d Indiana Infantry. 
Colonel Butterfield ])assed his youth in .school 
and, when about 16 years old, entered a shop 
to learn the trade of a carriage painter and 
trimmer. In 1855 he removed to Waukesha 
and engaged in business as a painter and 
worked in the car shops in Milwaukee for a 
time. He early determined to enlist when the 
war came on, and enrolled May 10, 1861, in 
the Waukesha LTnion Guards, which was mus- 
tered as Company F, 5th Wisconsin Infantry. 
He made himself familiar with military tactics 
and ilrilled his company both before and after 
muster, and on the organization was made 
Orderly Sergeant. The command went from 
Camp Randall, Madison to Washington and 
was ordered forward to the Army of the Poto- 
mac just after the first battle of Bull Run. 
The winter was passed at Camp tiritlln on 
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started for tliu Maiiiissas campaign, returned to 
Alexandria and went next to tlie Peninsula. 
In the action of April 4th, a nieniber of Com- 
pany F was the first man wounded. The regi- 
ment was in the subsequent movements until 
tlie evacuation of Yorktown and battle of 
Williamsburg, where they elicited the only 
.speech McClellan ever made to a command. 
Company F was in all the movements of the 
Cliickahominy campaign, fighting at Golden's 
Farm, Savage Station and White Oak Swamp 
Bridge on the retreat to Malvern Hill, and 
being constantly under fire until jirior to 
arrival at Harri-son's Landing. In August the 
finale of the " change of base " was made, 
McClellan's army leaving the Peninsula. The 
regiment moved to clieck Lee's career in Mary- 
land and passed a period under constant assault 
until the l;)attle of South Mountain and Antie- 
tam, Sept. 17th, three days later tiian Cramp- 
ton's Gap. Next in order was the fight at 
Fredericksburg, occupying four days in Decem- 
ber and on the 25th Sergeant Butterfield was 
promoted to 2d Lieutenant. He was in everj' 
action in which his command participated 
after this campaign ; fought in the charge at 
Marye's Heigiits, Salem Church, Gettysburg, 
Rappahannock Station, Locust Grove (Mine 
Hun), battles of the Wilderness including , 
Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor and siege of 
Petersburg, and went to the defense of Wash- ' 
ington in July, 1864. There the veterans and 
recruits were formed into an Independent Bat- 
talion, three comj^anies being constituted, with 
Miles L. Butterfield as Captain of Comj)any C. 
Tiie battalion went to the valley of the Siien- 
andoali where it was joined by seven com- 
panies from Wisconsin under Colonel T. S. 
Allen, and Captain Butterfield was at the head 
of his men in the operations under Sheridan 
which form one of the most prominent fea- 
tures of the war. After that campaign under 



Sheridan the regiment went to the trenches at 
Petersburg and was in tlie reconnoissance at 
Hatcher's Run February 5th, 1865. March 
25th he was in the charge along the whole 
rebel line of outposts and, April 2d, he was in 
the action which opened the gates of Peters- 
burg. Before day the charge was made and 
the 5tli planted the first Union colors above 
the citadel. The regiment was in the pursuit 
and Captain Butterfield went through to the 
finish, fighting at Little Sailors' Creek and 
witnessing the final scenes at Appomattox. 
He started with his command for connection 
with Sherman to assist in the finish with Joe 
Johnston, but received at Danville the news of 
the surrender and returned North, making 
one of the severest marches accomplished by 
the regiment during its service. 

Following are the dates of the promotions of 
Colonel Butterfield after passing the non-com- 
missioned grades: Second Lieutenant, Dec. 25, 
1862; First Lieutenant, March 1, 1863; Cap- 
tain, Jan. 28, 1864; he was breveted Major of 
the 5th to rank as such from Sept. 19, 1864, 
"for gallant conduct through the Wilderness 
Campaign, in the battle of Winchester, etc." 
He was comniLssioned as Lieutenant Colonel of 
the 5th, ranking as such from April 6, 1865, 
"for gallant and meritorious services before 
Petersburg and Little Sailors' Creek." At the 
last named action Major (then) Butterfield, with 
two other men capjtured Custis Lee, a son of the 
rebel chief, together with five other rebel 
officers. No man is regarded with more re- 
spect and honor as having a high record than 
Colonel Butterfield. His relics of the war are 
interesting and entertaining and one of them 
is a necktie worn by Sheridan while on his 
way to Winchester which Colonel Butterfield 
saw fall to the ground while the furious general 
was on his way "to lick them out of their boots." 
Following is the correspondence relating to the 



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article: "Nov. 21, 18G4. General: On the 
lOtii of September, while you were riding along 
the front lines, just as you were passing our 
regiment the enclosed "necktie," having l)e- 
come loosened, fell to the ground ; 1 iiad the 
honor of picking it uji; I jirize it highl}' as a 
memento of that hard fought battle and 
glorious victory and will be grateful if you will 
be i)leased to return it to me that I may, on 
some future day, show it to my friends as the 
"necktie" that fell from General Sheridan's 
neck as he rode along the front lines at the 
battle of Winchester, Sept. 19, 1864, picked up 
by myself. Hoping you will ever be victorious 
as on that memorable day, I have Ihe honor, 
etc.. Miles L. Butterlield." 

The "necktie" came back accompanied by the 
following autograph letter: "My Dear Cap- 
tain: 1 return to you the "necktie" — will be 
glad if you will keep it, and I thank j'ou for 
your well wishes. Phil. H. Sheridan, Major 
General." 

Colonel Butterfield was the Union officer 
who received the surrender of Petersburg, as 
stated by Chas. H. Harrimau in a despatch to 
the New York Herald. He was in command 
of a division and was in charge of the front 
lines. The abstract of the message was to the 
purport that W. \V. Town, Mayoi', W. R. Mal- 
lory, Ciiairnian of the Council, C. F. Collier, 
City Treasurer, and Rev. D. W. Paul came out 
to the South Side and were met by General 
Edwards and Colonel Naylor, Corps and Divi- 
sion Commanders, and also Ijy Major M. L. 
Butterfield of General Wheaton's statt' to whom 
the Mayor presented a letter for transmission 
to General Grant or any other general ollicer, 
stating that the city had been abandoned by 
Lee's army and would be surrendered to the 
Union troops. Colonel Butterfield received 
the surrender and it was sent to Major-General 
Wright, who returned an answer to the efifect 



that General Parkes had entered the city from 
the other side and any furtlier proceedings 
would be unnecesPary. The Mayor was ac- 
companied to his house by Major Butterfield 
and met there Roger A. Pryor, who stated to 
him that he had abandoned the Southern con- 
federacy as he believed the cause a complete 
failure. Mr. Collier took Colonel Butterfield 
to his house and told him he would oflTer liira 
some breakfast but was obliged to confess that 
he had none for him.self, such was the strait 
to which the city was reduced. 

January 5, 1865, Colonel Butterfield was ap- 
pointed Division Engineer on the staff of 
Major-General Wheaton, and is in possession 
of the topograpliical maps jirepared by him- 
self on the field, showing j)osition of approach- 
ing troops, etc., etc. June 1 1, 18GG, he received 
theofferofaljieutenant-Colonerscommission in 
the regular army from the War Dejiartment, 
to be assigned to the 16th U. S. Regulars, sta- 
tioned in Louisiana and sent three months 
later to the plains. But he did not accept. He 
did not pass through the service unharmed or 
unacquainted with the casualties of war. May 
10, 186-1, he received a l)ullet in his left leg 
but continued at his post of duty. Si.K months 
later the wound raged afresh, causing him 
more trouble than at first. One of his posses- 
sions as memento of his immediate command 
is a complete and well-arranged original mus- 
ter roll of his companj'. Since his return to 
private life he has been an unassuming busi- 
ness man of Waukesha, resting on his honors 
which rest easily on him. He was the second 
Commander of his Post, and is active in tlie 
reconstructed organization. He belongs to the 
Masons, to the Royal Arcanum and Royal 
Adelphia and was the first President of the 
Sheep Breeders and Wool Growers Association 
of Waukesha Co., Wis. He has held the 
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a military officer of aflvanced rank is always 
in demand on military occasions. He luls 
been an active member of the Wankeslia 
County Agricultural Society 17 years, serving 
in its various official capacities. His private 
business is of extensive relations and he em- 
])loys a large force of men. 

In character he represents the old school of 
gentlemen, is modest, unassuming and genial 
with all, securing liost of friends. 

He was married at Waukesha, Wis., Nov. 
24, 1863, to Elizabeth Ten Eyck. She is a 
native of New York and daughter of Matthias 
Ten Eyck. Two sons born of this union sur- 
vive. Claude is his father's associate in busi- 
ness ; Guy A. is in the office of the Waukesha 
Journal. 




ANS BOEBEIv, Milwaukee, Wis., was 
^^^^^ born March 10, 1829 in Bavaria, 
Germany. His father, Fred Adam 
Boebel, was a representativeof the better class of 
German citizenship, whose generations fulfilled 
the requirements of the government in educa- 
tion, business and military obligations. He 
was a tailor and passed his whole life in his 
native country and both himself and wife died 
in Bavaria. He married Johanna Arnold and 
five of their 12 children are living. They are 
Mrs. Sophia Graf, Conrad Boebel, Mrs. Babette 
Dresendoalfer, Mrs. Marie Kalb, and Mr. Boe- 
bel of this sketch. The latter passed his youth 
in acquiring his education, learning his trade 
of his father and in conformity with the legal 
code of his country, which regulates the rear- 
ing of every male child. In the spring of 1852 
he came to America and, after passing some 
time in New York he went to Milwaukee, fol- 
lowing his trade in both places. 

When the call for troops was made in the 



first pangs of tlie trouble caused by rebellion, 
he felt himself under obligations to respond to 
the demand of his adopted country for men to 
suppress the war inaugurated by fratricidal 
traitors, as he felt that all he had hoped and 
striven for was imperiled. He was active in 
the raising and organizing of the Milwaukee 
Turner Company, and was made 2d Lieuten- 
ant. The organization went to Madison, re- 
ported for assignment for military service to 
Governor Randall and was mustered as Com- 
pany C, in the 5th Wisconsin Infantry. This 
ceremony was performed July r2th and five 
days later the regiment started for Washing- 
ton. The command was attached to King's 
brigade and in September was transferred to 
that of Hancock, in the right wing of the 
Army of ^'irginia, remaining until December, 
1861, when he resigned and returned to Mil- 
waukee. 

When the call for German troops was made 
by General Sigel in the summer of 1862, Mr. 
Boebel was active in the organization of a com- 
pany, devoting his entire energies to the re- 
cruiting of Company H, 26th Wi.sconsin 
Infantry and receiving a commission as Captain. 
The organization of the regiment was completed 
at Camp Sigel, Milwaukee, mustered Septem- 
ber 17, 1862, and left tiie State, October 6th ; 
went to Fairfax C. H., and was assigned to the 
3d Brigade under Krycanowski, Sigel's 11th 
j Army Corps. Captain Boebel was in military 
! duty until November 2d, when he marched with 
the regiment to Gainesville and afterwards to 
Centerville, and other points, and on the 9th of 
December, started to make connection with 
I Burnside at Falmouth. The battle of Fred- 
ericksburg was just ended when they reached 
the Rappahannock and the corps went into 
winter quarters at Stafford C. H., and remained 
until the opening of the campaign of 1863. In 
January Captain Boebel received his promotion 



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to the second highest rank in the regiment, 
that of Lieutenant-Colonel and was in his place 
of duty through the opening of the campaign. 
His regiment, brigade and corps were in the 
right wing in the lighting at Chancellorsville 
in which tlie 26th Wisconsin lost 37 killed, 117 
wounded, 20 prisoners and three missing. His 
next action was in the march after Lee, prior 
to the battle of Gettysburg and the regiment 
reached the field on the 1st day of July after 
the firing had commenced, the corps being as- 
signed to position in the right wing. Colonel 
Boebel was in command of his regiment and, 
with the entire corps, was compelled to reti'eat 
after the first action, joining the center of the 
army, falling back to Cemeter}^ Hill and losin'g 
from his command 41 killed, 137 wounded, 26 
prisoners and six missing. On the 1st day of 
July in the action referred to, he was wounded 
in his right leg by a minie ball and the leg 
was, soon after, injured again b}' a piece of 
shell. He lay on the field, first receiving atr 
tention from the surgeons July 4th, and, after 
undergoing amjmtiition, was transferred to the 
hospital near Gettysburg, where he remained 
until he was sent to Milwaukee in August. 
More than a year elapsed before he resumed 
connection with civil life. As soon as able, he 
accepted a position as clerk in the office of the 
City Treasurer of Milwaukee and served five 
years. In LS7J be was elected City Treasurer 
for two years and in 1874 was appointed Dep- 
uty Revenue Collector and acted in that capac- 
ity ten years. Siiattered health compelled his 
resignation of his duties and he has since been 
a j)rivate citizen. 

He was married May 1, 1880, at Milwaukee 
to Marie, daughter of John and Sophia Wolf. 
Mr. Boebel is a member of the Milwaukee 
Turnvereinand is a Rcj)ublican in jioiitics. In 
character he is a ty|)e of the best German citi- 
zenship and as such has served nobly in all his 



relations to his adopted Nationality. He was a 
brave soldier, shrinking never in the face of 
danger and received his honorable promotion 
as the reward of courage and ]>atriotism. In 
all his private relations he has sustained the 
same modest, loyal and manly course which 
made him jirominent in his army relations. 



^^ 



/<^ LIOT C. YOUNG, La Crosse, Wis., 



, ,, V member of G. A. K. Post No. 77, was 
born Oct. 3, 1841, in Cattaraugus, 
Venango Co., Pa., and is the son of Geo. W. 
and Eunice P. (Caswell) Young. The father 
and mother were, respect iveh', natives of Con- 
necticut and Rhode Island and both of English 
descent. In the sj)ring of 1860 the}' removed 
to Fayette Co., Iowa, and, four years later, went 
to Missouri, wliere the father died in Novem- 
ber, 1881, near St. Joe; the wife and mother 
died at Cattaraugus, Oct. 3, 1S41. The chil- 
dren, named in order of birth, Julius C, Sarah, 
George W., Oliver P., Jennie, Eliot C. and Ed- 
ward A. (twins), are all living, with the ex- 
ceptions of the two oldest sons. 

When seven years old (having lost his mother 
at his birth) Eliot went to live with his oldest 
brother and remained under Ins care until he 
entered the army when 20 years old. He re- 
ceived a good schooling and enlisted at Catta- 
raugus, Oct. 10, 1861, and was mustered into 
U. S. service Jan. 24, 1862, into Companj' H, 
111th Pennsylvania Infantry. The Colonel 
was named Slowdecker and the Lieutenant- 
Colonel, Geo. A. Cobham. After six weeks in 
rendezvous at Erie, Pa., the regiment went to 
Baltimore, thence to Harper's Ferry in March, 
1862, and Mr. Young was first in action at 
Charleston and in the retreat in which many 
lost tiieir equiimients. In the action at A\'in- 
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regiment passed tlimugh all tiie experiences of 
Banks' aimy in tlie valley of tlie Slicnandoali 
in 1S62, tigliting at Culpeper and going into 
the Manassas campaign to tight Aug. 30, 1862, 
in the second Bull Run. December IStli he 
was in the fight at Fredericlvsburg, after pass- 
ing through the campaign in Maryland, the 
troops of the Array of Virginia being con- 
solidated by McClellan in September. He 
fouglit at South Mountain and Antietam, Sep- 
tember 14th and 17th, and went into winter 
quarters at Aquia Creek, near Stafford C. H., 
with the 3d Brigade, 2d Division and 12tli 
Corps. In the spring of 18G3 the first duty of 
the regiment was on tlie picket line on the 
Ra])pahannock River, Mr. Young liaving been ! 
promoted to Corporal. He fought, after cross- 
ing the Rajiidan, at Chancellorsville, May 3d j 
and 4th, and went after the disastrous battle 
was over, in which the regiment lost many 
killed, wounded and prisoners, back to former 
camp and to Harper's Ferry. The next orders 
were to go after Lee in his Northward invasion 
and the regiment fought at Gettysburg, the 
loss being light in killud and wounded. The 
command was on guard duty at Harper's Ferry 
until Hooker, with the 11th and 12th Corps 
went to the relief of the Western army at Chat- 
tanooga, and Mr. Young was in the action Oct. 
26, 1863, at Wauliatchie and moved thence to 
Chattanooga and was in the fighting November 
23d, 24th and 2oth at Lookout Mountain and 
Mission Ridge. Hooker's command took Look- 
out Mountain on the 24th, the troops of his two 
corps lying on their arms all night previously 
and the fight commencing about four in the 
morning. A\'ith two comrades Mr. Young 
scaled a ladder leading up to a crevice, which 
had been placed there by the rebels, and they 
were the first to occupy the heights of Lookout 
after the rebels had lied. In the charge on 
Mission Ridge his regiment was near the center 



of the I'nion line and he was in the victorious 
movement on the ridge, afterwards chasing the 
rebels to Ringgold, where they found an old 
mill and a quantity of bran which they mixed 
with water, cooked and made of it their first 
meal that day. After a scrimmage at Ringgold 
they returned to Wauliatchie and Dec. 28, 1863, 
veteranizing took place. 

After his furlough, Mr. Young rejoined his 
command about the first of February at Wau- 
liatchie and was made Duty Sergeant. He 
went in the spring of 1804 to the Atlanta cam- 
paign and was with bis regiment in all the 
actions preceding the fall of the city, Sept. 
1, 1864. He fought atResaca, Buzzard's Roost, 
New Hope Church, the several actions at Ken- 
esaw Mountain, at Pine Knob and Peach Tree 
Creek, July 20th, wliei'e Colonel Cobham was 
killed. Afterwards, he was in the siege of 
Atlanta and after the surrender camped in the 
city, performing guard duty. He was then 
acting Sergeant Major and alter remaining at 
Atlanta until the re-organization for the march 
to the sea was completed. The city was burned 
November 14tb, and on the 15th they com- 
menced moving towards Savannah with one of 
Sherman's columns. After marching, skir- 
mishing, foraging, wading swamps, building 
roads and going through all that tlie march 
involved, he was in the siege of Savannah, 
performing provost duty there after the sur- 
render until .lanuary loth when the North- 
ward movement commenced. He was in the 
last action with .lohnston's troops at Benton- 
ville, N. C, the 20tli Corps reinforcing the 14th. 
Thence lie went to Raleigh and there they 
awaited the surrender of .Johnston which took 
place April 2Gth. He marched to Richmond 
and Wa.shington and was in the Grand Review. 
He was on guard at the prison where the con- 
spirators in the assassination of Lincoln were 
confined and afterwards went toCampCopeland 



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near Pittsburg for muster out July 19, 1865, 
and returned home. Tlie llltli was in .'35 
general engagements and the total loss of regi- 
ment was (i51 men. 

In tiie same year he went West and located 
at Clinton, Iowa, and engaged in the ice busi- 
ness, moving thence to Chicago, and was there 
when the great fire occurred and aided in 
clearing away the deljris. He went from there 
to North Bend, Wis., and operated there three 
years on the river police force. He removed 
to La Crosse where he had charge of the police 
at the mouth of the river, until the spring of 
1884, when he engaged with the Montrose 
Luml)er Company. April 1, 188"), he was ap- 
pointed by the Governor as Lumber Insjiector 
of the 2(1 District of Wisconsin. He was mar- 
ried Sept. 19, 1878, at North Bend, Wis., to 
Lottie E., daughter of Duncan and Sarah Ken- 
nedy. He has been Commander of his Post 
two years — 1885-6. He belongs to the Ma- 
sonic Lodge No. 190 at North La Crosse, to 
Smith Chapter, No. 13 and La Crosse Com- 
mandery, No. 9. He is a Roi)ublican in politics. 



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/^^AMUEL J. CLARK, Black River Falls, 
^^^ Wis., member of G. A. 11. Post No. 92, 
^*=i*^ was born Feb. 13, 1843, at Canan- 
daigua, Ontario Co., New Yoik. 1 1 is parents, 
Allen G. and Nancy (Owens) (Jlark, were born 
in Cattaraugus and Chautanqua counties, New 
York, resj)ectively, the father being of French 
lineage. They changed location successivelj' 
from New York State in 1846 to Belvidere, 
Boone Co., Illinois, in 1856 to Dodge Co., Wi.s- 
consin and to Sparta, Monroe county in the 
latter State in 1858, the father being actively 
engaged in his pursuits as a farmer. The son 
was brought up to that calling and was his 
father's assistant until he entered the armv. 



He enlisted March 10, 1862, at Belvidere, 
HI., and was mustered at Camj) Butler in Com- 
pany B, 15th Illinois Infantry. When Bragg 
was making himself entertaining in Northern 
Kentucky, the regiment was oidered to the 
front and arrived at Pitt.sburg Landing, in 
time fur that l)attle. From thence the regiment 
advance<l on Corinth and then moved on to 
Menii)his, Mr. Clark joining it afterwards. The 
next movement was to reinforce the troops at 
Bolivar where they encountered the Hying 
rebels from that field at Hatchie River, and 
whipped them over again under General Hurl- 
but (Oct. 4th). Returning to Bolivar they 
camped a few days and moved towards Holly 
Springs and after several movements connectid 
with CJrant's campaign they went into winter 
quarters at Natchez. During the winter the 
regiment went to Harrisonburg, Miss., to rout 
a rebel camp which had taken the alarm and 
routed itself before their arrival, and when 
the command broke camp in the spring tliey 
went to Memphis and were assigned to the 16th 
Corps for the \'icksl)urg campaign. They 
were afterwards assigned to the loth Corps, 
General Ord, and held a position on the left of 
the defenses of \'icksburg until after the sur- 
render of the city. The command was almost 
constantly under fire and also performed for- 
aging duty. After camping in the city near 
the cemetery they went to the tight at Jackson 
and returned to a j)oint nine miles from \'icks- 
burg and constructed winter quarters. In 
February they left Camp Coweii for the Meri- 
dian raid, covering the rear of tiie active troops 
who destroyed an immense amount of rebel 
property and the regiment afterwards returned 
to Camp Hebron, 10 miles from N'icksburg. 
There Mr. Clark was sick with measles. 
March 10, 1804, he re-enlisted and took his 
veteran furlough, reporting afterwards at 
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719 



toil, Teiin., and moved in the Atlanta campaign 
in the 2d Brigade, 4th Division and 17th 
Army Corps, witli General McPliersou, Gen. 
Giles E. Smith and Colonel Hall. The regi- 
ment engaged in guarding trains and in other 
military duty until Allatoona was reached, 
where Mr. Clark was detailed on the Pioneer 
Corps and went to the advance of the army. 
He served with the corps at Resaca, Keiiesaw i 
and Peach Tree Creek, and was afterwards in 
tiie trenches at Atlanta until after the surren- i 
der, when his corps followed up Hood through ' 
Snake Creek Gap, and returned to Atlanta. 
The command started with Sherman for the 
sea, November 15th, and while on a foraging 
trip, November •2Sth, Mr. Clark was taken 
prisoner by a party of rebels disguised in the 
U. S. uniform. He was taken to Florence, 
S. C, and paroled December 28th, sent thence 
to Charleston and was placed on a transport 
for Annapolis, Md. His captors had shot him 
in the arm through the elljow joint to disable ! 
him. After a week of recruiting at Annapolis, I 
the paroled men were given a furlough of 30 
days and Mr. Clark arrived home just in time 
to attend his own funeral, iiis friends having 
lieeii notified that he was dead. His furlough 
was extended and he was ordered to report at 
Springfield, 111., where he was mustered out 
.June 19, 1865. 

He remained at Belvidere until October, 
18(50, when he settled in Monroe Co., Wis., and 
engaged in farming at Sparta. After three 
years he went to La Crosse county where he 
passed nine years. He resided another year 
in Monroe county and went to Jackson county, 
locating in the town of Manchester, and con- 
ducted his agricultural interests on a farm he 
had previously purchased. In the spring of 
1887 he removed to Black River Falls. He is 
a member of Masonic Lodge, No. 75, at Roscoe, 
111., and belongs to the Odd Fellows' Order at 



Shamrock, Wis. He is a Republican in jioliti- 
cal aftiliation. 

He was married Oct. 8, 1865 at Beloit, Wis., 
to Nellie E., daughter of Michael and Permelia 

E. (Lucas) Kelley. Her father was a native of 
Ireland and her mother of Italy. Tiie children 
of Mr. and Mrs. Clark who are living are 
Allen T., Rosaltha S., Eunice M. and (Triton 

F. Alzina I. is deceased. The oldest son and 
daughter are married. 

y^p^ ILLIAM HOLDEN, Portage, Wis., 
^W^/l was born in Rochester, England, 
#3^ August 10, 1829. tlis parents, 
Hazael and Matilda (Sparks) Holden, were na- 
tives of that country and came to America in 
1850, a year after their son of this sketcii had 
made his home in America. 

He arrived at the port of New York in Sep- 
tember, 1849, and went directly to Milwaukee. 
His parents located at Portage and he found 
his first employ in Fond du Lac during the 
winter of 1849-50, going in the fall of the latter 
year to Portage, .settling on a farm with his 
father and mother. In 1853 he opened a .shop 
for the manufacture of buggies and wagons at 
Portage in company with a partner. In the 
following year he went back to the farm and 
remained until he entered the army. In May, 
1861, lie enlisted in Company G, 2d Wisconsin 
Infantry for three years or during the war and 
arrived at Washington June 25th, the 2d Wis- 
consin being tlie first three years' regiment to 
reach the capital. Moving in July to camp on 
the Fairfax road the regiment was brigaded 
with three others under the famous man who 
is now General W. T. Sherman, in Tyler's 
division under McDowell. The brigade went 
to the relief of the advance of Tyler at 
Blackburn's Ford where Company B received 



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ii sliot witli fatal effects. (Company G was 
close by and an editor in the ranks named 
Chandler, and nicknamed Sluuighai, was asked 
by a comrade what he tliought of it; "the 
American eagle's tail droojjeth " was his re- 
sponse.) This was the first time the regiment 
was nnder fire. It was one of the few regi- 
ments at Bull Rnn which preserved its organi- 
zation and thi-oughdut its service lield good the 
record made there. (See sketch of G. E. Smith.) 
While making an assault on a battery under 
an enlilading lire, they reached a prominent 
position which they held until the rebels re- 
ceived reinforcement and they were obliged to 
fall hack, having suffered a loss as .stated by 
Mr. Holden of 30 killed, 105 wounded and Go 
missing. August 25th the regiment was trans- 
ferred to Rufus King's brigade and went to 
winter quarters. Mr. Holden w'as in the 
spring campaign to Manassas and also went to 
the movement to prevent the retreat of Stone- 
wall .Jackson fi'oni the Shenandoah ^'alley in 
May, marching 104 miles in three days. He 
went to assist ro])e in the July expedition at 
Sulphur Springs, sustained an attack from a 
rebel battery and was in Ihc infantry skirmish 
which followed. At CJainesville he was one of 
nine men left of his comjiany, in which fight 
the brigade earned its title of " Iron Brigade" 
whether it was there received or not. Mr. 
Holden was hit by a piece of shell on his lower 
lip and in the right breast, but neither inflicted 
a serious wound. In the action at Antietam 
the color guards were dead or disabled and 
Cor])oral Holden with Paul \'. Brishoi brought 
the flag safely from the field. In the review 
by the President, after the fight, Holden and 
three comrades were the only ones in line from 
their com]iany. 

He fought at South Mountain September 
14th, the 2d leading the attack on the left and 
after the march to Antietam the regiment was 



almost disabled from constant fighting through 
Maryland but performed excellent service. 
Mr. Holden fought at Fredericksburg and also 
at Chancellorsville and went into the Gettys- 
burg campaign, and in that historic fight his 
regiment again suffered heavily. The casual- 
ties among the officers showed the material of 
which the Wisconsin soldiers was made, so 
many were killed and injui'ed, among them 
being Fairchild, Stevens ami Mansfield. The 
latter was wounded and the senior captain on 
the field, Gibson of Company C, ordered 
Sergeant Holden to take him to the rear and 
with another comrade they carried him to a 
brick house close by, a rebel shell tearing 
through the building just as they arrived. 
About 20 wounded men were in the house 
who begged to be taken to the cellar, 
and Holden and his companion complied and 
assisted in the work. On starting to rejoin the 
regiment they found the rebels in possession 
and themselves prisoners. Mr. Holden was 
escorted several miles to the rear by a rebel 
guard, passing over the naked bodies of his 
fallen comrades who had been stripped before 
they were cold in death, by the rebel vandals. 
The same scamps proposed that their jirisoners 
.should carry a sack filled with the clothing but 
they refused and "stuck to it." July 3d Ser- 
geant Holden was paroled on the lield and 
marched to Carlisle, (22 miles) where he took 
a train for Harrisburg, Pa., and thence to 
Westchester, remaining six weeks. He was 
ordered to join his regiment, but the surgeon 
interfered^ and he went to Convalescent Camp 
at Alexandria, rejoining his command Sej)tem- 
ber 16th in time for the Antietam anniversary 
and witnessed the presentation of the fiag to 
the brigade by the citizens of Wisconsin, In- 
diana and Michigan, resident in Washington. 
He was assigned to Emory Square ho.spital 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 



721 



stationed in Washington. He received lionor- 
;il)ie (lisciuirge Feb. 16, LS()4. 

Among the reminiscences of Mr. Holden is 
tlie discipline of General Gibbon in the brigade 
of which he assumed command at Fredericks- 
burg, but "the worst" was the order to wear 
white leggings and after a march in the red 
mud they were anything but handsome. The 
business did not take them much on dress 
parade, where the wiiite articles \\'iiulil have 
shone conspicuous. After a march they were 
left off, liut General Gibljon ordered them re- 
sumed. One morning the General's orderly- 
went out to groom his horse and immediately 
sent for his chief to see the animal. His legs 
were encased in white leggings and nothing 
more was said to the "boys" about wearing 
them. Feb. 12, 1863, the 2-1 and 6th Wiscon- 
sin, under Colonel Fairchild, went to Cone 
Creek in Northumberland Bay on a raid and 
took horses, mules, grain and about 5,000 
pounds of bacon. The boys thought it would 
be a good scheme to each take a couple of hams 
to camp and, after some finessing they eluded 
the guard and took them. After arrival at the 
landing orders -were received to bring up the 
hams, the officers anticipating a treat but there 
was not a ham to be found. The commotion 
in camp was something awful and an orderly 
was sent to search the camps but not a ham 
was visible. Afterwards slices of ham found 
their way into the oftitjers' quarters and there 
was nothing more done in the matter. 

March 16, 1851, Mr. Holden was married at 
Wyocena, Wis., to Harriet Ann Corstin, a na- 
tive of England, who died Oct. 30, 1876. 
Sept. 28, 1877, Mr. Holden was again married 
to Mrs. Elmira R. Gates at Beaver Dam, during 
the session of annual Free Methodist Confer- 
ence; she is a native of New York. Mr. Hol- 
den is a Republican. 




LEMENT CLAY WILLIAMS, Chip- 
pewa Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 68, was born June 22, 1843, 
in New Portland, Maine. Moses and Abigail 
(Jordan) AVilliams, his parents, were of Ameri- 
can birth and English ancestry. Mr. Williams, 
through his father, is one of the claimants 
under tiie French Spoliation Bill, which has 
been agitated for some years and which, if 
settled equitably, would make the heirs rich, 
although they belong to the sixth generation. 
Moses Williams, grandfather of C. C. Wdliams, 
married Martha Butler, daughter of Henry and 
Mehitabel (Norton) Butler, lier mother being a 
'l sister of Ichabod Norton, who was a shipowner 
of extensive relations in the period of the 
French and English wars. Thomas Butler was 
part owner witb him in several vessels that 
were taken by the English, two of them being 
the Seven Sisters and the Swallow. (Joseph 
I Dennis is in possession of papers which he 
obtained of Captain Thomas Butler's son, 
James Butler, wliicii show that two schooners 
were taken by the British.) Moses Williams 
was a farmer by occupation and died in St. 
Albans, Maine, his wife dying many years 
j before him. Abby, Clement C, Sarah, Charles 
A. and Clara were the children born to them. 

June 19, 1862, when 19 years old, Mr. 
Williams entered the army. He was mustered 
into the U. S. service July 27, 1862, at Augusta, 
Maine, in Company A, 16th Maine Infantry, 
Colonel Wilde, and went from camp to Wash- 
ington and Company A performed guard duty 
at Arlington Heights at the headquarters of 
General Whipple, tiie first action in which Mr. 
Williams expected to participate being the 
second Bull Run, in the 2d Brigade, 3d Divi- 
sion and 1st Corps, but did not and the regi- 
ment remained until winter without other 
protection than blankets, earning the sobriquet 
j of the " Blanket Regiment " as they went to the 



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Manassas campaign without anything but 
hlankets — rations out besides. He was first in 
battle of systematic variety at Fredericksburg 
wliere tiie regiment did such good service as 
to secure warm praise from tlie commander. 
Tiiey passed tiie winter at Kelley's Ford and 
went in the mud to attempt another attack on 
Fredericksburg, going to another Rappahan- 
nock campaign in tiie spring. They perform- 
ed duty on tlie Raj)idan until they received 
orders to join the army on the way to Gettys- 
Ijurg and the regiment was in the support 
wiiicli went on the double ipiick after the 
battle opened on the Emmettsburg road where 
Buford's Cavalry were attacked. General 
Reynolds, Corps Commander, was killed and 
the ('olonel of the IGth Maine taken prisoner 
with tlie greater jiortion of the regiment, 
including Mr. Williams. Tliey were taken to 
the rear of Lee's army, went with him on his 
retreat and were tinally sent forward to Libby, 
were stripped, robbed and insulted in every 
possible manner. 'J'liey had no rations for four 
days before their incarceration commenced and 
they remained in Libby one night, went thence 
to Belle Isle, stayed there three weeks and 
there Mr. Williams thought a little strategy 
])erfectly justifiable. He feigned illness, was 
sent to Libby hospital, remained one day and 
was sent to City Point under parole. There he 
was exchanged and joined his regiment in 
JSeptember at Kelley's Ford and was engaged 
in picket duty on the Rapidan when Grant 
assumed charge of the Army of the Potomac. 
When the spring of 1864 came, Mr. Williams 
went with his regiment to the campaign of the 
Wilderness and fought at Spottsylvania, l^aurel 
Hill, Cold Harbor and North Anna River. 
During the fighting at Cold Harbor Mr. Wil- 
liams was in charge of the pickets on the left 
of the regiment and received the first attack 
and his men were all captured except himself 



and one other. The}' went to the siege of 
Petersburg and thence to the Weldon railroad, 
fighting and destroying railroad property with 
the oth Corps. August 18th, in the action, the 
rebels surrounded a disorganized portion of 
the command and took them prisoners, Mr. 
Williams falling into rebel hands a second 
time. He was sent to Belle Isle and remained 
until Sherman was expected, when the pris- 
oners were sent to Salisbury, N. C, to the 
stockade and remained there until February 
22, 1805, when they were paroled and sent to 
Annapolis, Md. Mr. Williams had contracted 
.scurvy at Salisbury in its worst form and after 
recruiting a few days at Annapolis, he obtained 
a furlough home to New Portland, Maine, and 
remained in his bed until after the close of the 
war. He finally recovered after a long sick- 
ness but was mustered out with his regiment 
July 31, 1805. 

In 1867 he removed to Eau Claire, Wiscon- 
sin, and obtained em{)loy in a lath mill, after 
which he engaged in livery busine.ss for about 
five years. He opened the hotel business at 
the Twelve-Mile House which he managed 
about four years, started a livery business at 
West Eau Claire, sold out and took charge of 
the Big Bend House, associated with Henry 
Mofl'att. He sold his interest to E. M. Miles 
and engaged again in livery at Eau Claire. 
Afterwards he became connected with the 
Mineral Spring hotel on the St. Croix and later 
opened a hotel at Cliijipewa Falls in 1879, 
known as the Riverside hotel with Thomas 
Gaynor, in which he is still occupied as a 
landlord. He is the owner of a farm on the 
borders of the city which he is improving and 
on which he keeps improved stock. He is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias and votes 
as he shot. 



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M;HAEL griffin, Eau Claire, 
Wis., member of Eagle Post, No. 
52, G. A. R., Department Com- 
mauder of Wisconsin in 1S87, also belongs 
to the Order of the Loyal Legion, Wisconsin 
Commandery. He is a prominent attorney 
and citizen of the section of Wisconsin where 
he has been a resident for 14 years. He was 
born in County Clare, Ireland, September 
9, 1842, and emigrated to America with his 
parents in 1847, locating first in Canada and 
removing in 1851 to Hudson, Ohio. In 1856 
the family settled in Newport, Sauk Co., Wis- 
consin. He was educated primarily in the pub- 
lic schools of the country, imbibing an under- 
standing of his obligations to his adopted coun- 
try, and, when the call for troops to defend the 
National integrity rang through her borders, 
he enlisted at Newjiort, Wis., Sept. 11, 1861, at 
the age of 19 years, and was mustered as a 
private in Company E, 12th Wisconsin Infan- 
try, at Camp Randall, Madison, November 5th 
following. At that date the field of war seemed 
broad and to demand troops at remote points 
to guard against possible disaster from invasion, 
and there were also threatenings of disturb- 
ances where the country would be deeply in- 
volved to carry on successfully her internecine 
struggle. -Jim Lane had an expedition in pros- 
piect, and there was another planned for New 
Mexico. AVitii these the fate of the 12th Wis- 
consin was for a time to be linked, and the regi- 
ment bore the brunt of the labor involved and 
in that work and discipline reaped all that 
ever came of either. Discipline and effort are 
the best possible things for a regiment just 
opening acquaintance with the exigencies of 
all that war involves, and in the trip of the 
command from Madison, Wis , to Weston, Mis- 
souri, (its bitterest experience from inclemency 
of the weather without proper protection), and 
thence to Fort Leavenworth, Fort Scott, Law- 



rence and Fort Riley, Kansas, and its return 
march to Fort Leavenworth, the time was 
passed in one long continued series of unaccus- 
tomed exertions. They were again doomed to 
counter orders for, expecting to go to the in- 
vestment of Corinth, they were instead assigned 
to duty in Western Kentucky and Tennessee 
rejmiring railroads which the rebels had de- 
stroyed, and scouting after guerrillas who were 
making that portion of the South dangerous to 
everybody, and threatened to interfere materi- 
ally with plans for the subjugation of the con- 
federates along the Mississippi River. After 
the line of transportation was again in order, 
the regiment moved to Humboldt, Tenn., to join 
Halleck and thence to Bolivar, where the com- 
mand was assigned to the 3d Brigade, 4th Divi- 
sion, 17th Army Corps. During the stay at 
Humboldt, for lack of cavalry, 110 men of the 
regiment, including non-commissioned officers, 
were supplied with horses and did service as 
mounted infantry. Mr. Griffin was detailed to 
act as Sergeant of tliis force which was in the 
saddle almost constantly until October, 1862. 
It scoured the surrounding country for miles, 
watching movements of the enemy, going to 
the Teimessee River, and was engaged on one 
of these expeditions when the regiment received 
orders to move to Bolivar, at whicii place this 
detachment soon joined it. 

The battle of Corinth had taken place, and 
although the regiment made a forced march 
of more than a day it was too late to accom- 
plish anything and went into Camp at Bolivar. 
November was passed in the movements pre- 
paritory to the fulfillment of Grant's plans 
which were frustrated in the capture of Holly 
Springs by the enemy, and the destruction of 
the supplies which had been there accumu- 
lated, and December, .lauuary and February 
were passed in desultory military duty mitil 
affairs could be again put in shape for decided 



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activities. In March the 12th went to Mem- 
phis, and in May marie connection with Grant's 
movements in the Vicksburg Campaign. They 
moved down the river to Milliken's Bend, went, 
tlience to Grand Gulf and from there to Vicks- 
burg, taking position toward the extreme left 
of the investing line, June 11, 18G3, in the 13th 
Corps, Lauinan's Division. The regiment par- 
ticipated in the siege throughout until the sur- 
render, July 4th, and on the 5th started for the 
investment of .Jackson with the 3d Brigade. 
It returned to Vicksburg and next went to 
Natchez and there performed military duty, 

including several expeditions in Louisiana and 
Mississippi. In January, 1S64, over .500 men 
of the regiment veteranized and moved from 
Hebron with Sherman, participating in the 
Meridian expedition, which was an entire suc- 
cess. February 17th the 12th was sent soutli 
of Meridian to Quitman to destroy railroads 
and bridges. They were engaged in the Mer- 
idian expedition a mouth and marched over 
400 miles. After veteran furlough in March 
and April, 1864, they went to Cairo, thence to : 
Clifton and marched through Alabama to ' 
Georgia to join tlie troops concentrating fur the 
Atlanta Campaign in the Army of the Tennes- 
see. Mr. (Jriflin was a participant in all that 
has been mentioned, and was also in the dan- 
gerous and constant work involved in tlie in- 
vestment of Atlanta (1st Brigade 3d Division 
17th Army Corps). He was with tlie regiment 
at Kenesaw, Nickajack Creek, Bald Hill (Leg- 
gefs) where the regiment lost aliout 1.50 men 
in 15 minutes, Mr. Griffin being reported among 
the wounded. A buckshot entered his face 
and took up a permanent })Osition in the right 
cheek where it still remains. He was knocked 
down, and taken in.sensible to the hosjiital, and 
went back to the regiment the next afternoon. 
The regiment was in the engagement of July 
28, 1804, and went to Jonesboro in Blair's 17th 
Corps and thence with the column of Sherman ' 
through Georgia to Savannah and participated ; 
in all of the expeditions involved: was in the ! 
siege of Savannah and marched through the 
Carolinas to the tinish at Raleigh, taking part 
in the battle of Bentonville, where Johnston 
made his last .spasmodic efiort to retrieve his 
territory. At Goldsboro, Sergeant Griffin was 



mustered as 2d Lieutenant, having been com- 
missioned February 11th, 1SG5, and had acted 
in that capacity from about January 1st in that 
year. After the surrender of the Confederate 
army under General Joseph E. Johnston, the 
march homeward commenced, finishing at 
Wasliington and expiring in a blaze of military 
splendor at the Gi-and Review in which the 
12th Wisconsin bore its part. The regiment 
went to Louisville to await the completion of 
the muster rolls where the command was mus- 
tered out July 16th, 1885, and returned to Wis- 
consin for final dismemberment. Julv 5th Mr. 
Griffin was commissioned 1st Lieutenant but 
did not muster, because of the close of the war. 
In the fall of 1865 he began the study of law 
at Kilbourn City, Wis., in the office of Hon. 
■Jonathan Bowman, and he was admitted to the 
bar at Portage City after examination in open 
court. May 19, 1868. He began practice at 
Kilbourn City, where he remained until 1876. 
He was several times elected Town Clerk of the 
Town of Newport, Columbia County, and served 
two terms on the County Board. In 1875 he 
was elected on the Republican ticket to repre- 
sent the 1st District of that County in the As- 
sembly of 1876. In that year he removed to 
Eau Claire and formed a law partnership with 
Judge Arthur C. Ellis under the name of Ellis 
& Grithn, which continued until the clo.se of 
1880, and where he has since practiced his ]>ro- 
fession. In 1878 he was appointed Attorney of 
the City of Eau Claire, and successively reap- 
pointed in 1879 and 1880. In 1879 he was 
elected on the Republican ticket as Senator 
from tlie 30th District. He is a prominent 
memljer of his I'ost and served as its 2nd and 
4th Commander, and he was elected D'ejiart- 
ment Commander, February 16, 1887, at Mil- 
waukee, and in January, 1889, was commis- 
sioned Ijy the Governor, (Quarter Nhister General 
of the State, with the rank of Brigadier Gen- 
eral under the law, and is therefore a member 
of the staft" of Governor Hoard. He belongs to 
the Masonic Order, Blue Lodge, Chapter and 
Commandery, to the Knights of Pythias and 
Royal Arcanum. 

He was married September Otli, 1871, at Kil- 
bourn City, to Enuna I., daughter of tteorge H. 
and ^L J. Daniels, and tlie only child of this 
marriage was Maljel M., who died when less 
than a vear old. 



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725 




RIGADIER-GENERAL FRANCIS 
HENRY WEST. In the array of 
names included in this volume, that 
of General West is one of the most prominent 
for services rendered his country and for his no 
less honorable career as a citizen of Wisconsin. 
He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Wiscon- 
sin Commander}', and belongs to G. A. R. Post 
No. 1. He was born in Charleston, Sullivan Co., 
New Hampshire, Oct. 25, 1825, and remained 
in Ills native place until he was 20. years old, 
receiving such advantages as New England 
afforded for a farmer's son. In 1845 he went 
W^est, locating at Monroe in the then Territory 
of Wisconsin and passed the first winter in the 
lead mines of Platteville. In the spring of 1846, 
he engaged in hotel business at Monroe and a 
year later liouglit an outfit for a three-years' 
lumbering venture in the North of Wisconsin, 
with headquarters at Wausau. He rafted his 
lumber at the time of spring freshets to St. Louis, 
Mo. His business relations extended until he 
had become an extensive landholder, had built 
a steam sawmill at Monroe and also had en- 
gaged in mercantile affairs at that place, 
where he was married in the summer of 1849. 
He pressed his affairs thereuntil J859, when, 
on account of failing health, he determined to 
take an overland trip to California on horse- 
back, the day of railroads being not yet. A 
party of emigrants accompanied him and he 
spent the summer in hunting buffalo and other 
large game, and returned in the fall via 
Panama, much improved in health. As soon 
as practicable he organized a large party to 
cross the plains the following summer. He 
purchased OG fine horses in Wisconsin at an 
average outlay of $80 which he sold after 
reaching California at figures ranging from 
five to eight iiundred dollars per pair, clearing 
$16,000. The trip was a perilous one, it being 
the year of the general Indian war, in which 



they destroyed so many of the stations of the 
then Overland Pony Express, murdering the 
riders and station-keepers. His party was fol- 
lowed by large bands of hostile Indians for 
over 500 miles in their vain endeavor to capture 
his valuable train, but this was at all times so 
well guarded by his courageous followers — 
who submitted to regular military discipline — 
that the Indians only succeeded in wounding 
two men and in killing seven horses. Several 
of the attacking redskins were killed. In the 
fall of 1860, General West was again in Monroe 
sit his business, in which he was engaged until 
he entered the army. 

Matters began to look serious for the inter- 
ests of the country during the summer of 1862, 
and leaders in business avenues foresaw ruin 
to their interests and stagnation beyond all prec- 
edent in financial circles. The outlook for the 
Union was becoming grave and men met on 
the streets, consulted over situations, went home 
to talk to families whose interests were in peril 
and finally, marched away to war. Wisconsin, 
it is trusted, will never again pass through 
such a season ; most of her best men were lost 
to her streets and thorough fares of business, and 
women walked in their places and waited for the 
end, whatever it might be. The draft was being 
resisted in some localities and the situation was 
serious, looking as if brother must be arrayed 
against brother to enforce the demands of the 
Government. Among those who grappled 
with the situation in its strongest features was 
he who became Brigadier-General West. 

Abandoning his business and leaving his 
wife and seven children, of whom the oldest 
was but 12 years old, he became active in 
organizing the 31st Wisconsin, was made its 
Lieutenant-Colonel and was mustered under 
his commission, Oct. 9, 1862. When the regi- 
ment went to the front in March, 1863, after 
performing duty in the State in enforcing the 



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draft and toinpleting the organization in Jan- 
uary, its condition and drill were such as to 
elicit the warmest encomiums. The regiment 
was first assigned to duty in the Army of 
Tennessee on the Mississippi. In September, 
1863, it was ordered to the Cumberland at 
Nasliville. At this time, tlie colonel of the 
regiment having resigned, Lieutenant-Colonel 
West became Colonel of the regiment. During 
the winter of 1863-4, by appointment of General 
Sherman, Colonel West served as President of 
the Conimi.ssion stationed at Murfreesboru, 
Tenn., to examine certain officers who were 
cited before the Commission for examination 
as to their qualifications for command. Cap- 
tain Harrison, a grandson of the first President 
Harrison, was the Recorder of the Commission. 
Manj' officers were examined and a few recom- 
mended for dismissal. All recommendations 
were approved by the President. 

Colonel West commanded his regiment in 
the work accomplished prior to the siege of 
Atlanta, guarding railroads, building fortifica- 
tions, scouting and keeping thoroughly posted 
regarding rebel movements, moving first to 
Stevenson, Ala., and thence to Chattanooga and 
to Georgia, joining the force in front of Atlanta 
during the battle of Peach Tree Creek, July 
21st, taking part in the investment of the 22d 
and remaining in the trenches until the 
capitulation. The regiment performed effective 
service in more than one direction until the 
columns of Sherman formed for the march to 
the Atlantic in which the regiment j)articipated. 
It forded swamps, penetrated hitherto un- 
traversed forests, built roads, held lines of com- 
munications, foraged for supplies subsisting 
off the enemy, and retained its morale under 
presjsure of the gravest character. When near 
Savannah, to the astonishment of the rebels 
who dis])Uted the right of way, the regiment, 
with the 61st Ohio, pushed its way through a 



swamp not considered passable. Storming two 
strong redoubts under heavy fire they drove 
the enemy from their position, thereby re- 
moving the last obstacle to the advance on 
Savaiuiah. Colonel West led his men through 
the siege of Savannah and followed General 
Sherman through the Carolinas to the close of 
the war — fighting at Averysboro and at Benton- 
ville, the last battle of the Southern army — 
where the loss of his regiment was heavy. 
Colonel West went with his soldiers through 
Virginia to Kichnioiid and to Washington, 
paraded at their head at the Grand Review, 
May 24th, and, early in June went to Louisville, 
having been made Brigadier-General by brevet 
at Washington for gallant and meritoiious con- 
duct during the war, his commission dating 
March 19, 1865, under which he was mustered 
out June 20, 1865. 

In August he resumed connection with civil 
life in Milwaukee, engaging in the stock and 
grain business "On 'Change." His first rela- 
tions in this avenue were those of Thompson, 
West & Co., the firm at first including two 
Thompsons, one going to Chicago. In the 
spring of 1871 General West was elected Presi- 
dent of the Chamber of Commerce and re- 
elected to the same in 1872. (He had served 
previously as Mce-President two years and was 
one of the Directors three years). He con- 
tinued his connection with financial operations 
in that relation until 1879, when he went to 
the Black Hills to prospect and obtain mining 
interests. He took with iiim the parts of a 
quartz mill, which he erected there and found 
it a losing venture, and after two years he left 
his mines and returned to Milwaukee in 1881. 
He had become interested in mechanical inven- 
tions and, after his return, perfected and secured 
patents on several inventions of his own, relat- 
ing to steam and hydraulic machinery. 

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States Marshal of llie Eastern District of Wis- 
consin and in ISttO, (current year) still holds 
the incumhenc}'. While a resident of Green 
county he was Chairujan of the County Board 
several years and in 1853, he served in the 
Senate of Wisconsin, being but 26 years old 
and the youngest member of that body. On 
the formation of the new party in 1854, he be- 
came the candidate for Bank Comptroller, on 
the first State Republican ticket, which was de- 
feated. Since the close of the war he has been 
a Democrat, owing to his disapproval of the 
course of the Republican party towards the 
South. In the fall of 1873 he was elected to 
the Legislature and served his term in a 
manner wholly consistent with his character. 

The father of General West, Enoch Ham- 
mond West, was born in the same town as his 
son and was the son of Timothy, a soldier in 
the Revolution and one of the first settlers of 
Charleston, N. H., whither he removed from 
near Boston, Mass.; he was of English ancestry. 
His niotiier, Lydia, Cofhn (Fitch) West, was 
born on the Island of Nantucket, the daughter 
of a sea captain. Samuel Cottin, her great 
uncle, was a noted Puritan preacher of May- 
flower fame. The families to which General 
West is allied through his mother, include 
some of the most famous stock in the history 
of the East. The name of Fitch is one dis- 
tinguished in j)rofessional avenues and repre- 
senting brains, honor and integrity second to 
none. The mother of Benjamin Franklin ancl 
General West's great-great-grandmothcr on the 
maternal side, were sisters, and daughters of 
Peter Folger, who was the first male child born 
on the island of Nantucket. Lucretia Mott, 
the reformer, was allied to the same blood, as 
are the Folgers of New York. In the paternal 
line, General West traces connection with the 
famous painter, Benjamin West. His grand- 
lather's brothers were Benjamin West, a famous 



New England lawyer and Samuel West, a cele- 
brated Massachusetts divine. 

The General was married June 21, 1849, to 
Emma Rittenhouse, a name which tells its 
own story, so well-known is its connection with 
the fortunes of Pennsylvania. William Ritten- 
house, her father, married Sarah Moore, a 
relative of the noted politician, Eli Moore of 
New York, and descended from ancestors who 
settled in Brooklyn, N. Y. She was born in 
New Jersey, whither her parents removed. 
Ten children have been born to C4eneral and 
Mrs. West, four of whom are deceased. Louise, 
wife of George Sylvester, died at tlie age of 26 
years; Frederick died when two and a half 
years old ; George died when 20 years old, and 
Josephine at two and a half years. Those sur- 
viving are Caroline L., William R., Edith, 
Susan, Grace and Benjamin Franklin. 

In placing here a delineation of the char- 
acter of General West for the consideration of 
those who Avill interest themselves in his 
career, little needs to be said. Thoroughly 
cultivated and high-bred, with the dignity and 
bearing a prominent and prosperous life con- 
fers, he occupies an irreproachable position in 
Milwaukee. A gentleman who has known the 
General all his life said to the writer, "He has 
the keenest sense of justice and the best dis- 
position of any one I have ever known." His 
record as a soldier is one which will always 
confer distinction on his memory. He did not 
lose a day of- service, a fact that belongs to the 
history of few prominent army officers. And 
bis bravery, although recognized as of the 
highest quality, was not impetuosity or bra- 
vado, but the result of the convictions which 
called him to action and which led him to dis- 
tinction. 

The portrait of General West appears on 
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IjjT^'y^ILLTAM HEALEY, Racine, Wis., 
" " iW nienber of G. A. R. Post No. 17, 
was born May 20, 1847 in Lon- 
don, England. His parents, Jereniiali and 
Honora (O'Brien) Healey, were natives of Con- 
tinental Europe and came to America in 1850. 
The mother died wliile the son was still young 
and his father mari'ied again, of which union 
tile issue included three children named Mary 
Ann, Julia and Ellen. Mr. Healey has one 
brother named John. On arrival in America 
the family went first to Upper Falls, Newton, 
Mass., and thence to Waterbury, Vt., where Mr. 
Healey remained on the farm until he was old 
enough to enter the army. He enlisted Oct. 
19, 1863, in the 3d Vermont Light Artillery 
and was assigned to Section 1, Jan. 1, 1804. 
Llis captain was Romeo H. Start. From 
rendezvous the command went to Washington 
for assignment to the 9th Corps at Camp Barry, 
crossed the Rapidan under a rattling fire from 
Mosliy's men and went to take part in the 
lighting in the Wilderness, but the artillery 
could not be made effective. They went thence 
to Cold Harbor but were not in action. 
Stewart's cavalry was looked for but did not 
arrive in time. On the 18th of June the battery 
reached the front of Petersburg at night and 
was in the trenches there through the month 
of June at the right, and were under constant 
fire. A troop of sharpshodters caused them 
much annoyance until they opened fire on 
them and silenced them. In the assault at 
Fort Hell they were subjected to a heavy rebel 
artillery fire, one shell striking the embrasure 
where the gun of Mr. Healey was stationed but 
did no injury. They moved to Fort McKenzie 
and returned to another position at Fort Hell, 
which they occupied at the date of the Fisher 
Hill fight and the battery fired tlie salute after 
the victory. During this the captain thought 
he would take advantage of the opportunity to 



droj) a few shells into the rebel camp, which 
elicited a return, and the captain ordered the 
firing to cease, as he feared that the magazine 
would lie hit ; tliis was the only time the battery 
was silenced throughout its service. The com- 
mand was subsequently transferred to the 6th 
Corps with which it was connected until that 
command went to the Shenandoah Valley, 
when it was assigned to the 2d Corps under 
Hancock, serving with it until the return of 
the 6th, when its former connection therewith 
was resumed. They went into winter (piarters 
until the activities commenced preparatory to 
the crushing of the rebellion and Mr. Healey 
went with his battery to the reconnoissance at 
Hatcher's Run. They built Fort Phillip.s, a 
small fort of six guns named after their Lieu- 
tenant, where they experienced several attacks 
from the rebels. The battery went to Fort 
Fisher, returning thence to Petersburg, remain- 
ing in the trenches there until the surrender. 
The battery was almost constantly in service 
and on the 2r)th of ^hirch, ISfi"), fought in one 
of the most inijiortant actions of that period. 
During its progress the artillery was ordered to 
cease firing, as a Hag of truce was shown, but it 
was a feint to permit the rebels to approach 
closer. (Tills occurred at Fort Fisher). A 
detachment was sent through the woods to cut 
the brigade off from retreat and the entire com- 
mand was captured. During the day a part of 
the section was in front of the skirmish line 
under orders to di-ive the rebels at all costs and 
they opened lire while the rebels were j)ouring 
a shower of shot upon them, one of which 
struck the gun served by Mr. Healey, who was 
knocked over, but not injured. Tiiey di'ove 
the rebels and afteiwards returned to Fort 
Fisher and went thence to the trenches at 
Petersburg. Mr. Healey fired the signal gun 
at four o'clock in the morning of April 2, 1865, 
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midday the battery was ordered to advance 
near to battery Lee, Lee's head(|uarlers, where 
it held its position. Sheridan rode along the 
lines, clieering the men and telling them to 
hold tliegronnd as victory wonld soon be theirs, 
the city being snrronnded. They told iiim 
they would do it if he would give them white 
instead of colored troops, V)ut they lield the 
position until night. During the night the 
rebels spiked their guns and evacuated tliecity. 
At four in the morning a charge was made but 
there were no enemies to respond and Peters- 
burg was Union properly. He was among the 
first to enter the city and went tiience in 
charge of the captured guns to City Point, after 
which he performed miHtary duty until ordered 
to Alexandria and thence home, and he was 
mustered out at Burlington, Vt., .June 15, 18G5. 
He was unable to do any work and the next 
year went West. He was with the C. & N. W. 
R. R. ten years and entered the employ of J. I. 
Case & Co., with wiiom he remained four years. 
He took charge of an engine in the Pease 
Manufacturing Works and is still in that rela- 
tion. He was married Feb. 7, 1875, to Mary, 
daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Budd. Their 
children are named Nellie, Elizabeth, Jennie, 
Gertrude and Theresa. Mary and .Julia are 
deceased. 

^<fa§l^^^>+<' 



^ HARLES D. STANHOPE, M. D., a 
prominent physician of Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, and a member of E. B. 
Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was born in the 
County of MiVwaukee, Feb. 12, 1844. 

His father, Charles Stanhope, of Englisli 
ancestry, was born in Attica, N. Y. His fore- 
fathers were loyal to Charles 1st of England. 
Tliey were involved in the struggle against 
Cromwell, by whom some of them were exe- 
cuted, when he assumed the Protectorate of 



England. Two of the Stanhope brothers were 
banished to Australia. They were subse- 

! quently pardoned and one of them returned to 
England, where his descendants now belong to 
the peerage. The other came to America and 
from him Dr. Stanhope is directly descended. 
Levi Stanhope, the paternal grandfather 
of Dr. Stanhope, fought in the revolution. 
His son Charles married Nancy McLaughlin, 
of Scotcli descent, and a native of Caledonia, 
Livingstone County, New York. He removed 
with his family to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 
1842. He purchased from the government a 
tract of land located near the city and upon 
this homestead lie passed the balance of his 
life. He died in the year 1873, leaving his 
wife, who is still living, in the city of Wau- 
kesha. Tlie children of the parents are : Erwin, 
born in 1842, Charles D., in 1844, Nancy J., in 

I 1846, Archibald, in 1849 and Miranda in 1852. 
The last named married Thomas Parkin.sou, a 

! prominent lawyer of Waukesha, Wis. 

> Dr. Stanhope remained uj)on his father's 
farm until lie reached the age of seventeen. 
Having inherited a good constitution and hav- 
ing acquired a determined })Urpose, he .secured 
as much education as the unending round of 
a practical farm life would permit. While yet 
in the pursuit of knowledge, and still in his 
minority, he responded to the urgent call of 
his country. In tlie month of August,. 1862, 
he enrolled as a soldier in Company " A, " 28th 
Regiment Wisconsin Infantry and was mus- 
tered into the United States service on the 13th 
of November following. After having per- 
formed the duties pertaining to the draft in 
November, 1862, the regiment left on Decem- 
ber 20th, for Columbus. Ky., where they erected 
fortifications. From this point they made a 
raid upon Fort Williams. They next went to 
Hickman, a small place a few miles down the 
river, and took the garrison, whose defenses 



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chiefly consisted of wooden guns. The regi- 
ment was now assigned to the 13tli Army 
Corps, and ordered to Helena, Ark., under tlie 
command of General Salomon. It engaged in 
several raids to various points of the surruund- 
ing country. 

In January, 1863, the regiment started on 
the White River expedition, and went to 
Duvall's Blutf. After having tested the capac- 
ity of the river they returned to Helena. 
Tiiey then took part under General Granger in 
the Yazoo Pass exj)edition ; this movement 
was executed for the purpose of attracting tlie 
attention of the rebels from Vicksburg, as 
General Grant liad de'terniined to make tliat 
city an objective point. After a difficult passage 
of nearly two weeks, the}' arrived at Fort 
Pemberton. This fort was situated at the 
junction of the Yallabusha and Tallahatcliie 
Rivers. Here they accomplished the invest- 
ment of the fort, and sustained it for several 
weeks, the force being supported by the gun- 
boats Baron DeKalb and Chillicotiie, assisted 
b)' a fleet of transports. During the skirmish 
which took place between the DeKalb and the 
rebel batteries, a shot struck a shell which was 
being loaded into one of tlie Delvalb's heavy 
guns. The exjdosion whicli followed killed 
and injured sixteen men. 

About March 1, 18G3, special orders were 
received to make hasty an<l noiseless prepara- 
tions to move. During the prevalence of a 
dense fog, the troops embarked and returned to 
Helena. In the beginning of .June, intelligence 
of a contemplated attack by tlie rebel General 
Price upon Helena was received and immediate 
preparations were made to meet him. The 
regiment assisted in the work of constructing 
fortifications and rifle pits, and when on .July 
4, 1863, the rebel forces covered the surround- 
ing hills, the wisdom of this preparation was 
aj>parent. 



Tlie battle of Helena followed, and demon- 
strated the fact that while tlie rebels out-num- 
bered tlie Union soldiers more than two to one, 
yet victory perched upon the banners of tiie 
Union troops. Tliis battle contributed largely 
to the final termination of the war of tlie rebell- 
ion. The regiment was assigned to the armj- 
of Arkansas in August of the same year, and, 
under Steele took part in the campaign against 
Little Rock. After its surrender, the regiment 
proceeded to Pine Bluff, Ark., where they 
remained with the command of General Powell 
Clayton until the fall of 1804. During this 
time they engaged in several raids, among 
which was one to Mt. Elba, where they had a 
sbarp encounter with, and captured a portion 
of General Marmaduke's command. 

From Pine Bluff, the forces returned to Little 
Rock. In February they broke camp and went 
to Duvall's Bluff. Tliey went by steamer down 
the White River, and arrived at the junction 
with the Mi.ssissippi Feb. 11,1865. They next 
took transportation for New Orleans, and went 
into camp at Algiers, opposite the city. A week 
later, they started for Mobile, Ahi., and landed 
at Fort Morgan on Mobile Point, where they 
camped several days. Tliey tiicn started for 
Spanish Fort, which surrendered after eleven 
days of stubborn fighting. After tliis, the regi- 
ment went to Fort Blakely, which had capitu- 
lated a few hours before tlieir arrival. Pro 
ceeding to Alabama, they moved up the Tom- 
bigby River, and witnessed the surrender of 
rebel transjiorts, on which they returned to 
Mobile. In the month of May they sailed for 
Texas, camped at Brazos de Santiago, and en- 
gaged for a siiort time in such military duties 
as were incident to the situation, both there 
and at Clarksville. On August 3d they re- 
sumed their march, and stopped at Browns- 
ville for the purpose of being mustered out 
of the United States service. At Spanish 



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Fort, the Doctor contracted a severe form of ] 
rheumatism, wliich utterly disal>led liim. For 
more tliaii a year after his return home he was ' 
a constant sutferer from this disease, and he 
lias never been able to altogether overcome its 
effects. After having been home a year or 
more he embarked in the sale of groceries at 
Horicon, AVisconsin, with very little success; he 
gained experience and also suffered great 
pecuniary loss. | 

On November 1, 1867, he was married to 
Mary J., daughter of Alva White, a resident of 
River Falls, Wis. He remained in this latter 
place, and successfully occupied himself in 
contracting and building until 1872. His '.. 
matrimonial success turned the tide of his 
fortune, and he has floated on a placidly mov- 
ing stream ever since. It had been the dream I 
of his life and the ambition of his maturer 
years to enter the medical profession. His 
analytical mind induced him to enter this field. 
During long and weary months and years he 
studied himself into that noble profession as 
best he could. Believing that he w'ho works 
the best succeeds the best, he occupied all his 
leisure hours from hard work, in ardent and 
intense study. He was aided and directed by [ 
the counsel of Dr. E. A. Ballard, of River Falls, 
Wisconsin. In 1872 he moved to Milwaukee, 
and by a series of laborious efforts and personal ! 
sacrifices he graduated with honor at the 
Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago in 
1874. He then located in Milwaukee, pur- 
chased the interests of Dr. A. Liliencrantz, and 
commenced a vigorous prosecution of his pro- 
fession. In a few months he formed a j)artner- 
sliip with a former classmate, Dr. Eugene F. 
Storke, with whom he conducted a highly suc- 
cessful business until the dissolution of partner- 
ship, which occurred May 1, 1889. 

Dr. .Stanhope is still conducting a very suc- 
cessful business at the location where he first 



established himself; he has become prosperous 
and popular. As a vocation he has engaged 
in the prosecution of real estate business, in 
which he has proven himself unusually suc- 
cessful. He has recently secured a large 
interest in the gold mining district of the 
Ozark mountains. 

The Doctor and his amiable wife have had 
two children, the eldest a beautiful girl named 
Edith, who died at Minneapolis, Minn., in July, 
1871 and Charles E., born Nov. 15, 1880. Dr. 
Stanhope in political faith, is a Republican ; in 
medical faith, a homeopathist ; he is a Royal 
Arch Mason, a royal good fellow, has a keen 
eye, a steady hand, is a good marksman, and 
enjoys to the utmost all athletic sports. 

RVILLE GILLETT, Waukesha, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
born Dec. 23, 1832, the son of Orville 
and Chastine (Harndon) Gillett. He is of 
French Huguenot descent in the paternal line 
and on his motlier's side is of French extraction 
in one remove. His grandfather was in the 
war of 1812 and an ancestor of his mother was 
a captive among the Chippewa Indians who 
were in the British service in the Revolution. 
Mr. Gillett was born in Lewiston, N. Y., and 
resided there until he was 16 years of age. In 
October, 1848, he went with his father's family 
to Tuscola in the same county in Michigan 
where he jxissed the years on a farm until he 
entered the army in the civil war. 

Sept. 10, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, 3d 
Michigan (Aivalry for three years or during the 
war. He was made Corporal the same day on 
which the command organized and went into 
camp of instruction at Grand Rapids, Mich. 
He received promotion May 1, 1S62, to Ser- 
geant and went with his regiment from the State 




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to St. Louis, whence it went under orders to 
join the forces under Pope. His history is that 
of all cavalrymen ; lie skinnislied, scouted, 
foraged and performed miscellaneons .service in 
many metliods for whicli liis branch of warfare 
seldom receives due credit, for obvious reasons. 
He was in the siege of Corinth, fought in the 
battle there later and at luka with the Army 
of the Mississippi. He was in the movements 
on the Mississippi River and performed duty 
at Davis' Mills, Lumjjkin's Mills, Waterford, 
Abbeville, Oxford, Tallahatchie, Holly Springs 
and La Grange and after Colonel Murpliy ter- 
minated CJrant's plans, moved down the river 
to Young's Point. He was in the light at 
Jackson and again performed much cavalry 
service of desultory character. In the winter 
of 1863-4 he veteranized, enrolling the second 
time February 8th in the same company and 
regiment. After taking his veteran's furlough 
he returned to his command and acted as 
Ordnance Officer at Duvall's Bluff in Arkansas, 
being commissioned Post Ordnance Sergeant. 
June 18, 1864, he was discharged to accept a 
Lieutenant's commission in the 3d Arkansas 
Cavalry, as 1st Lieutenant, but was placed in 
command of Company A and acted as its 
superior officer until he was discharged June 
14, 1S65. During the last of his service he was 
engaged in hunting guerrillas and bush- 
whackers in which he encountered much 
adventurous experience and many scenes of 
danger. He lost three horses, one of which 
was ridden to death and the others were shot 
under him. His regimental headquarters were 
at Iluntsville, Lewisburg and Norristovvn, and 
his last fight with the rebels was at Beattic's 
Mills, in whicli 45 of his men encountered loU 
confederates, driving them from that section. 

The 3d Michigan leftcs\mp under Lieutenant- 
Colonel Minty who was soon superseded by 
Colonel John K. Mizuer. Company I went 



out under Captain Wm. Dunliam of Fenton- 
ville, Mich., with Win. Dickinson of Grand 
Rapids, 1st Lieutenant, and Heber Crane of 
Detroit, 2(1 Lieutenant. Afterwards Horace H. 
Pope of Allegan, Mich., was 1st Lieutenant and 
Captain. 

After his discharge Mr. Gillett was taken 
sick and remained in Arkansas for some time, 
returning to Michigan in January, 1866. He 
was engaged in agriculture and went to Bay 
City in 1879. He went thence to the employ 
of the C, St. P., M. & O. R. R. as foreman of 
car insi)ectors. He is now engaged with the 
corporation of the Wisconsin Central at Wau- 
kesha, Wis. 

He was married at Lewisburg, Arkansas, 
June 29, 1865, to Julia A. Dacus, and tlieir 
children are Anna Z., Emma C. and Julia A. 
Robert 0. died when three months old. Mr. 
Gillett is a member of Patriarchal Circle No. 10 
at Waukesha. 

^ A e >XXX/ » A ■«• 

ADE HAMPTON RICHARDSON, 
\^// Milwaukee, Wis., member of G. 
A. R. Post No. 1, E. B. Wolcott, 
was born in Troupe Co., Georgia, of which 
State his father, George D. Richardson, was a 
native. The senior Richardson embarked in 
his conflict with the world in the village of 
Whitesvilleand there married Betheny P.Hill, 
who belonged to the branch of that stock which 
has been so prominently represented by Sen- 
ator Ben Hill of confederate fame. Mr. Ricli- 
ardson, senior, subsequently removed to a farm 
in that vicinity and in 1S47 to Chambers Co., 
Alabama. In 1848 he settled on a homestead 
in Macon county where he died in 18S3. He 
was the son of David Richardson and after the 
death of his father in 1856 he settled his 
mother with three negroes on a portion of his 
estate, assigning for their use and support a 




PERSONAL RECORDS. 



733 



considerable acreage which was managed by 
tlie negroes, consisting of a man, liis wife and 
son, the latter six days older than Mr. Rich- 
ardson of this sketch. The blacks discharged 
their obligations to their mistress faithfully, 
supplying her wants and securing for them- 
selves an ample living and also privileges para- 
mount to absolute freedom. They were well 
fed, well clothed and the man could read, an 
accomplishment which afforded him a broad 
acquaintance with the Bible. The advent of 
his grandmother accompanied by three 
slaves into his home life, formed the first 
])ractical acquaintance with slavery of Wade 
Hampton Richardson. He was then 10 j'ears 
old and he and the negro boy John, became 
companions and the white boy taught his 
tawny friend to read and write in utter ignor- 
ance that there was a legal penalty attached to 
such a proceeding. The independent condition 
of the negro family excited the malicious notice 
of the surrounding slave-holding gentry and 
the feeling was intensified by tiie occurrences 
attendant upon the .John Brown raid in 1859. 
In the state of feverish unrest and irritation 
which ensued, ])atrohnen were appointed in 
every precinct to watch the movements of the 
negroes and to see that no one of them was 
away from home without the written pass of 
his master or owner. One night, .John and his 
friend with an older brother of the latter, went 
fishing and, when a few miles from home were 
surrounded by several drunken patrolmen who 
insisted on whipping .John for being out witii- 
out a pass. The wlnte boys resisted and the 
negro escaped during the melee. 

Samuel Richardson, an uncle of Mr. Uich- 
ardson, was a Union man of most radical stripe, 
engaged temporarily as overseer on a neigh- 
boring plantation owned by a humane man 
who had hitherto permitted his slaves to con- 
duct the place, but who thought it wisest under 



existing circumstances to employ a white man 
until the storm had passed or burst. The 
former colored foreman had been permitted to 
own a gun and his privilege had not been 
annulled when one night, the patrolmen ran- 
sacked the premises," secured the gun and the 
negro, with the intention of whipping him on 
the sjiot and of afterwards bringing him before 
a magistrate on the charge of concealing 
weapons and plotting against the whites. Sam- 
uel Richardson resisted; a struggle without 
decisive results took place and the ultimatum 
was that the negro, accompanied by Samuel 
Richardson, was dragged about two o'clock in 
the morning before a justice, who decided that 
the negro should be whipped. He foresaw 
that such a proceeding would be resisted by 
Mr. Richardson and he released the colored 
man and entered a complaint against Mr. 
Richardson to the grand jury as a disturber of 
the peace. The chief result was a stronger 
sentiment of prejudice against the Richardsons 
as "free nigger" friends. Under this regime 
Wade Hampton Richardson learned the de- 
grading influence of " the institution " and also 
imbibed afresh the element of loyalty to his 
heritage of liberty from a long line of freedom 
loving ancestors, and the sentiment was strongly 
fostered by the prevailing state of things about 
the home fireside, for his father was a man of 
firm principles and outspoken in his home 
circle. With Samuel Richardson, during the 
campaign of 1860 the latter was prominent in 
his denunciation of the Southern or Brecken- 
ridge wing of the Democratic party, whose motto 
was evidently, "rule or ruin." They strenuously 
opposed the various measures leading to seces- 
sion and when the final step was taken by the 
State the whole family were strong friends of 
the Union and notoriously disliked by their 
secession neighbors. 
I In the neighborhood lived a family named 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



Summerford, consisting of a father, mother and 
three sons, all of whom were Abolitionists. Dr. 
Summerford, one of the oldest sons, had been 
editor of a Whig paper at Opelika, Ala., but 
when the State seceded he retired tohi.s father's 
farm to recuperate his health, shattered by 
overwork. The temperament of Mr. Uichard- 
son of this sketch led him to seek an accjuain- 
tance with Dr. Summerford and the two 
assumed the relations of teacher and pupil and 
became fast friends. Mr. Richardson attributes 
a well disciplined mind and the bent of his 
proclivities to the two years of intercourse, 
reading and study with a gifted, high-toned, 
upright man, whose memory he cherishes as 
tenderly as that of his fatiier. The doctor's 
brother, William Summerford and Samuel 
Richardson, were arrested at the begininng of 
the rebellion on a trum])ed-up charge of rais- 
ing a negro regiment and inciting insurrection. 
The intervention of tiie wiser part of the com- 
munity prevented mob measures but ever 
after the suspicion against tlie two families 
gained ground among the secession element. 
The effect on those most interested was to 
deepen their sentiments of loyalty to the 
Union and to foster their hatred of the new 
government, which, while it pretended to 
esi)0use the cause of liberty in its cry of home 
rule, not only made perpetual slavery of the 
blacks the chief corner-stone of their edifice, 
but would smother every spark of liberty by 
crushing out all opposition. 

To a man of Samuel Richardson's temper- 
ament, imbued with an intense love of liberty, 
educated in the traditions of his fatiiers in 
whose veins flowed some of the purest i)lood of 
the patriots of '76, such a government was sim- 
ply intolerable. If there had been a fair chance 
of escape he would have left the country. In 
1862 he was conscripted for duty in the confed- 
erate army but he deserted his regiment at 



Auburn, Ala., the day it was ordered to the 

front. He did not succeed in reaching the 
Union lines but remained six months in hid- 
ing in Northern Alabama when he returned 
to the vicinity of his brother and continued his 
concealment in the woods for two years, his 
proximity being unsuspected by any but his 
trusted friends. Just after the fall of Vicks- 
burg, with numerous companions of his hid- 
ing, (for the woods were full of deserters by 
that time), he tried to reach the Union lines at 
Huntsville, Ala. It was a vain attemjit but 
Mr. Richardson says: "Their failure led to 
my success." At tliat time boys between 16 
and 18 who had liitlierto l)een exemi)t from 
militarv dutv were being organized into Home 
(luards to do duty anywhere within the State. 
W. H. Richardson was then in his seventeenth 
year and was notified to prepare for service. 
He ilriik'd a few times with a company in the 
village but meanwhile the principles of the 
Summerfords were to the fore and the doctor 
advised his brother .James and young Richard- 
son to make an atlemi)t to reach the Union 
lines at some i)oint on the CJulf coast, while he 
and his father and mother would strike out 
North for the mountains of Tennessee, iioping 
eventually to get through the lines ant! join 
the young men at Cairo, 111. But the whole 
plan was not carried out. 

Aug. 3, 1863, James Summerford and W. H. 
Richardson left home. Tiiey were thoroughly 
equii)ped, each carrying two suits of clothes, 
four days' rations, plenty of confederate money 
and as a guide, a leaf torn from Mitchell's 
(Teogra])hy containing a map of Alabama and 
Florida. Their project was to reach the coast 
in the guise -of salt makers and there watch an 
opportunity to steal through to the Union 
lines. After two weeks wandering in the 
woods by day, fed and informed by the friend- 
ly blacks at night, they reached the Union 



PERSONAL RECORDS. 



735 



lines tit E;ist Pass, Florida. On a glorious 
Sunday morning, with a dozen other refugees, 
they boarded a United States sloop and rejoiced 
in the protection of the emblem of liberty — the 
Stars and Stripes. 

They went to Pensacola navy yard where 
James Suminerford died of yellow fever. In a 
few months so many refugees had reached 
Pensacola that it was thought advisable to 
enlist such of them as could be trusted, in the 
ITnion service. Recruiting began in Decem- 
ber and in March, 1864, four companies were 
mustered as the " 1st Florida Cavalry, U. S. 
Volunteers." Mr. Richardson was among them 
and he records that it is doubtful if there was 
such another regiment enlisted during the war. 
Most of the recruits were refugees from various 
)iarts of the South, but some of the officers 
were from Northern regiments. Among them 
were two wlio had served in Hungary ; one, - 
Polisli by l)irth, had served in Russia; two or 
three were Germans and two were Floridians 
who had worn shoulder straps in the con- 
federate army. Many of the rank and tile 
were deserters from the rebel army : a larger 
number were young men who had not seen 
service and a few were older men who had 
escaped confederate service by hiding in the 
swamps of Florida. Thej' were a motley crowd ; 
but they were the men for scouts and daring 
exploits. They were marked men ; they knew 
from the stories some of them told that capture 
meant death and " thev fought it out on that 
line." In the latter part of 1864 and to the 
close in 1865 they performed active service in 
Florida and Alabama, taking part in the cap- 
ture of Spanish Fort, at Blakely, in the fall of 
Mobile and in tiie operations in Alabama 
leading up to Selma and Montgomery. At that 
place the}' were in the 16th Corps for a short 
time under Gen. A. .J. Smith. Later they were 
sent to Tallahassee to serve the Provisional 



(Tovernment at the beginning of reconstruc- 
tion. But the men begged to be relea.sed that 
they might go to protect their families, many 
of whom were subjected to ill treatment by 
their rebel neighbors. But the officers deemed 
such a course unwise as there would l)e old 
scores to settle and trouble would ensue with- 
out much good resulting. This was apparent 
from the fact that many who had been fur- 
loughed to return to their homes for a few 
days had lost their lives in the neigborhood 
broils. But the growing discontent led to tlie 
discharge of the regiment in November, 1865, 
at Tallahassee. 

Mr. Richardson went home, determined to 
shun any conflict with ex-confederate neigh- 
bors, hut fully prepared to defend himself if 
need should arise. Everyone who could attbrd 
it wore side arms and so did he. Soon after 
arrival at home he entered college at Auburn, 
Ala., where for three months his identity as a 
former soldier for the Union was not discovered. 
In April, 1866, Andrew .Johnson's antagonism 
to Congress on reconstruction issues revived 
the hopes of the Southern people. They l)egan 
to cherish the hope that what they had lost in 
battle they would regain by the ballot. They 
hoped that a combination of Northern Demo- 
crats and Southern whites might ol)tain the 
control of the Federal Government and that 
the value of the slaves would be refunded 
from the National treasury. The sentiment 
soon grew too strong for a radical like Mr. 
Richardson to remain without expression of 
his views and he quitted the school. The 
principal permitted him to make a farewell 
address in which he reviewed the political 
situation and spoke of his service in the army 
of the Union. 

To his comrades of the 1st Florida Cavalry 
he gives a paragraph. Many were killed within 
a month after reaclnng home, but the killing 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



was not all on one side. Four years after, 
while on a trip to Florida, he found two com- 
rades living and heard of a dozen who had been 
killed. In 1889 he visited Pensacola wliere 
he met two others ; they had manj- sad stories 
to relate of the finale of their comrades since 
November, 1865, and in 1890 oiily a few are left. 

Mr. Richardson went to Illinois in 1860. He 
taught school in 1867 and in the same year 
entered the State Normal University of Illinois 
whence he was graduated in 1870. He was a 
teacher in the Sucker State and in Milwaukee 
12 years. Since 1882, with the exception of 
one year as Principal of the 7th Ward school, 
he has been actively engaged in business. In 
1870 he was admitted to practice law but has 
never entered upon the work of that profession. 
He was married in August, 1870, to Lydia 
Corbett who died in 1878. He has one daughter 
living by his first wife. He was married the 
second time in August, 1880, to Mary A. Haw- 
ley, a distant relative of Gen. Joseph Hawley 
of Connecticut. As a result of this union lie 
has three children, two boys and one girl. 

The recorder of the annals of the .soldiers of 
Wisconsin regards the brief outline of the ex- 
periences of Mr. Richardson as one of the most 
valuable to posterity in this collection. Not a 
tithe of his personal connection with the South 
in the awful period wliich has never been ade- 
quately characterized nor its monstrousness 
fully delineated, has been herein recounted. 
The writer has heard them and they have the 
novelty of romance, the thrill of extreme peril 
to life and all a man boiiis precious, tlic 
somberness of the shadow that enveloped the 
Nation in a blackness more intense than Dante 
painted. Through it all blazes like a sun the 
loyalty and juitriotism of a man wlinm Mil- 
waukee is proud to call one of her citizens. 






Thomas price, Chippewa Falls, AVis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 68, was 
born in 1840, in Bedford Co., Tennes- 
see, lie has been a citizen of Wisconsin since 
1852, going to Chij>pewa Falls in the fall of 
that year and entering the employ of H. S. 
Allen, a lumberman of extensive relations and 
remaineil with him until 1857. He was em- 
ployed by others in the same business until he 
became a soldier. 

He enlisted at Chippewa Falls .lune 7, 1861, 
and was mustered into the United Slates ser- 
vice August 16th following, in Comjiany A, 
7tli Wisconsin Infantry at Camp Randall, 
Madison. He went with the regiment to Wash- 
ington, subsequently crossed the ('bain Bridge, 
went to Arlington Heights and became a mem- 
ber of King's Wisconsin Brigade, afterwards 
the " Iron Brigade." In the spring of 1862 he 
went on the Manassas campaign, returned, 
went to Catlott's Station and to the cam])aign 
on tiie Rajijiahannock, afterwards to Slaughter 
Mountain and \\'ai ronton, and was occupied in 
varied manner until August, an<l fought on 
the 28tli at (Jainesville, a battle which convin- 
ced Wisconsin of the character of the war. Mr. 
Piice was hit in the ear. Company A lost 28 
killed and wounded in that fight. They made 
a start for Centerville, encountered the rebels 
and fought the second battle of Bull Run, 
September 2d. They retreated (o Loudon 
H(Mghts, went thence to daily skirmishing and 
expectation of meeting the foe in battle, fight- 
ing at South Mountain, September 14th and at 
Antietam on the 17th. Prior to this Mr. Price 
had been transferred to Stewart's U. S. Battery 
B, No. 4, and accompanied the former com- 
mand as an artilleryman, fighting as such at 
Antietam. Their position was such that in the 
very first of the action nearly all their horses 
were lost. Their guns were then brought to 
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remained in Maryland until November, when 
they returned to another Rappahannock cam- 
paign and fought at Fredericksburg, during 
which the battery was on the left wing. They 
went into winter quarters at Aquia Creek 
(Stafford C. H.). In tlie s])ring they moved to 
the crossing of the Rapjiahannock, encountered 
rebels everywhere and were 07-dered on to the 
battle of Chancellorsville, after a gallant action 
at Fitzhugh's Crossing. The brigade was not 
in action at Chancellorsville but went into 
camp until June when they went on a recon- 
noissance and fought at Brandy Station, follow- 
ing up the movements of Lee afterwards to the 
battle of Gettysburg. The battery began its 
operations in that battle near the Seminary, 
was di'iven thence to the front of the Cemetery 
and remained there until the termination of 
the battle. On the evening of July 3d a vigor- 
ous charge was made on them and the 11th 
Corps was driven out, but the 14th Indiana 
and 7th West Virginia Infantry arrived in 
time to help make a successful resistance and 
after the rel)els were thoroughly whipped and 
on the run tiie batter}' moved towards Wash- 
ington. November 26th it was in the useless 
conflict at Locust (irove (Mine Run), when 
they went into quarters at Culj^eper, and in 
the spring prepared for the activities of the 
campaign of the Wilderness, performing splen- 
did service on the 5tli and Ctli of May, fighting 
at Spottsylvania and Laurel Ilill where Mr. 
Price was wounded May lltli in the skirmish- 
ing, a shell striking his left arm. He was 
sent to field hospital and tiience to Fredericks- 
burg, supplied while on the way with food 
from the knapsacks of the negro soldiers who 
gave generously and went without themselves. 
(Their own rations had been stolen by the 
armj' bummers). June 25th he was sufficiently 
recovered to join his battery in front of Peters- 
burg and operated iu front with the command in 



all the varied service until the explosion of the 
mine July 30th. August 16th, he was in the 
raid on the Weldon railroad and after passing 
through that work rejoined the command 
before Petersburg, remaining there until Sep- 
tember 2d, when he received honorable dis- 
charge and returned to Wisconsin. His time 
expired August 16th. 

He engaged in lumbering until the fall of 
1886, when he went to his farm, of which he 
has been the owner some years and which is 
situated on section 31, just outside the limits of 
the city and where he is following agriculture 
in the good old way. He was married April 
23, 1879, at Chippewa Falls, to Lucy, daughter 
of Martin and Mary Clancey. The children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Price are Mary A., Thomas C, 
Lucy N., Mattie ^'irginia, Franklin J. and 
Lavinia. The parents of Mrs. Price were born 
in Ireland and they had 12 children, five of 
whom are living. Mrs. Price is the oldest but 
one and was born in England. Mr. Price is a 
Republican in political faith and is a substan- 
tial farmer on one of the most ilesirabh' located 
places in the county of Clii}>pewa, having a 
commanding view of the city of Chippewa 
Falls. Mr. Price does not believe that he put 
down the rebellion alone, but was only one 
among the great army which did. He draws 



a pension. 



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ETER GREINEISEN, La Crosse, Wis., 
.vr-" member of G. A. R. Post No. 77, was 
born March 17, 1848, in Prussia. His 
parents, Matthias and Frances (Petchin) Grein- 
eisen, removed with their family to America in 
1854 and located at Dubucpie, Iowa, the father 
remaining there in the employ of a wareliouse 
company for 11 years. He went in the same 
interest to Clayton county and died in 1865; 
his widow is still living in the city of La Crosse. 



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Peter, Nicliolas, Pliili]) and Elizabeth were tlie 
names of their children and, beside Peter, only 
the sister is living. 

The oldest son passed his time in school and 
as his father's assistant until he enlisted. He 
had a predilection for the water and determined 
as soon as possible to ship as a seaman wliich 
he did at 17 years of age, Jan. 27, 1SG5, on 
board tlic gunboat, Essex, and was sent to Cairo 
for assignment. The boat was ordered to 
Memphis and after a week returned to Cairo to 
meet the rebel rams coming down the river, 
and while there Mr. Greineisen was injured by 
falling through a hatchway tliat liad been care- 
lessl}' left open. Two of his ril)S were Ijroken and 
one of them driven into the lung, making an 
operation to remove it necessary. The injury 
was so serious that he was kept on board until 
he recovered sufficiently to make his removal 
safe, when he was transferred to Pinckney hos- 
pital at Memphis. He was injured just before 
the explosion of the Sultana, April 28th, 1865. 
He remained in the hospital untilhis discharge 
for disability, June 13, 1S(;5. After the war had 
closed and jirior to his hurt he was registei'ed 
for service in a navy yard at llarlford. Conn. 

After he was mustered out he went to Clay- 
ton Co., Iowa, and remained idle and recruiting 
his health for two years. He tlien engaged in 
the engineering department on the river packet 
boats and in that .service secured his license as 
second engineer, in which capacity he obtained 
a situation on the Belle Cross. He was one of 
her complement of assistants two seasons, 
changed to other boats and performed his 
duties in a manner which secured for him a 
license, after Kve years, as assistant engineer of 
vessels under 100 tons burthen. After seven 
years passed in that capacity on various vessels 
on the river, he was licensed as first engineer, 
in which capacity he has since been operating 
on the Mississippi River, j)rincij)ally from 



Ahinkato to New Orleans. Mr. Greineisen is 
one of the most competent engineers in the 
river service, having served liis time regularly 
and in a manner that has secured for him tlie 
fullest confidence of his employers in a period 
of over twenty years. 

He was married Marcli 31, 1873, at Alma, 
Wis., to Theresa, daughter of Eustace and 
Isabia (Keiffer) Hick, natives of Baden, Ger- 
many. They went to the United States in 
1854, locating in the Iron Mountain District in 
Missouri. The wife is one of 14 children of 
whom eight are living, named William, Wend- 
lin, John, Ottilie, Katherina, Theresa, Nicholas 
and Charles. The mother died Sept. 15, 1865, 
and tlie father Oct. 18, 1888, both deaths 
occurring at Alma, Wis. Henry Andrew and 
Mary Isabel were the names of the two chil- 
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Greineisen and the 
daughter died in infancy. The father is a 
member of Odd Fellows Lodge, Gateway City, 
No. 153, of the A. O. U. W., Enterprise I^odge, 
No. 125, and is independent in polities; he has 
i-eceived a jiension since 1866. 



ICy UTHEK BELL GREGG, Milwaukee, 
^'■^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, 
— i/ was born April 5, 1845, at Elyria, 
Ohio. His father, Ebenezer Gregg (2d), was 
born in Londonderry, New Hamp.shire, his 
ancestors having belonged to the Scotch-Irish 
race. Colonel William Gregg, founder of the 
family in New Hamjishire, came from the 
North of Ireland, whither his ancestors, to 
evade the rigors of the Scottish kirk in the rule 
of James I, had fled in 1619 to remain exactly 
100 years in no better condition than that their 
native country afforded, before their dispersion 
to other countries. Many of them located in 
New Hampshire, named their towns after those 
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helped to make some of the best liistory in tliis 
country in professional avenues and where 
honesty, perseverance, integrity and faithful 
a<lhesion to principle formed the base of suc- 
cess. Horace Greeley may Ijo mentioned as a 
sample. William Gregg died at Londonderry, 
in 1825, aged one month less than 94 years. 
His son Ebenezer (1st) died at Elyria, March 7, 
1844, having been one of the pioneers of the 
Buckeye State. The fatlier of Mr. Gregg was 
born at Dorchester, N. H., and went to Ohio 
with his parents, having married Mary Wallace 
Danforth in " Derry ", N. H. She belonged to 
an old family of more than ordinary claims to 
prominence. He inherited in a marked degree 
the traits of the Scotch and was noted for his 
vigorous coustitution, perseverance and energy 
of character. 

Mr. (Jregg comes of fighting stock, his great 
grandfather having been in command of 
minute men at Bennington, "\'t., under General 
Stark, and heard his commander's rally to his 
troops, paraphrased by the poet as follows: 

'• We'll beat tbe British ere set of sun " 

'• Or Mollie Stark's a widow; it was done ! " 

He fought through the Revolution as did the 
grandfather, who was also a soldier in 1812. 
(The latter was born in 1757 and died in 1844. j 
Mr. Gregg was a boy when the civil war came 
on and, as soon as possible, when 19, he en- 
listed, enrolling March 7, 1864, in Company K, 
135th Ohio Infantry, which had been a State 
organization under the call for 100-day men. 
Mustered at Camp Chase, Mr. Gregg accom- 
panied the command to AVest Virginia and was 
assigned to duty in guarding Opequan Bridge 
and also to patrol the track of the Baltimore & 
Ohio railroad and remained there until .luly ?>, 
1864. When Sigel retreated Ijefore Early, 
Company K was ordered to join the regiment 
in the advance of Sigel's column two miles for- 
ward, with Ihu thermometer 104 in the shade, 



but the soldiers threw away everything possible 
except their guns and ammunition and over- 
took the command about sundown. Line of 
battle was formed in the edge of a wood but 
there was no fighting and later, the command 
started for the Potomac, fording at Dam No. 4, 
near Shepherd.stown at midnight, July 3d. 
After a rest of an hour and a half, which was 
an irremediable blunder, the men having been 
overheated when entering the cold water, many 
were entirely helpless on trying to resume the 
march. Mr. Gregg managed to keep up until 
he reached the old field at Antietam, where he 
improvised a private hospital in the corner of 
a fence, was afterwards placed in a suppi}' wagon 
loaded with oats and was with the comn:and 
in the line of retreat towards Harper's Ferry 
until near evening, when he was driven from 
the wagon and lay on the ground, suffering 
with rheumatism, until he was placed on a 
horse, after having been three nights without 
sleep. He leaned forward, placed his arm 
about the neck of his horse and went fast asleep. 
Sometime in the night he was pushed off the 
horse into a wagon containing several men and 
others were piled in like wood. The team took 
its own gait down the mountain towards 
Frederick City where the cojitents of the wagon 
were dumped into the streets and left to shift 
for themselves. Mr. Gregg found his way to 
Provost Marshal's headquarters, reported as a 
straggler and was asked if he was hungry, etc. 
He was directed to a kettle of coffee and some 
bread, filled himself full and slept for 24 hours. 
In the afternoon of July 7th he woke to 
find himself alone, the troops having gone 
to the battle of Frederick. He went to 
tlie provost office, found it deserted and 
selecting a musket and 60 "rounds" he started 
for the activities, finding a company of the 3d 
Maryland safe behind a barn and joined them. 
In another instant he was obeying an order to 



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charge a battery in face of its fire, tlie sliells ! 
plougliiiig tlie meadow. He Iniiinl liiiiisi'lt' 
alone and protected behind a fence, the column 
having moved away while firing. The colonel 
called to Mr. Gregg to follow, and went to a 
crest where he was exposed to direct fire, en- 
dangering his (the colonel's) life; Mr. Gregg 
called to him to lie down, telling him lie would 
shoot him if he did not, but he replied: "Shoot 
away! a few more bullets will not make much 
difference. " He took a position in which 
three men on his right were injured and two on 
his left, the lighting going on for three hours, 
the distance being so small that the foes could 
exchange calls. A boy stood up to drink and 
a rebel sliot split the canteen, its owner crying 
out that he did not mind being shot at initthat 
it was a shame tospill liis whisky. The arrival 
of Mulligan prevented disaster and thej' were 
in a heavy night rain. In the morning every 
lltli man counted off was to enter the skirmisii 
line and Mr. Gregg was again to the front, tlie 
captain offering to relieve him, but he refused 
and on the way to jiosition crossed the field of 
the day before where the corn was cut down 
by bullets aud the dead still unburied. They 
took two rebels from a barn whom Mr. Gregg 
marched to the rear and was offered the oppor- 
tunity to take them to Frederick City but 
refused. Advancing to meet the skirmish line 
of rebels they were afterwards sent to the rear 
and in the evening went through the city to 
Monocacy Junction and were in a fight under 
Lew Wallace, lasting almost seven hours, Wal- 
lace being driven l)aek to Baltimore. Mr. Gregg 
was furnished transjiortation back to his com- 
pany which he found in the rifle pits in front of 
Maryland Heights. The command soon moved 
onto the Heights and remained six weeks with- 
out change of clothing and each man with one 
canteen of water daily. The ground had been 
burned over and the dirt can be imagined. 



Mr. Gregg relates that a skunk hid one night 

under a craekei- box which was used for a 
j)illow but he did not succeed in outranking 
the smell of the command. Mr. Gregg was 
mustered out after 120 days of service Sep. 20, 
1864, at Camp Chase. Arthur L. Gregg, a 
brother, served three years in Edgerton's Light 
Battery and received a kick from a horse which 
caused his death seven years after the close of 
the war. Danforth Simon Gregg, another 
brother, enlisted in the 21st Illinois Infantry 
and served three years. 

The day after reaching home he was taken 
with tyj)hoid fever, was ill seven weeks and 
weighed but 70 pounds after recovery. He 
was rendered unable to work for several years. 
Oct. 7, 1867, he went to Milwaukee, engaging 
in llie sale of Domestic sewing machines which 
business he continued to .Jan. 1, 1SS8, when he 
embarked as a real estate agent, and has since 
invented and received patents on a cloth and 
carpet whipper. 

March 22, 1873, Mr. Gregg was married to 
Cornelia Augusta, daughter of James I). Sher- 
man, formerly a leading dry goods merchant 
of Chicago, and her two sons, Arthur S. and 
Augustus are living. The mother died two 
years after marriage and Mr. (Jregg was again 
married June 16, 1877, to Eliza B. Carter, and 
their children are named Eliza Bell andGracie. 
Major Geo. W. Carter, former Warden of the 
state prison at Wauj)un, a soldier in the 4th 
Wisconsin, James Carter of the artillery service 
and Harrison, a Lieutenant in the 23d Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, were the brothers of Mrs. Gregg. 
Charles S., another brother, was in the employ 
of the Government as a citizen, but he took a 
musket and went onto the skirmish line to drive 
Hood from Nashville. The residence of Mr. 
Gregg is at \\'auwatosa, Wis. 




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Tp^ RIGADIER-GENERAL HARRISON 

tM^ '-■■ liOBART. Perliaps in no other 
' ■^ instance on these jiages will a name 
appear which is more the synonym of all that 
Itelongs to a noljle manhood than that of Gen- 
eral Hohart. If a biographer, who is called to 
incessant contemplation of Wisconsin volunteer 
soldiers and their relation to the cruelest war 
on record, should pause to express sentiment, 
it would illy tit the character and achievements 
of General Ilobart. Rut all that miglit be said 
would be none too much to express the pride 
and gratification it is to his generation, that he 
made for himself and for Wisconsin and his 
country such a splendid record. 

He is a native of Ashburnham, Worcester 
Co., Massachusetts. He was the son of a New 
England farmer and the education he was able 
to obtain as such, was of a quality to stimulate 
a boy of his proclivities, feeling the cramping 
influences of a lot of confinement to the narrow 
privileges and opportunities of an overcrowded 
community whose resources of occupation and 
advancement for ambition and commendable 
effort were of the most limited character. He 
went to Haverhill, Mass., to learn the printer's 
business and served an apprenticcsliip of three 
years ; worketl industriously at the case, saved 
his earnings and fitted for Dartmouth College, 
matriculating in one of the leading Universities 
in the countr}', which has held its prestige for 
succeeding generations, in ]838, and taking 
his degree in 1S42, having taught school in the 
interims to eke out his means to accomplish 
his plans. He decided on the profession of a 
lawyer and became a student under the in- 
structions of the famous Robert Rantoul of 
Boston and, in 1S45, was admitted to the Bar 
of Suffolk county. In 184(5 he determined to 
test the promise of the West and locatetl an 
office at Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Sucli spirits 
as his were welcomed and recognized by the 



settlers in that portion of the (then) Territoiy 
of Wisconsin and his character, energy and 
promise won the admiration of his fellow 
pioneers, who sent him to the Territorial Legis- 
lature of the same fall and he served a biennial 
term. He was made the Senator from his 
Di.strict after Wisconsin arrived at the dignity 
of Statehood and, as such, occupied the most 
prominent and responsible position of the ses- 
sion (in which the Statutes of the Badger State 
were revised and completed) in the capacity of 
Chairman of Committee on Judiciary. His 
labors in the Legislature of 1848 will continue 
their inlluence while Wisconsin has an exist- 
ence as a commonwealth. He was re-elected 
in 1849 and made Speaker of the House. He 
served with the same conspicuous ability and 
after his return to private life, devoted his 
energies to the develo})ment of the part of the 
State where he was located and to his profes- 
sional duties, which were multiplying indefi- 
nitely. In 1855 he removed to Calumet county 
and aided in forming the municipal relations 
of Chilton. In 1859 he was again elected to 
the Legislature in which his service was of the 
same distinguishing character. His reputation 
secured for him the nomination for Governor 
of Wisconsin and he ran against Alexander 
Randall, the general condition of National 
affairs making the party interests the point at 
issue, alone defeating him, as his devotion to 
the State welfare made him, personally, the 
most popular man within her borders. (After 
the war he ran against Gen. Fairchild and 
since a candidate for Congress on the Demo- 
cratic Ticket). 

The period was at hand which relegated to 
oblivion every relation of citizenship, except 
such as pertained to National affairs, and 
therein was proven the quality of the material 
which preserved the Union and placed the 
Nation on its impregnable basis of permanence 



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— the patriotism of the sons of those who 
established it. General Hobart threw every 
resource he possessed into the balance and 
enlisted in the ranks, enrolling in the Calumet 
RiHes which, on reporting to Governor Randall, 
was assigned to the 4th Wisconsin as Company 
K, having 101 men and Hobart as Captain. 
In the detention at Elmira after starting for 
the front, liis company and Company II were 
detailed by Colonel Paine to obtain an engine 
to take the train on its way and the work was 
accomplished in spite of the resistance of the 
cmi)loyes of the road. An engineer was de- 
tailed from the regiment which proceeded on 
its way to Harrisburg. After reaching Balti- 
more, where the command was on duty as 
guard until November, arms were received and 
the regiment went on an expedition to \'ir- 
ginia East Shore, returning to Baltimore and in 
February started for active service, going to 
Fortress Monroe and Newport News, prepara- 
tory to embarking with Butler's expedition to 
New Orleans. Captain Hobart with his com- 
pany, passed through the dismal experiences 
of tlie trip to Ship Island and the preliminary 
mov^nenls before the taking of the defenses of 
New Orleans, Forts Jackson and St. Phillips. 
They were in the movements up tlie river with 
Vicksburg as objective point, and had the 
satisfaction of repaying the treachery at Grand 
Gull'. Tiiey participated in the subsequent 
expedition to Baton Rouge and, with his com- 
pany, with decimated ranks and enfeebled, 
worn-out men he fought to repulse Brecken- 
ridge and aided in a victory. Aug. 21, 1862, 
Governor Salomon made him Lieutenant- 
Colonel of the 21st Wisconsin and he joined in 
that capacity in October following at Lebanon, 
Ky. Colonel Sweet had sustained injuries at 
Perry ville on the Stii of the month and did not 
return to the regiment and Lieutenant-Colonel 
Hobart assumed command. The regiment had 



I suffered severely in the action and from ex- 
posure and was hardly in fighting trim 
when the movements preliminary to tlie 
battle of Murfreesboro (Stone River) took place, 
Deceml)er 30th, the od Brigade participated in 
the action at Jefferson Pike which preceded the 
fighting at Stone River on the day following 
and, under acting Colonel Hobart, performed 
service which was recognized especially and 
sustained its record through the battle of the 
two succeeding days. The command was in 
the subsequent movements whicii led up to the 
battle of Cliickamauga, engaging in several 
skirmishes at Guy's Gap and Hoover's Gap and 
at Cliickamauga, and was in action September 
19th and 20th. The regiment was still fight- 
ing at sundown, when (ieneral Thomas ordered 
a retreat, which was not known by the 21st, 
which with its colonel was endeavoring, blindly, 
to hold its position when it was suddenly dis- 
covered that tiie command was, in a sense, cut 
I off and the commanding officer, while valiantly 
' endeavoring to cut his way through over- 
' whelming numbers, with about 70 of his force 
was taken prisoner. Libby was then the 
dreaded ultimatum of the captives of the con- 
federates and thither went the unfortunates 
from the 21st Wisconsin. There is no need to 
recapitulate what they endured; on countless 
pages of this work the stories of Libb}', Ander- 
sonville, Florence, Charleston and Fort Tyler 
are told, and the sliameful record stands against 
the South in history as the greatest atrocities 
known to human experience. But the energies 
of Colonel Hobart never flagged, and liis active 
mind was perjK'tualiy occupied with ]i]ans of 
escape, which should include the greatest 
possible number of his associates and he suc- 
ceeded. From the room where he was confined, 
a passage was cut to the room below through 
die rear of a fireplace, the stones being removed 
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men, one to tunnel and the other to tan air 
into the cavity with his hat and to draw out in 
a spittoon the loosened earth, which was dis- 
posed of under the dehris on the cellar floor. 
A passage was burrowed out under the street, a 
distance'of about seventy feet, and in a month 
it was ready for the attempt. On the night 
of Feb. 9, 1SG4, 109 men in citizens' dress 
crawled like worms through the narrow chan- 
nel and emerged on the street. Fifty-two were 
retaken and 57 pushed their way to freedom. 
Among the latter was Ilobart ; arm-in-arm with 
Col. T. S. West, he walked through the streets 
of the city, coughing like one in the last stages 
of consumption, his efforts aided and abetted 
by his wasted, cadaverous ajipearance, and, 
after that, for six nights and five days, they 
pushed toward the polar star, aided in their 
calculation by a war map of McClellan which 
Colonel Hobart had coi^ied before leaving 
Libby. On the sixth day they found they were 
within the Union lines when challenged by 
cavalrymen in blue and to which they responded 
with a hurrah which cost all their remaining 
strength. Colonel Hobart made his way to 
Fortress Monroe, then in command of General 
B. F. Butler, his former superior officer at New 
Orleans, by whom he was greeted with ail the 
enthusiasm possible for a man to display. It 
was a well known fact that the chivalry of the 
South, holding to punctilio, while starving, 
freezing, murdering and torturing defense- 
less men, refused to observe customs of modern 
warfare, because, forsooth, General Butler had 
transgressed the code of a gentleman by calling 
things by their right name at New Orleans 
and on that score refused to transmit mails for 
the prisoners, and also to exchange prison- 
ers, while such a distasteful individual was 
retained in authority at Fortress Monroe 
by the United States Government. What 
other sort of villain he might be, he must be a 



gentleman according to their regulations made 
and provided. A scheme had been devised by 
Colonel Hobart, (who, through his own troubles 
never forgot his solicitude for others), to cir- 
cumvent the rebels and it was a success. He 
advised Butler to send without notice to a point 
in the- vicinity of Bermuda Hundred on the 
James River, (which had been agreed upon as 
a place of communication), a number of con- 
federate officers without notice further than 
that they were there for exchange. The com- 
plement was man for man and rank for rank 
and, in numbers, covered like officers in Libby 
prison. When the plan was referred to Secre- 
tary Stanton he directed that it be submitted 
to General Meredith, head of the Exchange 
Bureau, who obtained from the Seci'etary of 
War, the necessary order and the men were 
sent according to the plan of Colonel Hobart. 
The rebels were in a dilemma; the individuals 
who demanded exchange were of their own ilk 
and, being officers, their displeasure was to be 
considered ; they were evidently in a trap and 
submitted, but assured the United States Gov- 
ernment that the thing would not be repeated 
under any consideration. But 250 Union 
officers were released from Libby through the 
kindly thoughtfulness and sagacious counsel 
of an associate. 

The visit made to Wisconsin b}^ Colonel 
Hobart was an ovation. The State received 
him through her representatives, and private 
citizens made every effort to express their ap- 
preciation of his character. Early in 1864 he 
rejoined his command at Lookout Mountain 
and was ready when the Atlanta campaign 
opened, to resume military duty at the head of 
his regiment, whicli he did under a Colonel's 
commission. Rocky Face Ridge, Snake Creek 
Gap, Resaca, Dallas Woods, Big Shanty, Kcne- 
saw and Marietta are on his roster, and at 
Peach Tree Creek lie again wrested victory 



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from a forlorn hope in a charge. His regiment 
was constantly under fire in the trenches before 
Atlanta and was in the movement to the right, 
which was expected to expel tlie rebels from 
the city. It was successful and, after Jones- j 
boro, Colonel Hobart was assigned to the com- 
mand of a brigade. He went through Georgia 
and was in the march to the sea and on the 
capture of Savannah, by special recommend of 
General Sherman, he was promoted by Presi- 
dent Lincoln to the rank of Brigadier-General, 
being the only officer in his division then 
brevetted. As such he was in the action at 
Benton ville, and after Johnston's surrender 
went to Washington where he was relieved in 
order to return with his first love, the 21st 
Wisconsin, to the borders of the State he loved 
and which lias never ceased to love him. 

He located his business and interests at Mil- 
waukee in the fall of the same year and re- 
sumed his former relations to the people of the 
Badger State. He became again a member of 
the Legislature of Wisconsin and performed 
effective service in the interests of education 
especially and in other avenues of proportion- 
ate good to the conunonwcalth. He served in 
local municipal relations and in every position, 
without regard to grade, performed every duty 
in a manner consonant with his high character 
and sentiment of responsibility in behalf of 
those whom he served. As a lawyer, soldier, 
citizen and legislator, lie has discharged the 
obligations of his relations to Wisconsin in the 
only way possible to a man of his type — one 
who feels upon him the weight of inherited 
responsibilities as well as those which accumu- 
late uufler the eilbrt to render the world such 
services as alleviate wrong and assert the su- 
premacy of right. No fulsome words will fit 
the character of General Hobart, and if he 
should give his dictum of what should be said 
of him it would be "Write me as one who 




loved his fellow-men." And nothing more 
fitting could be said. 

He was married Feb. 2, 1854, to Frances L 
Lowrey, of Troy, New York, and she died 
March 22, 1855. June 8, 1857, he was again 
married to Mrs. Anna C. Mower, of Boston. 

The portrait of General Hobart appears on 
page 742. 

AN H. BUGBEE, Waukesha, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 19, was 
born June 14, 1840, in Cabot, Cale- 
donia Co., Vermont and in l)oth lines of de- 
scent represents patriotic blood which left a 
record in several of the earlier wars of the 
country, lie is the son of Harris and Hannah 
(St. Clair) Bugbee ami hisjiaternal greatgrand- 
father was a victim of one of the Indian wars. 
Seven brothers St. Clair emigrated from Scot- 
land to America prior to the Revolution, and 
it is probable that all of them became soldiers 
in that struggle, and also in 1812. Tiiey all 
settled in New England and all the families of 
the name are traceable to that brotherhood. 
Willard Bugbee, grandfather of Van, lived 
and died in Vermont, where he reared a large 
family, Harris being the youngest. The latter 
was a millwright and died in the State of Ver- 
mont at the age of 60 years. The mother 
removed to Wisconsin and died at the liome of 
her son, aged about Go years in ISSO. Mr. 
Bugbee has a sister named C!arrie and they 
were the only children. He was sent to an 
excellent school at Randolph, Vermont, a town 
noted for its culture and the intelligence of its 
citizens who take pride in fostering one of the 
best known schools. Like many New England 
boys who inherit the traits of their sires, he 
first engaged in the business of teaching and 
in tlie j'ear after in- reached his majority he 
enlisted. 



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He enroUeu in the spring of 1862, in Com- 
pany G, lOtli Vermont Infantry from Ran- ; 
dolpli, was mustered witli liis company at 
lirattleboro Sept. 23, 1862, and in October fol- 
lowing went to the front with tlie Armj^ of the 
Potomac engaging first in performing ])icket 
and other n:iilit.ary duty at Conrad's and . 
Edward's Ferries until orders were received 
for the regiment to move witii all possible dis- 
patch to fight at Gettysburg. The command 
rejoined the arni}^ at Harper's Ferry and in 
August, 1863, Mr. Bugbee was ordered to 
report at Signal Headquarters near Warrenton, 
\'a., for examination, preparatory to admission 
to that corps. He passed satisfactorily and 
from that date Mr. Bugbee was on duty at 
headquarters of the Army of the Potomac as 
an attache of the signal service, and was its 
attendant in all its campaigns and present in 
some capacity connected with that branch of 
the service, until the close of the war. His 
first assignment was with General 0. 0. How- 
ard for two months and afterwards he was in 
the field and on the move, experiencing all the 
changes and vicissitudes in the campaign of 
tlie Wilderness, in the subsequent movements 
through 1864, in the activities in Virginia, in- 
cluding the awful experiences of the Union 
troops at Petersburg and on the three lines of 
works, which the rebels had been kindly per- 
mitted to construct at their leisure. (When 
Bull Run was fought and for months after- 
wards, there was not a fortification in existence 
at Petersljurg, the virtual key to the rebel 
stronghold). In the Review at Washington 
the Signal Corps had tlie first place after the 
staff of General Meade, and afterwards camped 
at Arlington Heights, where Mr. Bugbee 
first camped as an infantry soldier. He re- 
ceived final discharge .June 29, 1865, and 
returned to his old home in Vermont. In 
the spring of 1866 he went to Milwaukee and 



was there occupied about a year, removing 
thence to Waukesha. Soon after he began to 
look into the business of photography, partly 
as pastime while deciding on something to do, 
and finally engaged in it as an occupation, 
which he carried on until 1886, when he sold 
out and has since lived in retirement from 
active exertion, on account of failing eyesight. 

He was married in 1876 to Jennie, daughter 
of Thomas Spence, and they have T,liree chil- 
dren named Leslie, Benjamin and Lottie. 

Mr. Bugbee is a Mason of the higher degrees, 
being a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, 
Commandery and the Consistorj'at ]\Iilwaukee. 
He was a member of the first Post at Waukesha 
and has since been actively interested in the 
prosperit}^ of the Order. 



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ATRICK O'CONNELL, Commander of 
G. A. R. Post No. 8 (Veteran), con- 
nected with the Soldier's Home at 
Milwaukee, was born Feb. 28, 1834, at Toronto, 
Canada. His parents, .John and .Julia (Ilart- 
nett) O'Connell, were natives of Ireland and 
emigrated thence to Canada in 1824. The 
father was a farmer in the Dominion and went 
to Detroit, Mich., in 1838, going thence to 
Newark, Ohio, where he died in 1843, and his 
wife died in Iowa, in 1878. Mr. O'Connell had 
six brothers and a sister and all are deceased 
except himself. He came to the United 
States when the canals were the prominent 
feature of transportation and worked on the 
Miami and Erie canal, rising to the grade of a 
packet captain. He was a member of the State 
Militia of Ohio when the period of the war 
came on and he was commissioned by Governor 
Denison of Ohio, 1st Lieutenant of tlie 1st Ohio 
Infantry, a three-months command which 
bivouacked at Columbus for a few days and 



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went thence to Wasliington. (Vallandigham 
was once in command of this organization.) 
Tlie regiment was assigned to Sclienck's Brigade 
and was in tlie action at ^'ienna and in tiie first 
battle of Bull Run under Tvler. The regiment 
retreated to Washington and they went home 
to Dayton, where they were paid about the 
first of August and discharged. Mr. O'Connell 
re-enlisted in the reorganized command for 
three years (1st Ohio Infantry, Col. B. F. Smith 
and Captain O'Connell, Company F). The 
regiment left Camp Corwin at Dayton, Oct. 31, 

1861, went to Cincinnati, thence to Louisville 
and West Point. Nov. 15th a march was made 
to Camp Nevin and on the next day to report 
to Gen. A. McDowell McCook in the Army of 
the Ohio. Dec. 9, 1861, they marched to 
Bacon Creek, thence to Green Kiver, the rebels 
of Gregg's command firing on them. Feb. 14, 

1862, they were ordered back to West Point, 
Ky., and heard that Fort Henry had fallen, 
when a return to West Point was made and 
thence to Nashville, reaching the latter place 
March 30th. They camped there on a cold, 
sleety niglit without lilankets or fire and went 
thence to Duck River, skirmishing on the way. 
After the bridge was completed they moved to 
Savannah, Ala., and heard the guns at Shilob ; 
tiiey started for the battlefield and reached 
there the morning of the 7th. The fuel for 
the engines was short and on the route the ■ 
soldiers left the boat to obtain fence rails. On 
departing they double-quicked to the field and 
plunged immediately into hot action on the 
extreme left, the regiment losing about 60 
killed and wounded. The regiment left there 
for Corinth, arriving June 10th, and went 
thence to Nashville by way of luka, Tuscumbia 
and Huntsville, crossing the river at Florence 
and stopping to build a bridge at Elk River. 
They went next to TuUahoma, raided from 
there and arrived at Nashville, Sejiteuiber 7th. , 



On the 10th the march was resumed and they 
took a hand in the watching of Bragg's move- 
ments, going to Louisville ami Nashville. 
October •2d they were in an action at Slielby- 
ville and at Dog Walk on the 9th, arriving 
after the battle at Perryville. They reached 
Danville on the 14th and passed through in 
the pursuit of Bragg, going to Crab Orchard 
and thence to Nashville (November 10th). 
They iiad an action near the State insane 
asylum and were assigned to the 2d Division 
and 14th Corps, Army of the Cumberland. 
December 26th the command moved out on 
the Louisville turnpike skirmishing all the 
way until they reached Murfreesboro, Decem- 
ber 30th, to fight the following day and for 
three days after. On the reorganization there 
the 1st Ohio was placed in the 2d Division of 
the 20th Army Corps and on the 19th of 
Marcli Mr. O'Connell was detailed as pontonier 
in tlie 4th Battalion and ordered to Franklin. 
Two months later he received orders to proceed 
to Murfreesboro to take command of the 3d 
Battalion of the Pioneer Brigade, Army of the 
Cumberland, going two weeks after to Nash- 
ville. A month later the commander of the 
Pioneer Brigade was taken sick and Captain 
O'Connell was put in command, holding the 
position several months. The force engaged 
in building bridges, block houses and all other 
structures incident to the campaign and during 
the preliminaries to the battle of Chickamauga, 
built bridges over the Tennessee at Stevenson, 
Ala., then at Bridgeport and, later, at Chat- 
tanooga. The command remained at C'hat- 
tanooga until 1801, the battles of that campaign 
meanwhile taking place at Chickamauga, Look- 
out and Mission Ridge. Mr. O'Connell was 
hurt there, his horse falling with him and 
breaking his leg. The command accompanied 
Sherman as far as Kingston, returning to 
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disbanded. An engineer regiment was organ- 
ized, of wliich Captain O'Connell was made 
Major and engaged in building as before. In 
December, 1SG4, lie floated witb a series of 
pontoons to Decatur, Ala., where he constructed 
a bridge across the Tennessee lliver, said to 
have been the speediest piece of work of the 
kind constructed during the war and he went 
alterwards with his battalion to Nashville. 
His command went to the Decatur & Nashville 
R. R., and engaged in building blockhouses 
several montlis until the close of the war. He 
was mustered out at Nashville, Oct. 25, 1865, 
as Major Commanding, the superior officers 
being on detached duty. He received the 
compliments of General Rosecrans in the state- 
ment that he was the most expert builder of 
pontoons in the service and he is the inventor 
of the section canvas pontoons for bridges, 
regarded as the best in use. 

He returned to Dayton, Ohio, and was ap- 
pointed Chief of Police, serving several years 
and acting also as Deputy U. S. Marshal. In 
1870 he was appointed census taker and after- 
wards officiated as Clerk of the Workhouse 
Board three years and as Superintendent of the 
same Body in 1884. He was afterwards em- 
ployed sometime by the Government in secret 
service and went to Wisconsin in 1886. He 
settled at the National Home in Milwaukee 
and was assigned to duty as time keeper. He 
was subsequently placed in charge of construc- 
tion, his present occupation. He was married 
in Dayton, while at home on leave, to .Joanna, 
daughter of Thomas and Mary Scanlan, Dec. 
10, 1863. Their children are named Edward, 
.John, Phillip and Marj'. They live at Dayton, 
Ohio. He is a Republican in politics. 



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[^0LORIAN .J. RIES, Deputy Collector 
p^ and Acting Appraiser of Customs at 
^ Milwaukee, Wis., a charter member 

of E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was born 
in Baden, Germany, A])ril .'30, 1813. His 
father, Anton Ries, belonged to the class wiiose 
dissatisfaction with the existing form of Gov- 
ernment and whose belief in the right and 
justice of the pi'incijiles of freedom and self- 
government brought about the revolution of 
1848. All they accomplished was to make a 
record for them.selves on the pages of history' 
as having struggled for the inherent rights of 
themselves and their posterity, forming a wor- 
thier page than the operations of all the mon- 
archies the world has ever seen. The senior 
Ries was arrested and after suffering imprison- 
ment for over two years he was released, but 
was banished from his native country which 
he immediately left for America, arriving in 
1851, and locating in Milwaukee. His wife 
and family of nine children joined him there 
in 1852, after settling their affairs in Germany. 
The mother, Maria E. (Lang) Ries, died a week 
after arrival, worn out with the difficulties and 
hardships with which she had struggled. 

Mr. Ries of this sketch received a common 
school education in Milwaukee and afterwards 
learned the business of a cooper, in which he 
was occupied at the outbreak of the war. He 
was 18 years old on the last day of the month 
in which the attack was made by South Caro- 
lina on Fort Sumter in Charleston harl)or and, 
immediately upon the call of President Lin- 
coln for 75,000 Volunteers, he offered his ser- 
vices in response to his views of his duty, and 
enlisted April 17, 1861, in what Ijecame Com- 
pany D, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, for three 
months. The regiment left Milwaukee for the 
seat of war on .June 9, ISGl, and after reaching 
Hagerstown, Md., was assigned to General Pat- 
terson's army. On .July 2d, they crossed the 



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Potomac River at Williainsport, and, being the 
advance of tlie ai'iny, soon encountered the 
enemy and took j)art in the battle of Falling 
Waters, Va., whore CJeo. AV. Drake was killed 
and where W. M. Graham was fatally wounded, 
the first-named being the first Wisconsin sol- 
dier to fall on the field of battle. (See sketch.) 
After this battle the regiment was engaged in 
the perilous work of guarding fords and picket 
duty until iiieir term of enlistment expired 
when they returned to Milwaukee and were 
mustered out Aug. 20, 1861. Mr. Ries, on 
Feb. 12, 1862, again enlisted in Company D, 
ITtii Wisconsin Infantry, and was appointed 
Sergeant in canip at Madison, and left Wiscon- 
sin, March 23, 1862, for St. Louis and went 
from there to Pittsbui'g Landing, arriving 
there a few days after the battle. He was as- 
signed with iiis regiment to the Gth Division 
and participated in the campaign that culmi- 
nated in the capture of Corinth. He performed 
military duty of a miscellaneous character 
until he fought at Corinth, Oct. od and 4th, 
where the regiment in a gallant charge won 
distinction, which was recognized b}' the Divi- 
sion Commamler on the field. The regiment 
was afterwards connected with the movements 
of Grant, going to Grand Junction and ad- 
vancing soutiiward l)eyond Oxford, Miss., until 
Murphy turned the su]>plies for the Union 
army at Holly S{)rings over to the rebels, when 
his regiment, with other trooj)s, were ordered 
back to re-capture Holly Springs, which was 
accomj)lished. He then accompanied his regi- 
ment on a forced march to Grand Junction to 
re-enforce the garrison at that place, and after- 
wards went to Moscow and thence to Memphis, 
to move down the Mississippi to Young's Point 
near Vicksburg, where they won as much 
glory as was jwssiblein digging on the historic 
canal. They again engaged in ditching at 
Lake Providence, La., and in April went to 



Milliken's Bend. From there they marched to 
Grand (Julf to connect witii the troops of 
McPherson. They witnessed llie close of the 
action at Chamj)ion's Hill and Black River 
Bridge, and reached Vickslnirg on the evening 
of the 18th of May. On the next day they 
took part in the assault and again in the gen- 
eral assault of May 22d and in other move- 
ments connected with the siege, until the cajiit- 
ulation of the enemy on July 4, 1863. .luly 
13th they were sent to Natchez, Miss., foraged 
in that vicinity and performed garrison duty, 
also securing horses and scouting as mounted 
infantry, raiding into Louisiana and caj)turing 
Harrisonburg. After destroying mills and 
other property, they returned to Xatciioz, where 
they remained till October 13th, when they 
turned over their horses and retiuMR-dto Vicks- 
burg and were assigned to provost duty. Feb. 
13, 1864, Mr. Ries, who had been jiromoted 
to 1st Sergeant, veteranized, and after a veter- 
an's furlough left Wisconsin for Cairo, April 
21st, going thence up the Tennessee River to 
Clifton and marched to Huntsville to connect 
with the ITtli Corps preparatory to joining 
Sherman for tiie siege of Atlanta. Sergeant 
Ries was in the fight at Big Shanty, in the sev- 
eral actions at Kenesaw and in the charge at 
Bald Hill, participating in all the movements 
of the regiment before the evacuation of At- 
lanta, and fighting at Jonesboro and Lovejoy's 
and was in the chase alter Hood. He was in 
camp at Marietta, ju'eparatory to the foot race 
to Savannah ; foraged, forded swamps, built 
roads and raided in common witli the soldiers 
of Sherman's cohunns, until the entire route 
was traversed through Georgia and Savannah 
captured Dec. 21, 1864. Here they remained 
till Jan. 4, 1865, wli,en they took up the march 
througli the Carolinas, going first to Beaufort, 
S. C, thence through Pocataligo, Orangeburg, 
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ville and Goldsboro to Raleigli, N. C, partici- 
pating in all the battles and skirmishes of the 
17th Array Corps until the surrender of John- 
ston's army. April 29th the march northward 
was resumed and passing through Petersburg, 
Richmond and Fredericksburg, Va., they ar- 
rived at Washington, D. C, and took part in the 
Grand Review, May 24, 1865. From hei-e they 
went to Louisville where Mr. Ries acted as 
Adjutant of his regiment, having been com- 
missioned 1st Lieutenant of his company, 
April 18, 1865, and was mustered out as such 
.July 11, 1865, with iiis regiment. He did not 
lose a day of service under either enlistment 
and was never away from his post of duty. 

After returning to Wisconsin he acted as 
coiuniercial agent in the interests of a Milwau- 
kee business house for a number of years. He 
was elected to represent the 6tli District of 
Milwaukee county in the Legislature of 1877, 
and afterwards served as a member of the 
Common Council of the city from 1878 to 

1880, as Superintendent of the House of Cor- 
rection from 1880 to 1885, and as Chief of 
Police of Milwaukee from 1885 to 1888. He 
served as Aid-de-Canip with the rank of 
Colonel on the stafi' of Governor William E. 
Smith from 1878 to 1882, and with the Gover- 
nor and stafi" took part in the Centennial cele- 
bration of the surrender of Yorktown, Va., in 

1881. On the accession of J. A. Watrous to 
the position of Collector of Customs of the port 
of Milwaukee, he was ajijiointed his Deputy 
and Acting Appraiser of Merchandise as stated, 
which position he holds in 1890. 

He was married in Milwaukee in 1865, to 
.Vnnie W., daughter of Ferdinand and Wil- 
helmina Wurtz, a native of Germany. Her 
lather was a Sergeant in Company H, 2d Wis- 
consin Cavalry, and died in Memphis in Feb- 
ruary, 1865, after veteranizing. Six children | 
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Ries named 



Louise, Hattie, Alfred, Ella, Arthur and Annie. 
Mr. Ries was a member of Phil. H. Sheridan 
Post, G. A. R., prior to the organization of Post 
No. 1, and is a Mason of the 32d degree ; he is . 
also a Knight of Pythias and an Odd Fellow 
and belongs to the Milwaukee Turnverein. 



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NDREW WILSON KERR, Portage, 
r^ Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
14, was born April 5, 1846, at Milton, 
Rock Co., Wis. In descent on both sides he is 
of Scotch-Irish lineage, his parents, Benjamin 
and Martha (Williamson) Kerr, having traced 
their origin to that race; they were born in 
Philadelphia, Pa., aiid went to Rock Co., Wis- 
consin, about 1844, settling in Milton on a 
farm. After two years they moved to Pack- 
waukee, Marquette county, where the father 
died ; the mother lives with her oldest son 
Andrew. William, .Joseph B., Mary E., David 
G. and Martha M. were Mr. Kerr's brothers and 
sisters; Martha is deceased. 

All the advantages of school obtained by the 
son he received before he was 11 years old, 
when his fath"fer died, and, as he was the oldest 
child, the responsibility of assisting his mother 
devolved on him. He strongly desired to enlist 
as soon as the war became a certainty but 
waited until he was 18 and then went in opposi- 
tion to his mother's wishes. When the Uth 
Wisconsin Infantr}- were home on veteran fur- 
lough he enlisted in August and went with 
veterans and recruits to Camj) Randall, Madison, 
and, Sept. 23, 1864, started for New Orleans, 
arriving on the 29th. They remained in New 
Orleans about one week and were assigned to 
Steele's command. They were ordered then to 
Brashier City, whither they went on transports 
and performed varied .sorts of guard duty, re- 
maining there through the winter. There Mr. 



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Kerr assisted in the solemn ceremony of burial 
of a comrade, his first experience of that kind. 
He aided in l)uilding fortifications, digging rifle 
pits and took part in several recoinioitering ex- 
peditions up the bayous and streams with which 
that country was filled, the object being to pre- 
vent massing of any considerable numbers of 
rebels and to interfere with the smuggling 
operations which were being carried on. A 
circuitous line four miles north and five miles 
south of the city was picketed by the regiment 
until Feb. 26, 1865, when the command went 
to join the 16th Army Corps tliree miles south 
of New Orleans, and there was attached to the i 
3d Brigade, Colonel Harris, •2d Division, Gen- 
eral Steele, the corps commander being General 
Gerrard. The regiment was under Major Miller. 
March 9th they embarked at Chalniette, landed 
at Dauphin's Island in Mobile Bay, W'ent thence 
up the Fish River and then into camj) at 
Donnelly's Landing, AprU 3d; after engaging 
in the investment of Spanish Fort thej^ went to 
Fort Blakely and assisted in driving the rebels, 
within their main works and, on the 9th of 
April, a few hours after the capitulation of 
Spanish Fort, Blakely wiis assaulted by a 
charge of the 11th Wisconsin and the fort was 
entered by the regiment, the colors of the com- 
mand being j)]anted first on the parapet. The 
regiment went thence to Montgomery, Ala., 
thence to Mobile and was mustered out Septem- 
ber 5th, going to Madison for final dissolution 
of military obligations. While marching from 
New Orleans to camp near the old battle ground 
where Jackson fought and won the last Ijattle 
of the war of 1812, Mr. Kerr sustained a rupture 
from which he lias never recovered ; lie has 
never applied for a pension on that account nor 
on any other. His brother William enlisted in 
the same company and regiment, with which 
he servetl until it was mustered out. 

After tlie war Mr. Kerr returned home to 



Marquette county and remained on the farm 
about five years when he engaged with tlie 
Island Woolen Co., at Baraboo, Wis. He ad- 
vanced to the jiosition of overseer of the carding 
and spinning department and at the expiration 
of ten years entered the employ of the Portage 
Hosiery Co., as over.seer of the car<ling and 
.spinning department, a position lie occupies in 
1890. He was married in Packwaukee, Mar- 
quette count}^ Aug. 12, 1868, to Anna E., 
daugliter of Charles and Mary Ann (Page) Met- 
calf. Robert B., Geoi'ge W., Ernest L. and 
Harry C. are their four children. While at 
Packwaukee Mr. Kerr held the position of 
Supervisor when 22 years of age. He is u Re- 
publican, a member of the Odd Fellows Order, 
Baraboo Lodge No. 51, and he is Secretary of 
Fort Winnebago Lodge, No. 33, A. F. and .\. M. 



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Jf^ EN. JOSHUA J. GUPPEY, Portage, 
I -^^^^^^q^ Wis., member of Rousseau Post No. 

^*i!ii^ 14, G. A. R., son of John and Han- 
nah (Dawe) Guppey, was born Aug. 27, 1820, 
at Dover, New Hampshire, and is of English 
extraction. 

Joshua Guppey, tlie founder of the American 
branch of the family, emigrated in early youth, 
about the year 1720, from Southwest England 
to America, settled in Beverly, Mass., married 
there and died there before reaching middle 
age. His son, James Guppey, was a sea captain 
and commanded a U. S. vessel in tlie war of 
the Revolution. Jolin Gujipey, son of Capt. 
James Guppey and father of Gen. Guppey, was 
a wealthy farmer and much respected business 
man, but never held any public position. 

Gen. Guppey graduated at Dartmouth Col- 
lege in 1843. In his senior year, he was 
Cai)tain of the " Dartmouth Phalanx," tlie 
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Dover, N. H., ami ^vas admitted to the Bar in 
April, 1840, and in Sejitember following he 
settled in Columbus, Wis., in the practice of his 
profession and in doing a general land agency 
business. He remained there till 1851, when 
lie removed to Portage in the same county, 
whicli is still his home. He is in good circum- 
stances, and has a beautiful homestead of fifty 
acres on Silver Lalce. 

In February, 1847, he was appointed Colonel 
of Militia. In September, 1849, he was appoint- 
ed Judge of Probate. He lias six times been 
elected County Judge, for terms of four years 
each, commencing respectively Jan. 1, 1850, 
1854, 1866, 1870, 1874 and 1878. From 18-58 
to 1861, he was School Superintendent of the 
city of Portage, and again from 1866 to 1872. 
His elections to these offices were usually with- 
out opposition. 

In 1862, he was the Democratic candidate 
for Congress in the 2d Wisconsin District, and 
was defeated by only 2,000 votes — the usual 
Republican majority being about 7,000. In 
1868 he became a Republican, and has ever 
since acted with that party. He was never very 
active in politics. 

Sejit. 13, 1861, he was commissioned Lieut- 
enant-Colonel of the 10th Regiment, Wisconsin 
^'olunteer Infantry, and served under Gen. 
0. M. Mitchell, in all his campaigns of 1861 
and 1862 in Kentucky, Tennessee and Ala- 
bama. 

July 17, 1862, he was promoted to Colonel of 
the 23d Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infan- 
try and was with it, in actual command, in the 
lirst assault on \'icksburg, in December, 1862, 
under Gen. Sherman; also, in the assault and 
capture of Post Arkansas, Jan. 11, 1863; and at 
the battles of Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Cham- 
pion Hills and Black River Bridge. In all 
tbe.se battles, his regiment behaved with mar- 
ked bravery, and the official report of the cap- 



ture of Post Arkansas states that a part of the 
rebel right was " driven in by a charge of the 
23J Wisconsin, Colonel Guppey." 

Colonel Guppey was also in command of his 
regiment in the assault at A'icksburg in iNIay, 
1863, and in the siege operations resulting in 
the capture of that stronghold, July 4, 1863. 
After this capture his regiment, with the 13th 
Army Corps to which it belonged, was trans- 
ferred to the Department of the Gulf. 

On Nov. 3, 1863, the 4th Division, in com- 
mand of Gen. Burbridge, was attacked by an 
overwhelming force of rebels at Carrion Crow, 
or Bayou Bourbeau, near Opelousa.s, La., and 
the battle of Grand Coteau was fought. In 
this battle the 23d W^isconsin, Colonel Guppey, 
was held in reserve. When its turn came to 
take the brunt of the battle, says the Cincin- 
nati Commercial, " this excellent regiment, 
animated by its brave Colonel, held the enemy 
in check for a short time, delivering its fire 
with deadly effect. * * * Here Col. G. 
was wounded (ju.st below- the knee of the left 
leg), and subsequently taken prisoner. The 
man who shot him was not thirty feet from 
him at the time. But the 23d, too, had to give 
way. The odds were too great, for human 
effort to overcome. * * * The Colonel com- 
manded his men for some time after he was 
shot." Mr. Greeley, in his " American Con- 
flict," when describing this battle, says : " Our 
right, thus suddenly assailed in great force and 
with intense fury, was broken and was saved 
from utter destruction by the devoted bravery 
of the 23d Wisconsin and the efficient service 
of Nims' battery." Colonel Guppey was treated 
kindly while a prisoner, and was exchanged in 
January, 1864. He was soon after detailed by 
General Banks as President of a Military Com- 
mission for the examination of officers in the 
13th Army Corps. 

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assigned to tlie command of a brigade, and was 
in active service till the close of the war, all the 
way from Mobile Bay, Ala., to Paducah, Ky.; 
and was Post Commander at tlie hitter place 
when the war ended. On the loth of June, 
1865, Colonel Guppey was commissioned Briga- 
dier General of Volunteers by brevet, " for gal- 
lant and meritorious service during the war." 
His regiment was mustered out of service July 
4, 1865, and had an enthusiastic reception on 
reaching Madison, Wis., July 16th On the 
1st of January, 1866, he again entered uj)on his 
duties as County Judge, to which ofiice he had 
been elected while serving in the army. } 

In January, 1882, at the close of his sixth 
term as County Judge, on account of impaired 
health from wounds, and from rheumatism 
contracted while in the ami}*, General Guppey 
retired to private life and since that date has 
given most of his time to his own affair.s — ' 
accepting business from a few of his old clients 
only. 

He was never married , Init notwithstanding 
that ill fortune, and his suffering from rheu- 
matism, he retains his old time cheerfulness of 
sjiirit, and finds niiu'h plea.«ure in the quiet 
days of his old age. 

/^^ RN.ST ADOLPH FROHBACH, Mil- 
I v'ifp^J ' waukee. Wis., a soldier of the earliest 
^«— ^ period of the civil wai-, was born 
Mari'h 6, 1840, in Leipsic, (iermany. He is one 
of three brothers — Herman, Charles and 
Adolph, wiio enlisted within a week after the 
einjihatic declaration of war on the storm beaten 
walls of Sumter. 'J'lie father, Charles Froiibach, 
came to America previous to 1859 to locate a 
home for his family, his wife and two youngest 
sons following him in tiie year mentioned. 
The oldest son, Herman, was a conscript in his 
native country and came to America on tlie 



expiration of his term of service in the German 
army, in 1860, when excitement ran high over 
the events which have marked those years in 
historj'. Herman and Charles Frohbach, with 
their brother of this sketch, enlisted April 21, 
1861, in Company I, 8th New York Infantry, 
within a week after the firing of the first guns 
at Sumter. The two former served their two 
years of enlistment without injury and were 
honorably discharged. The youngest went to 
rendezvous with the regiment at New York 
City where he enlisted, went thence to Wash- 
ington and, soon after crossed into \'irginia, 
in connection with the movements that cul- 
minated in Bull Kun, where he fought and 
returned to Washington where his command 
with three other regiments were quartered for 
the defense of tlie city. He was on guard dur- 
ing that awful night at the Nation's capital 
city and contracted adi.scaseof the lungs which 
caused his retirement in a hos])ital at Alex- 
andria the following day. His condition was 
such that he was discharged that he might 
have an opportunity to recover liis health, 
which his medical adviser told him was hope- 
lessly wrecked. He passed five months in New 
York under treatment and recovered suffi- 
ciently to resume his business and finally was 
restoreti to nearly jierfect health. 

The senior Frohbach was a calico printer by 
profession in his native country and his son 
Adolph on leaving school was ajijireiiticed 
to learn the business of engraving in a similar 
establishment. After his arrival in New York 
he learned cigar making which has been the 
business of his life. His father resided in the 
city where he landed until 1870 when he went 
to Milwaukee and died at the home of his son 
in June, 1888. The mother, Wilhelmina 
(Scheller) Frohbacb, ilied in New York in 1SG3. 

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to Milwaukee und commenced the prosecution 
of tlie business of a cigar maicer on 4th near 
('hestnut street on a scale coniniensurate with 
liis means, which consisted of a small capital. 
He also brought his family and a portion of 
his household belongings. He was married 
Dec. 25, 1SG4, to Augusta Winkler and they 
became the parents of five children. Arthur, 
Ida and Adolph are deceased. Minnie is the 
wife of Max Hildebrandt of Milwaukee. Hugo 
is associated with his father in business. The 
mother was born near Leipsic, Germany, Oct. 
7, 1841. 

Mr. Frohbach located his business on Grand 
Avenue in 1S6S and continued to press his 
interests from that point 19 years. In 1886 he 
erected the corner building at the south west 
corner of ■2d street and Grand Avenue, near 
the Plankinton building. In character, as in 
business, he is an honor to the citizenship of 
Milwaukee. He is a German of refined and 
cultivated type, thoroughly appreciating his 
jiosition as one of a composite nationality on 
whom rests the responsibility he assumed in 
becoming a meml)er of such a community as 
that in which he resides. He has pi'essed his 
l)usiness to a success his ambition and energies 
deserve and in his war record he merits all that 
can be said of those who were the first to answer 
the cry of a stricken government in its hour of 
trial, although then an alien from his native 
land where every privilege of his manhood was 
denied him and where his obligations in the 
army were controlled by a law of oppression. 

JOHN E. WILSON, La Crosse, Wis., mem- 
ber of G. A. R. Post No. 77, was born 
May 8, 1847, in Lancashire, England, 
and is the son of John and Ellen (Ramsbothom) 
Wilson. His grandfather, James Wilson, be- 
came a resident of llie United States about 1853 



and four years later, John Wilson removed with 
his motherless child to America, his wife having 
died about 1854 in England. He joined his 
father at Portage, where the city now stands 
and where the senior Wilson had built the first 
frame house in the place. Tlie father died in 
1882 in Cook Co., 111. 

The son was trained and educated as the son 
of a pioneer farmer, his earliest recollections 
being those of a home in an old log house in 
an unsettled country. When he was 16 years 
old he enlisted in Company C, 23d Wisconsin 
Infantry and was mustered Feb. 23, 1864. He 
left Camp Randall, Madison, to join his regi- 
ment in March and in time to go with it in the 
4th Brigade, 2d Division and 13th Army Corps. 
April 8th he found himself in the terrific action 
at Sabine Cross Roads after having skirmished 
all the way thitherii The rebels caught the 
Union troops in a wedge shaped line of battle 
which was practically an ambuscade and the 
disaster caused the retreat of the army of Kanks 
and the loss of the expedition. At Sabine 
Cross Roads the 23d supporled the Mercantile 
Battery of Chicago and lost 65 in killed, 
wounded and prisoners. Mr. Wilson was in 
the fighting at Pleasant Hill which followed, 
and was in all the engagements in which his 
corps participated on the retreat. He was in 
the skirmishing at Cane River, aided in the 
construction of the dams whereby the fleet was 
saved, went to Alexandria and saw the fire in 
the city which nobody knew of as to origin. 
In the retreat skirmishing was incessant and a 
halt was made about four miles from Yellow 
Bayou, whence they "double-quicked" across 
and fought at Grand Ecore. The Atchafalaya 
was crossed on pontoons maile of steamboats 
lashed together and over which a passage of 
planks was made, forming a solid bridge over 
which the wagons and cavalry made a safe 
transit. The command went to Morganza, 



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thence to Baton Rouge to camp, where tlie 13th 
Corps disbanded. Tlie next move was to 
Algiers and thence in the 3d Brigade, 2d 
Division and 19th Corps to Fort Morgan, where 
a feint was made and the regiment took a small 
fort at Mosquito Point, which guarded Grant's 
Pass, leading from Mobile Bay to Lake Pont- 
chartrain. When the command went to New 
Orleans Mr. Wilson was taken sick and sent to 
hospital for three weeks. He joined his regi- 
ment at Morganza and again engaged in skir- 
mishing in the neighborliood of Jackson, La., 
and elsewhere. While detained at the White 
River on the way to Helena Mr. Wilson was 
taken sick with a carbuncle and went to 
liospital at \'icksl)Urg, and thence to Soldier's 
Home, joining his command again at Helena. 
In the spring he went to the assaults on the 
defenses of Mobile and was in the attack on 
8j)anisli Fort and siege until ordered to Blakely, 
where the regiment performed valiant service. 
Returning to Mobile the connnand was there 
when the explosion took j)lace and there Mr. 
Wilson was again taken sick and sent to New 
Orleans to Marine hosj)ital. He received a 
60-day furlough and went home, where he re- 
mained until the issuance of the order for the 
discharge of disabled soldiers at home and re- 
ceived his release from military obligations 
Sept. 25, 1865. 

After the war he remained sick some time 
and finally removed to La Cros.se and engaged 
as switchman for the M.it St. P. K. R., operating 
in their interests 11 years. He went then to 
Chicago and engaged with tlie C & N. W. R. R., 
in the same capacity, returning after a year to 
La Crosse. He engaged as contractor on the 
river, liandling logs for P. S. Davidson for five 
years. lie spent a year as mail carrier and in 
1887 engaged with the C, B. & N. R. R. as 
yardmaster. He was married May 16, 1872, 
to Julia, daughter of Jolin and Bridget O'Neil, 



at La Crosse. In politics he is a Democrat. 
Mr. Wilson i.s prominent in his party connec- 
tions and has served several terms as Alderman. 
His first election wtvs on the Greenback ticket 
for a three years' term and next on tlie Dem- 
ocratic ticket. In 1876 he was nominated for 
C'lerk of the Court and defeated by only 225 
votes. In 188!t he was a candidate for Tax 
Commissioner and was defeated by a small 
majority. He is a memlter of the ^hlsollic 
Order, of the Switchmen's Mutual Aid Associa- 
tion and is ojie of the board of directors; he is, 
in 1889, Worthy Master of La Crosse Lodge 
No. 170, and belongs to Smith Chapter, No. 13. 



AMES ANDREW MITCHELL, Chippewa 
Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 
C8, was horn July 21, 1834, in Nova 
Scotia, his parents, William and Alice (Clarke) 
Mitchell, having emigrated from Scotland to 
that province in early life with their respective 
families and were married at West River, St. 
Maiy'.s, Nova Scotia. The father was a mill- 
wright and followed that business until his 
death by accident while building a mill, in the 
spring of 1859. His widow is still living at 
Wheaton,AVis. James, William G., ^hlry Jane, 
David, Alexander and Elizabeth were the 
names of the children included in the family. 
When he was 17 years old, Mr. Mitchell went 
to Milltown, Maine, and j)assed a winter in the 
woods, being employed in the summer in a 
sawmill, alternating these employs three years, 
when he went West and located at Cliipj)cwa 
Falls. He obtained a situation as a lumber- 
man and was occupied in that business until 
the civil war. He enlisted in October, 1861, 
and was mustered Nov. 14, 1861, in Company 
1, 2(1 Wisconsin Cavalry, with C. C. Washburn, 
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was mustered as Color Sergeant and started in 
March for Benton Barracks, St. Louis, received 
e(|uipmei)ts, went to .Jeffer.?on City, thence to 
liolhi, engaged in skirmishing most of the way 
and overtook Curtiss and liis force at Jackson- 
IKirl. They crossed over the Wliite River into 
.Vikansas witli the army, moved on to Augusta 
and to Cotton Plant, the infantry having an 
engagement there and tlie troojis moving thence 
to follow Price on his way to Helena. They 
took possession of the place without a struggle 
and wintered there. Tiiey performed guard 
and picket duty and went on frequent raiding 
expeditions until April, 1863, when the com- 
mand went to Memphis on transports and were 
a.ssigned to picket duty. Tliey went to active 
duty on the ^'icksburg campaign, landing at 
MilHken's Bend and going from there to 14- 
Mile Creek, wliere they were in a slight skir- 
mish May 14th. Going to the rear of Vicks- 
burg, tliey partioijiated in skirmishing on the 
way, swung around Jackson to Canton, destroy- 
ing railroads and railroad property and took 
possession of Canton, driving the rebels out. 
Returning to Vicksburg by way of Jacksonport 
they remained there through the summer and 
fall and went into quarters for the winter at 
Redbone Church, and made that the base for 
their operations as a cavalry command, at- 
tached to Sherman's corps during that period 
and skirmished successfully with the rebels. 
They did good work in the destruction of rail- 
roads and property and were finally compelled 
to go to Yazoo City, as the rebels rallied and 
they had received orders to go back to the 
protection of the gunboats. The rebels attacked 
the force there and Colonel Osborn sent the 
rebels word, that if the firing did not cease the 
gunboats would shell the city, which hint they 
took. Mr. Mitchell was one of the detail with 
Lieutenant Colonel Dale who undertook to 
drive a force of rebels greatly outnumbering his 



own, and after fighting dismounted until there 
was no hope left, they had to cut their way out. 
They went to Memphis and in the spring of 
1864 went on the Grierson raids on the Mobile 
& Ohio railroad in tlie destruction of Meridian 
anil everything they came to. At Egypt, Mr. 
Mitchell aided in taking the stockade and cap- 
turing about 500 rebels who were sent to Vicks- 
burg. The weather was very cold and they 
were near freezing. One of the movements in 
which Mr. Mitchell was a participant was the 
expedition to Grenada, when Forrest surren- 
dered, to take his parole, which was issued by 
Colonel Frank in command of the exj^edition. 
Returning to Vicksburg, Mr. Mitchell was dis- 
charged .Jan. 21, 1865, having served three 
months more than his time. 

He returned to Wisconsin and arrived at 
Chippewa Falls in April, engaging in lumber- 
ing for himself. In this he has since been 
occupied with the exception of two years. In 
this interim he was engaged with a company 
that started the Woolen Mills. He was mar- 
ried in November, 1870, to Catherine, daughter 
of John and Catherine (Buck) Birke, and their 
children are William J., James A., George and 
Frank. The brothers and sistei's of Mrs. 
Mitchell still surviving are named Philip, 
Albert and Lucy. Her mother died in 1850 
and her father is still living. Mr. Mitchell 
is a member of the Odd Fellows Order, and 
of the Masonic Fraternity. He has served 
two years as Clerk of the School Board, one 
year as Supervisor of the town of Lafayette 
and was President of the Village Board there 
after the incorporation, during the years 
1886-7. Mr. Mitchell voted for Harrison, but 
is independent in politics. 



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/(^ ^ RNEST KAHLE, La Crosse, Wis., 
I vi^tv- ^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 38, was 

^^---* born ill Hanover, Germany, March 
27, 1843. He is the son of Christian Kahle, 
also a native of Germany, wiio married ISophia 
Lamfert, and their family included 12 children. 
In 1856 they emigrated to America and settled 
at Belle Plain, Scott Co., Minn., on a farm on 
which the })arents are still living. 

.^h■. l\ahle of this sketch was brougiit up on 
his father's farm and went in 181)0 to Duiileith, 
Illinois, where lie obtained employment in a 
brickyard. When he determined to enlist he 
went to Galena, 111., where he enrolled and was 
mustered for throe years into Company I, 19th 
Illinois Infantry, Colonel Turchin, Oct. 3, 1861. 
The regiment had been ordered to Northern 
Kentucky, where Kirby Smith and Bragg were 
disturbing the people witii threatened invasion 
and plunder and Mr. Kahle joined it at Eliza- 
bethtown in December. (Prior to this the regi- 
ment liad been ordered to Washington and on 
liio way there encountered an accident wiiieli 
changed its history. See page 18, Sept. 17, 
1861.) From p]lizabethtown the command went 
to Bacon Creek and worked on the bridge, go- 
ing afterwards to (Jreen River and Bowling 
Green which the rebels had evacuated, Buck- 
ner withdrawing his troops and destroying a 
large amount of stores. The 10th was witii 
the Cori)S of General Mitchell and remained at 
Murfreesboro, whither it had gone from Nash- 
ville, until April, when that General jn-ocecded 
to SlR'lljyville and Fayetteville, going to Ilunts- 
ville, where he secured all of Alabama lying 
north of the Tennessee River to the Union. 
At Iluntsville a rebel train with 150 rebels 
moving from Siiiloh, was captured. The regi- 
ment went to Tuscumbia but found guerrillas 
too abundant for comfort and returned to 
Iluntsville ; on this marcii he received a severe 
sunstroke, which prostrated him for some time. 



At Nashville, Mr. Kahle was sick with asthma, 
having taken cold in fording the river at 
Bowling Green. The first set action in which 
tlie 10th Illinois participated was at Stone 
River, and after the chase was over the regi- 
ment returned to Nashville where Mr. Kahle 
was again sick and was discharged April 6, 
1863, for disability, and from the effects of his 
wound by a shell which he received in the ac- 
tion at Murfreesboro. He returned to Chicago 
and as soon as able, Feb. 26, 1864, re-enlisted 
for tliree years in Company K, 60th Illinois 
Infantry, Colonel Sullivan. The regiment was 
in the Army of the Potomac, and Mr. Kahle, 
with other recruits, joined it there on its march 
south and was in nearly all its actions, marches 
and skirmishes until the close of the war ; a 
part of the time he served on detached duty. 
The command was sent to Ix)uisville to await 
the completion of tlic muster rolls and .July 31, 
1865, Mr. Kahle was released from military 
service. 

He returned to Chicago and tried to learn a 
trade, but his health was permanently shat- 
tered and he was unequal to the exertion of 
manual labor. Ho engaged in the business of 
a barber which he lias pursued to some extent. 
He remained in Cbicago until 1871, leaving 
there just before the great fire for Decorah, 
Iowa, going thence to Lansing in the same 
State and, four ye;u's later, went to Viroqua, 
Wis., and in 1887 to La Crosse. At the several 
j)laces montioned he carried on his business as a 
barljor until his removal to La Crosse where he 
has not been able to engage in active business. 

He was married March 26, 1872, to Amelia, 
daughter of Samuel and Christina Kerr, and 
they have bad five children ; Lillieand CMiarles 
are the only survivors. In j)olitics, Mr. Kahle 
is a Republican and draws a pension. 




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^-v^^ APTAIN AVILSON COLAVELL, de- 
O^y ceased, was killed at South Mountain, 
Md., Sept. 14, 18G2, while leading 
Company B, 2d Wisconsin Infantry, which had 
been thrown out as skirmishers. lie was a 
former resident of La Crosse, Wis., and was 
born April 13, 1827, at Kittaning, Armstrong- 
Co., Pennsylvania. His father, Alexander Col- 
well, was born in County Derry, Ireland, in 
1784, of Scotch-Irish descent, and came thence 
to America at 18 years of age. His first 
employment in this country was that of a 
teaciier in Center county in the Keystone 
State, and there he afterwards became inter- 
ested in mercantile business, afterwards 
accumulating extensive interests in the iron 
business. In 1834 he married Margaret Heniy, 
l)Orn in Armstrong county in July, 1804. 
Their respective deaths occurred at Kittaning, 
Dec. 8, 1868, and Feb. 18, 1884. Their an- 
cestral stock located in County Armagh in 
1609 to escape the persecutions of the Scottish 
" kirk " under .James, and they had five chil- 
dren, Wilson being the oldest. 

The early life of Captain Colwell was passed 
in Kittaning, and he received a careful educa- 
tional training, which was finished at Jefferson 
College at Cannonsburg, Pa. Plis first bu.siness 
interest was with his father in iron and in IS^IO 
he went West, engaging in banking at 
IjA Crosse, Wis. Prior to the outbreak of the 
war, he was in command of a company of State 
Militia, known a.s tiie La Crosse Light Guards 
and composed of the flower of the youth of the 
city. He was, at that time, president and 
owner of the Katanyan Bank at La Crosse and 
engaged in a popuhir and jirotitable business. 
Immediately after the attack on Fort Sumter 
he called a meeting of the company at Barron's 
Hall, at which the question of tendering the 
services of the organization to the (iovernor 
was discussed, and a resolution iii tiie afiirm- 



ative was passed almost unanimously. On 
taking the proper action the tender was 
accepted, and on the IStli of April, 1861, Cap- 
tain Colwell, with his company, enlisted for 
three months and went to Camp Randall, 
Madison, being the first company of State 
troops to enter the camp in 1861 and was 
assigned as Company B, 2d Wisconsin Volun- 
teer Infantry. Before the regiment left the 
State, three-months soldiers were not wanted 
by the General Government, and, with his 
whole command. Captain Colwell responded 
promptly to the demand, enrolling for three 
years or the war. They were mustered as a 
company June 11, 1861, and left the State to 
join the Army of Virginia. July 18th the 
regiment was in the reconnoissance at Black- 
burn's Ford, held under a sharp artillery fire, 
and Myron Gardner of the company lost a leg, 
struck by a solid shot. Soon after Captain 
Colwell was reminded by one of his men that 
he stood on the identical spot where poor 
Gardner was injured and that he had best 
change position. " Lightning never strikes 
twice in the same place," was the cheerful 
answer. July 21st he fought at Bull Run and 
made himself conspicuous by bravery, as did 
the whole regiment, which preserved its or- 
ganization and moved in good order from the 
field, though abandoned by every one of its 
field officers, who have never given any satis- 
factory account of themselves since. (See 
sketch of Geo. E. Smith.) Captain Colwell 
performed service in the Iron Brigade on every 
field where it fought as long as life lasted. In 
1862, when Kilpatrick took Falmouth, he and 
his company supported the cavalry chief in 
column and thence the command went to tlie 
relief of Pope at Slaughter Mountain. He was 
in the Virginia camj)aign under Pope from 
August 23d to September 1st and was actively 
engaged in the several skirmishes on the Rap- 



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pahannock River and on the Rapidan, fighting 
at Groveton and Gainesville August 28-9 and 
at the second Bull Run on the 30th. He fol- 
lowed the rebel movement into Maryland, 
skirmishing continuously until the day of his 
death. 

"Captain Cohvell of Company B was killed 
while bravely leading his men in the thickest 
of the fight " is the record of the State historian. 
Still is he warmly remembered l)y his sur- 
viving comrades and his death is recorded as 
" glorious " by those who loved him best and 
mourned him most deeply. And one of them 
says of him, "Thus died in a glorious cause 
one of Nature's noblemen, a true patriot and 
soldier. In camp he was genial and courteous, 
yet commanded and received strict obedience 
to army discipline. On the march his per- 
severance and fortitude inspired the weary to 
greater energy, and in the fierce battle he was 
ever at the front, cheering and encouraging his 
men by patriotic utterances and by the exam- 
ple of his own unflinching courage. No soldier 
ever fell in battle who was more beloved or 
whose death was more regretted b}' his whole 
command than Captain Colwell. He sacrificed 
a lucrative business, abandoned home, a loving, 
devoted wife and a beautiful child, laying down 
his young life on the altar of his country, that 
• One Flag' migiit remain its indisputable 
emblem." 

He was married to Nannie, daughter of 
.Joseph and Nancy (Brice) Htunmer, May 19, 
1858, by Rev. N. C. Chapin of La Crosse, Wis. 
Her parents were born respectively June 17, 
1802 and Feb. 7, 1805, in Bedford Co., Pa., and 
tlic lather died May 14, 1SG3 in Lewis' Valley, 
La Crosse Co., Wis.; the mother lives with her 
daughter in La Crosse. Her father was a mer- 
chant and, after removal to La Crosse county, 
was chiefly engaged in farming. He was the 
uncle of the popular authoress, Kate Browidee 



Sherwood of Toledo, Ohio, who is prominently 
known in connection with the organization and 
perpetuity of the Woman's Relief Corps. 

Two children were born to Captain and Mrs. 
Colwell ; Nannie, born Feb. 19, 1859, and Mag- 
gie, born Aug. 10, 18G2. The latter died in 
Wasliington, D. C, previous to Captain Col- 
well's death ; the former still maintains her 
father's name and his spirit of loyalty and 
patriotism. As her tribute to his memory, the 
portrait of Captain Colwell is presented on 
page 760. 

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W^ NTON EA\'ENS, Superintendent of the 
V Northwestern Postal Station, Mil- 



waukee, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 1, was born Ai)ril 18, 18-13, in Prussia, 
whence his parents, Christian (who was a sol- 
dier for three years in the Prussian army) and 
Catherine (Wingen) Ewens emigrated to Amer- 
ica in 1849. They landed at the port of New 
York and proceeded directly to Milwaukee, 
where they passed the remainder of their lives. 
Mr. Ewens is the oldest of their six children ; 
Lizzie married John Kurz of Eau Claire ; Eva 
is deceased and was the wife of Wm. Bowman 
of Eau Claire ; Joseph is a business man of 
Milwaukee ; Mary married Theodore Daum of 
Milwaukee ; Annie is the the wife of Lucas 
Buehlor of the Cream City. The senior Ewens 
was a contractor and buyer and operated in the 
interests of John Plankinton during the latter 
years of his active business life. 

Tlie son received an academic education in 
Milwaukee and had just begun business iu his 
own interest when the excitement of the second 
year of the war attracted his attention from all 
his private relations and lie determined to 
enlist, although he was little more than a 
youth, being then but 19 years ol<l. (It is 
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and especially from Milwaukee than from any 
other State). Mr. Ewens enrolled Aug. 16, 
1862 in Company E, 26th Wisconsin Infantry 
as a private and went to rendezvous at Camp 
Sigel, named in honor of the officer who 
ohtained permission of the President to raise 12 
German regiments which were in part assigned 
to his Corps, the 11th. The history of the 26th 
is told in the sketciies of many of its members 
in tills volume but each man has his own 
experience to relate of his connection with the 
campaign of Fredericksburg and Chancellors- 
ville. Mr. Ewens marched from Fairfax C. H. 
to Falmouth, expecting to fight at Fredericks- 
burg but the force of Burn side was just with- 
drawing and after going to winter quarters at 
Stafford C. H., he waded through the " Mud 
Campaign " for nothing and crossed the Rap- 
l)ahannock to fight at Chancellorsville on one 
of the worst planned fields and campaigns 
of the war. He passed through the prelimin- 
ary hard marching and took position May 1st 
tired out and with no definite idea what was 
expected by the commanders of the movement. 
May 2d, an unexpected charge was made on 
the regiment which had been assigned to an 
unprotected position in which Mr. Ewens was 
wounded, a rifle ball striking him in the right 
thigh. In the rout he was left on tiie field and 
taken prisoner. His wounds were dressed 
on the field by the Union surgeons who re- 
mained with the wounded in the rebel field 
liospitals. When lie was paroled Mr. Ewens 
retained his papers, given him by a rebel 
officer, and it is believed that these, now in his 
possession, are the only ones iii existence in tiie 
State. He has been solicited to place it among 
war trophies at Madison but still retains the 
piece of paper, now yellow with age, from 
which the subjoined copy is made: " Plospital, 
May 4, 1863, Anton Ewens, a I'r. of Co. E, 
26lli Wis. Vols. U. S. A., a prisoner of war, is 



hereby paroled not to take up arms or in any 
way assist the army or Government of tlie 
United States in the war against the confede- 
rate states until exchanged according to the 
terms of the cartel agreed upon. By command 
Geu'l Lse. H. M. O. Douglas, Capt. & A. A. G. 
Paroling oflicer." He was held until May 
16th, when he was sent to the Union lines and 
to Brook's Station, Va., to field hospital and 
when Lee advanced to Gettysburg was sent 
with otiier wounded to Alexandria to hospital 
in the Baptist church in King's street, thence 
to Douglas hospital in Washington and from 
there to Parole Camp at Alexandria whence he 
was exchanged about the middle of September, 
1863. He joined his regiment in time to con- 
nect with the 11th Corps under Joe Hooker 
and went to Tennessee to aid in the relief 
of Chattanooga, fighting at Wauhatchie and in 
the fight at Lookout and Mission Ridge and 
Oct. 29, 1863, he was again wounded by the 
bursting of a shell which tore the heel from 
his left foot, thus evening up his infirmities, 
the rebels being partial, as it seemed to neither 
limb, but distributing their favors of casualties 
equitably. Mr. Ewens was taken from the field 
hospital to Chattanooga and thence to Nash- 
ville to the Government hospital. There he 
remained five months. He w'as placed on the 
amputation table to have his foot cut oft' but 
an English surgeon. Dr. Lightburn, interfered, 
asserting his abilitj' to save the member and 
the case was transferred to his care. Helnirned 
the gangrene from the wound and gave it his 
conscientious and unremitting attention until 
he was able to be sent to Madison about the 
middle of April, 1864, where he remained until 
Oct. 28, 1864, the date on which he received 
his discharge on account of total disability from 
wounds received in battle. 

He returned to liis home in Milwaukee and 
after passing some weeks on crutches under 



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the supervision of his parents he was sworn 
into the postal service Dec. 26, 1864, as a clerk. 
He has served his country with a fidelity that 
has received recognition and has been promoted 
through all the grades of the local postal ser- 
vice until he received the appointment to his 
present situation in 1882. He is at the head 
of a force of 22 men in his department and his 
labors therein have been such as to give 
unqualified satisfaction to the Postal Depart- 
ment of the United States. 

He was married in Milwaukee Oct. 15, 18G7, 
to Anna, daughter of Nicholas and Maria 
(Lauer) Schuh and they have five children — 
Anton C, bookkeeper of Richter, Schubert & 
Dick, real estate agents, Lillie, Joseph, (with 
C. C. Kirchofl', ai'chitect, for whom he operates 
as stenographer and tyi)e-writer), Annie and 
Nicholas make up the list of tlie children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Ewens. 



ERI HANSON, Black River Falls, 
Wis., member of O. A. R. Post No. 
92, was i)i>rn .Ian. 3, 1833, atKonigs- 
burg, Norway, the son of Hans and Ambjor 
.Johnson. His father was a carpenter and a 
soldier by the law of Norway, and the son was 
reared to the calling of his father and re- 




mained in liis native land until 



lie was 



n 



years of age. The parents lived and died in 
Norway, and of their si.\ children five are liv- 
ing ; they were named in order of birth Ole 
(who died young), Julia, Ole (2d), Hans and 
John (twins) and Neri. 

In 1854 the latter emigrated to the United 
States and went to Ciiristiana, Dane Co., Wis- 
consin, where he worked as a farm a.ssistant 
and carpenter until 1856, when he removed to 
Dodge county, Minn., and thence in 1858, re- 
turned to Dane county, where he remained 



until he enlisted in the Scandinavian regiment, 
the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Heg. 
He enrolled Nov. 5, 1861, at York Grove, Dane 
county, and went to rendezvous at Camp Ran- 
dall, where he was mustered Jan. 1, 1862, in 
Comj)any E. After going to the front at St. 
Louis, orders were received to proceed to Bird's 
Point, Mo., moving to Hickman to fight at 
Union City, and thence to Island No. 10, where 
the command remained until June 12th. 
Prior to this Mr. Hanson was taken sick at 
Bird's Point and was sent to the hospital at 
Mound City, where he remained three weeks, 
and at Island No. 10 was seven weeks in hos- 
pital. The regiment went to the vicinity of 
Corinth and thence to luka and afterwards to 
Florence, Ala. The next movement was to 
Nashville and tiience to Louisville while Bragg 
was raiding Kentucky. The Union troops that 
centered there after their long niarcliing showed 
the hardshij^ they had endured, but in a 
month Bragg had l)efn driven to cover at 
Perryville and they took their revenge in giv- 
ing him a sound thrashing, the 15th not hav- 
ing a man injured, and acting as a reserve. In 
November the regiment returned to Nashville 
and on the 26th Mr. Hanson was detailed to 
the Pioneer Corps and after December 2Sth 
started for ]\Iurfreesboro. 

He operated with the advance of the army 
in the Pioneer Corps, pa.ssing the winter at 
^lurfreesboro. After the battle of Chickamauga 
he went to Chattanooga, arriving there about 
the 21st of September, 1863, having passed the 
intervening time in labor on the fortifications 
at Murfreesboro and in other duty. In Decem- 
ber, 1863, he was tletailed to work on the road 
to Lookout Mountain, and in February, 1864, 
was detailed to work on the water works at 
Chattanooga. He remained there all the next 
year in charge of the works until Dec. 20, 1864, 
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tanooga he was confined in tlie field hospital 
with fever about a month. 

He returned to Dane county and in the 
spring of 1865 went to Black River Falls, 
where he worked as a carpenter three years. 
He then went to his farm in the town of Al- 
bion, which he cultivated for six years and in 
1874 located on his farm on Squaw Creek, 
where he has since been engaged in the im- 
provement of his property, his farm consisting 
of 180 acres, finely located, his house resting 
on one of the prettiest sites in the county, hav- 
ing a view of the surrounding country and 
overlooking the beautiful stream of water 
below. In 1875 he established a carding mill 
on the creek for the manufacture of custom 
rolls. Two years later he added a spinning 
and weaving department and has since ope- 
rated in the manufacture of cloth, which finds 
a ready market in Jackson and the adjoining 
counties. Mr. Hanson is a Republican. 

He was married Feb. 22, 1865, at Christiana, 
Wis., to Mary S., daughter of John P. and 
Mary Testman. The births of their chil- 
dren occurred as follows: Albert H., Aug. 25, 
18GS; .John, Nov. 11, 187-1; Lewis 0., Dec. 31, 
1875. 

'^S^^LW' ILLIAM HENRY SIMPSON, Mil- 
^^^W waukee, Wis., a member of E. B. 
/fm^ Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was 
born Aug. 9, 1846, in the city of Philadelphia. 
His parents, William H. and Matilda (Hood) 
Simpson, removed successively to Johnstown, 
Pa., and Chicago where the connection of the 
son with active business life commenced at an 
early age. Early in 1861 he became a messen- 
ger boy in the employ of the Western Union 
Telegraph Company and in that capacity was 
on duty in the service of the Union. In 1862 
he went to Rockford, 111., in Ihe same service 



where recruiting was going on with an ardor 
characteristic of the Northern portion of the 
Sucker State and the influences which sur- 
rounded him in the discharge of his duties 
while the 74th, 92d, 95th and 96th Illinois 
regiment were being recruited were such as to 
foster in him all the principles which he after- 
wards brought to a practical application by be- 
coming a soldier when he was 18 years old. 

In May, 1864, after serving as a telegraph 
operator at Dunleith (East Dubuque), he 
enlisted at Galena, 111., in Company C, 140th 
Illinois Infantry and performed duty with that 
comjnand until his discharge in Novembei', 
1864, when he was mustered out at Camp Frj-, 
Chicago, the regiment having been in active 
duty for two months after the expiration of 
term of enlistment. Until 1877 he was vari- 
ously occupied and in that year embarked in 
the coal trade at Milwaukee. 

In 1888 he was Junior Vice Commander of 
E. B. Wolcott Post and in 1889 was Delegate to 
the State Encampment. He was married Dec. 
23, 1869, to Sarah, daughter of John and Han- 
nah (Williams) Cheatham, a native of Eng- 
land. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have three chil- 
dren. 

ICHARD FAHEY, La Crosse, Wis., a 
former soldier of the civil war, was 
born April 12, 1844, at Fonda, New 
York, the son of Patrick and Catherine (Ryan) 
Fahey. His father was born in 1798 at Castle 
Cloghan, Kings county, Ireland, and his mother 
was a native of the same county, born April 2, 
1801. The parents crossed the sea to America 
in the "thirties" and resided successively in 
Canada, Fonda, and Onaliska, Wisconsin, loca- 
ting in the latter place in the fall of 1855 where 
the father died Aug. 19, 1881. The demise of 
the mother occurred there May 4, 1877. Their 




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children were Mary, Anna, James, Ricliard, 
Edward and Elizabeth. 

Mr. Fahey attended the common schools at 
the various places where his parents resided, 
and became a soldier at the age of 17 years. 
When the company of whicli Wilson C!olwell 
was captain was enrolled at La Crosse he 
entered its ranks and, when the oi'ganizatiou, 
with the gallant leader of whom a sketch 
appears on another page, enlisted as a body, 
April IS, ISGl, in the service of Wisconsin, he 
was among the number and was mustered for 
three years or during the war in Company B, 
2d Wisconsin Infantry. The company was the 
first to take possession of Camp Randall at 
Madison, went tlience to Washington, camj)ed 
near Soldiers' Home and went next to Fort 
Corcoran. In tlie reconnoissance at Blackburn's 
Ford the company lost its first man and in the 
battle of Bull Run its history was coincident 
with that of the regiment, which fought with 
courage without officers and preserved its 
organization. But no researches revealed the 
truth about its field officers. (See sketch of 
G. E. Smith.) The command returned to Fort 
Corcoran, luider the abundant orders received , 
when not needed. Captain Colwell conducting 
his men thither in the best order. The regi- 
ment remained at Fort Tillinghast until 
spring, went tlience to the Rappahannock and 
on an expedition to Orange C. H. and Bowl- 
ing Green. 

They were recalled and ordered on forced 
march to reinforce Banks at Slaughter Moun- 
tain, arriving at early morning, found a fiag of 
truce out and l)uried the dead whom the rebels 
had abandoned. After a night at Warrenton 
they moved forward to fight at Gainesville 
where their colonel was killed, and after the 
action the command went to Manassas Junc- 
tion, the supply station, where everything was 
burned. The .same day they fought at the 



second Bull Run, went to Arlington Heights, 
crossed the Potomac River to Frederic City 
after Lee in Maryland and fought at South 
Mountain and Antietam. At the former, Sept. 
14, 186-2, Captain Colwell was killed. They 
buried the dead and went to the fight on 
the 17th where Mr. Fahey was wounded 
and is mentioned in the reports. He received 
a rifle ball which passed through both his 
shoulders, went to field hospital and was de- 
clared b\' the surgeon in a hopeless condition. 
He was taken the next day to Cadysville and 
later to Frederic City hospital. He joined the 
regiment in the fall at Aquia Creek and was 
with tiie advance on the Rappahannock and 
Rapidan in the spring. He was found unable 
for active .service, such as the regiment was 
engaged in and was sent on detached duty to 
Windmill Point and afterwards on the hospital 
supply steamer, John Tucker, plying between 
jioints on the Potomac River. After three 
months, he was sent to the convalescent camp 
at Arlington Heights and after a month, was 
transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps, Sept. 
12, 1SG3, doing duty at Mount Pleasant hospi- 
tal. June 11, 1864, he received final discharge. 
He joined his regiment at Washington and 
went home with the non-veterans. 

He has since been occupied in the lumber 
business in some connection and has been for 
years the confidential agent of S. & J. Atlee, 
lumber dealers at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 
charge of their logging interests in tlie Wiscon- 
sin pineries. Mr. Fahey has also a rafting 
interest with a jiartner, the firm being Holway 
& Fahey. The latter he o]>erates in the sum- 
mer seasons and during the winters he "puts 
in " about 12,000,000 feet of lumber yearly. He 
was married July 4, 18G6, at Sparta, Wis., to 
Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and Sarah 
Bennett. Franklin Elmore, born March 21, 
1870, and Winnifred, born June 1, 1877, are the 



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cliiklren wliicli liave lieeu given to Mr. and 
Mrs. Fuliey. Mr. Fahey is a member of 
Ma.sonic Lodge Frontier No. 45, of Smith 
Cliapter No. 9 and La Crosse Commandery. 
lie is a Democrat in i)olitical faitli and was 
candidate for Sheriff in 1879; he served as 
Deputy Siieritf under II. S. Phillips in 1S77-8. 



jt. 






^J^y^5^ILLIA^I R. HOYT, attorney at 
Chip2)e\va Falls, Wis., mendjer of 
^M_ G. A. R. Post No. 68, was born at 
St. Albans, Vermont, March 17, 1843. He is 
descended in both lines from Puritan stock and 
there is no better blood in the mixed national- 
ity of America than he represents. His an- 
cestors have been prominent in the history of 
intelligence and social standing in New Eng- 
land from its earliest days, and in successive 
generations the descendants have sustained the 
prestige of their forbears. His father, Romeo 
H. Hoyt, was second to none in position in 
legal circles and social connections and the 
family of the mother, Betsey D. Ainsworth 
before marriage, belonged to the same class. 
Romeo Hoyt was born in St. Albans in 1810 in 
a house built in 171)6, still in excellent preser- 
vation, and in it he died in 1889; he was a 
lawyer by profession, and his wife, who lives in 
the old mansion was born in the same town. 
Frances, oldest daughter, married A. G. San- 
ford, a lawyer of Washington, D. C. ; .Julia, 
Danforth and Arthur arc the names of the re- 
maining children. 

Mr. Hoyt is the oldest of the children born 
to his parents. He received excellent advan- 
tages of education at home until he was 15 
years old, when he was sent to the military 
school at Norwich, Vermont, and, two years 
later, an appointment was obtained for him at 
West I'oint where he was engaged in acquiring 



a knowledge of .systematic military affairs when 
the civil war demanded his services. He had 
not yet reached his majority, but he left West 
Point to join his fate to that of the volunteer 
soldiers from his native State in the ranks. He 
enlisted Sept. 23, 1863, and was mustered the 
same day into United States service in Com- 
pany I, 10th ^'e^•raont Infantry, at Brattleboro, 
Vermont. In October following he went to the 
front, joining his regiment at Culpeper, Vir- 
ginia, and participated in an action there on 
the 12th of the month. He was next in the 
fight at Mine Run, November 26tli, the regi- 
ment having been assigned to the 2d Brigade, 
3d Division and 6th Corps. The position of 
the regiment was about the center of the main 
army, and Company I made a forward move- 
ment in which it was badly cut up, 13 being 
killed and 57 wounded. The regiment retired 
across the Rapidan and went into winter quar- 
ters at Culpeper on tlie farm of .John Minor 
Botts. In the spring the command went with 
Grant's army to the campaign of the Wilder- 
ness and Mr. Hoyt was in the opening action 
May oth. He fought through the successive 
days at Spottsylvania, Laurel Hill, Cold Harbor 
and on the North Anna River, a series of ac- 
tions in which some of the best troops ever 
organized threw away their efforts and realized 
defeat, after facing disease and death in the 
Chiekahominy swamps almost equal to the 
former experience of the Army of the Potomac. 
They crossed the James and moved to the 
trenches at Petersburg, where the rebels had 
been given all the time they needed to fortify 
and make arrangements for the most terrific 
slaughter that stands recorded on historical 
pages. No other account of a siege tells such 
a story as that of Petersburg. (See sketch of 
C. K. Pier.) When the 6th Corps went to the 
Valley of the Shenandoah, the 10th Vermont 
went too and aided in the movement to head 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



off Early. The brigade to which it belonged, 
under General Lew Wallace, was the first to 
confront the slippery rebel chief and he drove 
them towards Washington, the remaining por- 
tion of the Corps coming to their aid when the 
Capital was menaced, and fought at Monotticy, 
Early withdrawing after inflicting a terrific 
loss. The Corps went to the Shenandoaii Val- 
ley again and Mr. Hoyt was in the battle of 
Winchester, September 19tli, and fought again 
at Cedar Creek exactly a month later. (Sheri- 
dan's Ride.) The command went back to the 
trenches at Petersburg and remained in the 
epitome of the infernal regions until the 
fall of the city, wiien the command went to 
the pursuit of Lee and after the surrender 
moved to Danville to aid Sherman if need 
should be in completing the downfall of the 
rebellion in overthrowing .Johnston, who had 
contrived to keep in advance of the conquering 
columns that had crossed Georgia and frac- 
tured the backbone of the confederacy. Litelli- 
gence of the surrender of Johnston reached the 
troops at Danville and they turned northward 
and went to 'Washington. Mr. Iloyt marched 
in the Grand Review and afterwards went to 
Burlington, N^ermont, where liis connection 
with militarj' life in the civil war terminated 
June 29, 1865. The regiment had registered 
1,304 enlistments and 450 men mustered out 
after the finish. Tlie remaining 854 were dead 
of wounds or disease, in prisons or disabled in 
hospitals. Mr. Hoyt received promotion for 
gallant conduct in service through all the 
grades to First Lieutenant and during the last 
six months of the war was in commaml of his 
company. 

He returned to St. Albans, studied law and 
was admitted to the Bar by examination in 
open court in 186S. Soon after he sought a 
clearer field in the West for the practice of an 
attorney and located at Chippewa Falls. "With 



the exception of three years he has since trans- 
acted business at that point and has built up a 
substantial and pojiular pradici'. He served 
three years as County Judge, being ajipointod 
to fill a vacancy caused by death, and resigned 
at the end of that time. He has been elected 
District Attorney three times and served six 
years. He also .served a period as Municipal 
Judge to fill a vacancy. On the organization 
of his Post he was made First Commander and 
was elected three subsequent times. May 30, 
1890, lie was appointed by President Harrison 
as Commissioner of Alaska. He was married 
Nov. 12, 1874, to Lenora, daughter of J. P. 
and Elizabeth Nelson of Eau Claire. Their 
only child is named Romeo. Mr. Hoyt belongs 
to the Order of Masons and of Odd Fellows, 
and is a Republican in political affiliation. 

^^,;.vAMUEL R. BELL, Milwaukee, Wis., 
*^ member of G. A. R. Post No. 1, E. B. 
Wolcott, was born July 3, 1843, in 
Windham, Greene Co., New York. He is of 
Englisii extraction, his grandfather, Joseph 
Bell, having emigrated to America from Eng- 
land at the period of the French and Englisii 
war. Joseph Bell was a Quaker and a manu- 
facturer of implements, and being pressed into 
till' manufacture of arms by the British govern- 
ment, he left his native country to maintain 
his peace principles. His son, Joseph, became 
a man of extended business relatioii.s, owning 
a large landed estate and has been for many 
years a resident of Delavan, Walworth Co., 
Wis. 

Aug. 21, 1862, Samuel Bell enlisted at 
La Fayette, Wis., in Company 1, 28th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry, an organization which was re- 
cruited mainly in Waukesha and Walworth 
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State and went to Columbus, Kj-., and Mr. 
Bell was a participant in all the movements of 
the command, going on the expeditions wliich 
were designed in consonance with Grant's 
nlans and distinguishing himsell" with his regi- 
ment in the decisive battle of Helena. He 
was with his command afterwards until pros- 
trated with the malarial fever which decimated 
tlie regiments in the West and was detailed to 
return to Wisconsin. He was thrown off the 
transport on which, with numberless sick com- 
rades, he was placed to be transported to Wis- 
consin as too sick to bother with. But a deter- 
mined comrade persisted in carrying iiim back 
and brought him to his home in an uncon- 
scious condition. He was in a serious state for 
many weeks, but care and skill finally prevail- 
ed and he was restored to comparative health. 
He was discharged at Madison Oct. 19, 18G3. 

In 1867 he established his business in Mil- 
waukee where he has since been a resident. 
He has served several years as a Trustee of 
E. B. Wolcott Post. 

In 186G he was married to Caroline F. 
Horton and they have had four children. The 
eldest, Mary Goodrich, died of scarlet fever in 
infancy. Alfred Caroll, Fanny H. and Marvin 
C. are as promising children as ever gladdened 
the hearts of loving parents. 

The prominence of Mrs. Bell in the Woman's 
Relief Corps entitles her to recognition as 
prominent in a liook of soldiers' annals. She 
was born in Windham, Greene Co., New York, 
and is the daughter of Goodrich and Lydia 
(Fairchild) Horton. She was educated and 
graduated at a Ladies' Seminary at Springfield, 
Mass. Her father was a descendant of Puritan 
ancestors of the strictest type and died of 
bronchial consumption at the age of 38 years. 
Mrs. IJell represents patriotism of the most 
decided stamp, her great grandfather, Jonathan 
Fairchild, having been a soldier of the Revo- 



lution and her great-great-grandfather, named 
Wood worth, liaving fought in the same strug- 
gle. She inherited their spirit and she has 
been active in patriotic avenues because " she 
was born in it." She has always been noted 
for her benevolent work and has made her 
influence felt in such avenues. She is a char- 
ter member of E. B. Wolcott Relief Corps and 
served as its Chaplain until she was elected 
President. She served in that capacity until 
she was elected Department President in 1889 ; 
in 1890, current 3'ear, she is serving as Depart- 
ment Counselor. This brief statement will 
represent but little of her actual work, but 
soldiers of Wisconsin will testify to her ability, 
efficiency and value to their Order. 



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/^^ MERY M. STANFORD, La Crosse, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 77, 
was born Jan. 21, 1832, at Atwater 
Ohio, and is the son of Leroy M. and Maransa 
(Bartholomew) Stanford. -Phe paternal line is 
of Welsh ancestry and that of the maternal 
side French in lineage. The progenitor of the 
latter stock in this country came to America 
with La Fayette. The father was by trade a 
carpenter and was also a farmer. Mr. Stanford 
is the oldest of 12 children. 

In 1848 the family removed West and 
located at Elkhorn, Walworth Co., Wiscon- 
sin. In 1S52 they became residents of La 
Crosse county, and the father died Nov. 14, 
1882, at Arcadia, Wis. The mother lives with 
her son and is aged 78 years. Mr. Stanford 
passed his early years in obtaining his educa- 
tion with a view to entering the ministry of 
the M. E. Church. He studied as he could 
and was licensed to preach ni 1858. He was 
admitted to the Arcadia Circuit and officiated 
there in that connection until he entered tiie 



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army. Jan. 4, 1864, he enlisted in the 1st Wis- 
consin Light Artillery and left the Slate Feb- 
ruary Stli to connect with his command at New 
Orleans. April 22d the battery left that city to 
move with Banks on the Red River exj)edition. 
The movement took the regiment to Alexan- 
dria with the 13th Corps in McClernand's com- 
mand and the battery was principally occupied 
in covering the retreat down the river, acting 
as guard and patrol all the way to Morganzia 
and fighting en route. Probably no more 
malicious set of desperadoes infested any sec- 
tion of tlie South where the U. S. troops went 
than this, the fighting being continuous nearly 
every night and day in tlie myriad skirmishes, 
not half of which are on record. The battery 
went back to camp at New Orleans and Mr. 
Stanford was taken sick on the way. He re- 
mained in New Orleans until about the middle 
of July, when orders were received to go to 
Baton Rouge and the command went to quar- 
ters in the fort. In November the regiment 
went with General Davidson's Cavalry Division 
to Mobile, following Leaf River as far as Pas- 
cagoula Bay and took transports across Lake 
Bowne and Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans, 
where they arrived New Year's eve, and went 
to Baton Rouge on the 4th. The object of this 
movement was to restrain the rebel hordes 
from following Sherman by making a feint on 
Mobile, and about 6,000 troops accompanied 
the batteries. There the battery was mustered 
out. Mr. Stanford was taken sick with tlie 
small-pox wliile at Baton Rouge and went to 
hospital. He received excellent care by com- 
petent nurses and recovered his health. As 
soon as able he was mustered out June 4, 1865. 
He went )iext to New Orleans and returned 
thence to Wisconsin to be released from State 
service. 

Prior to tlie war he had "taken up a home- 
stead" and to tliis he returned after the war 



was over. For 11 years he filled a position as 
minister irregularly at Arcadia and operated 
during the time on the Eau Claire Circuit, at 
Ossio and Alma Center, and was ordained at 
Si)arta Conference, Sept. 15, 1867. The health 
of his wife compelled him to give up regular 
labor for many years. In 1888 he located at 
La Crosse, Wis., and has filled appointments at 
Chaseburg, Romance, Dudley's Ridge and 
Coon's Slough. 

He was married Aug. 26, 1853, at Lewis Val- 
ley, Wis., to Esther, daughter of John B. and 
Phebe Condon. Their children are named 
Edmund D., Webster A., Emily, Gilbert, Hat- 
tie and George. His wife died July 26, 1887, 
at La Crosse. Mr. Stanford is Chajjlain of his 
Post and is a meniber of the Knights of 
Pythias. 

His brother, Leroy, enlisted in Company F, 
25th Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered 
into service Sept. 14, 1862 ; he served with the 
regiment until the surrender of Vicksburgand 
was sent to hospital for a long stay through an 
illness. He was pronounced incurable b}- the 
surgeons in charge and his father was sum- 
moned to take him home, he being discharged 
for that purpose; he lingered about three 
months and died Jan. 19, 1864. Miles Stam- 
ford enlisted and was mustered- in 1862 into 
the 20th Wisconsin Infantry from Alma Center. 
Before the battle of Pea Ridge he was taken 
sick with typhoid fever and sent to Rolla, Mo. ; 
his father went after him, brought him home 
to Wisconsin and he recovered his health. In 
December, 1863, he re-enlisted in Company I, 
4th Wisconsin Cavalry (then) and joined the 
regiment at Baton Rouge. He was soon after 
detailed with a body of picked men for a raid 
and captured a rebel camp. Soon after an- 
other force of rebels recaptured their men and 
took the captors prisoners of war; subsequently 
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were sent to Andersonville and kept there 11 
months. He was transferred thence to Florence 
on the approach of Sherman's troops and died 
there Nov. 23, 1864; the plucky soldier lies 
huried where he suff'ered and where he will 
rise U)i in the judgment against those who 
starved, persecuted and murdered him. 

Rev. Mr. Stanford antl his brothers per- 
formed noble service for the Union. Their 
names and records are an lienor to these or any 
other pages which inscribe the annals of the 
heroes of the civil war. Mr. Stanford has been 
an active worker in the religious field and has 
accomplislied much as a minister of the M. E. 
Church. Let it be noted that he enlisted ju.st 
before the turf was placed on the grave of his 
young brother who died 15 days after and 
whose place he took in the Union army. 
Miles and Leroj' were respectively 16 and 17 
years old when they enlisted. 

f^^ EORGE W. PECK, Mayor of Milwau- 



■qr kee, Wis., in 1890, member of E. B. 



Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R., was 
born at Hudson, Jefferson Co., New York, Sept. 
28, 1840. This is on his own testimony and 
the following account of his career is as told by 
himself in his own style as likely to be most 
satisfactory and strictly reliable. 

" I came to Wisconsin when I was two and a 
half years old, and I have been told that I set- 
tled at Cold Spring, Jefferson county, which is ' 
on the road between Whitewater and Fort 
Atkinson. When ten or eleven years old our 
folks moved to Whitewater. AVhat education 
I got in school I secured in what Governor 
Hoard calls 'the Farmer's College, the country 
school at the cross roads.' The rest I know I 
took out of a printing office. When I was 
about liftcen it became necessary for me to 



learn a trade to help support myself and fam- 
il)-, and I have been in the same business ever 
since. I learned the printer's trade in the 
office of the Whitewater Begister. I commenced 
by carrying dirty water down the stairs and 
clean water up, and for diversion would wash 
the rollers for a Washington hand press and 
then turn them on the rack until they needed 
washing again. 1 can work a Washington 
hand press to-day as well as anybody in the 
State. After learning the trade as well as I 
could I monkeyed around with various news- 
papers and finally took the foremanship of tbe 
Watertown Republican at $3.50 per week and 
took my pay in orders on drug stores and 
dealers in gents' furnishing goods. My hair 
which I had then was red, and I tried by a 
judicious use of drug store orders and hair 
oil to make it black. After a year or so at that 
I became clerk of the Hyatt House, at Janes- 
ville, in 1859. For a year or so I was clerk for 
a firm which had no money and less custom. 
The duty of the clerk was to stand off the 
butcher and grocer and collect in advance from 
guests to pay for the wood to warm tbe house. 
While holding this honorable position at the 
lucrative remuneration of $25 per month I 
engaged myself to be married to a very decent 
girl named Francena Rawley, of Delavan, Wis., 
who never did me any harm. Just before the 
wedding day the hotel busted and I borrowed 
$17 and got married. After the wedding tour, 
which lasted part of one day and late into the 
night, I went to .Jefferson and bought a half 
interest in the Jefferson County liepubUcan, put- 
ting my labor and influence against what my 
partner owed. We succeeded in keeping it out 
of the sheriffs hands for about a year. When 
the war broke out, my partner went one way 
and I went the othei", with the sheriff in the 
middle. I enlisted with the Fourth Wisconsin 
Cavalry, and after a year was promoted to be 



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Second Lieutenant, which position T held till 
a year after the war, the regiment heing 
stationed in Texas. It was a great iighting 
regiment until I joined it, after which I do 
not recollect that it ever got into a hattle of 
any account. In ISGG I started the Ripon 
Representative in Fond du Lac County, with 
Jedediah Bowen as editor. When Grant 
was nominated the paper became democratic, 
and in 18G8 I was hired hy Brick Pomeroy to 
go to work on Pomeroy\t Democrat in New York, 
where I stayed three years. I then walked 
most of the way home and took charge of 
Pomeroy's paper at La Crosse. When Pomeroj' 
went to the wall and his property was all sold 
John Symes and myself bought the La Crosse 
paper. I sohl out, oi- gave it away, and started 
Peck's Sun at La Crosse. While there I was 
chief of police one year, and in 1874 was made 
chief clerk of the Assembly. In 1878 I came 
to Milwaukee, and after two years of reasonable 
success the boom started with the 'Bad Boy' 
articles and the circulation of the paper ran up 
to 80,000, and 1 foinid an opportunity to make 
a dollar or two. That's all I know about Peck." 



^„^^a^*^. 

B. CANTERBURY emigrated to Amer- 
ica from the county of Wicklow, Ire- 
• land, in 1859. He cast his first vote 
for Abraham Lincoln in LsiJO, and has been an 
ardent Republican ever since. He enlisted in 
18G1, in Company D, 5th Wisconsin Infantry, 
and served with that regiment in nearly all of 
its campaigns until 1864, when he was dis- 
charged at Matlison, Wis., by reason of his 
term of service having expired. He has since 
been a resident of Ija Crosse. He is one of 
the prominent men of the State and especially 
interested and active in all the enterprises of 
his city wh(!re he has done much to make it 



the second city in Wisconsin. He has built 
railroads and street car lines, and is now Presi- 
dent and principal owner of the La Crosse and 
Onalaski Street Car Company. He is largely 
interested in real estate and grain business, 
and has something to do with nearly every en- 
terprise of the city. 

|^0RANK ALWINKUECHENMEISTER, 
Milwaukee, Wis., a former soldier of 
the civil war, was born June 8, 1844, 
in Lichtenstein, Saxony, Germany. He is the 
oldest of ten children horn to his parents, 
Edward F. and Carolina (Man) Kuechenmeister, 
and accompanied the family of his father to 
America when he was three years old. Sept. 
14, 1847, they reached the city of Milwaukee 
which has since been their home. His parents 
were married March 22, 1842. 

Frank i)apsed his youth in the public schools, 
and when he was 15 years of age, May 10, 
1859, he began to learn the l)Usinessof a model 
maker with Chas. F. Kleinsteuber, at which he 
worked until he decided to enlist in one of the 
regiments into which his countrymen were 
enrolling under the call for German troops to 
be assigned to the command of General Sigel. 
Aug. 14, 1SG2, he enli-sted in Company K, 2Gth 
Wisconsin Infantry and went into Camp Sigel 
at Milwaukee, where he drilled an<l acquired a 
familiarity with the life of a warrior, such as 
is obtainable under such circumstances. Se]i- 
tember 17th following he was mustered, and 
Oct. 6, 1862, the regiment marched away to 
join the Army of the Potomac. Mr. Kuechen- 
meister went with the 2Gtb, cxj>ecting to roach 
Fredericksburg to reinforce General Burnside, 
but the troops were just withdrawing as they 
arrived, and the winter was passed without 
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ordered out preparatory to getting into the mud 
under P>nrnside's plans for another attack on 
Fredericksliurg in January, 1863. But what of 
disappointment in seeing actual warfare he 
might have undergone, was fully made up at 
the disaster at Chancellorsville where the regi- 
ment fought desperately and suffered greatly 
in losses. Mr. Kuechenmeister was again fight- 
ing at Gettysburg and in October went with 
the two corps of Hooker to tlie reinforcement 
of the Army of the West. He was in the fight 
at Wauhatchie, Tenn., Oct. 27th, at Mission 
Kidge three days in November, at Resaca, Ga., 
May 15, 1804, Burnt Hickory, May 25th, 
Dallas, May 27th, Kenesaw Mountain, June 
22d, Peach Tree Creek, July 20th, Atlanta, 
August 8th and in the several movements in 
wiiieh liis regiment took part until the city 
was destroyed November 14lh, preparatory to 
the march to the sea which was begun on the 
15th. Mr. Kuechenmeister marched, foraged, 
waded swamps and Imilt roads and bridges in 
common with the regiment and fouglit at 
Averysboro and Bentonville, March 16th and 
19th respectively, and went with the column 
of Sherman to Petersburg, Richmond and 
Washington, where he paraded with his com- 
pany and regiment with General Winkler at 
the head of the command. (See sketch of 
General Winkler.) The regiment was muster- 
ed out at Washington June 13, 1865, returned 
to Milwaukee June 17th and was paid off and 
disbanded on the 29th of the same month. Mr. 
Kuechenmeister brought home with him as 
relics of his military experience, a rebel canteen 
made of cedar inscribed " W. E. Ratcliffe, 33d 
Mississippi Infantry", and a rebel knapsack 
from the field of Averysboro, marked "B. A." 
presumably signifying Battery A. 

He returned to his former employer and 
remained in the business of a model maker 
unlil he engaged with a sewing-machine com- 



pany as adjuster and repairer, and he operated 
17 years in tliat business. In 1883 he made 
application for a situation as letter-carrier in 
the mail service and received his appointment 
Sept. 1, 1884, in which capacity he is occupied 
in 1890. He was married May 22, 1869, to 
Augusta Hartmann, and they have had five 
children of whom two are deceased. Those 
who are living are Emma, aged 14, Walter, 
aged 11, and Edwin, who is nine years old. 
Tliey ai'e all attending the public school at 
Milwaukee. 

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"ILLIAM J. CHANDLER, Black 
River Falls, Wis., member of G. 
A. R. Post No. 92, was born at 
Ottawa, Wis., Oct. 29, 1845. His parents, 
Thomas and Catherine Chandler, were born in 
Ireland, and came to America respectivel}^ at 
the ages of 10 and 19 years. The family of 
the father located at Farmington, Ohio, on a 
farm, and in 1840 they removed to Waukesha 
county, Wisconsin, and there his father bought 
land from the Government which he improved. 
Thomas Chandler enlisted Aug. 21, 1862, and 
served in the non-commissioned offices until 
May 4, 1864, when he was commissioned 1st 
Lieutenant of Comjiany H, 28th Wisconsin In- 
fantry and was mustered out as such Dec. 14, 
1864, for disability. He lives in Clay Co., Ne- 
braska, and his wife died in 1880. Of their 
nine children, eight are living and are named 
William, Mary Jane, Anna, John, Henrietta, 
Francis, Ellen and Sarah. 

Mr. Chandler received the benefit of the com- 
mon schools until he enlisted at 16 years old in 
August, 1861, at Ripon, in Company F, 1st 
Wisconsin Cavalry, Colonel Daniels. The win- 
ter was passed in camp at Kenosha where the 
regiment received uniforms, and in (he spring 



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went to Benton Barracks, St. Louis, there re- 
ceiving their mount and side arms. They 
moved to Cape Girardeau and in May, Bloom- 
field, 50 miles away, was occupied by a part of 
the regiment. The command engaged in 
scouting and 10 miles from there a rebel camp 
was broken up and soon after the leader, Phe- 
lan, captured. Colonel Daniels was a venture- 
some officer, and his men were often in straits 
from which their own ingenuity and daring 
extricated them. He, with some 20 men, was 
sent out on a recoinioissance and they were 
cut off from their command at Witsburg, 
and went on the old Federal road to Memphis, 
where they took transports to Helena, where 
Colonel Daniels was relieved. The balance of 
the regiment went to L'Anguille Ferry, were 
surprised by the rebels and the chaplain was 
killed, tlie routed cavalrymen joining their 
command at Helena. In tlie spring of ISG3 
the regiment went to Nashville and was 
brigaded with the 4tli Michigan and ■2d Indi- 
ana cavalrj' regiments with McCook's 20th 
Corps. 

The regiment moved with Stanley's Cavalry 
Column, skirmished at Middletown, cajitured 
Shelbyville and went to Huiitsville, Ala., and 
to Larkinsville, going thence to the Chat- 
tanooga campaign ; moved next to Chicka- 
mauga Creek, drove the rebels at Crawfish 
Springs and fought at Chattanooga. In Octo- 
ber the regiment fought at Anderson's Gap 
with Wheeler, crossed the Cumberland Moun- 
tains, skirmished at Maysville and marched by 
way of Crab Orchard into East Tennessee and 
reached Knoxville in December. Tliey skir- 
mished on the way to Madison and Cleveland, 
after chasing Hood and skirmishing at various 
points as cavalry. The regiment was with the 
besieging force at Atlanta, skn-mishing all tlie 
time, fought ^\'heeler and was in the battle of 
Resaca. Mr. Chandler was in the action at 



Burnt Hickory Church, went to Ackworth and 
Big Shanty and Lost Mountain and raided 
near Atlanta, where Major Paine was killed. 
They went to Calhoun and scouted and skir- 
mished incessantly, going thence to Louisville, 
Ky. While at Nashville Mr. Chandler was 
detailed as a scout and operated in that 
capacity tliroughout his service. While at 
Dalton to learn wliat he could, he was detained 
under suspicion, but rushed out, took a Lieu- 
tenant's horse and rode out of the rebel lines. 
While on bushwhacking service he went to the 
cabin of Albert Stevens, a noted rebel in the 
mountains, and stayed there a week ascertain- 
ing plans. He took French leave and went to 
Major Devine's command and started with the 
force for the haunts of Stevens, breaking up 
the camp and driving the mountain bush- 
whackers temporarily into North Carolina. 

He visited a lady friend in the mountains 
and while there the place was surrounded and 
his surrender demanded, which was declined. 
A fight followed and he made his escape, killing 
one man. He found he had but one way of 
retreat and that was by jumping a precipice in 
the dark to tlie stream below, which was for- 
tunately deep, and he and his horse escaped 
without injury, although a volley of sliot 
followed him. The next day he returned, 
helped bury the man he had killed and paid 
the funeral expenses. (The captain of this 
gang was the schoolmate of the wife of Mr. 
Cliandler(whom he married in Tennessee) and 
after the war she told him she had seen his 
face peering into the window of their Wi.scon- 
sin home in his absence. He followed him 
with a revolver until he had left the Stiite). 
He was in the mountains of Tennessee one 
night, when he saw a man peering through 
the crevices of the Ciibin ; he went out and fol- 
lowed him around a corn crib some time; 
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enemy face to face and sliot liim dead. 
Stevens' gang, 100 strong, took an oath tliey 
would not lay down their arms until they had 
killed the noted scout Chandler, but he killed 
three of them and lives to tell the story. In 
December, 1864, Mr. Chandler received his 
discharge at Nashville and after being dis- 
charged in Wisconsin he returned to Ottawa, 
going after a year to Iron Ridge, Dodge county, 
and there passed five years in the coal works. 
He moved from there to Black Fiver Falls 
and has since been variously occupied. In 
1886 he purchased 160 acres of land in the 
town of Albion and has since been engaged in 
its improvement and has slightly increased his 
acreage. 

He was married June 27, 1864, in Tennessee 
to Emeline Humphries, and their children are 
Thomas A., William G., John H., Mary K., 
George, Emeline, Sarah and James R. Mr. 
Chajidler is a Republican. 

^^ OL. HENRY ARTHUR STARR, Mil- 
waukee, Wis., member of G. A. R. 
Post, Robert Chivas, No. 2, was born 
Nov. 18, 1830, in Leroy, New York. He is 
the son of Elisha and Elizabeth (Hosmer) 
Starr, and his maternal great grandfather was 
a surgeon in the Revolution. 

Colonel Starr has been a resident of Milwau- 
kee since 1836 and received in childhood such 
education as the schools of Milwaukee afforded 
in that period of her history. He records that 
Eli Bates, a prominent merchant of Chicago, 
was one of his teachers. One of his earliest 
recollections is of his father's relations with 
the printing business and, as soon as his ideas 
of connection with the business world began 
to grow, he engaged in learning the trade of a 
book and job printer and was engaged in that 
business when he decided to enter the arniv. 




I In the first months of the war he interested 
himself in the progress of events in Wisconsin 
aiding with his influence in the work of re- 
cruiting and was commissioned Captain of 
Company D, 1st Wisconsin Infantry, on the 
28th of August, 1861, and was mustered Octo- 
ber 8th. He was promoted Major of the 20tli 
Wisconsin Infantry, under commission dated 
June 30, 1862, and with the exception of a 
short period in hospital at Brownsville, Texas, 
and two months passed in Wisconsin in the 
winter of 1863-4 on recruiting service, he was 
connected with the regiment until mustered 

' out July 14, 1865. The 20th Wisconsin left 
the State August 30th and went to St. Louis 
and thence to Rolla for assignment to Herron's 

; Brigade, destined for service on the frontiers of 

1 rebeldom. The first action in which the regi- 
ment obtained a knowledge of rebel methods 

j in military matters was in the battle of Prairie 
Grove. Prior to this, Major Starr had per- 
formed his duties with bis command in march- 
ing and searching for detachments of rebels 
until November, when the regiment went into 
camp at Wilson's Creek. At this place in De- 
cember, General Herron was summoned by- 
General Blunt to his assistance, as he expected 
an attack of Hindman at the head of a greatly 
outnumbering rebel force ; the troops were 
immediately set in motion and wei'e attacked 
by Hindman before the Union force had made 
connection with General Blunt, and at 10 
o'clock in the morning of December 7, 1862, 
the 20th Wisconsin was in hot action known 
to history as the battle of Prairie Grove. The 
rebel force was commanded by Parsons, Frost 
and Raines and also, as the repi'esentative of 
Price, the notorious Marmaduke. The changes 
in the commands had placed the Lieutenant- 
Colonel, Henry Bertram, in commantl of the 
brigade and Major Starr led the regiment in 
one of the severest actions of the war in that 



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locality. The character and temperament of 
Major Starr were such tliat his abilities in an 
executive direction were brought fulh' to tlie 
front by the situation in which he unexjjectedly 
found himself. Orders were peremptory and in 
tlie display of his qualities as a disciplinarian, 
he manifested his capacity to command. Un- 
der his leadership the regiment made a move- 
uient on the double quick ; they took a rebel 
battery and, moving on, met an assault of 
about seven to one. In this action of le-ss than 
half an hour tlie loss of tlie 20th Wisconsin 
was very iieavy, Init tliey remained in line of 
battle all day and receiving assistance only 
on the arrival of General Blunt in the after- 
noon, after which the regiment was in action 
until dark, when the rebels virtually confessed 
themselves conquered by sending a flag of 
truce to obtain their wounded, under the pro- 
tection of which they withdrew in the niglit. 
If the 20th Wisconsin had performed no other 
service, the conduct of every man in *lie battle 
of Prairie Grove would have inscribed their 
names iueffaceably on the roll of fame. Major 
Starr was commissioned Lieutenant-Colonel to 
i-ank from Dec. G, 1802, the day iireceding the 
battle of Prairie Grove, lie accompanied liis 
command in the after movements, which in- 
clutled a heavy marcii to \'au Buren and 
return, ami subsequently, niovemenls were 
made to dilferent points, and the regiment re- 
mained in Missouri performing local military 
duty until June, when they moved to take part 
in the investment and siege of Vicksburg, 
where the connnand were in siege duty and 
hard labor until the city surrendered. Tlie 
next order was for the reinforcement of Banks, 
but they went instead witli the expedition to 
Yazoo river, whence they returned to \'icks- 
burg, went thence to Port Hudson and finally 
to New Orleans. Major Starr was in the exj)e- 
dition to Morganzia, returned to New Orleans 



and started 'under General Herron for Texas, 
crossing the Gulf of Mexico in one of the 
heavy tropical storms of that locality ; and a 
landing was eliected at Brazos Santiago, whence 
they went to Brownsville ; there Colonel Starr 
was taken sick and soon after was sent to Wis- 
consin on recruiting service as stated. He re- 
joined his regiment at Brownsville, returned to 
New Orleans in August and, soon after, the 
regiment was in the force whose operations 
were to be directed against the defenses of 
Mobile. Colonel Starr performed duty with 
his men in the siege of Fort Morgan and had 
the satisfaction of assisting in the capture of 
the fort and its garrison. October loth C'olonel 
Starr acceded to the command of the regiment 
and performed the duties of his absent chief in 
all the movements until the command went 
again to Mobile. With the regiment he was 
in the siege of Spanish Fort, was among the 
first to enter the abandoned works, went thence 
to Blakely and the vicinity of Mobile, after 
which, in June, he went again to Texas ami 
was there mustered out on the day stated. 

Colonel Starr returned to Milwaukee and 
was variously engaged until October 6, ISGS, 
when he was commissioned Postmaster and 
otficiated nearly four years. He was after- 
wards in New York for a time, and passed four 
years in the eiu|)]oy of Pand it McNally of 
Chicago; after his return to Milwaukee lie fol- 
lowed his trade until 18SS, when he retired 
from active business life. In 1883 Colonel 
Starr was married to Catlierine B. Schafier. 
He is a Mason and belongs to Iiulependence 
Lodge, No. 8, to Wisconsin Chai>ter, No. 3, and 
Wisconsin Commandery, No. 1. 

There is no more familiar figure on the 
streets of Milwaukee at this writing, 1890, than 
that of Colonel Starr, and a faithful biographer 
would fain place on permanent record a just 
uutline of his character. <.^uiet, modest, manly, 




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generous, forbearing, and liaving as little 
aggressiveness as is common to men who rise 
to heights of braver\' in emergencies, he is 
esteemed in his generation as he merits. He 
possesses abilities in more than one direction 
of more than common scope and especially in 
a literary sense. In that field he might, if he 
had been a man to push to places already 
appropriated as is the worldy custom, have 
made a brilliant record. But his friends love 
him, his acquaintances respect him, and his 
comrades hold him in just appreciation for his 
bravery on the fields where he fought in the 
service of th« Union. Ilis name will be one 
of the perjietuities of the Badger State. 

It should have been stated in the proj^er 
place that Colonel 8tarr was the second Com- 
mander of the Department of Wisconsin, G. A.R. 







"ILLIAM H. H. CASH, attorney, 
resident at New Lisbon, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. Gl, 
was born .July 19, 1843, in Belmont Co., Ohio, 
opposite Wheeling, W. Va. His parents were 
Hezekiah and Sarah Ann (.Jones) Cash and his 
father's family were from Pennsylvania ; his 
mother belonged to ^Maryland stock. One of 
the ancestral heroes was Henry Stadtler who 
fought under Harrison at Fort Meigs. The 
grandfather .Jones was an Ohio pioneer and an 
old Indian fighter of renown. 

In 1861 the parents of Mr. Cash removed to 
New Lisbon, Wisconsin. They had 11 chil- 
dren of whom six are surviving in ]890. Mr. 
Cash is the oldest; -Eineline married Geo. Cleve- 
land, a .soldier of the 52d Wisconsin Lifantry ; 
Martha Jane, S. F., -Jeremiah and Susan are 
the others still living. Mr. Cash was aljout 2U 
years old when he enrolled in his country's 
service. He had ol)tained a good common 
school education in Ohio and alteniled school 



after arrival in Wisconsin. He enlisted in 1863 
in the 10th Wisconsin Battery, Captain Y. V. 
Beebe. (See sketch.) He joined the command 
near Ivnoxville, Tenn., and was occupied in 
that vicinity in guard duty and participated in 
the operations from the commencement of the 
Atlanta campaign until the close at Washing- 
ton. The battery was attached to Jvilpatrick's 
cavalry command. In the movements Mr. 
Cash took a hand in the fight at Buzzard's 
Roost on liis own account, his battery not being 
in the action. He was in the several days' 
fighting at Resaca and was with the command 
of Kilpatrick when Sherman assigned it to 
special service, fighting at Calhoun, Adairs- 
ville, Ivingston, Cartersville, Ivenesaw Moun- 
tain, New Hope Church and Dalton. The 
battery was in the actions at Sandtown, Carap- 
belltown, Peach Tree Creek and in the siege 
proper of Atlanta. Ivilpatrick attracted Shei'- 
man's attention for dash and pluck and he was 
detailed to take his command with the battery 
and cut railroad communications trom Atlanta, 
two expeditions having failed. They were in 
! action at West Point, Jonesboro and Lovejoy's, 
being successful in each, and destroying three 
miles of railroad and a great amount of prop- 
erty, besides taking 75 prisoners. At Love- 
joy's, 12,000 rebels surrounded them, but they 
charged and took five guns and the wagon 
train. During their five days out they were 
under constant fire and chased without intei'- 
mission by larger number of rebels. They 
went to bed at night expecting to rest, but 
bugles were sure to sound "boots and saddles" 
and the experiences of each day were repeated 
until they returned to Atlanta. Immediately 
after returning to camp they were called out to 
accompany the movement of Sherman's army 
by the right flank which they led, being en- 
gaged at .Jonesboro where thev withstood a 
terrific charge l)y the celebrated Pat Cle- 



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SOLDIERS' ALBUM OF 



bourn's division, beating them back until <hirk- 
ness ended the strife. 

When Hood's army was found to be moving 
North, tlie battery followed on one side of the 
Sweetwater River as far as Kenesaw Mountain 
where the rebels passed and the command fol- 
lowed and cleareil them out of Van Wirt, fol- 
lowing to Rome, charged a rebel camp of Ross' 
cavalry, went back during the fight at Alla- 
toona to Marietta and there recruited for the 
march to the sea. On the way to Savannah 
they fought at Griffin, Macon, Griswoldsville, 
Milledgeville, and there had Uie fun of holding 
a mock legislature and voted the State back 
into the Union. Mr. Cash was one of a detail 
of 600 men with two guns who went to Millen 
to release the prisoners, but they were gone. 
They returned to the main army, pursued by 
rebels all the time, went on to Waynesboro 
and were in a feint on Augusta, gave Wheeler a 
small thra.shing and pushed on over all man- 
ner of obstacles and on arrival at Savannah 
took part in the action at Fort McAllister. 
After the siege and surrender of Savannah, 
they went to the Altamaha River, found the 
rebels too strong, and, going to Savannah were 
on the left flank of the army going through 
the Carolinas, fought at Barnwell C. 11., at 
Black ville, and at Aiken encountered Wade 
Hampton's cavalry, who rode all over the 
Federal command, met the rebels at Lexington 
and again 30 miles north of Columbia, and 
went 30 miles west of Fayctteville, where they 
fell into an amijush l)ut extricated themselves 
by strategy. They were at the taking of Fay- 
ctteville, fought at Averysboro and Benton- 
ville and went to Goldsboro. Here the 10th 
Wisconsin Battery was relieved, but Mr. Cash 
was transferred to the l'2th Battery and went 
to Raleigh to hear of the President's death. 
Mr. Cash was in the foot race to Petersburs, 
Kicliinoiid and Wasliington, making 32 miles 



a day most of the way. He was in the Grand 
Review and afterwards his command received 
orders to move to Louisville, Ky., jireparatory 
to going to Texas, but orders were counter- 
manded and he went to Madison to be dis- 
charged June 7, 18G5. 

On the 26th Mr. Cash returned to New Lis- 
bon and engaged in business as a stock buyer 
and marketman, which he followed 10 years. 
He was nominated for the State Legislature 
and elected in 1877. One of the transactions 
in which he was successfully interested was the 
passage of a bill appropriating $30,000 for the 
building of the "Necedah Branch" railway, and 
he afterwards obtained the contract for Ijuilding 
the .same. Tiiis was done in 90 days and he then 
engaged in the jiurchase and sale of produce. 

In connection with I). \'andercook, he 0})e- 
rated in the construction of the railroad from 
Sparta to Viroqua. He was engaged in build- 
ing various railways about seven years. He 
afterwards built the \'alley road to Merrill, an- 
other from Sauk City to Mazo Manie and also 
operated as a road constructor in Nebraska and 
Michigan. In his connection with railroads 
he is in every sense the benefactor of his com- 
munity, in every case guarding carefully the 
local interests and is appreciated for his public 
spirit. He is permanently registered by the nam- 
ing of the village of Cashton, situated on tiie 
Viroqua road. He is a Mason, a. Justice of the 
Peace and Notary Public ; is Past Commander 
of his Post and a member of the Council of 
Administration, also Aid-de-Camp on the De- 
partment Commander's staff witii the rank of 
Lieutenant-Colonel. He was married in the 
fall of 1865 at New Lisbon to Georgia, daugh- 
ter of W. B. Surdan. Charles F., A. B., Jessie 
M., John A. and William N. are the names of 
the children of Mr. and Mrs. Cash. His por- 
trait appears on page 778. 



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LBERT CONNOR (originally O'Con- | 
fV nor), Eau Claire, Wis., member of 
ttr^\^ Eagle Post No. 22, was born .July 
15, 1844, in Canaan, Vermont. His father, | 
.John Connor, was born in Scotland and mar- 
ried Andotia Ladd, a native of Vermont and i 
daughter of Ira Ladd, a soldier of the Revolu- 
tion, who died at the age of 112 years. He 
lost a leg in the service. The father came to j 
the United States in about 1824 and settled in j 
Vermont, removing thence West in 1854. He j 
located at West Point, Columbia Co., Wiscon- I 
sin and managed his farm. The children were I 
named in order Mary, Sophia (died in Ver- 
mont), Susan, Albert and Alden. In the spring 
of 1861 the father enlisted at Lodi in Company 
A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry and served through 
with the Iron Brigade until 1864, when he was 
transferred to the Invalid Corps at Washing- 
ton, D. C, and was mustered out in July, 1865. 
He died Sejit. 15, 18SG at Lodi, Wis. His 
widow died at the same place, Nov. 22, 1889. 

Mr. Connor passed his youth in obtaining 
his education and in 1859, when 15 years old, 
went to Fire Point, Miss., and remained there 
until the spring of 1861 when he started Nortii 
on the last boat, the Belfast, which carried 
Union people escaping from the Soutli. She 
was fired on all the way to Memphis and 
landed her passengers at Cairo. Mr. Connor 
went to Lodi and enlisted, Aug. 16, 1861, in 
Company A, 7th Wi.sconsin Infantry. He was 
in camp at Madison and started for Washing- 
ton in September, camping at Chain Bridge 
and Arlington Heights, and passing the winter 
of 1861-2 there in Rufus King's Brigade. (See 
sketi'li.) Mr. Connor went with the regiment 
to the Manas.sas campaign, and was on the 
skirmish line; went to the Rappahannock cam- 
paign and to Fredericksburg, skirmished after 
crossing the river at Suli)hur Springs, and 
went to Warronton, skirmished at Kettle Run 



and fought in the battle of Cuinesville on the 
afternoon of the 28th of August. The loss was 
heavy, nine men of the company being killed 
and a large number wounded, all the line 
officers of the regiment being injured, and 
Captain Callis acceding to the command of the 
7th. Augu.st 30th, the regiment was in action 
at the second Bull Run with McDowell in com- 
mand, tlie rebels breaking througli the lines, 
and it was at this point that Fitzjohn Porter 
failed to reinforce and aided in a defeat to the 
Union arms. The regiment went to the activi- 
ties in Maryland and fought at South Moun- 
tain September 14th. On the 17th Mr. Connor 
was in the battle of Antietam, his command 
opening the figlit at daybreak on a rebel bat- 
tery across Antietam Creek. After the action 
only six men in the company responded to 
their names. Mr. Connor received a flesh 
wound in the shoulder. The regiment crossed 
the Potomac and went to the valley of the 
Shenandoah, following rebels ; went to Warren- 
ton November 6th, thence to Sulphur Springs, 
skirmished there, operated in the vicinity for a 
time, moved to Aquia Creek and went into 
winter quarters. They made a raid to the 
Potomac after horses which they obtained with 
some rebel prisoners, and went thence to fight 
at Fredericksburg in December. Their next 
fight was at the same place in the spring of 
1863, and Mr. Connor was in the charge at 
Fitzhugh's Crossing, April 29th, where the 
breastworks were stormed and the flag of a 
Mississippi regiment captured. He was with 
his regiment at Chancellorsville and, after the 
defeat moved towards Washington, crossing 
the Potomac at Williams' Ferry. The next 
fight was Gettysburg, where Mr. Connor was 
in Reynolds' Corps and with the first infantry 
that "double-quicked" after the firing com- 
menced on tiie Emmettsburg road on Buford's 
reconnoissance. On the first day he was 



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injured in the chin with a saljc-r, but continued 
in tlie action until the last day, when he was 
wounded in his side by a bullet which sent 
hiui to hospital. He went thence to Phila- 
delphia for six weeks and rejoined his regiment 
just before the fight at Culpeper, Sept. 13, 1863. 
October 10th he was in tiie action on the 
liapidan, and on the 2] st skirmished at War- 
renton. November 7th lie fought at Rappa- 
hannock Station witli Long.street's Corps and 
on the 26th at Mine Hun. At Culpeper, where 
the command passed the winter, Mr. Connor 
re-enlisted and after 60 days' furlough rejoined 
his command of which he was made Orderly 
Sergeant. He participated in the opening 
action of the 5th Corps in the campaign of the 
Wilderness on the 5th of May, where he re- 
ceived a bullet in his forehead. He had picked 
up the L'nion colors and was stooping for a 
rebel flag wiien he was injured. He was carried 
to the creek, whei'e his head was bathed and 
bandaged and he was sent to field liospital, but 
went into action the next day. He fought at 
Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, crossed the 
James at City Point and went to the front of 
Petersburg. He was in the raids on the Wel- 
don railroad and operated with tlie 7th until 
the spring of 1865, when the beginning of the 
end came. He fought at Five Forks and went 
to the raid on the Danville railroad. His 
command joined Grant's army in pursuit of 
Lee, and Mr. Connor was in all the movements 
of his corps until the finish at Appomattox. 
With Sheridan's command he started to go to 
tlie assistance of Sherman, but news of .John- 
ston's surrender sent them North and the com- 
mand went to Washington, where Mr. Comior 
was in the Grand Review and was mustered 
out at .Jeffersonville, Ind., July 3, 1805. 

He passed a year in idleness and, expecting 
to die of consumption, he went to Colorado. 
There he encountered General Custer, and at 



his solicitation he joined him in the capacitj' of 
scout and passed two years in his command. 
On his return to Wisconsin he engaged in car- 
penter work and in 1878 removed to Eau 
Claire. He secured tlie contract for superin- 
tending the construction of the dam at the 
Dalles and afterwards j>ur.«ued his business as 
a contractor and builder until 1889, when he 
was appointed Under Sheriff at Eau Claire. 
He was married June 18, 1860, at Sauk City, 
Wis., to Mary, daugliter of Ezra and Carrie 
(Velia) Harris, and they have a daugliter 
named Winnie. Mr. Connor is a Republican, 
a Mason and a member of the A. 0. V. W. 

During his army life he performed a consid- 
erable amount of service as a scout and in car- 
rying secret dispatches for his commanding 
officers. Pie did much service of the kind for 
Sheridan in positions of danger and requiring 
nerve of the steadiest character. Sometimes 
he wore the rebel uniform and other disguises 
as a citizen of anything but warlike relations. 
He was twice in Richmond and once was 
caught. He was tried and sentenced as a spy 
l)y Longstreet, and while waiting over night to 
be shot, he watched his opportunitj' and es- 
caped, his guard going to sleep and dropping 
his revolver, which Connor seized, raj^jied his 
head with it and left the log cabin where lie 
was confined. He found a horse belonging to 
Fitz Hugh Tjce and rode thereon to the Union 
lines, a horse ahead. He released his hands 
before he overpowered his guard by rubbing 
the thongs against the pole vvhicli supported 
his bunk. At another time he went into a 
restaurant in Richmond to get a lunch, when a 
rebel officer took a seat beside him and he plied 
him with champagne until he made so fast a 
friend of liim that the rel)el refused to be sepa- 
rated from him, and insisted on his new friend 
going to tlie fort with him and kept him a week, 
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value. When the time came when he must go, 
he induced tlie officer to go to town with liim, 
where lie supjilied him with plenty to drink and 
started back with hiui. He drooped on his 
horse, when Connor dismounted, placed him 
on the ground and waited for him to sleep 
soundly, when he wrote a letter of thanks for 
all his kindness and excusing himself for 
being obliged to take his horse, signed it A. C, 
U. S. A., pinned it inside his coat and rode 
away on his thoroughbred horse. 

April 18, 18G7, Governor Fairchild consti- 
tuted Mr. Connor Captain by brevet, to date 
from March 31, 1865, for reasons w'hich were 
stated in the papers issued to that effect and 
signed by Governor Fairchild, Secretary of 
State Thomas Allen and Adjutant-General J. 
K. Proudfit. AVith the assistance of a corai'ade 
he rescued a captain of the 91st New York In- '• 
fantry who was in the hands of the rebels. 
He had crossed a creek to capture a stand of 
confederate colors but was foiled in doing so In' 
the tiring of tiie Union troops; but seeing nine 
rebels they attempted their capture and took 
three, rescued the captain referred to who was ; 
held by them and dispersed the others. April 
1, 1865, with five enlisted men from other 
regiments, he rushed in front of the line of 
liattle to capture a stand of confederate colors 
on the breastworks where his command made 
theii' second ehai'ge. They were immediately 
in a hand-to-hand fight and his five comrades 
were killed. He shot the rebel color bearer and 
seized the colors with one hand which had been 
taken up by a rebel captain, whom he killed 
with the l)Utt of his musket ; he was surrounded 
Ijy rebels, was compelled to leave the flag and 
take shelter behind a tree where he fought 
until the Union line advanced and rescued 
him. (See sketch of Edward Ryan). His por- 
trait appears on page 778. 




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.„^^\^ LARENCEL. POWERS, of Milwaukee, 
Wis., who served with Company G, 
37th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 
was born at Troy Center, Walworth County, 
Wis., May 22, 1847. His father, Soldan Powers, 
was one of the pioneers of Wisconsin, coming 
in May 1, 1837. He was a native of Vermont 
but after reaching his majority, gradually 
drifted toward the far West, staying some time 
in northern New York, went thence to Michigan 
and finall}^ to the Badger State. On reaching 
Wisconsin he pre-empted a farm of Govern- 
ment land, and in 1842 was married to Anne 
Flanders, who had come to the West with her 
brothers from Stanstead, C. E. After a con- 
tinuous residence of over fifty-two years on the 
farm he bought of the Government Mr. 
Powers died Dec. 25, 1889, in his 85th year. 
The sul)ject of this sketcli was brought up on 
the farm and educated in the common school 
of the district, leaving it in the spring of 1864, 
his date of enlistment l)eing March 28, about 
two months before he completed his 17th year. 
The company was mustered May 14th, but the 
mustering officers refused to accept him and 
half a dozen others as being under age. A 
second officer also refused to muster the squad 
and finally on May 27 under special oixlers ob- 
tained bj' Col. Ilarriman from the war depart- 
ment the boys were made into volunteer sol- 
diers in regular form.- From this circumstance 
they were called by the Colonel his "special 
order boys" and the acquaintance formed with 
him under such circumstances bi'ought to some 
of them chances of preferment. Our subject 
remained with his company in camp at Madi- 
son until June 29, when it followed eight com- 
panies which had preceded it to the vicinity of 
Petersburg, Va., where Grant was besieging 
Lee. The 37tli had already had its "baptism 
I of fire" in the battles of June 17-18, before 
I Petersburg and liad lost heavil}', but a more 



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fearful ordeal, that of tlie crater, was near. 
Company G joined tlie regiment July 7, and 
July 17 the regiment took position in the rifle 
pits directly fronting the fort which was blown 
up a few days later. Here it was joined on the 
24th by the Colonel witii tlie last company, 
and the regimental organization was complete, 
though a week later it could put less than 100 
muskets in stack. The severe duty and change 
of climate was too much for the boy soldier and 
on the '24th he joined the almost innumerable 
caravan which every morning responded to the 
doctor's call. This disability possibly preserved 
him from tlie fate of the majority of his com- 
rades on that fatal day of July 30 when, after 
the mine was exploded, tiie 9th Corps faced 
death all day in the crater and was finally dis- 
possessed of the field, the 37th losing 155 men 
out of 250 who went into the fight, killed, 
wounded and missing. Of this number Com- 
pany (i out of 45 men contributed 33, of the.se 
13 being left dead on tiie field and six being 
taken prisoners. On August 1 he was sent to 
the hospital, going first to C'ity Point and then 
to Alexandria and eight weeks after joined his 
regiment again, just in time to participate in 
the fiank movement Sept. 30, which culminated 
in the liattle at Poj)lar Grove Church. From 
that time he remained with the regiment, most 
of tlje time being relieved of routine duty to 
become company clerk, but taking his place in 
the ranks whenever a movement was made, 
and missing none of the actual service. After 
hostilities closed the regiment participated in 
the Grand Review at Washington and was 
mustered out at Washington, July 27, 1SG5, 
reaching home and disbanding a few days later. 
The following winter he engaged in school 
teaching wliich he followed luitii 1872. Sept. 
28, 1871, he was married to Cora Barney at 
Hartford, Wis. The next year they moved to 
Grand liiipids, Wis., and in 1874, Mr. Powers 



was elected County Superintendent of schools, 
serving two years. He was admitted to the 
bar in 1875 and engaged in practice lo a 
limiteil extent, l)Ut returned to teaching in 1877 
which lie followed tliree years as principal of 
graded schools at Two Rivers and Hartford. 
In 1880 he engaged in ))ublishing a newspaper 
at West Bend, Wis., which he continued until 
the fall of 1887 when he sold out and engaged 
in daily newspaper work, first as managing 
editor of the Oshkosh Daily Times, and in 
August, 1888, became one of the editorial staff 
of the Milwaukee Daily Journal, in which posi- 
tion he has been since that time. In March, 
1885, he assisted in oi-ganizing a Grand Army 
Post at West Bend, of which he is still a mem- 
ber. Mrs. Powers had two brothers who served 
in the 29th Wisconsin, one laying down his life 
at the battle of Champion Hills, Miss., as a 
member of the company commanded by his 
brother, Capt. W. K. Barney, who died at 
Madison in 1875, of physical troublescontracted 
in the service. Mr. Powers has but one brother 
and he was also in the service, so that both 
families have good records in this respect. 

They have four children : Laura May, born 
Oct. 4, 1872; Clyde Rudolph, born Dec. 29, 
1878; Ruth Adams, born April 13, 1882, and 
Sam Barney, born June 2, 1883. In politics 
Mr. Powers is, and has always been, a staunch 
Democrat. His portrait appears on page 778. 



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OSEPII HARRINGTON, La Crosse, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 77, wjis 
born Feb. 6, 1820, in Rochester, Kent- 
shire, England. His father, Samuel Harring- 
ton, was of mixed English and Scotch descent 
and was occupied in a bank in Rochester until 
his death there; his wife was Mary Bell before 
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was an oflicer in the Knglish navy; she died 
at Rochester a few years after her iuisband. 
Mr. Harrington had one brother named Wil- 
liam C. His early life was passed in his native 
place at school, and as soon as he was old 
enough lie became a theatrical individual, 
playing cliild's jiarts in the theatres at first and 
advancing as he grew older, playing important ; 
]>arts finally with John Sloeum, the noted Eng- 
lish comedian, and with Henry Wallack. In 
184S he came to the United States, landing at 
the port of New York and going thence to 
Milwaukee, where he pursued his jsrofession 
about two years. He was playing with the 
comj>any of McYicker and returned to New 
York to remain 11 years, and a portion of that 
time was playing engagements in theatres. 
He returned to Milwaukee and was engaged in 
the sale of liquor until the breaking out of the 
war, and as soon as recruiting commenced he 
engaged in it until his own enlistment in Mil- 
waukee. July 14, 18G1, he was mustered into 
United States service in Company E, 7th Wis- 
consin Infantry, which left the State September 
■21st for Washingtoii to be assigned to Rufus ' 
King's Wisconsin Brigade, which became the 
Iron Brigade. While his command was in 
winter quarters, he was made guard at Mc- 
Dowell's headquarters, which place he held 
several months. From quarters at Arlington 
Heights the regiment went in the spring of 
1862 to the movements under IMcDowell in the \ 
Manassas campaign. Mr. Harrington went to 
Falmouth and engaged in labor on the bridges 
and blockhouses as a part of tlie plans on tke 
Rappahannock. During this experience, while 
l)uilding a biidge at A(^uia Creek, a sudden 
firing caused a commotion among the raw 
troops, on the alert for rebel trouble, and the 
trestle work gave way, precipitating .Mr. Har- 
rington with several others to the bottom of 
the chasm ; he fell s([uarely on his back on 



some timbers and was picked up unconscious. 
His I'ecovery was matter of uncertainty for 
some time, and he remained in hospital at 
Fredericksburg for seveinil weeks. During iiis 
convalescence, he was sought out by General 
Reynolds (killed at Gettysburg) and detailed on 
secret service to ascertain the whereabouts of a 
lot of furniture that had belonged to two boats 
burned at Fredericksburg. He succeeded in his 
mission, found the stuff, recovered and turned 
it over to the Government. Had he been a 
commissioned officer he would have received 
prize mone}' for the goods recovered. But he 
received the thanks of all concerned for the 
able manner in which he discharged his duty. 
He started with McClellan's command on the 
campaign of the Peninsula or march towards 
Richmond under Gibbon, skirmished up to 
within four miles of the rebel cajntal, fell back 
and fought at Gainesville. Company E lost 
heavily in this action, mustering less than 40 
men after it was over. Mr. Harrington also 
fought at the second Bull Run and went next 
after Lee to Maryland. He was placed in the 
ambulance corps, as his injuries were troubling 
him, and was soon sent to hospital where he 
remained two months. On recovery he was 
made assistant steward of the hospital for a 
month and under Rosecrans' order for all dis- 
abled soldiers to report for examination, he 
presented himself and was declared unfit for 
further duty because of spinal injury. He 
received honorable discharge, Nov. 15, 1862, at 
Camp Post, Va., and returned to Wisconsin. 
Mr. Harrington aUvaj's held the confidence 
and esteem of his superior officers, but never 
would accept promotion. He was often selected 
to execute important missions. While at 
Gordon's mill he was sent out on detail for 
rations. He went to a plantation, the owner 
of which was very abusive of the Government 
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anything and called Harrington one of Lin- 
coln's hirelings. This stirred up his lilood, 
and he, with gun fixed, ordered the planter to 
march to a harrel, made him mount it, lake off 
his hat and hurrah lustily for the Laiion and 
then give jihree cheers for the flag. The boys 
were wont to call him " Captain of the bum- 
starters." He was a fine singer and had a 
quartette of good voices which he had trained. 
He was a great favorite with Gen. McDowell, 
and was often called to his headquarters to sing. 
When his commanders wanted a man whom 
they knew would unllinchingl}' and to' tlie 
letter carry out their orders, they selected liini. 

He located for a time at La Crosse, and went 
thence to Milwaukee and engaged in liquor 
traffic at the Plankiuton House. He was 
occupied there two years when he went to 
Chippewa Falls to open a Ijar in the New 
Treniont House. His next removal was to 
Portage, and thence he went to La Crosse and 
sold liquor until his health failed permanently, 
since which time he has done no business. Mr. 
ILirriiigton was a Democrat before the war, 
but since the outbreak of the rebellion, has 
been a Republican. He is a pensioner. 

He was married, July 2, 1878, at La Crosse, 
to Mary, daughter of Joseph and Theresa 
(Pierre) Andrews. Theresa and Ida are the 
names of their children. His portrait appears 
on page 778. 

,IIlLiP HENRY LORCII, Milwaukee, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 2, 
Robert Chivas, was born April 21, 
1845, in Klingelbach, Germany. He is of pure 
German extraction, his parents having been 
born in Germany and there married. The 
father, Henry Jacob Lorch, was born in 1826 
in Niederfischbach, Province of Nassau, and 




married Anna Elizabeth Henrietta Klerner, 
born in KHngelbach in 1824. May 11, 1853, 
tiiey started on a sailing vessel for the New 
World to find a home where they could bring 
up their children as they desired, free from the 
restraints of monarcliical regulations. July 6th 
of llie same year they arrived in Milwaukee, 
where they established a home and reared their 
seven children, of whom Philip Henry is the 
oldest. The others were named Nettie, Chris- 
tian, Lizzie, William, Louisa and Charles. 
None of the family are deceased in 1890. 

He learned the trade of a trunkmaker at 
which he worked until he enlisted, a period 
of four years. When he was 17 years of age 
he enrolled as a soldier in an organization 
which contained some of the best of the Ger- 
man element in Wisconsin, the 26lh Wisconsin. 
Mr. Lorch enlisted Aug. 14, 18G2, at Milwaukee 
in Company K and accompanied the regiment 
through all its operations until he was disabled 
by a wound. He left the State October 6th to 
report with his command toSigel, the regiment 
being assigned to the 11th Corps. In Decem- 
ber he went to fight at Fredericksburg under 
Burnside, but reached there too late and after 
the winter was over, having passed through 
the Mud Campaign in January, he jirepared for 
the business of war in the spring and obtained 
a clear knowledge of all it meant at Chancel- 
lorsville, where the regiment suffered heavily. 
He was again in battle at Gettvsburg and 
afterwards the regiment was engaged in 
recruiting its condition and Mr. Lorch went 
under Hooker to the relief of CJrant on the 
Chattahoochie River. He was in the fight at 
Wauhatchie, Tenn., Oct. 27, 1863, and was 
also a participant in one of the most glorious 
actions of the whole war at .Mission Ridge. He 
was in the pursuit of Bragg afterwards and in 
the spring of 1864 went to the Atlanta cam- 
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Burnt Hickory, Dallas and Kenesaw and at 
Peach Tree Creek, July 20th, his connection 
with the life of a military man ceased. Cor- 
[loral Lorch was mentioned in the dispatches as 
severely wounded. He suffered amputation of 
the right arm and was discharged as Sergeant 
to which he had been promoted on the day he 
was injured. From field hospital he went 
successively to Chatlanooga hospital No. 1, to 
Nashville, No. 14, to Jeftersonville, Ind., "Joe 
Holt" hospital, to Mound Cit)', III., to Iveokuk, 
Iowa, to Prairie du Cliieu and to \Iilwaukee, 
where he was discharged July 20, 1865. 

He remained in Milwaukee and gave his 
altention to recovei'ing his health. August 1, 
1870 he was appointed carrier in the mail ser- 
vice in which he is still engaged, having 
served twenty years in the most faithful and 
conscientious manner. 

He was married Sept. 10, 1865, to Sophia 
Helena Reimers, and they have a son and a 
daughter. William was born Nov. 26, 1871, 
and Amanda was born Jan. 20,1880. In 1881 
Mr. Lorch began the work of preparing his 
home which he has made a beautiful place for 
the rearing of his ciiildren and in which to 
pass his future years with his helpful and 
capable wife. 

The father of Mr. Ldrch was a laborer in 
Wauwatosa after arrival in America, working 
in the lime kilns and later worked as a well- 
digger in Milwaukee. Jan. 16, 1865, he enlist- 
ed at Milwaukee in Company F, 45th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry and served with that regiment 
until it was mustered out after the close of the 
war July 18, l8t)5. He anil his wife are still 
living at Milwaukee. 




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!r^r\ S<^'-^R WILHELM CARLSON, M. D., 
practicing physician at Milwaukee, 
\\'is.. Junior ^'ice Commander of 
E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1, G. A. R. Department 
of Wisconsin, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, 
Aug. 1, 1843, and is the son of Carl Johan and 
Charlotte Sophia (Lothstrom) Carlson. His 
father has passed his entire manhood in the 
Swedish army and is still attached thereto, 
although SO years old. When the son was 10 
years old his parents sent him to America to 
be reared by an uncle under the regulations of 
a free government. The sailing vessel on 
which he was placed was wrecked, being dis- 
mantled and drifting with her passengers in 
the hull for five months on the Atlantic Ocean. 
They were finally rescued and taken into port 
at Londonderry, Ireland, after indescribable 
sufferings for want of water. A month elapsed 
before transportation to America could be 
obtained and young Carlson arrived in New- 
York in January, 1854, having left his native 
country on his birthday, Aug. 1, 1853. He 
went from New York to Columbus, Ohio, and 
passed a year there and at L^rljana, when he 
removed to Waukesha, Wis., and remained 
until 1859, engaged principally in hard work 
and in obtaining a few months of schooling, 
amounting to less than a year. In the year 
mentioned he went to the frontier region of 
AVisconsin and Minnesota, where he engaged 
in farming until the second vear of the war. 
He had an inherited sense of the obligations of 
a citizen and he felt himself impelled to do 
what he could in aid of the .suppression of the 
rebellion. He returned to Waukesha and en- 
listed Aug. 9, 1862, in Company A, 2Sth Wis- 
consin Infantry and served three years and a 
month. He passed through the {)reliminary 
service attached to military life and saw his 
first skirmish before he left the State at Port 
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aid in quelling the draft riots. After the period 
passed in rendezvous in the State the regiment 
left Wisconsin, Dec. 20, 1862, under orders 
for Columbus, Ky., and moved thence to 
Union City in anticipation of a battle, but saw 
little military service there of a severe type 
and returned to Columbus, going thence, Jan. 
5, 1863, to Helena to be assigned to the 2d 
Brigade, 13th Division and 13th Army Corps, 
and were detailed for service on the White 
River expedition, the regiment going to St. 
Charles, Ark., where it performed military duty 
pertaining to the purposes of the movement 
and after the latter were accomi)lished, returned 
to Helena. The service to which the regiment 
was next assigned was in connection with the 
Yazoo Pass movement, and Dr. Carlson passed 
through all the service which included besides 
the camp and other duties, exposure to the 
malarial conditions which were of a type 
which left their inevitable results on the men 
of the command and ruined the health of 
many for life. Meanwhile the regiment had 
been' assigned to the 1st Brigade of the same 
Division and Corps. The command returned 
again to Helena and remained there until the 
first day of July, with the exception of an un- 
important move into Arkansas. July 4th it 
became manifest that the rebels were centering 
for battle at Helena and on that day, on which 
one of the most unequal contests of the war 
took place, the Union troops being attacked by 
a force three times its numbers, and Dr. Carl- 
son, while conveying dispatches for General 
Salomon commanding, suffered sunstroke; and 
he passed the interim between that date and 
that of his <lisciiarge from the liospital cured, 
in November following, in Helena. He was 
detiiiled by Major-General F. Steele, command- 
ing the Department of Arkansas, as special 
mail agent lietween Memphis and Little Rock. 
He rejoined his regiment at Pine Bluff to go with 



it to Mobile, Ala., went into winter quarters at 
Pine Bluff, and in the spring was in the activi- 
ties on the Saline River. He was in the action 
at Mount Elba, where the regiment was attack- 
ed by 1,500 rebels and where, as at Helena, a 
repulse was effected and more than 300 
prisoners taken. Dr. Cari.son was again on 
duty on the Saline River, laying pontoon 
bridges ; and performed iiis share of all the 
military duty pertaining to the service in 
which the command was engaged. He was in 
camj) at Pine Bluff" through the summer of 
1S64 and went thence to Little Rock again. 
He went next to New Orleans and Algiers 
and to the vicinity of Mobile, where the regi- 
ment was again assigned to the 1st Brigade. 
He took part in the operations against the de- 
fenses of Mobile, and endured the horrors of 
the march to Fish River. He was in the 
trenches at S{)anish Fort after arrival there, ex- 
posed to rebel fire and performing military 
duty until its capitulation, when he made the 
march for the relief of tlie besiegers of Fort 
Blakely, which had surrendered previous to 
arrival there. He was in the after movements 
to Texas, and was mustered out at Brownsville, 
whence he returned to Madison for final sever- 
ance of his niilitar}' relations, Sept. 23, 1865. 
In 1871 he entered Hahnemann College at 
Chicago, where he studied for his profession 
under the lamented Dr. A. E. Small, and grad- 
uated in 1872. He has since practiced in Mil- 
waukee, where he has built up a jwpular and 
profitable business. He is President of the 
State Medical Society of Wisconsin, is Presi- 
dent of the Academy of Medicine of .Milwau- 
kee and is akso, in 1S90, occupying the highest 
oftice in the State in the Order of the Royal 
Arcanum — that of Grand Regent. He is Su- 
preme Medical Director of the Royal A<lelpliia 
for the United States and officiates in that 
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is Medical Director of the Department of Wis- 
consin, G. A. R., and liolds a commission as 
Surgeon in the 4th BattaHon, National Guard, 
having been appointed by Governor Rusk. He 
is also acting as Surgeon in tlie interest of the 
St. Paul railroad. 

Dr. Carlson was married Feb. 8, 1870, to 
Bertha L. Strong, of Milwaukee. His only 
child, Edith, was born .Ian. 1.5, 1872. 

OBERT E. BRADFORD, of Chippewa 
Falls, Wis., member of G. A. R. Post 
No. G8, was born .July 30, 1840, at 
Springfield, Ohio, and comes of stock that 
dates to Governor Bradford, of Massachusetts, 
wlio was the first executive of that State and 
was one of tlie Pilgrims who landed from the 
Mayilower, Dec. 20, 1620, on Plymouth Rock. 
The father of Mr. Bradford, Clifford Bradford, 
was a soldier in 1812, and married Sibyl M. 
Brace, of Scotch lineage. He was born in 
Vermont and his wife in Connecticut, and the 
family removed to Ohio in 1838, where the 
father died in 1852. Tlie children were named 
Ashley, Eleanor V., Almon, Leman, Nancy, 
Susan, Frances, Robert and Edwin M. All are 
living but Leman, Nancy and Frances. Almon 
was a Lieutenant in the 45th Ohio Infantry and 
Edwin served in the same command. Leman 
enlisted at Springfield, Ohio, in the 2d Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry for the Mexican war, was 
killed at Buena ^'ista and buried on the field. 
When he was 19 years old, Mr. Bradford 
learned the trade of carpenter and was among 
the first to enlist after the call for troops, en- 
rolling .Vjiril 17, 1861, at Springfield, Ohio, in 
the three months .service, and was mustered at 
Lancaster, Pa., into the 2d Ohio Infantry, Com- 
pany F, the color company. From camp at 
Lancaster the command went to Piuladelphia, 
thence to camp at Suliblk, Ya., and remained 



there about 10 days, moving to A\'ashington 
May 25th and camped nortli of the cit}'. Two 
weeks after the regiment was ordered across 
the Potomac to Camp Upton on the Loudon 
railroad and moved next to Bull Run in 
Tyler's Division and Schenck's Brigade. The 
regiment took part in the fight, being stationed 
near the main road crossing, Cub Run. The 
only man Company F lost was young Charles 
McCook, of the famous brotherhood who 
distinguished the name later in the war. 
Charles McCook was 17 j'ears old and was 
wounded : a rebel cavalry officer rode to 
him, drew his saber and thrust it through 
his body while he was on his knees 
and lifting his bloody hands for mercy. John 

I A. Logan was near enough to see the sight and 
he went back to Washington, obtained a com- 
mission and raised a brigade; he was a Demo- 
crat prior to that. The regiment reached 
Washington as fast as the rest, gathered at 
Fort Cochrane and crossed into Washington 
two nights later, where they received first 
rations for two daj'S. Soon after thej' marched 
to the arsenal, turned over their arms and were 
sent to Columbus, Ohio, to be discharged, their 
term having expired July 17th, prior to the 
battle of Bull Run. Aug. 5, 1861, Mr. Brad- 
ford again enlisted in the 16th Ohio Battery 
for three years. The organization was Light 
Artillery and independent. The battery went 
to St. Louis and drilled about six weeks, went 
to Jefferson City, Mo., and received their guns, 
went into winter quarters and drilled and per- 
formed guard duty until spring. Feb. 21, 1862, 
they went to St. Louis and fired next morning 
a salute in honor of Washington's birtliday, 
went to Benton Barracks for full equipments, 
went thence to Pilot Knob in Steele's comman<l 
and to Helena, arriving in July. The time 
until the spring of 1863 was passed in varied 

j service, including several expeditions, and they 



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left Helena for \'icksburg, crossed tlie Missis- 
sippi River near Bruiiisburg in April and were 
assigned to the loth Corjis, participating in the 
action at Port Gibson May 1st. Tiie battery 
moved to the rear of Vicksburg and took part 
in the tight at Champion's Hill Ma\' 10th, 
wiiere their captain was killed. (They were 
witli McCJinnis' Brigade and Hovey's Division). 
May 21st they took position in the rear of 
Vicksburg and operated in the siege until the 
surrender. During tlie wlioie period the bat- 
tery lost no man in action and had only a few 
wounded. July 5tli the battery followed John- 
ston towards Jackson and returned to Vicks- 
burg, going a month later to New Orleans, 
where tliey camped a few days, and then went 
to Brashear City. Returning to New Orleans, 
they embarked, Jan. 1, 1864, on a transjiort on 
the Mississippi for Matlagorda Bay, crossed 
from there to Indianola, Te.xas, and moved 
along the Gulf coast, marching and .skirmish- 
ing. Wliili' at Mattagorda tiie veterans took 
their furlough and went liome by steamship 
via New Orleans and New York. They rejoin- 
ed the battery at New Orleans in May and 
were stationed there with the 1st Missouri and 
13th Massachusetts Batteries. They remained 
there until ordered to Columbus to be muster- 
ed out, Aug. 20, 1865. 

Mr. Bradford worked at his trade in Spring- 
field after the war until June, 1867, when he 
determined to enter the regular service and he 
enlisted and was commissioned 2d Lieutenant 
by Secretary Stanton in Company A, 15th 
U. S. Infantry, and joined the regiment at 
Mobile. In the winter of 1867-S liis command 
was stationed at lluntsville, and went in April 
to Tuscumbia, where he was in command of 
the company, remaining liiere through the 
summer. Tiience the company went to Mobile 
where the regiment assembled and went to 
Shreveport, La., where orders were received to 



be sent to various points in Texas, Mr. Brad- 
ford being promoted to 1st Lieutenant. His 
company went to Livingston and remained 
until May, 1868, when he received orders to join 
his regiment at Austin, 'Texas. A month 
later the command went to New Mexico at 
Fort Craig, remaining a year. Lieutenant 
Bradford was transferred to Company I*' and 
stationed at Fort McCrea, New Mexico, where 
he remained until Jan. 1, 1871, when lie 
resigneth 

After leaving the service lie opened a hotel 
at Lona Pardo, a Government station, closed it 
after eight months and mounted a pony for 
Denver, whence he went to Springfield, Ohio, 
reaching there in October, 1871. He engaged 
in the excise office for about two years, and 
went to Sparta in 1N72, working at his trade 
and removing to Milston where he resided 
eight years. He served there as Ju.stice of the 
Peace and Clerk of the Court one term. He 
went thence to Glenwood, Minn., and a year 
later to Chippewa Falls, where Ire has since 
resided. He was elected Town Clerk in 1883, 
and in 1884 was elected Justice of tlie Peace, 
which incumbency he still holds (1890). He 
is also occupied in real estate business and is 
pension claim agent. He was married June 
20, 1867, at Springfield, Ohio, to Florence, 
daughter of William and Rebecca (Brown) 
Davidson, and they have had six children — 
Frederick W., Naomi, Ashley, I*aul, Robert C. 
and Ruth. Frederick died June 14, 1885. 
Mr. Bradford belongs to the Masonic Fratern- 
ity and is a Republican in political princi})le. 
He became connected with the Grand Army of 
the Republic in 1867, Post No. 16, at Spring- 
lielil, Ohio, in District No. 7, Department of 
Ohio, and in 1S88 was Commander of the Post 
at Chippewa Falls. 



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^fv^ILLIAM GROVER, La Crosse, 
l/^// Wis., one of tlie most prominent 
^^ members of G. A. R. Post No. 77. 
of whicli lie is serving his fourth consecutive 
term as Commander in 1890, was born .Ian. 20, 
184."), in London, England. His grandfather, 
William Grover, was in the British army and 
navJ^ William Grover, fatlier of Mr. Grovei' 
of this sketch, was born June IS, 1814, and 
married Martha Wingrove, who was born Feb. 
0, 1809. Their children were named William 
George, Martha, William G.(2d), George, Sarah 
and Sarah V. William George and Sarah arc 
deceased. The family came to the United 
States in 1849, locating in Brooklyn, New York, 
and removed thence to Loraine Co., Ohio, 
where the father engaged in the manufacture 
of boots and shoes. He went next to St. Paul 
and thence to Henderson, Minn., and after a 
stay of eight years returned to St. Paul, removed 
in the spring of 1864 to La Crosse, and died at 
Waneka, Wis., where the wife and mother also 
died. 

When he was IS years old the son left home 
and enlisted Aug. 24, 1SG2, in the State service 
of Wisconsin, remaining in camp until Septem- 
ber 22d when he was sworn in at Fort Snelling, 
Minn., in the Minnesota Renville Rangers, 
Colonel McPhail, the command being ordered 
to Minnesota frontiers where the Indians were 
giving much trouble. Mr. Grover was in the 
fight at New Ulm a night and a day, the com- 
mand losing eight men killed and several 
wounded. He was also in the fight with In- 
dians at Fort Ridgely and, after driving the 
redskins, w'ent to Beaver Creek to bury whites 
who had been murdered by Indians. Little 
Crow and his band attacked them in camp at 
night at Birch Cooley and they were rescued by 
reinforcements under General Sully. They 
went next to Wild Goose Lake pursuing In- 
dians, and at Camp Release they captured 1,000 i 



Indians and released 200 whites held as pri.s- 
oners. Here Mr. Grover was mustered into the 
1st Minnesota Mounted Rangers, Company A, 
and went up the Missouri River to Fort Aber- 
crombie. Dak., after Indians again and in De- 
cember received a furlough home and rejoined 
; the regiment at Painesville, Minn., remaining 
there until May, 1863. Orders were again re- 
ceived for pursuing Indians and the summer 
was spent in this service, three fights taking 
place. In October the company was mustered 
out of that command and Mr. Grover went to 
the Mississippi River squadron to aid in look- 
ing after guerrillas. Dec. 15, 1863, he was 
taken sick, came home and was discharged, his 
time having expired. 

Dec. 26, 1863, he re-enlisted at St. Paul, 
Minn., in Company I, 2d Minnesota Cavalry, 
and remained in camp until May, 1864, when 
he was detailed in the quartermaster's depart- 
ment at Mankato, Minn., and, July 16th, went 
with Captain Fisk on an emigrant expedition, 
a service planned by the Government for the 
protection and guidance of emigrant trains. 
The command returned to Bad Lands, D. T., 
wdiere it was held by Indians, being in great 
danger of total annihilation eight days, before 
relieved by Captain Davy, in response to a 
summons by a scout sent in the night to Gen- 
eral Sully, 600 men arriving just in time. Tlie 
command was next stationed at Fort Jackson 
in protection of the southern Minnesota stock- 
ades and while carrying dispatches to Sioux 
City, Mr. Grover was injured, the weather being 
very cold and he nearly frozen, when his horse 
stumbled and fell on him, breaking three ribs 
and inllicting internal injuries. This was in 
the winter and he lay in various log cabins 
without medical aid until about June, when he 
was sent to Fort Ridgely hospital and in Augu.st 
was transferred to hospital at Fort Snelling, 
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returned to La Crosse and learned tlie trade of 
a carpenter, which has since been liis lousiness, 
save wlien lie has been occuj)ied in rafting on 
the Mississippi River. 

He was married Sep. 11, 1867, at Honey 
Creek, Wis., to Emma L., daughter of Rev- 
Herman and Amelia (Best) Richter, natives of 
Berlin, Prussia. Tliey came to the United 
States in 1840, with their family of eight chil- 
dren named Bertha, Helen, Emma, Albertina, 
Martha, Lydia, William and Albert. The latter 
is deceased. The children of Mr. and Mrs. 
Grover were William H., George W., Edward 
W., Emma A., Frank A., Robert H., Martha, 
Edna and Helena F. William H., Robert, 
Martlia and Helena are deceased. 

Mr. Grover was a charter member of his Post 
and served in 1884-5-6 as Adjutant; in 1887 he 
was Assistant Department Inspector and in 
1889 was Aid on the stati" of the Department 
Commander. On the organization of the 
Woman's Relief Corps at La Crosse, Mrs. Grover 
was constituted President and served three 
years, from 1884 until the Order disbanded. 
On reorganization in 1887 she was made Senior 
Vice-President and in 1800 was elected Presi- 
dent. 



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li^^HERON W. HAIGHT, Wauke-sha, 
attorney and member of G. A. 
'ost No. 10, also belonging to the 
Order of the Loyal Legion, Wisconsin Com- 
mandery, was born Sept. 14, 1840, in Jefferson 
Co., New York. His parents, Morris and Lois 
(Myrick) Haight, rei)resented New England 
stock dating to the settlement of the country 
and were both natives of Dutchess Co., New 
York. The founder of the family in the 
paternal hue came to America in 1629. In 
1867 the family of the senior Haight removed 
to Wisconsin where the son resided and wliere 



they died respectively in 1870 and 1874. The 
children were named Elizabeth, Elvira (de- 
ceased), Cecilia (deceased), Maurice P., (a soldier 
in the 28th Wisconsin Infantry who died at 
Helena, Ark.) ; Charles S., (enlisted in the 95th 
New York and died at Alexandria); Lois, (de- 
ceased) and Tiieroii. .Mr. Haiglit is the youngest 
of his father's family ; he received a good 
elementary education and was instructed by a 
private tutor, Dr. W. Paret, Bishop of the 
Episcopal Church of Maryland (1890), who 
prepared iiini for college, but he engaged in 
teaching in the school of Dr. Paret and was 
completing his studies at the date of the begin- 
ning of the war. 

He caught the infection of enlisting and 
enrolled at Ellisburg, New York, May 3, 1861, 
in Company K, 24th New York Infantry, and 
was mustered 14 days later at Elmira. The 
service of Mr. Haight represents one of the 
elements of American youth which character- 
ized the Union soldiers to an eminent degree 
and which is rivaled by the records of no other 
war in any country. He went through every 
phase of it, and though slightly sick and several 
times wounded, he did not leave the ranks for 
the hospital. He was a prisoner and encoun- 
tered the venom of rebel malice and witnes.sed 
their atrocities. He went into the ranks and 
rose by meritorious service through the several 
grades to second place in his company. He 
was made Corporal Jan. 1, 1862 ; Nov. 1, 1862, 
he was promoted to Sergeant ; Feb. II, 1863, he 
was commissioned 2d Lieutenant to rank from 
Jan. 16, 1863, and wiis mustered as such Feb. 
25, 1863; May 9, 1863, he was made 1st Lieu- 
tenant to rank from March 30, 1863, and was 
mustered out as such May 29, 1863, his term of 
service having expired. Following is a con- 
densed statement or outline of the service in 
which he was a participant: he fought at 
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(■onniiaiid on the skinnisli line and afterwards 
in guard and camp duty from July 22d until 
August; marched to C!enterville in the spring 
of 1862 in the Manassas campaign ; was in the 
Rappahannock campaign at Fredericksburg in 
April, 1S62; went to Spottsylvania C. H., in 
June and to Front Roj'al — Pope's campaign; 
fought in the actions of Waterloo Bridge and i 
Ford, Aug. 23-4, 1862 ; at Sulphur Springs on 
the 2.5th ; at Gainesville on the 28tli ; at Grove- 
ton on the 29th ; at 2d Bull Run on the 30th 
and was there taken prisoner on the third day 
of the tight. His comrades were on one side of 

an embankment and the rebels on the other ; 

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many wounded lay at the foot of the rise of 
ground and the rebels, having exhausted their 
ammunition, began throwing stones over, caus- 
ing added injuries to the- wounded; Mr. 
Haight mounted the embankment and remon- 
strated with eflect, as the firing of missiles was 
stopped, but he was captured and remained a 
prisoner on the field until paroled Sept. 7, 1862 ; 
he was not exchanged until December and : 
reached his regiment again just as the battle of 
Fredericksburg closed. He enjoyed the glory 
and emoluments of the Mud Campaign in Jan- j 
uary, 1863 ; went to fight at Fitzhugh's Cross- 
ing, April 29-30 in another Rappahannock 
campaign and fought in the disastrous battle 
of Chancellorsville May 3d and 4th following. 
In the battle of Bull Run he was slishtlv 
wounded several times. During the period he 
was in the war he saw some of the severest 
fighting and had as little satisfaction of avail- 
able service as possible, as that was an era of 
probation to the Union troops, contending with 
a foe who learned the application of fire arms 
to every possible condition in life with the 
introduction to the dignity of trowsers, and who 
was inspired with a desperation a man bred to 
ways of peace and equal rights can never know. 
The service of the first year of the war can 



never be fully set forth in all it involved to the 
volunteer soldiers of the North. 

Mr. Haight found that his parents were in 
need of him, his brothers having both already 
died in the service, and this prevented his re- 
turn to the array. He devoted himself to 
.study for a year, giving his attention especially 
to modern languages — French and German — 
and in 1864 he went to Waukesha f'o.. Wis., 
and taught school one and a half years at 
Mukwonago, going thence to Milwaukee where 
he studied for his profession under the direc- 
tions of Paine & Co., a leading law firm of the 
Cream City. He was afterwards engaged as 
teacher in the Spencerian College there for 
some time and during the year 1868 acted as 
City Editor of the Seiitind. In 1870 he became 
proprietor of the Waukesha Freeman by pur- 
chase and edited the same until 1876. For 
two years after this date he was .secretary of 
the Wisconsin Board of Charities and corres- 
ponded with leading journals. In 1878 he 
established his law business at Waukesha and 
has since continued to conduct it with success. 
In 1880 he acted as editor of the Milwaukee 
i Sentinel; prior to and since that time he has 
been prominently connected with leading 
journals as correspondent. He sold the Free- 
man to his brother-in-law and has since con- 
tributed much editorial matter to its columns. 
He belongs to the Order of Odd Fellows and 
has served as Grand Patriarch of the State; he 
has acted in the capacity of Justice of the 
I Peace 10 years and has served as member of 
County Board of Supervisors and other local 
offices. His law business and newspaper con- 
nections make his life a very busy and useful 
I one and he enjoys all the activity his relations 
with mankind luring to him. He has acted in 
the capacity of Mustering Officer and Depart- 
ment Inspector, also as .Junior Vice Commander 
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1882 and 1885, and was tlie first Department 
Officer to arrange the proceedings of tlie Depart- 
ment of Wisconsin for publication in pamplilet 
form. He was mariied at ^[uk\\■onago, Wis., in 
the spring of 1870 to Annie, daughter of Dr. II. 
A. and Lucy (Andrews) Youmans, a native of 
Mukwonago. Lucy, Henry, Frank P., Robert W., 
Walter L. and Margaret, ranging from eigliteen 
to two years of age, are the children of the 
household of Mr. Haight and they ai-e a most 
lovable little flock. An American home in 
which are trained children to support and 
revere the principles for which their father and 
ancestors struggled, has no peer cm the earth. 
Several members of the family ai'e connnuni- 
cants in the Episcoj>al Cliurcli. 

>^«?«0»§>^" 

AMES HENDERSHOT, Platteville, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. GO, Depart- 
ment of Wisconsin, was born in the town 
of which he is a resident, Sept. 5, 1846. His 
parents, P. D. and Sarah (Buchanan) Hender- 
sliot, are natives of Canada, and have resided 
in Platteville since June, 1840, the father still 
being in active business as a saddle, harness 
and trunk maker, although he is in advanced 
age. Following is the record of his children 
of whom .James is the oldest. Rachel married 
R. R. David and is a resident of Seattle, Wash- 
ington; Sylvester lives at Platteville; P. D., 
junior, is a teacher; Sarah married William 
Lewis and lives at Aberdeen, Dakota. 

James Hendershot was a student at Platte- 
ville Academy and finisiied his education at 
Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College. He 
is, by occupation, a saddle and harness maker. 
He was a private of Company A, 50th Wisconsin 
Infantry, enlisting Feb. 13, 1865, and being 
discharged June 20, 18GG, having served in the 
company of which Hon. John C. Spooner was 
captain and in the regiment of whitli .loiiu G. 



Clark was colonel. The command made a good 
record, although it received unjust treatment, 
being retained far beyond the close of the war in 
service on the frontier in Dakota Territory. 

The regiment was mustered at Madison, 
Wis., and went to Missouri, where two months 
were passed in duty in patroling the city of 
St. Louis about the ilate of the assassination of 
President Lincoln. The regiment was dis- 
tributed at dilferent points in the State of Mis- 
souri, guarding ferries, boats, towns, etc. Later, 
Mr. Hendershot was assigned to duty as Orderly 
at the headquarters of Gen. J. H. Beveridge at 
KansasCity, and joined his regiment at Leaven- 
worth, Kansas. During the stay tiiere the dis- 
satisfaction among the regiments became great 
and the 6th Virginia Infantry mutinied out- 
right. The 50th Wisconsin was called out to 
quiet their riotous conduct and this was the 
nearest to a light in which the regiment was 
called to participate. The 50th was ordered 
thence to Fort Rice, Dakota Territory, where 
the command arrived Oct. 9, 1865, and was as- 
signed to duty in keeping the Indians in sub- 
jection and in jirotecting navigation on the 
Missouri River. May 27, 1866, orders were re- 
ceived to move to Madison, Wis., for discharge 
and Mr. Hendershot received release from 
military obligations and returned home after 
being mustered out of service June 20, 1866. 

On his return to civil life at Platteville he 
resumed business with his father as saddle and 
harness maker. He was married at Platteville 
in 1871 to Laura, daughter of Joel C. and 
Caroline (Banfield) Squires. Their children 
are named Mary, Sarah and Philip D. Mr. 
Hendershot is Secretary of Mound City Engine 
Co., No. 1, which is a part of the tire depart- 
ment of Platteville. His wife is President of 
the Woman's Relief Corps at that place. 

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OUIS CLARK, Black River Fnlls, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post No. 92, was 
'^ born July 23, 1842, in Chemung Co., i 
New York, and his parents, Homer and Mary 
Ann (Allington) Clark, were also natives of 
that county. In the father's line the lineage is 
from New York and in that of the mother from 
New Jersey, and the several paternal ancestors 1 
were boat builders. John, Louis, Mary, Ben- 
jamin and Charles were the names of the chil- 
dren of the family and the oldest son is not liv- 
ing. The fatlier died in 1849 and the mother 
married Calvin Vauglian, their children being 
named Viola, Julia, Anna and William. After 
the death of his fsither, Louis resided with his 
uncle on a farm in Elmira, New York, until he 
was 19 years old, when he became a soldier. 
He enlisted June 11th, 1861, at Elmira, and was 
mustered into U. S. service there in July in 
Company D, 35th New York Infantry and on 
the 11th day of the same month left camp for 
the front, passing through Baltimore and going 
into camp at Arlington Heights. Two months 
were passed in building fortifications, drill and 
camp duty, and in September, because of 
efficiency of military understanding, the 35th 
was placed in the advance in the activities. 
The regiment was in a slight action at Taylor's 
Tavern about 10 miles from ^Vashington and 
after constructing a camp and defenses the 
command went into winter quarters. March 
10, 1802, the ootii started for Centerville and 
took a foremost position in Wadsworth's brig- 
ade, King's division and McDowell's corps, the 
army returning to the Potomac and embarking 
for tlie campaign of the Peninsula, the corps 
being reserved for the defense of Washington, 
and lying between that city and the rebels dur- 
ing tlie campaign of that season. April 4th the 
35th wentrto Falmoutli, and May 10th crossed 
the Rappahannock to Fredericksburg and 
moved on the 26th towards Richmond. Mr. 



Clark was sent on account of illness to Mount 
Pleasant hospital, and after a month to Rhode 
Island, but through some unaccountable man- 
euver was immediately sent back to convales- 
cent camp at Alexandria and remained "in that 
detestable place, without care, half fed for about 
four months," when he was discharged, Nov. 17, 
1862, at Washington, for disabilit3^ (He is of 
the opinion that the treatment the sick received 
in that hosjiital was not far removed from that 
received by the Union prisoners at the hands 
of the rebels). 

He returned to his uncle's at Elmira, and 
when partially restored to health engaged in 
farming for the season of 1863. In the fall he 
enlisted at Elmira in Company F, 86tli New 
York Infantry, and, after a few days went to 
the front to join the regiment with the recruits, 
near Washington, the regiment being in the 
2d Brigade, 3d Division and 2d Army Corps, 
and went in the spring to the campaign of the 
Wilderness, and Mr. Clark was in the successive 
fighting at Spottsylvania, where he was 
wounded by a rifle ball in the left hand. He 
went to hospital at Baltimore, and after a few 
weeks was discharged thence and placed on 
garrison duty at Washington on the Virginia 
side. In the fall he joined his regiment in 
front of Petersburg and performed picket duty 
at Fort Sedgwick through the winter. Among 
the experiences there were the friendly ex- 
change of jokes, tobacco and salutes with the 
rebels, not excepting sometimes stray shots. 
The rebels frequently amused themselves by 
shooting Union soldiers who happened to put 
their heads above the ritle pits, and it is no 
wonder that Sedgwick was called Fort Hell. 
Mr. Clark was in constant service in the 
trenches before Petersburg and until the sur- 
render of the city. He was in the action of 
April 2d and followed Lee after the city was 
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until the surrender at Appomattox. About the 
date of that event Mr. Clark was again ill and 
went to hospital in May to he disciiarged in 
Washington about two weeks later, when he 
returned home to Elmira. 

After partially recovering his health he en- 
gaged in farm work, going West in tlie fall of 
1867 to Portage, Wisconsin, and passed two 
years on a dairy farm. In 1869 he went to 
Merrillan and engaged in lumbering and fann- 
ing until 1876, when he settled at Black River 
Falls, where he was similarly occupied until 
1881, when he went to Clark county and pur- 
chased a farm of 40 acres, on wliich lie remained 
a year. He sold out and went to Millston and 
opened a boarding house wliicli he managed 
one year and went thence to Black River Falls, 
wiiere he was in the employ of Hon. Wm. 
Price ten years. He exchanged city lots for a 
small farm on the border of the town of Albion, 
wliere he is operating to improve a home and 
bring liis land into Uie best possible condition 
for small fruit culture. He is a Republican in 
political connection and has always been a de- 
voted adiierent to the Union. He receives a 
pension. 

He was married at Lawrenceville, Pa., in the 
fall of 1863 to Harriet Higley, and their daugh- 
ter, Mina, is Mrs. Artiiur Mason. Mr. Clark 
was a second time married, at Black River Falls, 
to Eliza, daughter of William and Margaret J. 
Dodson, and she is an active member of the 
Woman's Relief Corps. Tlie portrait of Mr. 
Clark appears on page 796. 



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W. NIKIIAL'.S. Commander of G. A. 
,^^ j^ R. Post No. 173. at Fennimore, Wis., 
• Ills ))l;ice of residence, was l)orn in 
Hanover, Cerinany, Aug. 4, 1846. His parents, 
Hermann and Anna (Sumder) Niehaus, were 
natives of Germany and the father was a tailor. 



They had four children named Charles, Minnie 
(deceased), Mary and Mr. Niehaus of this sketch, 
who is the oldest cliild. The mother died in 
1851 and the father determined to remove to 
America, having three brothers there. The 
family came to the New World in 1852, locating 
in Platteville, where the senior Niehaus entered 
the employ of his brother, who was a merchant 
tailor. The father's death occurred in 1859. 
Two of tiie children, who were still young, were 
sent to St. Paul to the care of two uncles, while 
the two oldest became members of the family of 
their uncle, .John Niehaus, of Platteville. 

Mr. Niehaus obtained a meager common 
school education and was apprenticed to learn 
the trade of a wagon-maker wiien 16 years old, 
having previously obtained some knowledge of 
the business of a tailor. He was occupied in 
wagon making until he enlisted, which he did 
May 5, 1864, in Company A, 41st Wisconsin 
Infantry and was mustered at Milwaukee and 
sent with his regiment to Memi)his. His duty 
there was chiefly guard, camp and picket and 
the only chance of a battle he had was when 
Forrest visited the camp on one of his char- 
acteristic raids. After that he continued in the 
same line of duty as before until he received 
discharge. The command had been sent to 
Memphis, Teun., foi- that purpose and Mr. 
Niehaus was there ill of chronic diarrhea, but 
not going to hospital he was on picket and was 
on his i)Ost when the first gun in the attack on 
Memphis was fired. He received his release 
from military duty Sept. 3, 1864. 

On his return to Platteville he engaged in 
work at his trade of wagon niiiking and was 
thus occupied until lie again enlisted in Com- 
pany K, 47th Wisconsin Infantry, enrolling 
Jan. 30, 1865. His Captain was C. H. Baxter, 
and Lieutenant, .Tohn (Jriiidell. The regiment 
was mustered at Madison and .Mr. Niehaus ac- 
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Tullalioma, Tenn., wliere the regiment per- 
formed garrison, guard, picket and other duty 
until tlie close of the war. Mr. Niehaus was on 
detached duty in the Commissary Department 
for four months and received final discharge 
Sept. 4, 1865. He tried to enlist to serve with 
the 25th Wisconsin, in which he had many 
friends, hut was rejected on account of youth. 

He again liecame a private citizen of Platte- 
ville and resumed work at his trade, going to 
Annaton in the spring of 1866 and there 
engaged in the same business. He went next 
to Danville, 111., where he remained until Sep- 
tember, 1867, occupied in wagon making. He 
went back to Annaton, worked there three 
years and then located at Fennimore, establish- 
ing business there in his own interest. 

He was married in the township of Liberty, 
Grant county, in August, 1866, to Mary Smith. 
She was born in Germany and of the children 
liorn of this union two survive — Minnie and 
Charles J. Mr. Niehaus is a charter member 
of his Post. He has acted in various official 
capacities in connection therewith prior to his 
jiresent incundjency of Commander. His por- 
trait appears on ])age 796. 



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D. WOOD, Commander of G. A. R. 
Post No. 184, resident at Black 
' Earth, Wis., was born Jan. 18, 1847, 
at Morristown, New .Jersey, and is the son of 
•foseph H. and Esther H. (Williamson) Wood. 
His father was born in Rochester, N. Y., and 
descended from Quaker stock, the mother being 
a native of Norristown, and the daughter of 
Henry and Esther Williamson. The family 
reached Janesville, Wisconsin, on the first 
passenger train that entered the place, and 
removed 18 months later to Bad Axe county, 
now \'ernon. The senior Wood was one of the 



founders of Kickapoo, engaging in manufactur- 
ing and removing in the fall of 1859 to Liberty 
and was occupied in farming until 1861, when 
a removal to Rochester, N. Y., was effected. 
The son accompanied his parents thither and 
enlisted from that city. (Prior to leaving Wis- 
consin his fatber had assisted ".Jerry "Rusk 
in organizing the first Masonic Lodge at Viro- 
qua). He was a soldier in the Seminole war 
and a man who took a deep interest in all 
National affairs and when the civil war was 
more than two years old, his patriotism took 
him again into the ranks of the volunteer ser- 
vice; he enrolled at Buffalo in Company C, 
50tli New York 'Infantry, was injured at Bank's 
Ford and sent to bospital at Rochester, whence 
he was discharged for disability in February, 
1864. The family went to Michigan that year 
and in 1868 to Prairie du Chien, going thence in 
1875 to Nebraska, where the father and mother 
are still living. The former has been for many 
years connected with the Christian Church and 
has been a local preacher, leading that church 
organization in Nebraska until incapacitated 
from labor by increasing age. Mr. Wood is the 
first-born of seven children. His brothers and 
sisters were named Eva, Lillie, Esther May, 
Melvin, Malcolm and Elmer. 

While in Wisconsin, at the age of 14 years, 
Mr. Wood enlisted in Company F, 8th Wiscon- 
sin Infantry at Liberty, but his muster was 
prevented by his father. When the household 
authorities had gone he took advantage of the 
opportunity and, while his father was serving 
in Rochester as a recruiting officer, he sought 
another official in the city and enrolled Aug. 1, 
1862, in Company F, 50th New York Infantry. 
He went to rendezvous at Elmira and was 
rejected by the medical examiners, but allowed 
to go b\' the commanding officer, although but 
a little jiast 14 years old. He joined his regi- 
ment at Fredericksburg and was immediately 



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in action, his comrade being shot to death 
under the first order to advance. lie was next 
in action on tlic bloodiest tii-ld of tlie war to 
that date — Chancellorsville, where he was 
stunned by a shell and carried from the field 
for dead. He was on duty at brigade head- 
quarters until he had sufficiently recovered to 
rejoin his command when he was transferred 
to Company C, of the same regiment (Ajiril 5, 
1863) and was made a musician, lie fought 
in every action in which his regiment was 
afterwards engaged and following is the outline 
of his roster: — He was at Harper's Ferry when 
transferred ; went thence on a seven-days' 
march in Maryland without rations, which 
hardship sent him to the hospital at Washing- 
ton for two months ; he rejoined his regiment 
in time for the movement to Rappahannock 
Station and took ]iart in the sjiring campaign 
of 1864, fighting in tlie Wilderness, (see Sta- 
tistical History) at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, 
North and South Anini,. Jericho Ford, Hanover, 
Fort Powhattan, siege of Petersburg and ia the 
events of the fall campaign, resuming connec- 
tion with the movements of the sj)ring of 1865 
and participating with iiis regiment in action 
at Hatcher's Run and Five Forks, and was in 
the battle of Sailor's Creek, marching into 
Petersburg and following tlie rebels to the sur- 
render of Appomattox. He was in the Grand 
Review at Washington and returned to Elmira 
for muster out in July, 1865. He was in the 
detail at Petersburg which took charge of the 
wounded and was in the hazardous work of 
laying the pontoons across the James River, for 
which he received the personal thanks of his 
officers and a gift from his comrades. He was 
only a boy in 1865 and was a general favorite 
with his command for his courage and upright- 
ness of character. He was one of the youngest 
soldiers of the service and, although a musician, 
carried his musket on every occasion, having 



still his receipt for his equipments which he 
turned over to the Government on the term- 
ination of the war. His record is one of the 
best. 

In the same regiment with himself were en- 
listed two meu named Riley, father and son; the 
former was ill in hospital at Washington at tlie 
same time as Mr. Wood, and his daughter. Miss 
Lodema Riley, came there to care for hiui; 
she also took an interest in her father's and 
brother's friend, nursed him to health and 
married him in Washington, Jan. 27, 1865. 
She was born in Broome Co., New York. 
After his release from military service, with his 
wife, he went to his fatlier's in Hillsdale Mich., 
in the fall of 1865 and in the spring entered 
the employ of the Erie R. R. corporation at 
Susquelianii;i, Pa., removing in 1868 to Praiiie 
du Chien. in May, 1869, he went back to New 
York, locating near Binghaintoii and becom- 
ing a permanent resident of Black Earth, Wis., 
in July, 1875. His occuj)atioii is that of a 
worker in wood and he has other business 
relations as a Notary Public and pension agent. 
In the different places where he has lived Mr. 
Wooil has always been connected with local 
municipal affairs. He is a charter member of 
Post No. 184 and was its first Commander, serv- 
ing three terms as such. He is also promi- 
nent in the Order of Good Templars and with 
his wife, belongs to the M. E. Church. He 
has made three trips South, one of which was 
in pursuit of the health he lost there, in which 
he was accompanied by liis wife for the same 
purpose ; he went again to visit her parents 
who reside there and another trip was made to 
the old scenes, where he discussed tlie merits 
of matters with old oi)ponents in arms. (It 
should have been related in the proper con- 
nection that the shell which struck him at 
Petersburg, cut the visor from his caj> and 
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several times a contributor to the columns of 
the Washington National Tribune. To him 
and liis wife several cliildreu have been born ; 
Koswell, December 18, 18GS ; Bertie, May 23, 
1870; Martin, Oct. 6, 1872, (died Aug. 22, 187G) 
and Olive B., born May 22, 1875. The sons 
are telegrnpii operators and are pi-oniising 
young men. 

The portrait of Mr. Wood, presented on 
page 796, was taken wlien a boy .soldiur in the 
service of the Union. 



K^jI^ TEWART J. BAILEY, of Menomonie, 
Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 58, 
was born Feb. 13, 1838, in Miami Co., 
Indiana, and is descended from a stock of long 
standing in this country, whose generations 
have been represented in ftiie several wars of 
the Nation, his father, Stewart Bailey, having 
fought in the Black Hawk war, and bis grand- 
fatlier, Richard Bailey, having been a soldier 
in 1812. The senior Bailey was born Feb. 20, 
1813, in Cattaraugus county, New York, and 
the mother and wife, Sail}' (Berry) Bailey, was 
born in BuffiUo, N. Y., April IG, 1816, of Ger- 
man and Scotch extraction. Tiieir 11 children 
were named Melinda, Stewart, Wellington, 
Clarke, Daniel, Caroline, Nancy, Olive, Sally, 
William and Laura. In 1837 tliey located in 
Indiana, wiiere the father took up a claim and 
improved a farm on which he resided for many 
years, and died in Allen, Miami count}', Feb. 
14, 1879. His wife died Oct. 18, 1873. 

The son worked with liis father on the farm, 
and in making brick, until he was about 18 
years old and obtained such schooling as was 
possible in the interims of labor. When the 
first call for 75,000 troops was issued, with his 
brotlier Wellington, he started Sunday morn- 
ing, Apiril 11th, to Plymouth, to open tiie busi- 



ness of recruiting and, although the father was 
a strong Methodist and lay preacher, he entered 
no demurrer, when his sons, who iiad belonged 
to a drum corps, started on the business named 
with Captain 0. H. P. Bailey. They raised a 
company of 120 men in about two weeks at 
Plymouth, but the quota was filled before they 
could ofl'er themselves and the I'ecruits after- 
wards enlisted in other regiments. Mr. Bailey 
went home to assist on the contract referred to, 
but still gave his attention to recruiting until 
September. He was one day engaged at work 
when Lieutenant Warner of the 1st Western 
Cavalry came in looking up recruits. After 
some conversation Mr. Bailey struck his iiatchet 
in a timber, remarking, "Stay there till the war 
is ended" and enlisted in the 1st Western 
Cavalry whicii was mustered as the 9th Illinois 
Cavalry, Mr. Bailey entering Company G of 
that organization, the Colonel being in the 
regular service and State lines not so strictly 
defined in recruiting as afterwards. The re- 
cruiting was completed at Camp Douglas, 
Chicago, where equipments were received and 
in February, 1862, the regiment went to St. 
Louis and thence to join General Steele at Iron- 
ton, Mo. They performed cavalry duty until 
removal to Jacksonport and joined General 
Curtiss at Batesville and skirmished and fought 
bushwhackers thereabouts until they moved to 
Helena, Ark. On the way thither tliey fought 
at Stannart's Plantation and Bayou Cache, the 
command losing about 30 in killed and 
wounded, and the enemy getting away as soon 
as possible, believing the whole force of Curtiss 
to be engaged. After this action Mr. Bailey 
was promoted for meritorious service to 3d 
Sergeant. He was taken sick on the march 
and on the arrival was sent to the hospital at 
Memphis, ill with flux and malarial disorders. 
When a little better he obtained a furlough and 
went to St. Louis, afterwards returning to 



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Helena to join his regiment in the latter part 
of August. He accompanied the command to 
the White River expedition, and when they 
left the hoats at Napoleon, he was in charge of 
the advance guard. A sudden turn showed 
three strangers and, as each supposed the 
others to be rebels, war was immediately 
declared, which suddenly terminated when 
Mr. Bailey found one of them was I^ieutenant 
Noble, now Secretary of the Interior, who had 
strayed from his command. After some skir- 
mishing the command returned to Napoleon and 
went thence to Helena, where Mr. Bailey was 
again ill and was sent up the river to Keokuk 
on a hospital boat. He remained from October 
until January, 18(53, when he joined his regi- 
ment at Helena, after having made iiimself 
useful as an assistant in various departments. 
On going to his connnand, he was placed in 
charge of 60 men who belonged to dilferent 
regiments and posts, and escorted them to 
Springfield, where he turned over his papers 
and charge and took a trip home. He rejoined 
his regiment at Helena and soon after, while 
on a raid after bushwhackers and guerrillas, he 
was again taken sick about April 1st, and with 
the regiment moved to Memphis, where he 
passed some time in the liospital and again 
found his regiment at Germantown, where he 
was detailed to the Commissary Department, 
the command being on the chase after Forrest, 
scouting and .skirmishing on the Memphis and 
Charleston railroad as far as Corinth. While 
the regiment was encamped at La Grange in 
August, Mr. Bailey was detailed as Chief of 
Outposts, went tlience to Corinth and Poca- 
hontas and back to La Grange. An attack was 
made at Colliersville, Tenn., by Chalmers on 
Sherman's regiment (13th U. S. Regulars) 
guarding him as escort on his way to Chat- 
tanooga, and the Uth Illinois Cavahy was sum- 
moned to reinforce, following the rebels to 



Wyatts, on the Tallahatchie, where a fight took 
place. (See sketch of J. E. Pennefather). At 
Colliersville the 9th was assigned to the IGth 
Corps, and •2d Brigade under Hatch and went 
on a raid through Western Tennessee, collect- 
ing horses, mules and supplies in advance of 
Forrest. December 4th tlie regiment w'as in a 
fight with Forrest at Salisbury, following him 
to Moscow to fight again and returned to Col- 
liersville. A combined effort was made to put 
an end to the depredations of the guerrilla , 
chief, but it failed and Forrest attacked Com- 
pany G, at Lafayette ; the company held the posi- 
tion until help arrived, the balance of the regi- 
ment with infantry reaching the place to drive 
Forrest out. With Colliersville as headquarters, 
they scouted, skirmished and foraged through 
the country until spring, and prepared for the 
raid planned for February to drive the rebels 
out of that section and break rebel communi- 
cations preparatory to the Atlanta campaign. 
Feb. 11, 1864, the regiment started through 
Mississippi and passed a night in Aberdeen 
with Forrest five miles away, and the army 15 
miles distant. The time was one of great anx- 
iety, but the troops came up next day, moved 
to Prairie Station, went thence to West Point 
and met Forrest at that place. At Okalona, 
Feb. 22d, Forrest attacked the command, routed 
the 1st and 3d Brigades and stampeded the. 
trains (which were nearly captured). The 2d 
Brigade arrived and held the rebels in check 
until night when a retreat was made. During 
the action Mr. Bailey w-as wounded in the leg 
by a minie ball. The regiment went into camp 
at White Station and there veteranized, Mr. 
Bailey going to hospital atMemj)his and joined 
his regiment in June, 1864, at Memphis and 
was detailed as clerk in the Commissary Depart- 
ment. When the regiment went to German- 
town he was made color bearer, and he was 
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all tlie actions of that raid. In August he went 
to La C4range, Holly Springs and Oxford, 
fought at Hurricane Creek, August 13tli, and 
was in a skirmish nearly every day with For- 
rest until tlie Memphis raid. Mr. Bailey's time 
expired and he was sent to Springfield for mus- 
ter out Sept. 23, 1864. 

He went to Bourhon and worked as a con- 
tractor until 1808, when he went to Menomonie, 
and after three years weut to Miami Co., Ind. 
After the great fire he went to Chicago, spent a 
year there and another year in Indiana, return- 
ing in 1873 to Menomonie to locate perma- I 
nently. He was married Dec. 30, 1862, at Bour- 
bon, Ind., while at home on a furlough to Mary, 
daughter of John Cott, and their children are 
named Harry B. and Naomi. The wife died j 
in December, 1871, and, April 5, 1874, he was : 
married at Peru, Wis., to Amanda Cott; their 
children were named ^'erna, Pearl, Ruth and 
Grace. Verna and Ruth died young. Mr. ; 
Bailey is a Republican in politics and served 
as member of the Council from April 10, 1884, 
to April 10, 1886. In 1888 he was elected to 
the Assembly of Wisconsin and served two 
years. He was a member of the Wisconsin 
National Guards five years and in 1884 was 
Commander of his Post; he has served two 
years as Adjutant. In 1888 he was Secretary 
of the Soldiers' Relief Commission; he belongs 
to the A. 0. U. W. 



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ICHARD W. CAPEN, Black River 
Falls, Wis., Chaplain of G. A. R- 
Post No. 92, in 1890, was born Nov. 
11, 1833, in Allegany Co., New York, and is 
the oldest of two children born to his parents, 
Allen and Caroline (Piersons) Capen, the for- 
mer a native of New York of Dutch lineage 
and the latter of English and Irish extraction. 



His sister Sylvia died at the age of eighteen. 
His ftither was a miller and a citizen of good 
position in his county, dying Nov. 11, 1835. 
The mother married Edward Crowell, moving 
afterwards to the Territory of Wisconsin, set- 
tling in Walworth county in tlie town of Bloom- 
field in 1842. When he was eight years old 
the .son was adopted by Mr. Preston Denton 
with whom he lived until he was 14 when he 
went to New York and attended school, re- 
maining there about a year when he went 
West and engaged as a sailor on the lakes. 
This was his occupation four seasons and in 
1852 he engaged in farming in Kenosha county 
until 1860, when he went to Black River Fails 
and purchased a farm, engaging also in lum- 
bering on the Black and Mississippi Rivers. 

Oct. 19, 1861, he enlisted and was mustered 
into U. S. service .Jan. 2, 1862, at Fond du Lac 
in Company I, 14th Wisconsin Infantry. He 
was in rendezvous at Camp Wood" when the 
regiment was ordered to the front and he 
accompanied it, although he was sick from 
disease of the lungs, having been dangerously 
ill when mustered. His illness continued and 
he was finally discharged at Vicksburg, Nov. 6, 
1863. He returned home and was in poor 
health for a long time but determined again to 
enter the service and in the spring of 1865, 
March 6th, he enlisted and was mustered into 
Company H, 48th AVisconsin Infantry at Mil- 
, waukee as Corporal. Soon after the eight com- 
panies mustered in were sent to St. Louis, Com- 
pany H going finally, after moving to Sedalia 
and Paoli, to Olathe, Kansas. Mr. Capen was 
there detailed with an independent command 
with headquarters at Kansas City to look after 
Quantrell and bushwhackers generally and 
went thence about September 6th to Fort 
Earned to help keep the Indians in subjection. 
In December the company broke camp and 
went to Leavenworth to be mustered out Dec. 



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30, 1865, and went thence to Madison to be 
relieved from State military obligations. July 
11, 1865, he was made 5th Sergeant. 

On his return to Black River Fallshis health 
was very much impaired but he resumed, as 
soon as able, his farming and lumbering and 
he has been engaged to a considerable extent 
in the cultivation of strawberries. He is tlie 
owner of a small home farm under excellent 
improvements within the corjioration, and also 
owns 200 acres of land near the town. He is a 
Republican of active proclivities and exerted 
his influence for Harrison in the campaign of 
1888. As a campaign orator he is magnetic 
and convincing. He is deeply interested in 
Grand Army matters and is a thorough worker 
for the interests of the Order. 

He was married in March, 1852, at Wheat- 
land, Wis., to Emma, daughter of Arnold and 
Catherine Slosser and they have had 7 child- 
ren: — Sylvia, John, Benjamin and Betsy, 
(twins), Clara, Joseph and George (twins), and 
Sylvia and John arc deceased. The mother 
died in 1877, and Mr. Capen was again married 
Feb. 25, 1883, to Louisa Collister and they 
have two children — Tliurman O. was born in 
1SS4 and Flossie in 1887. Mr. Capen is a 
member of the Masonic Lodge No. 72. 

^y^'WAAAM 8. HOLMES, La Crosse, 
I'mf// Wis., Adjutant of G. A. R. Post 
No. 38, (1890), was born July 29, 
1842, in .Jefferson Co., Ohio, and his parents, 
William and Eliza (Voorhies) Holmes, were na- 
tives of the same State of Irish parentage ; the 
father was born in 1810 and the mother in 
1815. The former died at Galena, 111., in 1862, 
and the latter at La Crosse in March, 1881. 
The family removed to the West in 1846 and 
located in Cialena willi nine children named 



John T., Lafayette, Sarah Jane, Lucinda, Lou 
Emma, William, Eliza, James and Isadore. 
Only Sarah Jane and Isadore are deceased. 

Mr. Holmes received a good common school 
education and became interested in lead mining 
in Galena in which he was occupied at the out- 
break of the war. July 30, 1862, he enlisted 
at Galena in Company A, 96th Illinois Infantry, 
and was mustered at Rockford, September 5tli. 
Tlie Colonel was Thomas E. Champion and 
Isaac L. Clarke, Lieutenant-Colonel. The 
formation of the regiment was of citizens of 
more than ordinary standing, the professions 
and trades being represented and the grade of 
culture iu the ranks was a fact of which the 
command was proud and which, it was believed, 
was the .source of the (piality of tlie fighting 
done by the 96tli Illinois. The regiment left 
the State for the front, journeying via Cincin- 
nati, Lexington, Danville and Harrisl)Urg and 
at the latter place was attached to tiie reserve 
of the Army of the Cumberland, the Division 
Commander being Gen. Gordon Granger. 
Months were passed in marching over the 
rough roads and mountains of Tennessee, 
ihasing Bragg and skirmishing occasionally. 
Ill the sjiring of 18(')3 the regiment made con- 
nection with Rosecrans' army at Nashville and 
received orders to move to Franklin, where 
they encountered Van Dorn's stragglers and in 
June went to Triune to join the commands 
which were consolidating for the Chit-kamauga 
campaign. Tiie 96th went into camp at Tulla- 
homa and was in reserve when the battle of 
Chickamauga was j)recipitated. By strategy in 
a Hank movement, Rosecrans com]ielled Bragg 
to retreat, his communications being threatened, 
but the rebel was re-inforced and enabled to 
take the offensive. Rosecrans fell back to Chat- 
tanooga, tried to re-unite his three corjjs, and 
ordered the reserve forward. The 96th 
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and Imlted at Roseville Gap, at the foot of 
Mission Ridge. Rosecrans had distributed his 
trooi)S in a manner which iiad widely separated 
the force and wliile they were endeavoring to 
form a junction to establish a line of battle on 
Chickamauga Creek, where the attack could be 
successfully met, on September ISth, the re- 
serve distinctly heard the cannonading which 
told that the rebels were preparing for attack. 
The reserve received orders to hold the position 
at the gap which was done at severe cost. In 
tiie morning of the 19th the cannonading was 
again heard and the reserve lay on their arms 
through Saturday night and on the Sabbath 
morning were in arms for action. Orders were 
awaited impatiently, the animus of the war 
operating even at that distance, when they 
knew their fellow soldiers were in hot and con- 
tinued action. None came and finally. General 
Steadman, Division Commander, determined to 
move towards the main army, fearing the battle 
was desperate if not a losing one to the Union 
troops. They met rebel cavalry which they 
dispersed and hastened on over a field covered 
with dead and wounded, halting on the edge 
of an open field ; they formed in column and 
started across in a storm of shot and shell. 
General Thomas saw them and said: "If this 
is the enemy we are lost; if it is the reserve we 
are saved." And here Mr. Holmes was first in 
set battle in which he fought from morning 
until night and the Army of the Cumberland 
was saved and went to the intrenchments on 
tlrtl Chattanooga. The loss of men and officers 
of the 96th was terrific, among them being 
the Lieutenant-Colonel. Tuesdaj', September 
22d, the command of Mr. Holmes went to 
Moccasin Bend opposite Lookout and remained 
until the arrival of Hooker with the 11th and 
12th Corps of the Army of the Potomac. Thence 
they went to Bridgeport and to fight at Lookout 
Mountain, going afterwards to Shell Mound, a 



month later to Chattanooga, and in the spring 
joined the troops of Sherman for the Atlanta 
campaign. They were first in action at Buz- 
zard's Roost, and Mr. Holmes fought there, and 
next at Resaca, going thence via Snake Creek 
Gap, and there the regiment lost heavily. He 
was in the actions at Cassville, Kingston, New 
Hope Church and Big Shanty, and afterwards 
in the fights known as Kenesaw Mountain, 
being under fire almost constantly from June 
11th until the 30th. The losses were heavy in 
this campaign and the troops followed the 
rebels to tlie Ciiattahoochie River. Mr. Holmes 
was again in action at Peach Tree Creek, went 
to the investment of Atlanta, and was with 
Sherman in the flank movement designed to 
frighten the rebels out of the city. He was 
in the fighting at Lovejoy's and .Jonesboro, 
afterwards camping in the city. He was next 
in the pursuit of Hood, who started to occupy 
Chattanooga, but the Union command reached 
there first at great risk. Hood took Big Shanty 
and Ackworth and threatened Allatoona, and 
here occurred the famous signal dispatch from 
Sherman at Kenesaw Mountain to Corse at 
Rome to reinforce saying, "Hpld the fort, for I 
am coming." The command went by rail to 
Columbia and encountered Hood in a slight 
engagement on the river, then moved to Frank- 
lin, formed in line of battle and went from that 
field to Nashville, following Hood to Hunts- 
ville; Hood lost his command, being superseded 
by Beauregard. The comnaand of Mr. Holmes 
went to Knoxville and thence to camp, next 
receiving orders to connect with Grant's army 
in the East, starting to march through West 
Virginia, and at Shields' Mills receiving intelli- 
gence of Lee's surrender, wiien the regiment 
was ordered to Nasiiville, for muster out, June 
10, 1865. Mr. Holmes was discharged and paid 
oft' at Chicago. 

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in lead mining and afterwards in steaniboating 
on tiie Mississippi River. He alternately en- 
gaged in these occupations seventeen years, and 
about 1680 engaged in conimission business at 
La Crosse. July 1, 1889, he was appointed 
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in the 
Fourtb Division, Second District of Wisconsin. 
He was married May 2, 1807, to Francis H., 
daughter of William and Calista Norris, of 
Galena. Their children are Mabel N., Sadie, 
Raymond, Blaine and Russell. Mr. Holmes is 
a member of the Masonic Order and a Repul)- 
lican of decided type. 

/^^ EORGE DELOS PHINNEY, Milwau- 
l A,^ j l ' ^ kee, Wis., and a member of G. A. R. 
^*~--^ Post, George C. Drake, was born April 
5, 1848, in Williamson, Wayne Co., New York. 
He is of pure American origin, liis parents, 
Philander and Fanny (Cady) Phinney, being 
descended from stock connected with the earlj' 
history of the country. He w'as in early child- 
hood when his family removed to Wisconsin 
and when he was 13 years old his father en- 
listed in the 7tli Wisconsin Infantry, Company 
A, and the son enrolled in the capacity of a 
musician in the same organization, although 
only thirteen years old. With tlie exception of 
a little more than a year tiie history of the 
"Iron Brigade" is his own. He rendezvoused 
at Camp Randall, passed the first winter at 
Arlington Heights and was in the advance on 
Manassas in the spring of 1802. In April he 
went to Falmouth, took part in the operations 
around Fredericksburg, and went to Cedar 
Mountain after the battle there and assisted in 
the burial of tlie dead. He was in a sharp .skir- 
mish at Rappahanock Station and went next 
to Sulphur Springs, prej)aratory to the great 
action at Gainesville. Company A lost 30 men 



in killed aiKl wounded in a little more than an 
hour. He was in the skirmishing and other 
operations prior to the second battle of Bull 
Run and after that action was with his com- 
mand in the movement to Manassas .Junction, 
the brigade covering tlie retrograde. While 
caring for the wounded there, he was injured 
by concussion from a shell, and was, with difH- 
culty restored to consciousness. He was next 
in the severe fighting at South Mountain, where 
his father sustained a serious wouml in his foot 
and was the first man from his company men- 
tioned in the reports. The soldiers of the "Iron 
Brigade'' were specially commended for bravery 
in that action. Afterwards, Mr. Phinney was 
detailed to accompany the wounded from the 
fields of South Mountain and Antietam to Phil- 
adelphia and was occupied in caring for them. 
Nov. 19, 1802, his father was mustered out for 
permanent disability, and the son also received 
his discharge, on account of his extreme youth, 
being then only fourteen years of age. He 
returned with his father to Lodi, Columbia Co., 
Wisconsin, where he remained until Dec. 28, 
1863, when he re-enlisted in his former com- 
pany and regiment, rejoining the command at 
Culpeper C. H., where his regiment was in 
winter quarters. He was then a veteran 
although but 15, and performed military duty 
until the openingof the spring campaign, when 
he went with the brigade to participate in the 
campaign of the Wilderness. He fought at the 
first action May 5th and (Kb, and on the second 
day received a slight wound and was sent with 
200 other injured men to Fredericksburg. All 
who could stand on their feet marclied thither, 
and on the route encountered a squad of Mos- 
l)y's guerrillas, who represented themselves as 
belonging to the 8tli Illinois Cavalr}'. The 
frauil being apjiarcnt, one of tlie wounded sol- 
diers fired, killing a man and the rest dispersed. 
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Washington from the Wilderness after a march 
of three days without food. Mr. Phinney went 
to the Germantown hospital and to Convales- 
cent Camp July 5, 1864. While at Alexandria, 
General Early made his rai<l on Washington, 
and Mr. Phinney was among those who left the 
Camp to repel the attack. He sustained a 
severe wound in his left arm while fighting 
with conspicuous gallantry. He received hon- 
orable mention for his conduct b}' Col. Geo. W. 
Gile, commanding the force, and was made 
captain by brevet by Governor Fairchild. He 
was nmstered out as sucli, leaving the service 
Oct. 8, 1864, finishing his military career with 
honor when 16 years of age. He has since 
been a resident of Milwaukee. He was married 
July 31, 1863 ; the children of that union who 
survive in 1890 are Frank, Robert and Maggie 
May. Delbert died when ten years old. Mr. 
Phinney was a second time married May 27, 
1888, in Milwaukee to Mary, daughter of Wil- 
liam and Helen Eggleston, who was born in 
Michigan in 1860. 

Mr. Phinney is a member of the Order Royal 
Adelphia, Carpenter Conclave No. 17, and also 
belongs to the Odd Fellows; he is a Republican 
who is still on the aggressive for the principles 
of the party under which he served as a soldier 
and which cost him the loss of an arm. 

ICTOR WOLF, Eau Claire, Wis., 
charter member of Eagle Post No. 
52, was born Dec. 28, 1824, in Kuep- 
penheim, Baden, Germany, and his father and 
mother, George and Margaret (Haas) Wolf, 
were the parents of five children named 
.Joseph, Genevieve, Thomas, Elizabeth and 
^'ictor. Both died in Germany and the son 
Victor joined his brother Thomas in the United 
States in 1840. He found him in Williams- 




burg, New York, and Iiis first labor was with a 
brick manufacturer. In August after his 
arrival he was ill and went to New York City, 
afterwards obtaining employ at his trade of 

j shoemaking in Greenwich street. Feb. 23, 
1847, he enlisted in the regular service, sup- 
posing that he was enrolling for the Mexican 
war. He was mustered for five years and sent 
to Governor's Island, wiiere he was assigned to 
duty with a command on the island perma- 
nently established there, through an error of 
the interpreter, who stated that he desired to 
remain there instead of going to Mexico. He 
remained in that connection until 1850, per- 
forming Sergeant's duty and greatly dissatis- 
fied. Finally, througli the aid of Lieutenant 

I afterwards General Buckner of the confederate 
service, he was transferred to the 4tli U. S. 
Artillery for the Florida service. He started 
for that campaign in May, 1850, on a sailing 
vessel to Tampa Bay and marched thence to 
Fort Meade. On joining his command he was 
assigned to- Company H, and for a month per- 
formed guard dut}' and scouted. The com- 
mand went tlience to Key West to be in readi- 
ness for the filibusters should they stop on 
their way from Cuba, where that class of pirates 
were making themselves interesting. After 
three months the command returned to Fort 
Hamer, Fla., and in the fall went to Governor's 
Island. Soon after the company was sent to 
Fort Johnson, N. C, and thence to Fort Niagara, 
New York, and were there two years. The 
next transfer was to Fort Ontario at Oswego, 
N. Y., where Mr. Wolf was discharged Oct. 10, 
1856. He was promoted to 1st Sergeant in the 
spring of 1851. After the expiration of his five 
years' enlistment, he enrolled again as such, 
and served until Oct. 10, 1856. 

After leaving the service Mr. Wolf went to 
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, and entered the 
emj)loy of Governor Tallmadgc, with wlio.se son 



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he had been in the service. He worked as a j 

form assistant tliere until -Tuly, 1858, when he : 
bouglit a team and, with a wagon and his 
family, went to Eau Claire. (During his con- 
nection with the service he was hurt while 
moving a cannon and secured a pension through ' 
the aid of General Scott). He supported his 
familj' by aid of his team until he enlisted 
July 7, 1861. September 10th he was mustered I 
in Company C, 8th Wisconsin Infantry and, on 
organization was made 1st Lieutenant of the 
company. He was on recruiting service for the 
command and, while filling up his company, 
he secured the eaglet that subsequently became 
famous as " Old Abe." Some Indians had 
brought the eaglet to the river and sold it for a 
bushel of corn. A man named Mills .leffery 
l)urchased it for $2.50 and presented it to the 
company then recruiting, and called the Badg- 
ers of Eau Claire. Mr. Wolf caused the name 
to he changed to the Eagle Company and 
named the bird " Old Abe." 

October l'2th, the regiment left the State for 
Benton Barracks, St. Louis, went thence to 
Pilot Knob on guerrilla service and whipped 
Jeff Tliompson, October 21st. The command 
aided to chase the rebels into the Arkansas 
swamps and went later to Sulphur Springs, 
Mo. There Lieutenant Wolf obtained a fur- 
lough and went home, afterwards rejoining the 
regiment at Cairo. He performed provost duty 
there until March, 1862, and went tlience to 
fight at New Madrid, went next to Point Pleas- 
ant and for some time was in activities on the 
river with the rebel gunboats. On the 
evacuation of Island No. 10, the command went 
to the Kentucky siiore to intercept the fleeing 
rebels and took about 2,000 pri-soners with 
small arms. While at Point Pleasant, Lieutenant 
Wolf had been detailed as Adjutant of the regi- 
ment. While on the Kentucky side of the 
river he took a ride to the rear and discovered 



the rebels trying to land a section of their bat- 
tery out of the mud. He galloped towards 
them and in a loud voice ordered a charge on 
the double-quick, as if he had a large force at 
command. The rebels cut the traces of their 
horses, abandoned their battery and dashed off. 
He rode back to the command, took two men 
and brought in the battery. Po)>e ordered his 
command to go to Tiptonville and thence to 
Fort Pillow, but on the way an order was re- 
ceived to go to the vicinity of Pittsburg Land- 
ing to re-inforce Grant, but the action was over 
and the regiment went to the siege of Corinth. 
A fight occurred at Farmington in which Caji- 
tain Perkins was killed and Mr. Wolf ap])]ied 
to be relieved from the duties of AdjuUint. 
This was finally done and he acceded to the 
captaincy of his company. May lltli. The 
regiment operated in Tennessee and Mississippi 
through the summer and in the spring of 1863 
joined Grant's army for the Vicksliurg cam- 
paign. They were in the operations of the 
spring months, digging canals, building roads, 
marching to various points and fighting at .lack- 
son. The regiment was on the extreme right 
of Sherman's command on the Yazoo River 
and after leaving that position the 8th went to 
Richmond, La., and routed a force on the way 
to re-inforce the rebels at Vicksburg. After 
j the fall of Vicksburg the decimated command 
went to Camp Sherman, about 18 miles from 
Vicksburg and in the fall went to Memphis. 
In the spring the regiment was assigned to the 
force of General A. J. Smith to go to the Red 
River expedition and Captain Wolf was detailed 
Provost Marshal with the command, by special 
request of General Mower, connnander of the 
18th Corps. He operated in this position until 
he was discharged. He returned from the ex- 
pedition to Memphis and received his veteran 
furlough. After passing it in AVisconsin he 
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and was afterwards in service after Price in 
Mississippi. In September lie was detailed to 
escort the non-veterans and asked for a dis- 
charge. Bnt the commander was unwilling to 
release him as his valuable services were greatly 
needed. He held to his rights to discharge 
and believed he could re-enlist afterwards if he 
desired. He obtained leave of absence and 
escorted tlie non-veterans to Wisconsin. He 
was taken sick at home and was finally ordered 
to join liis regiment to receive discharge, but 
being unable to do so he was mustered out 
March 27, 1865. 

In 1865 he engaged in handling freight from 
Sparta to Eau Claire in winter and in summer 
operated his quarry, until 1878. In 1870 he 
established a 'bus line and in 1880 the livery 
business, having had the Government contract 
for carrying the mails to and from the depot 
from 1870 — nearly 20 years. The livery busi- 
ness he has turned over to his sons and is pre- 
paring to press his quarrying operations on his 
hind in the vicinity of Eau Claire, wliere he 
owns 160 acres. He was married in July, 1848, 
in the city of New York to Ann Laughlin. 
Their children numbered seven — Elizabeth, 
Cecilia, Ada, Lillie, John J., George T. and 
William. Originally, Captain Wolf was a 
Democrat but changed his political views dur- 
ing the war and has since been a consistent Re- 
publican. He was elected in the spring of 
1890 as a member of the City Council of Eau 
Claire, to represent the Eighth Ward. 



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/^^ G. CRISTMAN, :\I. D., Spring Green, 



=* Wis., member of G. A. R. Post No. 9, I 
at Baraboo, Wis., was born in Her- 
kimer, New York, Jan. 26, 1839. He is de- 
scended from German ancestors who were early 
settlere in the Empire State, the founders of the 



family in the several generations being soldiers 
and officers in the Indian wars and in the 
Revolution and 1812. They also entered the pro- 
fessions and many became prominent through 
distinguished ability. John and Catherine 
(Schell) Cristman belonged to the agricultural 
class in their native State of New York where 
they passed their lives. They reared seven 
children named Catherine, Margaret, Dorothy, 
Urias, Anna Melissa, E. G. and Mary. All are 
living in their native State excepting Dr. Crist- 
man. 

He passed his life prior to the age of 15 on 
his father's farm and at that age he went to 
school at Oxford, and taught and studied alter- 
natel}' until his academic course was completed. 
At 18 he began the study of medicine, which 
he finished in New York city and, before he 
took his degree, he enlisted in September, 1862, 
in the 152d New York Infantry. He was 
mustered as " unassigned " and on going to the 
front was made hospital steward. On report- 
ing for duty at Washington the regiment went 
to camp at Chain Bridge and thence to Wash- 
ington three months later to perform provost 
duty, leaving the city in April, 1863, when the 
regiment was ordered to report at Suffolk, 
\'irginia, and went on a raid towards Peters- 
burg, driving Longstreet back and went next 
to Yorktown, starting for the rear of Richmond 
during the fighting at Chancellorsville, the 
plan of that campaign being the capture of 
Richmond while the rebels were operating on 
the Rappahannock, but they were driven back. 
On the retreat from White House Landing, the 
regiment was under incessant firing and Dr. 
Cristman was next in the movement for the 
field of Gettysburg, but the command failed to 
cross the Potomac and received orders to pro- 
ceed to New York to aid in quelling the draft 
riots. After this duty was done they returned 
to the Army of the Potomac and were in service 



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until the close of the war. Following is a 
roster of the battles iu which Dr. Cristman was 
a particii)ant : Wilderness, Spottsylvania C. II., 
Cold Harbor, North Anna and in the desultory 
operations around Petersburg through the sum- 
mer and fall of 1804 and the actions on 
Hatcher's Run, at Five Forks, Little Sailor's 
Creek, fall of Petersburg, pursuit of Lee to the 
close at Appomattox, meanwhile being ill and 
going to hospital at City Point, and went North 
until recovered, when he rejoined his command. 
He was in the Grand Review and was mustered 
out near Alexandria and afterwards out of State 
service at Albany, N. Y., and discharged Aug. 
17, 1865. While acting as hospital steward. 
Dr. Cristman was in charge of all hospital 
stores and soon after was examined and made 
Assistant Surgeon of hi.s regiment, continued 
his clerical work and after the close of the war 
accounted to the proper authorities for all sup- 
plies consigned for the use of the command. 
He also filled his position as Assistant Surgeon 
through all the vicissitudes attending that 
branch of the service, the chief surgeons failing 
to retain their ])ositions through the exigencies 
of hard work and want of rest. He also acted 
as brigade surgeon, every other individual 
having any medical knowledge, being at one 
time di.sabled. 

After discharge he matriculated at the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons in New York 
City and took his degree from that institution, 
afterwards practicing in New York 18 months. 
Old army troubles making his liealth precarious 
he went to Minnesota and thence he went to 
Loganville, Sauk Co., Wis., in the spring of 
18GS and returned to New York after a busi- 
ness at Loganville of more than 20 years to 
visit old scenes and in the winter of 1889 estab- 
lishing his practice at Spring Green. 

He was married Oct. 16, 1869, to Martha E., 
daughter of William 11. and Ann Amelia 



(Brook) Lewis, a native of Illinois. Their chil- 
dren are named Frank P., Lenora, E. R., Edgar, 
Eva M. and Alida Amelia. Two died in early 
youth. Dr. Cristman is fast securing the con- 
fidence of the community in his profession and 
socially. He has been prominent in political 
connections and officiated as Chairman of the 
Town Board seven years. He has been several 
times Congressional delegate and served in 
other municipal relations. He belongs to the 
Orders of Masonry and Odd Fellows, l)eing a 
member respectively of Fraternity Lodge No. 
58 and Western Lodge No. 100, at Reedsburg. 



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"Tp<jg^ EXKY C. KOCH, Milwaukee, Wis., 
""Iivxnl*" one of the leading architects in the 

-^ ^ Northwest and a member of G. A. R. 
Post No. 1, was born March 30, 1841, in Han- 
over, Germany, and was brought to America 
by his ])arents, Albert and Sophie (Koehne) 
Koch, in the year following his birth. He has 
Ijeen a resident of Milwaukee, .so to speak, all 
his life, and his father died in that city in 1857. 
His mother survives (1890) at advanced age. 
His parents fully realized the importance of 
education in their adopted country and the son 
received an academic training. He learned the 
details of his business as an architect through 
private instruction of the best class and in prac- 
tical office work, understanding the value of 
devoting his energies to the acquirement of the 
vocation in all its details and thruugh which 
trait of thoroughness he has been enabled to 
construct a reputation of paramount character. 
He was engaged in the pursuit of his business 
when the excitement of 1862 in Milwaukee in 
regard to the progress of the war relegated 
every private consideration to the rear, as no 
man knew whether he would have a country 
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I'iUiiily, ami Mr. Kocli determined to go to the 
front, and wlietlier he made a good soldier or 
not, lio could manifest the quality of his citizen- 
ship and demonstrate his willingness to test 
the fate of war in his devotion to the interests 
of a united country. He enlisted Aug. 18, 1862, 
in Conijwny B, ■24th Wisconsin Infantr\'. He 
drilled in rendezvous at Camp Sigel until mus- 
ter, which was completed Aug. 21st and until 
September 5th, when he went to Kentucky with 
the regiment and at Louisville the command 
was assigned to the 37th Brigade, Colonel Greu- 
sel, and the 11th Division under Sheridan. He j 
served with the regiment about six weeks, 
when his abilities in his profession becoming 
known to Sheridan, he was detailed on his staff 
at division headquarters in the capacity of 
Topographical Engineer and served with him 
four years, remaining with him a year after the 
close of the war. Before he severed his con- 
nection with military life, General Sheridan 
sent him the following letter which covers tlie 
work he did, its quality and extent throughout 
the whole period of his service. It is given 
verbatim: 

"New Orleans, La., March 24, 1866. Mr. j 
Henry C. Koch, Milwaukee, Wis.: — Dear Sir; I 
take pleasure in acknowledging the very valua- 
ble services rendered by you to the Govern- 
ment in the Engineering Department at my 
headquarters during the last four years. The 
maps of the different battle fields which have 
been executed by you would, for accuracy of 
detail and beauty of finish, reflect credit upon 
the most experienced in your profession. It is 
with regret that I take leave of one who has 
proved himself to be so efficient and faithful at 
all times. I am. Sir, Yours truly, P. H. Sheri- 
dan. Maj.-Gen. U. S. A. (Headquarters Mili- [ 
tary Division of the Gulf)." ' 

Upon leaving military life, Mr. Koch returned 
to Milwaukee and immediately established his 



present business relations, which he has con- 
ducted with eminent credit and in a manner 
wliich has added greatly to the renown of Mil- 
waukee for the beauty of her public structures 
whose construction he has jilanned and exe- 
cuted. He was only l(i when he commenced 
to acquire a knowledge of liis business, and 
about 25 when he established the firm of H. C. 
Koch & Co., and the house has been chiefly 
engaged in the construction of public build- 
ings in Milwaukee, at Oshkosh, Madison and 
in other places in Wisconsin and other States. 
His business relations are immense, and his 
establishment is the leading one of its kind in 
Milwaukee. Prominent among the public 
buildings of Milwaukee, constructed under his 
directions is the Soldier's Home; others are the 
State Insane Asylum at Oshkosh, the Stale 
University buildings at Madison, and court and 
schoolhouses in various localities. His busi- 
ness is located in the New Insurance building 
where he has quarters suitably fitted with all 
modern and imj^roved appliances of his craft 
and where he directs the operations of a retinue 
of assistants. A visit to his rooms affords all 
the satisfaction and profit expected in a museum 
of curiosities. The specimens of drafting are 
wonders in themselves and would be works of 
artistic beauty even had thej- no practical use. 
Mr. Koch was married in 1869 in Milwaukee 
to Johanna, daughter of David and Wilhelm- 
ine (Milbrath) Knob, and they have four chil- 
dren, named Armand D., Ella, Harry G., and 
Daisy. The oldest son is a student at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. 
Koch is a charter member of E. B. Wolcott 
Post at Milwaukee, and helcftigs to Kilbourn 
Lodge and Chapter, A. F. and A. M. 



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■p^r J. WALL, M. D., Richland Center, 

'If^r ^^ '®' i"^"^^*''" ^^ ^- ^^- ^^- ^^^*' ^°- 

JL ^.33, was boni July 12, 1844, in 
Ithaca, New York. His parents, John and 
Jane (Hall) Wall, were natives respectively of 
Ireland and New York, ami tliey lived in the 
latter State after marriage, rearing two children, 
one of whom was a daughter named Elizabeth, 
still living at \'an Ettenville, New York, the 
wife of M. D. Cantield. Dr. Wall was educated 
in Ithaca, at Washington Academy and in 
Geneva College, enlisting while engaged in the 
study of medicine in the fall of J 863, at Oswego, 
New York, in the 21st New York Cavalry and 
was soon after commissioned as Commissary 
of Subsistence. As he had not conij)leted his 
studies he could not obtain a surgeon's com- 
mission but he was active in raising his regi- 
ment which was mustered at Elmira, New 
York, and after being sent to the front on the 
Potomac Kiver, was placed on picket duty with 
headquarters at Halltown below Harper's Ferry. 
l)i'. \\'all was willi lii.s comuiand at this point 
several months, went thence to Cornersville, 
Md., performed guard and picket duty on the 
B. &. 0. R. R., and joined General Sigel's forces 
at Martinsburg, Dr. Wall having charge of 
(~)rd nance and Subsistence stores. At the 
beginning of the forward movement he received 
instructions to forward the condemned stores to 
A\'ashington and afterwards, with his detach- 
ment reported to General Moore at Martins- 
burg on guide and scout duty in command of 
about 20 men ; he carried dispatches to Gen- 
eral Sigel, went on the following day with that 
General on a forced march, rei)orting to his 
regiment in the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the 1st 
Division and was again placed in charge of the 
Ordnance and Subsistence Department. In that 
capacity he went with Sigel uj) the Shenandoah 
N'alley to Newmarket where he remaineil on 
duty at brigade head(juarters until September, 



1864, when he received orders to report to 
cfivision headquarters and was assigned to 
same duty as before, remaining until sometime 
in October. At that date General Sheridan 
ordered him to report to himself near Middle- 
town ami he was there performing his duty 
when the battle of Cedar Creek was fought. 
After this action Dr. Wall returned with Gen- 
eral De Sha and his stafl', intending to make 
Martinsburg : the doctor was with the escort 
and while on the way rode some distance 
ahead of the General and staff who were over- 
taken bv the rebels and captured. Onlv this 
cliance action of Dr. Wall in riding forward 
saved him from a similar fate and the capture 
was only discovered when the General and 
staff failed to reach die city. At .Martinsburg 
Dr. Wall received orders (o go to I'leasant Val- 
ley, where he received, inspected and forwarded 
army stores until tiie surrender of Lee and 
Johnston, when he was ordered to report to the 
Commissary General at Washington, where he 
was assigned to duty on the defenses below the 
city in the same capacity. He finally prepared 
his last report and turned over the stores at 
Alexandria to the proper authorities and re- 
mained in service in Washington until his 
resignation June 19, 18G5. 

He returned to Ithaca and went thence to 
Elmira, where he read law for a time and 
afterwards went to Minnesota where he engaged 
in the practice of medicine at St. Paul. In the 
spring of 1870 he established his business at 
Fort Atkinson, Iowa, and went to Richland in 
the fall of 1875, where he has since been 
located. In 187'J he attended lectures at Rush 
Medical College in Chicago, taking an advanced 
course. He was married in Rock county. Wis., 
in February, 1869, to Cora, daugiiter of Brad- 
ley and Lucretia (Ilowse) Plato, a native of 
Wisconsin. Two daughters, Catherine and 
Jennie now belong to the family. Dr. Wall 



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has been an active political worker in Wis- 
consin and Minnesota, serving on the State 
Central Committee, but has never been himself 
a candidate for office. He is Surgeon of liis 
Post in 1890 to which office he was elected by 
acclamation. He belongs to the Medical Asso- 
ciation and to the Minnesota Medical Associa- 
tion, to the Masonic Fraternity and to the 
Order of Redmen. His ability, skill, learning 
and experience have given him a large practice 
and many friends and adherents. 



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OBERT H. DELAP, M. D., Richland 
Center, Wis., member of the Assem- 
bly of Wisconsin in 1888-9, and Com- 
mander of G. A. R. Post No. 35, at Viola three 
terms, was born near Monroe, Green Co., Wis., 
Sept. 26, 1846, where his father, R. M. Delap, 
was settled as a minister of the M. E. Church. 
The latter was born in Illinois and married 
Melvina Nice, a native of Indiana. The ances- 
tors of the senior Delap had lived for genera- 
tions in the State of New York, whence the 
father removed to Green county, going thence 
to Richland county in 1853, and, afterwards 
going to Sauk county where the mother died 
in 1861. June 1, 1863, the father enlisted in 
Company B, 30th Wisconsin Infantry, and died 
of disease Jan. 17, 1864, at Madison. Dr. Delap 
was tiie only son, and was only 15 years old 
when his mother died. When he was about 
16 years old, Aug. 16, 1862, he enlisted in 
Company G, 33d Wisconsin Infantry, was mus- 
tered at Camp Utley, Racine, and sent to Mem- 
phis, whei'e the regiment performed camp duty 
for a time and followed Grant under Sherman 
in his plans for the southern camj)aign at Mcks- 
burg. They were at Yocono Creek, falling 
back after the disaster at Holly Springs and 
then going to that place where Dr. Delap was 



taken sick and sent to La Grange, joining his 
regiment at Natchez and going thence to the 
siege of Vicksburg. Dr. Delap was in the in- 
vestment there until the surrender, and his 
next movement was to Jackson. In February, 
1864, he went to the Meridian expedition, 
participated in the work of destruction which 
made that movement a success and was in con- 
stant skirmishing until the command returned 
to near Vicksburg after a march of nearly 400 
miles. The force was detached from the 17th 
Corps in March and transferred temporarily to 
the Red River expedition, the regiment being 
under fire forty days and fighting at Fort de 
Russey, Grand Ecore, Springfield, Plea.sant Hill, 
Cloutierville, Cane River, Moore's Plantation 
and Marksville, returning to Memphis to go to 
fight at Tupelo, being sent out to recover ground 
lost at Guntown through the defeat of Sturgis. 
The expedition was successful, and after return- 
I ing to Memphis the regiment went up the 
White River to Duvall's Bluff and Brownsville 
after Price, moving later to St. Louis prepara- 
tory to reinforcing Thomas at Nashville, and 
after the fight there followed Hood across the 
Tennessee river. Dr. Delap was with the escort 
to Grand View and after leaving winter quar- 
ters went to New Orleans, crossed Lake Pont- 
chartrain and went to the rear of Spanish Fort 
and performed gallant service in that siege 
under constant fire until the evacuation; went 
thence to Blakely, and up the river to Mont- 
gomery, receiving en route news of the assassin- 
ation of Lincoln. Dr. Delap was next at Tus- 
kegee, guarding negroes, went to Montgomery, 
Salem and \"icksburg, and after muster out, 
Aug. 8, 1865, returned to Madison. Dr. Delap's 
service was eminently creditable to his charac- 
ter as he served in the ranks and persistently 
refused promotion. 

He returned to Boscobel, where he began at 
once to .study for his pi'ofession, obtaining 



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througli his own efforts the means to pursue 
liis studies, clerking at Viroqua until 1871, 
when lie removed to Viola, Richland county, 
where he resided until January, 1889, the date 
of his removal to Richland Center. He pur- 
sued his medical studies as he found opportu- 
nity and entered the College of Pliysicians and 
Surgeons at Keokuk, Iowa, and took Iiis degree 
in 1880. He served 14 years as a .Justice of 
the Peace, and in 1884 was a member of the 
County Board. He belongs to G. A. R. Post 
No. 85, and is captain of John A. Logan Camp, 
Sons of Veterans. He is the Secretary of the 
Examining Board of Surgeons at Riclilaud 
Center. Dr. Delap is a man who deserves and 
receives the highest esteem of his generation, 
his private character being stainless and his 
public career a credit to his manhood. He was 
married in May, 1869, to Laura Kate, daughter 
of Dr. E. W. and Mary (Nelton) Tinker, a na- 
tive of Perry Co., Ohio. Myrtle M., Carrie 
Verne, Kate and Robert IL, are the names of 
the children belonging to the family. 






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K^vv.^x WIGHT WOOD, Monroe, Wis., mem- 




ber of G. A. R. Post No. 112, was born 
June 16, 1833, atSmithfield, Madison 
Co., New York. His father, Stephen Wood, 
married Betsey Loveland and they had six 
children all of whom are living (1890) except 
one named Elizabeth. A. L. Wood enlisted in 
Company H, 8th Wisconsin Infantry and was 
discharged for disability after two years; he re- 
enlisted in Company D, 1st Wisconsin Heavv 
Artillery and served nearly two years. Maria 
was tliinl in order of birth and married Richard 
McGoon ; William, B. L. and Dwiglit are the 
others. BotJi father and mother belonged to 
New England stock, identified with the first 
history of Die country. Tiiey moved to Mercer 



Co., Pa., in 1840, locating on a farm and four 
years after went to Exeter, Green Co., Wis., and 
finally removed to Monticello, whci'e the father 
died in 1879 at the age of 78 ; the mother died 
in Pennsylvania in 1840. Mr. Wood found 
himself obliged to take care of himself after 
coming to Wisconsin, assuming tlie responsibili- 
ties of self-maintenance and self-training when 
11 years old. He worked summers and for his 
; board winters, going to school and since the 
age mentioned he has lived in Exeter and 
Mount Pleasant until 1887, when he moved, 
September 1st, to Monroe. He has operated 
most of the time in the two-fold capacity of 
farmer and mason. He was married in 1858 
at Mount Pleasant to Rosella, daughter of 
Hiram and Priscilla (Moody) Heath man. She 
was born in 1843 and lier parents were natives 
of Ohio ; she is one of several children and the 
eldest; the others are Hiram, Valinda, Elmus, 
Clarissa, Samantha and George. All are living. 
The children of Mr. and Mrs. Wood numbered 
eight, two of whom died young. Six are living 
and are Edward, Jeanette, Adelaide, Albert, 
Ida and Almeda; Henry died at six and Elma 
at three years of age. 

Mr. Wood enlisted from Madison and was 
credited from Montrose in August, 1864. He 
enrolled in Company D, 1st Wisconsin Heavy 
Artillery, was nmstered at Madison and went 
thence to Fort Berwick, La., where the battery 
was stationed about six months on garrison 
duty. They went next to Brashear City and 
remained in garrison duty until the spring of 
1865, when all who needed medical treatment 
were ordered to report North. Mr. Wood was 
among those and he went to Marine Hosjiital, 
New Orleans, sick witii dianliea and sore eyes. 
He was transferred to Marine Hospital at 
Memphis, going on a hospital i^oat to St. Louis 
and tlience on the "Jennie Hopkins" to Prairie 
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pital until discharged July 29, 1865. He re- 
turned to Monticello and two years elapsed be- 
fore lie was able to work. He bought a farm 
which he occujiied four years, sold it and 
bought another in Mount Pleasant which he 
occupied one year. He sold again and bought 
in the immediate vicinity of Monticello and 
after three years ho removed to Monticello, re- 
taining ownership of his farm. He resided 
there about 14 j'ears when he fixed his resi- 
dence at Monroe. His health is such that he 
is able to do little labor. He is a man of ex- 
cellent character. 



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KUGH HALL, Columbus, Wis , mem- 
^ l)er of G. A. R. Post No. 14G, was 
born Jan. 14, 1843, at Plymouth, 
Windsor Co., Vermont. He is of English ex- 
traction in both lines of descent, his father and 
mother, Daniel and Maria (Brown) Hall, having 
been the descendants of ancestors of that na- 
tionality. The families of both were residents 
of New England from its earliest history and 
the parents went to Wisconsin and to Columbia 
county in 1842. The children, named in order 
of birth were Sarah A., Ralph, Galen, Hugh, 
Jonathan, Winfield and Addison. They were 
brought up on the farm in Columbia county 
which was the home of Mr. Hall of this account 
until be became a soldier at the age of 19 years. 
Aug. 14, 1862, he enlisted at Columbus in Com- 
pany G, 23d Wisconsin Infantry, Colonel Gup- 
pey, and has the pride and .satisfaction of having 
belonged to a command which elicited the 
widest praise for efficiency and bravery in 
action. (See sketch of Colonel John J. Guppey). 
He was mustered at Madison, Aug. 30, 18G2, 
and left the State September 15th for the front 
in the north of Kentucky where Kirby Smith 
was causing much terror with his guerrillas 



who threatened the invasion of that territory 
and of southern Ohio. The army was moving 
to fight at Perryville, whither Buell's forces 
were hurrying after worrying the rebels who 
were there for purposes of obtaining supplies, 
and the 23d remained at Covington and vicinity 
until after the battle of Perryville, when the 
regiment moved through Paris, Lexington and 
Louisville to Nicholasville and thence in 
November to Memphis to join the command of 
Sherman. Grant's plans were being formed for 
the possession of Vicksburg and after con- 
nection with the 1st Brigade, 10th Division and 
13th Corps the command went to the interior 
of Louisiana on a raid of destruction of stores 
and railroads. Mr. Hall was with Sherman in 
the Yazoo expedition and his first battle was 
fought at Arkansas Post, Jan. 11, 1863. Jan- 
uary, February and March were principally 
devoted to raiding expeditions with such of the 
regiment as were fit for duty, manj- men being 
sick from exposure to malaria, and many dying. 
The 23d moved with the forces of Grant to the 
rear of Vicksburg, crossed below Grand Gulf, 
which had proved too much for the force which 
expected to silence the batteries and compelled 
the landing at Bruinsburg. The regiment was 
in the fight at Port Gibson and took possession 
of the place, holding it as provost guard through 
the day. Afterwards the command moved to 
the Big Black River and was next in the action 
at Champion's Hill, fighting next in battle 
known as Black River Bridge, where the regi- 
ment captured the 60th Tennessee Infantry. 
May 19th the command was within three iniles 
of the works at Vicksburg and continued in the 
siege proper until the surrender. Mr. Hall was 
under rebel fire continuously for 48 days, and 
went immediately after the fall of Vicksburg to 
fight Johnston at Jackson. The next orders 
for change of base took the regiment to New 
Orleans and thence to Berwick City, La. In 



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an expedition in southwest Louisiana the regi- 
ment passed tlirough Franklin to VerrailHon 
and tlience througli Opelousas, fought at Bayou 
Barbeaux and went after a severe action to liglit 
at Carrion Crow Bayou. In tlie former engage- 
ment Colonel Guppey, whose bravery was 
lieralded all over the world, was wounded. At 
Carrion (.'row Bayou the regiment mustered 
less than 300 guns and after their first volley 
65 rebels were killed or wounded. With others 
of the regiment Mr. Hall was taken prisoner 
and taken to Alexandria and tliere confined in 
an old sugar mill for a month. While there 
he tried to escape but nearh' lost his life when 
retaken. The prisoners were taken to a camp 
in the woods and there held until exchanged. 
Mr. Hall was in durance two months when 
paroled and exchanged which was effected near 
Opelou.sas, La. While on the way to exchange 
the prisoners were corralled like cattle in a 
barnyard in which was a sink-iiole filled with 
carcasses and of this the men were obliged to 
make u.se although a clear stream ran rippling 
within earshot. After exchange Mr. Hall went 
to New Orleans and to Matagorda Bay, Texas, 
where he found his regiment. In the spring 
of 18G4 the regiment went to tiie Red River 
expedition with Banks, marched to Pleasant 
Hill and to fight at Sabine Cross Roads where 
the expedition received its,deatb blow and Mr. 
Hall was twice wounded. He received a bullet 
in his left forearm and through his right hand. 
After his wounds were dressed he was sent 
from the field hospital to the U. 8. Hospital at 
New Orleans. The night preceding the fight 
he had marched until 11 o'clock and was called 
out two hours later to go into action, was in the 
ranks all the following day and the next night 
marched 18 miles on the retreat, with his hands 
bleeding incessantly and weak from want of 
rest and loss of blood, but, remembering his 
experience in a rebel prison he managed to 



keep up with the lines, fearing capture. When 
he was better he received a furlough home and 
rejoined his command at Morganzia. Soon 
after he was in a skirmish at Bayou Sara in 
which the man in the rank before him was 
killed, a sliell shattering his head and covering 
Mr. Hall with blood and brains. The next 
movement was to Helena and thence to New 
Orleans, preparatory to moving to the defenses 
of Mobile, going to Dauphin Island and thence 
to Spanish Fort, taking position in tiie trenches 
after a severe march and over obstructions of 
the worst possible character. After a few days 
the command went to assist at Blakely and 
supported the charge which resulted in the 
capitulation of the fortress. The regiment re- 
mained in Louisiana and Alabama until dis- 
charged at Mobile, July 4, 1865, and returned 
to Wisconsin. 

Mr. Hall went to Minnesota for a .«hort time, 
and returned to his old liome where he engaged 
eight years in farming. He went to Madison 
and engaged with a wholesale house as travel- 
ing salesman, handling windmills and agricul- 
tural implements. In 1884 he established his 
business in the same line and has built up a 
prosperous trade in pumps, windmills, drilling 
machines and agricultural implements. He 
was married in the town of Hampden, Colum- 
bia Co., Wis., in 1875, to Ellen M., daughter of 
Edward and Mary (Long) Fairbanks and their 
children are named Mabel and Blanche M. 
Mr. Hall is .Junior \'ice Commander of Frank 
A. Haskall Post in 1890 and is a member of 
the Order of Modern Woodmen at Fall River. 
He is a Republican and has served as delegate 
to county and State Conventions. He is 
Deputy Sheriff of Columbia county. 



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'^^^^^f^^ILUkU MILES, Reedsburg, Wis., 
nM' member of G. A. R. Post No. 13, 
li^aL was born Oct. 6, 1832, near 
Springtiekl, Oliio. His father, John Miles, was 
a native of Virginia and married Lucinda, 
daugliter of Major Spencer Smith, a veteran of 
tlie war of 1812, and an officer in command of 
a battalion at New Orleans, serving through 
the entire secoufi war with Great Britain. 
William Miles, paternal grandfather of Mr. 
Miles, was a soldier of 1812 and a descendant 
from English ancestry ; in the maternal line 
the lineage of Mr. Miles is of Holland origin. 

His father's family included six boys and 
one girl named in order of birth, William, 
John, George C, David B., Spencer, James and 
Minerva J. Tlie record of iVmr of these sons 
shows the patriotic cjuality of the blood they 
inherited as they served in the cause of the 
Union during the civil war. George was a 
soldier in Company A, Gtii Wisconsin Infantry 
and was killed in action at South Mountain, 
Sept. 14, 1862 ; Spencer was a soldier in Com- 
pany B, 12th Wisconsin Infantry and was 
killed in the charge at Atlanta July 21, 1864; 
he was Orderly Sergeant of his company ; 
James was First Sergeant of Company B, 12th 
Wisconsin Infantry, was wounded July 21, 
1864 in the charge of Bald Hill, in which his 
brother was killed and he lost an arm ; he re- 
sides at Reedsburg. Minerva is unmarried. 

Mr. Miles was trained in a knowledge of his 
father's calling, that of mason, while a lad and 
early in life became an assistant in sustaining 
the fortunes of the family. In the full of 1853 
he went alone to Wisconsin whither the famil}- 
followed in a few months and in the summer 
of 1854 a homestead was fixed at Reedsburg. 
Mr. Miles located on coming to Wisconsin at 
Madison, where he entered a law ottice to com- 
plete a course of study for that profes.sion which 
he had begun in his native State. After re- i 



j moval to Reedsburg he studied under the 
direction of J. Mackey, an attorney of that place, 
and was admitted to the Bar in 1856, to prac- 
tice in the subordinate courts and afterwai'ds 
was admitted to all the State courts of Wiscon- 
sin. On establishing his business as an attor- 
ney at Reedsburg he formed a partnership 
witli Giles Stevens, their relations continuing 
until both members of the firm entered the 
army. Mr. Miles enlisted in March, 1862, in 
the 12th Wisconsin Battery, Light Artillery, 
and on the organization was made Junior 1st 
Lieutenant. The battery went from rendez- 
vous to St. Louis, the men being sent forward 
in squads to .Jefferson Barracks where they 
received equipments — guns and horses — and 
the section to which Lieutenant Miles belonged 
was sent thence May 6, 1862, and was first in 
action at Farmington ; he went tlience to the 
siege of Corinth and engaged in the work 
which made the command prominent in that 
campaign. He was in the chase after the 
rebels afterwards and in the subsequent opera- 
tions of the battery until the fight at luka, in 
which he was one of those who were warmly 
commended for splendid service. He was 
again in action Oct. 3d and 4th at Corinth 
where the battery again distinguished itself. 
He remained with the command until failing 
health compelled his resignation which was 
accepted and by the advice of the regimental 
surgeons and others he went to Ohio to recruit 
his health if possible and as soon as he reached 
the Buckeye State the enthusiasm and activity 
prevailing led him into the recruiting service, 
in which he was invested with full authority 
from the War Department to muster in or out 
of any organization in the volunteer service, 
with headquarters at Cincinnati, Ohio. He re- 
mained in this until the close of the war, when 
he formed a buf-iness connection as an attorney 
at Wapakoneta, Ohio. He reached prominence 



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in citizenship and in his profession, serving the 
municipality two terms as Mayor, Police Justice 
and Judge. He removed to Reedsburg on the 
demise of his parents, wliere he re-estahlislied 
his business on a permanent and profitable 
basis, and he pursued its relations until failing 
health com[)eiled him to abandon the heavier 
duties of the vocation. In 1887 lie was elected 
Justice and has since attended to the duties of 
that position. He is unmarried. Lieutenant 
Miles is justly considered as one of the reliable 
citizens of Reedsburg, where he iuis been iden- 
tified with the best interests of the place and 
community. His character is above reproach 
and his abilities and learning as a jurist have 
made him a foremost member of the legal 
fraternity in his section. He has served in 
official positions in his Post and be belongs to 
the Masonic Order at Reedsburg. 



nr^REDERICK TIES, Spring Grove, 
' I v'/^ Green Co., Wis., a member of G. A. R. 
-*^ Post No. 90, is one of tlie leading citi- 

zens of his locality. He was born .Jan. 4, 1841, 
in West)>halia, Prussia, and is the son of Henry 
Thies (which is the family name as originally 
spelled) who was a farmer in his native land 
an<l was a government official of the dass of 
foresters, his father, Carl Thies, occupying the 
same position in the confidence of the Slate. 
He was born July 25, 1796, and was thirteen 
years old when Napoleon was pushing his 
schenjes in that portion of Europe. Carl Thies, 
a brother of Henry, was a sharpshooter in the 
Government service and was appointed for- 
ester according to the laws and customs of the 
country; his son Carl was also a soldier and 
was made Secretary of the Foresters' Depart- 
ment. He is deceased. The mother of Mr. 
Ties, Sophia Mideka before marriage, was born 



in 1804 and married in 1.S2G. With her hus- 
band, six daughters and two sons she came to 
America. Two children are deceased; Henry 
P. died in November, ISSS, in Spring Grove; 
Sophie, eldest daughter, Mrs. Lentz, died in 
1881 at Spring Grove. Louisa is tlie wife of 
Mr. Arnsmeier; Wilbelmine nu\rried Fred 
Tbilka of Stevenson Co., Ill; Josephine married 
Fred Waldhoof, of Westphalia, Prussia, village 
of Lathe, formerly Lippe Detmold. Elizabeth 
married Philip Heitken, of Gratiot, Wis.; 
Amelia married Henry Bechmeier, of Stevenson 
Co., 111., a former soldier of the civU war. The 
family removed directly from the port of New 
York to Spring Grove, and located on a farm 
in July, 1S5S, where they passed the remain- 
der of their lives. Prior to entering the army 
Mr. Ties was a farm assistant in the vicinity 
of his parents' home, excepting a few weeks 
passed in school. He had already obtained a 
good education in the schools of Prussia. Oct. 
16, 1861, he enlisted from Pedee in Company 
B, 18tb Wisconsin Infantry, and was mustered 
at Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee, and left the 
State March 30th for St. Louis whence they 
went to take position at Shiloh, arriving there 
without rations and without equipments for 
comfort. They went to their tents without 
food and went into action the next morning 
without warning, without experience and with- 
out rations. It was a terrible experience; at 
the close of the fight of the second day less 
than 250 men were fit for furtiier service, the 
remainder being killed, wounded or missing, 
and the Colonel, James S. Alban, was dead. 
The partial roster of the battles of Mr. Ties is 
as follows: — Siege of Corinth, luka, Corinth, 
Lake Providence and Jackson. In the last 
named action he was wounded through the 
hand and went to the hosj)ital; the troops moved 
away and left their wounded without protec- 
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rebels May 1(), 1863. Uefore this he was in 
every movement with his regiment, going 
November 3d, after Corinlii to Grand Junction 
and thence, on the "iSth to Yocono, soutli of 
Holly Springs, and thence to Moscow, Tenn. 
In January he went to the field of preparation 
for the siege of Viclcsburg and worked as a 
laborer on the levees and canals besides per- 
forming liis regular military duty. He was 
paroled soon after his capture, held two weeks 
and taken to Richmond, where he remained 
one night at Libby; thence he went to City 
Point and Annapolis, where his wound received 
medical treatment, and he was sent thence, 
when sufficiently recovered to Parole Camp at 
St. Louis to await exchange. When this form- 
ality was effected he joined the command at 
Huntsville, Ala., where he veteranized and, 
re-enlisting as a private was made Corporal. 
He was afterward commissioned 2d Lieuten- 
ant, and, although not mustered, served as 
such until his discharge. When Sherman en- 
deavored to reinforce Roseci'ans at Chattanooga 
he left the 4th Minnesota, 93d Illinois and 
ISth Wisconsin to guard the pass at Allatoona 
and to protect the large quantity of supplies 
there. Hood sent French to attack the garri- 
son, but he had mistaken the character and 
purpose of the men who held the position. 
Only 1,500 Union men withstood the assault of 
6,000 rebels but when French sent a truce flag 
asking for surrender to avoid bloodshed Corse 
replied that when he surrendered not a man 
would be left of his command. Every avaiilable 
man was in the fight, officers, cooks, teamsters 
and every soul had a gun and used it with 
such effect that at nightfall the rebels fled in 
disorder leaving nearly as many on the field 
as the numbers of the Uniou command com- 
prised. History saysof Alatoona Pass: — There 
was never a more gallant action. One field 
officer survived the fight. The veterans then 



had an opportunity to take their furlough, 
which was impossible at the time of re-enlist- 
ment and Mr. Ties passed 30 days at home re- 
joining his command at Newbern, N. C, whither 
he went from Annapolis, the Grand March 
across the State of Georgia having been made 
and Mr. Ties first saw Sherman at Goldsboro 
after taking leave of his command for a visit to 
Wisconsin. From Goldsboro they went to 
Raleigh where intelligence of- the murder of 
Lincoln and the surrender of Lee was received, 
and on the 2Gth of the same month Johnston 
laid down his weapons of rebellion. Mr. Ties 
accompanied the command on the march 
through \^irginia and to Washington and after 
the Grand Review went to Louisville, camping 
at Woodlavvn until mustered out July 18, 1865. 

He returned home and purchased his farm 
on Spring Prairie on which he has since 
resided. He was married Dec. 13, 1863, at 
Spring Grove to R. A. Eminger, a lady of that 
place and a native of New Ashland Co., Ohio, 
who died' Jan. 16, 1884, after becoming the 
mother of seven children, named: — Abbie S., 
Sept. 29, 1866; Harriet F., Oct. 16, 1868; 
Nellie J., Sept. 23, 1870; Mary C, Feb. 21, 
1873; Allethe J., March 24, 1875; James 
R., Sept. 13, 1877; Fred M., April 18,1880; 
Harriet died March 18, 1881. The death of 
the wife and mother was a heavy trial to her 
husband and her young children sustained a 
loss that will be a permanent sorrow. Mr. Ties 
was married to Jane Mooney of Brodhead, 
April 14, 1886. She is a native of the State of 
New York. 

The character and career of Mr. Ties have 
been such as to deserve special commemora- 
tion. His qualifications, business integrity and 
executive ability have called him continually 
to official position, and he has served manj' 
years as Chairman of the Town Board. He 
has also served as Assessor and is always prom- 



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inent and active in town politics. He is Cap- 
tain of the Spring Grove Reserves, an organi- 
zation wliich is a portion of the Green County 
\'eteran's Association. He is a leading agri- 
culturist and his family is second to none. He 
is a Christian man and was a soldier who 
served his country to the uttermost. He is 
enthusiastic in Grand Army matters and his 
tenacity of purpose, will power and influence 
personally is illustrated in an occasion in his 
army experience. He was ill of typhoid fever 
and lay on a board on the ground in the field 
hospital, liis illness being so severe as to cause 
his comrades to remark, as one after another 
was borne out in death, " Fred will be the 
next." When the hos])ital was established at 
Keokuk, it was proposed to remove him thither 
but he begged to stay and recovered sufficiently 
to fight at Corinth although hardly strong 
enough to hold his gun. 



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OIIN M WILLIAMS, Belleville, Wis., 
member of G. A. K. Post No. ]'21, was 
born in Granville, Washington Co., New 
York, June 19, 1843. His father, Horace Wil- 
liams, was a native of the State of New York, 
and married Juliet Smith, who was born at- 
Skaneateles in the Empire State. Mr. Williams 
traces ancestral stock to Welsh progenitors ; he 
went to Wisconsin, locating at Belleville with 
his parents in 1854, and was variously occu- 
pied in the interims of school until he entered 
the army. He enlisted when 18 years old. 
May i), 18G1, in Company G, '2d Wisconsin In- 
fantry, for three months. He was in the ser- 
vice 11 weeks and was honorably discharged. 
Aug. 27, 1801, he again eidisted in Company H, 
8th Wisconsin Infantry, and served three years 
and twenty-two days. He was mustered Sept. 
11th, and left the SUite Oct. 12th, going to St. 



I^uis, and the record of the regiment is his, 
the connnand never forming line of battle, 
appearing on dress parade or stacking arms with- 
out him. He did not miss a march, skirmish 
or battle, and in his roster includes New Mad- 
rid, Island No. 10, Farmington, siege of Cor- 
inth, luka, battle of Corintii, siege of VicksVmrg, 
Jackson, Mechanicsburg, and the experiences 
of the Meridian expedition. Red River expedi- 
tion. Fort de Russey, Henderson Hill, Cane 
River, Pleasant Hill, eight days' skirmishing 
near Alexandria, marching nights and fighting 
days, Cloutierville, Mausurara, Bayou de 
Glaize, Lake Chicot, Hurricane Creek and 
Abbeville. After a most tedious march to Mem- 
phis he received discharge, Sept. 21, 1864. 
Feb. 6, 1865, Mr. Williams again enlisted in 
Company A, 1st Regiment, Hancock's Veteran 
Army Corjts and was detailed on recruiting 
service at ^hldison, Wis. Aj)ril 9, he was trans- 
ferred to Company C, 9th Regiment of the same 
command and wentto Washington June 10th on 
detached service. Sept. 30, 1865, he was de- 
tailed to go to the arsenal at Rock Island, 111., 
under appointment as Ordnance Sergeant, his 
papers being dated Oct. 14th. Feb. 0, 1866, he 
was raustereil out. 



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ICilAKD BOTTRELL, Eagle, Wau- 
kesha Co., Wis., a former soldier of 
the civil war and formerly a member 
of Franklin Bigelow Post, (now extinct) was 
born May 17, 1841, in Devon.';hire, England. 
Samson and Sarah (Edwards) Bottrell, his 
parents, had four children, Mr. Bottrell of this 
sketch being the youngest. When he was 
about six years old they emigrated to America, 
landing at the port of New York in 1847. 
They located in Troy, Walworth county, where 
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iiig Wisconsin. The father remained on the 
liomestead until liis death in 1879. Mr. Bot- 
trell passed liis childhood days on the home 
farm and while still in j-outh, he began the 
management of his own affairs, engaging as a 
farm assistant in summer and attending school 
during the sevei'al winters until lie entered the 
army, which he had long desired to do. Sept. 
30, 1861, he enlisted in Cbrapany I, 13th Wis- 
consin Infantry and passed the first weeks after- 
ward in rendezvous at Camp Treadvvay, .Janes- 
ville, went thence to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 
with the expectation of joining the " Jim Lane " 
expedition, but that plan came to naught and 
after a fruitless march to Fort Scott they went 
on another to Fort Riley to engage in the New 
Mexico expedition. That plan was also 
abandoned and the regiment went to Fort 
Leavenworth and soon after to Columbus, Ky. 
Their next move was to Fort Henry and thence 
to Fort Donelson, where tliey remained and 
engaged in active military duty. They were 
in a skirmish at Rickett's Hill, chased Jlorgan 
unsuccessfully, fought Woodward at Garretts- 
ville and in December was in pursuit of Forrest 
who was endeavoring to interfere with the com- 
munications of Grant in West Tennessee. After- 
wards they acted as guard on the Tennessee 
River and marched to Fort Donelson which 
was under assault from Forrest but the repulse 
had taken place before their arrival. They 
were then in camp at Stevenson after August 
27tli, guarding supplies and watching the 
operations of Forrest on the railroad where that 
rebel was bent on destruction. They were on 
duty at Chattanooga where, perliaps, the regi- 
ment was in its greatest danger, the garrisons 
being insufficient and the water low, which 
endangered the supplies, the communications 
being cut off and they remained there until the 
arrival of Joe Hooker with two corps from the 
army of the Potomac. Starvation was im- 



minent and the arrival of the fighting hero 
was a source of the greatest satisfaction. The 
regiment went into quarters at Edgefield where 
re-enlisting took place and after the reorganiza- 
tion in the spring they were assigned to the 1st 
Brigade, 4th Division, 20th Army Corps, ex- 
pecting to ofierate against Atlanta, but their 
operations were changed to duty on the rail- 
roads and to guarding the river between Steven- 
sou and Decatur. June4t]i they went toClays- 
ville and engaged in patrol duty on the river, 
throwing up fortifications to prevent Forrest's 
operations and through September and October 
they remained in that service. They moved 
from there to prevent Hood's retreat and also 
to see that he did not make a change of base to 
East Tennessee ; he was sent flying south with a 
dismembered army and never again had a com- 
mand. In March the 13th was re-assigned to 
the 2d Brigade, General Beatty, 3d Division, 
General Wood, 4th Corps, General Stanley, with 
Colonel Lyon in command of the regiment pre- 
paratory to going to join the army of Virginia. 
They went to Jonesboro where they remained 
until April 20th when the intelligence of the 
end of the war and the murder of the President 
reached them. They returned to Nashville 
where some of the regiment were mustered out 
and the veterans went to New Orleans, and 
thence in July to Indianola, Texas. Their 
next move was to Green Lake, where the regi- 
ment suffered from sickness, the men being 
poisoned by the lake water which they drank 
and 65 died. Finally, after several changes 
they reached San Antonio where they re- 
mained until they were mustered out 
November 24th, and they immediately 
came to Wisconsin. Mr. Bottrell was with the 
regiment during his entire period of service 
except the month he passed at home after 
veteranizing in January, 1864, and during two 
years of the time he served as Corporal. A 



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j)ait of the time he was in the regimental band 
and after reaching Texas was detailed to the 
Adjutant's office. After being discharged he 
returned to Troy and engaged in iarniing 
which has since been his chief occupation. 
March 17, 18G6, he was married to Sarah, 
daughter of Carl Beach, and their two children 
are named Leo D. and Elbert C. 




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ONRAD GRODE, Milwaukee, Wis., 
member of G. A. R. Post E. B. Wol- 
cott No. 1, was born in tlie Grand 
Ducliy of Hessen Darmstadt, Germany, Oct. 5, 
1S2U, and is the son of John and Anna Judith 
Cirode. His parents removed with their family 
to America in 1846 and landed at the port of 
New York, May oth of that year. They left 
the same night on the Hudson River for 
Albany and traveled thence on the railroad to 
Buffalo, whence they journeyed to Milwaukee, 
Wisconsin, on the lakes. Soon after, the father 
went to Germantown, Washington county, 
where he bought 80 acres of land which was 
tlie homestead for about a quarter of a century. 
Tlie senior Grode went thence to Winona, 
Minn., in 1869, where he died. The mother 
died on tlie homestead in Germantown in 
1859. 

Mr. Grode, after he had passed the time 
required by tiie laws of his native land in 
school, learned the trade of a cabinet maker 
and after he came to America he remained on 
the farm three years. In 1850 he located at 
Milwaukee where he engaged in the business 
of a contractor and builder and became jjrom- 
inent in tliat vocation. As examples of his 
work may be mentioned the Mitchell bank 
building, St. Joseph's church and others equally 
jtroiuinent. 

When the call came for German troops he 



hastened to the defense of his adopted country 
and enlisted at Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 18, 1862, 
in Company A, 26th Wisconsin Infantry and 
went to rendezvous with the regiment at Camp 
Sigel preliminary to moving to the front to be 
assigned to the Corps of General Sigel. A day 
was passed at AVashington and the regiment 
marched thence to Fairfax C. II., where Mr. 
Grode performed his first service for the United 
States in carrying dispatches to the headquar- 
ters of General Steiuwehr, for which he was 
detailed by Col. W. H. Jacobs. He went through 
unsettled territory, through bushes and forest 
undergrowth, and expected momentarily to be 
taken by the rebels, as every jwrtion of the 
woods was patroled by them. But by skillful 
hiding and caution lie succeeded in his mis- 
sion. On many pages of this book is the story 
of the 26th Wisconsin related in all its details. 
(See sketches of General Winkler and Colonel 
Boebel). The experiences of Mr. Grode were 
identical with those of others until his military 
career was interrupted by the fate of war in the 
form of severe wounds, and he rejoined his 
command to perform distinguished service in 
behalf of Wisconsin and the Union after par- 
tial recovery. On his roster appear Chancel- 
lorsville, (iettysburg, W^auhatchie, Lookout 
Mountain and Mission Ridge, together with all 
the miscellaneous duty performed by the com- 
mand in the interims of these leading actions 
which cover with honor every man who par- 
ticipated therein. 

Lieutenant Grode received his wounds in the 
first day's fighting at Gettysburg and his name 
was mentioned in the dispatches. He was act- 
ing in tlie capacity of chief in command of his 
company, his C4iptaiii being wounded, wlieii lie 
was hit and one of his injuries shows the 
strategy of the rebels in their deadly work, as 
Lieutenant Grode was shot with a double 
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PERSONAL RECORDS. 



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through the upper purt of the lung, passed 
nearly through his hody, was then deflected 
and one portion passed out, while the other, a 
full-sized minie ball, was cut from near the 
spine, between tlie sixth and seventh vertebrce, 
two days later by Dr. Huebschmann, who 
claimed that there were two missiles. It was 
his theory that they w'ere separated bj' striking 
the breast bone. A few minutes before this 
second wound a bullet struck the fleshy portion 
of the right thigh. Mr. Grode rejoined his 
regiment in time to move to the relief of the 
Western Army under Hooker, although still in 
a feeble condition. He contracted rheumatism 
in consequence of his enfeebled state while 
wading the river at Chattanooga before he was 
fully recovered. He has ever since been a suf- 
ferer from this disease, his ability to walk being 
nmch affected. He has also suffered with in- 
flammation of the eyes. Before he left Wis- 
consin he was made Corporal and he was pro- 
moted to 1st Sergeant at Fairfax C. H., where 
he was also made 2d Sergeant ; at Staftbrd C. H. 
he was promoted to od and 4th Sergeant and 
was there, after a searching examination, made 
2d Lieutenant. November 17, 18G3, in Look- 



out Valley, he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant, 
and continued in service until Jan. 27, 1864, 
when on account of disability he resigned and 
returned to Milwaukee, where he passed months 
before he was able to resume active connection 
with civil life. He passed about six years in 
attempting to carry on his former business 
which he finally abandoned by advice of his 
physician. Through the kindness of friends 
he was enabled to establish a book store and 
has since conducted the business of a stationer, 
w'ith the assistance of his wife. 

at Milwau- 
and Marj' 
and their 



He was married Aug. 30, 1855, 



kee to Sibilla, daughter of John 
Katherine Agnes (Bell) Schmitz 
children were born as follows: John Coiirad, 
Oct. 5, 1850; Peter Joseph, Nov. 14, 1858; 
Charles Fidelis, April 24, 1874. The oldest 
son died Feb. 29, 1880, and the youngest June 
19, 1878. Mrs. Grode was born Jan. 3, 1837, 
in Flamersheim, Germany and came to Amer- 
ica with her parents Aug. 11, 1847. Her 
father was born in September, 1794, and her 
mother July 12, 1798 ; they were both natives 
of the village of Flamersheim and were mar- 
ried Oct. 27, 1818. 




THE MAN WITH THE MUSKET. 



(Publislied by permission of the Century Company.) 




OLDIERS pass on from this rage of renown, 

Tliis ant-hill, commotion and strife. 
Pass by where the marbles and bronzes look down 

With their fast-frozen gestures of life, 
On, out to the nameless who lie 'neath the gloom 

Of the pitying cypress and j)ine; 
Your man is the man of the sword and the plume, 

But the man of the musket is mine. 

I knew him ! l)y all tliat is noble, I knew 

This commonplace hero I name! 
I've camped with him, marched with him, fought with him, too, 

In the swirl of the fierce battle-flame ! 
Laughed with liim, cried with him, taken a part 

Of liis canteen and blanket, and known 
That the throb of this chivalrous prairie bo3''s heart 

Was an an.swering stroke of my own. ■ 

I knew liim, 1 tell you! And, also, I knew 

When he fell on the battle-swept ridge, 
That the poor battered body that lay there in blue 

Was only a plank in the bridge 
Over which some should pass to a fame 

That shall shine while the high stars siiall shine! 
Your hero is known by an echoing name, 

But the man of the musket is mine. 

I knew him I All through him the good and tlie bad 

Kan together and equally free; 
But I judge as I trust Christ will judge the brave lad, 

For death made him noble to me! 
In the cyclone of war, in the battle's eclij^se, 

Life shook out its lingering sands. 
And he died with the names that he loveil on his lips, 

His musket still grasped in his hands! 
Up close to the Hag my soldier went ilown. 

In the salient front of the line: 
You may lake for your heroes the men of renown. 

But tlie man of the musket is mine! — II. S. Taylor, Evanston, 111. 




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''' ~ ^ ASSENA BERTHIER ER- 

SKINE, Racine,Wis., a lead- 
ing citizen of Southern Wis- 
consin, was born at Royal- 
ton, Worcester Co., Mass., 
Dec. 19, 1819, aud is the son 
of Walter and Margaret (Bowen) 
Erskine. The family is of Scotch 
origin and was founded in America 
early in the 17tli century by three 
brothers Erskine, whose descen- 
dants are disseminated through- 
out the United States. John Er- 
skine, the grandfather of Mr. Er- 
skine, went from Winchester, Mass., liis birth- 
place, to Oswego county. New York,where he 
died at the age of 92 years. Thomas Bowen, 
maternal great-grandfather of Mr. Erskine, 
lived in Warren, Rhode Island, whence he re- 
moved to Richmond, N. H., in 1767, where his 
son Zephaniah was born Oct. 10, 1776. Walter 
Erskine died wliile his son was still young and 
his widow, Margaret, the daughter of Zephaniah 
Bowen, afterwards married Maturin M. Ballon, 
a member of a distinguished family in Whit- 
ingham, Vermont. Mr. Erskine of this sketch 
has two sisters, Emugenia and Mandana, who 
still survive in 1890. 

Mr. Erskine obtained a fair education in the 
schools of the period and also learned the trade 



3^s-(^ 



of a carpenter which he followed several years. 
In 1849 he made a voyage around Cape Horn 
to California and joined a company of miners 
who had started a claim which yielded most 
promisingly for a few days, when the rising of 
the river comjjelled them to abandon it. Mr. 
Erskine remained in California, ajiplying his 
skill as a mechanic to local enterprises until he 
decided to make that State a permanent home 
and he returned East for his family. But old 
influences proved too strong to tear asunder 
with ease and he remained East until .June, 
1852, when he started for a section of the West 
less remote and went to Racine, Wisconsin, to 
prospect for business. He found the oppor- 
tunity he sought with J. I. Case and the result 
was his formation of a relationship with him 
which still exists. He became foreman of the 
growing works of the J. I. Case Threshing Ma- 
chine Company and in June, 1863, became the 
owner of a quarter interest therein, associated 
with Messrs. Case, Bull and Robert H. Baker. 
The combined skill, interest and abilities of 
these gentlemen have erected one of the most 
immense industries in the United States, of 
which an outline is briefly presented in the 
sketch of Mr. Case on another page. Mr. Er- 
skine has sustained the same connection with 
the business continuously since 1853. In 1885 
he connected hinisilf with the Racine Wagon 



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& Carriage Ck)mpany, and he is a Director in 
the First National Bank of Racine, and in the 
First National Bank of Burlington, Racine 
county. He is President of the First National 
Bank at Fargo, N. D. Altiiough his busi- 
ness relations have been of the most arduous 
character he has found time to answer to the 
calls of his obligations as a citizen and served 
as Mayor of Racine in 1869-70-71-79. His 
name led the subscrijition list for a soldiers' 
monument at Racine with a generosity which 
characterizes him. He is a liberal supporter of 
the several religious denominations of Racine 
and officiated as Director and Treasurer of Tay- 
lor Orphan Asylum five j-ears. During the 
period of the war he was active in support of 
the Government and ii\ the raising and equip- 
ping of soldiers. He gave a son to the cause, 
and the inettaceable record of the rebellion on 
his household is marked by a soldier's grave in 
the cemetery at Racine. 

Mr. Erskine was married at Westford, Mass., 
April 7, 1841, to Susan, daughter of William 
and Hannah Perry, who were both direct de- 
scendants of Henry Leland, founder of the Le- 
land family in America in 1652. She is one of 
a family of ten children, and her parents died 
at Natick, Mass. Five children were born to 
Mr. and Mrs. Erskine, of whom three survive. 
Freeman W. Erskine, oldest son, enlisted May 
14, 1864, at Racine, in Company F, 39th Wis- 
consin Infantry, and died at Memphis, Tenn., 
Jul}' 18, 1864, of typhoid and malarial fever. 

The protrait of Mr. Erskine appears on page 
826. It will be received by the patrons of this 
work with heartfelt ]i]easure. 

W LEXANDER McMILLAN, La Ci-osse, 

^/^yV ^Vis. To the people of Wisconsin in 

-A^^''^^ the section where Mr. McMillan has 

been a resident almost four decades, his name 



has become the synonym of integrity, rectitude 
and public spirit. He is one of the men of 
whom the world is coming to take just recog- 
nizance for the part they have played in 
its history and development and in simpU' 
biography will the generations to come form a 
true idea of the progress and advancement of 
the New World. 

Alexander McMillan was born Oct. 23, 1825, 
at Finch, Stormont Co., Ontario, Dominion of 
Canada. He is of unmixed Scotch lineage, his 
ancestral generations including his parents, 
having been born and bred on the heaths of 
"Auld Scotia." They were clansmen and 
strong allies of the issues which has made and 
kept Scotland statuesque in the history of the 
world. In her pride and self-respect she stands 
like a monument of greatness, like a tribute to 
freedom from the selfish struggles of nations for 
supremacy ; Scotland can aflbrd her disinter- 
estedness in the light of her matchless disregard 
of national supremacy. Duncan and Mary 
(McMillan) McMillan, the parents of Alexander, 
were born in Lochaber, luvernesshire, Scotland, 
and emigrated to Canada in 1815. The father 
was a merchant in Glasgow some years prior to 
removal to America, and on arrival in the 
Dominion settled near Cornwall, in the town of 
Finch, where lie engaged in farming. Ten of 
the children born to himself and wife reached 
mature life. One died young. They were 
named in order of birth Daniel, .John, Christian, 
Mary, Alexander, Angus D. B., Catherine, 
Margaret, Ewin H., Duncan D. and Allan. 
The latter died when 14 months old. John, 
Daniel and Catherine are not living. The after 
lives of the parents were passed on the Canadian 
farm and they left a record for piety, thrift 
and uprightness which still reflect a blessed 
memory to their surviving children. The 
senior McMillan was an elder in the 
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teachings in his home circle still exercises its 
inllueiices over his sons, who are types of man- 
hood which would delight him if he could take 
cognizance of their careers. They received 
such education as he could give them, Alexan- 
der attending the common schools and working 
on the farm until he reached the period of legal 
freedom when he assumed the burden of his 
own support and conflict with the world. In 
1846 he went to the State of New York, and 
in 1850 went to Madison, Wis., meanwhile 
teaching and pursuing a course of study, of 
which he felt himself to be in need. He was a 
natural linguist and acquired a practical knowl- 
edge of German and also an uncommon ac- 
quaintance with the Gaelic language. He 
taught in tlie evening schools at Madison three 
nights each week for a time, and after passing 
a year there as a clerk, he went to Portage City, 
Wis., where he spent some months, similarly 
employed. He had worked with an end in 
view, and with true Scotch thrift and economy 
had saved his earnings and, in 1852, went to 
La Crosse where an opening for the application 
of his growing business energies presented itself. 
He formed a partnership with his brother .John 
in the logging and lumber business, the firm 
of J. & A. McMillan taking the first log raft 
down the Mississippi Eiver from Black River 
to St. Louis in the spring of 1853. The same 
qualities which had inaugurated their enter- 
prise ensured its success and it was pressed with 
all the energ}', forethought and perseverance 
its proprietors possessed ; growing to immense 
proportions, the firm style becoming in 1864, 
J. it A. & D. D. McMillan, by the admission of 
a younger brother. The style changed a year 
later to A. &D. D. McMillan through the death 
of the senior brother. Experience and the na- 
tural expansion of a well directed business led 
the company to extend its interests and 
in 1864 the Black River Improvement Com- 



pany was organized with one of the brothers as 
President. As a sample of the business trans- 
acted by the McMillans in lumbering may be 
quoted the doings of one year in which they 
owned 24,000,000 feet of logs and another j'ear 
in which they sold to W. .J. Young & Co., of 
Clinton, Iowa, 15,000,000 feet, the contract 
amounting to §180,000. The Black River Im- 
provement Company was designed for the 
moving of logs cut in its vicinity and the enter- 
prise is duly appreciated by its beneficiaries. 
Mr. McMillan became President of the La 
Crosse Gas Light Company in 1864 and after 
the formation of the Electric Light Company, 
in 1885, the interest was sold to that corpora- 
tion. 

In October, 1878, Mr. McMillan became by 
purchase, sole owner of the flouring mills at 
Neshonoc, Wis., and known by the same name, 
and with which he had been connected five 
years. Under his management the plant has 
become extensive and famous for the merit of 
its products. From a sawmill in 1852 the 
establishment has grown to be one of the 
largest mills for local manufacture in Western 
Wisconsin, having been wholly remodeled in 
1881 under the personal supervision of Mr. 
McMillan and now possessing one of the best 
water powers in the State. At West Salem, 
in La Crosse Co., where the mills are situated is 
the fine stock farm of Mr. McMillan, where he 
devotes time and monej' to the improvement 
of cattle and horses and in this demonstrates 
how strong are the first formed tastes of early 
life; the strong contrast between his early and 
later farming days attbrding him one of the 
keenest of the many delights of his life. 
His stables show some fine samples of Hamble- 
tonians of recorded speed and one valued at 
§10,000; and his herds exhibit a valuable col- 
lection of Alderney cattle. 

Mr. McMillan has never posed before the 



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j)ublic as a politician or in any other attitude 
than that of a citizen witli other citizens. His 
Scotch nature precludes his assuming the 
appearance of being anything but what he is — 
a simple citizen of a Republic — but his opulent, 
generous, sympathetic nature has kept him 
constantly to the fore in many projects that 
included a wide field of usefulness to the 
general public. He purchased the " Brick " 
Pomeroy Opera House Block, refitted it and 
kept it open for entertainments until the new 
theatre building was constructed. Also he has 
added to his testimonials of effort the construc- 
tion of several business blocks which are as 
ornamental as useful to the city which is proud 
to possess him as a citizen. He has performed 
his share of municipal duty in the capacity of 
Councilman, and on the County Board ; also as 
Mayor and Assembly ; he was elected to the 
former position in 1871, and in 1873 to the 
latter, serving in both with a consistency and 
ability characteristic of himself and in accord- 
ance with the expectations of his constituents. 
Mr. McMillan has been also identified with the 
financial affairs of his city and was, in 1873, 
President of the First National Bank of La 
Crosse. 

A paragraph is due to the record of his 
temperance work in wliich he does honor to 
the memory and example of his father, who 
instilled into his children the principle of 
sobriety and strict abstinence from intoxicants. 
He has always been prominent in his interest 
in the cause and in 1873 was made President 
of the La Crosse Temperance League. And, 
when the country was in tlie throes of ajtjiar- 
ent dissolution from the advent of rebellion, 
Mr. McMillan stood behind the authorities 
with his money and influence, performing as 
good service as those in a more prominent 
position in the war. 

Mr. McMillan was married in October, 1858, 



to Sarah L., daughter of Herrick and Mary E. 
(Sherwood) Parker, of La Crosse, and their chil- 
dren are Mary, Angie, Samuel D., and Jesse — 
the first two and last born are safe in the home 
of the hereafter, and only Samuel D. is 
living; he is the partner and manager of the 
business house of McMillan et Son, who conduct 
a furnishing store. He married May, daughter 
of John Clark, a merchant of West Salem. 
Three little sons, Clarke, Parker and Harrie 
have been added to the household of the 
younger McMillan. 

Li 1883, Mr. McMillan and his wife made an 
extensive European tour, visiting the Scottisli 
homestead, going to Ireland, visiting in Dublin, 
Cork and Belfast and seeing lovely Killarney, 
going also to Glasgow, thence to England and 
from there on a continental trip, beginning at 
Paris, and continuing to Florence, Turin, Milan, 
Genoa, Venice, Rome for the winter, Naples, 
Ischia, thence on a sailing voyage along the 
Mediterranean, going to Pompeii and Mt. Vesu- 
vius, and returning to the Holy City. They 
went to Vienna and crossed the Alps, went 
through Switzerland, again to Paris and visited 
Berlin, Potsdam, Munich, Wiesbaden, Cologne 
and other famed continental cities, returning 
for a farewell look at the old heather braes of 
Scotland. The start for home was made in the 
fall of 1884 from Greenock, or Glasgow. While 
on his trip, Mr. McMillan gave his friends much 
gratification as well as surprise in his fluent 
knowledge of the old Gaelic in wliicli he could 
converse with them. It was a great pleasure 
to him to be able to speak to his countrymen 
in the language of their forefathers. Mr. Mc- 
Millan and his wife belong to the Congrega- 
tional Church at La Crosse, and he is a mem- 
ber of the Masonic Order. 

Mrs. McMillan is an amateur artist of much 
more than ordinary genius, and her elegant 
house is filled with countless works from lier 




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artistic brush. While abroad she had the best 
o]>])oriuiiities to improve her taste and skill, 
and availed herself of it to the extent of her 
abilities. The results of her studies of old 
paintings famed from almost tlie beginning of 
time, adorning the walls of her beautiful home, 
give the best evidence of her industry, love of 
art and genius. The McMillan home is the 
epitome of good breeding, kindly influences 
anil wliolesome associations. 



J^^ ENRY MITCHELL, a prominen 
Tpf^T^ manufacturer in the prominent man 
-^ ^^ ufacturing city of Racine, Wis., wai 



rominent 

. man- 

I'as 

liorn March 10, 1810, in Fifeshire, Scotland. His 
parents, William and Elizabeth (.Jackson) Mitch- 
ell, were natives of the " land o' cakes " where 
their forefathers had been born from the earli- 
est traditions of the family and performed their 
obligations with the clans which made " auld 
Scotia " the most steadfast and reliable Nation- 
ality on the European continent through her 
domestic institutions and the preservation of 
family and " kirk " relations. There is no 
need to pause to characterize the blood from 
which Mr. Mitchell is descended and which he 
brought to swell the tide wiiich has developed 
and brought the American Nationalitj' to its 
splendid prestige. The senior Mitchell was a 
farmer on the heaths and hills and also carried 
on a business between the capital city of Scot- 
land and adjacent towns, which may be de- 
scribed as not unlike that of the express com- 
panies of this country. He was of "Covenanter" 
descent and possessed of the traits of that sturdy 
and decided class, training his family in the 
strictest regimen of principle and uprightness. 
In 1845 he followed his son to the United 
States and located on a farm near Kenosha, 
Wis., which he cultivated some years with a 



delight which grew out of the contrast with his 
labors on the braes of Scotland. He afterwards 
became a member of his son's fivmily at Racine, 
where he died in 1857. The wife and mother 
was a typical Scotch wife and mother; her 
children, numbering 11, grew up to iionor and 
bless her, for she had exemplified everything 
which " mother" should mean to such a band 
of little ones, whom she taught and trained in 
everything good and noble and true. She died 
on the farm in Kenosha, in 1847, having 
accompanied her husband to America two years 
previous. The memory of the father and 
mother of Mr. Mitchell is still a treasured thing 
in the hearts of friends and relatives. Mr. 
Mitchell, now 80 years old, was tlieir first-born 
child and the others, named in order of birth, 
James, William, Agnes, Catherine, Eliza and 
Thomas, are the sole survivors. The schooling 
obtained by Henry Mitchell was gained chiefly 
at the evening schools, as his dailj' tasks, after 
he became old enougii to attend school, kept 
him occupied through the day as was custom- 
ary. He was by nature a draftsman and gave 
what attention he could to the art of drawing 
until he was 15 years old, when he was ap- 
prenticed to learn the business of a wheelwright 
to which he gave the same faithful attention 
as he had done to his other educational oppor- 
tunities, making the most of such instruction 
as he could obtain and practicing his favorite 
drawing and drafting as the business in which 
he was engaged afforded the best means possi- 
ble for improvement in those avenues. He 
served seven years and was a most accomplished 
mechanic when his indentures closed, and he 
had also acquired a reputation for superior 
skill in the manufacture of wheels. He passed 
18 months subsequently as foreman in a prom- 
inent manufacturing establislnnent of Edin- 
burg, and during that time considered his 
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as a land of promise wliich lie determined to 
test and, in 1834 he started for New York. 
After a tedious sailing voyage, he proceeded at 
once to Chicago, where he obtained work at 
once, his appearance and his possession of a 
complete outfit for his work, the first "kit" of 
wagon-making tools seen there, recommending 
him. He did not like Chicago; its founda- 
tions were fickle as contrasted with the stabil- 
ity of the cliffs and peaks he had left and he 
set out Northward to find a place where he 
could be at least assured of terra firma. 
But his stay in Chicago was memorable 
in more than one particular in view of 
the growth and advancement the city has 
made. There were about 300 white people and 
plenty of Indians in what had just emerged 
from the frontier (now) reminiscence of 
Fort Dearborn and one of his associates 
was Mr. I^. S. Blake, now a fellow manufacturer 
in Racine. He was also the companion of such 
noted men as Wm. B. Ogden, Thomas Kinzie, 
"Long" Joim Wcntworth, George Smith and 
Mark Beaubien, to say nothing of others equally 
famous and instrumental in the development of 
Cook county. He was one of the contractors 
on the Illinois canal, and saw the first shovel of 
earth removed for that historic ditch. 

Traveling North, he first considered the feas- 
ibility of locating at Kenosha, and finding 
what seemed to him a satisfactory outlook he 
decided to pitch his tent there and to start there 
the manufacture of wagons. From a small 
start he operated until he built up the splendid 
business interests which, in 1855, he sold to 
Edward Bain, who continues to prosecute the 
business and to sustain the prestige given it by 
Mr. Mitclu'lJ. Uacine had been for some years 
coming forward as a manufacturing center and 
when Mr. Mitchell sold at Kenosha it was with 
the intention to establish his plant there and 
to press his business mitil it should reach a 



magnitude commensurate with the country of 
his adoption and his views of the field a Repub- 
lic presents for perseverance, integrity and 
effort. At this writing, ISOO, he is at the head 
of one of the largest wagon manufacturing 
establishments in the United States, and one 
second to none in the quality of the wares pro- 
duced. His first buildings were of wood, lined 
with brick, and were burned in 1880. As his 
business extended he added larger and more 
commodious structures, fitted with modern 
macbinery of the most improved type, and the 
plant includes about 20 acres of ground. In 
1864 he associated with himself his son-in-law, 
W. T. Lewi.s, whose sketch appears on another 
page. In 1884 the firm took on the dignity of a 
corporation under the style of Mitchell & Lewis 
Company with a capital stock of §000,000, 
which, it goes without saying, was all paid up. 
The annual output is about 85 wagons daily 
and 600 men are employed when the works are 
in full operation. The market embraces the 
United States, Canada, Mexico and South 
America. In the midst of his business compli- 
cations he has found time to amplify his rela- 
tions and was one of the founders of the Racine 
Artesian Well Company and is also a Director 
in the Manufacturers' Bank of Racine. He has 
never sought nor desired local official honors, 
although his high character and cultivation 
fitted him for any position he might choose. 
However, a sketch of him would not be com- 
plete if it were not stated that he lias served 
with his generation in the capacity of Common 
Councilman of the Belle City, several terms. 
He is a man who has carried to a demonstra- 
tion his ideas of business and, as such, is a type 
of what energy, thrift and well-directed effort 
may accomplish under the institutions of free 
America. 

Mr. Mitchell is a Rei)ublican and supported 
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time he supplied means in all avenues to aid 
in the prosecution qf the conflict which im- 
perilled his interests and those of Racine and lie 
went several times to the front as a messenger 
of ways and means to the armies in the field. 

He was married Jan. 7, 1832, near Edinhurg, 
Scotland, to Margaret, daughter of James 
Mitchell, and eight children have been born to 
them, six of whom ore living. Margaret died 
in youth in Chicago, and William H. in Port- 
land, Oregon. Elizabeth A. married T. 0. 
Wallis ; Mary B. is the wife of W. T. Lewis, of 
Racine; Martha A. married C. D. Sinclair; 
Henry G. is the superintendent of the wagon 
works; Frank L. is Mayor of Racine, (1890). 
Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Masonic Order 
and of the Calumet Club (Old Settlers) at 
Chicago. He is a gentleman of the old school, 
possessing the culture, refinement and courtesy 
_which mark the class. He is in good health 
and is passing his life's sunset in the enjoy- 
ment of the remembrances of a well spent life. 

Mr. Mitchell's portrait appears on page 832. 



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IN UCIUS S. BLAKE, Racine, AVis., a 
^^cV representative citizen of Southern Wis- 
—^ cousin, was born March 14, 1816, in 
Burlington, Vermont. He is of Irish descent 
in the paternal line, his earliest ancestor in 
this country being Theophilus Blake, who was 
the father of Bradbury Blake, the grandfather 
of Mr. Blake of this sketch. His father, Levi 
Blake, was in the war of 1812 and married 
Mary Stanford ; their childi-en were named 
Charles H., Sanford E., Lucius S., Albert H., 
Maria A., Adoniram J., Mary Ann, Sarah Ann 
and Levi R.; Maria and Sarah Ann died in 
youth ; Levi R. was a soldier and was killed at 
the battle of Butler Ranch in the civil war. 
The father was a carpenter and farmer and 



followed both occupations most of his active 
life. He removed his family from Burlington, 
Vt., to Aurora, Erie Co., New York in 1817 and 
after some years to Crawford county, Pennsyl- 
vania, and in June, 1831, the father went to 
Chicago, where his family joined liim the next 
year, when his son of this account went to Cal- 
edonia township, Racine county and located a 
tract of Government land, which he held until 
the family took possession in the winter of 
1834-5. At that date there was but one house 
between the place and Chicago and that was 
at Gross Point. The father remsiined on the 
farm about four j'ears, when he removed to 
Racine to operate as a carpenter and builder. 
He was one of the public spirited citizens who 
placed themselves under a tax of 15 per cent 
to aid in the construction of the harbor and 
was the first man who drew a load of stone for 
the purpose. _ He was a Republican in political 
principles and died at Sparta in 1861 ; his wife 
died there in 1885. Both were members of the 
Baptist Church. 

The son worked in Racine some time as a car- 
penter, which business he had learned from his 
father, and he also acted in that capacity at 
Kenosha where he worked six months, return- 
ing to Racine, where he operated as a contractor 
and builder. In 1842 he commenced the man- 
ufacture of fanning mills, with which he has 
since been continually connected. This was 
the first business enterprise of considerable 
extent opened in Racine and in 1865 Mr. Blake 
associated James T. Elliott with himself as a 
partner and their connections were in existence 
15 years, after which the firm became Blake, 
Beebe & Co., and when the junior partner 
terminated his relations with the business, Mr. 
Blake took as partners his sons, Byron B. and 
Adoniram J. The former withdrew, when the 
firm style became L. S. & A. J. Blake, which is 
still operative. The output of lS8i» aggre- 



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gates about 1,000 mills ; the average inaii- 
ufacture prior to tlie introduction of much 
of the improved farm machinery was about 
3,000 annually. In 1865, associated with 
other capitalists, Mr. Blake instituted the 
woolen mills at Racine, which now con- 
stitute one of the leading industrial estab- 
lishments of the Northwest. The style 
is Blake <fe Co.'s Woolen Mills and the members 
of the corporation are L. S. Blake, J. T. Elliott, 
John S. Hart and James & M. Tillapaugh. 
The capital stock was originally §60,000 and at 
date of writing, is §100,000, Mr. Blake having 
been President from the first. The establish- 
ment is unique in this section, and the facilities 
which have been continually added for the im- 
provement of manufactures are of the most im- 
proved character. (It is what is technicallj' 
known as a five-set mill). A very superior 
cjuality of shawls is made, which form the 
specialty in the manufactures, which also in- 
clude cloths of several varieties. An average 
of 100 persons are employed and §100,000 
worth of goods are made annually. When the 
Pease manufacturing establishment was organ- 
ized Mr. ]]lake was one of the incorporators and 
was maile President, the capital being §35,000. 
When the Chicago Rubber Clothing Comj)any 
was transferred to Racine, the change was 
effected through the connection of Mr. Blake 
therewith and the establishment is one of the 
most successful of its kind in the West. The 
capital stock is §100,000, and Mr. Blake is 
President; the business aggregates §100,000 
annually and its relations are rapidly widening. 
About a hundred workmen are employed. Mr. 
Blake is also President of the Turner Stove 
Company, which was established at Racine in 
September, 1889, with a capital of §150,000. 
The business had its origin in Chicago in 18S0, 
and at tlie date mentioned was established at 
Racine Junction. Its object is tiic manufacture 



of the Turner Heater. When the Manufac- 
turer's National Bank wa§ established at Racine 
in 1871, Mr. Blake was one of the incorporators 
and is still a Director. The institution is one 
of the most solid and reliable in the Northwest 
and has a capital of §250,000. Mr. Blake is an 
extensive real estate owner and holds about 50 
acres within the corporation of Racine. His 
connection with the municipal management 
commenced before the separation of Racine and 
Kenosha counties and he served as County 
Treasurer in 1843. He has been Alderman of 
Racine six terms and in 1870 was elected to 
the Lower House of the Legislature of Wiscon- 
sin. He was a member of the National Con- 
vention at Philadelphia in 1872 which nomi- 
nated Grant and he was a Garfield elector in 
1881. Since that he has been inflexible in his 
decision to take no further active part in politi- 
cal life. Among his less prominent business 
investments was, with others, the rental of a 
plantation in Mississippi for a j'ear to experi- 
ment in cotton and to acquire a practical under- 
standing of Southern business relations. Thev 
raised one crop wliich was sold for §1.00 and 
§1.50 per pound in New Orleans. 

Mr. Blake's marriage to Caroline, daughter of 
William and Sarah (Ireland) Elliott, occurred 
Dec. 26, 1843, at Racine. Mrs. Blake was born 
in England of parentage which originated in 
that country. The children which formed tlie 
issue of the marriage were named Annette, 
Lucius E., Byron B., Stella M. and Adoniram 
J., and all survive but Annette and Lucius. 
Stella is the wife of Sands M. Hart of Racine. 
Both surviving sons are married and residents 
of Racine. Mr. and Mrs. Blake are members 
of the Baptist Church, of wliicli he has been 
trustee for a long period of years. Three 
brothers of Mr. Blake were in the service of tlie 
United SUites during the late war. E. Saiiford 
engaged as sutler, going out with the 4th Wis- 




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consin Infantry, ami soon after, wliile attending 
to his business lie was raided by the rebels and 
robbed of Jiis stock of stores. He then entered 
the service, regularly enlisting and serving 
throughout in several capacities, one of which 
was as Quartermaster. He returned to Sparta 
after the war, and died on April 28, 1889, in 
Minneapolis, Minn. Albert H. Blake enlisted 
in the summer of 1861 in the 4th Wisconsin 
Infantry and accompanied the regiment to 
Baltimore, and then to New Orleans with the 
command of General Butler. While there he 
was commissioned 1st Lieutenant and trans- 
ferred to the 9th Wisconsin which he joined in 
Missouri. He was shot through the lungs in 
the battle of Prairie Grove, brought home to 
Wisconsin by his brother Lucius, and after 
remaining three months rejoined the army, 
although still an invalid, and he remained with 
his command, acting on detached duty in sev- 
eral caj)acities, among which was that of Post 
Postmaster of New Orleans during a danger- 
ous period. He received honorable discharge 
in ISGo, and returned to Racine, and he died 
at Two Harbors, Lake Superior, July 17, 1889, 
leaving five children. 

A faitliful biographer, in view of the life, 
public spirit and character of Mr. L. S. Blake, 
strongly desires to add what might be considered 
fulsome adulation. But it would not add lus- 
ter to the unembellished account of his efforts 
to build up the business interests of Racine, 
whose benefit has been the object of his efforts 
and through him the Belle City of Wisconsin 
has advanced rapidly and substantially in re- 
pute as a manufacturing center, and tohim with 
others, she owes much of her prosperity and 
position among the municipalities of the Bad- 
ger State. This is all that need be said. 



OHN ADAMS HINSEY, Milwaukee, Wis., 
was bori; Aug. 10, 1833, in Berks Co., 
Pennsylvania. His father and mother, 
Jacob and Lydia Hiusey, were natives of Con- 
necticut and Pennsylvania and were respectively 
of Scotch-French and German lineage. His 
father died when he was eight years old. The 
family included eight children who were de- 
pendent on the motlier for maintenance and in 
1841, with her flock, she removed to Ohio, 
locating in the vicinity of Mansfield. The 
place, the period and her circumstances con- 
trolled her methods of I'earing her sons, and, as 
the question of ways and means was foremost 
to be considered, she disposed of the young 
strength of her boys as seemed wisest for all 
concerned and in this manner young Hinsey 
became early accustomed to the idea that effort 
must be the necessity of his existence. Farm- 
ing was the mode of life accessible to every bod j' 
and he was apprenticed to a farmer with whom 
he remained until he was 18 years old, securing 
a livelihood, a training in the best avenue of 
exertion and a physical constitution of great 
hardihood. From the beginning of a broader 
life he had in him the element of "push." In 
1S5G he went to Michigan City, Ind., and 
entered the employ of the M. C. R. R. corpora- 
tion. In 1858 he went to La Porte, Ind., and 
commenced a career of prominence which he 
rounded out in various public capacities, in- 
cluding political preferment and local useful- 
ness as a citizen. He had gathered such educa- 
tion as he could through the avenues by which 
most men who have pushed their way to 
prominence in the West have done so. He be- 
came early in life a close observer of men and 
their methods of operation and used his dis- 
crimination to good purpose in determining 
just the shade of interest which would insure 
no failitfe in his outlook. His abilities were 
recognized in whatever sphere he operated and 



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in 1866 he came to Milwaukee ; in 1877 he 
became an attache of the C, M. & St. P. 
raih'oad company, in wliose interests he has 
since operated until he is at the head 
of the claim department of the corpora- 
tion, a position which requires abilities 
of first class quality and discernment and 
knowledge of mankind to an uncommon degree. 
Since his connection with Milwaukee began he 
has been a prominent factor in her public enter- 
prises. He is, at this writing, (1889) engaged 
in pressing to completion a system of street 
transportation, which is a gigantic undertaking 
and when completed will form one of the most 
prominent enterprises in that line in this coun- 
try. He has always been prominent in local 
politics in Milwaukee and has served in several 
public capacities, among wliich is President of 
the Council, to which incumbency he acceded 
in 1884, and since that date he has been iden- 
tified with most plans for the permanent ad- 
vancement of the municipal interests of the city. 
Perhaps Ihe most prominent relation of Mr. 
Hinsey to his fellow men is in his connection 
with the Order of Knights of Pythias to which 
he has belonged since 1878. In his relations 
therewith his couree has been consistent with 
his character, lie never does anything by 
halves, but in the most complete manner which 
he can compass. He joined Schiller Lodge No. 
3, at Milwaukee, from which he withdrew on 
the organization of Crescent Lodge, No. 23, of 
which he was one of the founders, and became 
its Past Chancellor. He has served several 
terms as Commander and has been one of the 
foremost workers in the interests of the local 
as well as of the general bodj'. He entered the 
Grand Lodge in 1879, has served three years 
as Grand Lecturer, and one year respectively 
as Grand Vice Chancellor and Grand Chancel- 
lor. In 1885 he was made Sui)renie Represent- 
ative, and in all relations with the Order he 



has brougiit to bear his business sagacity, liis 
personal influence and his unerring judgment 
and discernment. 

He was married in 1855 at Morenci, Michi- 
gan, to Sarali Jane Wise. She was born in 
1837 in Richland Co., Ohio, and their daughter 
and two sons are named in their order of birth, 
William A., Annie Laura and John M. The 
portrait of Mr. Hinsey appears on page 838. 



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accompanied his parents, William J. and Jane 
(Turnor) Lewis, to America, when two years 
old. The family resided for a time at I'tica, 
New York, and there the son attended schools 
of the elementary class and, afterwards, was a 
pupil at Whitesboro(N. Y.) Acadeni}'. In 1855 
the family removed to Racine, Wisconsin. For 
a time James was manager in the telegraph 
office at that place and, being a scholarly, re- 
flective youth, he determined to fit himself for 
contact with the world by studying the pro- 
fession of law. He found an opportunity to 
prosecute his studies under the direction of 
Hon. C. S. Chase, of Racine, and, after a 
thorough course was admitted to the Bar of 
that county, passing a brilliant examination in 
open Court. He engaged for a short period in 
practice at Racine when, believing that he 
might find a wider and more profitable field in 
some part of tlie_, opening West, he determined 
to go to California to test his fate. He sailed 
for the Pacific coast in April, 1862, and, on 
reaching San Francisco found the Nevada 
mining excitement at its height. He went to 
Washoe City, where he formed a law partner- 
ship with Judge North and pressed his business 
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ing which time his abilities and exalted char- 
acter brought him into conspicuous prominence 
and he became a candidate for the position of 
Judge of the Supreme Court of the (then) new 
State of Nevada and was triumphantly elected, 
although but 28 years of age and then the 
youngest Judge in the United States. On the 
organization of tlie Court in December, 1864, 
he took his seat on the Bench. He served his 
term, was elected his own successor and re- 
mained upon the Bench until January, 1873. 
The volumes of Court reports published during 
this period contain his decisions, which are 
marked by clearness, conciseness, and learning 
and attest his ability, industry and conscien- 
tious performance of duty. His services were 
of great value to the State, reflecting the highest 
credit on his character and winning for him an 
enduring reputation as a jurist. 

When he retired from the Bench in 1873 he 
resumed practice as an attorney, entering into 
a partnership with W. E. F. Deal of Virginia 
City. The qualities that had distinguished him 
on the Bench characterized him at the Bar, 
where his success as a lawyer was attributable 
to industry and a mind richly stored with legal 
principles and under the guidance of innate 
and comprehensive intuitions of the Higher 
Law. In private life he was justly esteemed 
for his purity of cliaracter and his many acts of 
unostentatious charity. It may be said of him 
briefly, that, as an able and upright judge, a 
conscientious citizen and an honest lawyer he 
commanded and retained the confidence and 
respect of his fellow men. 

In 1880 he left Virginia City for Tombstone, 
Arizona, whence, after two years of practice as 
an attorney, he went to San Francisco and 
formed a partnership with Judge Dibble, 
their relations continuing to exist until the 
death of Judge Lewis. His reputation as an 
attorney and his well-known reliable character 



extended his relations in his business and he 
was frequently called to distant fields to con- 
duct prominent and important cases and, on 
one of these occasions, his severe labors with the 
extreme heat proved fatal. 

He had ])een to Yuma, Arizona, at a period 
when the " washouts " on the routes of travel 
interfered witii the movements of the public 
and in one of the delays on this account he was 
seized with congestion of the brain and passed 
away Aug. 18, 188(3, after a few hours of suffer- 
ing. He was at the zenith of a successful niiin- 
hood, of fame and usefulness and his death 
was a loss that can never be repaired to a 
broad circleof personal and professional friends, 
who had watched his career with the intensest 
satisfaction and love. 

In November, 1864, he was married in San 
Francisco to Elizabeth, daughter of Seneca and 
Susan (Bentley) Raymond, who is his survivor. 
Her father was a pioneer of Eastern Wisconsin. 
He was born in Lewiston, Niagara Co., New 
York, and in September, 1836, was married to 
Susan Bentley, of Onondaga Co., New York. 
In October following they sought a home in 
the West, locating on a farm about 12 miles 
from the city of Racine, and there Mr. Ray- 
mond became the possessor of a beautiful tract 
of land under high cultivation. After some 
years of farm life, he removed witii his house- 
hold to the city of Racine, wiiere he passed an 
esteemed and honored old age. Raymond 
township and village preserve his name and 
the remembrance of liis life of usefulness and 
honor. 

William J. Lewis, father of Judge Lewis, was 
the representative of a long line of ancestors of 
the highest character in his native country, 
belonging in successive generations to the pro- 
fessions and attaining distinction in intellectual 
circles. He was educated for a divine of the 
Episcopal Church, and was graduated from 



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Christ's College, Oxford, England. He was a 
man of decided views and in his administration 
of liis parish duties, his sermons on infant hap- 
tism were of such liherul type as to elicit 
the disapprobation of the bishop and he re- 
signed his charge. He finally withdrew from 
the Church and became an adherent of the 
Baptist denomination. He removed to the 
United States and died at Utica, New York, in 
1868. 

The mother of Judge Lewis was a woman of 
deeply religious character, refined and culti- 
vated, and came of a family of wide relations 
in her native country whicli dates from 1(570 
in direct line. The earliest traceable ancestors 
were in high esteem with the Government and 
sustained the record in succeeding generations. 
Between the years 1790 and 1835, three of the 
brothers of Mrs. Lewis received appointments 
under the crown, including a Chancellorship, 
a position as Post Commandant at Liverpool or 
London and a Captaincy in the Roj-al Navy, 
and for their united meritorious deeds the fam- 
ily received a crest, emblematic of "The Army, 
The Navy and The Judiciary." 

Mrs. Lewis returned to Utica, New York, and 
died not long after, in 1879, at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. Margaret Garlock, wife of Dr. 
Garlock, now of Racine, leaving three children 
— Mrs. Garlock, James F. and William Tumor 
Lewis, of Racine. 

The latter was born at Utica, New York, 
March 10, 1840, and went with his parents to 
Racine in 1855 and he has since been a resi- 
dent of that city. He learned the business of a 
carriage trimmer which he abandoned for 
telegraphy, which was taught him by his 
brother James, who resigned the position of 
manager of the Racine office in his favor, 
but he soon became dis.satislied with his com- 
parative inactivity under the stress of National 
atfairs which left their weight on every con- 



scientious son of the Republic. William T. 
Lewis i.s, par excellence, the son of iiis father 
and no issue affecting the interests of the Re- 
public escapes his attention. He could not re- 
main inert and resigned his situation to engage 
in the service of the Government in such 
capacity as would enable him to render the 
best aid in his jiower in the emergency. He 
accepted a position as telegraph operator first 
at Etowah, Ga., after the completion of a bridge 
across the Etowah River, which the confeder- 
ates destroyed on their retreat south. Young 
Lewis was afterwards placed on duty at head- 
quarters of the 3d Division of the 15th Army 
Corps where he was taken sick with jaundice. 
He remained until he became disabled for duty 
and asked for leave of absence, which was 
granted by Captain Van Duzen, Supterintcnd- 
ent of Military Telegraph Lines. The fall of 
Atlanta and the march to the sea changed all 
plans in the Western army and did away with 
the necessity for telegraph operators except such 
as accompanied the columns of the force that 
crossed to llio Atlantic. 

In the fall of 18<;4, Mr. Lewis married Mary 
L Mitchell. He i> \'ice-Presideut of the 
Mitchell & Lewis Company and President of the 
Badger Electric Company. He is President of 
the National Anti-Convict Association and 
deeply interested in moulding public opinion 
against the present method of employing con- 
vict labor in lieu of honest, law-abiding and 
tax-paying wage earners. He is one of Racine's 
succcs.sful, active and energetic business men 
and iuiierits the endurance, perseverance and 
physical hardihood of his progenitors in both 
lines of descent. He is cognizant of no such 
thing as fatigue while prosecuting any enter- 
prise which engages his interest. 



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EROME I. CASE, Racine, Wis., of whom ' 
ix portrait appears on the opposite page, 
was born Dec. 11, 1819, in Williamstown, 
Oswego Co., New York. His "pedigree" can be 
traced to a brotherhood of four who came from 
England to America in tlie days of first things 
in tiie Atlantic region and from one of tliese 
his father descended. The names "Cass" 
and " Casej' " sprang from the original pa- 
tronymic, Case. The name of the mother of 
Mr. Case prior to marriage was Jackson and she j 
belonged to the same line as the sturdy General { 
and President. ' 

To the age of 15, Mr. Case was an attendant 
at the district schools in the winter seasons and 
at that date, 1835, he took a vital interest in the 
advancement of a project in which his father 
had become a factor. Theretofore the common 
mode of threshing was with the ordinary Hail 
and the value of machinery in that line was 
self-evident, which fact the senior Case recog- 
nized and which awakened the sagacity and 
foresight of the son. The faith of the father in 
his boy's integrity, ability and industry was 
great and, as he had developed a taste for ma- 
chiner}', he intrusted him with the manage- 
ment of a threshing machine of which he had 
become the owner. It would be fitting to in- 
troduce here a picture of the rickety, imperfect 
rattle-trap which was a God-send to that gener- 
ation and the starting point in the career which 
has brought Mr. Case to the front in the history 
of farm implements. 

When he was 21, he commenced business as 
a manager in his own behalf ;ind, undei'Stand- 
ing the need of a sound education, he saved his 
earnings for that purpose and in 1841 became 
a student at Me.xicoville, New York. After- 
wards, being unable to abandon his ideas of 
improving threshing machines, he devoted his 
attention to the work and, obtaining credit on 
the strength of his persevering character, he 



bought six one-horse, tread-power machines 
and started for Western fields. He went to Wis- 
consin, sought buyers at Racine and sold all 
but one machine, which he kept for purposes 
of experiment and " threshed " until his ma- 
chine was worn out. In the course of his tinker- 
ing with it, the feasibility of engaging in the 
manufacture and gradual improvement of it 
engrossed his attention until, in the winter of 
1843-4, he produced a combination which 
threshed and separated the grain and in the 
fall of 1844 he was the first to put it in practical 
operation. Popular opinion predicted that the 
threshing machine business would hardly repay 
the young inventor and manufacturer, as the 
machines would accomplish so much that they 
would be a drug in the market, but Mr. Case 
pushed his affairs until 1847, when he erected 
a shop which was 30 feet in width, 90 feet long 
and three stories high. It was regarded as a 
foolish procedure, but Mr. Case had a sense of 
pride in the town in which his business was to 
take a leading position and in a few years he 
found his 30x90 building quite too small and 
has since kept adding building after building 
until, in 1890, the factory is the most mag- 
nificent business plant in the west. 

There are 30 acres covered with commodious 
structures which are a delight in themselves to 
strangers who travel to Racine to look over 
this gigantic industry, and it is so efficiently 
managed that the concern, so to speak, runs 
itself. Every portion is in the hands of tested 
and trusted employes, and the policy of Mr. 
Case in the enlargement of the works and in 
the additioli of principals, whose interests were 
entirely with the business, has been to recog- 
nize the merits of others who have been instru- 
mental in advancing his enterprises. It is not 
within the province of this sketch to enlarge 
on the interests of the J. I. Case Threshing 
Machine Company, and the reader is referred 



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to the sketches of M. B. Erskine and Stephen 
Bull for further information on this point. Suf- 
fice it to say that, in 1890 the manufacturing 
capacity of the plant is $2,000,000 per annum. 
The buildings connected \C-ith the works form 
a village in themselves, including the resi- 
dences of the workmen, wlio, with their families, 
form a sixth of the population of Racine. 

Mr. Case was one of the founders of the J. T. 
Case Plow Company whose affairs, when he 
determined their necessities, fell into his hands 
and under his management they have been 
since 1884, an emihent success. 

From the date of his connection with the 
history of Racine, Mr. Case has been associated 
with all her prominent financial interests and 
has made many other men independent. In 
1871 he became one of the incorporators of the 
Manufacturers' National Bank of Racine, and 
has been its President ever since its organiza- 
tion. In the same year he aided in establish- 
ing the National Bank at Burlington in Racine 
county, of which he has been President since 
its organization. And later, as his relations 
with the far west have extended, he has assisted 
in establishing banking houses at Monrovia, 
Cal., Fargo, Dak., and Crookston, Minn. (It 
should have been added above that the Thresh- 
ing Machine Company are engaged in 1890, in 
the manufacture of the Cunningham Cotton 
Picker, for a southern j>atentee which is ex- 
pected to efiect a revolution in the harvesting 
of that staple). 

In local affairs in his municipality Mr. Case 
has been equally active and efficient. He has 
been Mayor of Rixcineand has served a terra as 
State Senator. No matter, affecting the in- 
terests of his townsmen, has escaped his atten- 
tion. When the war threatened the destruc- 
tion of all he had accomplished and all he 
hoped for, he was among the foremost in ac- 
tivity and furnii^hcd aid of the most practical 



' and valuable type. Wiien Colonel William 
Utley devoted himself to raising and organizing 
a regiment, Mr. Case offered §1,000 to the first 
company raised and in every way possible he 
contributed to tlie general result, liis money 
being freely applied, and the care of and in- 
terest in the volunteers and their families being 
a prominent consideration with him under all 
circumstances. 

Hundreds of incidents in tiie life of Mr. Case 
might be written and still the half not be told 
of his large heartedness, force of character and 
business capacity. His property relations have 
spread almost across the continent. When 
California lands were booming, he took advan- 
tage of opportunity and he is the owner of res- 
idences at Passadena and Monrovia where he 
expects to escape when need comes, from the 
climatic rigors of the lake region of Wisconsin. 
During the summer of 1889 he traveled in 
Europe with Mrs. Case and his daughter, Mrs. 
Wallis. 

Mr. Case finds deep satisfaction in the im- 
provement of blooded horses. If he could choose 
his epitaph he would direct that the record be 
that he owned the fastest trotter on the globe. 
He is the furthest possible from anything in 
the line of jockeyism, and it is an event of a 
lifetime to see him when his stock is speeding 
on some famous track, competing with horses 
with whom it is an honor to contend. He sees 
in such an occasion an element of sport which 
comports with dignity and which affords legiti- 
mate opportunity to display the judgment of 
stock growers and owners of trotting horses, 
and his stables make an enviable exhibit. He 
also owns a third interest in tlieGlenview stock 
farm near Louisville, Ky., where he transacts 
business in connection with the rearing and 
training of trotting liorses and in ail sporting 
circles in the avenue referred to, lie is as well- 
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He won fame with Jay-Ej'e-See and Phallas 
and takes pride in "Brown," record 2:1 SJ as 
a "four year old." 

The limits of tins work compel tlie close of a 
most inadequate account of Mr. Casein his bus- 
iness and other relations. Few men make so 
little personal display of wealth as he; he takes 
no satisfaction in exhibiting what he has done 
bej'ond other men; his iiabits are unostentatious, 
his tastes simple and he regards the good of all 
a thing to be desired. His home is elegant but 
not imposing ; his associations are those of the 
true Westerner — breezy, candid, trusting. His 
face alwa\'S bears the mark of the happy spirit 
within, and when he shall iiave become only a 
memory to the people of Racine, no man will 
be more missed or lamented; not a severe 
thought will follow him. He needs no better 
tribute. 

Mr. Case is one of four brothers who are liv- 
ing. His marriage to Lydia, sister of Stephen 
Bull, took place in 1849. Of their seven chil- 
dren four survive — Henrietta, now Mrs. Per- 
cival S. Fuller; Jessie F., Mrs. H. M. Wallis; 
Amada, Mrs. J. J. Crooks, of California, and 
.Jackson, the only son. He is married and 
devotes his time to his father's stock interests. 



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OHN PLANKINTON.— In the history of 
the phenomenal progress of the -city of 
Milwaukee, no name stands more con- 
spicuous than that which introduces this in- 
adequate account of a man whose whole course 
of life within her precincts has been one long 
train of benefits to the locality. No taint of 
seltish ambition will ever shadow the splendid 
record of his achievements. When generations 
to come speak the name of John Plankinton, it 
will be with honor for his life, with love for his 
simple character, and with pride that his 



abilities and accumulation of wealth found their 
best application in the permanent growth and 
advancement of the beautiful city, whose pros- 
perity was as dear to him as his principles of 
manhood and citizenship. 

He was born in New Castle Co., Delaware, 
March 1 1 , 1820, and grew up near his birthplace, 
and, early awakening to the fact that the east 
presented but small scope for his energies, after 
a brief slay in Pennsylvania, went to Milwaukee, 
with the purpose of going into business, and 
stepped first on Wisconsin soil Sept. 8, 1844, 
from the steamer "C4reat Western." He looked 
about for the best opening he could find in the 
line of business he had expected to engage in, 
and leased a piece of ground on Grand avenue 
at $60 a year and erected thereon a frame 
structure, costing $110, in wliich he began to 
sell meat, 14 days after his arrival in the city. 
With a capital of only $450, such was his thrift, 
good judgment and popularity that his sales 
the first year reached the amount of §12,000. 
As his business and experience broadened he 
perceived tlnit an immense field of profit was 
open to enterprise guided in the right direction, 
and he engaged in the business of buying the 
large numbers of cattle and hogs with which 
the new country had become stocked and, after 
operating a year alone, formed a partnership 
with Frederick Layton, the style being Layton 
& Plankinton. This relation existed until 1860, 
when Mr. Plankinton conducted his affairs 
singly three years, rising to a first rank in his 
line of business, a statement which implies 
little of the real status of Mr. Plankinton as a 
liusiness factor in one of the greatest enterprises 
which have marked the immense progress of 
the AVest. 

In 186.3, Mr. Plankinton and Mr. P. D. Ar- 
became partners, and soon after ad- 



mour 



ditional houses were established in Chicago, in 
Kansas City and in New York. 



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The wealth of Mr. Plankinton has been 
chiefly appropriated to the improvement of the 
city of Milwaukee. The Plankinton hloek, 
fronting on Grand Avenue, containing besides 
the hotel which bears his name and which has 
a world-wide celebrity as one of the best hostel- 
ries in the Northwest, many business offices, 
is alone a sufficient monument to his public 
spirit. In addition to this he has built busi- 
ness blocks on the corners of Second and Fourth 
streets, which are not only a source of pride to 
the citizens of Milwaukee, but a surprise to 
strangers who visit the city. They are fine 
buildings, one being seven stories high and 
constructed in the most substantial manner 
known to modern architecture and afford, in 
addition to spacious, perfectly planned and 
appointed business quarters, hundreds of offices. 
In justice to Mr. Plankinton it must be stated 
that, with true business acumen and judgment, 
he has placed his buildings at the service of 
tlie business [lublic according to a method 
which has insured tlie prosperity of his tenants 
as well as his own. While tliis has the appear- 
ance of a generous philantliroj)y, it is also the 
prescience of an experienced man of business, 
wiio properly understands the most substantial 
method of securing permanency and profit to 
all concerned. One million dollars has been 
expended on the Plankinton block alone, and a 
book might be written about the beautiful 
hotel, its management and popularity-, the latter 
item rivaling that of the best known public 
house in the country. Mr. Plankinton, although 
he has reached the alloted limit of life, is still 
arranging for the construction of further build- 
ings wliich will add to the beauty and prosper- 
ity of Milwaukee. 

The character of Mr. Plankinton is one which 
deserves a full elaboration at the hands of an 
impartial biograj)lier. Much as he has accom- 
plished he has done so without the sacrifice of 



a friend, without incurring enmity or antago- 
nism, and in Milwaukee he is honored and 
believed in as he deserves. The people of the 
Cream City regard him in the light of a general 
benefactor and, although no man is more 
decided than he in opinion, nor firmer in 
allegiance to his convictions, no imputation 
deleterious to the quality of his manhood has 
or can rest upon his repute. He is observing, 
reflective and silent. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican, and in religious faith a Presbyterian. 
He has a splendid physical constitution, pre- 
served unbroken for almost 70 years by his 
plain habits and observance of the best laws of 
health. For the benefit of those who will 
study accounts of his life work, it must be 
added that he is tall, erect and well propor- 
tioned ; he is a faithful friend, affable and 
genial to all, and no more prominent figure 
has ever moved on the thoroughfares of the 
city where his name will endure while a 
knowledge of the existence of Milwaukee 



lingers in the minds of men. 



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/^J^ EORGE BRUMDER, Milwaukee, Wis., 
{. (■'f J °^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ most prominent publishers 



m 



the German language in tiie 



United States, was born May 24, 1839, in 
Breuschwickersheim, Province of Alsace, Ger- 
many, and is the son of George and Chri.stine 
(Noeppel) Brumder, both natives of "Das 
Vaterland." The father was a school teacher 
and died at 63 years of age ; the demise of the 
mother occurred Sejit. 19, 1881, both dying in 
their native land, on the homestead where they 
had passed their married lives. They had IG 
children of whom nine survive: — Martin, 
Christine, Frederick, Anna, Catlicrine, Bar])ara, 
Caroline, Madelein and George. 

The latter received his boyhood's training 



CHICAGO PHOTO-GRAVURC CO. 




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under the regulations made and provided by 
law in his native land, attending school until 
14, when lie learned the trade of a carpenter. 
He was nearly at an age for the conscription, 
but did not wait to serve a compulsory mili- 
tary career and sailed for the United States in 
1857, arriving in the summer and proceeding 
to Milwaukee. He brought with him, as a 
starter in the world, about |300, and was vari- 
ously engaged until 1865, when he embarked 
in the sale of books, establishing his business 
in the same block in which he is now located. 
About 1875 he removed to bis present stand 
on which he had erected the building he now 
occupies and entered upon the publication of the 
Gerinania, a weekly newspaper, which has been 
transformed into a semi-weekly and has reached 
a circulation of 82,150 in 1890, the largest 
of any German journal in the United States. 
In 1878 the Deutsche Warie, published in Chi- 
cago, 111., was started as a weekly and was after- 
wards made a semi-weekly, its subscription 
list reaching in the current year, 25,750. In 
the same year Mr. Brumder established the 
Deuti^clies VolhblaU, published in Buffalo, N. Y., 
also a weekly, which has been changed into a 
semi-weekly. The Hmis- und Bauemfreund, an 
agricultural journal, issued weekly, has a cir- 
culation of 125,000. In 1878 Mr. Brumder es- 
tablished the Erholungsstunden, a weekly family 
newspaper which has a circvilation of 22,000. 
Tlie aggregated circulation of the papers pub- 
lished in CTcrman by iVfr. Brumder, is over 250,- 
000, a showing which cannot l)e rivaled in the 
world of publications issued by one house in 
one language, and about lialf a million papers 
leave the Germania publishing house each 
week. 

In 1880 he added a binding department, a 
necessit}' arising from the rapidly increasing 
publications of books, which is the largest and 
most fully equipped establishment of its kind 



in the Northwest. There is a branch office of 
the establishment in Chicago and in Buffalo, 
N. Y., and in Milwaukee about 150 men are 
employed. One of the latest enterprises in 
which Mr. Brumder is interested is the publi- 
cation in English and German of "North Amer- 
ican Birds." It should be added that the house 
transacts a large business in publishing Eng- 
lish works. The annual business amounts to 
about 1400,000. 

Mr. Brumder was married July 19, 18G5, to 
Henrietta Brandhorst, and they have eight liv- 
ing children — Amalia, Ida, William, Emma, 
Alfred, George, Herman and Herbert. Alfred, 
Ella and Henrietta are not living. Politicall}', 
Mr. Brumder is independent in opinion. 




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TEPHEN BULL, a ])rominent business 
factor of Racine, Wis., was born March 
14, 1822, in Cayuga Co., New York. 
His father, De Grove Bull, married Amanda 
Crosby ; he was born in Dutchess Co., New York, 
and was the son of Horace Bull, who was a 
native of Hartford, Conn., of English ancestors ; 
the mother and her father were natives of Put- 
nam Co., Conn., and represented a family of 
early American stock. The father of Mr. Bull 
was a farmer by occupation and removed to 
Wisconsin in 1846, locating in Raymond, 
Racine county. This was the homestead and 
there he and his wife died. Their 11 children 
were named in the order of l)irth Sallie, Janet, 
George, Stephen, Clarissa, Lydia A. (Mrs. J. I. 
Case), Daniel, James, Caroline, Wakely T. and 
Charles H.; Sallie, George and James are de- 
ceased. 

Tiie early life of Stephen Bull was passed on 
a farm and when he was 18 years of age he went 
to New York to fill a situation as clerk in a 
grocery. After five years passed in that oecu- 



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pation he came back to Wisconsin and after a 
short stay at Racine went to Burlington and 
thence to Spring Prairie where lie opened the 
sale of general merchandise. In 1857 he sold 
out, went to Racine, and was engaged with his 
brother-in-law, J. I. Case, until 1803, when the 
business firm which included Messrs. Case, 
Erskine, Robert Baker and himself was formed, 
the style being J. I. Case it Co. Under the 
management of Mr. Case, who established the 
manufacture of threshing machines at Racine, 
tlu' business had grown to an extent which 
required the supervision of individuals of re- 
sponsible character and from this necessity grew 
tlie formation of the company. It is also a fact 
Chat Mr. Case, with a jieculiar generosity, 
selected personal friends as well as tested 
employes whose abilities had developed in their 
connection with the business and to whose in- 
tegrity and capacity he realized his indebted- 
ness and which he acknowledged in a manner 
which has insured the permanence and re- 
pute of the business. It is probable that 
tlie factors in this gigantic business corpor- 
ation stand unique in their mutual relations, 
their confidence in and esteem for each other 
having never known change or abatement. 
Under their combined management the busi- 
ness extended until 1880, when the J. I. Case 
Tiireshing Machine Company was organized 
with a paid up capital of $1,000,000, besides a 
surplus, and the firm style has remained intact 
since that date. On his accession to a fourth 
interest in the concern Mr. Bull became Vice- 
President and General Manager, and when the 
responsibilities involved in the latter position, 
in which the incumbent is the practical head 
of the manufacturing dejwrtments of an 
interest with a pay roll of about S-40,000 per 
month, is estimated, some idea of Mr. Bull's 
executive ability may be formed. He is also 
an invenler of no common capacity and many 



improvements in the products of the establish- 
ment are due to his genius. (For further par- 
ticulars of the relations of the J. I. Case Thresh- 
ing Machine Company, see sketches of .J. I. 
Case and M. B. Erskine). 

Notwithstanding the complications of Mr. 
Bull's relations with the corporation referred to, 
he is connected with other business enterprises, 
among which are the Milwaukee Harvesting 
Machine Company, the First National Bank of 
Burlington and also the Manufacturers National 
Bank of Racine. 

In private character, Mr. Bull is a man who 
regards above all other considerations his rela- 
tions as a citizen and to his family. His ac- 
knowledged abilities and popularity personally 
would confer upon him any emolument of pub- 
lic position in the community to wliich he be- 
longs. He is a man of broad gauge in his rela- 
tions with humanit}' and he never makes an 
enemy; it is almost impossible to give him 
offense, save through the discovery of wicked 
dereliction where he has bestowed confidence. 
For quiet charity and sympathy with sorrow 
he has no peer, and no one wlio knows him 
will ilemur at this most just tribute to a trait 
of character which has engraved the name of 
Stephen Bull on many hearts whose griefs have 
been made lighter by his personal interest. At 
the time of the war he was interested, heart 
and soul, in the part taken by volunteers from 
his connnunity, and he contributed substan- 
tially to the general result by jmlicious advice 
and forethought, while the records of his city 
manifest his practical connection with what is 
included in the term "sinews of war." His 
large farm near Racine is managed in a man- 
ner which shows the advantjvge of his early 
training on the homestead in Raymond. 

He was married in .Tune, 1849, at White 
Pigeon, Mich., to Ellen C., daughter of Albert B. 
Kellogg. Their children are Mrs. Ida B. Con- 



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ger, wife of the Vice-President of the Milwau- 
kee Hiirvester Co.; Frank K., Secretary of the 
J. 1. Case T. M. Co.; Mrs. -Janet Gage Robinson ; 
Mrs. Lillian M. Robinson; Fred Herbert, a 
farmer in Wyoming; Bessie M., a student at 
Stuttgardt, Germany. Mrs. Bull died March 
27, ISSO, at Racine, and on this loss to her fam- 
ily no comment need be added. Mr. Bull is a 
Republican in political relations and a member 
of the Masonic Order. In 1889 he accompanied 
his youngest daughter to Europe, where she is 
pursuing her studies. Mr. Bull's portrait is 
presented on page 850. 



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T^^T ON. EMIL WALLBER, Milwaukee, 
'IpViI^ Wis., Judge of the Municipal Court, 

J^ ^il^ was born April 1, 1841, in Berlin, 
Prussia, where his parents, Julius and Henrietta 
(Krohn) Wallber, resided all their lives prior to 
removal to the United States in 1850. The 
family occupied a position second to few in that 
country, where successive geuerations succeed to 
rank and standing in social aud government 
matters. The administrative affairs of Prussia 
demand the co-operation of certain classes who 
are considered as holding right of primogeniture 
almost as much as if sanctioned by law, so sys- 
tematically are their relations to the govern- 
ment regulated. Judge Wallber's forbears be- 
longed to the better classes referred to, people 
of refinement and culture who retained from 
time immemorial their prestige. The integrity, 
worth and culture they have brought to this 
country have constituted one of the best strains 
in the Nationality. Julius Wallber and his 
wife considered the advantages a free Govern- 
ment offered to their sons, who were liable to 
all the stringencies of government regulations 
in their native country, and brought their flock 
of small people to New York, remaining there, 



giving three sons the advantages of education 
in the schools, Emil attending tlie free Acad- 
emy during the latter years of his stay there. 
The curriculum of study at that institution was 
calculated to awaken every intellectual capacity 
in the mind of an amliitious boy, and he im- 
proved every opportunity the school offered. 
His systematic education had greatly assisted 
in disciplining his mind, and while he pressed 
his miscellaneous studies he did not relinquish 
his early formed determination to enter the 
legal profession. Not long after coming to Mil- 
waukee he made successful application to a 
leading legal firm for admission to their office 
to read law. When Winfield Smith and Ed- 
ward Salomon undertook the guidance of his 
reading, his future was assured. Both were 
men of the highest position, with a clear under- 
standing of the value of every moment of time, 
and they saw in the young German, with his 
ambition and stainless character, an assistant 
worthy of the place the\' could give him, as 
well as an aid in their clerical business of great 
promise. In 1864 he passed a very thorough 
examination in open Court and was admitted 
to practice in tlie State and Federal Courts. 
Wlien Mr. Salomon became lieutenant gov- 
ernor in the fall of 1861, Mr. Wallber remained 
in the office at Milwaukee with the firm. When 
his chief succeeded Governor Harvey as chief 
executive of Wisconsin, Mr. Wallber went to 
Madison and acted as chief clerk of the 
executive office during Governor Salomon's 
term. In 1864 Mr. Wallber was appointed 
Asst. Att}'. General of Wisconsin and served 
two years, returning to Milwaukee to establish 
his business as an attorney. He performed his 
duties to his clients in a manner that recom- 
mended him for public preferment and, in 
1873, he was elected City Attorney. He filled 
the office by successive re-elections until he de- 
clined inflexibly to be again a candidate in 



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1S7S. He, however, accejited tlie position of 
Court Coniuiissiouor and continued to discharge 
the duties until. 18SS. In 1S80 he was again 
urged for City Attorney but was tirm in de- 
clining. In April, 1SS4, he was elected Mayor 
of Milwaukee and re-elected in April, ISSG. 
In April, 1889, he was elected Judge of the 
Municipal Court of Milwaukee county, and 
took his seat in January, 1800. He has been 
a faithful servitor of his generation in local 
municipal positions, serving as School Commis- 
sioner of the Sixth Ward from 1870 to 1873, 
otHciating in 1871-"2 as President of the Board. 
In 1872 he represented the Sixth District as 
Assemblyman and officiated on important com- 
mittees. In the spring of 1883 he was aj)- 
ponited Regent of the State Normal Schools of 
Wisconsin and resigned in December, 1889, to 
accept his judicial position. He is a prominent 
member of the "Turnverein Milwaukee"' and 
has filled all the principal ofKcial positions of 
the Society, besides being many years President 
of the State organization of Wisconsin. He be- 
longs to Aurora Lodge No. 30, Masonic Order, 
to the American Legion of Honor, to the Order 
of Hermann's Sons, to the Milwaukee Musical 
Society, to the Deutsche Ciesellschaft and to the 
Kindergarten Vercin der Nordwest Seite. He 
was instrumental in founding the last named 
society. Socially, Judge Wallber is highly 
esteemed and is considered in Milwaukee as 
constituting a member of society whose relations 
have ever been maintained consistently with 
his character as a citizen of the municipality 
who has fully demonstrated his entire adoption 
of the connections of citizenship. 

lie was married Sept. 5, 1868, to Minna 
Soeger and their children are named Fritz, 
Otto and Etta. The oldest son is employed in 
the Commercial Bank at Milwaukee ; Otto is a 
clerk with the Hanford Oil Company. 



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ATHIAS M. SECOK. a prominent 
/^i"-^"^\ manufacturer of Kacine, Wis., 
fc^ ._A^^\^ ^.gg \jQxi\ in Bohemia and accom- 
panied his parents, Mathias and Fanny Secor 
to this country in 1851. Their children are all 
living and are named Mary Theresa, Peter, 
Barbara and Josephine. I'ntil he was 14 Mr. 
Secor remained on his father's farm in Cale- 
donia Township, Racine Co., when he took the 
guidance of his own attairs under management 
and went to Racine to learn tlie ways of busi- 
ness. He was clerk in a grocery one year, 
after which he began to learn the trade of a 
saddler, and engaged in making trunks for a 
time. When he was "21, in 1861, he had a kit 
of tools and $80 in money and he borrowed 
§100 with which to establish himself in busi- 
ness and started the manufacture of harness 
and all articles pertaining to that avenue of 
industry, in which he operated until sometime 
in 18G"2, when he commenced the manutacture 
of trunks in a building adjoining his harness 
shop. After pursuing the two jointly alx)ut 
seven years, he sold his hai'ness business and 
has since devoted his attention exclusively, so 
far as manufacturing is concerned, to the mak- 
insr of trunks. In 1800 his business had 
extended far beyond the scope of the building 
he occupied on Main street and in that year he 
erected a frame building on Lake Avenue, 
40x80 feet in extent. To this he added two 
others 40x80 feet, and three stories high. This 
frame building is still standing, has been raised 
to five stories above a stone foundation, veneered 
with brick and finished with an iron roof. In 
1874 he put up a brick building three stories 
hif^h, 40 bv 80 feet and two stories have been 
added to this establishment, making it five 
stories, and one of the most extensive manufac- 
turing structures in Racine. In 1882 the extent 
of the business was such as to necessitate the 
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stories in height, 65 by 80 feet, in wliicii the 
power was placed to operate the entire works. 
In addition additional buildings weve erected, 
00 by 100 feet, fireproof and located on the 
corner of Lake Avenue and 4tli street. The 
machinery is all of the latest and most im- 
proved pattern, and in addition to the build- 
ings enumerated, there are a numher wiiich are 
utilized us dwellings for the employes and for 
store houses. The corporation is now engaged 
in putting in machinery to increase the facili- 
ties for the making of traveling bags, of wliicli 
about 60 varieties are made and nearly 80 sorts 
of trunks. The annual output is about 75,000 
pieces of merchandise, representing about 
$250,000. The trade extends to all the West- 
ern States, to most of the Southern States and 
to Pennsylvania. On the road the company is 
represented by 12 salesmen and the force of 
employes number about 200. In 1887 Mr. 
Secor decided to associate with himself in the 
concern several of liis oldest employes, includ- 
ing Joseph Welfel, Joseph Kristerius, Vincel 
Pokorney, Ignatz Bures and F. N. Grumm. 
The firm was incorporated in 1887 under the 
style of the " Northwestern Trunk and Travel- 
ing Bag Company," with M. M. Secor, Presi- 
dent, Mrs. M. M. Secor, Vice-President, Joseph 
Welfel, Treasurer, Joseph Kristerius, Secretary 
and Ignatz Bures, Superintendent, the capital 
stock being $100,000. The establishment has 
received the notice it deserves from the indus- 
trial publications, the Scientific American giving 
it the prestige of its dictum in stating " that it 
is one of the most extensive establishments of 
the kind in the world." 

Mr. Secor was married Feb. 4, 1862, to Fan- 
ny, daughter of Frank and Fanny Ilaygek, and 
Louise, Anna, Mattie, Emma and Fraukie are 



their children. Louise is the wife of F. N. 
Grumm, a prominent merchant of Denver, Col- 
orado. 

Mr. Secor is one of the prominent citizens of 
Racine, and is a man of peculiarly indepen- 
dent and outspoken character. His success in 
business and popularity with the laboring 
classes, added to the discharge of a former book- 
keeper have made him the object of malice. In 
1886, while driving home one evening, he felt 
impressed that some calamity was impending 
for which he had been looking, knowing the 
source of much of the malice and hatred which 
followed him. He drove with great rapidity, 
and after leaving his buggy and entering his 
home a terrific explosion shook the premises. 
Examination showed that a dynamite bomb 
had been exploded izi the track of his carriage 
drive and his life had been saved by the merest 
chance. The ground was torn up in every 
direction and quantities of missiles commonly 
placed in such instruments were found. Traces 
of blood were also found which were followed 
and led to the discovery of an individual who 
was making efibrts to conceal himself. He 
proved to be a man who was the tool of others 
who desired the destruction of Mr. Secor with- 
out risk to themselves. The man was arrested, 
tried, found guilty and sentenced to prison for 
ten years, while the really guilty parties re- 
mained free and unharmed. 

Mr. Secor has been called to fill several pub- 
lic capacities. In 1873 he was made School 
Commissioner on the Republican ticket and 
again in 1875. In 1884 he was elected Mayor 
on the Democratic ticket, and in 1888 was 
elected to the same position. In religious belief 
he is independent as he is in social and politi- 
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■f HE order of the Grand 
Army of the Republic was, 
in the beginning, the di- 
rect outgrowth of ex- 
change of reminiscences 
and sentiments of the 
veterans of the Civil War, in 
their chance meetings. There 
were a million of men scat- 
tered Ihroughout the length 
and breadth of the land wlio 
had a common bond of unity 
— their memories of hours 
of trial, danger and triumph. 
It is a conceded fact that tlie 
initiatory steps to constitute the Order were 
taken in Illinois. The name of Dr. B. F. 
Stephenson, Surgeon of the 14th Illinois 
Infantry, is the first connected with the 
systematic organization of the Grand Army 
of the Republic. In the winter of 1865-6 
he discussed with comrades at Springfield, III., 
the feasibility and propriety of an organiza- 
tion of veteran soldiers. In the mass of data 
from which this account is compiled the state- 
ments regarding its purpose conflict. One ac- 
count explicitly states that its object was politi- 
cal and another declares with equal decision 
that the plan included no such possibility. 
But the settlement of the point in no man- 



ner concerns this narration. At this writing, 
1890, only one survivor of the original framers 
of the ritualistic work of the Order survives. 
At the National Encampment at St. Louis, in 
.lune, 1887, Fred .1. Dean, of Fort Scott, Ark., 
stated that he was the oldest living member of 
the G. A. R. "In February-, 1SG6, myself, 
together with Drs. Hamilton and George H. 
Allen, assisted Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, 
the founder of the Order, in compiling the 
ritualistic work, constitution and by-laws, in 
Springfield, 111., and these four assumed the 
obligations of the G. A. R. at that time. I am 
the sole survivor of that quartette." 

According to the decision of Dr. Stephenson 
and his co-adjutors, the organization was to be 
secret and it was arranged that signs, passwords 
and grips should be used as is customarj' in 
secret societies. Those present took an oath of 
secrecy and a ritual was prepared, which in- 
cluded a ceremony of initiation. The further- 
ance of the new organization was next dis- 
cussed and the feasibility of organizing Posts 
throughout the State decided upon. Such a 
procedure necessitated the preparation of a 
multiplicity of copies of the ritual ; and it was 
ascertained that tlie office of the Decatur, 111., 
Tribune was equipped with eligible men who 
could be made members, and, under their oath, 
the required copies could be made, without 



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endangering the privacy whicli had been made 
a feature of the organization. Messrs. Coltrin 
and Pryor, proprietors of the Decatur Tribune, 
and tiieir compositors were made members ; 
and four liundred copies of the ritual were 
printed and made ready for use. 

In tills manner the Grand Army of the Re- 
public came into existence ; and, on April G, 
18G0, the first Post was organized in the hall of 
the Sons of Malta at Decatur. The meeting 
was enthusiastic and, under its spell, the mem- 
bers proceeded to the office of the Tribune and 
prepared placards, with which all the con- 
spicuous places in the town were decorated 
before daylight, and announced to the citizens 
the existence of" G. A. R. Post No. 1, Decatur, 
April 6, 18GG." The spirit of the occasion grew 
and, throughout Illinois and other States, the 
soldiers made haste to enroll in the Order. 
Post Cassius Fairchild, No. 1, at Madison, Wis., 
w^as organized .June 10, 186G. (See Department 
of Wisconsin). 

Dr. Stephenson constituted himself the Com- 
mander of the newly Hedged society and issued 
the following manifesto: " Headquarters, Grand 
Army of the Republic, Springfield, 111., .June 
— 1866. The undersigned hereby assumes 
command of the Grand Army of the Republic. 
Major Robert M. Woods is appointed Adjutant- 
General; Col. Julius C. Webber and Lieut. .loiin 
S. Phelps are appointed A. D. C.'s. They will 
be oI)eyed and respected accordingly. By order 
of B. F. Stephenson. R. M. Woods, Adjutant- 
General." 

Posts multiplied and, not long after the pro- 
mulgation of the above document, Dr. Stephen- 
son issued the call for a meeting of delegates 
from the various Posts in Illinois to meet at 
Springfield, .July 12, 1866. At this assembly 
the Department of Illinois was created and John 
M. Palmer was made Department Commander. 
Soon after, Posts were organized in other States, 



all acknowledging Dr. Stephenson as head and 
front of the Order. The organization con- 
tinued to spread, and in the fall of the same 
year, Dr. Stejibenson issued the following : — 
"Headquarters, Grand Army of the Republic, 
Springfield, 111., Oct. 31, 1866. General Order 
No. 13. A National Convention of the Grand 
Army of the Republic is hereby ordered to 
convene at Indianapolis, Ind., at 10 o'clock on 
Tuesday, the 20th day of November next, for 
tiie purpose of perfecting the National organ- 
ization, and the transaction of such other busi- 
ness as may come before the convention. The 
ratio of representation shall be as follows: — 
Each Post shall be entitled to one representa- 
tive, and when the membership exceeds one 
hundred, to one additional representative; and 
in the same ratio for every additional one 
hundred or fractional j>art thereof. All De- 
partment and District officers, ejc-officio, shall be 
members of the said convention. All honor- 
al)ly discharged soldiers and sailors, and those 
now serving in the army desirous of becoming 
members of the Grand Army of the Republic, 
are respectfully invited to attend the conven- 
tion. All comrades are requested to wear "the 
blue " with cor[)s liadges, etc. Official : — J. C. 
Webber, Adj.-Gen., Dept. Illinois. B. F. Ste- 
phenson, Commander-in-Chief, G. A. R., U. S." 
Pursuant to tiie call, eleven States sent about 
250 delegates to the convention and two days 
were passed in transacting business relative to 
the systematic organization of the National 
body. Stephen A. Ilurlburt of Illinois, was 
elected first Commander-in-Chief to serve one 
year. Dr. Stephenson was made Adjutant- 
General. A "Platform of Principles" was 
ado]ited which may be found in the various 
publications of the Order. Thesecond National 
Encampment was held at Philadelphia, 
Jan. 15, 1868, and 21 States sent repre- 
sentatives. General Logan was elected Com- 



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mander-in-Cliief and Memorial Day was estab- 
lished. May 13th and 14th, 1869, a third En- 
campment was held at Cincinnati, Ohio, and 
General Logan was re-elected. It had become 
evident from the reports from the various Posts 
that some fatality was at work in the Order and 
it was revealed in discussion, that the idea that 
the organization was regarded as political pre- 
vailed, and as such, it might become a danger- 
ous piece of machinery in the bodj' politic. 
The Order was, in consequence, regarded with 
disfavor by the public, who refused to counten- 
ance it. Reorganization resulted and an Article 
was introduced into the Constitution, which for- 
bade the use of the Order for political ends and 
also the discussion of political topics in the 
meetings. At this Encampment the three 
grades of Recruit, Soldier and Veteran were 
established and a set of rules adopted for the 
government of the Order, which stated the 
objects for which the G. A. R. was designed 
and also fixed the C|ualifications of member- 
ship. Soldiers and sailors who were in the 
service between April 12, 1861, and Aug. 20, 
1866, who had received honorable discharge 
from the U. S. service in the war of the rebel- 
lion, wei'e eligible and the same rule declared 
the entire ineligibility of all who had borne 
arms against the United States. The growth 
and popularity of the Order have had no inter- 
ruption since, and at this writing, in 1890, the 
Order numbers nearly 500,000 members. 

At the fourth encampment held at Washing- 
ton, D. C, May 11th and 12th, 1870, at which 
General Logan was again re-elected, the badge 
of the Order was adopted, of which a cut ap- 
pears on page 857. Every design thereon rep- 
resents loyalty to the Flag of the Union. At 
the fifth encampment, the grade system was 
abolished and all were admitted to full mem- 
bership. At the 14tli Encamj)ment, Comman- 
der Earnshaw established the precedent of one 



term of office, w'hich has since been observed. 
At the close of 1800, the Order is in a flourish- 
ing condition. New Posts are being organized 
in every State and old ones are being resusci- 
tated. As the veterans "fall out," succumbing 
to a foe that has never been vanquished, others 
make haste to close up the ranks, and the mem- 
bers seem drawn closer and closer together as 
the years move on. The National Encamp- 
ment, each succeeding year, is received in the 
place where it is held, with growing enthu- 
siasm and interest, and the" assemblages are 
proving potent factors in keeping alive the 
loyalt}' of the people to the purpose of the war 
and fealty to the old flag. 

The purposes of the Order and the work car- 
ried on under its auspices are outlined as fol- 
lows : — 1. Fraternity : — To preserve and 
strengthen those kind and fraternal feelings 
which bind together the soldiers, sailors and 
marines, who united to suppress the late reliel- 
lion, and to perpetuate the memory and history 
of the dead. — 2. Charity : — To assist such for- 
mer comrades in arms, as need help and pro- 
tection, and to extend needful aid to the 
widows and orphans of those who have fallen. 
— 3. Loyalty : — To maintain allegiance to the 
United States of America, based on a para- 
mount respect for and fidelity to, its Constitu- 
tion and Laws, to discountenance whatever 
tends to weaken loyalty, incites insurrection, 
treason or rebellion, or in any manner impairs 
the efficiency and permanency of our free in- 
stitutions ; and to encourage the spread of uni- 
versal liberty, equal rights and justice to all men. 

Following is a statement of the series of 
National Encampments, with dates, localities 
and successive Commanders to 1890 inclusive. 

1866. Nov. 20.— Springfield, 111.— Stephen 
A. Hurlburt, Illinois. 

1868. Jan. 15.— Philadelphia, Pa.^.John A. 
Logan, Illinois. 



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1869. Maj' 12.— Cincinnati, Ohio.— John A. 
Logan, Illinois. 

1870. May 11.— Washington, D. C— .John 
A. Logan, Illinois. 

1871. May 10. — Boston, Mass. — Ambrose E. 
Burnside, Rhode Island. 

1872. May 8. — Cleveland, Ohio. — Ambrose 

E. Burnside, Rhode Island. 

1873. May 14. — New Haven, Conn. — 
Charles A. Devens, Boston, Mass. 

1874. May 13.— Harrisburg, Pa.— Charles 
A. Devens, Boston, Mass. 

1875. May 12.— Chicago, III— .John F. Har- 
tranft, Philadelphia, Pa. 

1876. June 30.— Philadelphia, Pa.— John 

F. Hartranft, Philadelphia, Pa. 

1877. June 26. — Providence, R. I. — John C. 
Robinson, Binghamton, N. Y. 

1878. June 4. — Springfield, Mass. — John C. 
Robinson, Binghamton, N. Y. 

1879. June 17.— Albany, N. Y.— William 
Earnshaw, Ohio. 



1880. June. — Dayton, Ohio. — Louis Wag- 
ner, Philadelphia, Pa. 

1881. June 15. — Indianapolis, Ind. — George 
S. Merrill, Lawrence, Mass. 

1882. June 21.— Baltimore, Md.— Paul Van 
Der Voort, Omaha, Neb. 

1883. July 25.— Denver, Col.— Robert B. 
Bealh, Philadelphia, Pa. 

1884. July 23.— Minneapolis, Minn.— John 
S. Kountz, Toledo, Ohio. 

1885. June 24.— Portland, Me.— S. S. Bur- 
dette, Washington, D. C. 

1886. Aug. 3. — San Francisco, Cal. — Lucius 
Fairchild, Madison, Wis. 

1887. Sept. 28.— St. Louis, Mo.— John P. 
Rea, Minneapolis, Minn. 

1888. Sept. 12.— Columbus, Ohio.— William 
Warner, Kansas City, Mo. 

1889. Aug. 30.— Milwaukee, Wis.— Russell 
A. Alger, Detroit, Mich. 

1890. Aug. 13. — Boston, Mass.— W. 0. 
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DEPARTMENT OF WISCONSIN. 



The organization of the Department of Wis- 
consin prior to 1883 is not a matter of record to 
any available extent. Annual meetings oc- 
curred in various places and the Order was kept 
alive from the date of the first Post organized 
at Madison, which is still in existence and 
which is the oldest in the United States. The 
charter of Post Cassius Fairchild, No. 1, was 
dated June 10, 1866, and remained under that 
style until 1883, when a petition was made to 
the Department to change it to Post C. C. 
Washburn, which was granted and the 
number was changed to 11. The first Com- 
mander of Post Fairchild was Comrade .lames 
Bennett. 



The organization of Posts in the State was 
slow. Previous to 1880 only eight had been 
duly formed. The old Phil Sheridan Post, No. 
3, of Milwaukee, whose original charter was 
dated June 9, 1875, made a surrender in 1880 
and reorganized as E. B. Wolcott Post No. 1 ; 
Abraham Lincoln Post of Darien, was char- 
tered Aug. 16, 1879; Geo. H. Thomas Post of 
Delavan was chartered Nov. 28, 1879. The 
roster of the Department for 1888 records the 
date of the Robert Chiviis Post No. 2, of Mil- 
waukee, as June 9, 1875. No data exist regard- 
ing the Posts at Berlin and Omro and those of 
Post No. 10, at O.shkosh were burned in the 
devastating fire which swept that cit}'. 



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863 



From 1880 to 1882 the interest became more 
general and in the included two years, the 
growth of the Order was perceptible. New life 
was infused into the Posts which were languish- 
ing, and new ones sprang into being. Several 
which had become almost wholly <lormant were 
reorganized and the giant growth which has 
become something surprising in more than one 
sense, begun. 

In the roster of 1890, 264 Posts are reported 
with a membership of nearly 14,000 at date of 
the annual Encampment at Milwaukee, in 
March, 1890. It is impossible to obtani, at this 
writing, the actual membership, but it is certain 
that it has reached' a much larger total than 
mentioned. 

The following table shows the growth of the 
G. A. R. in the Wisconsin Department from 
1881: 

Year. No. of Posts. Membekship. 

1881 850 

1882 8-58 

1883 60 2,486 

1884 129 5,979 

1885 190 9,165 

1886 215 11,060 

1887 227 10,027 

1888 248 10,973 

1889 260 13,944 

In Murch, 1890, 264 active Posts were re- 
ported with a membership of 13,987. 



Following is a tabulated statement of the 
Wisconsin Department Encampments and Com- 
manders elected. 

1 866. June 7 -J. K. Proudfit. 

1867. .June 19 II. A. Starr. 

1868. Jan. 8 J. M. Rusk. 

1869. .Jan. 27 T. S. Allen. 

1870. Jan. 27 T.S.Allen. 

1871. Jan. 11 Edward Ferguson. 

1872. .hm. 17 Edward Ferguson. 

1873 A. J. McCoy. 

1874. Jan. 8 G. A. Haunaford. 

1875 G. A. Hannaford. 

1876. Jan. 12 John Hancock. 

1877. Jan. 25 H. G. Rogers. 

1878 S. F. Hammond. 

1879 G. J. Thomas. 

1880 G.J.Thomas. 

1881 G. .J. Thomas. 

1882 H. M. Enos. 

1883. .Jan. 23 Philip Cheek, Jr. 

1884. -Jan. 23 Philip Cheek, Jr. 

1885. Jan. 22 .lames Davidson. 

1880. Feb. 3 Lucius Fairchild. 

1886. H. P. Fischer. 

1887. Feb. 15 M. Gritfin. 

1888. Feb. 15 A. G. Weissert. 

1889. Feb. 25 A. G. Weissert. 

1889. Oct. 29 L. Ferguson. 

1890. Mar. 19 B. F. Brvant. 









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tary and Cliristian Com- 
missions during the war, 
<W pcrliaps belongs tlie credit 
^.j. of the origin of that noble 
uid earnest auxiliary to 
the Grand Army of the Repub- 
ic, the Woman's Relief Corps. 
The soldiers well knew the lov- 
ing services rendered lliem by 
these women in the hospitals 
and on the field of battle and 
when, after the war, they and 
)yal women organized 
local societies for the purpose of 
aiding the needy soldiers and their families, the 
Grand Army of the Republic was quick to 
recognize the many benelits that would spring 
from these organizations and hailed them witii 
earnest greetings. The States of Maine, Massa- 
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire 
and Connecticut, ojierated under the name and 
charter of what was then called the " Union 
I5oard." 

Maini^ may be termed the j>ioneei' corps in 
woman's work, for the testimony is undisputed, 
and to the comrades of Bosworth Post, Port- 
land, Me., belongs the credit of organizing, 
more than twenty years ago, an association of 
women, known as the Relief Corj)s, and there 
is no doubt that, had the association been known 
and a knowledge of its work at once extended, 
that Boswoith Relief Corps would have borne 
the same relation to the National Assi;ciation to- 



day, that the first Post, started by Dr. Stephen- 
son, does to the Grand Army of the Republic. 

The work of the Union Board was dissem- 
inating rapidly throughout the Eastern States, 
and comrades expressed a very deep interest in 
woman's work tor the Grand Army of the Re- 
public; in 1881 Comrade J. F. Lovering of 
Massachusetts, the Chaplain-in-Chief, intro- 
duced the importance of a woman's auxiliary to 
the Fourteenth Annual Encampment of the 
G. A. R., the result of which was the adoption 
of the following: 

Resolved, That we approve of the project of 
organizing a Woman's Relief Corps. 

Resolved, Tiiat such Woman's Relief Corps 
may use under such title the words, " auxiliary 
to the Grand Army of the Republic by special 
endorsement of the National Encampment of 
the G. A. R." 

Thus armed with authority, the Union Board 
took courage and, being a})pealed to by comrades 
from all over the Union for the formation of 
corps, a united and National work was decided 
to 1)6 imperative and demanded by the best 
interests of the Grand Army in nearly everv 
State. The work was heartily encouraged by 
such eminent comrades as R. B. Beath, Paul 
Van Der Voort, J. F. Lovering, George Brown 
and many otliers, but with a certain opposition 
from a portion of the G. A. R. and with such a 
diversity of opinion among the women them- 
selves as to the character and government of 
an association to be founded, that the most 
sanguine entertained small hopes as to a speedy 



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I'onsuminalioii of a permanent National organ- 
ization. 

However, the deep rooted principles of loy- 
alty of all the organizations were rapidly ger- 
minating and a call for a Convention for organ- 
ization was mad(! in the General Orders of Com- 
mander-in-Chief \'an Der ^"oort, the result of 
w-hich was the institution of the Woman's 
Relief Corps, as auxiliary to the Grand Army 
of the Republic at Denver, Colo., .July •23d, 1883. 

Mrs. E. Florence Barker, of Maiden, Massa- 
chusetts, was elected National President, and 



in 1884 Mrs. Kate B. Sherwood, of Toledo, 
Ohio, was her successor, and was succeeded in 
1885 by Sarah E. Fuller. In 1886 Elizabeth 
D'Arcy Kinne, of San Francisco, Cal., was 
elected to the chief position, to be followed in 
1887 by Emma S. Hamjiton, of Detroit, Mich. 
Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig, of Viroqua, Wis., was 
the executive head in 1888. In 1889 Mrs. 
Annie Wittenmeyer, of Philadelphia, was 
elected at Milwaukee, Wis., and at Boston, 

Mass., Aug. 14, 1890, Mrs. McHenry, of 

, Iowa, was made National President. 



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The Woman's Relief Corps in Wisconsin was 
made an organic institution, June 26, 1884, at 
La Crosse, Wis., Clara B. Sloan, of Fond du Lac, 
being constituted President. Mrs. Harriet 
Dunlap, of Lodi, was made Department Presi- 
dent in 1885. In 1886, Mrs. Gertie Rogers, of 
Milwaukee, was elected and performed her 
duties in such effective and satisfactory manner, 
that she was made her own successor in 1887. 
In 1888 Mrs. Charity Rusk Craig, of Viroqua, 
was elected executive head of the Department 
of Wisconsin and resigned to accept the position 
of National President. Mrs. Caroline H. Bell, 
of Milwaukee, was selected to fill the position 
thus made vacant, and in March, 1889, was 
elected and served with eminent credit to her- 
self and benefit to the Department. March 19, 
1890, Helen Holmes Charlton, of Brodhead, 
Wis., was elected Department President. 

Tiie annual Report of the Department of 
Wisconsin shows the existence of 97 corps in 
active working condition. At this writing, 
late in 1890, there are more than 3,000 work- 
ing members. 

It is not within the scope or province of this 
work to discuss the merits of any of the organi- 



zations of which only the briefest and most 
meag(;r accounts can be presented ; but it is 
only the merest justice to state that the women, 
all over the State, who have interested them- 
selves in the progress of the Order have ac- 
complished heroic work in their auxiliary 
efforts to increase the benefits of the Grand 

I Army of the Republic among the veterans and 
their families. Hundreds of biographical 
sketches appear in this volume, every one of 
which is an honor and a credit to the work, in- 
asmuch as it relates the personal experience of 
the defenders of the homes of the country. It 
will be observed with regret, however, that, 
only in a few instiinces, are the trials, privations, 
liardshijis and faithful devotion of the women 
of their households been incorporated therein. 
No blame attaches to any person ; in any work, 

' which, in its incipiency, could be but experi- 
mental, many things have been overlooked, 
but in the splendid public record of the sons of 
many of these self-denying, suttering mothers, 
which tlie annals of Wisconsin bear to-day, it 
is shown that American women are of the fiber, 
consistency and substance of which heroines 
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rty in the soil, fertilized 
l)y the blood of patriots of the Rev- 
olution. The Order is of recent 
growtli : and that it exists at all is 
a most significant sign of the times, 
_^ .,_. and of the true value of what was 
^^1^' acconiplished by the fathers of these 
sons, who are rallying to establish 
an enduring memorial of the sacri- 
fices and privations and magnifi- 
cent daring of their sires. If this had been 
done in the flush of victory, when success made 
the hearts of men proud and exultant, and 
when households were triumphant in the 
presence of returned warriors, bearing banners 
of glorious record, the meaning would have 
been of far less significance. Its establishment 
at this date, more than twenty years after, 
means portentous things for this llepublic. It 
is one of the strongest existing evidences of the 
deathless Patriotism inculcated by our institu- 
tions — fostered by the history of the past, and 
nourished wiiere the heroes of nations have 



been made from the foundation of the world — 
at the firesides of a nation's homes. 

The Sons of "\'eterans came into systematized 
existence as a National Order at Pittsburg, Pa., 
in November, 1S81. Its founder was Major A. 
P. Davis, a prominent Comrade of the G. A. R. 
Its charter was received from the State of Penn- 
sylvania. From this beginning its progression 
has been marked by steady accessions to its 
membership and in 1890 it holds a position 
which compares favorably with the G. A. R. 
and W. R. C. in importance and influence. 

Its character is essentially military, its system 
and government being framed according to 
military methods. It is composed of Camps, 
Divisions and a higher Body, known as the 
Commandery-in-Chief. G. B. Abbott is Com- 
mander-in-Chief, C. J. Post, Adjt.-General, and 
F. A. Gurney, Quartermaster General. 

Its principles are one and the same as those 
on which is based the Republic and may be 
summed up in one word — Patriotism, pure and 
simple. Sanctified and made holy by the 
memories and reminiscences of the sacrifices 
and struggles of those who fought the Iwttles 
and won the victorie's of the war, it is an insti- 
tution which will grow strongei- ami more 



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SONS OF VETERANS. 



pernianeiit as tlic years pass on. As auxiliary Rowley was elected on the IStli. He was sue- 
to the Grand Army it aids in the dissemination eeeded l)y Frank P. Merrill of Auburn, Me., 
of the advantages and benefits, of that Body H. W. Arnold of Johnstown, Pa., W. S. Payn 



and maintains the same fi-eedom from political 
or sectarian relations. 



of Ohio, G. B. Abbott of Chicago, and C. F. 
Griffin of Indianapolis, Ind., Commander-in- 



II. T. Rowley, of Pittsburg, Pa., was the first Chief in the current year, 1890. Messrs. Payn 

regularly elected Commander-in-Chief. Tiie and Abbott served two terms each, 

first executive session of the Order as an organ- I The approximate membershi]) as reported in 

ization occurred in Octnl.cr, 1SS2, and Mr. .Inne, 1800, is about 73,000. 

WISCONSIN DIVISION. 



The Order of the Sons of \'eterans in Wis- 
consin was established in the spring of 1883 at 
Waukesha, with John R. Fletclier as executive 
head. His successor was Dr. John Finney of 
CliDtonville. The first Division meeting was 
held at Oshkosh, June 3, 1884, when Dr. 
Finney was duly elected, the former officials 
having been appointed ])y the Commander-in- 
Chief. June 13, 1885, the second Division 
meeting was held at Milwaukee, at which S. F. 
Peacock was elected C<)lonel. July 24, 1886, 
at Milwaukee, F. J. Walthers was elected. 
Feb. 15, 1887, Mr. Walthers was re-elected and 



in August resigned his position on account of 
a foreign trip and at that date 25 Camps were 
in operation. John P. Sheridan was elected in 
October, 1887, to complete the unexpired term. 
June 30, 1888, Charles H. Hudson, of Madison, 
was elected at that place to the chief office and 
was re-elected at Menasha, Wis., June 19, 1889. 
Harry S. Fuller, of Milwaukee, was elected 
Colonel at Sheboygan, June 17, 1890. 

The reported condition of tlie Order June 30, 
1890, shows that GS working organizations were 
in existence in Wisconsin and aggregating 
1,560 members. 





1775. April 20.— A force of 800 British 
troops under Lieutenant-Colonel Smith, was 
sent out from Boston to dcstroj' the provincial 
stores at Lexington and Concord. 

May 10. — Capture of Ticonderoga. Colonel 
Ethan Allan, with a force of 83 men, entered 
the fort before daylight and demanded its sur- 
render in the name of the Great Jehovah and 
the Continental Congress. No resistance was 
made, and he captured 48 men and over 100 
guns. 

June 17.— Battle of Bunker Hill. The 
Americans, under Generals Warren, Prescott 
and Putnam, fought the British under Plowe 
and Pigot. The Continentals were defeated, 
sustaining a loss of 450 killed and wounded 
and the British loss in the aggregate was 1,050. 

Dec. 31. — Battle of Quebec. The Americans 
were defeated. They were under the leader- 
ship of Generals Schuyler, Montgomery and 
Arnold, and their losses included IGO men. 
The British were led by Generals McLean and 
Carlton and they sustained a loss of 20 in killed 
and wounded. 

Dec. 9. — Norfolk, Va. In this action the 
American leader was Colonel Woodford and 
one man was wounded; the British were com- j 



manded by Lord Dunmore and their loss was 
62 in tlie aggregate. 

177(3. March 17. — Evacuation of Boston by 
the British under General Howe ; the cit}' was 
occupied by General Washington. 

June 28. — The British fleet, under Sir Henry 
Clinton, attacked Fort Sullivan in Charleston 
harbor. They were repulsed by Colonel Moul- 
trie with 400 men, of whom 10 were killed and 
22 wounded. Tlie British loss was 225 in 
killed and wounded. 

Aug. 27. — Battle of Long Island. General 
Howe, with 20,000 British troops, attacked the 
Americans, numbering 10,000, under Generals 
Greene and Sullivan. The latter were defeated 
with a loss of 2,000, half the number being 
taken prisoners, many of whom were sent to 
the British prison ships. The loss of the Eng- 
lish was about 400. 

Sept. 16.— Battle of Harlem Plains. This 
action was fought by the British under General 
Leslie and an American force commanded l)y 
Major Leitch and Colonel Knowlton ; the latter 
were re-enforced and drove the former after a 
severe contest. 

Oct. 28.— Battle ,of White Plains. The 
British under General Howe, attempted to sur- 



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BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. 



round the American camp, commanded by 
Washington. The fight known by the name 
given ensued, with a slight advantage to the 
Colonial troops. The respective losses of the 
Americans and Rriti-sh were 275 and 300 men. 

Nov. IG. — Fort Washington or Harlem 
Heights was taken by the British, who lost 
about 1,000 men ; the loss of the Americans 
under Colonel Magaw was 100 in killed and 
wounded and 2,500 prisoners. 

Dec. 2G.— Battle of Trenton. General Wash- 
ington attacked the Briti.«h under Colonel Rahl 
and defeated them after a short and sharp con- 
flict, losing two killed. The British loss was 
36 killed and 1,000 prisoners. 

1777. Jan. 3. — General Washington de- 
feated Cornwallis at Princeton, inflicting a loss 
of 300 killed and wounded on the British, his 
own loss being about 100 killed and wounded, 
and 300 prisoners. 

July 7.— Battle of Hubbardton, Yt. The 
British, under General Frazer, gained a victory 
over the Americans under Warner, Francis and 
Hale. The English lo.st in killed and wounded 
ISo, while the casualties in the American forces 
aggregated 324. This is Vermont's only battle 
field. The battle of Beiniington was fought on 
ground now across the New York State line. 

Aug. 3. — Fort Schuyler was besieged by a 
force of British and Indians. On the 6th, 
General Herkimer, marching to the relief of 
the fort, was surprii^ed and defeated by General 
St. Leger. General Herkimer was killed. 
August 13th, General St. Leger raised the siege 
on the approach of General Arnold with 800 
men. The British loss was unknown : the 
Americans lost 150 in killed and wounded. 

Aug. 10. — Battle of Bennington, Vt. A 
British force of 1,500 men, under Colonels 
Baum and Beyman were attacked at Benning- 
ton by 2,000 Americans under General Stark. 
When the American commander saw the British 



line of battle, he exclaimed; — "There are the 
red-coats ; we beat them to-day or Mollie Staik 
is a widow." The British lost 200 killed and 
34 wounded ; the American loss was about 200 
in all. 

Ski't. 11 . — Battleof Brandy wine. The British 
under Lord Howe defeated (.ieneral Washing- 
ton, losing 500 men and inflicting a loss of 
about 1,000. 

Sept. 19. — Battle of Bemis Heights. Bur- 
goyne attacked the American forces under 
Arnold aiid Morgan and was defeated with a 
loss of 600. 

Oct. 4. — Battle of Germantowu. Washing- 
ton attacked the British with decisive results, 
several hundred being killed on either side. 

Oct. G. — General Clinton, with a British 
force, captured Fort Clinton and Fort Mont- 
gomery on the Hudson ; Kingston, Rhinebeck 
and other places were destroyed. 

Oct. 7. — Battle of Stillwater. General tiates 
defeated the British, capturing 5,791 prisoners. 

Oct. 22. — Attack on Fort Mercer, N. J. 
Count Donoj), with 1,200 Hessians and an 
artillery force attacked the foit and was vo- 
pulsed with a loss of 400. 

1778. June 28. — Battleof Monmouth. Gen- 
eral Wasliinglon defeated 11,000 British; the 
American loss was 362 ; the British lost 370 men. 

Aug. 29.— Battle of Quaker Hill. This ac- 
tion took ])lace near Newport, li. I. (ieneral 
Greene, who commanded the rightof Sullivan's 
force, repulsed the British assault, inflicting a 
loss of 2G0 and sustaining casualties aggregating 
200 in killed and wounded. 

Dec. 29. — Savannah, Ga., was seized by a 
British force under Lieutenant-Colonel Camp- 
bell, who lost four men in the attack ; the 
Ajnerican loss was heavy, comjirising nearly 
one-half of the troops, Ijaggage and guns. 

1779. J.\N. 9. — The fort at Sunbury, (Ja., 
was taken by the British under General Pro- 



BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION. 



873 



vost. A few days later Augusta was taken by 

the same force. 

March 3. — Battle of Brier Ci-eek, Ga. A 
considerable detacbment of the army of General 
Lincoln, under General Ashe, was defeated in 
this action, with a loss of 150 killed and 162 
prisoners; the British loss was 110 killed. 

June 20.— Battle of Stono Ferry, S. C. A 
fight between a part of (ieneral Lincoln's forces 
and a British garrison, guarding the ferry, re- 
sulted in a loss to the Americans of 1-46 killed 
and 155 missing. The British lost 65 killed 
and 564 prisoners. 

July 16. — Stony Point, N. Y., was stormed 
at midnight by a detachment of American 
troops under General Wayne; the surprise was 
complete and the contest sharp, but the garri- 
son soon surrendered. 

Aug. 29.— Chemung, N. Y. (Elmira). Gen- 
erals Sullivan and Clinton, having organized 
an expedition against the Indians of Western 
New York, fought them at this point; 800 In- 
dians and tories were routed and their villages 
burned ; the affair inculcated a lesson the red- 
skins never foi'got. 

1780. May 12.— Capture of Charleston, S. C. 
After a siege of forty days, Charleston was sur- 
rendered by General Lincoln to a combined 
British land and naval force under Clinton and 
CornwaDis. 

Junk 23. — A British force of 5,000 started 
from Staten Island into New Jersey and were 
mot near Springtield by General Greene who 
gave them a thorough whipping and sent them 
back to their starting point. 

Oct. 7. — Battleof King's Mountain. British 
troops, under General Ferguson, were defeated 
and captured at this point by a force of Patriots, 



comprising about 900 farmers and backwoods- 
men. The British lost 1,108 killed and pris- 
oners, besides 1,500 stands of arms. General 
Ferguson was killed. The American loss was 
88 killed and wounded. 

1781. Jan. 17. — Battle of Cowpens. Gen- 
eral Morgan defeated Tarleton, who was press- 
ing him with a superior force and took upwards 
of 500 prisonei's, 800 muskets, two standards, 
besides canuon and horses. The British were 
totally routed, while the American loss was but 
72 in killed and wounded. 

March 15.— Battle of Guilford C. H., N. C. 
A severe fight took place between the forces of 
Cornwallis and Greene. The American loss 
was 419 and that of the British, 570. Corn- 
wallis then marched into Virginia. 

Sept. 8. — General Greene defeated the British 
under Colonel Stewart at Eutaw Springs, S. C, 
and they retreated to Cliarleston. 

Sept. 30. — The siege of Yorktown was begun 
by the combined French and American forces. 

Oct. 19. — Cornwallis surrendered Yorktown 
with 12,000 prisoners, including sailors, tories 
and negroes. The spoils included 8,000 mus- 
kets, 255 cannon, 28 standards, besides a large 
amount of munitions of war and stores. When 
the news was received at Philadelphia, the 
people wept with delight. Religious services 
were held by Congress in the Lutheran Church 
and the following day at the headquarters of 
the regiments. 

(The British sent 133,000 soldiers and sailors 
to this war. The Colonists met them with 
230,000 Continentals and 48,000 militia. The 
British employed Indians and Hessians. The 
Amei'icans had the French as allies.) 




Battles of the War of 1812. 



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1812. June 18. — War was declared by the 
United States against England ; American citi- 
zens and others claiming to be snch, were seized 
by the English government and connnilted 
to Dartmoor prison. 

July 12. — General Hull, with 1,800 men, in- 
vaded Canada from Detroit. 

July 29. — The l>ritish Heet on l^ake Ontario 
was repulsed from Sackett's Harbor l)y the 
Oneida and an old 32-pounder, stationed on 
the shore. 

Ji'i.Y 31 . — A figlit occurred among the Thous- 
and Islands between two British vessels and 
two American boats; the British were defeated. 

Au(i. 13. — The United States frigate Essex 
captured the Britisii brig Alert off Newfound- 
laud, after a contest of eight minutes. This 
was the first British national war vessel cap- 
tured in the second war with Great Britain. 

Aug. 1G. — Surrender of Detroit by Genei'al 
Hull to General Brock, without firing a gun; 
the surrender included the whole territory of 
Michigan. For this. General Hull was tried, 
convicted of cowardice and sentenced to be shot, 
but was pardoned by President Madison. 

Sept. 24. — William Henry Harrison took 
command of the Army of the Northwest. 

Oct. 8. — Two British vessels were cajitured 
on Lake Erie by Lieutenant Elliott. 



Oct. 13. — In the desperate battle of Queens- 
town Heights, fought by the Americiin forces 
uoder General Van Rensselaer, General Brock, 
tlie British connnander, was killed. General 
Scott and Captain Wool gained the heights, but 
the militia refused to cross tlie river to aid the 
American troops, who were forced to surrender, 
being overwhelmed by superior numbei'.s, and 
having lost 1,100 men. 

Oct. 18. — Tlie Americiin sloop of war Wasp 
captured the British brig Frolic oil' the coast 
of North Carolina. 

1813. Fki!. 22. — Ogdensburg was invaded 
by a force of British ; the town was plundered 
and the barracks and several schooners burned. 

Ai'KiL 27. — The capture of York, now To- 
ronto, Canada, was eflected by an American 
force from Sacketts' Harbor, under Gen. Zebu- 
Ion M. Pike. After a fierce contest the British, 
being unable to hold the fort, tired a magazine, 
causing frightful loss. General Pike was mor- 
tally wounded. 

May 1. — Fort Meigs was attacked l)y the 
British and successfully defended Ijy the Amer- 
ican forces under General Clay. 

M.\v 27.— The British attacked Sacketts' 
Harbor, but were so successfully repulsed that 
their retreat turned into disorderlv ilight. 

Junk 1. — The American frigate Chesapeake 



BATTLES OF 1812. 



875 



under Captain Lawrence, was captured liy tlie 
Britisli ship Shannon under Captain Brooks. 
The Chesapeake was soon disabled, Captain 
Lawrence being mortally wounded. As lie 
was carried below lie made his famous utter- 
ance: — "Tell the boys to tire faster ; don't give 
up tlie ship." 

June 22. — An invasion of Norfolk, Va., was 
attemjited by the British, but they were succes- 
fully repulsed and gave up all hope of gaining 
Norfolk or the Navy Yard. 

July 31. — Plattsburg and Swantmi were in- 
vaded by a force of British from Canada, the 
barracks were burned and a Cjuantity of sup- 
plies captured. 

Aug. 1. — An assault on Fort Stephenson at 
Lower Sandusky, was made bj' Proctor and his 
Indian allies. The garrison was commanded 
by Major Geo. Croghan, 21 years old, with 160 
men. Proctor demanded instant surrender, 
with a threat to massacre if he had to take the 
fort by assault. Croghan sent back the brave 
reply, "that when they were taken, nobody 
would be left alive to massacre." The enemy 
was repulsed with a loss of 120 men, while the 
Americans lost but one man killed. 

Sept. 10. — Perry's victory. Captain Perry, 
with a fleet of nine American vessels, met the 
British fleet on Lake Erie in deadly battle. 
The flag ship Lawrence received the force of 
tlie onset for two hours, until only one mast 
remained and the Stars and Stripts at its head 
was in tatters. Perry was determined to win 
the victory and crossed in a small boat under 
a rattling fire, to the Niagara, which was com- 
paratively uninjured. He renewed the contest 
with fresh vigor and in ten minutes the 
British colors were lowered. Perry returned 
to the battered hulk of the Lawrence to receive 
the Britisli commander. Perry was liut 29 1 
years of age and eveiy honor was showered 
upon him. 



Sept. 18. — The American fleet on Lake On- 
tario under Chauncey attacked the J5ritish fleet 
under Sir .James Yeo, who had boasted that he 
wanted to fight tlie Yankees. He was soon 
routed and his squadron retreated to Kingston. 

Oct. 5. — Battle of the Thames. This action, 
near Detroit, was fought between Proctor and 
Harrison. The latter was encouraged to attempt 
the recovery of Detroit by Perry's victory on 
Lake Erie. Nearly the entire force of British 
were captured, Tecumseh was killed and in 
this victory, the disaster to Hull in the begin- 
ning of tlie contest, was retrieved. 

Dec. 10. — Newark, Canada, was burned by 
ihe Americans. In retaliation, the British 
seized Fort Niagara, slaughtered a part of the 
garrison and burned many frontier villages ; 
Buffalo was wholly destroyed. 

1814. June. — During this month, extensive 
depredations were carried on along the New 
England coast by British vessels; seaport towns 
were destroyed, together with much valuable 
property. Eastern Maine was, for a time, un- 
der British control. 

July 15. — The battle of Chippewa was fought 
between Generals Scott and Kiall ; the British 
were cut to pieces and made a precipitate flight, 
destroying the bridges behind them. 

July 25. — Battle of Lundy's Lane. This ac- 
tion resulted in the defeat of the British. They 
were determined to drive the American troops 
from Canada and landed a large force at Lewis- 
ton. General Brown sent General Scott to 
meet them, believing only a small portion of 
the British force to be there. General Scott 
unexpectedly found himself confronted by a 
superior force, which he held in check until 
General Brown arrived with his ami}- in force. 
After the repulse, the American troops fell back 
to Chippewa. The loss of the British was 878 ; 
that of the Americans was 852. 

Aug. 15. — An unsuccessful assault on Fort 



876 



BATTLES OF 1812. 



Erie was made by the British, who lost 962 men, 
while that of the Americans was but 84. 

Aug. 24. — Battle of Bladensburg. This ac- 
tion took place near Washington, D. C, between 
an English force which had invaded the coun- 
try by way of the sea coast, and an American 
body of troops. The latter retreated and the 
British pressed on to Washington unobstructed. 
Gen. Ross with his force entered the Capital in 
the evening and commenced the pillage of the 
city. .The public buildings were nearly all de- 
stroyed by fire during the night, the Capitol 
was sacked and the magnificent library de- 
stroyed. The estimated loss to the Nation was 
about §2,500,000, while private citizens lost 
about §700,000. 

Aug. 27. — Alexandria was assailed by a part 
of the British fleet under Commodore Gordon. 
The city was without defense and was obliged 
to submit to being plundered by the robbers. 

Sept. 11. — McDonough's \'ictory on Lake 
Champlain. After two hours' hard fighting, 
the small American fleet in Plattsburg Bay 
gave the British squadron a thorough whip- 
ing. They had not a whole mast left. At the 
same time the land forces were engaged in a 
struggle with each other. When the intelli- 
gence of the surrender of the British fleet was 
received, the troops under General Provost re- ' 
treated, that officer losing his courage entirely. 
His army's withdrawal terminated in a disor- 
derly flight. 

Sept. 12. — The British vessels appeared off 
Patapsco Bay {preparatory to the oaj)ture of the 
city of Baltimore. In a few hour.s, the troops 



under Gen. Ross had landed apd taken up 
their line of march for the city. At the same 
time, preparations were made to bombard Fort 
McHenry. General Strieker was sent forward 
to meet the British, and a shot from one of his 
men killed Ross at the head of his column. 
The bombarilment of Fort McHenry continued 
24 hours without effect, and the laud attempt 
was a decided failure. 

Sept. 15. — The British withdrew from Baili- 
more by land and sea. 

1815. Jan. S.— Battle of New Orleans. This 
action was the last in the war. The American 
troops were led to battle by General Jackson 
and the British fought under General Packen- 
ham. The latter advanced on New Orleans 
and were assaulted by a pouring fire of shot 
from the Americans, intrenched behind breast- 
works formed of cotton bales. Whole platoons 
of British troopers were swept away under the 
scathing fire and the commander was mortally 
wounded. The lines then broke in confusion 
and the English fled, losing 2,000 in killed 
wounded and prisoners. The American loss 
was eight killed and 13 wounded. The treaty 
of Ghent, which had been signed Dec. 23, 
1814, by the British and American Commis- 
sioners after a session of several months, did 
not reach America until Feb. 11, 1815. Its 
stipulations included agreements that both na- 
tions should strive to arrest Indian hostilities 
and also to stop the slave trade. The document 
did not touch the question of impressment of 
American seamen, but it was never again 
attempted. 



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Adams, L. J., liiitli Wis. I ;!.'(! 

Alden, C. J.. 31st Wis. I ttBli 

Alt'.vanclei-, S. L.. atttli l>a. 1 301 

Ailing-, H. L., 1st Wis. H. A 25« 

Allison, J. W., ,Stli Wis. I 801 

Amman, A., -J'th Wi.*. 1 303 

Aiideison, E. L., Bth Wis. I 603 

Andrus, F. L., 41)'h Wis. 1 181 

Armstrong, L.G..4S111 Wis. I 585 

Atwood, D 654 

Aiibery. C. B., 3d Vt. 1 650 

B 

Babb. S .llth Me. 1 410 

Bailey. S. J., 9th 111. C 801 

Baldwin. H. D. ,3d Wis. 1 3.50 

BaU,C F.,!ithWis LA .536 

Bannister. C, 4t;th Wis. I "... 201 

Barnes, E B.. 33d Wis. 1 415 

Bartlett. E., 31st Wis. 1 310 

Bartlett.J. N., 3iith Wis. 1 331) 

Batcheller, N. A., 4Uth Wis. 1 483 

Baty, J. C, U. S. N ..550 

Baxter, C H., 47th Wis. 1 453 

Beach, W. H. 1st N. Y. C 384 

Bcebe, V. V., liith Wis. LA 480 

Bell. J. McC, 3d ir. S C 659 

Boll, R., I3lli N. y. I .533 

Bell. S. U, 3Sth Wis. 1 768 

Berry, E. E., 331 Wis. 1 420 

Black, J. D.. 34th 111 1 317 

Blake, L. S 835 

Bleekmm, A E , 31 Oiio C ....503 

Bleuel, A.. 3d Mo. L. A ..471 

BIyton, W. H., I'.Hli Wi.s. 1 4H5 

Boehel, H.,36t'i Wis. I 715 

Bottrell, It., 131h Wis. 1 830 

Bradford, U. E.. 3d Ohio 1 789 

Brande, S. V 361 

BrifTgs, P. K., 47th Wis. I 521 

Brown. C. K, 7th Wis. 1 297 

Brownell, G. C, 16th N V. I. .» 188 

Bro\ishton, It.. 4 nil Wis. 1 2;W 

Bryan, I. K, 5th Minn. I .551 



Bryant, B. F, 101st Ohio I 145 

lii-yiint, ti. E., !3th Wis. I 4li9 

Bub. G.. 3d Wis. C 373 

Buell, C. E.,22d Wis. 1 172 

Bugbee, V. H., lOth Vt. I 746 

Bull, S 851 

Burdett, F. D., 6th Minn. 1 675 

Burdick, C. H , 4th Wis 370 

Burnett, W, W,, 186th ti. Y.\ 331 

Bnrnhani, O J., 6lh Wis. L. A n67 

Burnley, ('. T, IHth N. y. C 4i7 

Burns, K. L., 1st Mo. L. A 463 

Burt, W. ,33d Wis. I 187 

Bushnell, A. If., 7th Wis. t 491 

Butterlleld, M. L., 5th Wis. I '. 712 

Bya d, D., 33d Wis. I 617 

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Callis, J. I!., 7th Wis. 1 391 

Canterbury, J. B.. 5th Wis. 1 772 

napen, K. W.. 14th Wis. I 803 

Carley, D. W.,33d Wis. 1 383 

Carlson, O. W., 3Sth Wis. I 78? 

Carman, G. I"., 51st Pa. 1 3;« 

Carpenter, L.. 38th Wis. 1 296 

Carpenter, O., 10th Wis. 1 473 

Carpenter, O. P., 1st Wis. C 257 

Carr,-S. S., 8th 111 C ,534 

Carter, G. B, 2d Wis. r 495 

Carter. K.. 5th Wis I 498 

Case, ,1.1 ■ 845 

fash. W. H. H., 10th Wis. L A 779 

Catlin. G. E.,5lh U. S. .\ 590 

Chamberlain, J. A., 4th Wis 357 

Chandler, W. .]., Ist Wis. C 773 

Charnley, I., Ist Wis. H, A 686 

Chase, G. H., 1st Col. C 393 

Chatfleld, C A.. 113th 111. I 403 

Cheek, P. Jr. 6th Wis. 1 711 

Chute, K. H. ,35th Mass 1 233 

Clark, C. v., 30th Wis. I 603 

Clark, J. G, 50th Wis. 1 ... 492 

Clirk,L.,35th N.Y.I 797 

Clark, S. J, 15ih 111. 1 718 

Clark, T., 5th U. S. I .. .676 

Clarke, E. T., 77th Pa. I .^^45 

Clarke, W. P., 13th Wis. I ... 3;.'fi 



Cleveland. T. J.. 6th Wis. 1 430 

Cobban. S. C. F., 3d Vt. 1 436 

Cochrane. T. B.. 9th N. V.I 284 

CMeman, C., 13th Wis. I 380 

Coleman, E. H. 3(lth Wis. I 351 

Collins, G, J., isth Wis I 314 

Colwell, W., 3d Wis. 1 761 

Connor, A., 7th Wis, I 781 

Cook, G. W., 4th Wis 619 

Gooley, H., 8t.h III. C .^63 

Cooper, F., 37th Wis. I ,535 

C.ipoland. F. .\.. 3d Wis. C 648 

Corthell, J. IC, 16th N. Y. C ,523 

Cosgriff, K. H., 4th Iowa C 647 

Cory, J., 1st Wis. H. A 368 

Craiff, D., 35th Iowa 1 159 

Crandall, W. W.. 7th Wis. 1 275 

Cram, B. F.. 5th Wis. 1 319 

Crig-er. J. .1., 4th Wis 240 

Cristman, E. G., 1.53d N. Y. 1 809 

Cronou. E., 8th Wis. 1 368 

Culver, O., 48th Wis. I 438 

Cunningham. C. C, .5th Wis. L. A 333 

Curtis, A. A., 36th Wis. I :i53 

D 

Daevel, C, 5ili Mo. C 321 

Dahl, A. P. K.. 33th Wis. I .542 

Danielson. A.. II. S. N 666 

Darling. J., 8th Iowa 1 154 

Davie.-, D. D., 49i,li Wis. I 347 

Davis, U. C, 7th Iowa C nii7 

Davis, D. B., 24tli Wis. 1 311 

Davison, J. T., 43d Wis, I 376 

Davidson, J., 5Hi N. Y. C 593 

DeLip.K. H..3.id Wis.1 813 

Denniston. H., 17th Wis. I 669 

De Puy, E .M., 28tii Wis. 1 312 

Dervin, W. E., 16th U. S. 1 !.... 337 

Deshatnp, A., 48lh Wis. 1 671 

Desmond. J.. 16lli N. Y. H. A 548 

Deveroau.v. T., 381 h Wis. I 160 

Dinsmore. J. S . 12Hi N. 11. 1 517 

Dipple. C. 37th Wis. 1 446 

Ditschler, J., 1st Wis. I 313 

Doolittio, E. L., 37th Wis. I 387 

Douglas, A. S., 4"th Wis. I (05 



878 



INDEX. 



Dove, E. A., 13tli N. V. C. . 



3S1 1 Hayford, S. S.. 13tli N. Y. I 



335 Kreuger, F. J. G., 26th Wis. 1 182 



Dow. C. C, 2d Wis. T 32!) Heatford, G. H.. 72d Hi. I hT, 

Doyic.B. W., mil Wis. I . . 22S Heaiey, W., 3d Vt. L. A 72«< 



Dralfc. G. W , 1st Wis. I 

Dreutzor. C. G., lltli Wis. I 

E 

E^glcstou, C. H.. 29t.li Wis. 1 47' 

Elinnann, W..2ntli Wis. I 

Ei).'ol, J., -id Miuii. I 

Erslvinc-, M. B I': 

Evans, W. H. ,31st Wis. I 33<i 



Ewcns, A., 20tli Wis. I. 



Ealioy, R.. 2d Wis. I 

Kaiicl.ild, I,., 2<1 Wis. I. 
Kaulliiier, J.. 8tli Wis. I 
Fiiilt, H.. :.'8tli Wis. I .. 
Kisher, F.,2«tli Wis. I 



148 Hcarn, A.S., ISOIliOliioI 330 

tijii Heller, T. S.. 1st Iowa C 2i)2 

^ ] Henipic, F. W., 22d Wis. 1 335 

Heiidoishot, .1.. .■jOt li Wis. 1 784 

I Henry, W. L., 4iitli Wis. I 168 

Henze. G.. 20tli Wis. 1 304 

Herrick, M., Slllli Wis. 1 360 

■'*' ■/Hess, N. M.. 1st Wis. H. A .347 

^1i riillman. W. J., 2il Minn. 1 421 

Hilton, P. W., 22,1 Wis. 1 .318 

Hiuton, G., 38tli Wis. I 571 

Hinsey, .1. A 839 

Hoard, W. D., 4th Wis 197 

Hohart, H. C, 21st Wis. 1 743 

HoH-bin, W., R»th 111. 1 442 

Hoiden, W., 2(1 Wis. 1 719 

Holland, J. H.,!C.lli 111. I 212 



Krez, C. 2;ih Wis. I .397 

Kuechenmeister, F. A., 26th Wis. I.... 772 

Kuhliir. A.. 2«th Wis. 1 422 

Kusel, F.,20th Wis. I 162 



Laib. W. ('.. 37tli Wis. I 6.32 



762 



509 
178 
680 
32;! 



Laiuore, W. C.. 2d Wis. C. 
Lawrence, A.. 3d Wis. I. 

Lee, J., 2:Jd Wis. I 

Lelifeldl. 0.,C. S. N 

Lengstadt, G.,2d Wis. C. 

Lewis, J. F 

Lewis, J. T 

Lewis, W. H. H.r, U. S. 
Liudley, T., llih Wis. I... 
Lins, J. A... 3tli Wis. I 



L. A 



.1 2.i5 I-iazey.J. 



D,2.1 III. C. 



335 
459 
. 503 
538 
460 
840 
689 
643 
349 
441 
203 



FlanaKan, J., 1st Wis. 672 

Flint, H.. I., 23d Wis .331 

Fot'O, W. M., 42d Wis. I 481 

Koriierook, J.,a3lli Wis. I 272 

Frantz, C, 9tli Wis. 1 206 



Little, T.,24l1i Wis. I .364 

Logan. W. A , 1st Wis. C 307 

Long, E. F., ISlth Pa 1 566 

Lorcli, P. H ,2'itii Wis. I 786 

Lund, H E..3th Wis. 1 316 



Friddle, O. A., 2d Wis. I . 
Froliliauh, A, 8th N. V.I 

G 



200 
754 



698 



Gale, J..3ISI Wis. I 

Gallalier. J. B., 12'.ith Ind. I 287 



Galloway, J. -M., lull X. V. H. A 684' 

Gasser, B.. 48tli Wis. 1 213 

Gatz, B., 13th Wis. I 375 

George, J. S., 3d N. Y. C 299 

Giller, R.,33d Wis. 1 599 

Gillett.O., 3d Mich. C 731 

Gillelt, W., lllh Wis. 1 425 

(;.iodliue. W. F., 3d Wis. I 614 

Goodman, H. P., 1st Wis. H. A. .- 213 j 

Gregg, L. B., 13olh Ohio I 738 

Green, A. M., 18th Wis. I 43'> | 

Grcinelsen, P., r. S. N 737 

Grillin, M., 12tli Wis. 1 723 

Grindell.W. F., 41st Wis 1 437 

Gritzner, A. J..3d L'. S. I 333 

Giodc. C, 26tli Wis. 1 8;2 

Grovcr, W.. 2d .Minn. G 791 

">(^Giuber, N., 10th Wis. 1 699 

Ounn, A.. 11th Mo. C 683 

Gullilord, C. W., 12tli Wis. I 377 

Gu|>I)ey, J. J., 23ti Wis. I 752 



Imig, P., 
Ivey, A., 



3d Wis. C. 
7tli Wis. I . 



lUiglit.T.W. ,24th N. 
Hall, H., 23d Wis. I... 



Y. I 



815 



Hall, J.. 39th Wis. 1 309 Kiddle, J. G., 31st 111. 1 668 



Hollister, A. H., 22d^Wis. 

Holmes, .\. ,10th Wis. I .376 

Holmes. F.. 3d Wis. C ISO 

Holmes. W.S., 96th III. I 804 

Howard, .V. E., 113d N. Y I 514 

Howard, H. A..2H|h Wis. I 271 

Howard, l.M,:Sfd Wis. 1 253 Lyon, W. P.. 13th Wis. 1 165 

Hoyt. W. K.. inih Vt. 1 767 

Humes. .M. F. 2cl Wis. I .. 149 | M 

Humistoii. I. T.,2dWis. C 462' , 

Hunt, H.C\, 20th III. 1 219 Mallory, L. T., 12th WIS. L. .\ 583 

Hulchins, M. Mrs ^^VJrtanz, L., 36th Wis. I 451 

Hyde. W., 71h Wis. 1 338 Marsh. C. H.. 4th Wis 216 

Marsh, E. N.. Ist Wis. I 345 

I May, H., 4th r. S. I 419 

' McBride, A , 3d Wis. 1 155 

McCann, I., 37th Ohio I. 245 

McFarhind, W. H., .3th Wis. 1 637 

McGregor, D.. 42d Wis. I 241 

McGuire. F. M.. 8th Wis. 1 322 

McMarcley, N., 1st Wis. H. A 186 

jMcMillan, A 828 

McMurtrey, L.,3d Wis. I 456 

Miles, D. E., 57th 111. 1 ,509 

Miles, E. M., 11th. III. C 466 

Miles, W., 12th Wis. L. A 817 

Millard. W. W. ,8th 0. S. I 402 

Miller, C, 36th Wis 1 626 

Milli-r,J. H.,32dWi8. I ia3 

Miserez. p. J., 12ih Kas. 1 157 

Mitchell, A., 34th Wis. I 183 

Mitchell, H 833 

Mitchell. . I. A., 3d Wis. C 75ti 

Moffett, W. B., 10th Wis. 1 646 

Monat, J. S., 3d Wis. C 339 

Monroe, J. A.. 38lh Wis. I 258 

Moody, Si. H., nth Wis. 1 544 

Moore, M.T..24tli Wis. 1 622 

Morford, W H., liCd 111. 1 475 

Moorhouse.J. F.,10thN.Y.C 5.36 

Mowers, E. L., 15th III. I 701 



James, 1). G., liilh Wis. I :J43 

Janke, L., 51st Wis. 1 642 

Jeuck,G.,2d Wis. 1 370 



Jewell, P. B., 12th Wi.s. I.. 
Johnson, D. H., 5th Wis. I... 
Johnson, J. H., 31st N. Y. I . 
Jones, E. H.. 1st Wis. H. A. 
Jones, G., 9th Wis. L A ... . 

Jones, G. L.,30ih Wis. 1 

Jones, G. 11 , Uth Wis. I.... 



473 
355 
5.17 
214 
483 
427 
3U6 



Kahle, E., 19th 111. I 7.38 

Kelly.N.T., 22d Wis. I 324 

Kelley, F., .3tli Wis. I 505 

Kerr, A. W., 11th Wis. 1 751 

Kerr, U.S.. ;t8th Wis. 1 487 



Hall, J. W., 13th Wis. I 454 

Halsiy, S!., 41st Wis. 1 3i;6 

Hammond, A., 22d Wis.l 209 

Hand, L J.. 22d Wis. I 19! 

Hanson, \.. 1.3th Wis.l 7«4 

Harrington, J., 7tli Wis. I 

Harris, r. E., 1st Wis. H. \ 



King, L. M.,3d Wis. C 627 

King, R 130 

Kizer. F. C., 3d Wis. C 281 

Knight, H., 33th Wis.l 413 Near, J. II 

Knutson. C, .3th Wis. 1 304 

784ltjvoch, H. C., 34111 Wis. 1 810 

209 Koser. L, 21ith Wis. I 349 



N 



2d Wis. I .. 



II. in. 



W., 1st Wis. H. .\ 



199 Kiioh, A., 1.3th X. V. H, A.. 



530 



310 

Xeavill. J.,49lh Wis. 1 379 

Xeedham, A. E.. 3ii|li Wis. 1 298 

Nichols, G. I".. 23d Wis. 1 641 

Xiehaiis, U. W. ,41st Wis.l '98 



INDEX. 



879 



o 

(VCoiinoll, P., 1st Oliio 1 717 

Oilell, E. D, loth 111. C 16'J 

y^Oswiild, M., 3d Wis. 1 449 

Ottilie, C, mil Wis. I «7 



Parker. B. F . 1st Wis. H. A 336 

Parker. J. E.. 6th Wis. L. A 678 

Parsons. E.W,, 1st Wis. H. A 218 

Pattee, H. D., llth Wis. 1 315 

Patterson, J. T., 12-'d Ohio 1 633 

Pease, F. E., 5th Wis. 1 416 

Peek, G. W., 4th Wis 771 

Peekham, W. K., ilth Wis. 1 411 

Peifer, J., -"■-■d Wis. I 367 

Peltou, J. G. ,47th Wis. I 383 

Pcnuetather, J. E.. 13tli U S. 1 634 

Perrault. P.. 5th Wis. 1 288 

Persons, W., i:Jth Wis. 1 ISO 

Ptaff, G.L., Uth Wis. I .")60 

Phiuney, G. D , 7th Wis. I 806 

Pier, C. K.,;!8th Wis. 1 639 

Plankinton. J 841 

Plank, N. G , lS6th N. Y. 1 450 

Pond, L. E. ,7th Wis. 1 397 

Powell, D. F 611 

Powers, C. L., 37th Wis. 1 783 

Powers. H.H , 2d Wis. C 682 

Prideau.x. B. T., 31st Wis. I 332 

Priee, T., 7th Wis. 1 7:J6 

Price,!'. H.. 1st Neb. I 444 

R 

Eeed, E. H., 2d Wis. 1 283 

Keed, W. J„ 1st Wis. C ■.... 404 

Uichardsou, H., 7tli Wis. I 578 

Kichardsou, L. A., 13th Wis. 1 175 

Kichardson, W. H , 1st Fla. C 733 

Kiekeiuan. G. A.,3(l Wis. 1 295 

Hidden, S. S.,5th La. 1 586 

Kies, F. J., 17th Wis. 1 749 

Rittman, L. A., 1st Wis. H. A 414 

Robinson, W. W., 7th Wis. 1 553 

Robertson, O. »., 9tli Wis L. A 174 

Rodeeker, C. W., 49th 111. 1 540 

Rogers, H. M., 177lhOhioI 418 

Rogers, H.G., 24th Wis. 1 373 

Rogers, S. W., 20t li Wis. I :«7 



Hollow. L., 22d Wis. r 268 

Hood, H. W., I2thWis.1 804 

Ross, F. A.. 8th Wis. L. A 246 

Rowland, D., 22d Wis. I 702 

Russell, J. F., lot 11 N.Y.I 572 

Ryan, W. W.. 71h Wis. I 



s 



Scanlau, J.,5th Wis. I. 307 

Schneider, J. A., 26th Wis. 1 176 

Sohofleld, R.. 1st Vt. C 363 

Scott, D. D., 17th Wis. I 193 

Secor, M. M 854 

Settle, W . C, 60th C. T 388 

Shanahan, T.. 4tli Vt. 1 218 

Sheldon, K. A., Ist Wis. 1 1.56 

Short, A. M., 147th III. 1 426 

Short, G. U, 8th 111. C .574 

Simpson, W. H.. 140th III. 1 765 

Sinclair, E., 10th III. I .539 

Sinelker, J. P., 47th Wis. 1 301 

Smelker, J. W., 23th Wis. 1 3.54 

Smith, C. W., 33d Wis. 1 4S6 

Smith, G. E., 2J Wis. I. 432 

Smith, L. J., 28th Wis. 1 152 

Smith, S. D., S. R. iStiirges HinesI 644 

Snowdon, R. P., 5th Wis. I 513 

Snyder, H., 42d Wis. 1 533 

Spencer, J. H , .52d Pa. 1 703 

Spensley, C. 140th 111. 1 259 

Staley, J., 42d Wis. 1 252 

Stanford, E. il., 1st Wis. L, .A. 769 

Stanhope, C. D., 28th Wis. A 729 

Starr, H. A., 20th Wis. 1 775 

Steele, S. D., loth Wis. I 478 

Stillmau, E R , 85th N Y. 1 247 

Stimm, C. F., 26th Wis. 1 225 

Struibig. W., 121 h Mo. 1 214 

Suiier, W. F., 95th III. I 628 

Sutoliffe, S., 28th Wis. I. . ." 160 

S.vain, W. C.,9;id N. Y". 1 341 

Swarts, A. J., 7th Wis. 1 1S9 

Swift. E ,38lh Muss. 1 291 



Taft, S. C, 5th Wis. L. .\ 42:! 

Teall, J. G., 32d Wis. I ,399 

Thayer, O. H., 1st Wis. 1 238 

Thomi.s, J. A., 3Ist Wis. I 34s 

Thomas, W. H., ISkl Ohio I 673 



Thum, G. J., I'Uh Wis. I 277 

Ties, F.. 18th Wis. 1 818 

Tinker, J. T., I6th Wis. 1 278 

Torkelson, I.. 1.5th Wis. 1 613 

Trogner, J. H., 16th W is. 1 383 

V 

Valentine. J. J., I7ih U. S. C. 1 505 

Vanderpool, G. J., 28th Wis. I 674 

Van Veehten, H. C. 1st N. Y. M. R ... 677 

Van Wie, W. H.,Oth Wis. 1 681 

Vaughan, S. K., 19th Wis. 1 700 

Vincent, H. K., Uth Wis. 1 519 

Vivian, J. H , 5)th Wis. 1 408 

Vliet. J. B.,31st Wis. 1 694 

Von Baumbach, C, 34th Wis. I 569 

"W 

Wall, H.J. , 21st N. Y. C 813 

Wallher, A.,26th Wis. I 593 

Wallber, E 833 

Wdid, A. J., 2d Wis. 1 707 

Warner, F. L., 7th Wis. 1 396 

Warner, J., 3d Wis. I 343 

Watrous, J. A.,6th Wis. I 231 

Weber, A., 9th Wis. I 371 

Webster, D., 144th III. 1 400 

Weissert, A. G., 8th Wis. 1 243 

Wentworth, W. Y.. 1st Wis. H. A 280 

West, F. H. ,31st Wis. J 725 

Whaley, E. A.. 6th Wis. I 693 

White, J., .50th Wis. 1 223 

Williams, C. C, 16th Me. 1 731 

Williams, J. M.. Sth Wis, I 830 

Wilson, J. E , 2:id Wis 1 755 

Winkler, F. C, 26th Wis. I . .. 595 

Wollensak, C. H., 51st Wis. 1 279 

Wolf, v., Sth W.s. 1 807 

Wolrerton. S., 121st N. Y. I 239 

Wood, D., 1st Wis. H. A 814 

Wood, U. D., Sth Wis. I 799 

Woodhouse. J., 2Jth Wis. 1 485 

Wria-ht. J. B , U. S. N 618 

Wyse, W. A, 13th \Vis. I 3.50 

Y 

Y'onng, E. C, lllth Pa. I 716 

z 

Zoelle, B., loth 111. I 305 



F=of=R"rRAi-rs. 



Ahlon, (' 
Armsttoug, 



L. G. 



662 r'arter.G.B 490 'ponnor, A 

384 X'arter, H 490 /Coo'.ey, H 



778 
■5S3 



-IJall, C. F 533 K;ase, J. 1 844 KPahl, A. P ,532 

'^Bell,R SSSMSasli, W. H. H 778 "^esmond, J t.33 

llryant, B. F 144T('atlin, G. E 584 tipple, C 440 

Hull,S 8.30 Vlark.J.G... 490 ^^rskine, M. B 826 

•Bushnell. A. R 490 X'lark, L 796 *^i rant. Gen. IT. S 16 

Callis, .1. B -390 ■^■lark, T. Ki .532 'llancock. Gen. W. S 88 

farr, S. S 3:52 "i'olwell, W 760 "^Harrington, J 778 



880 



INDEX. 



'Hes, N. M o32 rMcFarland, W. H 638 ijlyan. W. W. ... 

Iliriscy. .1 fSS iMcCloiliin. Gen. C. It 112 ^incliur, E 

llDard, \V. D 196 - Mitehel, H C32 "'Swain, W. C... 

Holmrl. ICC 742 "bloody, S. H Xi2 ~'Swirt. E 

^Hosfliin.W 440 >/Ni- haus, B. W 7% -AVallber, A 

Hollister, A. H 264 tPfaff G. L 558 -Ward, A. J .... 

-' Letfeldt, 532 f4»oiid. L. E o'.IU •Svaiuer, F. L. . 

^Leivis.J.T esslpoweil, D. F Bin ■'Wati-ous, J. .\.. 

Lincoln, A Front "Powers, C. L 778 ■ \Vi>st, F. H . 



380 

55S 
."40 
290 
584 
706 
390 
2:U) 
724 



-Lins,.T..\ 440 •'Price, T. H 440 •'wood. U. D 79B 

■ Little. T 558 j^idd I', S. S 584 -^Sheridan. Gen. P. H... 01 

Logan. Gen. J. A 136 {llodefker, C. W 532 ^Slicrman, Gcii. W. T 40 

Lyon, W. P Ifi4 i 



ivii3C^e:l.i_ainie:ous. 



Coiiyritclit 4 

Dedication 5 

Preface 7 

Chronological and Stati?tical History 

of the Civil War 9 

Biographical— Soldiers 145 



The Man wHli the Musket 824 

Biographical— Citizens 827 

Badjie, G. A. R a">7 

Grand Army of the Republic 859 

Department of Wisconsin, G. .\. R. •■ i^li2 

Badfrc. W R. C ^il'i 

Woman's Relief Corps W17 



Department of Wisconsin, W. H. C — 8BS 

Sons of Veterans 869 

Division of Wisconsin 870 

Battles of the Revolution 871 

Battlesof 1812 874 

Memoranda 88;j 




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